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DAILY BULLETIN Editor: BRIAN SENIOR • Co-Editor: PETER VENTURA • Layout: GEORGE HADJIDAKIS Bulletin 4 Friday, 22 August 2003 Europe Take Over France St.Cloud-Paris at the Top 18-28 August 2003 EBL Youth Committee Vice-Chairman,Stefan Back, flanked by the Bulletin Editors, Brian Senior and Peter Ventura The overnight leaders, China Hong Kong had a poor day, losing 12-18 to Thai- land then 11-19 against Australia to drop to third in the overall rankings. Den- mark, with two 22-8 wins, have moved into the lead. Since their first-round 11-19 loss to Norway, the Danes have never scored less than 20 VPs in a match. Italy are second.They started the day with a 25-0 blitz of poor Uruguay, who once again had a tough time of it. USA2 beat the Italians 17-13 in the second match of the day, repairing some of the damage suffered in their 8-22 loss to high-flying Denmark in the morning match. France had a hard day, losing 11-19 to Norway and drawing 15-15 with Egypt, while Poland have moved up the rankings with 43 VPs from their two matches against England and Norway. Chinese Taipei achieved a first win, 23-7 over Chile. 9th World Youth Team Youth 9th World CHAMPIONSHIP 9th WORLD YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS St. Cloud-Paris, France TODAY’S RESULTS PROGRAM ROUND ROBIN SESSION 8 ROUND ROBIN SESSION 6 1 USA 1 FRANCE Match IMP’s VP’s 2 ITALY CHILE 1 NORWAY FRANCE 51 30 19 11 3 DENMARK CHINA HONG KONG 2 ENGLAND POLAND 21 53 8 22 37 69 8 22 4 POLAND CANADA 3 USA 2 DENMARK 4 URUGUAY ITALY 7 118 0 25 5 NORWAY EGYPT 5 CHN TAIPEI USA 1 48 90 6 24 6 ENGLAND THAILAND 6 AUSTRALIA CHILE 41 31 17 13 7 USA 2 AUSTRALIA 7 THAILAND CHN HG KG 59 44 18 12 8 URUGUAY CHINESE TAIPEI 8 EGYPT CANADA 54 40 18 12 ROUND ROBIN SESSION 9 ROUND ROBIN SESSION 7 1 FRANCE URUGUAY Match IMP’s VP’s 2 CHINESE TAIPEI USA 2 1 FRANCE EGYPT 41 40 15 15 3 AUSTRALIA ENGLAND 2 CANADA THAILAND 81 24 25 4 19 37 11 19 4 THAILAND NORWAY 3 CHN HG KG AUSTRALIA 4 CHILE CHN TAIPEI 21 60 7 23 5 EGYPT POLAND 5 USA 1 URUGUAY 72 37 22 8 6 CANADA DENMARK 6 ITALY USA 2 28 37 13 17 7 CHINA HONG KONG ITALY 7 DENMARK ENGLAND 52 17 22 8 8 CHILE USA 1 8 POLAND NORWAY 44 14 21 9 ROUND ROBIN SESSION 10 RANKING AFTER SESSION 7 1 CHINA HONG KONG FRANCE 2 CHILE CANADA 1 DENMARK 148 3 USA 1 EGYPT 2 ITALY 146 4 ITALY THAILAND 3 CHINA HONG KONG 139 5 DENMARK AUSTRALIA 4 USA 2 128.5 6 POLAND CHINESE TAIPEI 5 FRANCE 122 7 NORWAY URUGUAY 6 POLAND 111 8 ENGLAND USA 2 7 NORWAY 111 VUGRAPH MATCHES 8 EGYPT 106 Norway - Egypt 10.00 9 CANADA 103 Canada - Denmark 14.00 10 USA 1 100.5 China Hong Kong - France 17.20 11 ENGLAND 93 12 THAILAND 86 SCHEDULE 13 AUSTRALIA 77 10.00-12.50 Round Robin, Round 8 14 CHINESE TAIPEI 74 14.00-16.50 Round Robin, Round 9 15 CHILE 72.5 17.20-20.10 Round Robin, Round 10 16 URUGUAY 28.5 2 18 - 28 August 2003 9th WORLD YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS ROUND ROBIN Round 4 THAILAND v DENMARK Denmark are one of a number of European teams fancied to turn to think and at the end of a long hard study he came up with give a good account of themselves in this tournament. In Round 4 a bid of 6{, vulnerable against not. He could not have imagined they met Thailand,who surprised many people when they reached that this was about to make and must have been charmed, first the semi-final in Brazil 2001. Today was not a great one for the by the sight of dummy, then by the immediate appearance of the Thais. king of spades on the first round of that suit; +1540 and 16 IMPs Denmark led 2-0 after two boards, then Boje Henriksen to Denmark. made a truly wonderful decision for his side on Board 3. Board 5. N/S Vul. Dealer North. Board 3. E/W Vul. Dealer South. [ A Q 9 6 3 [ 10 7 2 ] 10 4 ]6 4 { J 8 7 5 4 { A 8 6 }9 } K Q 8 4 3 [ 5 4N [ K J 8 7 [ A Q J 8 6 [ 9 5 4 3 ] Q J 9 7 6 3 ] K 8 5 N W E ] A ] J 10 9 5 { Q 2 { A K 6 W E { K J 7 5 4 { Q 10 9 3 2 } A 10 6S } J 4 2 }J 2S }– [ 10 2 [K ]A 2 ] K Q 8 7 3 2 { 10 9 3 {– } K Q 8 7 5 3 } A 10 9 7 6 5 West North East South West North East South Chitngamkusol J.Houmoller Vichayapaibunnag B.Houmoller Chitngamkusol J.Houmoller Vichayapaibunnag B.Houmoller Pass 1NT Pass 1] 2{ Pass 2] Pass 1[ 2} 2[ 4{ 4] All Pass Dble Rdbl Pass 4[ Dble 4NT Pass 5{ Pass 6} All Pass West North East South Marquardsen Sasibut Henriksen Trimankha 1] 2] Pass 2[ 3} Pass 3[ Pass 4} Pass 5} Pass 6} Pass Pass 6{ Pass Pass Dble All Pass In the Closed Room, the Houmollers bid up to 6} under their own steam and Amornpong Vichayapaibunnag's spade lead permitted Terasak Chitngamkusol to take his two aces for down one; -50. I will use this Thai pair's first names from now on as the family names are both long and difficult for non-Thais. In the other room, Andreas Marquardsen contented himself with only one positive call on the West cards, showing spades and a minor then staying silent for the remainder of the auction. Sasibut/Trimankha got to 5} then Trimankha thought long and hard before going on to slam. He no doubt imagined that his partner's sequence would deliver the [A instead of the {A - and I suspect that he was correct, in theory. Now it was Henriksen's Terasak Chitngamkusol,Thailand 3 9th WORLD YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS St. Cloud-Paris, France West North East South ing control, trusting that there would be little diamond wastage Marquardsen Sasibut Henriksen Trimankha on the hand, and asked for key cards. When he found that his partner held one key card he bid the small slam. Pass 1{ 2} A spade lead defeats 6] but, not unreasonably, Marquardsen 2] Pass 3] All Pass chose a diamond.The {J ran to Trimankha's queen and he played a heart. Marquardsen rose with the ]A and exited with the jack Both declarers received the lead of the king of clubs but to dummy's king. If clubs are no worse than four-two, it is a sim- there was an important difference in that Marquardsen had been ple matter of ruffing out the suit to establish a second spade dis- warned of the bad club split by Trimankha's 2} overcall while card and Trimankha seems to have looked no further than that. Amornpong had no such clue. Marquardsen won the ace of clubs When he continued with two rounds of clubs he had to go down and played three rounds of diamonds for a club pitch from hand one; -50 and 10 IMPs to Denmark, extending their lead to 34-0. then played a heart. He could ruff the third club high, draw The successful line is the black-suit squeeze against East.This will trumps and, as it turned out, there was no spade guess; +170. succeed whenever the hand with the king of spades holds four Perhaps Amornpong should have played the same way after or more clubs. In other words, on the assumption that West does the appearance of the }9 at trick one, but this would have left not hold the [K for his weak jump overcall, and he has already him reliant on a winning spade view and the clubs did not have shown up with ]AJ, it works whenever the line chosen at the to be breaking badly. He played trumps without throwing a club table works and also on a five-one split, with the exception of the and ran into a club ruff for down one; -50 and 6 IMPs to case where West holds a 0-2-7-4 shape including the }J. If at Denmark when it might have been 6 IMPs the other way. trick four declarer cashes the [A,Vienna Coup, he will succeed on the actual lie as East cannot survive the run of the red Board 6. E/W Vul. Dealer East. winners, but he will also discover the need to revert to the club establishment line when West shows out, and still has a heart in [ A 7 6 2 dummy to get to the fifth club. So declarer's line was a clear ] K 6 4 error and cost his side 21 IMPs. {7 } A K 10 6 3 Board 7.All Vul. Dealer South. [ J 8 3N [ K 9 4 [ 9 8 6 5 3 ] A J ] 9 8 W E ] A 9 7 3 { K J 10 8 5 3 2 { 9 6 4 { A K 5 } 7S } J 9 8 5 2 }J [ Q 10 5 [ K J 10 7 2N [ A ] Q 10 7 5 3 2 ]5 ]J 8 4 W E {A Q { 10 4 { 9 8 6 2 }Q 4 } Q 10 8 7 4S } A K 6 5 3 West North East South [Q 4 Chitngamkusol J.Houmoller Vichayapaibunnag B.Houmoller ] K Q 10 6 2 Pass 1] { Q J 7 3 Pass 2} Pass 2] }9 2 Pass 3[ Pass 3NT West North East South Pass 4} Pass 4{ Chitngamkusol J.Houmoller Vichayapaibunnag B.Houmoller Pass 4] All Pass 1] West North East South 1[ 2NT Pass 3} Marquardsen Sasibut Henriksen Trimankha Dble 4] Dble Pass Pass 1] 4[ Dble All Pass 3{ Dble 4{ Pass West North East South Pass 4NT Pass 5{ Marquardsen Sasibut Henriksen Trimankha Pass 6] All Pass 1] This was another great chance for Thailand to gain a major Pass 1[ 2} Pass swing and once again the chance was missed.

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