Teams' Theme: Carpe Diem
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Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer – Editor: Brent Manley – Assistant Editors: Mark Horton, Brian Senior & Franco Broccoli – Layout Editor: Akis Kanaris – Photographer: Ron Tacchi Issue No. 6 Thursday, 15 June 2006 Teams' theme: Carpe Diem Today is the day that teams will find out whether they are still playing in the Rosenblum and McConnell as both reach the knockout stage. The open event will enter the round of 64, with play beginning on Friday. The women's round of 16 starts on Saturday. All teams are striving to reach the top four in their respec- tive groups – 16 in the open event and four in the women's. Teams will play three matches today, two if they have a bye round. Some teams are no longer in the running to qualify for the next stage, but there are many on the cusp, and the final line- up of the teams in the knockout is still in doubt. TODAY’S PROGRAMME Time Rosenblum Cup McConnell Cup 10.30 Round 9 Round 7 13.45 Round 10 14.00 Round 8 16.05 Round 11 Ralph Cohen 16.40 Round 9 1926-2006 Former ACBL chief and four- time national champion Ralph WBF CONGRESS MEETING Cohen died on Tuesday at his The WBF Congress Meeting will be held home in Memphis,Tennessee, today at 09:30 in the Theatre Verdi at the in the USA. Cohen, who had VeroneFiere. battled cancer for several years, was 79. The theatre is situated on the lower Cohen was a current mem- ground floor of the venue, near the ber of the WBF Laws Draft- Registration Desks. ing Committee and a familiar All countries represented in Verona are requested to face at world bridge champi- send a delegate to this important meeting. onships for many years. Coffee and croissants will be available for delegates. Continued on page 7 12th WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Verona, Italy ROSENBLUM CUP (Round-Robin Standings after 8 Rounds) GROUP A GROUP B GROUP C GROUP D 1 Clair 161.00 1 Iceland 172.00 1 Russia 164.00 1 Mullamphy 156.00 2 Bessis 160.00 2 Nickell 151.00 2 Akgul 159.00 2 Herbst 153.00 3 Lynch 149.00 3 Vasilev 149.00 3 Milner 144.00 3 Izisel 151.00 4 Cope 148.00 4 Forrester 134.00 4 Hadi 126.00 4 Morath 147.00 5 Hauge 143.00 5 Oz-One Kanektar 132.00 Gordon 126.00 5 Madsen 143.00 6 Drenkelford 111.00 6 Kendrick 128.00 6 Chateau Rossenovo 121.00 6 Markowicz 135.00 7 Simson 108.00 7 Agressor 122.00 7 Smith 107.00 7 Johnson 127.00 8 Bel2 95.00 8 Aubonnet 99.00 8 Adad 106.00 8 Haagensen 89.00 9 Nader 91.00 9 Izmir Buyuksehir Belediyesi 98.00 Warendorf 106.00 9 Atay 79.00 10 Panahpour 77.00 10 Fioretti 90.00 10 Passarinho 94.00 10 Lol 78.00 11 Clark 72.00 11 Dohnert 34.00 11 T.C.Parioli - Angelini Junior 84.00 11 Venit 54.00 GROUP E GROUP F GROUP G GROUP H 1 Ekeblad 154.00 1 Welland R 175.00 1 Meltzer 157.00 1 Jacobs 168.00 2 Mossop 142.00 2 Hecht-Johansen 161.00 2 Berg 142.00 2 Altshuler-Shaham 142.50 3 Nadar 139.50 3 Bareket 150.00 3 Team PharmaService 137.00 3 Onstein 133.00 4 Assemi 136.70 4 Villa Fabbriche 146.00 4 Hackett 136.00 4 Jokisch 131.00 5 Auken 129.50 5 Otvosi 113.50 5 Bigat 131.00 5 Szilagy 128.50 6 O'Briain 125.00 6 Lara 108.50 6 Kirilenko 125.50 6 Tudor 127.00 7 Tananbaum 121.00 7 Poddar 107.00 7 Barbosa 121.00 7 Computerland 121.00 8 Gosney 117.50 8 Kvangraven 101.00 Borevkovic 121.00 8 Dhampur Sugar Mills 116.00 9 Pauncz 95.00 9 Oz-One Nagy 99.00 9 Kokten 111.00 9 Ingham 102.00 10 Colectivo 06 91.30 10 COOK & Buddys 77.00 10 Corsica 99.00 10 Blumenthal 92.00 11 Mayantz 64.50 11 Malaspina 75.00 11 Abate 52.50 11 Sarten 66.50 GROUP I GROUP J GROUP K GROUP L 1 Yadlin 166.00 1 Lavazza 121.00 1 T.C.Parioli - BTA 125.00 1 Gillis 125.00 2 de Botton 143.00 2 Popova 107.00 2 Allfrey 121.00 2 Chang 110.00 Romania 143.00 3 Soulet 99.00 3 Grenthe 107.00 3 Belgium 1 109.00 4 Zimmerman 140.00 4 11 diamonds 94.00 4 Teltscher 94.00 4 Van Helsing 97.00 5 Gardiner 134.00 5 Brenn 91.00 5 Hamaoui 93.00 5 Strul 93.00 6 Piekarek 116.00 6 Colchamiro 88.00 6 Muzzio 86.50 6 Noble 85.00 7 Shen Zhen Qiao You 108.00 8 San Marino 107.00 7 Sundelin 86.00 7 Geely Auto 80.00 Triantafyllis 85.00 9 Lewis 105.00 8 Hargreaves 77.00 8 Freed 73.50 8 West VIP 79.00 10 Sakura Krakow 104.00 Ruia 77.00 9 Bartley 57.00 9 Dohet 55.00 11 Mori 57.00 10 Slovenija 50.00 10 Goenka 46.00 10 Read 52.00 GROUP M GROUP N GROUP O GROUP P 1 Allana 140.00 1 Gwinner 147.00 1 Cornell 162.00 1 Henner 161.00 Tornay 140.00 2 Orange 143.00 2 Chagas 147.00 2 Robinson 142.00 3 China SMEG 137.00 3 Mahaffey 140.00 3 Rogoff 142.00 3 Canada 138.50 4 Spector 134.00 4 Pont 135.00 4 Quinn 134.00 4 Texans 136.00 Furuta 134.00 Moers 135.00 5 Schwartz 128.00 5 Schneider 131.00 6 Bridge+ 131.50 6 Alizee 128.00 Gartaganis 128.00 6 Shanghai Heng Yuan Xiang 130.50 7 Mragowia SI 125.00 7 Arcelor Stainless india 125.00 7 Allix 127.00 7 Kitabgi 111.50 8 Smykalla 117.00 8 Rayner 118.00 8 Gerin 115.00 8 Tangues 102.00 9 Tolani Shipping Team 103.00 9 Smilgajs 101.00 9 Bausback 114.00 9 Indonesia 99.00 10 Philogene 97.50 10 Harper 91.00 10 D.M.R. 81.50 10 Cuevas 95.00 11 Beauchamp 75.00 11 Datloff 68.00 11 Jung 33.00 11 Morimura 78.00 2 9 - 24 June 2006 12th WORLD BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS MCCONNELL CUP (Round-Robin Standings after 6 rounds) GROUP Q GROUP R GROUP S GROUP T 1 Levy 114.00 1 Poland 109.00 1 Narasimhan 125.00 1 Netherlands 110.00 2 McGowan 109.00 2 China Global Times 100.00 2 Katt-Bridge 108.00 2 Sver 109.00 3 Westheimer 103.00 3 La Cucina Italiana 96.00 3 Bessis 102.00 3 Radin 104.00 4 Venezuela 101.00 4 Baker 94.00 4 Philippines 100.00 4 Viaggi e Sapori 96.00 5 Jacobs 93.00 DanGer 94.00 5 Renoux 94.00 5 Steiner 95.00 6 Bistoquet 90.00 6 Swartz 85.00 6 Gruppo Midi 93.00 6 Martel 80.00 7 Canada 85.00 Pollack 85.00 7 Hammerli 87.00 8 Penfold 78.00 8 Rossard 82.00 Cocogirls 80.00 8 Morse 73.00 9 Axelrod 63.00 9 San Marino Ladies 78.00 8 Gmur 72.00 9 Wood 72.00 10 Gwinner 59.00 10 Makiko 74.00 9 Deora 62.00 10 Goodman 52.00 REGISTRATION FOR THE PAIRS Butler Standings AND SENIOR TEAMS If you are interested in Butler standings from Rosen- URGENT blum and McConnell competitions, you can visit If you are going to play in the pairs www.swangames.com to see Butler rankings for event – open or ladies – or in the each pair in their respective groups. senior teams, it is very urgent that you register at the registration desk (basement floor).That applies to all players, even if they do not Seeding Rosenblum and Mc Connell have to play the qualifying sessions. The sixteen (Rosenblum) and four (McConnell) teams ranked highest in the WBF master- Women's Committee Meeting points classification that are qualifying have a protected sta- tus. A WBF Women's Committee meeting is anticipated They get seeding numbers from for today at 2 p.m. in the VIP Room on the first floor 1 to 16 and 1 to 4, with the low- of the convention center. est number for the highest ranked in this classification and so on. The remaining teams get a seeding number in order Rectification of their ranking within the group, starting with num- ber 17 (5) for the first ranked team in the lowest free Mari and George Retek played the second session of group-letter and so on until number 64 (16) for the the Mixed Pairs to fill in a hole in the tournament, team ranked 4th in the 'highest' free group-letter which was very nice of them. They played very well (presumably P and T). and ended at the top of the field. It was necessary to With these numbers, the brackets as shown in the remove them from the rankings and to give them an conditions of contest are filled in. artificially low score, not at all related to their per- The QF has four sessions of 14 boards.Teams have formance. Sorry for that. to line-up in advance, 10 minutes before the start of Ton Kooijman the session.The lower numbered team in a match has seating rights in the first and the last session.