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Alt Invitational VI Pre-Bulletin ALT VI • PRE-BULLETIN • Monday June 8 2020 • editor: Christina Lund Madsen [email protected] The Secrets of the Alt Welcome to the sixth Alt Invitational. As usual we have a spectacular field. Not only in terms of bridge skills, but also sparkling personalities. First of all we have the great (figuratively speaking) Brad Moss playing with ditto Joe Grue. We finally got rid of Brink-Drijver, since Blass has replaced them with Upmark-Nyström, and finally we have the one and only David Gold playing with a pakistani gentleman. PRE-BULLETIN In thisTHE bulletin we ALT reveal what is going on behindMonday, the scenesMay 11, 2020 of the Alt organisation. Who are the characters, which challenges we face runnning editor:the Christina event, Lund Madsenour view on allowing kibitzers, and the [email protected] criteria for participating. Not to mention what happens in the near future. Our Major Alt to end the INVITATIONAL logistics: Rosalind Hengeveld spring seasonMAY is11-15, only 2020 two weeks away, and the field bigis data: beyond Joyce Tito imagination. online bridge events organized by bid72, bridge24 & netbridge.online Alt VI results THE ALT INVITATIONAL Today’sPRE-BULLETIN Schedule Round 1 & 2 Important NoticeTHE ALT Monday, May 11, 2020 editor: Christina Lund Madsen Monday [email protected] 8 Monday June 8 MAY 11-15, 2020 All players shouldINVITATIONAL enter BBO 10 10.00 EDT/16.00logistics: Rosalind Hengeveld CET 14.00 EDT/20.00 CET minutes before their matchMAY starts 11-15, 2020 at big data: Joyce Tito online bridge events organized by bid72, bridge24 & netbridge.online the latest. Tournamentonline bridgedirector events organized Denis by bid72, bridge24Blass &- netbridge.online Donner Blass - Tulin Lebowitz - Tulin Donner - De Botton Dobrin is waiting for you and will Gupta - De Botton Lebowitz - Gillis instruct you where to sit. Street - Gillis Gupta - Street THE ALT INVITATIONAL MAY 11-15, 2020 online bridge events organized by bid72, bridge24 & netbridge.online sign up for the newsletter sign up for the newsletter - 1 - The Rule of Flaws By Mark Horton In these enlightened times preemptive stri- Closed Room kes at the bridge table are de rigueur. How- ever, just because you can preempt doesn't WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH necessarily mean you should. Hackett O Rimstedt Hydes M Rimstedt This deal from the opening day of Alt V is a perfect illustration: — — Pass 1NT* Dble 5♣ 5♠ Dble Board 22. Dealer East. EW Vul. 5NT* Dble 6♣* Pass ♠ K 6♥ Dble All Pass ♥ 5 3 ♦ 8 6 1NT 10-12 ♣ A J 10 8 7 6 5 3 5NT Red suits ♠ 3 ♠ A 9 8 7 6 4 2 6♣ You choose ♥ A K Q 9 7 6 ♥ J 8 2 ♦ A Q 9 4 3 ♦ 10 7 2 Alex Hydes was the only player not to open ♣ 9 ♣ — the East hand. The legendary Tony Forrester ♠ Q J 10 5 once confided in me that a decision about ♥ 10 4 preempting should be based on the number ♦ K J 5 of flaws that a hand contained. One was ♣ K Q 4 2 acceptable, but not two. Open Room On this deal, East has support for the other major - flaw number one. He has a first WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH round control in clubs - flaw number two. Bussink Hoftaniska Grossack Charlsen He also has another first round control - flaw number 3. — — 2♠ Pass 3♥ 5♣ 5♥ 6♣ If you add these to the obvious fact that 6♥ All Pass holding the highest ranking suit East may get a chance to bid later on, the logic behind the initial pass is irrefutable. When North overcalled at the five-level East had exactly the right hand to compete and North led the ♠K and declarer won with that was enough for West to go on to slam. dummy's ace and played a diamond to the North led the ♦8 for the king and ace and nine. When that held, he ruffed a club, play- declarer played safe, ruffing a club, drawing ed a heart to the ace, a heart to the jack and trumps and playing a low diamond to the the ♦7 for a majestic +1860 and 10 IMPs. ten, +1430. - 2 - Teams / Players / Nicknames Team Blass Team De Botton Jacek Pszczola pikolo Jason Hackett mutton Josef Blass bljosef Alexander Hydes itsgrim Jacek Kalita bridge24jk Janet de Botton capt Lulu Michal Nowosadzki bridge24mn Arthur Malinowski malisuper Johan Upmark Mostovoi Thor Erik Hoftaniska kasper20 Fredrik Nyström F_Nystrom Thomas Charlsen tcharlsen Team Gillis Team Street Simon Gillis rayas78 Nicolas L’Ecuyer caucase Erik Saelensminde skaal1 Paul Street Boulevard1 Boye Brogeland boye Ron Pachtman ronpa Espen Lindqvist stevieg Piotr Zatorski dzeronimo Christian Bakke chrien Fred Pollack Fredp Tor Oyvind Grude teg91 Kamel Fergani fergani Team Lebowitz Team Donner Zia Mahmood zia Gary Donner Gdonnersc1 Laurence Lebowitz 0 lhl12 Cecilia Rimstedt cillar Adam Grossack nevereast Sandra Rimstedt Sandria Zach Grossack germs345 Marion Michielsen Lady007 David Gold dagold Per-Ola Cullin pocken Michael Rosenberg Scotty Joe Grue joegrue Kevin Rosenberg Kevsters Brad Moss brad Thomas Paske Thomas1000 Team Gupta Team Tulin Bauke Muller beukertje Stan Tulin returned Simon de Wijs sm1 David Bakhshi Bakhshi Cedric Lorenzini pierced Louk Verhees Loukie Huub Bertens H Bertens Ricco van Prooijen Riccovp Thomas Bessis malpaluche Dror Padon Drorp Naren Gupta nareng Alon Birman Hatol Curtis Cheek curtis How to kibitz the Alt Invitational on BBO As in the previous editions of the Alt Invitational, we expect thousands of spectators on BBO. Even though the Alt is not broadcasted via the BBO Vugraph, you can still watch any of your favourites. You simply search for your favorite player’s nickname and join his or her table. If you wish to watch the players whenever they are online, you search for your chosen one (fx Simon de Wijs ’sm1’, click on the name and choose ’follow’ instead of neutral. Any time you see him online, you can click on him and take a seat at his table (assuming the tournament allows it). See you on BBO! - 3 - The Jan Behind the Alt I am Jan van den Hoek from the Nether- - In fact Paul Street set the standard on the lands. I am a lawyer by profession, and first (Columbus) Alt, inviting only world bridge is one of my biggest passions in life. class teams. So it made sense to continue Fortunately, fewer court cases nowadays this way, not in the least to support the make it possible to dedicate extra time to bridge world, hoping that clients would the Alt project. hire a team to play. In this way professional Living and studying in Leiden (about 40 players would still earn some money du- years ago) I got introduced to the game and ring corona. So teams with a client have an I have been hooked ever since. Currently advantage. I’m playing in the Dutch second division. Since the beginning the interest only grew, and a hundred teams have written us How did you get involved in the Alt project? because they wish to participate. For example this week we had to decline - In 2019 Netbridge was established as a the Dutch Open team for the Alt VI. Luck- platform to offer “advanced players” the ily we could give them (and many other opportunity to get some online training teams) a spot in the Major Alt, which is one on a high level in a competitive way. Tour- of the reasons we made this special edition. naments were held and are still running. Over time, these tournaments also took on Zia as another example of our policy, only a more international character. allowing the best of the best. He kept trying When ACBL was forced to cancel the Spring to participate in all the Alt events, but so far Nationals 2020 in Columbus, Ohio, it was he didn’t make the cut. Paul Street who suggested an online equi- Since Sjoert Brink doesn’t play this edition, valent of the Vanderbilt KO Teams, tradi- Zia can take his seat in the Alt VI. (It might tionally the prestigious main event of the have been Sjoert's suggestion to write this/ Spring Nationals, and he approached Jan CLM). van Cleeff. Jan asked me to set this up together with What challenges have you faced? him. At the time we only had three days to prepare it, but the show must go on and we - Although it may seem (I hope) to our succeeded. Columbus Alt was born. players and followers that everything goes Given its success, it was decided to continue smooth and almost perfect, we have had to the event as part of a series under the name overcome some technical and organizatio- the Alt Invitational. nal hurdles. Especially in the first editions. I never imagined it to be held on a weekly I was suddenly playing with Josef Blass basis. Players and everyone involved have at the table for team Blass, when our been very enthusiastic up to this point. first BBO TD had put me on the southern spot instead of Pepsi. Unfortunately our What are the criteria for being invited and partnership was a short one. how does the process work? - 4 - Another problem at the beginning was that BBO suffered from server incapacity. It was not always certain that matches could start and/or finish. Eventually they always did, but it frequently caused major headaches. Last week there was also a challenge, when one of the mixed teams mixed up some da- tes and could not play in the Mixed II. Jan van den Hoek Fortunately Denis could fix it for RR 1.
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