Daily Bulletin No.8 Monday 16 July 2001

CONGRATULATIONS!

Turn to page two to discover who has won Certain acts had to be vetoed. the coveted WBF awards. As usual there were lots of nominations, but there can These included an entire performance of only be four winners. The Sound of Music by the Austrian delegation, a demonstration of the Mazurka Stage Performance by Hungary, a rendition of Paderewski’s Theme Varie by our Polish hosts (although

they were still trying to find a grand piano in Tonight’s star filled gala performance Insko, the local supermarket having run compered by Stefan Back and out). features the following confirmed contributions: The Croatians were hoping to re-enact

the Wimbeldon final, featuring a non- Italy A homage to Klaus Reps speaking cameo appearance by Peter Gill,

but the net is too big for the stage. Germany A Musical Reprise

Belgium’s proposed Hercule Poirot England A Song of Patriotic Pride impressions have been vetoed.

Netherlands A Lesson in Good Bridge Israel’s plan to part Lake Insko has been

thwarted by the non-appearance of Moses USA/England I Remember it Well who was ejected from the Crazy pairs.

USA Nathan flies Solo We are still trying to understand the proposals of the Estonian and Latvian Australia Peter Gill Unlimited groups.

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WBF Awards activities with great enthusiasm. Step forward Daniel Mogilnicki of Poland! The four honourees of this camp, presented below in no particular order, come from very Our fourth and final award goes to a player different countries, and are four very different who is always ready to play any game — personalities. Nonetheless they all share one whatever the time of day or night — if this common characteristic; they have made the would please other people. He is a regular camp a better place for their friends and visitor to the Bulletin Room with stories of acquaintances. other people’s achievements, and encourages his fellow campers to play well and have a good First comes a player who stands out because time. He has been an enthusiastic camp he always has a smile on his face. He plays with supporter from the very beginning; not only did partners of all ranks, and though he is a fine he come back at all occasions but, together player he does not show his superiority at the with his friends, he acted as an ambassador of table. Since his first appearance, he has adopted Junior bridge in his country, ensuring that many the Camp spirit and worked for its success, more Juniors share his camp experiences. whether by participating, helping fellow Juniors Congratulations Ophir Reshef of Israel! or giving a hand (bridge or otherwise) to the organizers. He is friendly to everyone, Card Combinations generous, and popular. For all these reasons, we are very pleased to honour Niek Brink of What is your best play for three The ! tricks with

The fans of our second award winner say that [ 10 5 2 he is always happy and understanding at the Bridge table, even when his partner does not live up to expectations. As a player, he is good; facing [ A J 8 4 as a Camper, he is superior and has demonstrated repeatedly that he has the right and what is your safest line for two youth spirit. You will always find him mixing tricks? with people from other countries, having a good time, and ensuring that they do too. Moreover he is always ready to help anyone who is experiencing a problem. Well done ACBL Junior Camp 2002 Kostas Koussis of Greece! While details of the next ACBL Junior camp We are very pleased to be able to pick our remain to be finalised it is already known that third candidate because he has been a tower of the camp will either follow or precede the strength — not just at the Bridge table but North American Summer Nationals that will be especially away from it. At any event there are held in Washington D.C. the capital of the problems, but our third honouree was always United States of America. ready to help either doing the job himself or This ideal tourist venue will provide the finding the right man for the job, and he was location of the camp, so watch out for more always around even at unpopular times of day news in the ACBL Bulletin and on the web at and night. He was a moving spirit and www.acbl.org motivator amongst the participants — a proof that he has thrown himself into the camp

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Good bye, Juniors! TEAMS SESSION TWO

At the end of this wonderful Camp, I am once I was unhappy with my solution on this deal again at the emotionally difficult position of from the first match of the second half of the having to say goodbye to so many nice people. I Teams. was very pleased to see again such a large number of the friends we made on previous [ K Q J 8 3 occasions, and I was delighted with all the new ] 5 friends I made here. I trust that this is true for { A 6 4 3 every one of you. We had a fantastic time in } J 5 4 Insko, and the only consolation I have as we are going to be separated from each other right At favourable vulnerability you 1[ over now is that I may look forward to seeing many, 1] and hear LHO raise to 2]. Partner bids 4[ if not most, of you at one of our next events. and RHO bids 4NT. Do you want to bid 5[ now? If you pass LHO bids 5} and RHO Before we leave, however, we should once converts to 5]. Again you have a chance to bid again say a big ‘thank you’ to the people who or pass. made it all possible. These are the Polish Bridge Union and the entire local community of Insko Well, declarer has a 1-6-1-5 with good hearts and the Stargard Szczecinski region, who and solid clubs, while partner has the ace of worked very hard to ensure that our event was hearts and {KJx and only two clubs. A direct a successful one, and that you, the world’s 5[ at worst costs you 300 and might mess up bridge Juniors, had an unforgettable time in their undiscussed Blackwood responses, while their home area. I am sure you will agree that a delayed 5[ bid costs you 300. Since team- they have truly succeeded in their goals. And, mates played 5] doubled for +850 you still gain of course, we are most grateful to our hosts 5IMPs, but the opportunity to pick up a bit for all what they have done for us. more has gone begging.

Now it is time to say goodbye. Have a safe trip In our second match I ran into a bidding back home, and let us ensure that we all stay in problem, I thought, as North. touch throughout the winter. Until we meet again next year, I wish to each and everyone of Dealer South. E/W Vul you, my dear Juniors, a most productive time — just as you want it and deserve it. West North East South 1{ Panos Gerontopoulos Pass 1] 1[ 2} Chairman Pass 2[ Pass 3} WBF Youth Committee Pass ??

World Junior Team Is 4} forcing here? Surely yes — the issue is whether 2[ set up a game-force and 3} Championships suggests five, or whether 2[ simply set up an auto-force, and 3} suggests a minimum that I Make sure you follow all the action in can pass. Either way, 4} had to be forcing, Brazil by visiting the WBF web site at: angling for a 4] response, and now over 4{ I www.bridge.gr could bid 4] myself, but I felt I had to pass 5}.

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Was I right to do so? Well if you look at all 52 Dealer East. E/W Vul. cards it is hard to say. [ – [ K 7 3 ] Q J 9 7 2 ] A Q 10 8 6 4 { A 10 9 8 4 2 { – } J 8 } Q 10 9 8 [ A K 7 5 4 [ Q 10 9 3 [ J 4 2 [ A 10 9 8 6 ] 3 ] 10 6 ] J 9 3 2 ] K 5 { 7 6 3 { Q J 5 { K 10 9 8 4 { J 7 2 } 9 6 3 2 } Q 10 5 4 } 3 } J 5 2 [ J 8 6 2 [ Q 5 ] A K 8 5 4 ] 7 { K { A Q 6 5 3 } A K 7 } A K 7 6 4 Both tables in our match treated the North David Wiltshire had no problems in wrapping hand as a Game-Forcing 2} response to a 1] up 12 tricks in 5} on a spade lead to the ace. opening, and then could not bring themselves He won the club shift and bashed out the ace to show the spade later on, so played 6]. of hearts and ruffed a heart, then drew trumps The Outcasts did reach the Grand Slam here — and ruffed another heart and had the rest. but only by the embarrassing route of treating Perhaps the slam was not as good as I thought; the North hand as a 3[ splinter response to 1] in the other room declarer also got a spade and having that treated as a spade pre-empt. lead, but as he discovered if you in Eventually South jumped to 6[, North hearts and then play on a cross- you can go converted to 7], and +1770 resulted! down! In the final Match the Munnen team had the We were well placed going into our third frustration of beating the leading tem of the match, and got to play with the same outcasts, for the second time in the event, but duplicated boards as the leaders at Table one. only by 16-14, not enough to win the but we had the misfortune to lose to a team tournament. They did however win each of that just played better than we did. Team their matches — quite an achievement. Munnen (Dirksen/Brown Groosman /Slater) whopped us comfortably — it could have been Here are two hands to close with from the more had they got this deal right, which was Homer team. Most of you are familiar with the also played in the top match of course. manoeuvre (generally accidental) of doubling the opponents in game in the hop that they will Junior Camp 2003 not bid slam, and picking up IMPs when your team-mates do bid the slam. But how many At the moment it is possible that the 2003 times have you doubled a partscore and having edition of the camp will be held at Lake Balaton doubled the opponents into game when they in Hungary. That sounds excellent as Budapest were cold for slam, found that you still gained is only 100 kilometers away and ideal for IMPs? transport and an outing. However nothing is yet decided except that wherever we go we WORD GAMES hope to see you there! TURN BRIDE to GROOM in nine

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Dealer North. All Vul. Dealer South. All Vul.

[ 5 [ Q 9 2 ] 9 7 5 3 ] A J 9 4 3 { A Q 10 6 5 { A 10 9 } A J 4 } 10 9 [ Q 8 6 2 [ K 9 4 [ K 7 3 [ J 10 8 6 ] A K ] Q J 10 8 6 4 2 ] 10 ] K Q 7 5 2 { K 9 8 4 3 { J 2 { Q 5 { 7 6 4 3 } K 9 } 2 } K J 8 7 5 4 3 } – [ A J 10 7 2 [ A 5 4 ] – ] 8 6 { 7 { K J 8 2 } Q 10 8 7 6 5 3 } A Q 6 2

West North East South West North East South Ginossar Bessis Bessis Ginossar 1{ 1{ 3] 4} 2} 2] Pass 2NT Pass 4] Pass 4[ Pass 3NT All Pass Pass 5} Pass 6} All Pass West led the ten of hearts, for the jack and queen. He won the spade shift and continued Well bid to a slam on the minority of high- the suit, and won in hand and cards - what is essentially a combined 15- ran the eight of hearts, ducked by East. count since the queen of diamonds and jack of Bessis now played a diamond to the ace and spades are irrelevant! passed the ten of diamonds. When West won and cleared the spades Bessis simply won in Anyway, slam makes even on the double- dummy, cashed the ace of hearts pitching a dummy lead but on the heart lead club, took his top diamonds, and got out from Ginossar ruffed three spades in dummy and hand with a low club, endplaying West to lead claimed 12 tricks. clubs for a ninth trick.

In the other room North and East passed and South opened 3}, passed round to East who ROGGE WINS IOC ELECTION doubled. South’s 4} rebid will not be found in the Belgian Jacques Rogge has won the race textbooks, but it has a lot more going for it for the Presidency of the International than West’s double — and that was —910 when Olympic Committee (IOC). This is declarer slightly mistimed the play, but still a excellent news for Bridge as we 10IMP pick-up for team Homer. understand his second in command is on social terms Gianarrigo Rona, President Later on the following deal appeared: of the .

Make sure you visit: www.eurobridge.gr

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Who am I? daily newspaper bridge column in 1937, took over writing the column in Writer, editor and champion player, public 1944 and in 1954 merged the two in relations chief and editor of the ACBL collaboration with . In Bulletin from 1958-1970, editor-in-chief of 1970, when he turned the column over to the first 3 editions of Official Encyclopedia of Schenken, his was the longest continuously Bridge and editor of 12 World published syndicated bridge feature in the Championship books. Member ACBL Hall of United States. From Culbertson to Charles Fame. Put together bridge exhibitions and Goren, his writing frequently appeared TV shows and was chief commentator at under the byline of the bridge greats. He Bridge-o-Rama or exhibitions. After had the chameleon-like ability to change the retirement in 1970, became president of style and flavor of his writing to fit that of International Bridge Press Association the original. Following his retirement from (IBPA), serving in that post for 11 years. the ACBL, he became chairman of the Freelance writer on diverse non-fiction Goren Editorial , editor of the subjects for major magazines. His books on Newsletter and a consultant on canasta published in 1950 and 1951 sold a variety of bridge projects. He was boss more than a million copies and his According and mentor to a number of bridge to Hoyle in 1956 nearly three million. He personalities he brought to the League -- was the author of How to Win At Contract , , Tannah Bridge in Ten Easy Lessons and several other Hirsch, Tom Smith, Steve Becker, Richard books. Oshlag and Sue Emery. The bridge players who knew him as an editor and writer did not link him with personalities such as Culbertson, Sims, Vanderbilt, Jacoby and Schenken. But he was Word Game Answer right there at the beginning of the heyday of BRIDE brine brink brick crick crock . He was an original member crook brook broom GROOM of the Bid-Rite Team and the Four Aces. The Bid-Rite team (David Burnstine, We wish you all a Last Good Charles Lockridge, Howard Schenken) was Bye the forerunner of the original Four Aces,

formed in 1933 when broke When the European Junior Championships were free from a Culbertson commitment and held in his home town of Cardiff, replaced Lockridge. At the age of 25 he had wrote the following piece for the Daily Bulletin. his first major tournament victory -- the

prestigious Goldman Pairs. In a relatively We are not a wealthy country, competing only short playing career he won both the when there is an odd number of teams and the Vanderbilt and the in the same organisers wish us to make up the numbers. If year on two occasions (1934 and 1942) you look at the Results Table you will see we along with several other national events. He have a consistent, rather poor, record, losing was #8 in the first group of players to be every match 12-18. However, that is better designated Life Masters when the category than some! was created in 1936. We have some members on the staff. You may In 1935 he resigned from the Four Aces to have had a ruling from our studious join the Culbertson organization as sales Tournament Director, Bye The Book, or our manager for Kem Cards. He was an editor member of the Appeals Committee, Bye Law. of magazine, and began a

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Missing, due to lack of finance incidentally, is spend another day in the jersey he lost today. Bye the Way. Zabel’s surge to finish second in the peloton in Now let me introduce our team. Our top 16th place earned him 10 points... but finishing player, of course, is Best Bye. His partner, also 35 minutes and 54 seconds behind the winner, a competent player, I shall name later. (Can offers little glory. you guess why?) In our second partnership we Indeed, there were 161 riders today who have a player, who, for a Junior, bids very little, finished almost 36 minutes behind the winner namely Pass Bye. His partner is the only of the stage. And, in so doing, shouldn’t female in the team, the tall blonde who plays officially be allowed to start the ninth stage — cricket, Leg Bye. Our third pair is fairly thanks to their deficit being over 10 percent of inexperienced. One player I rest as often as Dekker’s winning time. But a possible, Lay Bye. The other, really only a with 14 riders offers little appeal, and the reserve, is Stand Bye. We have a coach from organizers will have to make an exception to Turkey, Ali Bye. the rule tonight. Did you guess the name of Best Bye’s partner But the facts above illustrate the main stories who I mention last? It is Good Bye. of today’s stage: There were 14 riders who were prepared to Signing off: The team n.p.c., Bye Bye. race — and race hard — despite the conditions. Erik Dekker thrives on day-long escapes. The 2001 Tour is proving to be one of the most unpredictable in years. Sports News Stuart O’Grady is far from finished in this year’s race despite taking a 24-hour sojourn An attacking group of 14 riders created a piece from the joy of wearing the golden glow of of curious history today when their winning race leader. time was enough to eliminate the rest of the And, finally, this summer-time fete is yet to see field from the Tour de France. In appalling a decent dose of sun! conditions, the two main winners of the cold, The stage was won by a savvy Dekker who wet and cruel 222.5km stage from Colmar to benefited enormously from the help of his Pontarlier were Stuart O’Grady and Erik team-mate, and the winner of the second stage, Dekker. , in the final 10 kilometers. It was The Australian was the Belgian who wore the yellow jersey early in reunited with the yellow the Tour who split up the 14 rider break which jersey after finishing fifth formed at the fifth kilometer. Wauters attacked behind Dekker on a day with about 50 kilometers to race. He was when the entire stage joined in waves by Knaven, Aitor Gonzalez and, was contested in of course, Dekker. These four never played pouring rain. And while cat-and-mouse games in the final 10 kilometers; he acknowledges that rather they hammered each other into oblivion his days in yellow will until, finally, the Rabo-punch came from end when the mountain Dekker in the final 50 meters. arrive in two days’ time, Take a look at the general classification on the he confirmed his result sheet to try and grasp the rest of the ambitions for the sprint story. Armstrong, Ullrich, Beloki et al haven’t prize — claiming enough points to inherit the featured yet. And tomorrow they’ll more than green jersey. No, he can’t wear two prize likely shelter in the bunch again… and be jerseys in the ninth stage, so will grateful for the fact that the rules were bent

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for their benefit today. Otherwise, the Crazy Pairs predictability of this Tour would be a little easier: one of 14 is, after all a lot easier than 1 Xing Yuan - Lars Nielsen 64.36 picking one winner from the 175 who are on 2 Anna Gogoman - Niek Brink 63.07 Kostas Koussis - Marco Polo 63.07 track to take the start tomorrow. 4 Michal Gorski – C.Karapaniotis 62.52 5 Bjarni Einarsson-SDeDonder 59.60 6 Greg Moss - Richard Martin 58.44 7 Ren‚ de Waele - Wigan Rule 58.23 8 Roger Brown - Daniel Neill 57.70 Card Combinations Answer 9 Brad Pitt-Christina Aguilera 57.58 10 Noga Tal - Gregoire de Loubens 57.38 11 A Minarik - Thomas Bessis 57.06 Your best play for three tricks with 12 Marc Glickman - Ory Assaraf 56.88 13 Dana Tal/ 55.23 14 David Wiltshire - Flem Clausen 54.69 [ 10 5 2 15 Alberto Sangiorgio-Marek Popi. 54.34 16 Ophir Reshef - 54.17 17 Jannes v't Oever-Anne Sofie H. 54.08 facing [ A J 8 4 18 Ben Englert - Wojchiech Majch. 53.87 19 Soren Andersen-Astrid Pisching 53.74 20 Damien Almolda-Antonis Papak. 53.68 is to lead small to the eight (that 21 Matt Donovan - Gabor Minarik 53.35 22 Mads Krogsgaard - Joshua Wyner 52.88 picks up Q9x or K9x in East, whereas 23 John Atthey - Raymond Garaud 52.77 leading to the jack only picks up 24 Antonio Rubino-Filippos K'lis 52.47 25 BasDrijver-Brzeczyszczykiewicz 51.84 KQx.) If the eight loses to an honour, 26 Els Toutenel - George Georgop. 51.78 cross back to dummy and lead up to 27 Kent Mignocchi - Iris Gr mm 51.46 28 Thomas Schonfeldt-Dror Lellouche51.34 your hand. Unless East plays the nine, 29 Gerben Dirksen - Alex Morris 51.07 remember to put on the ace. (So East 30 Clement Bidet - C.R. Henderson 50.44 31 Milan Macura - Peter Marjai 50.36 with 9xxx must follow with the nine 32 Miltos Karamanlis-Krisjanis B. 49.09 33 Ron Hoffman - John Kranyak 48.71 on the second round to deflect you !) 34 Josephine Moreau-Evan Hoovler 48.69 For two tricks cash the ace and lead 35 Erek Slater - Claudia vd Salm 48.57 36 Adele Gogoman - Jason Feldman 48.50 up to the ten, then lead back to the 37 Timmetje De Roos-Bartje Groosm 48.29 Jack-eight. 38 PeterPaul Angenendt - Nira Tal 48.11 39 Gilad Ofir - Helle Simonsen 47.55 40 Yotum Bar Yosef-Andor v Munnen 46.49 41 Ben Green - Andrew Carver 46.31 Camp Staff E-mail 42 Astrid Dekker - Daniel De Roos 46.20 43 Vedran Zoric - Steve De Roos 45.90 Panos Gerontopoulos [email protected] 44 M. Dialynas - Konrad Ronke 44.97 45 Joe Grue - Gitte Bruno 43.90 Stefan Back [email protected] 46 Karlo Brguljan - Alex Dialynas 43.74 Andrea Pagani [email protected] 47 Michael Byrne - Lea Moller 42.35 Charlotte Blaiss [email protected] 48 Nathan Walters-Dieter Schulz 42.30 Dimitri Ballas [email protected] 49 Samuel Levinson-Bjarne Peders. 40.17 Marc van Beijsterveldt [email protected] 50 Caroline Hupka - Andrew Harrison40.09 Miroslaw Mecik [email protected] 51 Giuseppe Mistretta-Sebas v Dyk 39.53 [email protected] 52 Edward Levy - Martin Bootsma 38.93 53 Simon Houlberg - Matt Jones 34.60 Mark Horton 54 Marijn Dekens - Erwin Barendr. 32.43 [email protected] 55 Superman - Aphrodite 24.92 Klaus Reps [email protected] 56 Disqualified 0.00 Maciek Ziomek [email protected] Zdenek Frabza [email protected] Goran Lindberg [email protected] Peter Gill [email protected] Marek Zakowicz [email protected] Beata Radziszewska [email protected]

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