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Sous le Haut Patronage de SAS le Prince Albert II de Monaco MONACO WELCOMES THE CAVENDISH VI C I A V V E H N D I S 3 - 8 FEBRUARY 2019 DDailyaily BBulletinulletin Vincent Labbé, Coordinator, Editor www.cavendish.bridgemonaco.com Philippe Cronier, Editor www.facebook.com/cavendishmonaco/ Francesca Canali, Layout & Social Media Editor, Photographer @CavendishMonaco FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8th 2019 - EVENING Issue No 7 THOMAS AND JEFF, JUST THE RIGHT BLEND At the beginning of the final, best performers in the were still far ahead, with now Mahmood-Gold second, as qualifications benefited from a well-deserved carry-over (they Multon-Zimmermann suffered a catastrophic start (-343,3), played 100 boards!). For exemple, Verhees-van Prooijen dropping from second to second-to-last place. started with +346,89 points, Multon-Zimmermann with The second session, in 12 boards, saw the leaders +256,59, Bessis-Meckstroth with 230,48 and De Wijs- preserve a comfortable margin (355 points) on their first Muller, the last qualified, with… zero point. pursuers Thomas Bessis and Jeff Meckstroth. Lauria-Versace were very happy, as they validated their Entering the third session, the Dutchmen had almost precious ticket for the final on the very last deal when their exactly the amount of IMPs as 2nd and 3rd places opponents managed to go down two at 6 Spades. combined… They rapidly enjoyed a gift from Palma- The 22 finalists played 42 boards, following a Wrang who played 7 Spades (doubled) with a missing Ace multiduplicate formula, so every deal was not a potential (of spades, oops!). But, then, they suffered successive bad “tragedy” as in Pairs. hits. And at the end of this third session, we had: Verhees- But tragedy is never far away. For example, on board van Prooijen (704,89), Bessis-Meckstroth (630,48) and 4, when Bruun-Schaffer played 6 Clubs one down on a Mahmood-Gold (573,64). Suddenly, all could happen. finesse, like two other pairs, it costed them 102 points. Fourth session, last stretch, final efforts, extra focus. Conversely, on the next deal, when Nabil-Salama, alone Three pairs for a title. in the world, reached a tangent 6 Spades (Ace of diamond The steady Dutchmen made no mistake until the last missing, finesse needed on a heart lead, losing no trump board where they were unable to beat 3 No-Trumps, trick with the stiff Queen facing AK10983), the result - slam losing 98 points! And so, the French-American pair Bessis- made with an overtrick (!) – meant an euphoric 133 points Meckstroth overtook them by the extremely thin margin bonus and a temporary second place. of… 2 points. At the end of the first session, Verhees-van Prooijen Congratulations to Thomas and Jeff! Cavendish VI Monaco, 3rd-8th February 2019 FINAL A - 2ND PLACE FINAL A - 3RD PLACE Louk Verhees Zia Mahmood Ricco van Prooijen (not pictured) David Gold WINNERS OF THE TEAMS EVENT Cedric Lorenzini, Hervé Vinciguerra, Philippe Soulet, Jerome Rombaut (not pictured) BEST YOUTH PAIR BEST MIXED PAIR Ola Rimstedt MMeikeeike WWortelortel Mikael Rimstedt JJaccoacco HHopop 2 Monaco, 3rd-88th February 2019 Cavendish VI CCAVENDISHAVENDISH PPAIRSAIRS - RRESULTSESULTS FINALFINAL A 1 629,48 BESSIS Thomas MECKSTROTH Jeff 2 626,89 VAN PROOIJEN Ricco VERHEES Louk 3 612,64 GOLD David MAHMOOD Zia 4 335,62 PALMA Antonio WRANG Frederic 5 306,06 FILIPOWICZ Dominic MARTENS Krzysztof 6 196,48 DELLE CAVE Giuseppe GOLFARELLI Vittorio 7 132,23 MORARU Dan TEODORESCU Cornel 8 108,95 RIMSTEDT Mikael RIMSTEDT Ola 9 103,68 LEVIN Amir ROLL Josef 10 97,13 GROETHEIM Glenn TONDEL Petter 11 82,96 KHOKHLOV Jouri MATUSHKO Georgy 12 63,44 GAWRYS Piotr KLUKOWSKI Michal 13 38,89 BRUUN Mathias SCHAFFER Lauge 14 12 DE WIJS Simon MULLER Bauke 15 -6,52 NABIL Karim SALAMA Karim 16 -12,06 HOP Jacco WORTEL Meike M 17 -19,07 LAURIA Lorenzo VERSACE Alfredo 18 -66,41 MULTON Franck ZIMMERMANN Pierre 19 -146,97 BILDE Dennis MADALA Agustin 20 -161,04 D’AVOSSA Mario DI BELLO Stelio 21 -185,96 DRIJVER Bob NAB Bart 22 -302,29 CARROLL John HANLON Tom CCAVENDISH AVENDISH PPAIRSAIRS - RRESULTSESULTS FINALFINAL B 1 1665,62 DANAILOV Diyan STAMATOV Jerry 2 1663,95 ZATORSKI Piotr ZMUDA Justyna M 3 1254,01 NARKIEWICZ Gregorz TUCZYNSKI Piotr 4 1250,63 ABECASSIS Michel CRONIER Philippe 5 908,42 APTEKER Alon GOWER Craig 6 785,99 DEMUY Vincent HURD John 7 763,19 BIRMAN Alon WINKLER Gabor 8 722,72 LANTARON Luis PIEDRA Fernando 9 685,83 KHIUPPENEN Yury KHOLOMEEV Vadim 10 648,8 ORLOV Sergey RUDAKOV Evgeni 11 629,92 EKENBERG Simon HULT Simon 12 569,74 DIKHNOVA Tatiana KRASNOSELSKIY Mikhail M 13 562,28 MAAMARBACHI Clement VROUSTIS Vassilis 14 528,08 MAUBERQUEZ Erik OURSEL Christophe 15 496,61 BERTHEAU Peter BLACK Andrew 16 404,35 HALLBERG Gunnar PATTERSON Derek 17 381,57 GROSSACK Adam GROSSACK Zachary 18 376,98 BELLICAUD Luc LE LEZ Victor 19 369,31 HOFTANISKA Thor MALINOWSKI Artur 20 262,5 SAPORTA Pierre SAPORTA Renata M 21 256,06 ARLOVICH Andrey VAINIKONIS Erikas 22 246,01 KING Phil MCINTOSH Andrew 23 244,64 PSZCZOLA Jacek WIGODER Charles 24 239,15 BOMPIS Marc D’OVIDIO Catherine M 25 198,24 BAKHSHI David SELIGMAN Martin 26 150,2 EIDI Michel SAKR May M 27 119,6 LAUSS Wolfgang WERNLE Sascha 28 59,19 BRENNER Diego VILLAS-BOAS Miguel 29 29,2 LORENZINI Cedric VENTIN Juan-carlos 30 5,24 LUPU Smaranda LUPU M M 31 -1,03 BARONI Irene DELIMPALTADAKIS Nikos M 32 -60,2 SOULET Philippe VINCIGUERRA Herve 33 -73,28 GROMOV Andrey GULEVICH Anna M 34 -168,09 ANDRESEN Martin HELNESS Fredrik 35 -240,73 BENOIT Alain GAVIARD Daniele M 36 -409,27 KILJAN Veri TIJSSEN Luc 37 -452,43 OLANSKI Woycech VAINIKONIS Vytautas 38 -453,3 FRONTAURA Frankie MADALA Adolfo 39 -575 BROGELAND Boye GILLIS Simon 40 -729,83 EDGTTON Nabil LUND Madsen M 41 -829,83 MENDES De SPRINKHUIZEN Thibo 42 -970,84 CAPUCHO Manuel LARA Joao M 43 -996,06 ANDERSSON Gunnar HEBERT Noomi M 3 Cavendish VI Monaco, 3rd-8th February 2019 THE NEW FACE OF THE EBL: JAN KAMRAS AND ÉRIC LAURANT by Philippe Cronier In Ostend last year, the European Bridge League difficulties in Europe, fewer and fewer cities are ready elected its new president and executive board. Welcome to host our championships in good conditions. Even to Monaco to Jan Kamras, the new president. Jan is if the tourism benefits of our championships are Swedish, he divides his time between Sweden and Tel undeniable, there are not many “good” candidates. Aviv. He was the manager of the competitions in the On the other hand, the time of major sponsors, such former team. as Philip Morris or Generali, who alone could ensure the He came to visit the Cavendish, while meeting Pierre balance of the EBL’s budget, also seems to be behind Zimmermann and Jean-Charles Allavena to finalize the us. We are committed to developing sponsorships on last details of the Winters Games, the competition that a human scale, where bridge friends who can afford takes place every two years in Monte Carlo, alternatly it will help an event or competition. We are therefore with the Cavendish, under the high patronage of the exploring the possibility of sponsoring some of our EBL. events with the name of a donor, which has long been He is accompanied by Eric Laurant, until recently the the practice of the ACBL. technical director of the Dutch bridge federation, who Moreover, even if there have been a few problems at replaced Joseph Harsanyi as treasurer of the EBL since times, we have managed in recent years to maintain last June. The two leaders have agreed to answer the the level of our competitions and even to offer questions in the Bulletin... new opportunities to bridge players. For example, the creation of the new mixed European team Jan, what’s going to change at the EBL? championship, which will take place at the end of the I had already explained a lot during the campaign about month in Lisbon. Thirty countries registered, more than a modernized vision, more in line with the times, of the for the senior events of the European Championships governance of the EBL. We have proposed changes in in Ostend. This guarantees us the financial balance of three directions. the event. It wasn’t won at first! 1. First of all, financial control. Accounting processes were often opaque, we have implemented a Apart from the organisation of the new chart of accounts, each member of the championships, in which areas are you involved? executive committee now has real-time access to The EBL has always wanted to support certain expenditure commitments and can monitor what projects related to the development of bridge. At is happening. the moment, two of them are receiving particular 2. Then, there is transparency in decision-making attention. The first, very original, is called “Keeping and the follow-up of cases. The new committee bridge alive for the youth”. This is an approach to the is open, modern. We share information in real scientific sociology of bridge, undertaken by a Scottish time and everyone can react. The best example academic, Samantha Punch, as part of the University of this state of mind is provided by Karri-Anne of Stirling. Opsal. The former president of the Norwegian The second is the “60+ project”. Developed by Federation is a female politician and member of the Dutch federation, it is a development tool for Parliament. Her favorite sentence is “Tell me, municipalities that integrates bridge on the Internet what’s going on?” And like her colleagues, she into the life of federations.