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The Camp Awards Editor: Barry Rigal • Layout Editor: George Georgopoulos Bulletin no. 6 • Saturday 12 July 2003 THE CAMP AWARDS he WBF has established four awards to be made to WBF Youth Award Past Winners T participants at the Junior camps.These are not to be 1989 Wim Hendriks,Andrew Merrison given for performance at the Bridge table, but in order to Witold Tomaszek,Sergej Zernov reward attitude and diligence, international good will and 1991 Peter Pade, Lennart Heip sportsmanship.The winners of these awards earn the right Julia Korus, Stephan Magnusson for their country to have additional ex quota and free 1993 Brian Powell, Ruth Sorrell places at the next junior camp. In order to decide who is Marco Pengov, Panos Papadopoulos to receive the 2003 awards, the Youth committee invites all 1995 Andrei Mihailescu, Shelley Unger participants, official and members of staff at the camp to Henrik Ron,Tony Seto make nominations.These must be in writing, using the de- 1997 Schelte Wijma, Daniel Zagorin tachable page at the end of this bulletin. Please hand them to Stefan Back or Andrea Pagani or Thomas Schonfeldt no Mette Drogemuller, Daniel Stanghelle later than Sunday noon.You can make nominations for any 1999 Josh Heller, Monika Miroslaw or all categories, but not for someone from your own Kathrine Stensrud,Thomas Schonfeldt country. Please give your reasons, as the selection of the 2001 Niek Brink, Kostas Koussis winners will be based on them.These awards are, we hope, Daniel Mogilnicki, Ophir Reshef quite an honour and not to be taken lightly. Since we use Panos Gerontopoulos them for promotional publicity, please take them seriously. Chairman,WBF Youth Committee Camp Program Contents Youth World Championships - 1999.................2 08.45 - 09.45 hrs Breakfast Bridge with Garozzo and Belladona..................4 - 13.30 hrs Lecture Midnight Oil(ed)...................................................6 - 15.30 hrs Pairs Tournament 4 Finessing for Dummies........................................7 18.30 - 19.30 hrs Dinner Hungarian for Beginners.....................................8 Mari Ryman’s Problems.......................................9 - 20.00 hrs Teams - Part 2 Teams Part 1 Results.........................................11 - 23.30 hrs Snack & Camp Fire WBF Youth Award Nomination Form.............12 5th WORLD JUNIOR CAMP Vargesztes, Hungary Youth World Championships (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA 1999) ack we go, to look at the last Junior World Champi- the deal that follows from the World Junior Championships B onships to be held in the USA, four years ago. In the East and West managed precisely that feat, in a situation round robin match between Denmark and Italy in the where in the absence of such methods the defence would World Junior Teams a textbook hand in suit preference sig- have been almost impossible to find. naling came along. Unusually, it was the hand on lead mak- S/E-W ing the suit preference signal rather than the hand follow- ing suit. [ A J 10 3 N/-- ] 7 4 3 2 {9 2 [ K 10 9 } 9 8 6 ] 10 9 8 3 [ K 8 7 5 2N [ -- { K 10 2 ] 8 6 5 ] J W E } A 7 5 { A 5 { K Q 10 8 6 4 3 [ Q J 6 3 2 N [ A 8 } K J 5 S } Q 10 7 3 2 ] 6 5 ] K 7 2 W E [ Q 9 6 4 { A 7 5 { Q 9 6 4 ] A K Q 10 9 S } J 4 3 } 10 9 8 2 {J 7 [ 7 5 4 }A 4 ] A Q J 4 { J 8 3 West North East South } K Q 6 1] 1[ 3] 4{ 4] West North East South All Pass Pass Pass 1} Although Five Diamonds was laydown for E/W, it was 1[ Dbl Pass 2] very difficult for East to appreciate this after his partner Pass Pass 2[ Pass had overcalled in spades - suggesting to him that the part- Pass Dbl Pass 3] nership assets might be better on defence than offence. All Pass Perhaps West has to bid Five Diamonds at his second turn. Morten Madsen of Denmark as East thought long and Still, at least one pair managed to find the right defence to hard before pushing his opponents, with his call of Two their opponents' game to avoid adding insult to injury. Juan Spades, and rightly so.The defense had seven tricks against Carlos Castilla and Juanita Ochoa were the pair.Ochoa fol- that contract, but when North doubled a second time just lowed with the queen of diamonds under her partner's ace to show cards, South rather illogically decided against try- against Four Hearts, denying the king and suggesting that ing to take the penalty. her partner wake up. Juan Carlos dutifully played a spade The opening lead of the queen of spades held the trick. for down one.Well done! Now Kaspar Konow as West deliberately set up dummy's When Israel played Canada in the Round Robin of the ten of spades by leading a suit-preference jack at the sec- World Junior teams, they put together a set of virtually ond trick, since he knew that his partner's delayed support flawless bridge. Consider the following board where a po- was very likely to be based on precisely a doubleton spade. tential Canada gain vanished into the night. Hence he had to prepare the way for a spade ruff. Madsen as East won his ace perforce and duly led a diamond (the higher of the minor suits) in order to ensure he got his ruff. Treasure Hunt There was still the queen of diamonds coming to the de- fence for the setting trick. It is to your advantage to have a team with as Notice that if East plays a club after winning his ace of many nationalities as possible and with both spades, declarer gets in to draw trumps at once, and the boys and girls. defence lose their ruff. Furthermore a team must have 6 or 7 mem- One of the signals that experts use very occasionally is bers. called the oddball, or alarm clock.The idea is that the sac- The hunt will be held on Sunday - so start get- rifice of a high honour is used to wake up partner to the ting your teams organized. idea of an unusual switch, frequently to obtain a ruff. On 2 7 - 14 July 2003 5th WORLD JUNIOR CAMP N/-- West/All [ K Q 9 7 [ A J 10 5 3 ]K 2 ] Q 9 8 {9 3 { 8 5 4 } A Q J 8 5 } 10 8 [ J 10 6N [ 8 5 4 [ 8 6N [ K Q 7 2 ] 9 5 ] A 8 6 4 ] K 10 7 6 2 ] 5 4 3 W E W E { A Q 10 6 5 { J 4 { 10 6 { K 7 2 } 4 3 2 S } K 10 7 6 } 9 6 3 2 S } K Q 7 [ A 3 2 [9 4 ] Q J 10 7 3 ]A J { K 8 7 2 { A Q J 9 3 }9 } A J 5 4 Amit Wolpert Zack Zeidenberg West North East South West North East South Pass Pass 1} 1NT 1} Pass 1] Pass 2] Pass 2[ Pass 1[ Pass 1NT Pass 2NT Pass 3NT Pass 2NT Pass 3NT All Pass All Pass Both tables declared 3NT from the South seat on a In the other room, when Israel held the North-South transfer auction, after East had opened One Club, and both cards, they bid to 1NT after mentioning all their long suits. Wests untrustingly led a heart rather than a club. The Is- However where Canada were North-South on the auction raeli declarer tried to maximize his chances in hearts; he shown Wolpert tried 2NT as North, perhaps because his ducked in dummy and won the heart cheaply in hand.Then team needed a swing, and Zeidenberg raised to game.The he used his entry to table by taking the ace of spades to fi- diamond lead to the jack gave Zeidenberg the chance for nesse diamonds, and pressed on with that suit. But South an excellent play - and he took his best chance, by ducking could win his king of diamonds to set up the hearts, with the jack. Back came a diamond, and Amit cashed his dia- plenty of ways to regain the lead, and he still had a heart mond winners -- necessary even though it set up a dia- left to reach his partner, to set the hand one trick. mond trick for declarer - and that in turn allowed East to By contrast, at his table Chris Willenken as South focused discard an encouraging club.Without that clue both major correctly on the problem of entries to dummy.He was pre- suits might well have seemed to be possible switches, in pared to sacrifice the slim chance of an extra heart trick to which case declarer has nine tricks, but Amit trusted his maximize his chances of getting to dummy twice. He put up partner's signal and shifted to a club. Now the defence had the queen of hearts at the first trick, and when it held, he a club and the ace of hearts to come.Well done, everyone now had two entries to dummy to play diamonds for five - one down and 5 IMPs to Israel instead of 7IMPs the other tricks.That was enough for the contract. way. Counting is one of the most important exercises at The match between Israel and USAII appeared to have bridge, but sometimes you have to combine the exercise scuppered the former's chances of qualifying, although in with a fair amount of inference and conjecture.
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