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BulletinÖREBRO • SUNDAY MAY 29 2011 NORDIC BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sweden’s Open Team. From the left: Frederic Wrang, Johan Sylvan, Peter Fredin, Jan Lagerman (coach), Johan Upmark, Per-Ola Cullin and Jan Kamras (npc). Sweden Open Leaders With Two Matches to Go With only two matches left to play in these Nordic Championships Finland has a finger on the NBU Trophy. However, four teams are fighting for all medal spots in each category, thus we can look forward to a very exciting day! At this point Sweden i leading in the Open with 139 followed by Finland 135 and Iceland 131. In the Women series Denmark is in winning position, with 137 over Finland 131 and Norway 129. Programme SUNDAY 29 MAY 09.00-11.20 • Match 9 11.40-14.00 • Match 10

Match 10 will be followed by Farewell Lunch and Prize giving ceremony. Schedule of play Round 1 - Open Round 9 - Open Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Finland - Iceland 8 - 10 15 - 15 1 Faroe Islands - Iceland - - 2 Denmark - Sweden 17 - 35 11 - 19 2 Norway - Sweden - - 3 Faroe Islands - Norway 12 - 28 11 - 19 3 Denmark - Finland - -

Round 2 - Open Round 10 - Open Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Norway - Denmark 17 - 27 13 - 17 1 Sweden - Denmark - - 2 Iceland - Faroe Islands 60 - 11 25 - 4 2 Iceland - Finland - - 3 Sweden - Finland 22 - 21 15 - 15 3 Norway - Faroe Islands - -

Round 3 - Open Round 1 - Women Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Iceland - Sweden 18 - 47 8 - 22 1 Sweden - Bye - 18 - 0 2 Finland - Norway 38 - 35 16 - 14 2 Iceland - Finland 16 - 30 12 - 18 3 Denmark - Faroe Islands 91 - 0 25 - 0 3 Denmark - Norway 27 - 25 15 - 15

Round 4 - Open Round 2 - Women Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Finland - Denmark 17 - 43 9 - 21 1 Norway - Iceland 39 - 30 17 - 13 2 Faroe Islands - Sweden 0 - 59 2 - 25 2 Bye - Denmark - 0 - 18 3 Norway - Iceland 16 - 51 7 - 23 3 Finland - Sweden 34 - 41 14 - 16

Round 5 - Open Round 3 - Women Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Sweden - Norway 30 - 32 15 - 15 1 Bye - Finland - 0 - 18 2 Denmark - Iceland 12 - 47 7 - 23 2 Sweden - Norway 40 - 19 20 - 10 3 Faroe Islands - Finland 21 - 88 1 - 25 3 Iceland - Denmark 55 - 44 17 - 13

Round 6 - Open Round 4 - Women Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Finland - Faroe Islands 72 - 49 20 - 10 1 Sweden - Iceland 49 - 20 22 - 8 2 Sweden - Iceland 12 - 33 10 - 20 2 Denmark - Finland 58 - 59 15 - 15 3 Denmark - Norway 14 - 95 0 - 25 3 Norway - Bye - 18 - 0

Round 7 - Open Round 5 - Women Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Iceland - Denmark 36 - 25 17 - 13 1 Finland - Norway 40 - 39 15 - 15 2 Norway - Finland 19 - 35 11 - 19 2 Iceland - Bye - 18 - 0 3 Sweden - Faroe Islands 33 - 14 19 - 11 3 Denmark - Sweden 50 - 38 18 - 12

Round 8 - Open Round 6 - Women Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Finland - Sweden 30 - 26 16 - 14 1 Norway - Finland 57 - 29 22 - 8 2 Faroe Islands - Denmark 12 - 54 5 - 25 2 Iceland - Sweden 29 - 49 10 - 20 3 Iceland - Norway 9 - 82 0 - 25 3 Bye - Denmark - 0 - 18

2 Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 Round 7 - Women Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Sweden - Finland 17 - 52 7 - 23 Problems Corner

2 Denmark - Iceland 24 - 25 15 - 15 Problem 1 and 2 were presented in Friday’s bulletin and 3 Norway - Bye - 18 - 0 the solutions in yesterday’s bulletin. Problem 3 and 4 were presented in Saturday’s bulletin and the solutions Round 8 - Women can be found in this bulletin. Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP Today we give you another two problems and you can 1 Norway - Denmark 5 - 52 4 - 25 find the solutions in today’s second bulletin, which can be 2 Finland - Iceland 55 - 32 20 - 10 downloaded after the championships. 3 Bye - Sweden - 0 - 18 Problem 5 Round 9 - Women Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP You (West) are playing in 5{. North overcalled in spades and South jumped in spades. : [K. 1 Iceland - Norway - -

2 Sweden - Denmark - - [ – [ AJ

3 Bye - Finland - - ] AJ10 N ] 9532 { AQ109765 V Ö { KJ83 S Round 10 - Women } 1043 } AJ9 Table Home team Visiting team IMP VP 1 Sweden - Norway - - Evaluate the probabilities to make your game. 2 Finland - Denmark - - 3 Iceland - Bye - - Problem 6

After a no opening and transfer West ended up in Standings 6{. North advanced ]A. Open Teams [ AQ98 [ 65 Team Games IMP VP ] KQJ N ] – V Ö 1. Sweden 8 264-165 139 { 82 S { AKQJ1097 2. Finland 8 309-225 135 } A873 } Q654 3. Iceland 8 264-213 131 4. Norway 8 324-216 129 How to play? 5. Denmark 8 283-259 119 You will find the solutions in the afternoon’s bulletin. 6. Faroe Islands 8 119-485 44

Women Teams Team Games IMP VP 1. Denmark 8 255-207 137 2. Finland 8 299-260 131 3. Norway 8 205-197 129 4. Sweden 8 213-225 123 IMPORTANT 5. Iceland 8 207-290 103 Your badge is your ticket for Nordic Bridge Team A) Being able to play and Championships Combined for the NBU Trophy May 26 - 29, 2011 B) Getting food at lunch and ÖREBRO • SWEDEN Team Games P dinner times in the resturant. 1. Finland 8 4 2. Sweden 8 5 If you loose it for some reason, you can buy a new one for 3. Denmark 8 6 SEK50. If so, contact the staff. 4. Norway 8 7 5. Iceland 8 8

Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 3 Women – Match 5: Nice

– by Micke Melander – Saturday morning, and we still haven’t been able to Trine found to lead away with a diamond, deadly killing see the sun in Örebro, at least not outside. Inside for declarer if partner just could understand how spades the venue we compensate with players shining were distributed. Sara thought for a while, and probably in their brilliancy. OK, not all the time... Let’s see believed that she was secure, with spades 5-0 in the what happened on a couple of boards in match defense after the . Declarer took the direct , but Nadia didn’t find to jump up with the king of five between Denmark and Sweden in the Women diamonds and return her spade. Instead she just played series. the ten and Sara quickly took her nine tricks, before anything nasty happened. In the open room the Danish 1. North [ 9743 pair found their fit in spades, but with the unlucky lie None ] AK2 of the cards the contract went two down;11 imps to { AJ5 Sweden. } AJ8 2. East [ KJ64 [ AKQT [ 8 N-S ] AT7542 ] 743 N ] T98 V Ö { K8 { 742 S { KT863 } 6 } T74 } 9532 [ A852 [ Q97 [ J652 ] J N ] Q86 ] QJ65 V Ö { A753 { QJ94 { Q9 S } AK97 } 843 } KQ6 [ T3 ] K93 West North East South { T62 Trine Cecilia Nadia Sara } QJT52 Binderkrantz Rimstedt Bekkouche Asplund-Sivelind 1}* Pass 1{* 1[ Dbl* Pass 1NT West North East South Pass 2NT Pass 3NT Trine Cecilia Nadia Sara Pass Pass Pass Binderkrantz Rimstedt Bekkouche Asplund-Sivelind Pass Pass 1} 1] 2} 2] 3} 3{* Pass 3] Pass Pass Pass

Cecilia made a with three diamonds, not showing any special suit, however Sara couldn’t find any values raising it to game, so they came to rest in 3 hearts. The defense kicked-off with a club to the king. Trine now thought for a while and again found what looked like a killing play, the two of spades. If declarer decides to play low, she most probably go down, unless she decides to finesse in trumps in the end. Cecilia however decided to jump up with the king and when it held the trick she continued with a low spade towards dummy’s ten. Nadia won the queen and counterattacked with the queen of diamonds, making life easy for declarer. Trine ducked and Cecilia won with her king, ruffed a spade, intended to Cecilia Rimstedt of Sweden. Sara Asplund Sivelind run the jack of clubs from dummy, though covered with of Sweden. the ace and ruffed good by declarer. Cecilia then played

4 Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 a trump to dummy’s king, cashed the ten of clubs which On 4 Nadia gambled with 3NT and that closed had been established discarding her loosing diamond. the bidding. After a diamond lead it was 10 pretty quick That meant ten tricks for the Swedish former world tricks for declarer when she went for her ninth trick in champions from the junior pairs in Slovakia 2006. That clubs and the defense tried to defeat the contract with was worth one imp to Sweden, when they played in continues spades. At the other table Kathrine Bertheau 3 hearts and made nine tricks at the other table. managed to go one down in 4 spades, 12 well-needed imps for the Danes. 3. South [ AQ E-W ] QJ4 5. North [ 4 { A85 N-S ] QJT93 } KQJT9 { 9542 [ J873 [ K954 } QJ6 ] K965 N ] AT3 [ A97 [ J65 V Ö { KT S { Q962 ] 865 N ] A42 } A54 } 62 V Ö { AKQT S { J8 [ T62 } K73 } AT985 ] 872 [ KQT832 { J743 ] K7 } 873 { 763 } 42 West North East South Trine Cecilia Nadia Sara Binderkrantz Rimstedt Bekkouche Asplund-Sivelind West North East South Pass Trine Cecilia Nadia Sara Pass 1}* Pass Pass Binderkrantz Rimstedt Bekkouche Asplund-Sivelind Dbl* 1NT Pass Pass Pass Pass 2{ Pass Dbl Rdbl* 3}* Pass 3NT Pass Pass Pass Here the question was how many tricks declarer would be able to win? Declarer got a diamond lead that went This was one of the more interesting boards of this set. to three, ten and ace. Cecilia continued with the king 2 diamonds, multi with a weak major by Sara in third of clubs setting up the much needed tricks to make the seat. 3 clubs was a Lebensohl action showing values for contract. Again the Danish defense worked well, ace of partner who then had an easy way bidding their no- clubs, heart to the ace, more hearts ducked to declarer, trump game. leaving the communication open for the defence. Declarer realized what just had happened and took her Cecilia led her queen of hearts, from the principle tricks scoring her 90. That was 5 imps to Sweden, when longest and strongest. When partner had the king and the Danish pair in the open room got to 2NT and went unblocked it under declarer’s ace the suit were set. Trine one off. tried to sneak a well needed club trick in tricks two by running the ten. Cecilia won the jack and quickly took 4. West [ T63 her tricks and noted one down in the contract. That All ] K965 was10 imps to Sweden when the Swedish pair at the { 43 other table scored 10 tricks after a spade lead from the other hand. In the end } A652 the Danish women team [ KJ972 [ AQ5 striked back and won the ] JT432 N ] Q match with 50-38 (18-12 V Ö { --- S { AKQT72 VP’s). } QT3 } J94 [ 84 But let’s stay a moment ] A87 with that last hand. Pekka { J9865 Viitasalo of Finland played } K87 brilliantly. The queen of hearts were led, ducked by West North East South declarer, king unblocked by South, more hearts Trine Cecilia Nadia Sara Binderkrantz Rimstedt Bekkouche Asplund-Sivelind followed, where Pekka Pass Pass 3NT Pass won with the ace, played Pass Pass a diamond to the ace and Pekka Viitasalo of Finland.

Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 5 a low club towards dummy (intending to finesse). When North played the jack he called for the ace from dummy, Ikkje drag et es mod storeslemm cashed his diamonds, the ace of spades and exited with a small heart for North, leaving the following position: Malinowski og Rasmussen fra Norge havde meldt 7[ mod Anthoniussen og Jacobsen fra Færøerne.

5. North [ --- Så kom der kløver-udspil fra forkert hånd. N-S ] JT9 { --- Turneringlederen blev tilkaldt og dømte udspil fra forkert } Q6 hand. [97 [ J6 – ... du kan forbjuda kløver osv.. ] 8 N ] 2 – ... og til sidst: V Ö Du måste ikkje trække es ess og spille kløver igen. { --- S { --- } K7 } T985 Men det blev sagt med et smil. [ KQT8 ] --- { --- } 4

North was stripped down and throwed in on his hearts, having to lead away into declarer’s club tenace. Henrik Johansson, Well played, Pekka! TD.

Ordinary Congress of the Nordic Bridge Union

– by Stephan Magnusson and Flemming Bøgh-Sørensen –

On Friday delegates from the National Bridge The NBU elected Stephan Magnusson from Denmark Organizations (NBO’s) of the Nordic countries as NBU chairman and Flemming Bøgh-Sørensen from met in Örebro. Denmark as secretary for the coming two years. The delegates agreed on a revised Towards the end of the meeting the Congress was covenant that was solemny and attended by the chairman of the EBL, M. Yves Aubry cheerfully signed by all the Nordic (France) and EBL Executive Committee member Jens NBO’s. It was very fitting that this was Auken (Denmark), as well as EBL Executive Committee accomplished here in Sweden . member Jan Kamras (Sweden), who also was the Swedish delegate to NBU. The Congress agreed to continue the internet based bridge club BBO The subjects discussed included organized bridge’s Nordic, which has grown to become relationship with the game of poker, media and social probably the biggest bridge club in media coverage as a way to promote bridge, scheduling the world in only six months. The of EBL events, information (or the lack thereof) on bridge club will have to generate the EBL and WBF websites, the EBL junior promotion sufficient income to balance the Stephan Magnusson. plans, the special needs of the small federations and budget. As a consequence a playing sponsorships. fee will be charged as soon as possible. Also and ranking lists are on the planning stages. As a further subject, it was mentioned that no formal application has been sent from either the The Congress agreed to revise and clarify the general Monegasque NBO or the sponsor Mr. Zimmermann conditions of contest for the Nordic Championships as to the EBL Credentials Committee to allow former well as the Nordic Junior Championships, in order to Norwegian players Geir Helgemo and Tor Helness in avoid in the future the unfortunate event of the recent the Monegasque national team. If and when such an Junior Championships, where an appeal of the awarding application is received, it will be handled according to the of medals was sent from one of the participating NBO’s. present EBL regulations.

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8 Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 The Hand of the Day?

– by Svend Novrup – Round 5 had a wealth of but wait! South can refuse to take his ]A twice, and now interesting hands deserving the is not correct for the squeeze or…? different sorts of the ‘Hand of the Day’-prizes, and let’s Well, West will now cash his four clubs forcing North to briefly take a look at some discard a heart and a spade to this position: others before we go to ‘Declarer play of the day’. [ KT9 ] – Let’s first take the ‘Weird { T98 Contract of the Day’, a } – variation of the Ekren 2{. [ J2 [ AQ75 ] J N ] – 4. West [ T63 Ö { K53 V { A7 All ] K965 S { 43 } – } – }A652 [ 643 [ KJ972 [ AQ5 ] A7 { 4 ] JT432 N ] Q V Ö } – { --- S { AKQT72 }QT3 }J94 Now you could play three rounds of diamonds throwing [ 84 North in to lead away from [K but if he is a good chess ] A87 – or bridge – player, he won’t do that – he will it { J9865 instead, and either he makes his [10, or South gets his }K87 ]A in the end.

Against the Faroe Islands, the Finnish West opened 2{ Well, if that was your analysis, you were a victim of your to show his majors – and everybody passed! On the bad search for brilliancy. Back to the diagrammed position. trump break – he held none himself, he just made the We know that North has no more hearts, so we just give contract but lost 11 IMPs against 3NT in the other room. him a spade trick establishing dummy’s fourth spade as He would have won the board against the pair that in the decisive trick. another match played in 6[ down two! So much for beauty, and any way we know of no South We continue to the ‘Unlikely Duel of the Day’. What a who could keep his fingers off the ]A for two rounds of thrust and parry you could have had on board 5, playing the suit. in 6NT as West, like it happened at some tables: OK. To ‘Declarer Play(s) of the Day‘ that had several heroes in the East seat. Let’s follow two of them, Runi 6. East [ KT98 Mouritzen from the Faroe Islands and Artur Malinowski East/West ] 643 from Norway. { JT98 }85 9. North [ K63 [ J2 [ AQ75 East/West ] K843 { 7 ] KQJ N ] T98 V Ö }KQJ54 { KQ53 S { A76 }AKQJ }T93 [ T9875 [ AJ [ 643 ] A975 N ] QJ { J V Ö { AKQT9632 ] A752 S { 42 }987 }3 }7642 [ Q42 ] T62 The natural lead was {J, and if you simply knock-out ]A, { 854 you will later squeeze North in spades and diamonds – }AT62

Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 9 Both ended up in 5{. South cashed }A and continued Women – Match 3 – Board 15: the suit. East ruffed, ran a heart honour to North, and got the only switch that didn’t immediately give away the contract, a trump. Nice Icelandic Bidding

Both declarers ran their seven trumps, and now the – by Charles – defense could choose who would guard clubs. Against Mouritzen both did, and this established a : The Island Ladies Pair was the only to bid the small slam [ K6 on Board 15. It is not quite easy in a natural system. ] – 15. South [ AQ103 { – N-S ] AQ10873 }Q4 { Q2 [ T [ AJ } A ] A9 N ] Q V Ö [ J976 [ 42 { – S { 3 ] J9 N ] 542 }9 } – V Ö { 10543 { A987 [ Q S } 743 } KQJ5 ] T2 [ K85 { – ] K6 } T { KJ6 To the last diamond South discarded [Q, and Mouritzen } 109862 played a heart to dummy and finessed North for [K. West North East South Against Malinowski South stuck to his spades and hearts, Anna Gudrun and this was the position: Ívarsdóttir Óskarsdottir Pass Pass 1] Pass 1NT [ K6 Pass 2} Pass 2{ ] – Pass 3] Pass 3[ { – Pass 3NT Pass 4{ }Q4 Pass 4NT Pass 5} [ T [ AJ Pass 6] Pass Pass ] A9 N ] Q Pass V Ö { – S { 3 }9 } – 2} = natural or 16+ (A kind of Gazilly) [ Q4 2{ = 9-11 ] T2 3[ = cue-bid 3NT = Slam try { – 4{ = cue-bid (no } cue-bid) } – 4NT = RKCB (1430) 5} = One Ace

This time South had to bare [Q to keep hearts, and then There was nothing to the play – 12 tricks. declarer could let go ]9 that had done its duty. North discarded a club but on a heart to ]A he was squeezed in the black suits. A nice .

So, both declarers made 11 tricks. Others did, too, and we don’t know well their opponents defended, or if they shone in the same way – but what a hand.

We can’t fill the bulletin with analysis, but just for your information. According to Deep Finesse the contract will go down on two leads: a small heart or a low club – but make against all others leads. Try it out yourself.

10 Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 A Struggle For Positions

– by Carl Ragnarsson – With one round to go in the first Round Robin of the of tricks as his Finnish counterpart. Three down meant Open Series Denmark and Iceland was a couple of VPs that the first IMPs went to Finland; ten to be more exact. behind Sweden, the gap to Finland and Norway being more than twenty. The two wolves on the hunt were to Things didn’t go any better for Norway on board 3, meet in round 5, while Sweden was taking on Norway. Finland being the only East-West pair in the Open Series As the latter match ended 15-15 and Iceland won their driving on to game: battle 23-7, the Icelandic team had come a lot closer to the top. 3. South [ A762 E-W ] 9732 The re-seeding for the second Round Robin was, for { J organizing reasons, based upon the standings after a four } A542 rounds instead of five; the predicted final being Sweden against Denmark in round ten. Well, the conclusion must [ 543 [ KQJ9 ] T54 N ] AJ6 be to never ever predict any outcome since Norway V Ö crushed their Danish friends 25-0 with Sweden losing { AQ754 S { T2 to Iceland 10-20 at the same time. Going into Round 7 }Q7 }KJ96 Iceland had overtaken the lead with Norway catching up [ T8 and Denmark falling like a stone: ] KQ8 { K9863 1. Iceland 114 }T83 2. Sweden 106 3. Finland 100 In the Closed Room Norway landed in 2NT just making 4. Norway 93 on the lead of {3. The Open Room had to defend against 5. Denmark 81 3NT, and with everything nicely placed there was no way 6. Faroe Islands 28 for North-South to beat that contract. Another 10 IMPs to Finland, leading 20-0 after three boards; not the kind Norway had Finland on the programme and was in need of start Norway wanted. of a good result. Was it to come? Well, hang around and The Norwegians collected a couple of IMPs on board 4 you’ll see! and 7 but the third major swing went, again, to Finland:

Norway lined Thor Erik Hoftaniska-Thomas Charlsen as 8. West [ A76 North-South in the Open Room against Jouni Juuri-Oja- None ] AT87 Osmo Kiema for Finland. The Closed Room line-up being Kauko Koistinen-Clas Nyberg as North-South versus { Q7 Artur Malinowski-Arild Rasmussen. }AQ93 The first swing came on board 2 already: [ JT83 [ Q5 N ] QJ942 V Ö ] K65 2. East [ Q { J8 S { 932 N-S ] AJ943 }T7 }J8542 { QT [ K942 } 7543 ] 3 [ J63 [ AT87 { AKT654

] KQT65 N ] 872 }K6 { 63 V Ö { AK754 S } JT6 }Q West North East South Osmo Thor Erik Jouni Thomas [ K954 Kiema Hoftaniska Juuri-Oja Charlsen ] – Pass 1NT Pass 2} { J982 Pass 2] Pass 3}* }AK982 Pass 3{* Pass 3]* Pass 3[* Pass 3NT In the Open Room Juuri-Oja-Kiema stopped in 2] which Pass Pass Pass went one off; NS +50. The Norwegian pair climbed all the way to 4], ending with a mistrusting double by Koistinen Due to South’s explanations at the table North had in the North seat. Rasmussen collected the same number shown (14)15-17 HCP with 4-4 in hearts and clubs.

Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 11 East started with the two of clubs to the ten and queen. West North East South North attacked diamonds; queen and a low to the ace. Osmo Thor Erik Jouni Thomas When that suit broke North had twelve tricks for +490. Kiema Hoftaniska Juuri-Oja Charlsen In the Open Series all tables but two bid a small slam, Pass 1{ 4] 4[ three times in diamonds and once in No Trumps. The Pass 4NT 6] Pass* North-South avoiding slam didn’t have to bother that Pass Dbl Pass Pass much, since East-West managed to get to 3] – don’t ask Pass me how – which was mercilessly doubled. Down five meant 12 IMPs to Finland now leading at 32-5. Being dummy in a high level contract was perhaps not the first West thought of when initially looking at Norway struck back on board 11, giving them their first his cards. Thor Erik Hoftaniska had a huge hand once real swing in the match: partner could bid 4[ over East’s preemptive 4] call. It was all a matter of aces and he duly checked by bidding 11. South [ QJ84 4NT. Jouni Juuri-Oja put maximum pressure by bidding Ingen ] QJ 6] realizing that his hand was of little use in defending { 42 a spade contract; and at the same time it was a severe }Q9852 test of his opponents’ high level bidding. Charlsen’s pass [ K3 [ T5 showed exactly one ace so there was no alternative ] KT742 ] A965 for Hoftaniska but to double. The cheap sacrifice was N duplicated in the Closed Room for a flat board; N/S V Ö { QJ { AKT965 +300. }AT64 S }J [ A9762 ] 83 Board 14 was a small pick-up for Norway. A pick-up that would have been even bigger if game had been reached in { 873 the other room: }K73 14. East [ QJ976 The Open Room auction saw Osmo Kiema open with Ingen ] 9 1] and showing minimum with 3} over Jouni Juuri-Oja’s game forcing 2NT. East enquired shortness with 3{; and { QJ73 West’s 4] being the final contract denying shortness as }T32 well as any extras in the range of minimum. Hoftaniska [ T84 [ 53 N led the spade queen to Charlsen’s ace and Kiema later ] QJ3 V Ö ] AKT652 missguessed the trumps. 11 tricks was worth +450 E/W. { 985 S { AK4 }K974 }QJ The Norwegians in the Closed Room was a bit more [ AK2 ambitious reaching 6], depending on bringing in the ] 874 trumps without loss. Koistinen led the {4 to Rasmussen’s { T62 queen. Rasmussen played two rounds of trumps from the top; and Norway scored 11 badly needed IMPs to trail by }A865 17 at 16-33.

Intervention over Blackwood is a huge problem for most West North East South players at lower levels. In a championship like this every Osmo Thor Erik Jouni Thomas Kiema Hoftaniska Juuri-Oja Charlsen pair is expected to have firm understandings, of course. 1] Pass Board 12 was a good example on the matter: 2] 2[ (!) 4] 4[ Pass Pass Pass 12. West [ KQT7 North-South ] 5 2[ is for sure not everybody’s choice, if so a lot { AQJ76 more would have reached the same contract as the }Q84 Norwegians, but undeniably North chose the right [ J32 [ --- moment for his overcall. South with no intention of ] J2 ] AKQT9763 letting East play 4] must have had some expectations of N making 4[. The defence started with ]A followed by ace, { 85432 V Ö { 9 }653 S }AJ92 king an another diamond; North winning and running four rounds of trumps as well as the fourth diamond. At [ A98654 a moment West fell from grace throwing two clubs and ] 84 thereby presenting North with an extra trick. Not that { KT the loss of the second undertrick mattered; the board }KT7 was already won in the bidding. Norway trailing 19-33.

12 Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 Time was running out for Norway and they lost another 2 IMPs on the next board:

15. South [ AKJ43 North-South ] T743 { Q2 }Q5 [ QT87 [ --- ] 6 N ] K852 V Ö { AKT5 S { 863 }T432 }AKJ976 [ 9652 ] AQJ9 { J974 }8 Thor Erik Hoftaniska Thomas Charlsen West North East South of Norway. of Norway. Osmo Thor Erik Jouni Thomas Kiema Hoftaniska Juuri-Oja Charlsen Pass Pass 1[ 2} 3}* 5} Dbl Pass Pass Pass

North opened a five cards spade, 9+ HCP, and South showed a mixed raise with 3}. West leaped to game and North found some reasons to double. South started with the [2, to the eight, king and by East. East thought for quite a while, but decided that chances were remote if clubs didn’t behave. So, he continued with the two top clubs, followed by ace and king of diamonds then a spade ruff and a diamond towards the ten. When South had the jack a diamond was established and declarer didn’t have Clas Nyberg of Finland. Kauko Koistinen of Finland. to rely on finding the ace of hearts with North. 11 tricks; and 2 IMPs to Finland since 4] doubled went two off in was able to bring in the trumps without loss. The bad the Closed Room. ones that West got the setting trick by trumping the third round of clubs. The very last board of the round was a tricky one for North-South: The only contract with a slender chance of making as the card lies was 3NT; reached by one pair but not making. 16. West [ K7 Let’s assume a 2} overcall from East which follows by East-West ] AKQT76 a club lead from West; East inserting the nine. East is { 93 very likely to have both club honours as well as the ace }J87 of spades for his vulnerable overcall. So, declarer has [ JT854 [ A3 two options after cashing a top diamond and seeing ] J92 ] 8543 ‘Her Majesty the Queen’ falling in East; one is to cash N out for one down, the other being a faint hope that any { 875 V Ö { Q }54 S }AK9632 defender has jack third in hearts. If so, you enter dummy with a diamond to the nine and cash hearts from the top. [ Q962 This time you’re lucky and will be rewarded with your ] --- contract; the worst case being three or four down non- { AKJT642 vulnerable if the hearts doesn’t behave. Well, it’s a free }QT choice of yours!

In the Open Series game was reached at all tables but The push on the last board meant a small victory for one, however everyone unanimous in one down. In Finland; 36-25 (17-13 VPs) consolidating their third place 5{ there were enough tricks if left alone, but alas the on the leaderboard; twelve points behind Iceland and defence quickly rattled off three black top tricks to set fifteen in front of Norway in fourth place. Still three declarer once. The good news in 4] was that declarer rounds to go of these Championships a lot can happen!

Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 13 Piiigerne i gult!!

– by Charles – Vest Nord Øst Syd Ann Karin Helle Marianne Lone Ved morgenbordet aftalte vi at banke de svenske flickor Fuglestad Rasmussen Harding Bilde 18-12, og det skete, som tidligere fortalt. Bye måtte Pas 1{! 1[ 3{ planmæssigt ned 18-0, og Island drillede igen, men vi fik Pas 4[ pas 5} dog 15-15, så meget stabilt og fint spil efter 7 runder, der Pas 6{ ap. har ligget mellem 18 og 13.

Totalisatorfavoritten Norge førte pænt, så der var lagt op 3{ = svagt, spærrende til et fantastisk drama på BBO, hvor vi fornemmer, at der 4[ = Renonce (Voidwood), spørger efter ”esser” var mange, der fulgte med omkring spisetid. udenfor sparfarven Vore piger gik fuldstændigt AMOK. 52-0 var føringen, 5} = Et ”es” (inkl. {K) inden jenterne fik nogle få pinde, og det blev 25-4! Tøserne fører nu med 6 point foran Finland og 8 foran Udspil {6 Norge, MEN der er to runder tilbage. Indmeldingen og det ”manglende” sparudspil, der 20. West [ --- antydede, at Harding ikke havde [EK, placerede ]K i øst, All ] AQJ9 som Helle trumfkneb, så pyt med en klørtaber. 12 stik { AQJ52 (1370). }AKJ7 Nord åbnede 2} ved det andet bord, så 6{ lå i syd med [ AT2 [ KJ743 klør ud fra Trine gennem den stærke hånd. Det lykkedes ] T764 N ] K852 V Ö faktisk at gå ned. -100 og 16 imp. Til tøserne. { 874 S { 6 }654 }Q83 DRAMAET fortsættes søndag kl. 09.00 og 11.40, så I skal [ Q9865 tidligt ud af fjerene! Oksefileten og Zinfandelrødvinen – ] 3 sponsoreret af CMN – smagted dog pokkers godt, og det { KT93 kan ingen tage fra os. Vi se idag, og spændende blir’ det }T92 med garanti!

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14 Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 Problems Corner – solutions from Saturday

Here are the solutions for the problems presented in Problem 4 Saturday’s bulletin. Nisse suspected that his wife Stina was seeing other men. Problem 3 Until now he had no hard evidence and he could not for sure say that she lied the many times coming home late Here you will be given only six cards. You (West) is on in the evenings, but.... lead. Can you win five tricks with hearts as trumps? When she arrived late after midnight recently Nisse [ – asked her what she had done. Stina told her husband that ] Q2 she had played robber at Lotta’s house together with Lisa { 10 and Anna. “By the way, here is the scoring sheet”, she said } 972 and continued: “Look, I finished on plus.” [ – [ 32 ] K43 N ] A Nisse red the score sheet: V Ö Stina +4550, Lisa –2050, Lotta –3000, Anna +500 { 4 S { Q2 } A4 } K [ Q10 Nisse immediately asked for a divorce, since it was ] – obvious that Stina did not tell him the truth. How could { K Nisse be so sure about that fact? } Q108 Well, let’s cut the last zero for the sake of simplicity. All scores can be devided by 10. In every robber two wins Play a club to the king. Ruff a spade with ]K! Cash the as much as the other two lose. This number can be even }A and discard a spade at dummy. Play a diamond. South or odd (after the divarication by 10). At the beginning all will win the {K and has to return a black card which you stands on 0 (even). Suppose that all winners in the first as declarer ruffs... robber will have an even number of plus points, then the other two will get the same even points but minus. After that all are on an even number. [ – ] Q2 Let’s say that the next robber will be won by an odd { – number of points. Then this will be added to two } – players score and the same number of points will be [ – [ – subtrahended from the other two. After that all four will ] 43 N ] A be having an odd score. Then it continues like that. Try it V Ö { – S { 2 out. } – } – [ Q Stina had a corrupt score (+455, +50, -300, -205), i.e. two ] – odd scores and two even scores. Nisse therefore knew { – that she lied. Why she lied – and what she had done } Q during the evening – that question it is up to Nisse to speculate in.

This was an example of , as it is called in Thanks to PO Sundelin for creating these problems (used in England (while we in Sweden calls it Djävulskupp). the Swedish Bridgefederation’s magazine ‘Bridge’).

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Bulletin nr 3 - Nordic Bridge Team Championships 2011 15 after 8 matches after 8 matches Butler Open Butler Women

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