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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 3. 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. Opening lead: [K. 1 Iceland - Norway - - 2 Sweden - Denmark - - [ – [ AJ 3 Bye - Finland - - ] AJ10 N ] 9532 V Ö { AQ109765 { 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 trump opening and transfer West ended up in Standings 6{. North advanced ]A. Open Teams [ AQ98 [ 65 Team Games IMP VP N ] KQJ ] – 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 endplay – 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 overcall. Declarer took the direct finesse, 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 game try 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 board 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.
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