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2016 Budapest, Hungary 53Rd European Bridge Team Championships 16Th to 25Th June 2016 2016 Budapest, Hungary 53rd European Bridge Team Championships 16th to 25th June 2016 Editor : Mark Horton Co-Editors : Jos Jacobs, Brian Senior Journalists : David Bird, John Carruthers, Dániel Gulyás, Christina Lund-Madsen, Ram Soff er, Ron Tacchi Lay-out Editor & Photographer : Francesca Canali ISSUE No. 2 FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2016 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN CONTENTS CLICK TO NAVIGATE Matches today p. 2 Matters of ceremony p. 2 Adventures with Ottlik Mark Horton, p. 4 Women's Pairs Qual. Brian Senior, p. 5 Eyes on the prize At the end of day one the Lebanese pair Hana Kreidieh & Nahla Hamdan are Mark Hoton, p. 10 leading the European Women's Pairs Championship, ahead of the Netherlands' Carla Arnolds & Sandra Kolen and Turkey's Mehves Pisak & Tuna Aluf. Greece vs Sweden In the Team Championship, Croatia's four wins took them to the top of the table. David Bird, p. 11 They are followed by Ireland, Norway & Poland. To use a footballing analogy it is still 'Early Doors'. Germany vs Austria VERY IMPORTANT: ONLY AUTHORIZED STAFF Ram Soffer, p. 13 ALLOWED ON THE 3RD FLOOR DURING PLAYING SESSIONS! Hungary vs Finland SCHEDULE AND BBO SCHEDULE TODAY Barry Rigal, p. 18 10.00: 13.20: 16.00: 18.40: Women's Pairs Women's Pairs Women's Pairs Women's Pairs Meet the Faroe I. Team Open Teams Open Teams Open Teams Open Teams BBO: BBO: BBO: BBO: p. 19 DEN - LAT (O) BUL - ICE (O) RUS - FRA (O) MON - ENG (O) AUT - SWI (O) DEN - GRE (O) DEN - SWE (O) NOR - NED (O) Team rosters ROM - POR (O) BEL - SER (O) SCO - WAL (O) BUL - RUS (O) p. 20 MON - CRO (O) IRE - AUT (O) MON - ITA (O) BEL - CYP (O) SPA - EST (O) WAL - BLR (O) EST - POL (O) IRE - GER (O) Results TUR - HUN (O) NOR - HUN (O) CZE - HUN (O) BLR - HUN (O) p. 21 LEGEND: ON SITE VG + BBO BBO ONLY VOICE + BBO 53RD EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Budapest, Hungary MATCHES TODAY OPEN ROUND 5 OPEN ROUND 6 OPEN ROUND 7 OPEN ROUND 8 ROM POR CYP ROM GER ROM ROM DEN SCO ISR RUS CRO FIN LAT LAT SCO DEN LAT LAT ENG SER ICE ISR POR BUL CYP ISR EST NED GEO BUL RUS MON CRO DEN GRE EST POL MON ENG BEL RUS POR CZE GRE SWI BEL CYP ITA CZE SCO NED CZE HUN ITA EST NOR GRE NED ICE ENG BLR NOR NED SPA EST MON FIN RUS FRA SPA CZE UKR NED BEL SER CRO TUR UKR GRE SWE SER ITA SWI CYP AUT SWE ICE IRE FIN NOR HUN ISR FAR IRE GER WAL ICE SPA GEO DEN SWE WAL SER FAR GER UKR POL POR IRE FAR FIN FRA GEO SWE TUR SCO WAL FRA SWI TUR HUN IRE AUT BUL UKR TUR POL AUT SWI WAL BLR MON ITA AUT GEO BLR POL FAR FRA BEL NOR BLR HUN ENG Byey GER Byey SPA Byey CRO Byey TIME: 10.00 TIME: 13.20 TIME: 16.00 TIME: 18.40 MATTERS OF CEREMONY The Opening Ceremony of the 53rd European Bridge Team Championships and the prize- giving ceremony for the Women's Pairs Championship will take place will take place on Saturday 18 June at 19.30 on the second floor of the Groupama Arena. The players, captains and coaches representing each country should to sit together for the team presentations. 2 GO TO PAGE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1100 11 1122 13 1144 15 1166 17 1818 19 ROOSTTERRS RREESSUULTTS 2233 24 53RD EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Budapest, Hungary GO TO PAGE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1100 11 1122 13 3 1144 15 1166 17 1818 19 ROOSTTERRS RREESSUULTTS 2233 24 53RD EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Budapest, Hungary ADVENTURES WITH OTTLIK by Mark Horton SOLUTION TO YESTERDAY'S PROBLEM Dealer North. The full deal: [ 7 6 4 2 [ 7 6 4 2 ] Q 10 7 3 ] Q 10 7 3 { 10 6 { 10 6 } A 6 2 } A 6 2 [ J 9 8 5 3 [ K Q ] A J 5 ] 4 { J 8 2 { Q 9 7 5 3 [ A 10 } K 8 } 10 9 7 4 3 ] K 9 8 6 2 [ A 10 { A K 4 ] K 9 8 6 2 } Q J 5 { A K 4 } Q J 5 West North East South 1}* Pass 1{* Pass 1] 4] by South. West to lead [5. Pass 2] Pass 2NT You should try to avoid guessing the trump Pass 4] All Pass honours. If the king of clubs is onside you won’t need to open up the trump suit at all. Return a spade 1} Strong at once and use dummy’s entries to ruff spades in 1{ Negative your hand, a diamond in dummy, then concede the club loser. In the three-card ending you are down to Play Instructions: trumps in both hands and the opponents must find 4] by South. West to lead [5. the trump jack for you. NEW PROBLEM DealerDealer SouthSouth Against 6] bbyy South West leads {{K.K. [ A Q DDeclarereclarer wins in hand and drawdrawss trumtrumpp in ttwowo ] A K J 1100 4 rroundsounds (West following) then playsplays ace, ququeeneen ooff { 10 7 spades, overtaking with the kikingng and ccashingashing the jjackacck } 8 5 4 2 ttoo pitch a diamond from dummdummy.y. PPlanlan the dedefence.fence. [ 6 4 3 ] 7 2 { J 6 4 2 } K 10 9 7 WWestest NNorthorth EEastast SouSouthth 11NT*NT* 22{*{* 33{*{* Pass 44]] PPassass 55]] PPassass 6] AAllll PassPass 11NTNT 14-1614-16 22{{ SpaSpadesdes anandd anotheanotherr suit 3{ HeaHearts,rts, iinvitationalnvitational or better 4 GO TO PAGE: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1100 11 1122 13 1144 15 1166 17 1818 19 ROOSTTERRS RREESSUULTTS 2233 24 53RD EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Budapest, Hungary WOMEN'S PAIRS QUALIFYING SESSION ONE by Brian Senior From 1987 to 1999 there was a European Women's Poplilov chose 4[ and Reiter kicked off with the Pairs Championship held alongside the European ace of hearts to the two, eight (reverse attitude) and Team Championships. Then the Women's Pairs was six. Unable to read the heart position, Reiter switched dropped from the programme until this year, when it to the ace of clubs, Elbro playing a discouraging six. has been revived. For 2016 there will be two days of Again, Reiter could not be certain what was going on, qualifying, 50 boards a day played in 10-board mini- as declarer might have been falsecarding with the ten sessions, with a one-day final on Saturday. from ten-four. She continued with a second club to There were 61 entries, with pride of place going to declarer's king. Poplilov was short of entries to dummy Ireland, who have the largest contingent of 11 pairs. so simply played ace then jack of spades from hand so The first European Women's Pairs was won by the had to lose two trump tricks for down one and –50. Bulgarian pair of Matilda Lorer and Nevena Deleva. Escaping for one down gave the Israeli pair 34 MPs The latter is now Nevena Senior, and will be here to Reiter/Elbro's 24. in Budapest representing England in the Women's Teams. Matilda Lorer, meanwhile, is now Matilda Board 2. Dealer East. N/S Vul. Poplilov and now represents Israel. [ 8 3 Matilda is playing the Women's Pairs in partnership ] K 9 6 with Daniela Birman, and they seemed as good a pair { A 10 7 4 as any to watch for the first session. } K 9 8 5 [ A K Q 10 6 2 [ J 9 5 4 Board 1. Dealer North. None Vul. ] Q 5 3 ] 7 4 2 [ 5 { K 3 { Q 9 2 ] A 10 9 7 5 } J 3 } A Q 4 { 5 4 [ 7 } A 9 8 7 2 ] A J 10 8 [ A Q J 8 6 4 [ 9 7 { J 8 6 5 ] Q 6 4 ] K J 3 2 } 10 7 6 2 { 9 3 { A Q J 2 } K 10 } J 5 3 West North East South [ K 10 3 2 Poplilov Reiter Birman Elbro ] 8 – – Pass Pass { K 10 8 7 6 1[ Pass 3} Pass } Q 6 4 4[ All Pass West North East South Three Clubs was a Bergen raise, around 7-9 HCP Poplilov Reiter Birman Elbro with four-card spade support, and Poplilov jumped to – Pass 1{ Pass game. A club lead from the king would give three club 1[ 2NT Pass 3} tricks and the contract, but Reiter led a trump. Poplilov 4[ All Pass won in hand and led a second spade to dummy's jack then a diamond to the king and ace. Back came a Birman's 1{ opening promised five cards and, diamond so she won the queen and ruffed the third after Poplilov's 1[ response, Denmark's Kate Reiter diamond. Now came the jack of clubs to the king and showed a heart-club two-suiter with her unusual 2NT ace and, seeing no future in the heart suit, Poplilov overcall. Birman had an easy pass and Helle Simon decided to rattle off the spades and see what might Elbro gave simple preference to clubs. That gave develop. Poplilov a close decision. At IMPs, it would be fairly By the time that the last spade hit the table, North routine to bid 4[, but at matchpoints 3[ was a was down to a doubleton heart and, concerned about realistic alternative, given that her outside cards were the clubs, now bared her king.
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