TH W O R L D Y O U T H 4 O P E N B R I D G E C H A M P I O N S H I P S OPATIJACROATIA20TH29THAUGUST2015 DAILY BULLETIN Editor: Phillip Alder • Co-Editors: Micke Melander, Ram Soffer, David Stern Lay-out Editor: Francesca Canali • Copying & Delivery: Marija Jović, Šime Jović FRIDAY AUGUST 28, 2015 THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS ISSUE n.8 GIRLS TEAMS CONTENTS CLICKABLE ON WEB Knockout Brackets p. 3 The 64-IMP board Micke Melander, p. 4 Italian comeback Ram Soffer, p. 7 ITALY Meet Randy Pan Flaminia Tanini, Agnese Di Mauro, Giulia Scriattoli, Caterina De Lutio, David Stern, p. 10 Michela Salvato, Susanna Broccolino, Emanuela Capriata (captain & coach) Put yourself to the test! YOUNGSTERS TEAMS p. 11 Australia versus Zlatan David Stern, p. 12 Estimating resources A. Roth, F. Lema & P. Alder, p. 20 B-a-M teams results p. 21 Video corner p. 21 CHINA Tong Jiang, Shiyu Sun, Zhengyang Fang, Zihan Wang, Photo of all the medalists Dongke Fang, Yichen Yin, Hongji Wei, Jichao Hu team events G / Y / K, p. 22 KIDS TEAMS TODAY’S SCHEDULE KO TEAMS 11.00 - 13.20 Final & Playoff 14.30 - 16.50 Final & Playoff 17.10 - 19.30 Final & Playoff BAM 10.00 - 11.30 Round 10 SX HYSW Yifan Cui, Yingqi Wang, Tianle Yao, Siyuan Liu, Renyu Li, 11.50 - 13.20 Round 11 Yijun Shang, Yiqin Shao, Weichang Qiu 14.30 - 16.00 Round 12 16.20 - 17.50 Round 13 AIRPORT TRANSFERS 18.10 - 19.40 Round 14 If you need a transfer to an airport, please see Branka Grguric Prize giving of juniors at the hospitality desk by midday today. KO teams to follow WORLD YOUTH OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 Opatija, Croatia Three events ended yesterday, producing three semifinals. The gold medalists are SX HYSW, who teams of new world champions. defeated China RDFZ1 by 20 imps over 32 boards. Third were SX XNWY. In the Girls Teams, Italia won all three 16-board sessions against the Chinese team SX XHLD, to take The 48-board final and third-fourth playoff of the title by 42 imps. Third were China RDFZ. the Junior Teams take place today. In yesterday's semifinals, Norway withstood a late rally by GreSwe In the Youngsters Teams, China gained points Axon to win by 110 imps to 92. Zlatan looked safe in all three sets to defeat the Polish team, Azs Uw after two sets, leading Australia by 52 imps. The Vyceska, by 165 imps to 57. The bronze medals went Antipodeans took the last session by 45 imps to 7, but to Germany. that left them trailing by 14 imps. In the Kids Teams, four Chinese teams made the GIRLS TEAMS 2nd GIRLS TEAMS 3rd SX XHLD CHINA RDFZ GIRLS Haihong Gu, Huiyuan Jin, Aijia Yuan, Yunpeng Chen Guangli Wendy Liu, Mengqi Hao, Lingyi Ma, Xinyi Luo, Chenyun Ge, Yue Yu, Xinyao Ruan, Yifan Cui Qi Xia, Ling Hu, Jichao Hu, Tong Jiang YOUNGSTERS TEAMS 2nd YOUNGSTERS TEAMS 3rd AZS UW VYCESKA GERMANY Lukasz Trendak, Stanislaw Maczka, Hartmut Kondoch, Sibrand Van Oosten, Philipp Pabst, Krystian Baczek, Piotr Jasinski Florian Alter, Stig Jesse, Leonard Vornkahl KIDS TEAMS 2nd KIDS TEAMS 3rd CHINA RDFZ1 SX XNWY Tong Jiang, Jichao Hu, Zixi Cai, Yuanzhe Ding, Randy Yihong Liu, Wenjie Xue, Ruizhe Wang, Hanyang Dai, Pan, Baozhuo Jiang, Shi Qiu, Haoqing Yu Jiaxin Tong, Tiancheng Zhang, Hui Fu, Jiong Li 2 GO TO PAGE: 1 2 BRACKETS 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 RESULTS PHOTO Opatija, Croatia WORLD YOUTH OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 JUNIORS BRACKET Seating rights are marked with an X NORWAY Christian Bakke, Harald Eide, Tor Eivind Grude, NORWAY 132 Kristoffer Hegge CROATIA CROATIA 64 Borna Cicvaric, Ante Mijic, Ivan Brajkovic, 123 Josko Djilovic, Stella Dobrijevic, Andrea Stankovic NORWAY 110 NONAME 22 62 26 Berk Gokce, Ataman Aydogdu, Mert Seker, Mustafa Anil Bozyigit, Eren Imdat, Cagatay Birben GRESWE AXON 28 26 38 92 GRESWE AXON Adam Kaplan, Ioannis Oikonomopoulos, Ola Rimstedt, NONAME 75 Mikael Rimstedt, Ioannis Oik. Cpt, Giorgos Oik. Coach ZLATAN GRESWE AXON Final 123 Rodrigo Garcia Da Rosa, Giuseppe Delle Cave, 130 Simon Hult, Johan Karlsson, Daniel Gullberg, NORWAY X X Simon Ekenberg, Marshall Lewis Captain, Rodrigo Garcia Da Rosa Coach ZLATAN X FINLAND ZLATAN 134 Antti Aimala, Vesa Fagerlund, Oskari Koivu, 123 Maria Myllaeri FINLAND ITALIA 90 Giovanni Donati, Alessandro Gandoglia, ZLATAN 50 41 7 98 Margherita Chavarria, Giacomo Percario, Gianluca Bergami, Alessandro Calmanovici, AUSTRALIA 16 23 45 84 Valerio Giubilo Cpt & Coach AUSTRALIA ITALIA 63 Jamie Thompson, Stephen Williams, Maxim Henbest, Playoff 123 Shane Harrison, Renee Cooper, Ella Pattison, AUSTRALIA 108 Justin Williams Cpt GRESWE AXON X X AUSTRALIA X GIRLS BRACKET SX XHLD SX XHLD 143 Yunpeng Chen, Chenyun Ge, Huiyuan Jin, Xinyao Final 123 Ruan, Yue Yu, Aijia Yuan, Weichang Qiu Captain SX XNMF SX XNMF 114 SX XHLD Wenying Huang, Xinying Lu, Min Wu, Yuqian Zhang, 36 10 37 83 Yingying Sun, Liwen Shao, Yifan Cui Captain ITALIA ITALIA ITALIA 110 44 39 42 125 Susanna Broccolino, Caterina De Lutio, Agnese Di Mauro, Flaminia Tanini, Michela Salvato, CHINA RDFZ 85 Playoff Giulia Scriattioli, Emanuela Capriata Captain & Coach 123 CHINA RDFZ SX XNMF 74 Guangli Wendy Liu, Xinyi Luo, Lingyi Ma, Mengqi Hao, 7 29 38 Ling Hu, Qi Xia, Jichao Hu Captain, Tong Jiang Coach CHINA RDFZ 63 49 25 137 YOUNGSTERS BRACKET CHINA Hongji Wei, Shiyu Sun, Zhengyang Fang, Yichen Yin, Zihan Wang, Dongke Fang, CHINA 118 Final 123 Jichao Hu Captain, Tong Jiang Coach GERMANY GERMANY 90 CHINA 56 53 56 165 Stig Jesse, Leonard Vornkahl, Philipp Pabst, Sibrand Van Oosten, Hartmut Kondoch Captain, AZS UW VYCESKA 28 23 6 57 Florian Alter Coach A. UW VYCESKA 148 ITALIA Andrea Manganella, Francesco Chiarandini, Alvaro Gaiotti, ITALIA 95 Playoff Gabriele Giubilo, Gianmarco Giubilo, Sebastiano Scatà, 123 Dario Attanasio Captain & Coach GERMANY 46 61 25 132 AZS UW VYCESKA Stanislaw Maczka, Lukasz Trendak, Krystian Baczek, Piotr Jasinski ITALIA 59 23 42 124 KIDS BRACKET SZ XNWY Hanyang Dai, Yihong Liu, Jiaxin Tong, Ruizhe Wang, SX XNWY 100 12 Wenjie Xue, Tiancheng Zhang, Qiwei Li Captain, Hui Fu Coach SX XHLD SX XHLD 57 SX XNWY 42 13 55 Yihong Chen, Yang Hu, Mingtai Li, Hua Shang, Yichen Xie, Xinchen Yu, Jiong Li Captain, Yimei Zhang Coach SX HYSW 33 68 101 AZSUW AKADEMIABRYDZA AZSUW A.BR. 60 Pawel Hulanicki, Tomasz Kielbasa, Kacper Kopka, Oskar Trybus, Stanislaw Maczka Captain, Krystian Baczek Coach 12 SX HYSW 62 Final SX HYSW Renyu Li, Siyuan Liu, Yijun Shang, Yiqin Shao, Yingqi SX HYSW 15 60 75 Wang, Tianle Yao, Wen Cao Captain, Lin Lin Coach CHINA RDFZ1 CHINA RDFZ1 42 13 55 Baozhuo Jiang, Randy Pan, Yuanzhe Ding, Zixi Cai, Shi Qiu, Haoqing Yu, Jichao Hu Captain, Tong Jiang Coach CHINA RDFZ1 89 12 CHINESE TAIPEI BLUE Hsiang-Yi Ko, Yen-Jung Chen, Meng-Fei Wu, Yi-Hsien Lee, CHINESE TAIPEI B. 56 CHINA RDFZ1 58 41 99 Chi-Hsuan Lo, Li-Jen Sun, Shu-Chen Fan Captain, Chen-Chin Wen Coach SX XHEST 7 38 45 SX XHEST SX XHEST 129 Licong Cheng, Ruicheng Mao, Penghao Wang, Zhe Wu, Playoff 12 Zhijie Yuan, Yu Yun, Hongqin Xue Captain, Jiacheng He Coach CHINESE TAIPEI W. 43 CHINESE TAIPEI WHITE SX XNWY 35 55 90 Yi-Ting Lan, Yu-Chen Huang, Ko-Wei Chang, Chen-Syuan Chiu, Yi-Pin Chu, Hung-Sheng Fan, SX XHEST Chung-Yang Huang Captain,Yun-Ching Lo Coach 18 19 37 GO TO PAGE: 1 2 BBRRAACKKEETTSS 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1111 3 1122 13 1144 15 16 17 1188 19 200 RESSUULLTTSS PHHOOTTOO WORLD YOUTH OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 Opatija, Croatia THE 64-IMP BOARD by MICKE MELANDER In the Junior Teams quarterfinals, Italia started Percario’s choice of a four-spade control-bid as the favourite against Australia. But the guys over four diamonds made Chavarria jump to six and gals from Down Under put up a great fight diamonds, which asked partner to pass or correct and closed the first segment at 20-all. In the to six hearts, depending on his length in the red second set, Australia scored two large swings and suits. Even if partner had bid four hearts over four won the segment by 38-13. So would Italy be diamonds, that jump to slam in diamonds would able to strike back in the final 16-board session? still have been pass-or-correct. (Maybe, with all four aces, East should have raised to seven diamonds.) After three very quiet deals, the Italians suddenly The Australians in the Open Room and Cooper in bid all the way to six hearts on Board 4 while general gave East no choice other than playing in the Australians stayed in game. The slam was the bad heart slam. As you can see, when declarer slightly worse than the spade finesse, but it lost played the ace and another heart, she had to lose and Australia scored 13 imps. two trump tricks and go one down. The Italian juniors continued their attack for In the Open Room, Chavarria in six diamonds imps, however. made no mistakes. She won the club lead with her king, then made the correct play of cashing Board 6. Dealer East. E-W Vul. the queen of diamonds before crossing to dummy [ 9 8 5 4 2 with a diamond to the ace. When North discarded, ] Q 10 6 5 West had no problems in finessing South out of { 7 his jack of diamonds.