The Kos Beckon

The Kos Beckon

Bulletin 6 Tuesday, 31 July, 2012 The KOs Beckon The Vu-Graph theatre, as usual filled with spectators. The situations in the three divisions are becom- where Poland, France, Australia, Israel, Sweden, ing clearer, with only three more rounds to be USA1 and China will probably qualify. England played on Tuesday. and Italy will fight for the eighth place. In the juniors, the top seven teams – Nether- The four girls semifinalists are almost certain to lands, Australia, Israel, France, USA1, China and be Netherlands, Poland, France and Italy. China, Italy – look safe. The battle for the eighth quar- fifth, is 31 victory points behind Italy. terfinal berth will be between Denmark, Singa- But in bridge the unexpected can happen; per- pore, Bulgaria, Argentina and China Hong Kong. haps a team will win three blitzes and leap up the The same applies in the youngsters event, field. Departure Details Subsidiary Team Event Please would all of the non-playing captains On Thursday and Friday, for teams eliminated submit departure details – date, time and airport after the qualifying matches and for those de- – for all of their teams to Marina Madia in the feated in the junior and youngster quarterfinals, WBF Office as soon as possible. We wish to there will be a subsidiary team event. Full details arrange all the necessary buses. will be in tomorrow’s bulletin. Results Juniors Ranking Monday 30 July after Round 16 1 NETHERLANDS 323.0 Juniors Round 14 2 AUSTRALIA 313.0 JAPAN ARGENTINA 37 66 8 22 3 ISRAEL 312.0 USA1 PAKISTAN 48 57 13 17 4 FRANCE 295.0 CHINA H K SINGAPORE 45 29 19 11 5 CHINA 284.0 EGYPT BRAZIL 98 3 25 0 CHINA NETHERLANDS 25 18 16 14 6 USA1 282.0 BULGARIA ISRAEL 24 36 12 18 7 ITALY 273.0 CANADA DENMARK 28 38 13 17 8 DENMARK 256.0 USA2 INDIA 40 34 16 14 FRANCE ITALY 28 29 15 15 9 BULGARIA 246.0 COSTA RICA AUSTRALIA 15 98 0 25 SINGAPORE 246.0 11 ARGENTINA 244.0 12 CHINA HONG KONG 239.0 Juniors Round 15 13 CANADA 227.0 ARGENTINA USA1 24 51 9 21 14 USA2 223.0 PAKISTAN CHINA H K 25 16 17 13 15 INDIA 205.0 SINGAPORE BRAZIL 37 29 17 13 PAKISTAN 205.0 JAPAN CHINA 11 48 6 24 17 JAPAN 185.0 NETHERLANDS BULGARIA 42 46 14 16 ISRAEL CANADA 32 29 16 14 18 BRAZIL 127.0 DENMARK USA2 33 18 18 12 19 EGYPT 124.0 INDIA FRANCE 31 44 12 18 20 COSTA RICA 95.0 ITALY COSTA RICA 56 30 21 9 AUSTRALIA EGYPT 58 15 25 5 Matches on BBO Tuesday 30 July (all times GMT+8) Juniors Round 16 10:30 ARGENTINA COSTA RICA 84 23 25 0 VG CHINA POLAND Y PAKISTAN AUSTRALIA 16 44 8 20 B2 SINGAPORE NETHERLANDS J SINGAPORE ITALY 7 35 8 22 B3 ITALY BULGARIA J BRAZIL INDIA 5 41 7 23 CHINA H K DENMARK 33 38 14 16 B4 SWEDEN CHINA G USA1 ISRAEL 25 49 9 21 OG INDIA CHINA J JAPAN NETHERLANDS 28 32 14 16 14:00 FRANCE CHINA 41 12 20 8 VG FRANCE NETHERLANDS J USA2 BULGARIA 13 19 14 16 B2 AUSTRALIA DENMARK J CANADA EGYPT 27 32 14 16 B3 CHINESE TAIPEI FRANCE Y B4 CANADA ITALY Y OG SWEDEN CHINA Y 16:50 VG CHINA USA1 J B2 FRANCE DENMARK J B3 AUSTRALIA ITALY J B4 FRANCE POLAND Y OG CHINA USA G 14th World Youth Bridge Championships - Taicang 2012 - Bulletin 6 - Page 2 Youngsters Round 12 Youngsters Ranking ISRAEL ARGENTINA 77 20 25 2 CHINA FRANCE 59 30 22 8 after Round 14 NORWAY ENGLAND 23 41 11 19 POLAND SINGAPORE 39 25 18 12 1 POLAND 265.0 JAPAN CHINESE TAIPEI 55 59 14 16 CANADA USA2 50 36 18 12 2 FRANCE 258.0 ITALY USA1 33 41 13 17 3 AUSTRALIA 250.0 LATVIA AUSTRALIA 28 29 15 15 4 ISRAEL 245.0 SWEDEN Bye 0 0 18 0 5 USA1 241.0 6 SWEDEN 239.0 Youngsters Round 13 7 CHINA 231.0 ARGENTINA CHINA 8 76 1 25 8 ENGLAND 218.0 FRANCE ENGLAND 46 1 25 5 9 ITALY 211.0 SWEDEN POLAND 40 41 15 15 10 NORWAY 200.0 SINGAPORE JAPAN 50 38 18 12 11 CHINESE TAIPEI 199.0 CHINESE TAIPEI CANADA 47 28 19 11 USA2 ITALY 72 32 24 6 12 LATVIA 191.0 USA1 LATVIA 27 23 16 14 13 USA2 187.0 AUSTRALIA NORWAY 45 23 20 10 14 SINGAPORE 186.0 ISRAEL Bye 0 0 18 0 15 CANADA 159.0 16 ARGENTINA 142.0 Youngsters Round 14 17 JAPAN 119.0 ENGLAND ARGENTINA 50 22 22 8 NORWAY FRANCE 29 37 13 17 POLAND ISRAEL 24 21 16 14 JAPAN SWEDEN 8 40 7 23 CANADA SINGAPORE 42 16 21 9 Girls Round 13 ITALY CHINESE TAIPEI 38 12 21 9 CHINESE TAIPEI CHINA 32 42 13 17 LATVIA USA2 43 28 18 12 FRANCE OCEANIA 86 11 25 0 AUSTRALIA USA1 54 46 17 13 NETHERLANDS USA 45 20 21 9 CHINA Bye 0 0 18 0 INDONESIA SWEDEN 69 16 25 3 ITALY POLAND 15 41 9 21 Girls Ranking after Round 15 Girls Round 14 OCEANIA CHINESE TAIPEI 42 31 17 13 1 NETHERLANDS 317.0 USA FRANCE 20 43 10 20 INDONESIA NETHERLANDS 27 95 1 25 2 POLAND 283.0 CHINA ITALY 34 26 17 13 3 FRANCE 255.0 POLAND SWEDEN 62 32 22 8 4 ITALY 249.0 5 CHINA 217.0 6 CHINESE TAIPEI 210.0 Girls Round 15 7 INDONESIA 180.0 CHINESE TAIPEI USA 76 18 25 3 8 SWEDEN 179.0 FRANCE INDONESIA 51 26 21 9 NETHERLANDS SWEDEN 42 25 19 11 9 OCEANIA 170.0 OCEANIA ITALY 33 45 12 18 10 USA 163.0 CHINA POLAND 10 52 5 25 14th World Youth Bridge Championships - Taicang 2012 - Bulletin 6 - Page 3 The Draw Youngsters Round 15 11 ARGENTINA FRANCE Tuesday 31 July 12 CHINA POLAND VG 13 ISRAEL JAPAN Juniors Round 17 14 SWEDEN CANADA 1 ARGENTINA DENMARK 15 SINGAPORE ITALY 2 PAKISTAN ISRAEL 16 CHINESE TAIPEI LATVIA 3 SINGAPORE NETHERLANDS B2 17 USA2 AUSTRALIA 4 BRAZIL JAPAN 18 USA1 NORWAY 5 CHINA H K USA1 19 ENGLAND Bye 6 INDIA CHINA OG 7 ITALY BULGARIA B3 8 AUSTRALIA CANADA Youngsters Round 16 9 COSTA RICA USA2 11 USA2 ARGENTINA 10 FRANCE EGYPT 12 CHINESE TAIPEI FRANCE B3 13 SINGAPORE ENGLAND 14 SWEDEN CHINA OG Juniors Round 18 15 NORWAY ISRAEL 1 SINGAPORE ARGENTINA 16 POLAND AUSTRALIA 2 EGYPT PAKISTAN 17 JAPAN LATVIA 3 CHINA BRAZIL 18 CANADA ITALY B4 4 BULGARIA CHINA H K 19 USA1 Bye 5 CANADA USA1 6 USA2 JAPAN 7 FRANCE NETHERLANDS VG Youngsters Round 17 8 COSTA RICA ISRAEL 11 FRANCE POLAND B4 9 AUSTRALIA DENMARK B2 12 ENGLAND JAPAN 10 ITALY INDIA 13 CHINA CANADA 14 ISRAEL ITALY 15 SWEDEN LATVIA Juniors Round 19 16 SINGAPORE AUSTRALIA 17 CHINESE TAIPEI USA1 1 CHINA H K ARGENTINA 18 USA2 NORWAY 2 BRAZIL PAKISTAN 19 ARGENTINA Bye 3 EGYPT SINGAPORE 4 CHINA USA1 VG 5 BULGARIA JAPAN Girls Round 16 6 CANADA NETHERLANDS 21 INDONESIA CHINESE TAIPEI 7 USA2 ISRAEL 22 NETHERLANDS FRANCE 8 FRANCE DENMARK B2 23 ITALY USA 9 COSTA RICA INDIA 24 POLAND OCEANIA 10 AUSTRALIA ITALY B3 25 SWEDEN CHINA B4 Girls Round 17 Girls Round 18 21 CHINESE TAIPEI NETHERLANDS 21 FRANCE CHINESE TAIPEI 22 FRANCE SWEDEN 22 ITALY NETHERLANDS 23 INDONESIA ITALY 23 POLAND INDONESIA 24 USA POLAND 24 CHINA USA OG 25 OCEANIA CHINA 25 SWEDEN OCEANIA 14th World Youth Bridge Championships - Taicang 2012 - Bulletin 6 - Page 4 Dutch Diaries - Part 4 by Kees Tammens We non-playing captains from the Netherlands teams from the USA, Canada, Venezuela, Aus- are privileged to have Agnes Snellers and Wubbo tralia and Japan have made the trip to Amster- de Boer to help us. They are a married couple who dam. The organizers have told me that they would also form a top bridge partnership in the very much like teams from outside Europe to par- Meesterklasse, the top division of Dutch competi- ticipate. If you are interested, contact me. I am tive bridge. So the entire Dutch squad was anx- usually sitting or walking around somewhere in the iously waiting to hear how Agnes and Wubbo had Taicang Sports Hall. performed in the pairs tournament for bobos (this So, like Agnes, did you double three spades? Dutch expression we use for officials of any kind). And did you lead the king of diamonds? There came this problem with a big matchpointed This was the full deal: flavour. [– Dealer East. None Vul. ] A 5 4 { 10 7 4 2 West North East South } 10 9 7 5 4 2 Wubbo Agnes [ Q 6 2 [ J 8 7 5 4 — — 1[ 1NT ] Q 9 3 2 ] K 10 6 2{ 2NT (a) Pass 3} { A 9 8 6 5 3 { – 3[ Pass Pass ?? } – } A Q J 6 3 (a) Clubs [ A K 10 9 3 ] J 8 7 So what would you do with Agnes’ hand? { K Q J } K 8 [ A K 10 9 3 ] J 8 7 { K Q J } K 8 Agnes led the king of diamonds and saw de- And what would you lead against three spades clarer quickly take nine tricks: the ace of diamonds doubled or undoubled? (heart off) and a diamond ruff, the ace of clubs and While you are deciding, I will tell all juniors that a club ruff, followed by a heart from the dummy.

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