Editor: Barry Rigal • Layout Editor: George Georgopoulos Bulletin no. 3 • Wednesday 9 July 2003 ATTACK OF THE KILLER "B'S Camp Program 08.00 - 09.45 hrs Breakfast 12.00 - 13.00 hrs Lunch 13.30 - 15.00 hrs Lecture 15.30 hrs Speedball Teams 18.30 19.30 hrs Dinner 20.00 hrs Pairs Tournament 23.30 hrs Snack & Disco Tomorrow's lectures will be at 1.30 as before, with Mari Ryman and Klaus Reps continuing the themes they started today in their advanced Afternoon session winners and intermediate lectures. Eldad Ginossar and Jenny Ryman There will be no organized games tomorrow morning - but feel free to play sports in as dis- s today's results will show, it was a good day to organized a fashion as you like. A have a surname beginning with B. and it was an es- pecially good day for Jeroen Bruggeman. He won the second pair game of the day, and finished fourth in the Contents afternoon - managing to score upwards of sixty percent The Individual......................................................2 on both occasions. The Junior Camp in Frostburg..........................5 Hungarian for Beginners....................................7 Also of interest was that in the afternoon Jeremy How to Plan the Play..........................................8 Fournier finished one place ahead of his brother Jere- Mari Ryman’s Hands..........................................10 my Fournier, obviously the most important result The Tuesday afternoon game...........................11 Pair Sessions 1 - 2 Results.........................13-14 from the former's perspective. 5th WORLD JUNIOR CAMP Vargesztes, Hungary THE INDIVIDUAL irst night nerves were not to be expected at the camp. Tim Heeres and Raolta Mala reached 3NT on an unop- F Almost everyone had had the opportunity to warm posed auction - and found North hitting on the diabolical up at the World Junior pairs, and in any event playing in an lead of the ]J, though after a lot of thought. Tim won in individual is not really a test of skill, it is more about psy- dummy and led the {J, to North's ace. Back came the ]10, chology and low cunning. ducked by Tim, and a club switch to dummy's jack. Now the Deal 2 E/N-S {10 was covered all round, and Tim led the club ace and a club to the king, and then guessed to lead a diamond to the [ K J 10 6 seven for his ninth trick and 47/64. ] Q 6 4 Ophir Reshef did even better - but he was only in 1NT as { Q 9 3 East after the auction 1{-1NT. On South's heart lead he } J 10 9 ducked, won the next heart in hand to play the {J, covered [ Q 3 2N [ 7 5 all round, then won the club switch with his jack. Now he ] K J 9 2 ] A 10 8 7 3 led a spade to the king, ducked the next spade to South's W E { J 7 2 { 6 bare [A, and won the next heart in dummy. He cashed the } 8 5 4 S } K Q 6 3 2 [K, and when he led the }A and a club to the }K and South showed out, that player was known to have a 2-5-4-2 [ A 9 8 4 shape, so he could finesse the {7 and take the last two tricks ]5 in dummy for +180 and an average score. { A K 10 8 5 4 Finally, Daniel de Roos played 3NT as East after South had }A 7 opened 2]. South elected to lead a diamond, so North won West North East South the {A and shifted to the ]J, won in dummy. Daniel ran the 1[!! 2{ {J, covered by the {Q and {K, then crossed back to the }J, 2[ 3{ All Pass cashed the {10, and led the [Q. when South took his [A to lead a second heart, Daniel ducked in dummy, to let North Ronald Gaffin of Scotland found an exceptionally fortu- take his ]10 in this ending. nate moment to psyche 1[, the suit his opponents could make a slam in. Even though the field was not getting past [ 10 8 7 game, any spade contract by N/S or diamond game was rel- ] ---- atively easy to make. So Gaffin collected 58/64 for his score { ---- of -150; the bad news is that this will probably not be the } Q 10 7 last psyche he produces this championships - but it may be [K 9 N [3 2 the most successful. ]A ]9 W E The most interesting declarer play hand of the event pro- { 9 { ---- duced challenging problems for no less than three declar- } A 6 S } K 8 3 ers. Let us look at them all. [J Deal 5 N/N-S ] Q 8 4 [ 10 8 7 5 4 {8 ]J 10 }9 {A 2 North exited with a spade, and Daniel took it in dummy, } Q 10 7 5 cashed the two red-suit winners, and squeezed North in the black suits for +430, which was worth 57/64. [ K 9 6N [ Q 3 2 ] A 7 6 ] K 9 5 W E { K 9 7 4 { J 10 3 EDITOR'S DISCLAIMER } A 6 2 S } K J 8 3 Rome was not built in a day, and the bulletin also is [A J not produced instantaneously. Therefore occasionally ] Q 8 4 3 2 we write using the word 'tomorrow' meaning the day { Q 8 6 5 you read the bulletin, but that causes confusion in the }9 4 ranks.Therefore, for the duration of the camp the fol- lowing rule applies; West North East South For "today" read tomorrow and for "tomorrow" Pass Pass Pass read "today".We hope that simplifies everything 1NT Pass 3NT All Pass 2 7 - 14 July 2003 5th WORLD JUNIOR CAMP Deal 9 N/E-W ly surprising that the score of 2240 was worth all 64 matchpoints. [ A J 9 8 3 ]4 Daniel had another chance to display his ability a couple {2 of boards later Deal 11 S/-- } 9 7 6 5 4 3 [ QN [ 10 6 5 [ A 9 6 ] K Q 10 6 3 ] J 9 7 5 2 ] K 9 6 W E { J 10 9 4 { 6 { 10 8 6 } A 10 2 S } K Q J 8 } K 8 6 3 [ K 7 4 2 [ QN [ 10 8 7 3 ]A 8 ] 10 8 7 ] Q 4 2 W E { A K Q 8 7 5 3 { A K 9 5 3 { Q J 7 4 } --- } A Q 4 2 S } 10 9 [ K J 5 4 2 West North East South 2[ Pass 4} ] A J 5 3 Pass 4{ Pass 4NT {2 Pass 5{ Pass 7[ } J 7 5 All Pass West North East South This was a deal that was kind to the leading players. Chris Pass Karapanagiotis opened a weak 2[ and his partner intelli- 1{ Pass Pass 1[ gently cue-bid in clubs before using Blackwood to try to 2} 2[ 3{ 3[ get his partner to cooperate by not showing the }A if he All Pass had it (the Americans use Exclusion Keycard Blackwood to Ortmann-Nielsen found himself at an uncomfortably high leave out the ace in a suit where one has shown a void). level when he quite reasonably competed to 3[. Since 3{ That got Chris to a grand slam that proved to be easy on was set to go one down he had to make his contract to get the lie of the trumps.That was worth 57/64. any sort of matchpoint result. The defence led two rounds of diamonds, and Daniel ruffed, led a spade to the [K, then tried a club to the jack and }Q. He ruffed the diamond continuation and led a club to West's ace. If the defence take their club ruff now, declarer has the rest easily, and a diamond for a ruff and discard can be ruffed in dummy. So West played a passive heart, and Daniel ran it to his jack, cashed the heart king, and led to his ace. This was the ending, with declarer needing three of the last four tricks. [9 6 ] ---- { ---- }K 8 [ ----N [ 10 8 7 ] ---- ] ---- W E {5 3 { Q Chris Karapanagiotis, Greece } 4 2 S } ---- [K J Rosalien Barendregt (when I asked her how she spelt her ]3 first name she explained that the last five letters were as in { ---- 'ALIEN') also opened a weak 2[ as North - well she did have a six-card suit, even if it was not in spades - and her }7 partner, Daniel Ortmann-Nielsen simply jumped to 7[. Declarer simply led a heart, pitching a club. East could When West doubled, both North and South reached for ruff but now whether he played back a trump or a dia- the blue card but Rosalien got there first. It was not entire- mond, declarer easily had the rest for 44/64MP. 3 5th WORLD JUNIOR CAMP Vargesztes, Hungary Deal 21 N/N-S [ A 9 8 ]Q 7 { 10 9 4 } J 8 7 6 2 [ A 10 6 2N [ 7 5 ] K 6 2 ] J 9 W E Deal 22 E/E-W { 6 { A K 9 7 4 } Q 7 6 5 3 S } K 10 4 2 [ Q 8 4 [ K Q J 3 ]7 2 ] A Q 10 4 3 { 8 6 4 3 { 8 5 3 } J 7 6 2 }J [ A J 9 7 3N [ K 10 ] K Q J 5 ] A 9 3 West North East South W E { K Q J { A 10 7 Pass Pass 1] } 9 S } A K 8 5 4 Pass 2] All Pass [ 6 5 2 The best sort of suit-preference can often make the differ- ] 10 8 6 4 ence between a contract making or going down.