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Daily Bulletin

Editor: Mark Horton / Co-Ordinator : Jean-Paul Meyer / Journalists: David Bird, John Carruthers, Jos Jacob,Fernando Lema, Brent Manley, Micke Melander, Barry Rigal, Ram Soffer, Ron Tacchi / Lay-out Editor : Francesca CanaliPhotographer : Arianna Testa

SATURDAY,JUNE 24 2017 AFTERNOON

ISSUE No 16CLICK TO NAVIGATE

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Heroes of Montecatini

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Good Title, No Article!

MP Race

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p. 8

p. 17

p. 24

The Devil to Pay!

Commentator's Curse

Some Boards by Zorlu & Kubac

Results

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p. 9

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p. 26

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Open Pairs Winners Nafiz Zorlu & Nezih Kubac

A stellar performance by Turkey's Nezih Kubac & Nafiz Zorlu saw them sweep to victory in the European Open Pairs Championship. They started the day in first place and were never headed as they forged further and further ahead of the star studded field. Jeff Meckstroth & Zia Mahmood of the USA were second and there was more joy for Turkey when Mustafa Cem Tokay & Alfredo Versace finished third.

007 Wiins IMMP Paairss!!

The Anna Maria Torlontano IMP Open Pairs went to Russia's Igor Churlin & Sergei Orlov by the incredible margin of .007 of an IMP. The runners-up were Turkey's Tuna Elmas & Berrak Erkan with third place going to Croatia's Marina Pilipovic & Nikica Sver.

Championship Diary

And... They're Off!

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p. 12

Classical Greek Bridgeology

From Friday...

On a Roller Coaster

Devious Doings in the Discards

Hall of Fame - B. Vriend

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p. 16

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Justyna Zmuda, Queen of the MasterPoint Race

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8TH EUROPEAN OPEN BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS Montecatini, Italy

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Open Pairs 2ndZia Mahmood & Jeff Meckstroth

Open Pairs 3rdAlfredo Versace & Mustafa Cem Tokay

A. M. Torlontano IMP Pairs WinnersIgor Churlin - Sergei Orlov

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HEROES OF MONTECATINIMixed Teams:

Gold: Mnepo: Anna Gulevich, Georgi Matushko, Sergei Orlov, Olga Pavlushko, Evgeni Rudakov, Elena Rudakova (RUS)Silver: Rosenthal: Andrew Rosenthal, Chris Willenken, Migry Zur-Campanile (USA), Marion Michielsen (NED), Johan Upmark (SWE)Bronze: Zimmermann: Philippe Cronier, Catherine D'Ovidio, Sylvie Willard (FRA), Franck Multon, Pierre Zimmermann (MON), Tatiana Dikhnova (RUS)Bronze: Sakr: Katarzyna Dufrat, Michał Klukowski, Michał Nowosadzki, Justyna Żmuda (POL), Krzysztof Martens (MON), May Sakr (USA)

Mixed Pairs:

Gold: Michał Klukowski, Justyna Żmuda (POL)Silver: Sabine Auken, Roy Welland (GER)Bronze: Hu Junjie, Wang Jian (CHN)

Women’s Teams:

Gold: Denmark Red: Tina Ege, Stense Farholt, Helle Rasmussen, Lone Bilde (DEN), Bo Loenberg Bilde Captain Silver: Baker: Lynn Baker, Karen McCallum (USA), Marion Michielsen, Meike Wortel (NED)Bronze: Dutch Women: Magdalena Tichá, Martine Verbeek, Carla Arnolds, Wietske van Zwol (NED), Alex van Reenen Captain, Hans Kelder CoachBronze: China Ladies: Huang Yan, Shen Qi, Liu Yan, Lu Yan, Wang Nan, Wang Wen Fei (CHN), Wang Xiaojing Captain

Senior Teams:

Gold: Adrian Schwartz, Amos Kaminski, Avi Kalish, Leonid Podgur, Shalom Zeligman, Yeshayahu Levit (ISR)Silver: Wolfson: Benito Garozzo, Franco Masoero (ITA), Jeff Wolfson, Neil Silverman (USA)Bronze: Van Eijck: Jaap Trouwborst, Nico Doremans, Willem Gosschalk, Willem van Eijck (NED)Bronze: Vito: Hristo Hristov, Radi Radev, Tony Rusev, Zlatko Nedeltchev (BUL)


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Open Teams:

Gold: Highlanders: Harald Eide, Lars Eide, Sam Inge Høyland, Sven Olai Høyland (NOR)Silver: Greece: Aris Filios, Konstantinos Doxiadis, Konstantinos Kontomitros, Petros Roussos, Tassos Koukouselis, Yankos Papakyriakopoulos (GRE)Bronze: China: Zhao Jie, Chen Yunlong, Dai Jianming, Li Jianwei, Yang Lixin, Zhang Bangxiang (CHN)Bronze: Mazurkiewicz: Krzysztof Jassem, Marcin Mazurkiewicz, Stanisław Gołębiowski, Włodzimierz Starkowski (POL)

Senior Pairs:

Gold: Reiner Marsal, Herbert Klumpp (GER)Silver: Philippe Toffier, Pascal Gombert (FRA)Bronze: Jerzy Michałek, Włodzimierz Wala (POL)

Women Pairs:

Gold: Wietske van Zwol, Magdalena Tichá (NED)Silver: Justyna Żmuda, Katarzyna Dufrat (POL)Bronze: Jennifer Mourgues, Anne-Laure Huberschwiller (FRA)

Open Pairs:

Gold: Nafiz Zorlu, Nezih Kubac (TUR)Silver: Zia Mahmood, Jeff Meckstroth (USA)Bronze: Alfredo Versace (ITA), Mustafa Cem Tokay (TUR)

Justyna Żmuda won three medals, Michał Klukowski, Marion Michielsen, Wietske van Zwol, Magdalena Tichá and Katarzyna Dufrat two.

The Netherlands have won 13 (individual) medals, bringing their total to 107Leading nations:1) Netherlands 1072) France 913) Italy 784) Poland 705) USA 636) Norway 50

Greece has become the 34th country to have medalists at European Open Championships.

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Michael Shuster gave the bulletin this deal from the Anna Maria Torlontano open pairs yesterday.

Board 17. Dealer North. None Vul. [ K 7 6 2 ] K 9 2 { 9 7 5 4 } J 3 [ A J 4 [ 10 5 ] Q J 6 4 ] A 10 7 5 { K 10 3 2 { J 8 } Q 8 } 10 9 7 6 5 [ Q 9 8 3 ] 8 3 { A Q 6 } A K 4 2

Open Room West North East South Pass Pass 1[ Dble 2[ All Pass Schuster and Dinkins play an unusual system with four-

card majors in third seat hence the choice of actions.After a top heart lead ducked, a heart to the king and

ace, East accurately shifted to diamonds. Shuster took the {J with the ace and returned the {Q. He ruffed the next heart, played ace, king and a third club, as West discarded a diamond, then exited in diamonds.

This was the ending as the diamond was led:

[ K 7 6 ] — { 9 7 } — [ A J 4 [ 10 5 ] 6 ] 7 { 10 { — } —- } 10 9 [ Q 9 8 ] — { 6 } 4

East discarded a heart, and West won his ten to play a heart. Declarer ruffed in hand as East pitched a club then led the last club to execute a Devil’s Coup.

If West discarded, declarer would ruff low. Ruffing with the [A was obviously futile, and when West ruffed with the [J declarer could overruff and finesse against the [10.

There were two lines for the defence to prevail; West could have discarded a heart rather than a diamond on the third club. Now when East pitches his penultimate club on the third diamond West can win the {10 to play a fourth diamond. East discards his last club and the coup can no longer be made.

But in the ending shown East can ruff in on the third diamond to play a club and ensure two trump tricks for his partner.

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Barry RigalTHE DEVIL TO PAY!

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The cards that has been played in Montecatini are now available.

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Mark Horton

Herman De Wael is one of the proof readers. Checking yesterday's Bulletin he failed to observe that we had spelt his surname Waal - which he has now decided he prefers.

Players from 57 countries took part in the Championships, 40 of them from Europe. If the level of entries from the host nation Italy had matched those of San Remo 2009 then new records would have been set in every event.

Karen McCallum was distraught when she lost her late husband Alex's wedding ring which she wears as a necklace. Whilst waiting to resume play someone came to her table and handed it to her saying "I think this is yours". By the time she had recovered from the surprise the benefactor had vanished and the only way she can thank them is by hoping they are reading this.

One of our off-site journalists (Ron Tacchi) is celebrating his 45th wedding anniversary with his wife Jane. The prescribed gift for this anniversary is a sapphire, so I am assuming Ron has given her a bottle of Gin.

As usual, Herman counted the number of deals played in the championships. Including the five side tournaments and the extra deal in the Open Teams' quarterfinal, 98,160 deals were played. This makes this eighth edition of the Open European Championships the fourth largest, behind Menton 2003 (123,647), Poznan 2011 (109,734) and Sanremo 2009 (102,826).

One fact should be mentioned here, though. In all tournaments (except the last two side games) every table received an individual set of boards. That means that the duplication staff needed to produce that same number of boards (and some extra in reserve). Indeed, Monica Gorrerri, chief of duplication, reports that her staff produced 97,500 boards. That is, by far, a new record for any European or World Championship.

Let's give them a big applause:

CHAMPIONSHIP DIARY

Carlo, Franco, Hélène, Monica, Giulia, Anton, Elena, and Per Jannersten, who drove almost daily by bike to their office to perform maintenance to the dealing machines

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Greek has been important in the intellectual life of western civilization and the prominence of Greek for intellectual matters is evident in designations of subjects central to university study, such as philosophy 'love of wisdom', philology 'love of words or more generally study', theology 'study related to God', psychology 'study related to the soul or psyche', and so on.

Following the performance of the Greek Open team in Montecatini we may have to coina new word to reflect there bridge playing skills - perhaps bridgeology?

The Open Teams quarter final between Lavazza and Greece featured a wonderful deal where declarer had to find a number of elegant moves in order to bring home his contract.

Board 14. Dealer East. None Vul. [ K Q J 2 ] 9 8 3 { 6 } K J 9 8 2 [ 7 5 4 [ 6 ] A 10 7 5 4 ] Q J { A Q 10 { K 9 7 3 2 } 10 3 } A Q 7 5 4 [ A 10 9 8 3 ] K 6 2 { J 8 5 4 } 6

West North East South Filios Bilde Papakyriak. Duboin — — 1{ 1[ Dble* 2NT* 3} 3{ 3[ 4[ Pass Pass 5{ Pass Pass Dble All Pass

2NT Spade support

In the Closed Room Sementa & Bocchi had stopped in 4{, so a swing was inevitable.

South cashed the ace of spades and when North followed with the king he continued with the nine. Declarer ruffed and played the jack of hearts, covered by the king and ace. Declarer cashed the ace of diamonds, returned to hand with a heart and played a diamond to the ten. When that held he cashed the ten of hearts, pitching a club and continued with the seven of hearts discarding another club, South ruffing and exiting with the ten of spades. Declarer ruffed - but with the king of diamonds, so that he could cross to dummy with a diamond, cash a heart and only then take the club finesse to land his contract and collect 9 IMPs on the way to a famous victory.

"Impressive. Even the Hideous Hog couldn't have played it better..." Michael Rosenberg

Footnote: Declarer's line was elegant, but suppose South had started with a doubleton king of hearts? Then after cashing the ace of diamonds declarer does best to take the club finesse. He can then cash the ace of clubs and the queen of hearts, ruff a club, ruff a spade and play a club, at which point South has no defence. Editor.

Mark Horton

CLASSICAL GREEK BRIDGEOLOGY

Aris Filios

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Commentating on the second session of the Open Pairs I spotted this apparently uninteresting deal:

Board 16. Dealer West. EW Vul. [ 10 6 2 ] K Q { Q J 7 } 10 6 5 4 3 [ K J 3 [ A 8 4 ] J 10 7 3 ] 9 5 4 { 10 8 6 { K 9 5 2 } 9 8 7 } A J 2 [ Q 9 7 5 ] A 8 6 2 { A 4 3 } K Q

West North East South Pass Pass 1{ Dble Pass 1NT All Pass

INT was a popular contract and at a number of tables East led the two of diamonds for the three, ten and queen. When declarer continued with a club, a number of players in the East seat withheld the ace,

West (presumably playing standard signals) following with the seven.

When declarer continued with dummy's ace, if the BBO records are to be believed, every West followed with the eight and when East took the ace a heart switch was not what was required (although more than one declarer refused to play for a 3-3 club break).

The thing that puzzled me was why West did not follow to the second club with the nine? (Playing reverse signals West would surely have played the }9 followed by the }8.)

West might decide that it would be a good idea to make sure the next diamond play is through declarer's hand, and as the only possible entry is in spades it might be helpful to let partner in on the secret by playing the }9.

While you are considering the merits of that argument, imagine East starts by leading a heart? Declarer wins in hand and plays a club. To be sure of defeating the contract East must rise with the ace and either continue with a second heart or switch to a diamond. Ducking here allows declarer to play a second club while there are still two entries left to the North hand.

Mark Horton

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David Bird

Women's Pairs Final, First Session

Eighteen pairs qualified for the final of the Women’s Pairs, where they would play three boards against every other pair. (For those without a mobile phone calculator handy, this would be 51 boards). Roland Wald and I were watching at the BBO-1 table, where we eventually noticed – after three rounds of play - that the North/South pair was ever present. I was able to save the boards from other tables and will present some of my findings.

At our own table we did not have long to wait for the first ‘slam’:

Board 2 Dealer East N/S Vul. [ 4 3 ] A Q J { K Q J 6 } A Q 10 3 [ K J 8 5 [ A 9 7 6 2 ] 9 4 ] 7 5 3 { 9 3 2 { 4} K 8 7 6 } J 5 4 2 [ Q 10 ] K 10 8 6 2 { A 10 8 7 5 } 9

West North East South Colonna Cuzzi Carnicelli Brambilla Pass Pass Pass 2NT Pass 3{ Pass 3] Pass 3NT* Pass 4] Pass 5] Pass 6] All Pass

*3NT slam-try

Perceived wisdom in matchpoint events is to contest boldly in the part-score zone but to bid conservatively when considering close games and slams. Federica Brambilla made a general slam try of 5] here, accepted by her partner, and the defenders cashed two spade tricks to put the slam one down.

Swap the [A and [K and East might not have found the killing lead. Yes, but I still regard the advance to 5] as questionable. Suppose you stretch to a thin slam and make it because you are given a trick on the lead or play the contract well. You would often have obtained a good score when playing at

the game-level. On this particular deal North had not broken the transfer. Not only that, she had declined to cue-bid over 3NT.

Only one other North/South bid a slam (6{) and the reward for both ambitious pairs was a 6% score.

Board 5 Dealer North N/S Vul. [ 8 5 4 ] K J 5 3 { 8 5 4 } J 8 2 [ 10 3 [ A K] Q 9 7 4 ] A 8 6 2{ K 3 2 { Q 10 6} A K Q 5 } 10 9 7 4 [ Q J 9 7 6 2 ] 10 { A J 9 7 } 6 3

West North East South Sivertsvik Nosacki Chediak Saada Pass 1} 2[ Dble Pass 3] Pass 4] All Pass

At our table, East had opened a weak 1NT and South had overcalled a multi 2{, ending in 2[ doubled. When East switched unnecessarily to diamonds after a few tricks, declarer was able to play that suit to advantage and escape for one down and just 200 away. All would now depend on how many East/West pairs could land a tricky-looking game on their cards.

At the table shown above, Virginia Chediak ended in 4] and won the [Q lead. She then played a low trump to the 10, queen and king. After a spade return, she crossed to dummy with the }A and ran the ]9, South throwing a spade. She then played a trump to the 8 and correctly turned to diamonds, playing low to the king, which won. At this stage she could have drawn the last trump and scored three more club tricks for the contract.

When Chediak preferred to play a diamond to the 10 and jack, Nathalie Saada cashed the {A and could now have beaten the contract by playing another diamond. This would give a ruff-and-discard, yes, but if declarer ruffed with dummy’s ]7 North would throw a club! She would then score her last trump with a club ruff.

West preferred to lead the [J, to which North had to follow. Declarer ruffed with the ]7 and ditched the

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}4 from her hand. The }K-Q took tricks 11 and 12 and declarer then faced the ]A (over North’s ]8) to claim her game. +420 was worth 81%. Mourges and Huberschwiller picked up 100% for a splendid +450. Meanwhile, two pairs went one down in 4] (31%) and two pairs were two down (6%).

Board 6 Dealer East E/W Vul. [ Q 3 2 ] Q J 7 5 { 6 3 } A K 10 5 [ K 10 8 5 [ A J 9 ] 9 8 ] A K 10 6 4 2 { 8 7 { A K 10} J 9 7 6 3 } 4 [ 7 6 4 ] 3 { Q J 9 5 4 2 } Q 8 2

West North East South Y.Huang Cuzzi N.Wang Brambilla 1} * Pass 1{ * Pass 1] Pass 1[ Pass 4[ All Pass

Nan Wang opened with a Precision 1}. Yan Huang’s subsequent 1[ did not promise any more than four spades and East now had an awkward rebid. 2] would have been non-forcing and 3] was a candidate. How about 2[ or an invented 2{? Wang jumped to 4[ and West would then have to score 10 tricks where that number looked more likely for any pairs playing in 4]. How would she fare?

Monica Cuzzi cashed the }A and switched to the {6, won in the dummy. When declarer played the two top hearts, Brambilla ruffed the second round. Declarer won the {Q continuation and ruffed a third round of hearts with the [5, South throwing a diamond. The contract could now be made (trump to the 9, heart ruff with the [K. finesse the [J and draw the last trump with the [A to score two good hearts.)

This line would depend on North holding the [Q. Huang chose to play on a cross-ruff instead. She had four tricks already made and needed to add six more by making her remaining trumps separately. This could be done if South held the [Q, which might well be a better chance after the 4-1 heart break. Huang ruffed a club with the [9 and a heart with the [8. She ruffed another club with the [J and then a heart with the [K from the K-10. (This was a safety play to avoid

going two down if North were to overruff and return a trump. Declarer knew that she could subsequently score her [10 en passant if South did indeed hold the [Q). After a club ruff with the [Q she led the ]10 towards her bare [10 and North overruffed with the [Q. That was one down and rather unlucky after a commendable piece of cardplay.

One down in 4[ was a 0% board. Had Huang played North for the [Q and made the contract, the reward would have been a splendid 94%. Many pairs stopped in 2] or 3].

Board 12 Dealer West N/S Vul. [ K J 9 ] A Q { A 10 9 8 4 3 } Q 3 [ 4 3 [ A 10 7 2 ] J 6 3 2 ] K 10 8 5{ K 6 2 { 7 5} J 9 8 2 } K 7 4 [ Q 8 6 5 ] 9 7 4 { Q J } A 10 6 5

West North East South Adut Puillet Yavas V.Bessis Pass 1NT Pass 2} Pass 2{ Pass 3NT All Pass

At our table, East overcalled 2} to show the majors and West bid a bold 4] over South’s 3NT. Cuzzi (North) did well to bid 4NT, unsure what non-vulnerable pickings would be available against 4] doubled. Rather than describe the play at our table, let’s see the almost identical play in 3NT at the table where the bidding is shown above.

Carole Puillet won the heart lead with the queen. Some declarers led a diamond from hand at this stage, scoring only nine tricks. Puillet played the [K, hoping to start diamonds from the dummy. Dilek Yavas won with the [A and cleared the heart suit. Declarer crossed to the [Q and led the {Q, covered by the king and ace. A diamond to the jack and a spade to declarer’s jack allowed the diamonds to be run. East held both black-suit guards and had to surrender a twelfth trick. She bared the }K and Puillet scored the ace and queen for a fine +690. Cuzzi made the same twelve tricks at our table. Excellent!

A total of four N/S pairs made +690 to score 81%. Three pairs made +600 for 25% and the afore-

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mentioned Mourges and Huberschwiller (who had scored 100% on board 5) balanced it with 0% on this board, going one down in 3NT.

The VuGraph commentators always hope for a ‘final firework’ on the last board of each session. We have been lucky so often in this championship that it was asking a bit much to get one yet again. We did!

Board 15 Dealer South N/S Vul. [ K Q 10 8 5 ] 3 { J 10 7 6 2 } 9 7 [ A J 6 3 [ — ] J 10 8 5 2 ] A Q 7 { A 4 3 { K Q 9} 4 } A K Q J 10 6 3 [ 9 7 4 2 ] K 9 6 4 { 8 5 } 8 5 2

West North East South Brown Cuzzi Gross Brambilla Pass Pass Pass 2} Pass 2{ Pass 3} Pass 3] Pass 4} Pass 4{ Pass 4[ Pass 4NT Pass 7} All Pass

The meaning of 4NT is unknown to me. Susanna Gross was confident that Fiona Brown’s 4{ showed the {A and she hoped that the ]K would shortly hit the table.

At this point in the proceedings a kibitzer sent a message to my co-commentator Roland Wald informing him that a heart lead would allow the grand slam to be made. ‘Hah, hah, yes,’ said Roland. ‘Well I

can guarantee you one thing. South will not lead a heart!’

It was an example of ‘commentator’s curse’. The moment he said it, the ]4 appeared on the table. Declarer could now count 13 tricks and claim the contract after drawing trumps. It is sometimes a clever move to lead from a king when the ace-queen of the suit lie in the dummy. Forced to an early decision, declarer may call for the ace and try her luck elsewhere. This was unlikely to be the case here because West had already cue-bid in diamonds and East had opened 2}.

Allowing 7} to be made was worth (you guessed it) 0%. Sitting back and waiting for declarer to finesse into your ]K was worth 94%. Who was to blame? The answer is perfectly obvious. If some unthinking VuGraph commentator had not pronounced it quite impossible for South to lead a heart, she would never have done so!

Anna Maria Torlontano established the Women’s Committee in 1985 at the time when Bridge was recognised as a Sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Foremost in her mind was that, not only would women have full participation in this newly recognised sport of Bridge, but be active on executive Bridge Unions throughout Europe.

To her credit and the credit of past EBL Women Committees the number of women participating in International events has grown and the object of the current committee is to work with representatives of unions to further support the interests of women playing Bridge and to give support to women in countries where serious competition is still dominated by men. It is essential that this committee has been set up so that women do not become subsumed into Men’s Bridge without recognition as women.

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David Bird

Open Pairs Final - First Session

An appropriate 52 pairs qualified for the Open Pairs final, forty-six from semi-final A and six from semi-final B. Mark Horton and I watched at the table where Geir Helgemo and Tor Helness would start. A large number of kibitzers also thought this would be a good idea, and we soon had almost 1000 fellow bridge-lovers with us.

Board 1 Dealer North N/S Vul. [ 5 ] Q 6 4 { K Q 9 3 2 } A 10 9 6 [ K 9 [ A Q 6 ] K 10 5 3 ] J 9 8 2 { 8 5 4 { A J 10 6} Q J 4 2 } K 5 [ J 10 8 7 4 3 2 ] A 7 { 7 } 8 7 3

West North East South Paske Helgemo Jones Helness 1{ 1NT 2[ Dble Pass 2NT Pass 3NT All Pass

The [2 lead was won with dummy’s king and a diamond to the jack won the next trick. Helness rose with the ace when the ]J was played, returning a second heart to North’s queen. Edward Jones won the {K return and played king and another club, claiming +400. 3NT had seemed easy enough but perhaps some pairs would end in 4].

West North East South Grosset Versace Sandqvist Tokay 1{ 1NT 2[ Dble Pass 3] Pass 4] All Pass

Mustafa Cem Tokay led the {7 to the queen and ace. When Nick Sandqvist played a spade to the king and a second spade, Alfredo Versace ruffed, cashed the {K and delivered a diamond ruff. The }A and the ]A were taken, followed a further spade to promote

North’s bare ]Q. That was three down.And so to the scores. +400 was worth 76% to East/

West. Three down in 4] collected only 14%. Two down would have picked up 28% and one down 44%.

Board 3 Dealer South E/W Vul. [ J 10 6 3 ] 10 4 2 { 10 9 5 2 } A K [ K 8 5 2 [ Q 4 ] A ] K 9 8 6{ 8 7 6 { A J 4 3} J 7 6 5 3 } Q 10 9 [ A 9 7 ] Q J 7 5 3 { K Q } 8 4 2

West North East South Helness Francheschetti Helgemo Robert 1] Pass 2] Pass Pass Dble Rdble 3{ Pass Pass Dble All Pass

Helness was fully entitled to protect with a double. North/South had a mere 20 HCP at their disposal but they noted that the opponents were vulnerable and went for the throat with a penalty double.

Helgemo won the ]Q lead in dummy and led a club, Pierre Francheschetti winning with the ace. A trump switch went to Quentin Robert’s {Q and he returned the {K to the ace. North won the next round of clubs and switched to the [J, Helgemo playing the [4.

AND... THEY'RE OFF!

Geir Helgemo

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This was the key moment of the deal. If South had played low, a mouth-watering 800 was in sight. He chose to rise with the [A and the impending penalty shrank to just 200. North/South would have scored 96% for 800 but the ‘magic 200’ was still worth 68%.

Alfredo Versace extracted a little something from the wreckage of this deal:

Board 7 Dealer East N/S Vul. [ Q 6 3 2 ] Q 7 6 4 { 7 3 } K 9 8 [ A J 9 8 [ K 10 7 ] J 8 ] K 2 { Q 10 6 2 { A K 8 5} A J 7 } Q 10 5 4 [ 5 4 ] A 10 9 5 3 { J 9 4 } 6 3 2

West North East South Versace Nanev Tokay Stefanov 1{ Pass 2} * Pass 2] * Pass 2[ Pass 2NT Pass 3NT All Pass

North leads the ]4. Which card should you play from the dummy?

Alfredo Versace called for the king and the defenders took their five heart tricks, declarer throwing three clubs from dummy. When South switched to the }3. Versace rose with the }A and played four rounds of diamonds. On the fourth diamond from dummy, Versace unblocked the [J and Ivan Nanev had to discard the }K to retain his spade guard. Declarer crossed to the [A and scored the }J to avoid taking the spade finesse. Going one down was a quite common, gaining a 30% score.

At another table, Nafiz Zorlu received a diamond lead to the jack and queen. He crossed to the {A and played the }Q. When this was not covered, he recalled a Bols Bridge Tip ‘If they don’t cover, they don’t have the king’. He rose with the }A and ran the [9. Brilliant! The [8 to the [10 was followed by the [K, two more rounds of diamonds and the [A. Zorlu held ]J8 }J7 now and Pedersen (North) retained ]Q74 }K. A club to the bare king forced North to lead a heart. Declarer would then score a heart and a club whether South took his ]A or not. This wondrous line of play netted +660 and a 100% score for Zorlu.

This was the biggest board of the session: Board 8 Dealer West Neither Vul. [ 5 3 ] A K 8 4 { 10 9 } A K Q 8 2 [ 7 6 2 [ Q 10 9 4 ] Q 5 2 ] J 6 3 { Q J 8 7 4 3 { 6 3 2} 7 } J 6 4 [ A K J 8 ] 10 9 7 { A K } 10 9 5 3

West North East South Paske Wiankowski Jones Nawrocki

Pass 1} * Pass 1[ Pass 2} * Pass 2{ Dble 2] Pass 3} Pass 3] Pass 4}Pass 4] Pass 4NT Pass 5{ Pass 5] Pass 6} Pass 6{ Pass 6NT All Pass

A good number of pairs played this deal in 6}. The only obvious chance of an overtrick was a deep finesse in hearts. This was unsuccessful and +920 was entered on the scorecard for a 48% score.

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At the table featured here, Piotr Wiankowski and Piotr Nawrocki aimed for a higher-scoring slam. Students of the Polish Club system will no doubt enjoy the auction shown. What, though, do you think is the best match-point line in 6NT?

Navrocki won the {Q lead, checked the club position by crossing to the }A and continued with ace and a low heart to West’s queen. He won the {J continuation and found his 12th trick in hearts, not having to fall back on the spade finesse. +990 was worth 78%.

At another table West made an effective pre-empt in diamonds:

West North East South Franceschi Winkler Robert Homonnay

3{ 3] Pass 3NT All Pass

Difficult for North/South, wasn’t it? Geza Homonnay benefited from a spade lead, cashed some clubs and played the ]10, not covered, to the ]A. When East subsequently discarded a spade on declarer’s second diamond winner, declarer had a magnificent 13 tricks. ‘Great play... shame about the contract!’ Homonnay was the only player in the field to make 13 tricks and he scored 36%.

Eight pairs scored 490 in 3NT for 18%. The top North/South score went to Ole Berset and Terje Lie, collecting 1400 from 4{ doubled. Tom Nordgaard and Jan Pedersen needed the ]Q-J onside to make their 7}. As the cards lay, they suffered a painful 0%.

Board 9 Dealer North E/W Vul. [ K J 6 4 3 2 ] 8 6 { 2 } Q 10 7 6 [ — [ A 10 9 7] A K 7 5 4 3 2 ] 9{ A J 6 4 3 { Q 9 8 7 5} 8 } K 5 4 [ Q 8 5 ] Q J 10 { K 10 } A J 9 3 2

West North East South Paske Roll Jones Levin 3[ Pass 4[ 5] Pass Pass Dble All Pass

Several North players chose to open 3[. At the table where Mark and I were watching, Gabor Winkler declined to raise and then allowed Ivan Nanev’s 4] to play. A diamond lead went to the king and ace, declarer continuing with ace, king and another trump. When South failed to cash the }A, declarer ended with +680 for 60%. +650 would have been worth 32%.

At the table where the bidding went as shown above, Amir Levin did raise to 4[. He subsequently doubled West’s 5] and all would now depend on the opening lead. A club lead would beat the contract because declarer would have no entry to dummy to take the diamond finesse. Yossi Roll naturally preferred to lead his singleton diamond. When Thomas Paske won and played ace, king and another trump, Levin did the best he could – preventing an overtrick by cashing the }A. Conceding 850 on the board left North/South with a 22% score, since five pairs had bid and made 6{.

Geza Homonnay

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Board 16. Dealer West. E-W Vul. [ A K 4 ] 10 5 3 { A Q 9 } A 8 6 5 [ Q J 10 9 6 3 2 [ 5 ] 8 6 4 ] K Q 7 2 { — { J 8 5 4 3 } K 3 2 } J 7 4 [ 8 7 ] A J 9 { K 10 7 6 2 } Q 10 9

West North East South Wildavsky Ezion Lewis Zamir 3[ 3NT All Pass

Marshall Lewis led his partner’s suit, and declarer captured the ten with the ace and immediately led a club to the nine – a very good start. Back came

the spade jack (carrying some sort of mild suit preference?). What was Lewis to discard? He inferred from declarer’s failure to play on diamonds that he had {AQ9. So the squeeze was looming on him for 12 tricks. Accordingly he discarded ]K, trying to look like a man who was creating an entry for partner. Declarer fell for it; he finessed in clubs, unblocked the }Q, came to the {A and took his }A then cashed {Q, finessed in diamonds, and ran the diamonds to throw East in with the fifth diamond.

In the two-card ending Lewis had ]Q7 left, Wildavsky his master spade and one heart. When Lewis led his low heart declarer settled for ten tricks by rising with ]A. Had Lewis not made this ‘unblock’ declarer would surely have reached an ending where after two spades, one heart three diamonds and four clubs he could throw him in with a heart honour to lead into dummy’s diamond tenace. That would be for 11 tricks.

-430 was worth a good score for E/W, -460 would have been well below average.

AA 88 66 55

Barry RigalDEVIOUS DOINGS IN THE DISCARDS

Entry fee: € 50.00 per pair

Entry fee: € 60.00 per pair

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From Friday's Penultimate Open Pairs Final Round

On the board below from the Open Pairs Final, 17 out of 26 E/W pairs were playing 4] or 5] after North had pre-empted in spades. Only one of the pairs in 4] was doubled and went down, but on the other hand, only one pair in 5] escaped the double but also went down. Making 11 tricks proved too difficult for 14 of our 17 declarers, a few of them managing only 8 tricks, doubled or not.

Board: 29. Dealer North. All Vul. [ K J 10 9 8 5 3 2 ] 4 { 7 5 4 } K[ A Q 7 [ 6] A K 8 6 5 2 ] 10 9 3{ 6 { Q J 10 8 2} A 8 7 } Q 10 9 6 [ 4 ] Q J 7 { A K 9 3 } J 5 4 3 2

Our three successful declarers, Combescure, Paske and Dai, all got the lead of the }K by North.

This did not give away a trick, but at least it made the club position clear for the declarers; without that lead you would surely misread the club position? They won the ace, cashed one top trump and led a diamond. South won and returned a spade but now declarer won, cashed his other top trump and ruffed a spade. It would not help South to overruff as he would have to continue either a diamond or a club, so South does best to discard. This simply postponed the evil day for South though, as declarer would now lead dummy’s {J, throwing a spade if South did not cover. After that, declarer ruffs a diamond in hand and puts South on lead with the last trump, compelling him to return either minor to declarer’s advantage. If South covered the {J, declarer would ruff and exit with his last trump, again to put South on lead to declarer’s advantage.

Jos JacobsFROM FRIDAY...

Jianming DaiThomas PaskeFrancois Combescure

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When going through the bulletins of the championships held here in 1997, I noticed an article of mine in the final bulletin. It had the same title as this one, and featured a number of articles I would have written if hands had been found to go with the title.

The title I most like, twenty years on, is “Lamborghini vs. Maserati”, about the match Belgium – Norway, which featured Frans Jeunen, currently my brother-in-law, and Geir Helgemo, now of Monaco. They managed to finish their match with 30 minutes to spare, despite Helgemo taking ten minutes to defeat a Belgian contract, which turned out to be two levels too high anyway.

This time, I had a number of good ideas, one of which I even shared with the bulletin staff, and yet 14 days of play at a European championships did not manage to get a deal for.

These are the articles that never were:

“100,000th deal”In several previous championships, I tracked down

the 100,000th deal that was played and wrote an article on what happened in it. These entire two weeks, I calculated and changed my prediction of the number of deals that would be played. Would we reach 100,000 or not? It turned out that if the final two tournaments had 150 pairs each, the magic number would be reached. The good (bad?) weather meant that these totals were not attained. That's one article down the drain.

“Pinocchio scores in Montecatini”Carlo Lorenzini was born in Firenze in 1826, but he

spent his youth in his mother's home town of Collodi(*). When he started writing fairy stories he took up the pen name of Carlo Collodi. In 1881 he published “La storia di un burattino”, which in 1883 was expanded into a novel called “Le avventure di Pinocchio”.

I imagined a story involving several consecutive psychic calls (possibly involving Puppet Stayman?), with the psycher's nose growing until it reached the screen, but sadly no psyches were reported to me. Have the players gotten too serious?

(*) The village of Collodi is a mere 12 km from Montecatini Terme, on the road to Lucca. Apart from a giant statue of Pinocchio, there is not much to see.

GOOD TITLE, NO ARTICLE!


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Jos Jacobs

Early on Saturday afternoon, I was having a look at Zorlu and Kubac, the pair who had been leading for most of the finals. On the first three boards that I watched, they collected some very good scores against two different French pairs. On board 3, they bid a routine 3NT against which contract the defenders could not possibly find the right lead but later on, also failed to find the right switch:

Board: 3. Dealer South. E/W Vul. [ K J 3 ] A K 9 8 5 { A 7 4 2 } 4[ 9 8 7 5 [ Q 6 2] J 10 4 ] 7 6 3 2{ K Q 8 5 { 9} 10 2 } K Q J 9 6 [ A 10 4 ] Q { J 10 6 3 } A 8 7 5 3

West North East SouthBompis Zorlu Vinciguerra Kubac— — — 1}Pass 1{* Pass 1NTPass 2{ Pass 2NTPass 3NT All Pass

One Club was at least a doubleton, 1{ showed hearts and 2{ was the general game forcing bid.

West led the [8 which went to the jack, queen and ace. Declarer then advanced the {J, covered by West’s queen and dummy’s ace. A low diamond then went to the ten and king, East discarding the }6. Had West returned a club at this point, the defenders would have saved one precious overtrick but when he returned the ]J instead, declarer could win his ]Q and establish a second trick in diamonds for +460 and most of the matchpoints.

The next board brought the Turks another top score:

Board: 4. Dealer West. Al/ Vul. [ 3 ] J 10 7 2 { 10 9 7 4 3 } A J 4[ K 8 5 2 [ A 10] 9 4 ] K 8 6 5{ A Q J 5 { K 8 6 2} 10 9 3 } K Q 7 [ Q J 9 7 6 4 ] A Q 3 { -- } 8 6 5 2

West North East South Bompis Zorlu Vinciguerra Kubac Pass Pass 1NT 2{Dble Pass Pass 2[Dble All Pass

Two Diamonds showed one major.

West led the ]9 on which declarer called for dummy’s jack, which won the trick. A spade came next to the ten and queen, West winning his king and exiting with his last heart to declarer’s queen. The [J then was won by East’s ace and the heart return was ruffed by West. When West got off play with a club, declarer could win the ace, ruff a diamond in hand, draw the last trump and concede two club tricks to come home in his contract for +670 and another bushel of matchpoints..

The next board brought them yet another good score, albeit against a different pair from France.

SOME BOARDS BY ZORLU & KUBAC

Nafiz Zorlu

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Board: 5. Dealer North. N/S Vul. [ K 8 ] A K Q J { 10 9 5 } 10 7 3 2[ A Q 5 3 [ J 10 2] 9 7 3 ] 6 2{ K Q 7 { A 6 2} Q 8 5 } K J 9 6 4 [ 9 7 6 4 ] 10 8 5 4 { J 8 4 3 } A

West North East South Zorlu Combescure Kubac Rombaut — 1} Pass 1{ Pass 1] Pass 2] Pass Pass Dble Pass 2[ All Pass

An aggressive double by East led to an interesting final contract. Had North led a club, the defence would no doubt have beaten this nice little contract but when he first cashed two top hearts and then exited in diamonds, the defenders’ chances were gone. {A, [J to the king and a diamond back to declarer’s king, a club to the king and ace and another diamond to declarer’s queen gave Zorlu the opportunity to draw trumps in comfort, then enjoy the clubs for

an overtrick, +140 to him and another tremendous matchpoint score.

Nezih Kubac

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Bep Vriend, one of the initial members of the EBL Hall of Fame has kindly supplied a list of her major achievements:

Gold MedalsWorld Championships1994 Alburquerque Women Pairs2000 Bermuda Women Teams

European Championships1993 Menton Women Pairs1994 Barcelona Mixed Teams2002 Salsomaggiore Women Teams (the regular EC)2003 Menton Mixed Pairs2007 Antalya Women Teams2007 Antalya Women Pairs2011 Poznan Women Pairs

Silver MedalsWorld Championships1989 Perth Women Teams2010 Philadelph Women Teams (Mc Connell)

European Championships1983 Wiesbaden Women Teams (the regular EC)1989 Turku Women Teams (the regular EC)2001 Tenerife Women Teams (the regular EC)2003 Menton Women Teams2004 Malmo Women Teams (the regular EC)2006 Warsaw Women Teams (the regular EC)2011 Poznan Mixed Teams2011 Poznan Women Teams

Bronze MedalsWorld Championships1984 Seattle Women Teams (Olympiad)1989 Geneve Women Pairs2003 Monte Carlo Women Teams2005 Estoril Women Teams2010 Philadelphia Women Pairs2011 Veldhoven Women Teams

European Championships1979 Lausanne Women Teams (the regular EC)1991 Killarney Women Teams (the regular EC)1992 Oostend Mixed Teams

Bep retired from International play in 2011 (which is why her remarkable record stops then.

HALL of FAME - BEP VRIEND'S ACHIEVEMENTS

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Going into the final day of the Open Pairs, Zia Mahmood and Jeff Meckstroth were in third place in the strong field, not far out of the lead. At the end of the first session on Saturday, they had some work to do, having dropped down in the standings.

The third board of the set was their best score of the day – an “up” moment. The opponents were Mihai Grigoriu and Andrei Piroi.

Board 3. Dealer South. E/W Vul. [ A 8 6 ] 9 8 4 3 2 { A } A K Q 6 [ 10 9 7 [ K Q J 4 3 2 ] Q J 7 6 ] K { J 4 3 { Q 5 2 } J 9 2 } 8 5 3 [ 5 ] A 10 5 { K 10 9 8 7 6 } 10 7 4

Open Room West North East South Grigoriu Meckstroth Piroi Zia— — — PassPass 1] 1[ 2]2[ 4] All Pass

East led the [K, taken by North with the ace. Meckstroth ruffed a spade at trick two, played a diamond to the ace, ruffed his last spade and cashed the {K, pitching a club.

He cashed the ]A and ruffed a diamond, then played the club winners before exiting his hand with the ]8. West won the ]J but could do no better than cashing the other heart honor before playing his ]7 to Meckstroth’s 9. Plus 450 was good for 94%.

This board was another one of their good ones, played against Jerry Stamitov and Diyan Danilov.

Board 6. Dealer East. W/W Vul. [ K Q J ] A 7 6 2 { J 9 7 } K 4 3 [ A 2 [ 10 9 7 3 ] Q 9 5 ] J 10 4 { A K Q 6 { 8 4 3 2 } Q 9 5 2 } 10 6 [ 8 6 5 4 ] K 8 3 { 10 5 } A J 8 7

West North East South Stamatov Meckstroth Danilov Zia— — Pass Pass1NT Pass 2} Pass2{ All Pass

Meckstroth led the [K and declarer, Stamatov, won the ace. At trick two, he played the ]Q from hand. Zia won the ]K and returned a spade. Meckstroth won the [J and cashed the ]A, followed by a third round of the suit. Declarer won in dummy perforce and played a diamond to the king, then cashed the queen, leaving himself with one trump in each hand. He then led a club to the 10 and Zia’s jack. Another club went to Meckstroth’s king for the killing play of the 13th heart. Declarer could take a ruff in either hand, pitching a loser from the other, but he would still have to lose a black-suit trick for one down. Plus 100 was worth 78% to Meckstroth and Zia.

They had an identical result on the next board when the opponents got too high in 6}, going one down. On board 10, a minus score turned out to be good for Zia and Meckstroth. The opponents were Alexander Hydes and David Mossop.

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Board 10. Dealer East. All Vul. [ A 8 4 2 ] J 3 2 { 3 2 } 10 9 7 6 [ — [ Q 10 5 ] A K 8 ] 10 9 6 5 4 { A J 8 6 5 { Q 10 9 4 } K Q 8 5 2 } 4 [ K J 9 7 6 3 ] Q 7 { K 7 } A J 3

West North East South Hydes Meckstroth Mossop Zia— — — 1[Dble 3[ Pass PassDble Pass 4] 4[Dble All Pass

The opponents can make 11 tricks in diamonds or hearts, but they settled for doubling Zia in 4[. Had East been able to gain the lead, Zia would have finished at minus 500, but that didn’t happen. West led the ]K and continued with the ace. The }K went to Zia’s ace. He then entered dummy, pitched a diamond on the ]J, took the marked spade finesse and gave up a trick to the {A and another to the }Q. One down and minus 200 was good for a 66% score.

The following board, against Francois Combescure and Jerome Rombaut was wild:

Board 16. Dealer West. E/W Vul. [ J 5 4 2 ] J 7 6 { 7 5 3 } 8 6 5 [ — [ A K Q 10 8 7 6 3 ] K 5 4 3 ] A { A Q 10 9 6 4 2 { K J 8 } J 4 } 2 [ 9 ] Q 10 9 8 2 { — } A K Q 10 9 7 3

West North East South Meckstroth Zia 1{ Pass 1[ 2} 2{ Pass 3} 5} Dble Pass 6[ 6NT Dble 7} Dble All Pass

This was a phantom sacrifice because East cannot make 6[. South leads a club and continues the suit. Declarer cashes the top two spades to get the bad news. He can cash his singleton ]A and enter dummy three times to ruff hearts, attempting to reduce his trump length to the same as North, but declarer needs more entries to dummy than he has and must eventually lose a trump trick for one down.

Zia finished three down for minus 500, less than East-West could get in 5{ or 5[, but it was still a below-average score at 44%.

Near the end, Meckstroth bid aggressively and brought home the contract with his usual flair. The opponents were Shireen Mohandes and Andy Bowles.

Board 18. Dealer East. N/S Vul. [ K 10 7 5 4 ] 10 9 3 { 8 } A 9 7 3 [ J 9 [ 6 2 ] 7 6 5 4 ] A K Q 8 2 { A J 9 5 { K 10 } 8 5 4 } K 10 6 2 [ A Q 8 3 ] J { Q 7 6 4 3 2 } Q J

West North East South Mohandes Meckstroth Bowles Zia— — 1] Dble3] 4[ All Pass

East started with the ]K, switching to a trump at trick two. Meckstroth won in hand and played his singleton diamond. East won the {K and played the ]Q, forcing dummy to ruff. Meckstroth then ruffed a diamond, played a spade to dummy’s queen and ruffed another diamond. When Meckstroth played a low club from hand, the defenders were helpless. Meckstroth had a trump in each hand and West was down to the singleton {A. East could win the }K and play a high heart or a club, but Meckstroth could ruff in dummy, ruff a diamond, felling the ace, and return to dummy with the }Q to cash two diamond winners. Plus 620 was a 78% score.

The next-to-last board of the set was a tough one for Meckstroth and Zia. The beneficiaries of the resulting poor board were Chris Jagger and Jeffrey Allerton.

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Board 19. Dealer South. E/W Vul. [ 10 4 ] A Q J { A J 10 8 4 2 } 6 4 [ 9 7 6 3 [ 8 ] K 10 9 8 7 5 ] 4 3 2 { K 7 { Q 9 5 } 7 } K 10 9 8 3 2 [ A K Q J 5 2 ] 6 { 6 3 } A Q J 5

West North East South Jagger Meckstroth Allerton Zia— — — 2}Pass 2{ Pass 3[Pass 4NT Pass 5}Pass 5{ Pass 6[Pass 7[ All Pass

West started with a trump. After long thought, Zia won in hand and played a diamond to dummy’s ace. The contract could no longer be made. Looking at all the hands, Zia might have won the trump lead in hand, played a spade to dummy and a low club to his jack. Now he can pull trumps and finesse in hearts, cashing the ace to discard a diamond. When he played another club to his queen, West would be feeling the pressure.

Two more spades would increase the pressure and bring on this end position...

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On the play of the }A, West must surrender. If he discards his heart, declarer throws dummy’s {J. If West discards a diamond, the ]J is goes and dummy’s diamonds are good. Note that East must discard to a singleton diamond to maintain his guard in clubs.

Making the grand slam would have been a complete top. One down was worth only 8%, but in the next-to-last session, Meckstroth and Zia made a big comeback to zoom into second place. They were still in the hunt.

Jeff Meckstroth

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MASTERPOINT RACE

1 Justyna ZMUDA 1612 Sam Inge HOYLAND 1532 Sven Olai HOYLAND 1534 Harald EIDE 1504 Lars EIDE 1506 K KONTOMITROS 1276 Tassos KOUKOUSELIS 1278 Alfredo VERSACE 1269 Magdalena TICHA 1259 Nafiz ZORLU 1259 Nezih KUBAC 12512 Georgi MATUSHKO 12213 Chris WILLENKEN 12113 Migry ZUR-CAMPANILE 12115 Aris FILIOS 12015 Konstantinos DOXIADIS 12015 Michal KLUKOWSKI 12015 Petros ROUSSOS 12015 PAPAKYRIAKOPOULOS 12020 Jeff MECKSTROTH 11520 Marion MICHIELSEN 11520 Mustafa Cem TOKAY 11520 Zia MAHMOOD 11524 Anna GULEVICH 11225 Elena RUDAKOVA 11125 Evgeni RUDAKOV 11127 Sergei ORLOV 11028 Olga PAVLUSHKO 10029 Ivan NANEV 9729 Julian STEFANOV 9731 Ismail KANDEMIR 9431 Suleyman KOLATA 9433 Peter BERTHEAU 8933 Peter FREDIN 8935 Geir HELGEMO 8835 Tor HELNESS 8837 Andrew ROSENTHAL 8738 Katarzyna DUFRAT 8639 Herve VINCIGUERRA 8439 Marc BOMPIS 8441 Johan UPMARK 8341 Roy WELLAND 8341 Sabine AUKEN 8344 ZHAO Jie 7545 Berend VAN DEN BOS 7445 Francois COMBESCURE 7445 Jerome ROMBAUT 7445 Joris VAN LANKVELD 7449 DAI Jianming 7349 YANG Lixin 7351 CHEN Yunlong 7252 Krzysztof JASSEM 7052 LI Jianwei 7052 M MAZURKIEWICZ 7052 S GOLEBIOWSKI 7052 W STARKOWSKI 7052 ZHANG Bangxiang 7058 Claudio VILLANI 6958 Fabrizio CONTI 6960 Adrian SCHWARTZ 6760 Richard RITMEIJER 6760 Shalom ZELIGMAN 6763 May SAKR 6664 Pierre ZIMMERMANN 6565 Mike VANDERVORST 6465 Sam BAHBOUT 6467 Franck MULTON 6367 HU Junjie 6367 WANG Jian 6370 Philippe CRONIER 62

71 David BAKHSHI 6172 Michal NOWOSADZKI 6073 Andrey GROMOV 5974 Wietske VAN ZWOL 5875 Alex KOLESNIK 5675 Artur MALINOWSKI 5675 Atanas IVANOV 5675 HU Linlin 5675 Roberto SCARAMUZZI 5675 Steliana IVANOVA 5675 SUN Yanhui 5682 Krzysztof MARTENS 5383 Lone BILDE 5283 Tatiana DIKHNOVA 5285 Amos KAMINSKI 5085 Avi KALISH 5085 Helle RASMUSSEN 5085 Herbert KLUMPP 5085 Leonid PODGUR 5085 Namik KOKTEN 5085 Reiner MARSAL 5085 Stense FARHOLT 5085 Thor Erik HOFTANISKA 5085 Tina EGE 5085 Tuna ALUF 5085 Yeshayahu LEVIT 5097 Diyan DANAILOV 4897 Jerry STAMATOV 4899 Catherine D'OVIDIO 4599 Jeffrey ALLERTON 4599 Meike WORTEL 4599 Sylvie WILLARD 45103 Arno LINDERMANN 44103 Susanne GRUMM 44105 Chris JAGGER 41105 SHEN Qi 41107 AL HUBERSCHWILLER 40107 Dennis BILDE 40107 Sally BROCK 40110 Giorgio DUBOIN 39110 Jacek PSZCZOLA 39110 Philippe TOFFIER 39110 Thomas BESSIS 39110 Veronique BESSIS 39110 WANG Wen Fei 39116 Adi ASULIN 38116 Gilad OFIR 38116 Jan PEDERSEN 38116 Marius IONITA 38116 P FRANCESCHETTI 38116 Quentin ROBERT 38116 Tom NORGAARD 38123 Franco MASOERO 37123 Karen McCALLUM 37125 Pascal GOMBERT 36126 Benito GAROZZO 35126 Jeff WOLFSON 35126 Kathrine BERTHEAU 35126 Levent IMAMOGLU 35126 Lynn BAKER 35126 M Guney GUNDOGDU 35126 Neil SILVERMAN 35133 Andrzej JASZCZAK 33133 Apolinary KOWALSKI 33133 Cathy BALDYSZ 33133 Willem GOSSCHALK 33133 Willem VAN EIJCK 33138 Ole BERSET 32138 Oleg ROVYSHYN 32138 Yuliy CHUMAK 32

141 Jacek ROMANSKI 31141 JIN Ke 31141 ZHU Ping 31144 Agustin MADALA 30144 Alejandro BIANCHEDI 30144 Alexander DUBININ 30144 Andrei ARLOVICH 30144 Andrzej PAWLAK 30144 Antonio SEMENTA 30144 Carole PUILLET 30144 Erikas VAINIKONIS 30144 Georges IONTZEFF 30144 Jennifer MOURGUES 30144 Jerzy MICHALEK 30144 Lech OHRYSKO 30144 Maciej DABROWSKI 30144 Marek JELENIEWSKI 30144 Nicholas DECHELETTE 30144 Norberto BOCCHI 30144 Pawel SZYMASZCZYK 30144 Piotr ZATORSKI 30144 Rafal MARKS 30144 Ron PACHTMAN 30144 Wlodzimierz WALA 30165 Alain LABAERE 29165 Terje LIE 29165 V C.-LABAERE 29165 Victoria GROMOVA 29169 Amir LEVIN 28169 Yossi ROLL 28171 HUANG Yan 27171 Marina STEGAROIU 27171 Przemyslaw ZAWADA 27171 Wojciech STRZEMECKI 27175 Adam WILDAVSKY 25175 Christal HENNER 25175 Marshall LEWIS 25175 Steve GARNER 25179 Ayse OZGUNES 23179 Debbie SANDFORD 23179 Dogan UZUM 23179 Lars GOLDBERG 23179 Ricco VAN PROOIJEN 23179 Ulla-Britt GOLDBERG 23185 Emmanuelle MONOD 22185 Eric MAUBERQUEZ 22187 Aida JANSMA 20187 Benedicte CRONIER 20187 Cedric LORENZINI 20187 Dana BERKOWITZ 20187 David BERKOWITZ 20187 Dmitri PROKHOROV 20187 Ed HOOGENKAMP 20187 Gunn HELNESS 20187 Ida GRONKVIST 20187 Igor KHAZANOV 20187 Jan JANSMA 20187 Jessica LARSSON 20187 Joanna ZOCHOWSKA 20187 Kiki WARD-PLATT 20187 Lisa BERKOWITZ 20187 Maria LEBEDEVA 20187 Pavel VOROBEI 20187 Rob HELLE 20187 Sjoert BRINK 20206 Christophe GROSSET 19206 Nicklas SANDQVIST 19208 Fabrizio HUGONY 18208 Fredrik HELNESS 18208 Josef BLASS 18

208 Nicolas LHUISSIER 18212 Barry MYERS 17212 David GOLD 17212 Hugh McGANN 17212 Lizzie GODFREY 17212 Lorenzo LAURIA 17212 Pauline COHEN 17212 Philippe MARILL 17212 Piotr NAWROCKI 17212 Piotr WIANKOWSKI 17212 Susanna GROSS 17222 LIU Yan 16222 LU Yan 16222 Monica CUZZI 16225 Allan LIVGARD 15225 Anna SARNIAK 15225 Antoni IVANOV 15225 Assaf LENGY 15225 Bas DRIJVER 15225 Christian BAKKE 15225 David SHERMAN 15225 Francesco Saverio VINCI 15225 Georgi RALEV 15225 Giovanni DONATI 15225 Glenn GROETHEIM 15225 Grazyna BREWIAK 15225 Igor CURLIN 15225 Ilan BAREKET 15225 Ivan IVANOV 15225 Jacek KALITA 15225 John CARROLL 15225 Jovanka SMEDEREVAC 15225 Lars A JOHANSEN 15225 Maksim ZHMAK 15225 Marina PILIPOVIC 15225 Mark MORAN 15225 Nikica SVER 15225 Nikola BARANTIEV 15225 Petter TONDEL 15225 Rory BOLAND 15225 Steffen F SIMONSEN 15225 Terje AA 15225 Tom HANLON 15225 Tommy GARVEY 15225 Tor Eivind GRUDE 15225 Tracy CAPAL 15225 Zahari ZAHARIEV 15258 Bjorg HOUMOLLER 14258 Martine VERBEEK 14258 Signe BUUS THOMSEN 14258 WANG Weimin 14258 ZHENG Yili 14263 Carla ARNOLDS 13263 Hristo HRISTOV 13263 Jaap TROUWBORST 13263 Nico DOREMANS 13263 Radi RADEV 13263 Tony RUSEV 13263 WANG Nan 13263 Zlatko NEDELTCHEV 13271 Antonio PALMA 12271 Giampiero BETTINETTI 12271 Leonardo MARINO 12271 Michel ROMIEU 12271 Michelle ISOARD 12271 Nan WANG 12277 Geta MIHAI 11277 Jessica H PIAFSKY 11277 Linda MOLLE 11277 Marco TER LAARE 11

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MASTERPOINT RACE

277 Radu MIHAI 11277 Ranja SIVERTSVIK 11277 Romain TEMBOURET 11277 Virginia CHEDIAK 11285 Alexei STERKIN 10285 Alison WILSON 10285 Ayako MIYAKUNI 10285 Bauke MULLER 10285 Berk BASARAN 10285 Can BERKTAS 10285 Christina Lund MADSEN 10285 Daniele GAVIARD 10285 David KENDRICK 10285 Elly S-BOSKLOPPER 10285 Igor CHURLIN 10285 Jacco HOP 10285 Janice S-MOLSON 10285 Jean Le PODER 10285 Jeremy DHONDY 10285 Jerzy ROMANOWSKI 10285 Johnny HOLMBAKKEN 10285 Jouri KHOKLOV 10285 Kazuo FURUTA 10285 Kenji MIYAKUNI 10285 M d' OREY CAPUCHO 10285 Maria Joao LARA 10285 Martine ROSSARD 10285 Netsy SAYER 10285 Nicole CURETTI 10285 Petter H. LINDQVIST 10285 Rafal JAGNIEWSKI 10285 Rene STIENEN 10285 Simon DE WIJS 10285 Sukriye MERZE 10285 Teruko NISHIMURA 10285 Thibault D-SIRVEN 10285 Umran SEMERCI 10318 Alexander HYDES 9318 Barbara GOTARD 9318 David MOSSOP 9318 Emanuela CALANDRA 9318 Geoff HAMPSON 9318 Haig TCHAMITCH 9318 Hemant LALL 9318 Ivona CZAJKA 9318 Leszek SZTYRAK 9318 Reese MILNER 9318 Tomasz GOTARD 9329 Alexander ALLFREY 8329 Amedeo COMELLA 8329 Andrew ROBSON 8329 Dan BYLUND 8329 Grozio DONEV 8329 Helena STROMBERG 8329 Michal NOSACKI 8329 Mikael RIMSTEDT 8329 Nathalie SAADA 8329 Ola RIMSTEDT 8329 Per LEANDERSSON 8329 Peter CARLSSON 8329 Stefano SABBATINI 8329 Zhivko DRAGANOV 8343 Aaron SILVERSTEIN 7343 Anatol FILIP 7343 Ashley BACH 7343 Berrak ERKAN 7343 Eduard VELECKY 7343 Federica BRAMBILLA 7343 Floriana MARZI 7343 G DE TESSIERES 7

343 Hilda SETTON 7343 Irina LEVITINA 7343 Jean-Baptiste FANTUN 7343 Jim MAHAFFEY 7343 Jo-Arne OVESEN 7343 Judi RADIN 7343 Michael CORNELL 7343 Ornella COLONNA 7343 Piotr GAWRYS 7343 Riccardo VITALE 7343 Sabine ROLLAND 7343 Sam LEV 7343 Sylvia SHI 7343 Tatiana PONOMAREVA 7343 Torild HESKJE 7343 Tuna ELMAS 7343 Veronique VENTOS 7368 A STOKKELAND 6368 Edward JONES 6368 Frederic WRANG 6368 Huub BERTENS 6368 Joan CREMIN 6368 Juan Carlos VENTIN 6368 Per-Ola CULLIN 6368 Stephan CABAJ 6368 Sverre JOHNSEN 6368 Thomas PASKE 6368 Wlodzimierz ILNICKI 6379 Ami ZAMIR 5379 Amir EZION 5379 Angel VANCHEV 5379 Anneke SIMONS 5379 Barbara FERM 5379 Bernhard STRATER 5379 Carlo SPANU 5379 Danuta KAZMUCHA 5379 Dessislava MALAKOVA 5379 Diana RAKHMANI 5379 Dominik FILIPOWICZ 5379 Francesca CARNICELLI 5379 Hans FRERICHS 5379 Jerzy RUSSYAN 5379 Jerzy ZAREMBA 5379 Jet PASMAN 5379 K MOSZCZYNSKI 5379 Laura DEKKERS 5379 LIU Shu 5379 Maria Marit RAHELT 5379 Maria YAKOVLEVA 5379 Mauro DOLIA 5379 Merel BRUIJNSTEEN 5379 Michal KWIECIEN 5379 Nadia BEKKOUCHE 5379 Natalia SAKOWSKA 5379 O VOROBEYCHIKOVA 5379 Patrick SHIELDS 5379 Piotr BUTRYN 5379 Richard CHAMBERLAIN 5379 Stefan SKORCHEV 5379 Stine HOLMOY 5379 Svetlana CHUBAROVA 5379 Tonje A BROGELAND 5379 Ulrich KRATZ 5379 Ulrich WENNING 5379 Victor MARKOWICZ 5379 Victor MELMAN 5379 Vytautas VAINIKONIS 5418 Allan COHEN 4418 Andrea REIM 4418 Bogdan MARINA 4

418 Dilek YAVAS 4418 Felix ZIMMERMANN 4418 Fiona BROWN 4418 Frances HINDEN 4418 Graham OSBORNE 4418 Isabella MARCEDDU 4418 John NORRIS 4418 Marie EGGELING 4418 Maurizio PATTACINI 4418 Michael SHUSTER 4418 Paula LESLIE 4418 Sam DINKIN 4418 S Lauge PEDERSEN 4418 Stig WERDELIN 4418 Vera ADUT 4436 Alexandra NIKITINA 3436 Andrea BURATTI 3436 Andrei PIROI 3436 Andy BOWLES 3436 Are SIVERTSEN 3436 Arnaud ANCESSY 3436 Asbjorn KINDSBEKKEN 3436 Bart NAB 3436 Bernd SAURER 3436 Bjorn Olav EKREN 3436 Bob DRIJVER 3436 Boguslaw GIERULSKI 3436 Carlos LUIS 3436 Csaba SZABO 3436 Dag-Jorgen STOKKVIK 3436 Diana DAMANOVA 3436 Dominique PILON 3436 Doris FISCHER 3436 Franco GARBOSI 3436 Frederic BRUNET 3436 Fredrik NYSTROM 3436 Gabor WINKLER 3436 Geir-Olav TISLEVOLL 3436 Geza HOMONNAY 3436 Gilles CRESTEY 3436 Giuio AVARELLO 3436 Gloria C BRUGNONI 3436 Ingo LUESSMANN 3436 Jacek LESNICZAK 3436 Jacob RON 3436 Jan P SVENDSEN 3436 Jerzy KOZYCZKOWSKI 3436 Jerzy SKRZYPCZAK 3436 Justin MILL 3436 Lasse AASENG 3436 Louk VERHEES Jr 3436 Luciano CREZZINI 3436 Max ELLERBECK 3436 Michael SCHNEIDER 3436 Miguel TEIXEIRA 3436 Mihai GRIGORIU 3436 Monica AGHEMO 3436 Nils K KVANGRAVEN 3436 Paul GRUENKE 3436 Peter HODOSI 3436 Pierre-Jean LOUCHART 3436 Roar VOLL 3436 Rodion KOVALCHUK 3436 Roland ROHOWSKY 3436 Sarper USLUPEHLIVAN 3436 Sergey KOLYADENKO 3436 Shireen MOHANDES 3436 Siegfried KONIG 3436 Ugurcan SUZER 3436 Ulf Haakon TUNDAL 3

436 Vera TAGLIAFERRI 3436 Viacheslav GUSEV 3436 Victor ARONOV 3436 Volodymyr DRAGAN 3436 Volodymyr PORKHUN 3436 Wojtek OLANSKI 3497 Agneta OPPENSTAM 2497 Ahu ZOBU 2497 Andrew McINTOSH 2497 Antti ELSINEN 2497 Bo Loenberg BILDE 2497 Bodil N OIGARDEN 2497 Burke SNOWDEN 2497 Carlo MARIANI 2497 Carmela FRANCO 2497 Cristiana MORGANTINI 2497 Diana MARQUARDT 2497 Emanuela PRAMOTTON 2497 Ewa MISZEWSKA 2497 Ezio FORNACIARI 2497 GAO Fei 2497 Hakan NILSSON 2497 Himan KHANDELWAL 2497 Irene BARONI 2497 J STACHOWIAK-KLUZ 2497 Kevin CASTNER 2497 LI Xiaoyi 2497 Lorenzo STOPPINI 2497 LU Dong 2497 Luigi LIGAMBI 2497 Manuela GEMIGNANI 2497 Marcel DADON 2497 Marianne HARDING 2497 Massimo VASSALLO 2497 Maya ALELA 2497 Michele CAMMARATA 2497 Monica BURATTI 2497 Orhan EKINCI 2497 Paula NATAF 2497 Rajeev KHANDELWAL 2497 Sascha WERNLE 2497 Simon GILLIS 2497 Siv THORESEN 2497 Sona HAJKOVA 2497 Steffen F SIMONSEN 2497 Thomas CHARLSEN 2497 Tiina ELSINEN 2497 Tomasz WINCIOREK 2497 Valentin KOVACHEV 2497 Vit VOLHEJN 2497 Vladislav N ISPORSKI 2497 WANG Yanhong 2497 WU Shaohong 2497 Yusuf KAHYAOGLU 2545 Gianpiero BETTINETTI 1545 Irving GORDON 1545 Leonardo MARINO 1545 Matthias FELMY 1545 M VLIEGENTHART 1545 Rosalind HENGEVELD 1545 Sandra RIMSTEDT 1545 Sandy DUNCAN 1553 Eleonora DUBOIN 0553 Isabella PERSIANI 0553 Jan Tore BERG 0553 Per E AUSTBERG 0553 Todor TIHOLOV 0

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1 KUBAC Nezih ZORLU Nafiz TUR - TUR 58.332 MAHMOOD Zia MECKSTROTH Jeff USA - USA 56.593 VERSACE Alfredo TOKAY Mustafa Cem ITA - TUR 56.374 NANEV Ivan STEFANOV Julian BUL - BUL 54.985 FREDIN Peter BERTHEAU Peter SWE - SWE 54.246 BOMPIS Marc VINCIGUERRA Herve FRA - FRA 54.147 KOLATA Suleyman KANDEMIR Ismail TUR - TUR 54.138 VAN LANKVELD Joris VAN DEN BOS Berend NED - NED 53.799 CONTI Fabrizio VILLANI Claudio ITA - ITA 53.5310 VANDERVORST Mike BAHBOUT Sam BEL - BEL 53.1511 HELGEMO Geir HELNESS Tor MON - MON 52.8912 MALINOWSKI Artur BAKHSHI David ENG - ENG 52.6313 KOLESNIK Alex SCARAMUZZI Roberto USA - USA 52.1514 STAMATOV Jerry DANAILOV Diyan BUL - BUL 51.9215 ROMBAUT Jerome COMBESCURE Francois FRA - FRA 51.8316 ALLERTON Jeffrey JAGGER Chris ENG - ENG 51.1817 NORGAARD Tom PEDERSEN Jan DEN - DEN 51.0118 IMAMOGLU Levent GUNDOGDU M Guney TUR - TUR 50.8219 CHUMAK Yuliy ROVYSHYN Oleg UKR - UKR 50.5920 BERSET Ole LIE Terje NOR - NOR 50.4121 STRZEMECKI Wojciech ZAWADA Przemyslaw POL - POL 50.3022 LEWIS Marshall WILDAVSKY Adam CRO - USA 50.2823 IONITA Marius STEGAROIU Marina ROM - ROM 50.2724 ROBERT Quentin FRANCESCHETTI P FRA - FRA 50.1825 SANDQVIST Nicklas GROSSET Christophe ENG - FRA 50.1726 NAWROCKI Piotr WIANKOWSKI Piotr POL - POL 50.14

27 HOFTANISKA Thor Erik HELNESS Fredrik NOR - NOR 49.5228 ROLL Yossi LEVIN Amir ISR - ISR 49.4529 MIHAI Geta MIHAI Radu ROM - ROM 49.1930 HYDES Alexander MOSSOP David ENG - ENG 49.1731 ROBSON Andrew ALLFREY Alexander ENG - ENG 49.1732 SILVERSTEIN Aaron ROSENTHAL Andrew USA - USA 49.0633 JONES Edward PASKE Thomas ENG - ENG 49.0434 EZION Amir ZAMIR Ami ISR - ISR 48.9935 TEMBOURET Romain LHUISSIER Nicolas FRA - FRA 48.8036 DAI Jianming YANG Lixin CHN - CHN 48.8037 BOWLES Andy MOHANDES Shireen ENG - ENG 48.6438 DRAGAN Volodymyr PORKHUN Volodymyr UKR - UKR 48.5239 JOHNSEN Sverre STOKKELAND A NOR - NOR 47.9640 STOKKVIK Dag-Jorgen SIVERTSEN Are NOR - NOR 47.7541 ROHOWSKY Roland GRUENKE Paul GER - GER 47.1142 BRUNET Frederic ANCESSY Arnaud FRA - FRA 47.0543 HAMPSON Geoff TCHAMITCH Haig USA - LIB 47.0344 VOLL Roar KINDSBEKKEN Asbjorn NOR - NOR 46.8345 DRAGANOV Zhivko DONEV Grozio BUL - BUL 46.3746 KOVALCHUK Rodion KOLYADENKO Sergey UKR - UKR 46.3247 SZABO Csaba HODOSI Peter HUN - HUN 46.2848 LOUCHART Pierre-Jean CRESTEY Gilles FRA - FRA 45.0949 HOYLAND Sam Inge HOYLAND Sven Olai NOR - NOR 44.6450 GRIGORIU Mihai PIROI Andrei ROM - ROM 43.9151 HOMONNAY Geza WINKLER Gabor HUN - HUN 43.7852 SUZER Ugurcan USLUPEHLIVAN Sarper TUR - TUR 42.16

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