From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: report 12 from the EBL juniors
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:33:22 GMT

Round 15 from a directors point of view was a medium round, nothing too
exciting, but still something to do. Nothing to bother you with, so here
are the results of it:
Italy - C.I.S.			20 - 10
France - Hungary		14 - 16
Iceland - Sweden		17 - 13
Romania - Germany		 5 - 25
Turkey - Estonia		19 - 11
Ireland - Finland		11 - 19
Belgium - Austria		11 - 19
Denmark - bye			18 -  0
Norway - Israel			19 - 11
Lithuania - Greece		 5 - 25
Great Britain - Portugal	22 -  8
Poland - Netherlands		 7 - 23

Germany is doing extremely well, and the cries of victory that pass
through the hall are amazing.

The top 5:
1. Germany	272
2. Italy	269
3. Norway	263
4. Poland	263
5. Austria	255

Then at 18h00 the appeal committee met to decide on the Sweden - Italy
appeal. The mistaken explanation about a forcing pass as you might
recall. The appeal committee changed the score to 6H!-1 -100, which
costs Italy 11 IMPS, and I believe 3VP. So now they trail by 6VP.
The decision was made because they thought the 6H call was very bad,
whatever the explanation, and when you take a risk you have to bear the
consequences. In hindsight, I agree.

Some more snippets from the bulletin:

<start quote from Christer Andersson>
At one table a rather amusing accident(at least for spectators and
declarer) occurred on board 10:

brd 10	K 10
E/All	K 6
	6 4
	A K Q J 7 4 2		W	N	E	S
A Q J 9 6 4 2	7 3				pass	pass
5 4 2		A 8 7 3		3S	3NT	all pass
K 5 3		A 9 7 2
-		9 6 5
	8 5
	Q J 10 9
	Q J 10 8
	10 8 3

East led the 7S to partner's Queen and declarers King. Most other
declarers in NT contracts, that is 12 declarers, tried our Vugraph
commentator's Bols tip: when short of one trick in a NT contract, try
cashing the long suit. This time it did not lead to success.

The declarer I was watching had nerves which were made of harder stuff,
and played the 6H at trick two. East was not alert enough to rise with
his Ace and set the contract 5 tricks. That accident cost him 15 imps.

<end of quote>
Actually I had already heard about this one. It was a Norwegian who was
severely reprimanded by his coach. But what is the use of being young
when you cannot do these things?

<another article>
		Swedish Systems strike both ways
			by Tommy Gullberg
The last board is often said to be the determinating one in a match.
That was surely the case in the match between Sweden and Finland. After
some giving and taking Sweden was slightly ahead when this happened:

brd 20	K 9 2
W/All	9 7 5 4 3
	10 9
	8 5 3
A Q 8 5		J 10 3
K 2		-
Q J 6		A K 8 7 5 4 3
A Q 10 2	K J 9
	7 6 4
	A Q J 10 8 6
	2
	7 6 4

West		North		East		South
Sjokvist	Valta		Brenning	Sastamoinen
--------------------------------------------------------------
1C		pass		2D		pass
2H		pass		4H		pass
4S		pass		5C		pass
6NT		pass		pass		dbl
redbl		all pass

1C was natural or 17-19, 2H showed diamond support, 4H was a void
showing cue-bid, 4S and 5C were also cuebids. Sastamoinen should
probably have bid hearts earlier or doubled 4H. Though he doubled, he
did not get his requested heart(?) lead, but anyhow he had to pay 2110
to the Swedes.

In the open room Carrot Club was used by the Finish pair.

West		North		East		South
Valiaho		Fredin		Tamminen	Haglund
---------------------------------------------------------------
1C		pass		1D		2H
dbl		3C		4D		pass
pass!		pass

After Fredins psychic 3C Valiaho did not know whether his partner's 4D
was forcing or only an invitational jump. When he misguessed the
catastrophe was there: they not only missed the slam, they even missed
game and the Swedish invented system used by Finland gave Sweden 18
imps!

<end of quote>

That is it for this round. Now instead of writing about the daily
bulletin on Usenet I am about to write about Usenet in the daily
bulletin. Some people heard about his science fiction type stuff I talk
about and want to hear more.

Tomorrow I am off to Paris, but I might take the trouble of giving you
some stuff before leaving. The tension is rising here.

	Hans van Staveren
From: msl@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Mark Laventhal )
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:50:29 GMT
Subject: Bidding problem
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA