From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: report 9 from the EBL juniors
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:54:18 GMT

Yesterday evening I saw the vue-graph match between Italy and France.
I do not recall too many boards as worthy of typing in, but interesting
were the comments about France getting back into the tournament, and
third place(giving a ticket to the World Championships) still reachable.
They were lying 19th out of 23!! Some chauvinism is OK, but this is
definitively overdoing it. Anyhow they lost 22 - 8 without having a real
chance and again dropped a place. A first to see however was the
director live on Vue-graph, because of some misexplanation, plus Nunes
taking of his jacket and tie. It is hot under those lights.

The results of last night, round 12:
Belgium - Poland		18 - 12
Italy - France			22 -  8
Ireland - Denmark		 7 - 23
Great Britain - Norway		17 - 13
Turkey - Romania		 2 - 25
Iceland - Lithuania		11 - 19
Hungary - Sweden		14 - 16
Netherlands - Israel		21 -  9
Finland - bye			18 -  0
C.I.S. - Germany		12 - 18
Portugal - Greece		10 - 20
Austria - Estonia		25 -  0

and the top 5 in the rankings
1. Norway	225
2. Italy	215
3. Poland	215
4. Austria	206
5. Sweden	203

Since today is almost a day off, with only one session in the evening I
will take the time to publish some snippets from the bulletins. I will
put in the names of the authors if I can find them, and you are advised
not to pretend you wrote them because you didn't.

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		Swedish Gambling
			by Tommy Gullberg

In yesterdays bulletin, a number of the swings that occurred on board
13, round 6, were reported. Here is another one, created for Sweden by
Peter Fredin. He has the habit of grabbing every opportunity. In
Sweden's match against Lithuania he was sitting West in fourth hand.

brd 13	9 5 4 3 2
N/All	9 3
	K 7 2
	A Q J
K 10 6		A Q J 8
A Q J 10 7 4	K 6 5 2
J 6		4 3
K 5		9 8 7
	7
	8
	A Q 10 9 8 5
	10 6 4 3 2

After three passes Peter Fredin opened 1D intending to be declarer in
3NT. When his partner Stefan Haglund responded 1H, Peter got confused
for one second but then decided to stick to his original plan and
jumped to 3NT. Everyone but South passed happily. He must have been
wondering what was going on. After the normal spade lead, Fredin scored
his ten tricks. In the other room the bidding was pressed to 5H
undoubled down two, so Sweden gained a useful 13 imps in an unexpected
way.

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		Poles apart
			by Maureen Dennison

The Polish team, already a match ahead, had another win in their match
agains Romania, 23-7 this time. It says a lot for their consistency that
there were only a couple of double figure swings. The Romanians gained
on four boards, three were flat and the other 13 all went the Polish
way. The biggest swing was on board 4:

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

Florin Andrei for Romania opened tyhe North hand with a Precision style
1D, South responded 1H and he rebid 1S. When South raised to two, Andrei
optimistically bid game. Mariusz Puczynski carefully put the red card on
the table and led his singleton JS. Declarer won in dummy and led a
diamond to the jack and queen. East cashed his AC and continued the suit
for declarer to ruff. Next Andrei tried the KD, discarding from dummy
when this was not covered. But west ruffed! and played his QS pinning
declarer on the table. Not expecting very mauch, declarer put a heart
through, but his queen lost to the king. The JH was continued to the
ace. East agin played small on the next diamond(the eight) and West
scored another trump. A heart exit forced North to use his last trump
but there were only the last two trumps on the table to come. That was
800 to Poland.

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		Ne timeatis Danaos!
			by Patrick Jourdain

The round 7 encounter on Vugraph between Greece and the Netherlands had
plenty of excitement and quite a few mistakes by both teams. The Dutch
eventually won by 3 imps, so this deal swung the match:

brd 5	K
N/NS	Q J 5 4 3
	Q J 7 4
	K 6 5
A 10 8 4 2	6 5
K 7		A 10
-		A K 9 8 6 3 2
Q J 8 4 3 2	A 7
	Q J 9 7 3
	9 8 6 2
	10 5
	10 9

In the closed room the Dutch North opened 1H. East overcalled 2D and
West passed, hoping perhaps that it would be easier to describe the hand
if North reopened. 2D made 10 tricks for 130 to Greece.

On Vugraph Matziaris as North opened 2H showing 5 hearts and an unknown
minor. Eskes, East, overcalled three notrump and Vis as West found an
excellent pass. South led a heart and Eskes had a difficult problem - h
knew one minor was not breaking, but which one? Eventually he decided he
must rely on the opponents to tell him which suit was breaking. He won
the heart lead in hand and cashed the AD. Both defenders, playing
reverse peters [ My, my: This Jourdain is as English as they come. Hans ]
gave their smallest card. So, unless BOTH were lying, the diamonds would
not break. Eskes switched to the Ace and another club, and made his
contract.

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		How to beat Great Britain
			by Eduardas Juska

< some text deleted , Hans >

Next, there was board 5. As you will easily see from the diagram below,
EW can make 7H if only NS refrain from leading a spade. Juska and
Lukinskas for Lituania found a way to lead the Britons astray:

brd 5	A K J 5 2
N/NS	8 5
	Q J 9
	Q J 9
10 9 3		8 4
Q 9 7 6		A K J 10 2
3		A K 7 6 5 2
A K 7 5 2	6
	Q 7 6
	4 3
	10 8 4
	10 8 6 4 3

West		North		East		South
Lukinskas			Juska
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		1S		dbl		2S
4H		pass		4S 1)		pass
5C 1)		pass		5D 1)		pass
5H		pass		5S 2)		pass
5 NT 3)		pass		7H		all pass

1) 1st or 2nd round control
2) 1st round control, usually void
3) grand slam try

No one can blaim North for not leading spades, as the auction stronly
suggested a natural heart lead. Things like this are possible against
strong opponents only, which we beleived(and still believe) the Britons
are.

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Well, that is it for the day. This afternoon I will be going on the
Paris sightseeing tour. I can already see it now: walking through the
Louvre we will pass the Mona Lisa discussing how that 3NT could have
been beaten. Yummy!

	Hans