From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: report 11 from the EBL juniors
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:38:37 GMT

I do not have a lot of time today. I just calculated I am on duty today
for some 11 hours if nothing goes wrong, so I'll just give some results
and type in some bulletin stuff before I run back to the second session.

The results of round 14:
Hungary - Romania		15 - 15
Estonia - Iceland		21 -  9
Finland - Turkey		 7 - 23
Sweden - France			25 -  0
C.I.S. - Ireland		21 -  9
Germany - Italy			21 -  9
Lithuania - bye			18 -  0
Portugal - Norway		16 - 14
Netherlands - Great Britain	12 - 18
Israel - Denmark		15 - 15
Austria - Poland		 7 - 23
Greece - Belgium		18 - 12

Some interesting results at the top. Germany is doing well, Norway is
slipping and Poland recovered from their recent slump. Not that it
matters, but Estonia scored their first win today. They already had an
18, but that was from the bye.

The top 5:
1. Poland	256
2. Italy	249
3. Germany	247
4. Norway	245
5. Austria	236

Something out of the bulletin board about the match Italy - France.

<more or less quoted from Patric Jourdain>

brd 15	10 9 8 6 5
S/NS	9 8 7 5 3
	10
	A 3
A J 4		Q 3
A K 10 4	J 2
4 2		K Q 9 8 6 5 3
J 8 4 2		Q 9
	K 7 2
	Q 6
	A J 7
	K 10 7 6 5

On Vugraph, East played in a normal 3D just making, for 110 to France.
This was the auction in the closed room:

West		North		East		South
Primavera	Combescure	Sementa		Lustman
-----------------------------------------------------------
						1C
dbl		1S		dbl		pass
2H		pass		3NT		all pass

East bid 3NT in the hope that the diamonds would run but he was
disappointed when he saw dummy. South led the 6C to the Ace and North
returned a club to South's king. What should South do now? Actually
South's best action is simply to continue with a third club even though
this gives declarer two tricks in the suit. Declarer has only 8 obvious
winners and, though the analysis is complex, the defense can get 5
before South is endplayed.

However at trick 3, South, in an attempt to avoid giving declarer two
club tricks, switched to a low heart. This proved fatal when Sementa ran
it to the Jack. Declarer was able to make two spades and four hearts
which destroyed South. A diamond lead forced South to concede the trick
he was reluctant to give at trick three, and now declarer had nine.

This interesting deal was the nail in the coffin.

brd 19	K Q J 7 5
S/EW	7 6
	A 8 7 3
	10 2
9		10 6 3
K 10 8 3	J 5 4
J 10 9 2	K Q 5 4
A 9 8 5		K J 6
	A 8 4 2
	A Q 9 2
	6
	Q 7 4 3

<bidding deleted>

Both tables reached 4S by North, and East led the KD. In the Closed
Room, the French North began with a heart finesse which lost, and West
returned a trump. If you check the cross ruff you will find that
declarer cannot quite manage it, and the contract failed.

On Vugraph Versace began with a diamond ruff and led a low club off the
dummy to the 10 and Jack. East correctly played a trump. Versace made a
key play when he rose with the Ace and led a second club. West played
the eight and East let this hold. As we shall see, declarer could not
now be prevented from succeeding. Whether East can beat the contract by
overtaking with CK to lead a second trump we will leave to your
analysis.

When West won the second club he exited with a third club. Versace
ruffed in hand and ruffed another diamond, leaving this ending with the
lead in dummy:

	K Q J
	7 6
	8
	-
-		10 6
K 10 8 3	J 5 4
J		Q
A		-
	8
	A Q 9 2
	-
	Q

At this point Versace ruffed CQ with a master trump. What can East do?
If he keeps DQ, declarer is able to ruff his last diamond. So Geitner
threw DQ. But Versace then drew trumps and threw West in with a diamond
to lead up to the heart AQ at the end. Well played!!

<end of quote>

There was an interesting penalty reported in the Penalties section of
the bulletin board:

Penalties
Round 8: Sweden 0.5VP for not counting

We joked that if you can fine everybody 0.5VP for every time he did not
properly count there would not be a lot of VP left for the players.
Actually of course, this penalty was for someone with 14cards looking at
them before he had ascertained that he had 13.

Just a quick hand I heard from the Dutch players at lunch. It was board
20 from this morning.

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

They refused to tell me the bidding, but the final contract was 4NT!! by
West! North led a spade and it was made. Could have been -2800 boys!

More later.

	Hans van Staveren
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