From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: report 21 from the EBL juniors (end of series)
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:09:37 GMT

Roundup report of the EBL junior tournament. I will give you all the articles
that won prices in the daily bulletin. Some of them you have already seen,
but are included for completeness. At the end of this article the members
of all the teams are reported.

I have had requests for reposts of some reports. This I will not do,
but I will make the whole collection available for anon ftp after I
remove the most embarassing typo's from them. Rereading them was not always
a pleasure.

You can find the whole set on ftp.cs.vu.nl, directory sater/bridge.
I might mail copies, but please try ftp first.

Ok, the bulletin prizes.

The prize for the best declarer play is won by Tamas Szalka of Hungary
for his brilliant criss cross squeeze on board 15, round 15, reported
in bulletin 7, page 13, by Daniel Gulyas.

The prize for the best defence is won by Adam Wyszynski of Poland for
his lead of the JS on board 7, round 4, reported in bulletin 9,
page 5 by Hubert Lekawsky.

The prize for the best bid hand is won by Peter Umshaus and Alexander Wernle
of Austria, for reaching 7C on board 20, round 9, reported to the
bulletin by Patrick Jourdain.

The prize for the best article is won by the Swedish n.p.c. Tommy Gullberg
for his article "Swedish systems strike both ways",
published in bulletin 7, page 8.

The prize for the funniest article is won by Hans Gelders, the Belgian n.p.c.,
for his presentation of the Belgian team, published in bulletin 7, page 8.

The prize for the best team presentation is won by the yet unknown ICE-MAN
(but we know how he looks like) for his presentation of the Iceland team,
published in bulletin 8, page 7-8.

The EBL Awards committee, Dirk Schroeder, Chairman.

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		Criss cross through Palaiseau
			by Daniel Gulyas

The best Hungarian pair, Szalay-Winkler, are very agressive bidders, so
they have to play the hands very well. Here is an example from round 15,
when they played against France.

brd 15	A J 10 7 6 4 2		NS: France
S/NS	10 5
	8 7
	7 3			W	N	E	S
K 9 8		Q					p
Q J 9 2		A K 8 6		1D	2S	3H	p
A K J		10 9 4 2	4H	p	6D	p
10 8 5		A K 6 4		6H	ap
	5 3
	7 4 3
	Q 6 5 3
	Q J 9 2

The 3H bid was forcing to game, showing 4 hearts. The opening lead was
the 3D(odd leads). Szalay smoothly played the AD, North following suit
with the 8D. A spade was taken by North's Ace, East playing his Queen,
and a club came back. East took the Ace and now went into a long huddle,
but finally found the winning line: heart to the Queen, spade ruff,
heart AK, diamond finesse and KS. When East and South discarded a club
this was the position:

	J 7 6
	-
	-
	3
-		-
J		-
K		10 9
10 8		K 6
	-
	-
	Q 6
	Q J

Dummy now played the JH, on which declarer discarded his 6C and South
was caught in a genuine criss-cross squeeze. he threw a club, but Szalay
guessed correctly to cash the KC first, using the KD as the entry to the
established club.
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		The best defence
			by Hubert Lekawski

In round 4 Poland was playing against Sweden. In this match we have the
hand which I think should win the prize for the best defence:

brd 7	K			N: Chmurski
S/All	A 7 5 3 2		S: Wyszynski
	K 10 9 8 3
	9 4			W	N	E	S
10 8 6 4	A Q 7 5 3				p
K 8 6		4		p	2H 1)	2S	dbl 2)
Q		A J 7 5 4	4S	all pass
A 7 6 5 2	Q 8
	J 9 2			1) 5+ S/H and 5+ D/C, 5-10 HCP
	Q J 10 9		2) pass if you have S, if not bid your minor
	6 2
	K J 10 3

Adam Wyszynski led QH to the K and A. Bartosz Chmurski played
back SK to the A. Next came the 8C to the A. QD, small, small and small
and 2C to the Q and K. Now came the most important moment of the game.
Adam recognized the Swedish plan to play for a cross-ruff and he decided
to play back a spade. It was not 9S, but the Jack!!! As you can see when
declarer won this trick with his Queen and ruffed two diamonds using
dummy's 10S and 8S, Adam's 9S became the highest trump!
Besides these three tricks(AH, KC, 9S) declarer also had one more diamond
loser and the contract has been defeated. One dwon for the score of +100
for NS. If in trick 6, Adam would have played the 9S instead of this marvellous
Jack, dummy's 10S would win the trick and declarer's losers would be reduced
to one only. Maybe Adam will not win the gold medal in this tournament,
but certainly his defence was really beautiful. I think that especially
chess players will appreciate this hand.

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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

This last board however saw some great bidding from Austria:

West		North		East		South
Umshaus				Wernle
-------------------------------------------------------
1 C		pass		1 NT		pass
2 C		pass		3 D		pass
3 S		pass		4 C		pass
5 C		pass		5 H		dbl
pass		pass		redbl		pass
6 C		pass		7 C		all pass

The only makeable grand in the 4-3 fit. I have a copy of their
convention card next to me and I shall try to dig out some meaning:

1C was strong, 1NT control showing, 2C balanced hand, and the rest I
understand. Not bad for juniors.
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		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!

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The members of all the teams typed in from the official program.
I do not know whether they were indeed all there.

Austria
	Bernscherer
	Seidel
	Umshaus
	Wernle
	Wodniansky
Belgium
	Hauseux
	van Hoof
	Jeunen
	Labaere
	van Overloop
C.I.S.
	Abramyan
	Avdeev
	Gromov
	Khven
	Konovalov
	Ulanovskij
Denmark
	Bruun
	Gamrath
	Krone
	Norskov
	Ron
	Ron
Estonia
	Aava
	Hallika
	Hibus
	Kurig
	Maripuu
	Vahe
Finland
	Kanervo
	Saastamonen
	Tamminen
	Tapaninen
	Valiaha
	Valta
France
	Combescure
	Dussol
	Fonteneau
	Geitner
	Giard
	Lustman
Germany
	Heineke
	Hopfenheit
	Joest
	Reps
	Reps
	Rohowsky
Great Britain
	Anoyrkatis
	Davies
	Dunsby
	Hackett
	Hackett
	Souter
Greece
	Filios
	Kipouros
	Matziaris
	Mouroukas
	Prountzos
	Skoularikis
Hungary
	Czimer
	Gulyas
	Siba
	Szalay
	Szalba
	Winkler
Iceland
	Asmundsson
	Eiriksson
	Erlingsson
	Gardarsson
	Jonsson
	jonsson
Ireland
	Bell
	Cleary
	Conway
	Hanlon
	MacGann
	reddin
Israel
	Ben-Shemesh
	Foher
	Herbst
	Herbst
	Katz
	Libster
Italy
	Albamonte
	Nunes
	Pantusa
	Primavera
	Sementa
	Versace
Lithuania
	Juska
	Lukinskas
	Michailovas
	Sakarauskas
	Zencevicius
Netherlands
	Bakker
	Brulleman
	Eskes
	Markovic
	Ramondt
	Vis
Norway
	Aaseng
	Helgemo
	Karlberg
	Kvam
	Molberg
	Trp
Poland
	Chmurski
	Kujawa
	Puczynski
	Puczynski
	Pszczola
	Wyszynski
Portugal
	Carnall
	Durao
	Fanha
	Lma
	Reis
	Zanartu
Romania
	Andrei
	Mitran
	Palamariuc
	Pigli
	Pirvulescu
	Razi
Sweden
	Ahgren
	Brenning
	Borgesson
	Fredin
	Haglund
	Sjokvist
Turkey
	Dikmen
	Emrali
	Mumcuoglu
	Ogus
	Ozbal
	Yuksel