From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: report 16 from the EBL juniors
Date: 25 Jul 92 16:24:23 GMT

Just saw the round 19 match between Germany and Hungary on Vugraph, and
I will give you one hand. First though the results:

Turkey - Italy			 9 - 21
Iceland - Poland		12 - 18
Ireland - France		19 - 11
Romania - Denmark		19 - 11
Lithuania - Norway		 9 - 21
Great Britain - Belgium		23 -  7
Netherlands - Finland		10 - 20
Israel - Austria		20 - 10
Sweden - Greece			11 - 19
Germany - Hungary		14 - 16
C.I.S. - bye			18 -  0
Portugal - Estonia		15 - 15

Germany lost the lead to Italy, and Austria effectively dropped out of
the race.

The top 5:
1. Italy	349
2. germany	346
3. Norway	341
4. Poland	338
5. Austria	322

The most interesting board from the Vugraph, mostly because I saw the
ending and declarer didn't:

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

Both open and closed were in 3NT, closed by East, and open by West.
Closed the lead was a small heart, and obviously the 10 was not played,
because declarer went down.

Open the lead was the S7 for the Q. C3,K,A,4 and C5,J,Dx,C7.
Now North switched to a diamond, ducked?! Another diamond, heart away in
West. Spade to the K, club to South. Now this is the ending

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

South now played a spade, if South takes in dummy and plays another spade
South is caught in a heart/club squeeze. However declarer did not see
it, and went one down. It was easier for me of course seeing all the
hands, but I think this one should have been within his abilities.

I just have time for one more story from the bulletin, this describes
what might well get the "declarer play of the tournament" award.

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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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Off to lunch now. My countrymen will play Germany next. Since they
always play better against higher ranking teams, maybe they can remove
Germany out of contention. Be it soccer or bridge, the only match that
counts is Netherlands - Germany.

	Hans van Staveren