From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: report 13 from the EBL juniors
Date: 24 Jul 92 08:00:36 GMT

Yesterday evening's round 13 had some excitement and some heavy scoring
by the favorites. During the round I was asked to go into the open room
of the Vugraph to warn the West player that the tray may only be moved
by North and South respectively. It seemed that after a penalty double
that leaved nothing to be desired West shoved the tray through the
opening rather violently, and many spectators thought that this could
have been an involuntary way of telling his partner not to take it out.
We didn't judge the information, if it was understood, to be of
importance, but this team is warned. Once more and the directors score
more victory points.

I wasn't in the Vugraph theatre obviously, but I wonder how many times
they showed it using their slow-motion replay gizmo.

The scores:
Israel - Poland			11 - 19
Netherlands - Lithuania		19 - 11
Portugal - Belgium		14 - 16
Great Britain - bye		18 -  0
Norway - Greece			25 -  1
Austria - Denmark		16 - 14
Sweden - Ireland		15 - 15
Finland - Romania		23 -  7
Estonia - Italy			 0 - 25
Hungary - Turkey		19 - 11
Germany - Iceland		21 -  9
C.I.S. - France			 4 - 25

All favorites together haven't left many points to the opponents, with
especially Norway and Greece showing how to deal with weak opponents.
Poor Estonia, after the Italians walked away from the table in the open
room it looked like they couldn't stop laughing. Having to be correct at
the table they probably couldn't help it.

The ranking:
 1. Germany		293
 2. Italy		291
 3. Norway		288
 4. Poland		282
 5. Austria		271
 6. Sweden		264.5
 7. Great Britain	264
 8. Hungary		260
 9. Netherlands		253
10. Greece		239
11. C.I.S.		236
12. Israel		235.5
13. Iceland		235
14. Belgium		228.5
15. Finland		221
16. Portugal		220.5
17. Lithuania		220.5
18. France		220
19. Ireland		218
20. Denmark		217
21. Romania		214.5
22. Turkey		189
23. Estonia		135

There is one appeal, from Germany. Let me show you the hand plus two
rulings on it.

brd 12	A J 10 7 5 2
W/NS	10
	J
	A Q J 9 4
K 9 6 3		8
-		A 7 6 5 2
10 7 5		A K Q 8 6
K 8 7 6 5 3	10 2
	Q 4
	K Q J 9 8 4 3
	9 4 3 2
	-

Bidding sequence one:
W	N	E	S
2S	dbl	2NT	4H
pass	4S	pass	5C
pass	6C	dbl	6H
pass	pass	dbl	all pass

2S was any weak preempt, but when South saw the alert she asked "weak?",
in stead of looking at the convention card. West claims to have given
the correct information, albeit orally, and the confusion South was in
led to a too high contract. Ruling was the result stood, and both teams
a written warning for misinformation. No appeal.

Bidding sequence two:
W	N	E	S
2C	2S	4H	pass
pass	4S	dbl	all pass

2C was one of the following
   - weak two in diamonds
   - 5-5 majors, or 5-5 minors
   - any 6m+4M
   - a 24-25 notrump hand

East alerted 4H as for conversion, meaning partner must only pass with 4
hearts or more, but at the other side it was not alerted. I actually
think West was right. Anyhow, when the bidding reverted to North he
thought opponents had a heart fit, and that he could bid 4S without too
much risk. Down two. The ruling was that South could have made his
partners life a lot easier by doubling 4H, this contract being unlikely
to make, and so the result stood. This time there was an appeal by NS,
Germany. They claim that South knew the opponents had a
misunderstanding, and that he didn't want to warn them. The appeals
committee will rule tonight at 18h00. I will not be present because this
is my day off, and I am leaving here within the hour. My colleagues will
cover me.

The bulletin board wasn't out yet, so if there is anything interesting
in it you will here more later.

	Hans van Staveren