From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
Subject: report 15 from the EBL juniors
Date: 25 Jul 92 08:41:23 GMT

For this mornings report I am mostly going to steal from the daily
bulletin. I heard a bit more about the appeal yesterday, Germany vs
Iceland about the 4H bid. It was figured out that the 4H bid was not
really conventional, but in any case the appeals committee was not
overly sympathetic to the German cause, even going so far as to ask:
"But what are you appealing against?" You know you are in trouble when
they begin asking that.

In yesterdays daily bulletin I put in a little piece about Usenet, where
I tried to explain the medium to people totally unknown to it. Since the
hardest part of Usenet to understand is not the technics, but the total
anarchy I skipped over that bit and started:

    One of your directors, Hans van Staveren, is a parttime (and unpaid)
    reporter for a still unusual medium, ......

I had to type that report on a computer with an AZERTY keyboard, yuck!
So yesterday evening someone asked me whether I was a free-lance
journalist! 

<daily bulletin>
		Baiting the hook
			by Maureen Dennison

Justin Hacket(GB) held the West hand on this board in their match
against Greece on wednesday evening:

brd 17	K Q 5
N/-	Q 8
	Q J
	A 10 7 6 5 4
A 9		7 6 4 3
K J 9 6		-
K 10 7 6 4 3	A 9 8 5
8		K Q J 9 2
	J 10 8 2
	A 10 7 5 4 3 2
	2
	3

W	N	E	S
	1C	p	1H
2D	p 1)	3H 2)	3S
4D 3)	4H	5D	dbl
rdbl 4)	all pass

1) Well, I didn't have much of an opening bid and this is just about the
   worst 14 count you can imagine.
2) Void showing splinter
3) They have bid two suits. There is no way they do not bid again and I
   do not want them to bid 5H
4) Caught you!

And that was +1000 because they had to lead a spade to stop the
overtrick, and that was not so easy

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		Denmark strikes again!
			by Trine Bilde Kofoed

The match between Denmark and the Netherlands in round 13 not only
brought another Danish win, but also drama and entertainment:

In the closed room we had four *real* juniors - fearless and slightly
overbidding, and so it happened that all the little green bidding cards
had been exchanged with red and blue signs! Board 15 looked like this:

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

West		North		East		South
Bruun		Brulleman	Gamrath		Bakker
-----------------------------------------------------------
						1S
dbl		2S		dbl		4S
dbl		rdbl		all pass

The lead was CK and a club to the A, ruffed by South. Now came a heart
to the 10 and West tried DA ruffed by declarer in hand. Another heart
put West in with the Queen and he paused to consider how to find the
setting trick. Meanwhile the Dutch declarer picked up his 4S bidding
card and turned it around in order to find out his score of 4S!! made.
Very polite of him to save West some time, Bruun got the message and
picked a card, declarer making his 10 tricks. In the replay EW by
accident let 4S go undoubled and thus gained 10 imps for the
Netherlands.

On board 17, the stage was set again:

brd 17	K Q 5
N/-	Q 8
	Q J
	A 10 7 6 5 4
A 9		7 6 4 3
K J 9 6		-
K 10 7 6 4 3	A 9 8 5
8		K Q J 9 2
	J 10 8 2
	A 10 7 5 4 3 2
	2
	3

West		North		East		South
Bruun		Brulleman	Gamrath		Bakker
-----------------------------------------------------------
		1NT		pass		2D
dbl		2H		5D		5H
dbl		all pass

The lead was the KC to the Ace. North now missed the Scissors coup of
playing a diamond to cut the connection between the EW hands. Instead,
he played a club, ruffed and overruffed by West. A diamond went to the
Ace and the QC was ruffed in dummy and overruffed again. By this time
West found a double card and turned it over to calculate the score of
three down, still having the HK to cone. This caused general amusement
around the table, 1-1 in goals.

In the open room, the bidding went slightly off the trail:

West		North		East		South
Vis		J.Ron		Eskes		H.Ron
-----------------------------------------------------------
		1NT		dbl		4H
dbl		4S		all pass

The double showed either a club suit or a red twosuiter. [ Not true, as
I reported this hand earlier. This was the hand where the Dutch wanted
to double the final contract after the hand was over. The double was
5m4M , Hans ] 4H was natural but Jacob Ron for once lost his head and
made it a transfer - Thank God he didn't introduce his clubs in the hope
of finding a better fit at the five level! After splendid declarer play
and the lucky 4-2 split in trumps he only went four off for -200. Very
convincing bidding for 7 imps to Denmark.

The final goal was scored in the Closed room on board 8:

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

West		North		East		South
Bruun		Brulleman	Gamrath		Bakker
-----------------------------------------------------------
1C		1S		2S		pass
2NT		pass		4C		pass
4D		dbl		4H		dbl
4S		pass		4NT		pass
6C		pass		pass		dbl
rdbl		6H		dbl		all pass

Probably North was in doubt whether to introduce hearts or spades at the
one level, his heart suit being slightly better than the spade suit! He
decided to overcall 1S and introduce the hearts later... 2S was forcing
with club support, and after a natural 2NT North surprisingly chose not
to come in with 3H! 4D was a cue-bid, 4H an asking bid West showing
heart control and two Aces. On 6C South doubled happily after his
partners agressive bidding. West licked his mouth and redoubled. When the
tray came back with 6H doubled we nearly fell off our chairs! Five down
for 1100 meant 5 imps to Denmark, the contract being a boring 6C with 12
tricks in the open room. Denmark won the match 19-11.

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		In the bus

On the bus trip to Paris, Michael O'Connell, npc of Ireland, who had no
nationality badge, chatted to a British supporter, who said: "You speak
remarkably good English". O'Connell, who once taught English at
University, considered saying: "I have been trying to learn it for over
60 years," but refrained.

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<End of quotes from daily bulletin>

The first round of the day just started, and I am off to the Vugraph.

	Hans van Staveren
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