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recovered brilliantly in the second half to lead by 2
IMPs with one board to play. Would this be a
horrible echo of the two last-board defeats in
Chennai? The result from the other room popped
up. Worryingly, Sweden had bid and made 7t.
Could Bakhshi and Forrester match this result?
With the aid of Exclusion Blackwood (5® to ask for
key-cards outside the club suit, where Forrester held
a void) they did!
Next we will see a great deal from the penultimate
session of the event, with ENG-EBU facing
ITA-Angelini:
West North East South
Versace Lindqvist Sementa Brogeland
Pass 1™ Pass 1´
Pass 2NT Pass 3™
Pass 3´ Pass 4®
Pass 4t Pass 4NT
Pass 5t Pass 6t
Pass 7´ All Pass
E/W Game. Dealer West.
´ J 4 2
™ A Q 10 8 4
t A 3
® A K 8
´ 9 5 3 ´ 8
™ 7 6 3 ™ K J 9 2
t J 2 t Q 8 7 5
® J 10 6 4 2 ® Q 9 7 3
´ A K Q 10 7 6
™ 5
t K 10 9 6 4
® 5
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Brogeland's 3™ was a transfer for spades. After
cue-bids in clubs and diamonds, he bid Roman
Key-card Blackwood, to discover three aces. Now
came the master bid, 6t! What does that mean? It
confirms the presence of all six key-cards and asks
partner to bid 7´ with third-round diamond
control.
Lindqvist would have bid 7´ immediately if he
held the tQ. With a third-round control by
shortage (a doubleton) he was nervous that his
modest ´ J 4 2 might prove inadequate to establish
partner's diamond suit. Eventually he did bid 7´,
completing a great auction.
Brogeland won the trump lead and set about
establishing dummy's heart suit. He crossed to the
™A, ruffed a heart low and played the ´A. He then
crossed to the tA and ruffed another heart low, all
following. He played the tK, ruffed a diamond with
the ´J and ruffed a heart with the ´Q. he then drew
the last trump and dummy was high.
Running out of entries
At the other table Valerio Giubilo also reached
7´. The first three tricks were the same: trump lead,
™A, heart ruffed low, but now came a disastrous
mistake. Instead of saving the ®A as the eventual
entry for the 13th heart, as Brogeland had done,
declarer crossed to the ®A! Heart ruff high,
diamond to ace, heart ruff high and now declarer
slowed down, realizing his mistake. He crossed to
the ´J, returned to the tK and led a third round of
diamonds, hoping for a 3-3 break. West ruffed with
the ´9 and it was 17 IMPs away. r
ROUND ROBIN RESULTS
1 ENG-EBU 127.58
2 NED-Bc't Onstein 125.89
3 ITA-Angelini 125.01
4 ITA-Allegra 124.94
5 NOR-Heimdal 115.86
6 ENG-Allfrey 115.52
7 SWE-Uppsala 112.35
8 TUR-Cayyolu 102.43
9 FRA-Soulet 101.38
10 ROM-Bucharest 97.59
11 DEN-Pharmaservice 88.84
12 BUL-Radkov 79.61
FINAL RESULTS
1 ITA-Allegra (vs NED-Bc't Onstein, 114-38)
2 NED-Bc't Onstein
3 ENG-EBU (vs ITA-Angelini, 93-58)
4 ITA-Angelini
5 ENG-Allfrey (vs NOR-Heimdal, 82-53)
6 NOR-Heimdal
7 TUR-Cayyolu (vs SWE-Uppsala, 108-94)
8 SWE-Uppsala
9 FRA-Soulet (vs DEN-Pharmaservice, 67-39)
10 DEN-Pharmaservice
11 ROM-Bucharest (vs BUL-Radkov, 68-63)
12 BUL-Radkov
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