Daily Bulletin 8 from the 2006 WBF Junior Bridge Camp in Piestany, Slovakia

Monday, 10 July 2006Issue No. 8 Editors: Barry Rigal & Peter Gill – Layout Editor: Akis Kanaris

Schedule• Monday July 10

08:30 – 09:45 Breakfast12:00 – 13:00 Lunch13:15 – 14:15 Lecture14:30 Crazy Bridge tournament20:00 – 20:30 Closing Ceremony20:30 – 21:30 Farewell dinner21:30 – 22:30 Talent Show

If time permits; Karaoke after Talent Show.23:30 Disco

• Tuesday July 1108:30 – 09:45 Breakfast

PLEASE CHECK THE MAIN NOTICE BOARD. BUSTIMES FOR BRATISLAVA AIRPORT ARE NOW LISTED.

Marion Michielsen and Meike Wortel (Netherlands), ElsToutenel (Belgium), Ben Green, Duncan Happer andMichael Byrne (England), Carlota Venier (Italy) tied withMiroslava Kemenova (Slovakia), Radu Nistor (Romania),Lars Nielsen, Anne Sorensen and Mads Krogsgaard(Denmark), Jamie Corry (Ireland).With four females in the winning team, it was victory on

two Sundays in a row for the females, after Sara Sivelindand Cecilia Rimstedt had won the bridge last weekend. TREASURE HUNT RESULTS

*1st Team N Marion Michielsen and Meike Wortel(Netherlands), Els Toutenel (Belgium), Ben Green, DuncanHapper and Michael Byrne (England), Carlota Venier (Italy).68 points *1st Team D Miroslava Kemenova (Slovakia), Radu Nis-

tor (Romania), Lars Nielsen, Anne Sorensen and MadsKrogsgaard (Denmark), Jamie Corry (Ireland). 68 points3rd Team M Adam Finnison, Olafur Hanneson, Ellert

Smari Kristbergsson and Gabriel Gislason (Iceland) andAndrew Luke (USA). 63 points 4th Team A 62 points5th Team B 59 points6th Team H 54 points7th Team L 53 points8th Team J 47 points9th Team K 42 points9th Team C 42 points11th Team I 41 points12th Team F 39 pointsDid not finish:Teams E and G

A–Hunting We Will Go!

Tonight's Talent Show

Please tell the organisers (Andrea or Thomas) what actyou will perform.Group acts are encouraged.Practise makes perfect, but we do not expect perfection.

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Signalling on defence

1. [ K Q 9 3] A 4{ A Q 9 7} 7 6 5

[ A 10 4 [ J 7 6 5] Q 10 9 8 3 ] K J 7 2{ K 6 { J 10} A K Q } 4 3 2

[ 8 2] 6 5{ 8 5 4 3 2} J 10 9 8

West North East South1] Dble 2] Pass2[ Pass 3] All Pass

After the lead of the [K South should show count since the[J is in dummy, assuming North can infer that his encourage-ment is based on holding a doubleton spade. West will winand play a heart. North knows he will not beat the contractif South has four spades as opposed to two. So he has to risewith his trump ace because he knows his partner has onlytwo trumps at most, cash his [Q and give partner a ruff withthe [9 (suit preference) to ask for a diamond.A diamond re-turn now will set the contract one trick; note that a club playwould let the contract make.

2. [ Q 4 3] J 3{ A K 6 5} K Q J 10

[ J 9 2 [ A K 10 7] A 9 2 ] Q 5{ Q J 10 9 { 7 3 2} A 7 2 } 8 6 4 3

[ 8 6 5] K 10 8 7 6 4{ 8 4} 9 5

West North East South1NT Pass 2{

Pass 2] All PassOn the lead of the [A East gets a discouraging signal by

West.Without the [Q in partner's hand East will switch nowto a club or a diamond. Say he plays a club: when West gets inwith the }A he will play a spade through declarer's queen,which scores tricks number 3 and 4 for the defence. AfterEast got off lead in a minor declarer will now play the ]J,which must be covered by East's queen, in order for West's]9 to produce the setting trick.

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3. [ Q J 4] 8 6 5 2{ Q J 10 9} 8 2

[ 9 8 3 [ A K 6 5 2] K J 7 ] Q 10{ 8 3 2 { A K 5} Q J 10 6 } 7 5 4

[ 10 7] A 9 4 3{ 7 6 4} A K 9 3

West North East South1[ Dble

2[ All Pass

On the lead of the }A partner South does not need an at-titude signal, since he sees the }Q in dummy. North showscount with his doubleton after which we can cash the }K andgive partner a club ruff with our }9 (suit preference) to askfor hearts. North will play a heart to South for the fourthclub. A ruff with a spade honour by North now promotes atrump trick as the setting trick4 for the defence.

4. [ Q 6 5] K 10 7 3{ K Q} Q 10 4 2

[ 10 8 3 [ K 9 4 2] A 5 ] 9 6{ J 10 7 5 2 { 9 8 4 3} A K 3 } 9 7 5

[ A J 7] Q J 8 4 2 { A 6} J 8 6

West North East South1]

Pass 2{ Pass 2]Pass 4] All Pass

West leads the }A and receives a count signal (odd numberof cards) by East since the }Q is in dummy. West shouldswitch to a spade now since it is only in spades that it mightbe necessary to develop a trick at once.So West tries a small spade and East has to put up the [9

(not the [K) in third position, which is won by declarer. Onlead with the ]A West can now set up a spade trick, thatmust be cashed as soon as West gets in with the }K.

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Hands from Lecture Twoby Klaus Reps

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Six teams from five countries played in the 1st South Amer-ican Junior Teams Championships in Buenos Aires from 28April to 1 May 2006. Chile (Ben Robles, Jack Smith, JoaquinPacareu and Rodrigo Borgono) topped the qualifiers, com-fortably dealt with Uruguay in their semi-final, and won athrilling Grand Final by one imp. Chile thus qualified for theWorld Junior Championships in Bangkok, where they hope toimprove on their 10th out of 18 teams in Sydney last year.These hands are from the other semi-final between Argenti-

na and Brazil, Ecuador having been the fifth country involved.At favourable vulnerability, partner deals and opens 1NT

(15-17).After RHO passes, what would you call with J73, 86,K9876542, void? Answer later.Board 20 is one of those high level competitive bidding sit-

uations in which one wonders whether it is luck or skill thatdetermines the IMP flow.

Board 20. Dealer West.All Vul.

[ A K 9 6] 9 4{ Q 9 2} J 10 5 4

[ 8 [ J 5] A K 7 6 5 3 2 ] Q J 10 8{ K 10 5 4 { A 8 7} 7 } Q 9 6 3

[ Q 10 7 4 3 2]{ J 6 3} A K 8 2

West North East SouthBarbosa Debarnot La Rovere Alonso

4] Pass Pass 4[Pass Pass 5] PassPass 5[ All Pass

Had Marcello La Rovere raised the 4] opening to 5], it’shard to see how N/S can win the hand, because if South bids5[, surely North will raise to 6[. Such a 5] bid may seemdouble dummy, but perhaps one can anticipate that N/S areabout to bid 4[ and that the immediate 5] gives N/S the lastguess.Fernando Alonso ruffed ]A lead, played a spade to the ace,

ruffed a heart and crossed to [K to lead }J. Best defence is toduck, the general principle being that one covers the last of theconsecutive honours in dummy, i.e. one ducks the jack thencovers the ten. La Rovere covered, and after four rounds ofclubs finessing the nine, Alonso exited with {J. Roberto Bar-bosa played the king, then {5 on which {9 was played, plus 650.Brazil’s Brum – Rossi partnership had more space, but did

not bid to the five level.

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West North East SouthAluyas B Brum A A Madala Rossi

1] Pass 3{ 3[4] 4[ Pass Pass5] All Pass

Bidding five over five is something that many players avoid atall costs, although a void in the opponents’ suit is sometimesan exception. Gabino Aluyas lost the obvious three tricks foran 11 IMP gain to Argentina.

Board 18. Dealer East. N/S Vul.

[ K 10 6 5] K{ A J} K J 10 9 7 6

[ J 7 3 [ A 8 2] 8 6 ] A Q J 9 4{ K 9 8 7 6 5 4 2 { 10 3} – } A 5 4

[ Q 9 4] 10 7 5 3 2{ Q} Q 8 3 2

West North East SouthAluyas B Brum A A Madala Rossi

1NT Pass5{ All Pass

Gabino Aluyas took an intelligent punt with his direct 5{call. It has three ways to succeed – 5{ might make, or it mightbe a good undoubled save over 4], 4[ or 5}, or it might goadthe opponents to bid at too high a level.}J was led to the ace, declarer pitching a heart.When Aluyas

cashed ]A and ]K dropped, declarer still wasn’t home. Atrump now would fail if there is a spade switch, so Aluyas in-stead played ]Q.This was ruffed, and there was no defence asthe cards lie. Plus 400 was worh 6 IMPs to Argentina whenthe other table stopped in 3{. We offer no verdict onwhether the preemptive 5{ bid is better than milder calls, ex-pect to point out that the favourable vulnerability stronglyfavours the direct 5{ call. Despite these boards, Brazil Juniorswent on to defeat Argentina Juniors 127 – 95, setting up theFinal against Chile.

The website for the Championships is:http://www.bridgesudamericano.com.

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South American Junior Championshipsby Peter Gill

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Phillip Alder's obituary of Dorothy Hayden Truscott, whodied on Tuesday, which was published in the New York TimesJuly 8, 2006 described her as one of the greatest female bridgeplayers of all time. She learned the basics of bridge when shewas 7, watching her mother play and occasionally taking herfather's cards when he had to prepare drinks.Truscott had a stellar bridge career, highlighted by 11 world

championship medals: four gold, one silver and six bronze. Shealso won a gold medal as a nonplaying captain. She capturedmore than two dozen national titles, starting in 1959.Her main strengths as a player, apart from technical skill,

were being an excellent partner, never criticizing the personsitting opposite her and having an impassive demeanor.Aldersaid he played many times with her, and whenever he laiddown his dummy, he gained no clue about our contract'schances.Alan Truscott, the bridge columnist of The New YorkTimes from 1964 until his death last year – and Dorothy'shusband as of 1972 – was the antithesis of this. As soon asAlder tabled my cards, he knew whether the contract was lay-down, touch-and-go or no-play.Dorothy Truscott taught math for one year.This experience

helped her become a top bridge teacher, and she used thataptitude in two excellent books, "Winning Declarer Play" and"Bid Better, Play Better."Truscott invented DOPI and splinter bids. DOPI stands for

Double = 0 and Pass = 1. When an opponent overcalls afour-no-trump Blackwood bid, the replier doubles with noaces and passes with one.A splinter bid, which is an unusualjump to show a singleton (or void) in the bid suit, a good fitfor partner's suit and at least game-going values, was also de-vised independently by an Englishman, David Cliff. BothDOPI and splinters are used by almost every pair in thetournament world.

Truscott, who was 80, was a World Grand Master and be-came a member of the American Contract Bridge League'sHall of Fame in 1998.She had two particularly famous partnerships.The first was

with B. J. Becker, with whom she won three national titles. Shealso played with him in the 1965 Bermuda Bowl world teamchampionship, becoming only the second woman to repre-sent the United States in that event. (Helen Sobel had playedin 1957.) This Bermuda Bowl was notorious because DorothyHayden (as she was then),Alan Truscott and Becker accuseda British pair,Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro, of illegally sig-naling by varying the number of fingers they placed in front oftheir cards.In women's events Truscott was most successful with Emma

Jean Hawes, winning those four world titles and nine nationalchampionships. They defended beautifully on the diagrameddeal.After Hawes (West) opened with a weak two-spade bid,South jumped to four hearts, keeping his club suit hidden.

Dealer West. Both Vul

[ 8 7 4 3] 6 2{ K J 10 4} 5 4 2

[ K J 9 6 5 2 [ A Q] 10 7 4 3 ] Q{ A 8 6 { Q 9 7 3 2} – } 10 9 8 7 6

[ 10] A K J 9 8 5{ 5} A K Q J 3

West North East South2[ Pass Pass 4]

All Pass

Truscott (East) won the first trick with her spade ace andshifted to the club ten,West ruffing South's ace.West contin-ued with the spade king, declarer ruffing and drawing trumpin three rounds. At this point Truscott knew that South hadbegun with 1-6-1-5 distribution. If he had the diamond ace,the contract was unbeatable, but if he had a low diamond,West might duck declarer's diamond lead toward the board,hoping that South had two diamonds and would be forced toguess the suit to make his contract.To stop this from happening,Truscott discarded her diamond

queen! Now when declarer led his diamond,West stepped inwith her ace and played a high spade. South ruffed and ranwinners, but he had to lose the last trick to East's club nine.The defenders took one spade, one diamond, one club andone club ruff.Truscott was a wonderful ambassador for the game, touring

the world and charming everyone she met.

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Dorothy Truscott Revisitedby Phillip Alder

In the world of the ACBL it often seems to me (the BulletinEditor) that juniors are seen as an unnecessary irritation -people on whom money hardly needs to be spent. This im-pression might be reinforced by the knowledge that the ACBLno longer has a junior department, with the departure ofCharlotte Blaiss from their ranks.So it comes as a pleasant surprise to discover that at least

one person in authority is taking the profile of Junior Bridgeseriously.And history has been made in a sense, since the newrepresentative on the ACBL Board of Governors is Jenny Lin,who is still a junior, and is one of the bridge players at theCamp.I sat down to talk with her, and before we began I tried to

establish a little bit about the structure of the ACBL and herrole in it - and also how she got involved in ACBL politics.Jennifer's father taught a cousin of hers to play bridge when

she was five, and her father told her she was too young tolearn. She badgered him for five years to teach her, and whenshe was ten he relented and taught the basics of the game toher eight year old brother and her. He was a club player in Tai-wan, and the home-grown methods included 4} always beingGerber, four-card majors, and 16-18 no-trump. But in additionto that, he also taught them about movements and IMPs andmatchpoints, so that by the time she came to go to HighSchool she was ready to run a Pairs Tournament -even thoughshe had never played in one!Jenny told me she took over the classes of Noble Shore, a

junior who had taught bridge classes at Carnegie Mellon Uni-versity in Pittsburgh. Noble is on the second US team forThailand this summer, but was occupied with marriage, work,and other unimportant trivia…From that Jenny had liaised with her local district, that of

Northern Virginia, which is just south of Washington DC. Jen-nifer's attempts to raise funds for Juniors led her to decide tostand for the Board of Governors. The BOG consists of agroup of five in her district, three elected and two ex officio,who do not have anything like the power of the Board of Di-rectors - there is one member of the BOD from each district– but who do get to review the decisions of the BOD andcomment on them.The BOD gets funding to attend meetingsat each of the Nationals, whereas the BOG pays its own way.Anyway, Jenny had decided to stand for the BOG next year

when one of the current governors took ill, and has since un-fortunately died. She stood down and Jenny was co-opted tothe team.I asked her which activities she was particularly keen to see

Juniors involved with, and she responded that she was hopingto raise funds, and general awareness about juniors by addingtwo initial days for juniors at the start of the Hunt Valley Re-gional in Maryland. (For the record, each District has four Re-gionals a year, but is allowed to run additional Senior or Ju-nior Regionals, open only to them. In the past only one suchJunior Regional has happened,which offered the players cheaphotel rooms, and low entry fees with meals included as well.)Jennifer wants to make use of the fact that Thomas Jefferson

High School has a number of children signed up through the

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ACBL schools program - a scheme set in place by David Banh,who is playing at the Camp here – and that the two juniordays at the regional might encourage them to play againstother juniors from around the USA.As to her own game she is modest about it - she claims jus-

tifiably so – but she is clearly one of the stronger female Ju-niors from the States. She plays with Victor Chubukov, whenthey can find the time or a convenient location, with Victorbeing based in California. That brings her to another sorepoint; how come there are no Girls tournaments in US whileEurope is organizing them alongside the Junior Europeans?She looks forward to World Girls events with relish.And finally her job: Jennifer works as a computer program-

mer on government contracts. She is currently working forthe FBI.We can tell you more – but then we'd have to kill you.

Interview With Jenny Lin

DAILY TRIVIA

What convention known to the world was original-ly published by a pseudonymous author under thename of Wormwood?

BRIDGE PERCENTAGES

How should you playK 7 3facingA J 6 4

For three tricks, and how should you play the suitfor four tricks?

FBI MOST WANTED (?)

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The Junior Camp in Frostburg

In 2002 it was the turn of Frostburg Maryland to host theCamp after the Summer Nationals in Washington. So on themorning after the Nationals finished 75 barely awake juniorshoisted themselves on to buses and we made the trip toFrostburg University, a State (i.e. State-sponsored) Universityon the Pennsylvania border of Maryland.In case the term State University gives you the wrong idea,

Frostburg has a splendid campus and a well-appointed seriesof buildings. The rooms were air-conditioned, no small dealgiven the heat-wave the North-East was experiencing, andwas also at 1500 foot elevation considerably cooler thansome of the alternative locations we might have chosen.The Juniors had a schedule of optional sport in the morning,

then lectures for the beginners/intermediates, lunch, ad-vanced lectures, and two sessions of Bridge, before pizza andtwelve o'clock snacks before the midnight game.We had a duplicate Barbu tournament, a crazy game, and

other entertainments laid on, all of which meant that if any-one did not have a good time, he was not really trying!The 75 Juniors had a staff of about 10 helpers including my-

self as a bulletin writer, and I had a layout editor, Lisa to dothe donkeywork on an IBM Mac. Sounds easy? Well my per-sonal computer had a printer but no toner. My pc talked tothe Mac - but only in rich text files.The finished product onthe Mac was unreadable on my machine and we could notprint out at all from the Mac so all proofing had to be doneonscreen, and then the text e-mailed so as to be printed inanother building miles away. The solutions to the problemwere laborious and inefficient, but in the end we got a bulletinout every day.The first event was an Individual - a good way to let every-

one get to know one another. One of the camp organizers,Stefan Back, showed me this deal, where his own overbid hadput Gerben Dirksen in a perilous spot.

Dealer South. N/S Vul.

[ Q 8 6 4 3 ] K 8 2{ 2} Q 8 5 4

[ J 10 9 7 [ K 2] A 5 ] 10 9 6 2{ K Q 3 { 10 9 8 7 6 4} K 9 6 3 } 7

[ A 5] Q J 7 4{ A J 5} A J 10 2

West North East South1NT

Pass 2] Pass 2[Pass 2NT Pass 3NT

All Pass

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Gerben won the club lead in hand and led a heart to the kingand a club to his jack.When West exited with a club Gerbenwon two rounds of the suit ending in dummy, observing Eastthrow three diamonds. Now he led a heart to the seven! Heinferred that East's failure to pitch a heart suggested four,hence West's ace had to be bare.When West led the diamondking Gerben let him hold it, and then West's jack of spadeswent to the queen king and ace. Now came two winninghearts, this being the position as the last heart was led:

[ 8 6 4 3] –{ –} –

[ 10 9 [ 2] – ] 10 { Q 3 { 10 9 } – } –

[ 5] J { A J } –

On the last heart West came down to the bare nine ofspades and the doubleton queen of diamonds, but Dirksenthrew him in with a spade to lead diamonds into the tenace.Contract made!As well as the daily sport, we also had an outing scheduled.

Maybe Toad of Toad Hall from Wind in the Willows put it bestwhen he said something along the lines of. "There is nothingas much fun as simply messing about in boats." However the70-odd people – and in some cases I DO mean odd – whoembarked from the camp at 10.00 on Thursday morning werenot intending to mess about in boats. Rather (although theyperhaps did not know it) they were intending to traverseseven miles of Grade II rapids down the Yough River.We were taken on an hour's bus journey into Pennsylvania

(did somebody say, "On the whole I'd rather be in Philadel-phia"? No that was WC Fields on his deathbed) and then kit-ted up with life jackets and protective headgear. Yours trulydemonstrated the role he was intending to play by being thelast person capable of doing up either garment. I was luckyenough to be in a boat with four people each of whom hadconsiderably more competence than I in steering a boat - nothard you may say and you would be right.The first two werestaff members, the second two were juniors.Each had their own little peculiarities though. Brian (the

groin) Meyer would persist in jumping out of the boat at theslightest opportunity to move the boat off any obstacle onwhich we got stuck – and there were a lot – then attemptnew contortions on each occasion to get back into the boat.Kevin "Bloody" Wilson was initially keen on steering the

boat from the rear position - presumably because that in-volved less work than any other job. I was unanimously elect-

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ed to this position as soon as the crew saw that I was not jok-ing when I demonstrated my "power"– rowing stroke.Ophir (desperado) Reshef followed a particularly Israeli ap-

proach to the concept of team rowing. Rather than call a di-rection to go, he would wait to see what was announced, andthen ignore it if it did not seem right to him.And Paul (Benedict Arnold) Ferman made up the crew. Gift-

ed with more common sense than the rest of us, he immedi-ately realized that this was a sinking ship that even the non-rats would want to desert.Accordingly he fell out of the boatwith such monotonous regularity that we were all beginningto smell a rat by the fifth such accident.Did we survive the trip in one piece? Well as to me, one ten-

don strain, and a severe case of sunburn on my knees, cou-pled with a sore gluteus maximus from too much sitting onuncomfortable surfaces were mere scratches.At least I man-aged to be the sole crewmember in my group to avoid fallingout of the boat.A soaked wallet (and what was I doing bring-ing it you may ask) was entirely my own fault.Very little bloodwas spilt throughout the trip; Panos Gerontopoulos, our WBFrepresentative only fell into the water once and CharlotteBlaiss, the ACBL organizer failed to photograph the occasionfor posterity. One combatant lost a shoe, and a fewcrewmembers lost confidence in their colleagues. However,we all made it home in approximately one piece, and cele-brated with pizza for all.We may not be any the wiser, but we will certainly all be bet-

ter informed about what white-water rafting involves nexttime. (Or will we – ask Patrick Jourdain! Editor)Back to the Bridge. My next hand in this article shows a re-

ally nice play – I'll hold off telling you which hand made it untilyou have digested the deal.

Dealer East. N/S Vul.

[ A Q] 9 7 5 4{ K Q J 8 7 } A 6

[ J 6 4 3 2 [ 9 7 5] 6 ] A J 10 8 2{ 9 4 2 { A} K 10 7 2 } Q J 9 8

[ K 10 8] K Q 3{ 10 6 5 3} 5 4 3

West North East South1] Pass

1[ 2{ Pass 3{Pass 3] Pass 3NTPass Pass Dbl All Pass

N/S really belong in a partscore - 2NT is their best-scoringspot but an aggressive auction such as the one shown is quitereasonable.What would you expect the fate of the contractto be? Well on a spade lead by West declarer drives out the{A and the defence must play clubs to hold declarer to nine.On a heart lead and club shift, or on a club lead at trick one,declarer cannot make more than eight tricks.Agreed?

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Well, consider East's problem if his partner leads a heart totrick one.The obvious solution is to go up with the ace; if nohonour appears, shift to clubs and hope for the best. Nicelogic but...Ophir Reshef was sitting South and on the auction shown

above he was treated to a heart lead. Gauging the situationaccurately, he called for a low heart from dummy, and whenEast put up the ace he dropped the queen! East sniffed the airsuspiciously for a few minutes then took the bait and re-turned a low heart, letting Ophir run this to dummy's nineand collect his ten tricks for all 15 matchpoints out of 15.On the other deal a former junior Tom Carmichael, paying a

flying visit to the camp to get in the Barbu tournament andthe Crazy Game, rounded out the Staff team and producedthis interesting deal:

Dealer North. North-South Vul.

[ 9 8 7] Q J 3{ A K 4 3} 9 5 2

[ 4 [ K 6 5 3] 9 7 6 2 ] A K 10 8 5 { 10 9 6 3 { Q J } A K J 7 } Q 4

[ A Q J 10 2] 4{ 8 5 2} 10 8 6 3

In his room he had bought the hand as South in 2[ and thedefence started with four rounds of clubs, which he ruffed indummy as East threw one heart then the jack of diamonds.Backing his judgment that East had a 4-5-2-2 shape Tom ranthe [9 then cashed the {A, finessed spades again, and led aheart to the jack. The 'Dentist's Coup' had extracted all ofEast's safe exits, so all he could do was lead his other topheart. Tom ruffed, then played ace and queen of spades toEast, who had only low hearts left, and had to lead one roundto dummy to let Tom pitch his diamond loser on dummy'squeen of hearts.Total winner at the camp for their Bridge performances was

Joe Grue, edging out Lukasz Brede of Poland.Camp awards for their personal contributions to the

smooth running of the event went to Gerben Dirksen of theNetherlands, Christina Mortensen of Denmark, and NathanWalters and Xing Yuan of the USA. Courage awards went toLindsay Nathan and Rob Klingenberger, both of whom cameto the camp with minimal Bridge knowledge and survivedunscathed.

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Table Tennis TournamentSemi Finals

Cohen & Co vs Aymeric & NabilDan & Adam vs Karl & Rawad

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Multiple Choice on Bridge:1) Which of the following did notreach the final of the French OpenTeam trials this year?

a. Catherine d'Ovidiob Alain Levyc. Daniele Allouche-Gaviard

2) Which of these women has not won a World BridgeChampionship in 2006?a. Sabine Aukenb. Sara Sivelindc. Rose Meltzer

3) Which bulletin writers' middle name is not David?a. Peter Gillb. Barry Rigalc. Patrick Jourdain

4) What is the chance of a 2-2-split in a suit?a. 40%b. 50%c. 60%

5) Who is the only Greek to have won a world title inBridge?a. Philippos Karamanlisb. Miltos Karamanlisc. Costas Karamanlis

6) Which one of the following is not a co-author of"Adventures in Card-Play"?a. Hugh Kelseyb. Geza Ottlikc. Terence Reese

Multiple Choice on Slovakia:

7) Which city is the capital of Slovakia?a. Bratislavab. Nitrac. Kosice

8) How long is Slovakia from East to West?a. 290kmb. 450kmc. 680km

9) Which country does not have a border with Slova-kia?a. Sloveniab. Ukrainec. Hungary

10)When did Slovakia separate from the Czech Re-public?a. 1.1.1946b. 1.1.1993c. 1.1.2000

11)How high is the highest mountain in Slovakia?a. 555mb. 1955mc. 2655m

12)What is "See you again!" in the Slovak language?a. Dovidenia!b. Mam poruchu!c. Na zdravie!

Multiple Choice on Piestany:

13)How many people live in Piestany?a. 15,000b. 25,000c. 35,000

14)Which is the symbol of Piestany? a. A man breaking his crouchb. A woman tearing her score cardc. A baby starting to walk towards his mom

15)How hot are the thermal waters in Piestany?a. 41 degrees Celsiusb. 67 degrees Celsiusc. 93 degrees Celsius

16)Around what time did the health/wellness businessstart in Piestany?a. 1600b. 1750c. 1900

17)Which two countries form the biggest group ofPiestany tourists?a. Germans and Austriansb. French and Englishc. Americans and Japanese

18)Whose mausoleum can be found in the vicinity ofPiestany?a. Attila, the Hunb. King Zdenek III.c. General Milan R. Stefanik

Treasure Hunt Quiz!

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Multiple Choice on General Knowledge:

19)Who did Germany play in the opening match of thesoccer world championships 2006?a. Costa Ricab. Ivory Coastc. Korsica

20)Which is the longest surviving empire in Europe?a. Roman Empireb. Byzantine Empirec. British Empire

21)Which of the three places does not have a Formula 1 course?a. Monacob. Bahrainc. Andorra

22)Which of the following is not a famous opera com-poser?a. Ludwig van Beethovenb. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartc. Guiseppe Verdi

23)Which of the following countries has the longestcoastline?a. United States of Americab. Chinac. Greece

24)How long is the border between France and theNetherlands?a. 0 kmb. 25 kmc. 500 km

OPENING INSTRUCTIONS

During our game you will have to find four stations, whereyou will meet Thomas, Charlotte,Andrea and Klaus.The full team has to show up at all four stations! Please

come back, if you haven't found them within 2.5h hours(17:00).At each station you will be given 3 to 4 letters to put in your

"final solution paper". The team to fulfil this last task first willget 10 extra points.

• Hint to find station A:You will find Thomas close to anold boat.And where do you find boats usually? There will alsobe a sign saying 118, but as this is for boats it is not easy tosee!"By the way to find the way":Veterna does not stand for via

eterna (or: the endless way), but for the shortest way.

From Thomas:On your way to the next station, please answer the follow-

ing question and give the solution to Charlotte at station B:

1) What does the only English tunnel graffiti say?

Now meet Charlotte close to the fountain "in" Jalta! (Station B)

• Hint: Make a left at the pirate's "boat"!

From Charlotte:To find Andrea at station C you have to look for the "charg-

ing buffalo".On the way answer these questions:1) Find the shopping mall of "the Great" and tell us the high-

est price of a watch in the window of the gold and jewelleryshop.2) Later on, tell us who made the Adam Trajan monument

and when?

Give both answers on a sheet of paper to Andrea, whoshould not be too far away from you now!

• Hint to answer the last question and find Andrea: Makea right on 101 (this not a highway - haha!)

From Andrea:To find Klaus don't go to Belgium and don't go swimming.

There is a much easier way to reach station D!1) On the way translate the three words you can't miss if

you look back on the successful way not to get in contactwith the Vah.2) On the way, tell us the name of the only open air stage.

• Hint how to find Klaus: "You won't find Adam but her".And Klaus is very close to a lot of ice-cream!

Give both answers to Klaus on a piece of paper!

From Klaus:Last duty: On the way back buy us a souvenir of Slovakia for

exactly 222 SLK (bring receipt as evidence!)

Fill in all the letters in your solution paper, do what it saysand find Stefan to give him the souvenir you bought!

Final Solution Paper:

E--- --- --- ---M I I--- --- --- --- --- --- ---

A---

“ I S I C ”--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---S--- --- --- ---

Welcome to the Piestany Rally!

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1. Any serious partnership striving to do well needsmore system agreements that can be put on the standardsystem cards.You should have a system folder kept on com-puter so it can be updated and reprinted easily.

2. Start by having a Basic System e.g. "Bridge World Stan-dard" or "Standard ACOL" where that is the agreement forany auction not described in the text.Then record all youractual agreements i.e. both members of the partnership haveagreed to it.

Have a front index so you can look up a specific auctionspeedily. Use some clear notation for frequent phrases e.g. FTG = Forcing to Game; F1 = forcing for one round.Define your no-trump openings, and which suit you open if

your shape is balanced but not in the range of the 1NT. De-fine which suit you open with three 4-card suits.Define all initial responses to an opening (e.g. is 1]-5} nat-

ural or Exclusion Keycard Blackwood?), and most of the pos-sible rebids.Generalize whenever possible to avoid long lists of auc-

tions (e.g. change of suit after a two level response is F1).Juniors often have too many conventions. It is much more

important to define which bids are forcing and which arenot, or which bids are natural and which are cues. E.g. afterthe fourth suit at the two level which continuations can bepassed? After 2} (strong, art)-2{ (neg or relay)-3} (nat) areresponder's bids natural or stoppers?Define actions after intervention and by passed hand: e.g.

Raises (pre-emptive, forcing?); new suits (natural, stoppers,fit-jumps? F1 or FTG, fourth suit?); cuebids (good raise?Splinter? Forcing to what level); doubles (negative, respon-sive, support, game-try, competitive, lead-directing, penalty).Even redoubles?

Consider opponents' artificial openings and overcalls andthe effect on your agreements. Have general agreements ifpossible to cover situations where you have not had time todiscuss it (e.g. if the opponent opens with an artificial bidthat promises at least 4 cards in the suit named, doubles willbe take-out, but if it does not promise 4 cards in the suitnamed doubles will include values in that suit).

3. KNOW the system yourself and know how well yourpartner knows it.Trust is essential when an obscure part ofthe system arises. Know what is NOT agreed as much aswhat is. Refresh your memory of the system before majorcontests, not on the day, but one or two days before.

4. If a partnership survives, have an annual review. Re-move artificialities that have not earned their keep. Remem-ber you have to read and remember each artificiality. If itonly comes up once per year it is not worth it!

5. Changing the system.Avoid changing the system at thetable unless temporarily clarifying something not covered.Use that pending proper agreement. This must always bedone away from the table after thought about the implica-tions.It is easier to remember additions than amendments so

avoid frequent small changes. Instead note by hand amend-ments to be introduced NOW (urgent clarifications) or atthe next review.When printing a new version of the systemhighlight the changes.

6. When disagreeing about the meaning of a bid at thetable try to say "we can check that later".What is written inthe system over-rides any personal view.

Patrick Jourdain – July 2006

Answer to the Daily TriviaBLACKWOOD which was invented by Easley

Blackwood, was originally published by him under apseudonym. He worked in an insurance companyand was not sure that they would approve of himplaying cards!

Answers to the Bridge PercentagesYou have no real choice if you need four tricks.

Finesse the jack, cash the ace and king, and pray.Youhave a solid 18% chance of four tricks. If you onlyneed three tricks, cash the ace and king and lead upto the jack.This line works whenever the suit is 3-3or East has the length, and also whenever West hasthe doubleton queen – approximately 77% of thetime.

Lecture Five – Agreeing a System with Partnerby Diane Greenwood and Patrick Jourdain

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Answers to Treasure Hunt Quiz

Rally Answers

Thomas1) I want to make sweet music with you (or something tothat effect!)2) Charlotte was at the Jalta Hotel

CharlotteThe buffalo was a statue in town1) the watch retailed for 10399 sk2) L.L. Pollack 1949

Andrea was at 101 - a drug store

AndreaTo find Klaus go to Spa Island1) Surge et ambula. Rise and walk2) Harmony is the name of the stage

The ice-cream stand was at 'Eva'

The Final Message Read:

GIVE DIMITRI A “LIPSTICK” KISS

TREASURE HUNT NOTES

In reply to the question about which woman has notwon a World Bridge Championship in 2006, Team Aadded to the right of Sara Sivelind "is hot!"A popular answer to the multiple choice question

about the mausoleum near Piestany was that it is that ofKing Zdenek 111.This king was invented by Andrea Pa-gani.The real answer is General Milan R Stefanik, the Slo-vak national hero who even has a statue dedicated tohim in Cleveland, Ohio.When you passed the Adam Trajan monument, how

many of you thought about his famous poem 'The Heal-ing Piestany Spa', written in 1642?One of the tasks in the Treasure Hunt was to purchase

an item and bring it back to Stefan with its receipt forexactly 222 Sk. One team found a suitable item for salefor 190 Sk in a souvenir store, so their Slovak groupmember asked the sales lady if they could buy it for 222Sk. "No, no NO," she replied, I'm not letting you rip meoff, you tourists always want to get bargains.".After muchreassurance that 222 was actually a bigger number than190, the Treasure Hunters got their deal.Another group was trying to find Thomas at his station

near the old boat. Without thinking that perhaps therewas more than one old boat on the River Vah, they askeda local who pointed them in the wrong direction. Theyfound many old boats, but none with Thomas stationedat it.We are glad they turned back before they reachedthe Polish border, but after their long exhausting trip upthe river, they had to retire from the Piestany Rally.

Bridge:1. b2. a3. b4. a5. b6. c

Slovakia:7. a8. b9. a10. b11. c12. a

Piestany:13. c14. a15. b16. a17. a18. c

General Knowledge:19. a20. b21. c22. a23. a24. b (in the Caribbean!)

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Rank Names Countries Total

TOURNAMENT RESULTSPAIRS – Part 5

1 Simon HOULBERG Eric ARVIDSSON DEN – SWE 65.002 Barry RIGAL Irene BARONI OLD – ITA 64.153 Inda Hronn BJORNSDOTTIR Merijn GROENENBOOM ISL – NED 62.504 Konstantinos DOXIADIS Klaus REPS GRE – OLD 60.205 Arturas KUPRIJANAS Robert LUKOTKA LTU – SVK 59.686 Ari GREENBERG Jacco HOP USA – NED 59.427 Joe GRUE Sara SIVELIND USA – SWE 57.598 Martin HRINAK Dan RECHT SVK – USA 57.489 Magdalena TICHA Kevin DWYER CZE – USA 57.38

10 Marten WORTEL Catalin-Lucian LAZAR NED – ROM 56.8811 Stuart HARING Marion MICHIELSEN ENG – NED 56.0312 Victor CHUBUKOV Gintare MALISAUSKAITE USA – LTU 55.2913 Bob DRIJVER Hrefna JONSDOTTIR NED – ISL 54.7114 Aymeric LEBATTEUX Bence BOZZAI FRA – HUN 54.2315 Monika BARONAITE Stanislav MIKLIK LTU – SVK 53.7216 Nabil EDGTTON Niclas Raulund EGE AUS – DEN 53.4817 Alexander SMIRNOV Katrina LOMAS GER – IRL 52.7217 Nicholas RODWELL Paul SEGUINEAU AUS – FRA 52.7219 Mads KROGSGAARD Aris ANASTASATOS DEN – GRE 52.5420 Sofia RYMAN David BANH SWE – USA 52.5221 Vincent BROERSEN Luke GARDINER NED – NZL 52.3621 Susan STOCKDALE Maria WUERMSEER ENG – GER 52.3621 Benoit GUIOT James CORRY BEL – IRL 52.3624 Emil JEPSEN Adam EDGTTON DEN – AUS 52.1725 Rutger VAN MECHELEN Paul GOSNEY BEL – AUS 51.5426 Alexander WILKINSON Karl ASPLUND SCO – SWE 51.4127 Duncan HAPPER Eldad GINOSSAR ENG – ISR 51.1328 Joseph MELA Vincent NAB ENG – NED 50.8229 Bjorn SORLING Kornel LAZAR SWE – HUN 50.5430 Lea Troels MOLLER PEDERSEN Eyal BEN-ZVI DEN – ISR 50.4931 Matt CORY Lars Moller SORENSEN USA – DEN 50.0932 Mirto ATHANASATOU Johan FASTENAKELS GRE – BEL 49.2433 Kerri NASH Aarnout HELMICH IRL – NED 49.0934 Michalis SOFIOS Aurelio MAUGERI GRE – ITA 48.3935 Yuval YENER Jason FELDMAN ISR – USA 47.7736 Sidsel GOLTERMANN Christina SIKIOTI DEN – GRE 47.5537 Lars TOFTE Ian W B JONES DEN – IRL 47.3738 Lars Kirkegaard NIELSEN Alex MORRIS DEN – ENG 47.1039 Wayne SOMERVILLE Dan ISRAELI IRL – ISR 46.9440 Rosalien BARENDREGT Jeremy FOURNIER NED – USA 46.8841 Miltos KARAMANLIS George TRIGEORGIS GRE – USA 46.5742 Rawad HADAD Andrew DUBAY SWE – USA 46.4743 Vassilis VROUSTIS Yotam BAR-YOSSEF GRE – ISR 45.7444 Maria Dam MORTENSEN Angela COLLURA DEN – USA 45.5345 Thomas TROMHOLT Athanasios DARKADAKIS DEN – GRE 44.9646 Marios KYRANIDES Carole PUILLET CYP – FRA 44.3347 Meike WORTEL Joshua DONN NED – USA 43.0348 Anne Juhl SORENSEN Miroslava KEMENOVA DEN – SVK 42.5349 Michael WHIBLEY Michael BYRNE NZL – ENG 42.0850 Gerbrand HOP Eleni VATSOLAKI NED – GRE 41.5851 Argenta PRICE Magnus MELIN USA – SWE 41.5252 Simon BECH Troels KRISTENSEN SWE – DEN 41.5253 Katarina TICHA David SYNNOTT CZE – IRL 41.2054 Ellert Smari KRISTBERGSSON Andrew SINCLAIR ISL – SCO 40.8555 Martin Brorholt SORENSEN Eric MAYEFSKY DEN – USA 40.7156 Owen LIEN Moa PETERSEN USA – SWE 40.4957 Ruth CONNOLLY Eric SIEG IRL – USA 39.9558 Lucia ZAVODSKA Randall RUBINSTEIN SVK – USA 37.14

Documents

Daily Bulletin 8 from the 2006 WBF Junior Bridge Camp in Piestany, Slovakia