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Monday June 27 Vu-Graph BBO schedule
10.00 Japan Indonesia (Women’s)
1400 Indonesia China Hong Kong (Open)
17.15 Australia Philippines (Open)
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Announcement
The CTD would like to ask all Captains to confirm the scores at their earliest opportunity after the match in order to allow the staff to rearrange the team numbers for the second round robin.
Report from the Tournament
A Question of Ethics
A serious matter was brought to the attention of the Chief Tournament Director. For the benefit of the players involved all names are being withheld. It happened on Board 15 on Round 6. You sat East and holding ♠1096 ♥Q4 ♦983 ♣J7654, the bidding went PASS by LHO, 1♦ from partner, DOUBLE by RHO and you psyched 1♠.at your turn. LHO bid 2♠, partner came in with 2NT and RHO 3♥. You turned to your screen mate and asked the meaning of his partner’s 2♠ to which he replied it should show 4 card plus in spades and positive values, you then passed. When the tray came back to your side, you saw your LHO persevered with 3♠, passed by partner. Before your screen mate had a chance to act, you again asked him the meaning of his partner’s 3♠ bid. Shrugging his shoulder, he finally threw a green PASS card on the tray and the final contract became 3♠. Before we go further, let us look at the full deal:
Board 15 ♠KJ S/NS ♥ KJ9752 ♦ A6 ♣ KQ8 ♠ 3 ♠ 1096 ♥ A108 ♥ Q4 ♦ KQ10742 ♦ 983 ♣ A32 ♣ J7654 ♠ AQ87542 ♥ 63 ♦ J5 ♣ 109 Bidding: WEST NORTH YOU SOUTH Pass 1♦ Double 1♠! 2♠ 2NT 3♥ Pass* 3♠ Pass Pass** Pass ! psychic bid by you
** after your repeated enquiry What is the purpose of the second enquiry, if East tried to talk his opponents out of 4♠ contract, he has succeeded BUT by his method of doing it he has violated Law 73D2 which clearly states: Intentional Variations (Communication) :A player may not attempt to mislead an opponent by means of remark or gesture, through the haste or hesitancy of a call or play (as in hesitating before playing a singleton), or by the manner in which the call or play is made. According to the above Law, the CTD considered East’s tactics to be highly unethical and intolerable. Should the director be called immediately to the table, the offending side would have been penalized to the maximum extent set out under Law 73F2 and severe disciplinary actions may be subsequently assessed.
Daily Highlights
In the heat of battles, players routinely go through mama-papa deals as quickened paces without giving them much thought afterwards. In the first match of the Senior series yesterday (Q7), at every table where South had to lead against 4♠ by East on Board 2 were successful in finding the killing lead. Board 2 ♠ 4 E/NS ♥ KJ109532 ♦ 107 ♣ 543 ♠ AKJ ♠ Q10976 ♥ 874 ♥ AQ ♦ 6543 ♦ AK ♣ 876 ♣ QJ92 ♠ 8532 ♥ 6 ♦ QJ982 ♣ AK10 Invariably East showed a big hand in the bidding and looking at his own 10 HCP together with four cards in trumps, it ought to be a right time to put on his thinking cap. Alas, most South looked no further than a top club to take a look at dummy ending any hope for the defense. In any case, dummy hardly would have anything worthy to look at given the one-sided distribution of HCP round the table. At a few tables where North chose to show his hearts, South found it hard to bypass his singleton lead hoping for a quick ruff but that too did not work out for the defense.
Into their third day of play perhaps most seniors are already feeling the sting of exhaustion otherwise seasoned veterans as they all are would have worked out a forcing defense was the only option. The choice of long suits lied between hearts and diamonds. Since he (South) had the majority of points, it had to be the latter.
With a diamond lead, declarer had no recourse but draw all the trumps praying the opponent with club controls did not have sufficient length in diamonds to force him. As it was, 4♠ would go one down. .
Players Profile
Players of the Senior Team from Australia
PAUL LAVINGS Paul Lavings has won most Australian and NSW titles many times over (and some Queensland) and in this PABF Championship he represents his country with his 9th different partner, a world record. Paul owns and operates Postfree Bridge Books, selling the latest bridge books, software and club supplies. But he specializes in second hand bridge books, World Championship books, and back-issues and sets of magazines, and bridge and whist memorabilia. Please say hello to Paul if you have any interest, and please visit his Bridge Museum at: www.postfree.cc
Paul Lavings Robert Krockmalik
ROBERT KROCKMALIK Robert Krochmalik is currently 57 years of age and has been playing Bridge on and off for approximately 40 years. His best achievements at bridge include: Result Place Year Event Finalist Sydney Apr-05 Australian Senior Team P/O Semi-finalist Canberra Jan-05 Australian Open Team Senior - Finalist Sydney Jul-04 Winner Sydney Nov-03 Spring National Open Pairs Winner Sydney Oct-97 NSW Men’s Pairs Away from the bridge table Robert is a Chartered Accountant who recently retired from full time practice after 27 years. He currently is an Advisory Consultant in areas of finance, income tax and business matters and also participates competitively at tennis and socially at golf. He is happily married with three children aged from 21 to 30. Robert's youngest child Daniel has represented Australia at the World Bridge Youth Championships in Paris, France in August, 2003. This is the first time Robert has participated in Asia at the PABF.
Australian Youth Team players profile > GABBY FEILER - At 22, Gabby studies Medicine at Sydney University where he runs the bridge club with Warren Lazer. MATTHEW PORTER No profile from Matthew as yet
NATHAN VAN JOLE At 20, his main interests include work, soccer and of course, bridge. One of his high points so far is my recent promotion to manager in the firm he works..
PAUL GOSNEY At 20, Paul’s been playing bridge for four years, this is his youth team debut. He’s a colts team member which beat NZ youth in 2003. He was 5th in Australia's premier matchpoint event in 2005 at Gold Coast.>
DANIEL GEROMBOUX Daniel has only been playing competitive bridge for 5 years even though he learnt the game as a child. This will be his second and last time on the Australian Youth Team because of age restriction.
GRIFF WARE Griff became hooked on bridge at age 14 while playing his first duplicate session, when he bid and made 7NT after the auction 1C-4NT-5D-5NT-6H-7NT. Conventional bids have been his obsession ever since. Partnering Daniel Geromboux, his regular bridge partner of 5 years, Griff has been a member of the Australian Youth Team since 2004. His international experience also includes playing in the inaugural World Youth individual, held in New York in 2004. When not playing bridge, Griff studies mathematics at the Australian National University, where he is currently enrolled in a PhD program.
President of the PABF Khunying Esther C Sophonpanich talking at the Opening Ceremony of the Championships
Report on Day three Cathy Chua
Round 6 Featuring Philippines-Singapore Drawn 15 VPs all.
Did I say something about the hands being tough in yesterday’s morning set? Nothing compared with what I’ve just been watching. And I have a theory about it. Jannersten was here and has furtively gone back to Europe. I’m betting he has his dealing machines set on ‘make them suffer in the mornings’ mode.
I watched Philippines-Singapore. Yesterday Singapore had swum through all the difficulties to trounce Japan. Would the same thing happen here?
“That 6♥ contract will haunt me for the rest of the tourney.” It was a note passed to me by Martin Anastacio….It referred to this hand:
EW were on the same wave length. West thought it sounded like partner was void in diamonds. East thought it sounded like South had 3 diamonds. The opening lead is perforce a McKenney and therefore won’t solve that issue. So, West began with a diamond, thinking clubs were futile. Declarer won with the ten and then played another diamond. The moment of truth! I have complete sympathy for the refusal to ruff by East who took a club pitch.
But I am sure it is wrong! And that is because I too was once haunted by a very similar hand from an Australian Playoff. When the opponents are in a 4-4 fit and you have five of them, that is not good. Your trumps get cross-ruffed to death. The only good thing to do with that layout is draw trumps. Even one round, which is all one can expect as one’s fair share at slam level, is likely to scuttle a contract when, that is, it CAN be scuttled. I don’t know if this all holds if your trump holding has tenace to it. But five small? It’s all they are good for.
At any rate, declarer, having snuck the extra diamond trick could now comfortably cross ruff the rest of the hand.
In the other room 6♥ was doubled and down 500 after a club lead. In fact no other defence began with the well-motivated diamond and so the defenders never faced a problem.
That was 18 IMPs to Singapore, but they didn’t get to keep them for long.
A The opening heart lead was run around to the king. A low diamond was ruffed, club to the ace and another diamond ruff. Now heart to the queen and another low diamond, ruffed and overruffed by East. That might not have been so bad if declarer had taken the third round of hearts out so that East didn’t have an exit. (Though it looks like it will still just go down on a ruff and discard). As it was he had a comfortable way off lead with a heart and declarer was eventually two down. In the other room: 6♣ doubled made and that made exactly 18 IMPs to Philippines! Amazing how often matches like this one turn out to be draws….and, indeed, in the end the score was 15 VPs all.
Declarer in this case was in good company: more than half the field went down in 6♣. Not so in the Youth were the slam was largely unbid. I have been told, however, that in Indonesia-Thailand NS bid to 7♣ after a somewhat dubious auction:
Poor West doubled that and led the ♦A to find himself scoring up -2140. The issue, I gather, was whether 4♦ was natural. As our esteemed senior director described it: a splinter, experts would agree, but a dangerous bid.
This board was a matter of auction luck: those playing from North made on a club lead, while South failed on the obvious heart start. In the match I watched this meant 11 MPs to Singapore. I Only one pair got to 4♠, while the Australian NS were the only pair to stop in a part-score, making 150 and picking with this when the heart lead appeared against 3NT. A handy win to Australia over Indonesia of 20-10 VPs,
There was another swingy 3NT:
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