Editors: Cathy Chua and Robert Zajac Bulletin #6

43rd PABF Championships - Open Series 2^nd Round Robin

Ranking (28/6/05)
		VP	IMP Quotient
1	China	290	2.0619
2	Indonesia	240	1.2777
3	Chinese Taipei	234	1.2121
4	Australia	231	1.1733
5	China Hong Kong	228	1.1605
6	Singapore	225	1.1986
7	New Zealand	215	1.0271
8	Japan	202.5	0.9238
9	China Macau	169	0.7135
10	Philippines	167	0.7197
11	Thailand	161.5	0.6963
12	Korea	141	0.6067

43rd PABF Championships - Ladies Series 2^nd Round Robin

Ranking (28/6/05)
		VP	IMP Quotient
1	China	272	3.2677
2	Japan	222	1.4900
3	Indonesia	221.5	1.5176
4	Australia	192	1.2642
5	New Zealand	187	1.0879
6	Singapore	183	1.0177
7	China Hong Kong	167	0.9019
8	Thailand	139.5	0.6645
9	Korea	128.5	0.5536
10	Chinese Taipei	59	0.2663

43rd PABF Championships - Youth Series 2^nd Round Robin

Ranking (28/6/05)
		VP	IMP Quotient
1	Japan	205	1.6809
2	Australia	185	1.0633
3	Singapore	176	1.0935
4	China Hong Kong	176	1.0464
5	Chinese Taipei	170.5	1.0961
6	Philippines	170.5	1.0336
7	Indonesia	168	1.0059
8	Thailand	154	0.9246
9	Korea	84.5	0.5207

43rd PABF Championships – Senior Series 2^nd Round Robin

Ranking (28/6/05)
		VP	IMP Quotient
1	Australia	324	2.1701
2	Japan - Yamada	296	1.7260
3	China	284	1.4594
4	Chinese Taipei	282.5	1.4903
5	China Hong Kong	270	1.2867
6	Indonesia	268	1.2722
7	Queens & Knight	221	0.8494
8	Japan – Yokohama	216	0.8670
9	New Zealand	212	0.7866
10	Japan - PS Jack	210	0.7691
11	Japan – Wakasa	207	0.8049
12	Thailand	199	0.7422
13	Korea - Ivy League	189	0.6615
14	Korea - Joy Club	161.5	0.5553

Open Series		1RR	Against												Adj	Total	Rank
Team		c/o	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1	China	220										22	23	25		290	1
2	Indonesia	190							15				20	15		240	2
3	Ch Taipei	182							16	13				23		234	3
4	Australia	176							25	9	21					231	4
5	China HK	173								12	21	22				228	5
6	Singapore	172									21	14	18			225	6
7	Japan	168.5		15	14	5										202.5	8
8	NZ	159			17	21	18									215	7
9	Philippines	140				9	9	9								167	10
10	Ch Macau	137	8				8	16								169	9
11	Thailand	132.5	7	10				12								161.5	11
12	Korea	115	4	15	7											141	12

Women's Series		1RR	Against										Adj	Total
Team		c/o	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	China	197								25	25	25		272
2	Japan	176			9	20					17			222
3	Indonesia	159.5		21						16		25		221.5
4	Australia	153		10			16		13					192
5	NZ	129				14			19			25		187
6	Singapore	129							14	15	25			183
7	Ch HK	123				17	11	16						167
8	Thailand	107.5	3		14			15						139.5
9	Korea	106.5	5	13				4						128.5
10	Ch Taipei	46	4		5		4							59

Youth Series		1RR	Against									Bye	Adj	Total
Team		c/o	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	Japan	146								20	21	18		205
2	Australia	139			15	14					17			185
3	Singapore	137		16						5		18		176
4	Ch.Taipei	123.5		16			20		11					170.5
5	Philippines	123.5				10			19			18		170.5
6	Thailand	120							3	8	23			154
7	China HK	120				20	11	25						176
8	Indonesia	111	10		25			22						168
9	Korea	55.5	9	13				7						84.5

Results of Mixed and Ladies Pairs

Rank	Player 1	Player 2	Round 1	Round 2	Total
1	Ayako Amano	Kenji Miyakuni	75.90	66.80	142.70
2	Charmian Koo	Lik Cheung	55.50	73.00	128.50
3	Gu Xue Hai	Wang Hui Jun	70.70	50.70	121.40
4	Park Sun-hee	Nam Yoon-sook	52.90	62.00	114.90
5	Hiromi Nishida	Yoshie Nishda	54.80	56.00	110.80
6	Takesh Nozaki	Shigeko Nozaki	50.60	57.80	108.40
7	Park Ok-nam	Lee Young-ae	62.00	45.50	107.50
8	Yoo Soon-joon	Lee Dong-min	50.90	55.30	106.20
9	Kim Young-hae	Song In-sook	52.10	53.20	105.30
10	David Chu	Kim Sun-young	51.90	48.20	100.10
11	Kim Yoon-kyung	Pongmoragot Parich	41.60	45.60	87.20
12	Lee Guk-sung	Nam Keum-sook	41.10	45.40	86.50

NEW ZEALAND BRIDGE CONGRESS

HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND

SPETEMBER 24 TO 0CTOBER 1, 2005

FEATUREING

NEW ZEALAND TEAMS (5 DAYS)

NEW ZEALAND PAIRS (3 DAYS)

We would love to see as many overseas visitors as possible at this most friendly and competitive Bridge Congress.

For further information ask Richard Solomon (Ladies Team Captain) or any New Zealander here.

China vs Korea PABF Ladies Championship

Australia vs NZ Open Series

HK vs China Seniors Series

2^nd PABF Simultaneous Pairs

The format of the 2^nd PABF Simultaneous Pairs will be submitted to the member NCBOs shortly for approval. They are;

Dates: First Friday/Saturday from October 2005 to March 2006, total 6 times

Fees: US$2.00 per player

Prizes: Overall winners (cumulative of best 4 scores out of 6 matches)

1^st US$2,000.00

2^nd US$1,000.00

3^rd US$500.00

Monthly Winners (top 5 pairs, no more than one pair from one NCBO)

1^st US$100.00

2^nd US$80.00

3^rd US$60.00

4^th US$40.00

5^th US$20.00

The analysis/comments of hands will be available from PABF/Ecats website.

We hope today’s Vu-graph will feature 2 tables:

Open room in English

Closed Room in Chinese

Any Chinese commentators should change their language to Chinese and log into the Closed Room and message the operator to ungag them.

BBO

Live commentary

in English and in Chinese

today

NEWS FLASH

Italian Pair ousted of the European Championship in Tenerife having been found guilty of highly questionable antics by the Appeals Committee: read on!!

Italy v Israel

 Appeals Committee :

Bill Pencharz (Chairman, England), Herman De Wael (Scribe, Belgium), Jens Auken (Denmark), Grattan Endicott (England), Jean-Paul Meyer (France)

Open Teams Swiss "A" Round

Board 23. Dealer South. All Vulnerable.
	♠ A 3 ♥ J 10 ♦ J 8 5 4 3 ♣ K J 6 2
♠ 8 7 ♥ A 7 6 5 ♦ 7 ♣ Q 9 7 5 4 3		♠ Q 6 5 4 2 ♥ 9 8 4 3 ♦ Q 10 6 ♣ 8
	♠ K J 10 9 ♥ K Q 2 ♦ A K 9 2 ♣ A 10

West	North	East	South
Roll	Lanzarotti	Bareket	Buratti
			2♦
Pass	2♥	Pass	2NT
Pass	3♠	Pass	4♦
Pass	4♠	Pass	5♣
Pass	6♦	All Pass

Contract: Six Diamonds, played by South

Lead: ♥A

Play: ♣9, taken by the King, ♦J-6-2-7, claim

Result: 12 tricks, NS +1370

The Facts: At the end of the play, East called the Director to explain what he had seen.

The Director: Told the facts to the Chief Tournament Director, who decided to call upon the Appeal Committee to hold a Disciplinary Hearing.

Present: All players, the Captain of East/West, and the Coach of North/South

The Players: The Chief Tournament Director explained to the Committee what the East player had told him. Dummy, North, had leaned across to take a look into East's cards. East had then noticed that North had held his arms crossed, and had signalled with three fingers on his arm. East had seen a signal with three fingers three times. Declarer had then played the ♦J at trick three, and had let it run, thus making his contract.
East then told the same story in his own words. He had not shown his cards, but North had taken a look into them anyway. East had seen three fingers on three occasions, and he had called the Director after Declarer had successfully finessed in diamonds.
East complained that he had been so shaken about the whole thing, that he could no longer play to his full capacity. They had lost the match 2-25.
- West related the play to the first three tricks:
- West led the ♥A, East contributing the ♥8;
- West then asked a number of questions, particularly about the ♥K, which South confirmed having shown in the auction;
- West switched to the ♣9, taken by the King
- After some thought, South called for the ♦J, East contributing the ♦6 in tempo;
- South thought for some more time and let the ♦J run.
East once more showed what he had seen North do: the left arm lay before him on the table, the right hand lay across it, with the middle three fingers pointing downwards. East showed that he had seen the three fingers once across the wrist, once across the forearm and once free on the table in front of the arm.
South was asked to confirm the play as described above, which he did.
South was then asked to explain why he played the diamonds in the manner he did. He gave the following responses:
-The lead of the ♥A was curious because dummy had not made a cue-bid in hearts;
-After all the questions he decided to play diamonds 1-3;
-The first two boards were bad for him and he needed 20VP to qualify for the next round;
-Diamonds are always badly divided in this tournament. He had also found the ♦Q on board 24 (West commented that he had made lots of bids on that board, so finding that Queen was clear-cut).
North explained that all through the day, when dummy, he had laid both arms on the table and rested his head on them. This could not be confirmed by East/West since this was the third board of the match and he had not been dummy on the first two.
North told the Committee he had only 20% vision in his left eye, and the red honours were all the same to him from that side.
When confronted with East's statement, North denied that he had looked at East's cards.
The Coach of North/South, in name of their Captain (who was absent), explained that he had told his team to win the match by at least 19 or 20VP. He had never heard allegations of this kind in 30 years' work for the federation and this particular team.
West finally added that South had also put his head on his arms while thinking about running the ♦J.

The Committee's Deliberation :

The Committee addressed the issue of their jurisdiction under the Laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge. Under law 91B: Right to Disqualify, The Director (and on a reference, the Committee) is specifically empowered to disqualify a contestant for cause.
- The Committee also addressed certain technical issues raised by North/South:
- The Committee rejected the argument that "Diamonds are always badly divided in this Tournament".
- The Committee noted that bidding and making Six Diamonds by normal play was quite likely to win the board as the slam was not straightforward to bid.
- The Committee noted that tackling diamonds (trumps) by leading the Jack was singularly against the odds; except in the specific circumstances when declarer knows that East has exactly three diamonds. In this case the odds are 3-1 in favour of leading the Jack.
- The Committee noted that East's duck of the Jack of Diamonds was correct technique. South could have had five diamonds, in which case it is a normal gambit to lead the Jack to induce a cover with Q10x.

The Committee's reasons:

In the play of the hand, East/West believed that Declarer had acted upon improper information conveyed from dummy. They suggested how this information was possibly passed.
When asked to explain his reasons for playing the hand in such a fashion declarer gave a number of reasons which the Committee found unconvincing. It was adjudged that the nature of these explanations by a competent player was self-incriminating.

The Committee’s decision :

Lanzarotti-Buratti to be disqualified from the teams event - Law 91B.
Match Score adjusted to 18-0 in favour of the team of East/West.
Matter to be referred to the Credentials' Committee with reference to the Pairs' event in these Championships.

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A look at Day Five

Cathy Chua

Second RR First Match

Bd 1	ª 87
Dlr N	© 10
Vul Nil	¨ 876532
	§ 9654
ª AKQ94		ª J106532
© 532		© A94
¨ Q9		¨ J10
§ AQ8		§ J10
	ª ---