Daily Bulletin

17th European Youth Bridge Team Champinships

Daily Bulletin
Editor: Mark Horton • Co-Editor: Brian Senior • Web Editor: Takis Pournaras

No. : 3 • Sunday, 9 July 2000

Yellow Jersey changes hands

When France surprisingly lost to lowly England, the lead changed hands as the defending champions Italy moved to the top of the table. The fall of France also allowed the field to close up, and Israel and Norway moved past them, relegating the yesterday’s leaders to fourth place. They have a nine point advantage over fifth placed Denmark. They in turn are one point clear of Turkey, Belgium and Austria. The host nation maintained their position courtesy of a 25-0VP blitz of Switzerland.

At the wrong end of the table Spain and Ireland are already beginning to look like candidates for the wooden spoon.

CYMRU AM BYTH *

By Patrick Jourdain (Wales)

Wales did not have a good start to their international campaign, but in Round 5 came their first win, and in style, 25-2 over Spain. This deal featured excellent defence by Mike Cleaton (now known as Cutie Cleaton, thanks to the misspelling of his name in the Programme) and Mark Roderick:

Board 10. Dealer East. All Vul.
	ª J 10 6 © 9 5 4 2 ¨ Q 10 9 6 § J 6
ª A K Q 8 5 © 7 6 ¨ A § A 10 7 5 4		ª 9 4 3 © K 3 ¨ 8 4 3 § K Q 9 3 2
	ª 7 2 © A Q J 10 8 ¨ K J 7 5 2 § 8

Table of Contents
Article	Page
Bridge Family Schaltz	2
Bye Team profile	2
Norway vs Croatia	3
Bols Revisited	4
France vs Iceland	5

Score Change

As a result of the appeal from Round 2 involving Portugal and Italy, the score in the match was changed from 16-14 to 17-13 in favour of Italy.

West Cleaton 2© * 5§ Dbl	North Masia Dbl 5ª All Pass	East Roderick Pass 4§ Pass	South Perez 1© 4© Pass
* 2© showed spades and clubs

West 2© * 3©	North Jones Pass 4ª	East Pass 2ª 5§	South Dunn 1© 3¨ All Pass
* 2© showed and a minor

Six Clubs by East is an excellent contract but no table found it. Here both tables reached Five Clubs, but Spain decided to take the sacrifice in Five Hearts. Thanks to accurate defence this proved almost as profitable as making slam.

West, Cleaton, led his top spade, on which Roderick played low to show an odd number. West cashed a second spade, and East contributed his lowest to suggest a high card in clubs. Now Cleaton unblocked his ace of diamonds and underled his ace of clubs. Roderick won with the queen and gave his partner a diamond ruff. Cleaton then led another low club to the East’s king. Declarer was able to ruff this, but was stuck in hand to concede a trick to East’s trump king. The contract was four light for 1100 and 10 IMPs to Wales.

* Cymru am byth - Wales forever!

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