On Sunday afternoon, only one more round had to be played. The organisers were extremely lucky: the leaders had to meet in the last round. In fact, two teams, Poland 2 and Sweden, were joint runners-up, so the third team among the leaders were sure to be in with a good chance of winning the event after all. On Vugraph, the big clash between Poland 2 and The Netherlands was in progress, but the proceedings in the Poland 1 - Sweden match might well have an impact on the outcome of the tournament.

Well, this scenario did not materialise. All three matches turned out to be very close. England registered their first win, beating Austria 52-50 to earn 15-15 V.P. Poland 1 did one full imp better: they beat Sweden 51-48 to record a 16-14 win. These two results meant that the winner of the Vugraph match would mathematically sure also be the overall winner of the tournament.

In this report, we will therefore focus the Vugraph match only.

As usual, play on Rama started with the boards 19 and 20. The first of these two boards was flat, but on board 20 The Netherlands missed a game which would probably be bid by the Poles. So we came to board 1 with Poland 2 virtually 10 imps ahead.

Both teams had the same chance to do well here: