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SCHOOLS GIVE A LESSON
By Patrick Jourdain (Wales)
VuGraph on Saturday afternoon featured
the Schools Round 10 match between Poland and Norway, the two
leaders at the time. The match in general and this deal in particular
showed a very high standard of play all round.
| Board 5. Dealer North. N/S Vul. |
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ª
A J 9 3
© -
¨ A 7 4 3
§ Q 8 6
5 2 |
ª
10 8 7 6
© 8 7 6 5
4 3
¨ K 9
§ 7 |
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ª
Q 5 2
© A K 9
¨ Q 2
§ A J 10 9
4 |
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ª
K 4
© Q J 10
2
¨ J 10 8
6 5
§ K 3 |
| Closed Room |
| West |
North |
East |
South |
| Eide P. |
Jacob K |
Aal |
Krzysztof K |
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2§ |
2NT |
Pass |
| 3¨ |
Pass |
3© |
All Pass |
| Open Room |
| West |
North |
East |
South |
| Kapala |
Eide E |
Buras |
Lindqvist |
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1§ |
1NT |
Dbl. |
| 2© |
2ª |
Pass |
3NT |
| All Pass |
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In the Closed Room Aal, East for Norway,
reached Three Hearts against the Kotorowicz brothers. The bad
trump break meant the contract went one off for 50 to Poland.
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Estonia Team Profile
Tanel Tärgla, 21.
Matriculated from university, only to return to study maths.
Still can’t count up to 13!
Marlen Tärgla, 20.
Started the tournament as a captain and substitute player. Since
the only possibility for her to get into the action was somebody;s
death, we upgraded her to scorer and npc for safety reasons.
Leo Lucks, 23. In
civil life he studies philosophy and teaches it to his pupils.
He likes to tell vulgar jokes, and he never sits in the West
seat since he hates western capitalism.
Lauri Naber, 20.
Officially studies political science, but had to take a vacation
due to bridge playing. He likes tall girls very much, and being
185cm high, has managed to find a girl friend who is even taller.
Igor Trishkin, is
the coach of the team, but does not kibitz our matches, since
we have lost them all when he has done that, and he doesn’t
dare to do it anymore.
Kalle Pedak. He
is the President of the EBF, and being disappointed with our
play, he promised to leave the island we visited on Thursday
if we lost to Norway on Wednesday night. Luckily we managed
to get a draw.
Aivar Tihane, 21.
A very strange person, suspect in espionage - being an Estonian
patriot - suddenly married a Latvian, and went to live there.
Visits his parents in Estonia only when there is some bridge
tournament. Hobbies: His two year old son Tom.
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In the Open Room there was excellent defence
by Szymon Kapala and Krzysztof Buras of Poland and excellent
declarer play by Espen Lindqvist of Norway. South, Lindqvist,
was in Three No Trumps.
Declarer has four diamonds and three obvious
black tricks, and if West leads a heart or a spade declarer
can easily set up his extra tricks in the majors. So West did
well to start with the king of diamonds.
Declarer won and cleared the suit, giving
East a very difficult problem. He took his best shot by exiting
with the jack of clubs. Declarer correctly won this in hand
with the king and led the queen of hearts.
East was again in trouble and found the
best shot once more by exiting with the ten of clubs. He now
had two winning clubs to cash if declarer tried to set up a
heart trick.
But South knew what was going on, and
with eight top winners, and five losers, now played off his
long suit, diamonds.
East could not withstand the pressure
of the last diamond. He had to keep three spades and the top
heart, so had room for only one club.
Declarer could now safely set up a heart,
but, knowing the ending, chose the more spectacular line of
cashing his king of spades and exiting with a heart to leave
poor East to lead up to dummy’s ace-jack of spades at the end.
Very well played all round!
Norway won the match 16-14 to take the
lead but had a tougher last round to play, leaving Poland as
favourites for gold.
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