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Kiwis on The Coast

Day 1 – Saturday.

Welcome to The Gold Coast Congress….and this year it is nice to be able to make what I hope will be daily reports about the progress of Kiwi players here actually from the venue itself.

It is probably not good form to start with an apology. Yet, while I will try to cover all the good performances by Kiwis over here, there is a chance that someone will slip through my net. If so, it is not intentional. So, to day 1 and the first piece of news is that it is raining, an unusual experience for those who have travelled from the top half of the North Island.

In the following results, overseas players playing with Kiwis are in italics:

Gold Coast Open Pairs. The following New Zealand pairs qualified in the top two sections (14 pairs per direction per section, 9 sections in total):

To Final A  N/S

12th

Margaret Perley,Paul Freeland

113.62

14th

MichaelWare- Nick Jacob

113.52

 

East-West

 

7th

GeO Tislevoll-Terjie Lie

119.77

10th

MatthewBrownAndrew Spooner

117.20

 

 

 

To Final B   N/S

17th

Steve and Andi Boughey

112.79

18th

Sandra Calvert and Colin Carryer

112.46

22nd

Murat Genc and Arleen Schwartz

110.49

26th

Will Adler and John Luoni

108.53

 

 

 

To Final B E/W

15th

Jan Cormack – Kathryn Yule

115.47

17th

Chen Ding – Herman Yuan

114.55

20th

Jenny Millington- Barry Jones

112.96

25th

Duncan Badley-Paula Boughey

111.87

26th

Lynne Geursen – Richard Solomon

110.51

 

Intermediate for Section A  (4 sections)

N/S

1st

Nicky Bowers – Joy Watkinson

122.42

10th

Carol Joseph- Richard Stuart

109.60

E/W

nil

 

 

Restricted (7 sections)

For Section A 

N/S

3rd

Pam Whitehead – Stuart Grant

116.25

4th

Jennie Borren – Margie Robbie

115.99

6th

Jane Jordan – Marge Scott

113.60

8th

Hattie Curtis – Alan Mace

112.45

9th

Nick Edginton – Rhonda Graham

112.30

12th

Tim Rigter – Rochelle Van Heuven

111.16

13th

Wendy McEntegart- Nicolette Bartoli

110.95

 

4th E/W were Adrienne Dale and Miriam Lewin. 120.01.

Weekend MatchPoint Swiss Pairs (150 pairs) after 3 of 9 rounds:

4th

Jane Lennon- Alan Grant

47.94

7th

Alister Stuck – Andrew Tarbutt

45.91

8th

Bill Humphrey- Paul Carson

45.77

13th

Michael Pemberton – Chris Ackerley

44.23

16th

Sarah Green – Lyn Muller

43.35

 

Just one hand from the day, an instructive one with a little twist in its tail:

Board 23
South Deals
Both Vul
7 5 2
Q 8 7 4
3
K Q 6 5 3
Q 10 6 4
A 9 6 3
10 9 2
10 9
 
N
W   E
S
 
J 9 8 3
J
Q 6 5
J 8 7 4 2
 
A K
K 10 5 2
A K J 8 7 4
A

 

South investigated the heart slam but on finding their partner did not have the Heart-smallA chickened out in 5Heart-small. When East led the Heart-smallJ, it really looked like North-South had missed a very cold slam. However, North had a form of tunnel vision, common to many players. Despite having a dummy “to die for”, North focused only on their own hand.

Declarer played Heart-smallK at trick 1 with West taking their ace and returning Spade-small4. Declarer cashed Heart-small10, Club-smallA and then played a heart to their Heart-small7. Next came Club-smallK to be followed by a low club ruffed with dummy’s last trump. However, West did not overruff. Declarer cashed Spade-smallK, Diamond-smallAK but the game was up! If North ruffed the third diamond, West had a trump and a high spade to defeat the contract. They threw a black suit loser as East won the trick but a club ruff provided the defence with their third trick.

Diamonds do not have to be 3-3 but that does seem to be a more appealing suit to attack. Play Heart-small10 and then Diamond-smallA and ruff a diamond..return to dummy and see what happens when Diamond-smallK is played. When West follows, North would have wished they were a level higher rather than a level lower!

Richard Solomon

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