Janee
and Gordon played in the Tuesday Pairs Championship, and finished 38th
out of 74 with a score of just below 50%, in a fairly high-quality
field. The event was won by two young players: Tom Rainforth and David
Collier, with a score of 64.7%.
Dealer S S K Q 5 3
Love All H A 8 5
D 7 4
C J 6 5 4
S J 9 8
N
S A 6 2
H Q J 2
W E H
7 4 3
D 10 6 3
S D K 8 5 2
C Q 8 7 3
C K 10 2
S
10 7 4
H
K 10 9 6
D
A Q J 9
C
A 9 |
On the above deal, Janee and Gordon were East-West, opposing very good
players, and defended an aggressive 3NT contract played by South. Janee
led the 3 of Clubs to the 4, 10 and Ace. Declarer led a small Spade to
the King, which Gordon ducked. Two successful Diamond finesses followed
with the aid of the Ace of Hearts entry, resulting in 7 certain tricks,
but that was all Declarer managed to take, and +100 meant a complete
top (68) for our heroes. Then a quickly-bid and successful 6S contract
on the next board brought in an above-average score.
|
| The Bulletin Editor, Brian Senior, was on the look-out
for
contributions, he was duly supplied with the deal shown above
and it appeared in Bulletin No. 6 - Thursday 16th August, which is
available online; the short article starts near the foot of Page 4. |
| Janee and Gordon finished their evening against the
well-known English
International player, David Gold, and Sarah Dunn, and scored an
enormous 120 out of 136 match points, thus pushing their opponents down
to 8th place; fortune favoured our heroes, although a
skilfully-engineered ruff during the play of the second deal brought in
10 extra match points. If only good fortune had been a bit more on
their side during the rest of the event! |
| In the Friday evening (well, actually early Saturday
morning) speedball
– which is just a bit of very-high-speed fun, Gordon
partnered Irene Robinson of Bristol, and (according to him)
thanks to his partner and their generous opponents, Scooby-Doo
included, they were placed first out of 26 pairs with a score of
60.25%. If you don’t believe the Scooby-Doo reference, just
look it up on the website - the English Bridge Union should be
congratulated, since many details of the results are available on its
website – including personal scorecards, and the archives go
back as far as 2001. |
