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Alejandro Bianchedi |
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1st
Set:
Ventin-Zimmerman
Spingold 2011 Round
of 32
by Alejandro
Bianchedi, Ana Roth y Fernando Lema
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Ernesto Muzzio |
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Joao Campos |
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The
Spingold is one of the most prestigious events in
the World Wide Bridge Calendar, and its played by
the best teams of the world. Its a KO tournament,
live or die...On a daily basis the top teams face
the lowest seeded teams. For example in the Round of
64: Seed #1 vs. #64....Seed #2 vs. #63 etc...When
a team beats a team
of a lowest seeding than him, he assumes that
# as his
seeding for the next rounds.
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Miguel Villas Boas |
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Ventin
team was
#25,
but what does this mean?
It means that as the team progresses through the
rounds, he would very soon have to face one of the
strongest teams. And that happened in the Round of
32, their opponents were
Seed #8
... This team, newly formed and named
Monaco,
has among its players several world champions:
Pierre Zimmermann - Franck Multon - Fulvio Fantoni -
Claudio Nunes - Tor Helness - Geir Helgemo.
Note: One of this cup's security measures is: until
the Q-final the hands are given at the table ...
because of the crowd.
Ventin-Zimmerman Round of 32: Spingold 2011.
In the first set of the Round of
32 ,
in one table, were playing:
Alejandro
Bianchedi -
Ernesto
Muzzio vs. Tor Helness - Geir Helgemo.
Hand 1:
Bianchedi doubled for take out, 2...
Muzzio pass to penalize...Final Contract: 2
doubled, Helgemo went 4 down...vulnerable... 1100.
Hand2:
Bianchedi became declarer of a 4
contract, a bad trump distribution...3 down.
Hand
3: Helgemo plays 1NT...4 down.
Hand 4 :
Bianchedi once again becomes declarer, now in 4,
trumps are 5-1...1 down.
Hand 5:
Muzzio is now declarer of a 4
contract, he finds out, he has 3 inevitable losers
(AKA) and
Q x x is OFF...1 down.
At this point the whole table started laughing ... 5
hands ... 13 penalties ... the only hope was
Helness...he was still undefeated ... just
because he had not even touched the cards ... but
the story did not ended
here ...
Hand 6: 3NT
by Helness...2 down...Welcome to the club... salute
him; Bianchedi...
Hand 7:
Bianchedi, received a balanced 18 PH, opened 1NT
(very cautious...indeed). Helgemo end up playing: 3...3
down...
Geir
was improving his average...11 penalties in 4
hands...
Hand 8:
Muzzio, ended the spell with a 2
contract...Opponents and partner congratulate him:
Well
Done!! A water toast!
The match continued, again
Bianchedi went down in 4,
but in the next hand the Monaco pair arrived to an
excellent contract...
How do you
play 7
by South?
Lead:
3?
Helgemo took the
trick with dummy's
A,
continued with
Q,
J,
A,
a little one. Now another heart, but Muzzio ruffed with the
8,
declarer played the
10...
a diamond won in hand (diamond was 4-1), one down...
The 4 hands
were:
To win the hand, Helgemo has to play a little diamond from dummy
at trick 1, winning with the
5...
or the
7
from dummy... Bad luck...NO? In the other room, Ventin -
Lambardi in a complicated contested bidding, played 6
scoring
1370, 16 IMPs for the south Americans who won the set by
23...they won 16 more in the second set, but loose 25 in the
third and 26 en the fourth set...a total of 12 IMPs difference
for Monaco...Really, a close match... |