Day Four
An excellent day with two close matches and a big win
against fancied Israel.
All three of our pairs continue to do well with
Jagger/Allerton, in particular, playing very well with very few errors.
Andrew Robson showed much better judgement than his Israeli
counterpart on the following board with identical starting auctions at both
tables:
xx
Tx
xx
AKQJTxx
AQJ9x
Kxx
A98
Jxx
AQx
9xx
xx
xxxx
txx
KQxxx
KJxxx
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Both Norths opened the gambling 3NT and both Souths removed
to 4C. Andrew doubled which Tony wisely passed with nowhere to go. At the other
table West decided to over all 4S - the East hand was not what they were hoping
for! A nice double figure swing resulted when this drifted one off.
In situations like this double is usually a winning action -
it is far more flexible: it brings the other suits into the game, allows
partner to pass when they have nowhere to go and you can always bid spades
later if you judge that to be right.
Tomorrow we have two teams fighting hard to qualify in Italy
and Australia, together with Chilie who have faded a bit after a fast start to
the event.
Neil
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