Editors:
Carla Martins Soares
Pedro Nunes
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10th November 2004
WELCOME TO MADEIRA 2004

7th International Bridge Festival

Estonia takes the lead again

This year we have players from all Europe. Starting in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Great Britain, France, Spain, our good friends from The Netherlands (sorry for not mentioning you in the bulletin 0: of course we knew you are all coming) and Portugal.

After the first session, the Estonian pair Ants Olev and Jaan Linnamagi takes the lead with 62,24%, closely followed by the Spanish pair Knap and De Miguel with 61,44% and the French/Portuguese pair Schwei-tzer and M. Ascencão with 60,65%.

The first Portuguese pair is in 5th – Manuel Oliveira and Jorge Cruzeiro followed by Tiago Canelas and Nuno Matos.

The Estonians had won, on Monday, the E-W line on our "Play for Fun" session.

As for the locals, Carla Martins Soares and Filipe Gonçalves are 7th, 5.16% behind the first pair.

No big differences between the contenders and everything is still up for grabs – the 21st is only 9% behind the leaders. Let’s see how everybody does on this afternoon’s second session.

Madeira

Funchal, November 8-14, 2004

R E S U L T S S E S S I O N 1

28 Boards, Average = 756

  RANK      PAIR                              SCORE         

        nr. name                             points  percent

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     1  14. Ants Olev-Jaan Linnamagi          941      62.24

     2 306. Knap-De Miguel                    928.9    61.44

     3 206. Ascencao-Schweitzer               917      60.65

     4 304. Rolf Olsson-Rune Hilding          906.2    59.93

     5 201. Manuel Oliveira-Jorge Cruzeiro    894      59.13

     6 101. Tiago Canelas-Nuno Matos          868.9    57.47

     7   7. Carla Soares-Filipe Goncalves     863.1    57.08

     8   8. Joke Kelderman-Rene Ammers        862      57.01

     9 106. P.G.Pereira-Nuno Paz              858.6    56.79

    10 203. Paula Lima-J.P.Rocha Pinto        850.5    56.25

    11 311. Anders Palmgren-CarlRagnarsson    848.5    56.12

    12 109. Bjartmarsson-Thorvaldsson         843.5    55.79

    13 111. Ria Sallsten-Inger Sallsten       838.9    55.48

    14 107. Mike Beyer-H.v.Beek               833.5    55.13

    15 105. Kirsi Virtanen-Vesa Leskela       826      54.63

    16 202. Schutz-Verhoef                    815.4    53.93

    17 204. Dan Stratan-Radu Mihai            815      53.90

    18  11. Carlos Pimenta-Mario Reis         814.8    53.89

    19 211. Jan-Olov Andersson-G.Petersson    813.8    53.82

    20 114. Teixeira Lopes-Jose P.Sousa       810.9    53.63

    21 113. Sveinkels-Kamerbeek               804      53.18

    22  15. Nuno Lacerda-Isabel Lacerda       788.5    52.15

    23 315. Gerard Limmen-Jan Tulp            782.2    51.73

    24   1. M.Estorson-I.Frances              771.1    51.00

    25 210. Miguel Teixeira-Rodrigo Soares    770.8    50.98

    26 104. Joao Machado-Jose Macedo          770.2    50.94

    27 310. Martins Soares-Jose M.Gouveia     768.2    50.81

    28 209. Brian Penton-Vera Frances         763.8    50.52

    29  10. H.Robbe-C.E.Brands                761.4    50.36

    30 302. Wim Hink-Jan de Winter            761.2    50.34

    31   5. Acacio Matias-Angela Matias       760.5    50.30

    32 110. Hilding Dmesius-Hilding Pers.     757      50.07

    33   9. Pedro Nunes-G.Esmeraldo           755      49.93

    34 303. Bergsson-G.Sveinsson              752.5    49.77

    35 208. Dag Mangset-Anne Rydning          740.5    48.98

    36 115. Bartelemy-Hoes                    737      48.74

       308. H.Jenny-R.Schouten                737      48.74

    38 301. Eiriksson-Thorvaldsson            733.6    48.52

    39 313. Mart Maastik-Jaak Strandberg      727.5    48.12

    40   6. M.Thunberg-Mart Altmae            725.5    47.98

    41  12. Stuart Coggrave-Pamela Coggrav    724.4    47.91

    42   3. Godric Dearing-Julia Dearing      723.4    47.84

    43 213. Robert Snapper-Ric.Fernandes      723      47.82

    44 307. Hege Falster-Asle Lutken          721.2    47.70

    45 108. Wil Stoop-H.Sprenkeling           712.6    47.13

    46 205. Metselaar-Swinkels                707.8    46.81

    47 309. Koetser-Bouscher                  691      45.70

    48 215. Natercia Grade-IlidioRodrigues    679      44.91

    49 214. Virgilio Mota-J.A.Fernandes       678.8    44.89

    50 312. Jaime Sousa-Ricardo Sousa         643      42.53

    51 212. Henrique Ribeiro-Joaq.Trindade    641.1    42.40

    52 207. Valen-Balder                      629.5    41.63

    53 305. Taru Suppula-Jussi Tamminen       629      41.60

    54  13. Nuno Mata-Fernando Ribeiro        626.4    41.43

    55 102. Dirk Balder-M.Stoop               624.6    41.31

    56 103. Pedro Morgado-Ricardo Luiz        615.6    40.71

    57 314. Mihkel Juhkami-Tarmo Lindmaa      610      40.34

    58   4. Ritva Launne-Marti Launne         602      39.82

    59 112. van der Meulen - P.Linssen        539.5    35.68

    60   2. Alda Fernandes-Jose Fernandes     520.1    34.40

Don’t Forget the Typical Dinner & Folklore today!!!

Buses leave at 8:30 pm

5 © doubled!

by Rodrigo Martins Soares

There were a few interesting hands on our first session of the pairs event. Sitting South I held 7-5 in Spades and Clubs, a couple of 20 point monsters and an 8 card spade suit. Unfortunately we didn’t manage to make the best of those great deals. Let me tell you, for instance, of that last hand – it was board 18.

N	E	S	W
Miguel Teixeira	Jaime Sousa	Yours truly	Ricardo Sousa
	1©	4ª	5©
Dbl	Pass	Pass	Pass

VUL N/S DEAL. E	ª J 2 © K 4 3 ¨ J 10 8 2 § K Q J 8



ª 10 © 10 9 6 5 ¨ A Q 9 7 § 7 5 3 2	N W E S	ª A 5 © A Q J 8 2 ¨ K 6 5 4 § 10 9



	ª K Q 9 8 6 4 3 © 7 ¨ 3 § A 6 4

It was our last table and we were playing against another pair from Madeira. My lead was the ªK. Dealer took it with the Ace, entered dummy with a diamond and finessed successfully the King of trumps. After drawing the trumps, he ruffed his last spade with dummy’s last heart and played a club. Miguel (sitting North) won with the Jack and cashed the King and Queen, that was ruffed in hand . The position was now:

Now Jaime played his last trump ditching a diamond from dummy, squeezing North in the minors. A nice play for a nice 53 out of 54 matchpoints.

Of course we could have beaten it if Miguel had played the ¨J when he was in with the clubs. Declarer could have made more difficult for the defence had he entered dummy with a spade ruff for the trump finesse, but we still could have beaten it if I overtake partner’s club honour with the ace and play a diamond, allowing my partner to win the second club and play the squeeze breaking second diamond.

VUL N/S DEAL. E	ª © ¨ J 10 8 § 8



ª © ¨ A 9 7 § 7	N W E S	ª © J ¨ K 6 5 §



	ª Q 9 8 6 © ¨ §

On board 10 we were again on the receiving end.

VUL ALL Dealer N	ª A K 8 5 3 © J 4 ¨ Q § A J 7 3 2



ª Q 9 7 © Q 8 7 2 ¨ 3 § K Q 9 8 6	N W E S	ª 4 © A K 6 5 3 ¨ A J 10 9 8 2 § 5



	ª J 10 6 2 © 10 9 ¨ K 7 6 5 4 § 10 4

N	E	S	W
Miguel Teixeira		Yours truly
	1©	Pass	4©
Dbl.	5¨	Dbl.	5©
Pass	Pass	Dbl.	All pass

Well this was more of a bidding decision than a exceptional declarer play. After the trumps break 2-2 and the fQ falls, it’s quite easy to produce 11 tricks.

Opponents played a strong club system so 4© could have been almost anything. When East bid 5¨ I thought he was sacrificing and giving his partner a lead direction. When 5© got passed back to me I had to decide if partner’s pass was or not forcing. It appeared to me that it was so givem the vulnerability. If the diamond bid was real partner must have a very strong hand for he doesn’t have many diamonds and knows I make take 4© out to 5¨. If the diamond bid is lead directing then E should be very weak for he is preempting. Anyhow, I decided that even if they did make 5© our matchpoint result wouldn’t be that great either (in effect it would have been almost average - 25 out of 54). So there I go with the red card. Wrong! Another 5© doubled to the opponents and another single matchpoint (out of 54) to us.

Programme for Today and Tomorrow

Wednesday	9.00	Free day for golf or other activities()*
	16.00	OPEN PAIRS TOURNAMENT	2nd Session (Centro Congressos Madeira)
	21.00	Typical dinner & Folklore	Restaurant "O LAGAR"
Thursday	9.00	Free day for golf or other activities()*
	16.00	OPEN PAIRS TOURNAMENT	3rd Session (Centro Congressos Madeira)
	20.00	Final Results	Centro de Congressos da Madeira

(*) Golf may be arranged at the front desk of the hotel