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| White House Junior Internationals 9-16 March 2008, the ‘Witte Huis’ in Amsterdam |
| Written by Rosaline | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, 03 February 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A bridge story
Thursday-evening 13 march: the last board of match
23, the final session of the round robin at the end of the four days strenuous
bridge in the White House Junior Internationals 2008. Dutch declarer Meike
Wortel gets in big trouble when she and
partner Marion Michielsen reach an overoptimistic 5♦. The double by an English U-20 player with
youthful enthusiasm means the
qualification for the semi-final of the Netherlands Red is in danger. Kibitzers
at the BBO vugraph (every session of the round robin is watched by several
thousand viewers) see that a spade lead will sink the contract even three
vulnerable doubled tricks. The contract at the other table is 3NT down one and the
Dutch seem to lose a lot of imps which would result in a big loss. Fortunately
for the Dutch declarer she gets a heart lead which blows away one trick for the
defence. But even with -500 the qualification for the semi is very doubtful. The members of the
French team, who won their last
match, look happy because these events
mean they will overcome the Dutch juniors. In the endgame Meike succeeds in
stealing another trick and escapes for down one after which the Dutch players
and supporters sigh a deep breath of relief and cheer the birth in the
knock-out.
Impressions
from the round robin
Four days,
23 matches, produce many stories(at www.jeugdbridge.nl
webmaster Rosaline Barendregt collected the results, photographs and may interesting hands) . There were many fascinating
adventures and also a lot of good bridge. Israeli juniors Alon Birman and Eliran
Argelazi had a smooth run to a very fine grand slam
South/all NORTH
♥ 9 5 4 3
♦ Q 10 7 6 5
♣ Q 3
WEST EAST
♠ J 10 ♠
8 6 5 3 2
♥ K J 10 8
7 6 ♥ A
Q 2
♦ J 9 3 ♦
--
♣ 6 2 ♣
J 10 8 7 6
SOUTH
♥ --
♦ A K 8 4 2
♣ A K 9 4
Argelazi Birman
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
1
♦
pass 1 ♥ pass 2
♠
pass 3 ♦ pass 4
♣
pass 4 ♦ pass 5
NT
pass 6 ♦(1 toph) pass 7
♦
all pass
Marion
Michielsen and Meike Wortel bid the grand the hard way
Wortel Michielsen
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
1
♦
2 ♥ pass 4 ♥ dbl
pass 5 ♦ pass 5
♥
pass 5 NT pass 7
♦
all pass
After the
severe intervention the Dutch girls really did very well to bid 7♦. Certainly a
nominee for the best bid hand of 2008.
Meike
Wortel earlier impressed the kibitzers with a nice line of play:
South/east-west NORTH
♠ H B 9 7 6
♥ A
♦ 7 4
♣ J 10 9 6 5
WEST EAST
♠ 5 ♠
10 8 4 3
♥ 9 2 ♥
Q J 7 2
♦ A K Q 10
8 6 3 2 ♦ 9
♣ 4 2 ♣
K Q 7 3
SOUTH
♠ A Q 2
♥ K 10 8 6 4
3
♦ J 5
♣ A 8
Michielsen Wortel
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
1
♥
4 ♦ dbl pass 4
♥
all pass
It is
interesting what 4♠ would mean after the 4♥ bid. North thought it was too
dangerous and passed 4♥ hoping for the best.
West lead
was the ♦A and after ♦K there would have been no story. Bur west switched to
the singleton ♠. Declarer took ♠A played a heart to the ace and a small club
from dummy, east splitted the honours so ♣A won the trick. Than ♥K and not seeing
a 3-3 division in ♥ declarer red the position perfect and played ♠Q and spade
to ♠K. East had to follow suit also on ♠J so ten tricks were assured for a good
420 whilst the Netherlands in the other room were left to play in 4♦ for down one.
Top four to
semi-final
Back to the struggle for the four spots in the
semi-final. The other
Final
ranking Round Robin
Semi-final
So it became the brother fight of Netherlands
Blue and Red with
North/- NORTH
♠ A K 10 5
♥ A 10 4 2
♦ Q
♣ A Q J 5
WEST EAST
♠ 9 4 2 ♠
8 7
♥ J 9 6 5 ♥ K
♦ A 10 5 ♦ K
J 9 3 2
♣ K 6 3 ♣
10 9 7 4 2
SOUTH
♠ Q J 6 3
♥ Q 8 7 3
♦ 8 7 6 4
♣ 8
Groenenboom Drijver
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
1 ♣ pass 1 ♥
pas 4 ♦ pass 4
♥
all pass
At the
other table north opened 2NT and ended in 4♠ which made in comfort.
A bog hand
for north after the 1♥-response. It will not have been easy to do only one
slemtry and the pass after 4♥ was very disciplined. Commmentators at BBO joked
en even predicted that 4♥ would become very difficult. Declarer Bob Drijver
proved them to be wrong. He took the lead of ♠4 (second/fourth) with ♠A and
immediately played ♦Q. East took ♦K and played back a second diamond ruffed in
dummy. Declarer crossed to ♠Q and took a successful finesse for ♣K. ♣A (spade
from south) and a club ruffed, ♣K in west. A second diamond ruff followed. With
a perfect insight for the whole distribution and guided by the lead declarer
decided spades to be 3-2 divided with
three in west, who also seemed to have three diamonds and three clubs. That
gave west a forurcard in hearts. So declarer took one round of trumps with ♥A,
cashed ♠K, ruffed a spade with ♥Q and played a diamond to score ♥10 en passant
for +450.
Tim Verbeek
did a fine job bringing home a touch-and-go 4♥.
Heeres Verbeek
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
2 ♦ (weak!) pass 2
♠
pass 3 ♦ pass 3
♥
pass 4 ♥ all pass
The both
Tim’s form no regular partnership but performed strong all week long: but
unavoidable they were not always on the same wavelength which resulted – nobody
in this sequence knew what was forcing – in an awkward 4♥.
The lead was ♣A and another club for ♣K in
dummy. Declarer started on spades and east took ♠A to play anther club, ruffed
by south. ♠K and a spade ruffed
developed that suit. Now a small diamond ruffed in south followed by a small
heart left defenders helpless for a juicy 620 whilst at the other table north
also opened a weak two in diamonds (the juniors of today open solid!) but was
left there for one down.
The semi’s ended with
The tiebreaker
The first
board was flat. Than the decision:
East/-- NORTH
♠ A 10 5
♥ A 7 4
♦ J 9 6 5 4
♣ Q 2
WEST EAST
♠ K 8 5 3 ♠ Q
J 7 6
♥ 6 5 ♥
K 10 9 8 3
♦ A Q 8 7 ♦ 2
♣ 10 7 6 ♣ 9
5 3
SOUTH
♥ Q J 2
♦ K 10 2
♣ A K J 8 4
Drijver Groenenboom
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
2
♥ (♥+♠) pass
3 ♠ all pass
When south
did not overcall east-west were on their way to win the bidding. After the lead
of ♣Q declarer lost in total six tricks for -100. But this was absolutely no
guarantee for a win (and a place in the final). North south would after a pass
by east certainly bid 3NT which fate depended on the lead.
de Pagter Hop
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
pass 1 NT
pass 3 NT all pass
So it was
west who had to lead. Spade (Blue in the final) or diamond(Red to the
final)? It became a final
The final,
a second tie!!
In this match the Dutch juniors took a
substantial lead (45-17) with some five boards to play. The unimaginable
happed.
Consolation Teams
Friday when
the semi finalists battled out their fight for victory all the other teams
played a Swiss teams tournament. That is to say : many transnational teams were
formed, a good tradition in this (and other) events, juniors meet, get to know
each other en mingle during this week. This win went to the Austrian junior
team. The White House Junior Internationals was closed on Saturday with a
(pro-am like) pairs tournament where all participants(of course a bunch of them
did not show but took the opportunity to visit
Thanks to
the sponsors
So everybody involved hopes that 2009 will
produce another White House Junior Internationals with big thanks to Stichting
Topbridge of the NBB, UMW, Modalfa, van Lanschot Bankiers, Neat, Transfer
Solutions, bridgefriends Jos Jansen, Hans Grauw, Ruud van Rosmalen, Wouter
Dormits and of course Peter Sisselaar who astonished everybody with the speech
at the opening of the tournament in a surprising mixture of English, German,
French and even in Dutch. Without all these guys and also with the gigantic
effort of Roos (who daily took care of over 150 juniors) and Paul (who cooked
every day a by everyone praised dinner for 150) in the Witte Huis this
wonderful event would not have been possible.
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