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Day 1 – Saturday.

Welcome to The Gold Coast Congress….and this year it is nice to be able to make what I hope will be daily reports about the progress of Kiwi players here actually from the venue itself.

It is probably not good form to start with an apology. Yet, while I will try to cover all the good performances by Kiwis over here, there is a chance that someone will slip through my net. If so, it is not intentional. So, to day 1 and the first piece of news is that it is raining, an unusual experience for those who have travelled from the top half of the North Island.

In the following results, overseas players playing with Kiwis are in italics:

Gold Coast Open Pairs. The following New Zealand pairs qualified in the top two sections (14 pairs per direction per section, 9 sections in total):

To Final A  N/S

12th	Margaret Perley,Paul Freeland	113.62
14th	MichaelWare- Nick Jacob	113.52
	East-West
7th	GeO Tislevoll-Terjie Lie	119.77
10th	MatthewBrownAndrew Spooner	117.20

To Final B   N/S

17th	Steve and Andi Boughey	112.79
18th	Sandra Calvert and Colin Carryer	112.46
22nd	Murat Genc and Arleen Schwartz	110.49
26th	Will Adler and John Luoni	108.53

To Final B E/W

15th	Jan Cormack – Kathryn Yule	115.47
17th	Chen Ding – Herman Yuan	114.55
20th	Jenny Millington- Barry Jones	112.96
25th	Duncan Badley-Paula Boughey	111.87
26th	Lynne Geursen – Richard Solomon	110.51

 

Intermediate for Section A  (4 sections)

N/S

1st	Nicky Bowers – Joy Watkinson	122.42
10th	Carol Joseph- Richard Stuart	109.60
E/W	nil

 

Restricted (7 sections)

For Section A 

N/S

3rd	Pam Whitehead – Stuart Grant	116.25
4th	Jennie Borren – Margie Robbie	115.99
6th	Jane Jordan – Marge Scott	113.60
8th	Hattie Curtis – Alan Mace	112.45
9th	Nick Edginton – Rhonda Graham	112.30
12th	Tim Rigter – Rochelle Van Heuven	111.16
13th	Wendy McEntegart- Nicolette Bartoli	110.95

 

4^th E/W were Adrienne Dale and Miriam Lewin. 120.01.

Weekend MatchPoint Swiss Pairs (150 pairs) after 3 of 9 rounds:

4th	Jane Lennon- Alan Grant	47.94
7th	Alister Stuck – Andrew Tarbutt	45.91
8th	Bill Humphrey- Paul Carson	45.77
13th	Michael Pemberton – Chris Ackerley	44.23
16th	Sarah Green – Lyn Muller	43.35

 

Just one hand from the day, an instructive one with a little twist in its tail:

 

South investigated the heart slam but on finding their partner did not have the A chickened out in 5. When East led the J, it really looked like North-South had missed a very cold slam. However, North had a form of tunnel vision, common to many players. Despite having a dummy “to die for”, North focused only on their own hand.

Declarer played K at trick 1 with West taking their ace and returning 4. Declarer cashed 10, A and then played a heart to their 7. Next came K to be followed by a low club ruffed with dummy’s last trump. However, West did not overruff. Declarer cashed K, AK but the game was up! If North ruffed the third diamond, West had a trump and a high spade to defeat the contract. They threw a black suit loser as East won the trick but a club ruff provided the defence with their third trick.

Diamonds do not have to be 3-3 but that does seem to be a more appealing suit to attack. Play 10 and then A and ruff a diamond..return to dummy and see what happens when K is played. When West follows, North would have wished they were a level higher rather than a level lower!

Richard Solomon

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