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Congratulations to Alister Stuck and Andrew Tarbutt who finished 2^nd in the 150 pair 9 round Swiss Pairs event which finished yesterday. They won 7 of their matches and finished 10 vps behind the runaway winners but also a clear 10 vps ahead of the third finishing pair.

Meanwhile, several Kiwis are doing well in their 28 pair sections in the Open Pairs, where the finals are at the two thirds stage. Blow are the high Swiss finishers and those in the top 10 of their Pairs sections:

non-Kiwis in italics

Weekend Match Point Swiss Pairs

2nd	Alister Stuck – Andrew Tarbutt	133.72
9th	Michael Pemberton – Chris Ackerley	114.81
10th	Greg Buzzard – Harry Shepherd	113.37

 

Bobby Richman Open Pairs Final A                                  Final B

4th	GeO Tislevoll-Terjie Lie	111.63		4th	Barry Jones- Jenny Millington	111.97
6th	Michael Ware – Nick Jacob	109.29		5th	Jan Cormack- Kathryn Yule	106.84
8th	Matthew Brown – Andrew Spooner	108.33		8th	Paula Boughey-Duncan Badley	104.13
				9th	Andi and Steve Boughey	102.85

 

Final C                                                                       Final D

5th	Mark Siegrist- Andrew Janisz	111.19		1st	Susan Humphries – Michael Whibley	125.03
				2nd	Sam and Jo Simpson	117.81
				3rd	Wayne Burrows- Peter Hall	111.72
				10th	Michael Curry – Anthony Hopkins	102.01

 

Final E                                                                               Final G

7th	Lyn and David O’Shaughnessy	105.70		1st	Brian Cleaver – Debbie McLeod	124.10
8th	Peer Bach- Setsuko Lichtneker	103.13		4th	Anisia Shami – Owen Camp	111.07
				9th	Leslie and Russell Watt	106.55
				10th	Judith Roose-Driver- Johan Roose	104.30

Final F nil

Final H

1st	Liz and Blair Fisher	129.63		3rd	Bruce Anderson- Kathryn Tennant	112.96
				4th	Susan Laurenson- Jenny Delany	110.32

 

Intermediate Final A

7th	Nicky Bowers- Joy Watkinson	108.55
8th	Carol Joseph - Richard Stuart	106.13

Intermediate Final C

4th	Gail Tippett - Paul Maxwell	110.26
8th	Lyn Mould - Erica Tie	105.84

 

Restricted Final A

8th	Nick Edginton- Rhonda Graham	106.27
10th	Pam Whitehead - Stuart Grant	105.41

 

Restricted Final D

1st	Denise Mayhew - Dave Garrett	116.81
2nd	Robyn Findlay - Jan Stupples	113.25
9th	Sam Gurney- Caroline Casely	105.56
10th	Jenny Shore - Liz Duke	103.13

Restricted Final F

4th	Margaret Wilson - Angela Signal	108.70
6th	Peter Daffern - Laurie Belfield	104.07

Novice Pairs Final A

1^st            Sebastian Langdon McMillan- William Han  119.09

Would you like a lead problem? Here is your hand as North after your partner opens an 11-14 1NT.
The response to 4NT shows 1 or 4 key cards.

 You choose to defend as it seems that you will go minus in 6. Can you beat 6? Over to you.

Wake up, partner!

 A frantic piece of signalling might have saved the defence on this hand from the Pairs final:

 2 was a very weak jump, less than 6hcp, a 6+ card suit. South invited and with a near maximum and double fit, North was soon in game. East led a high heart...and it was time for both defenders to do a piece of quick thinking. With a maximum 5 count in the North hand, West could be fairly sure that East held A. How to get him to play it with that imposing suit in dummy?

West tried J at trick one. Since North was very unlikely to hold 4+ cards in hearts for their jump, this must be an unnaturally high card for some purpose. It is probably too hard for East to switch to the top diamond at trick 2...but after the second high heart and 10 from West? At our table, the switch was not found with few actually defeating the contract: a good hand for signalling and deductive defence.

Back then to my lead problem. It seemed right to try a minor suit but I chose the wrong one: A:

 The sight of that long diamond suit in dummy was not that impressive. Nor was the ruffing of the J at trick 2! Declarer drew trumps and set up the diamonds for 4 discards to make his slam. With the lucky fall of the K, 6 would only have been one down.

I did not come all this way for such experiences...or for the rain which is currently falling heavily!

Here's hoping for better tomorrow.

Richard Solomon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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