Nordic Junior Team Bridge Championships June 24 - 28, 2003

Nordic Junior Team Bridge Championships 

June 24 - 28, 2003 

Bulletin 4, June 27 

NORWAY B IN STRONG LEAD 

STANDINGS 

AFTER ROUND SEVEN 

Thursday June 26, 2003 

1. NOR B 137 

2. DEN A 124 

NOR A 124 1 

4. SWE A 123 1 

5. SWE B 113 

6. DEN B 93 

7. FIN A 86 

8. FIN B 30½ 

1 

These are the final results for these two teams after round 

VII. Original result for SWE A was 124 vp, and for NOR A 

122 vp, but appeals-committee’s decision was to take one 

point off from SWE A, and add two points to NOR A. Further 

explanation in the next bulletin. 

BANQUET 

with price giving 

ceremonies will be 

held in the Manor 

On Saturday, June 28 

at 17.30 

Schedule 

Today (Friday) 

9.30 - 12.20: Eighth round 8 - 2, 4 - 

7, 3 - 1, 6 - 5 

12.30 Lunch 

13.20 - 16.10 Ninth round 3 - 8, 1 - 5, 

2 - 4, 7 - 6 

16.45 - 19.20 Tenth round 8 - 4, 

6 - 2, 5 - 3, 1 - 7 (Rama) 

19.30 Dinner 

Schedule 

Tomorrow (Saturday) 

9.30 - 12.20: Eleventh round 6 - 8, 

4 - 1, 7 - 5, 2 - 3 

12.30 Lunch 

13.20 - 16.10 Twelfth round 8 - 5, 

3 - 7, 4 - 6, 1 - 2 

17.30 Banquet and price giving 

RAMA 

FRIDAY JUNE 27, 

ROUND 10 (7-1), 16.45 

SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 

ROUND 12, 13.20

Nordic Junior Team Bridge Championships, June 24 - 28, 2003, Turku - Åbo 

EXPLANATION 

ROUND III 

DENMARK A - FINLAND B 

There has been a few questions why 

Denmark A - Finland B match has such an 

odd result as 24 - 3½. The original score was 

actually 4 - 25 but since Denmark A was late 

from the beginning and late at the end, they 

lost one whole point, and since Finland was 

late at the end, they lost ½ points, and the 

final result became oddish sounding 24 - 3½. 

Six Spades 

In top match Norway B - Denmark A, East 

was playing a reasonable solid slam, 6 

spades. After heart lead East must quess how 

to handle spades. What would be the best 

way or is this only an educated guess? East 

played first the King of Spades and since the 

distribution was unfortunate to the declarer, 

the game was set. 

Round VII, Deal 35 

♠ K852 

♥ AKJT 

♠ J 

♥ 87632 

♦ AJ43 

♣ 984 

N 

♠ AQ97 

♥ 54 

♦ 5 W E ♦ KQ762 

♣ KJ76 S ♣ A2 

♠ T643 

♥ Q9 

♦ T98 

♣ QT53 

Story of Two Diamonds 

In the match between Sweden A and Finland 

B, Teija from Finland made a very good play 

in a curious contract. 

North East South West 

Svivelind Bäckström Ericsson Niemistö 

pass pass 1 ♣ 

1 ♠ pass 1 NT 2 ♦ 

All pass 

2 

Round II, Deal 22 

♠ A92 

♥ AK 

♠ KQ765 

♥ QT 

♦ Q96 

♣ JT6 

N 

♠ JT43 

♥ 8543 

♦ AT3 W E ♦ J82 

♣ A8743 S 

♣ K9 

♠ 8 

♥ J9762 

♦ K754 

♣ Q52 

Facing a difficult rebid, and not wanting to 

double with only 2 hearts, Teija (Niemistö) 

chose 2 ♦ and nobody had anything to add to 

this bid. Kjell’s (Ericsson) lead, the Queen of 

hearts would not be everybody’s choice but 

it was not bad either. Teija could count 6 

tricks directly, 7 tricks with a club ruff but 

where to get the precious 8 th trick? She 

played the Ace of hearts, then King of hearts, 

Ace or clubs, King of clubs and a club ruff. 

Now if she tries to ruff a heart, contract can 

not be made. Instead, she played the Ace of 

spades and continued with a spade! Kjell 

could take the second spade but then he had 

no good continuation. If he returned 

diamond, eighth trick will come from the 

combination of J8-AT3, and if he played a 

spade, it would allow a ruff for that precious 

trick. 

There might be an interesting play in 3 NT, 

and certainly 1NT on N/S is hard to make but 

as we say in Sweden “in is in”. 

Björn Thalén (Sweden B) 

Editor’s addition: In the other table NS pair 

played 1 NT with three down.


ROUND V 

Teams Players IMP VP 

FIN B - NOR B Toni Bäckström - Teija Niemistö, 

Gabriel Lindström - Visa Vallivaara 

Petter Eide - Allan Livgård, John V Aa - Fredrik Simonsen 

NOR A - DEN B Erik Eide - Espen Lindqvist, 

Ivar Berg - Håkon Kippe 

RESULTS, JUNE 26 

Anne-Sofie Mörch-Houlberg - Simon Mörch-Houlberg, 

Johan Lasthein - Nicolai Andersen 

SWE B - FIN A Sandra Rimsted - Cecilia Rimsted, 

Oskar Eriksson - Emil Andersson 

Hulda Ahonen - Pia Nurmi, Matti Kanervo - Matti Kinnunen 

DEN A - SWE A Andreas Sejr Jensen - Flemming Clausen 

Kåre Gjaldbæk - Martin Shaltz 

ROUND VI 

1 Original scoring for Sweden A - Norway A was 15 - 15, but the appeals-committee changed 

the result so that Sweden A lost one VP and Norway A gained two VP. Further explanation will 

be in the next bulletin. 

3 

17 - 67 5 - 25 

88 - 54 22 - 8 

57 - 28 21 - 9 

43 - 34 17 - 13 


SWE B - FIN B Emma Sjöberg - Björn Thalén, 

Oscar Eriksson - Emil Andersson 

Marko Tallgren - Roni Salonen 


FIN A - DEN A Hulda Ahonen - Pia Nurmi, Matti Kanervo - Matti Kinnunen 

Flemming Clausen - Andreas Jensen, 

Martin Shaltz - Kåre Gjaldbæk 

NOR B - DEN B Petter Eide - Allan Livgård, John V. Aa - Fredrik Simonsen 

Lea T Møller - Lars Nielsen, Fie Houlberg - Simon Houlberg 

SWE A - NOR A Daniel Salomonsson - Per-Erik Malmström, 

Kjell Ericsson - Daniel Svivelind 

Erik E. Eide - Espen Lindqvist, 

Ivar Berg - Håkon Kippe 

60 - 18 24 - 6 

38 - 88 5 - 25 

48 - 60 17 - 13 

18 - 24 14 - 17 1


RESULTS, JUNE 26 

ROUND VII 


NOR A - FIN B Erik A. Eide - Espen Linqvist, Ivar Berg - Håkon Kippe 

Toni Bäckström - Teija Niemistö, 


NOR B - DEN A Petter Eide - Allan Livgård, John V. Aa - Fredrik Simonsen 

Flemming Clausen - Andreas Sejr Jensen, 

Martin Schalz - Kåre Gjaldbæk 

SWE A - FIN A Henrik Morin - Patrik Johansson, 

Kjell Ericsson - Daniel Sivelind 

Hulda Ahonen - Pia Nurmi, Matti Kanervo - Matti Kinnunen 

SWE B - DEN B Sandra Rimsted - Cecilia Rimsted, 

Emma Sjöberg - Björn Thalén 

Johan Lasthein Andersen - Nicolai Pedersen, 

Lea T. Møller - Lars K. Nielsen 

4 

103 - 12 25 -0 

47 - 27 19 - 11 

60 - 48 17 - 13 

34 - 39 14 - 16


SCORE CARDS, ROUND 5 

FINLAND B NORWAY B 

5



NORWAY A DENMARK B 

6



SWEDEN B FINLAND A 

7



DENMARK A SWEDEN A 

8



SWEDEN B FINLAND B 

9



FINLAND A DENMARK A 

10



NORWAY B DENMARK B 

11



SWEDEN A NORWAY A 

12



NORWAY A FINLAND B 

13



NORWAY B DENMARK A 

14



SWEDEN A FINLAND A 

15



SWEDEN B DENMARK B 

16

Nordic Junior Team Bridge Championships June 24 - 28, 2003

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