Bulletin 26.06.00 - Nordic Bridge Union
Bulletin 26.06.00 - Nordic Bridge Union
Bulletin 26.06.00 - Nordic Bridge Union
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Tuesday<br />
<strong>Nordic</strong> <strong>Bridge</strong> Championships - Hveragerði, 26th June — 1st July 2000<br />
Velkomin, kære spillere og tilskuere.<br />
Velkommen til NM 2000 i Hveragerði og tak til Hveragerði-kommune for en varm og dejlig velkomst<br />
i aftes.<br />
Det er en stor ære og glæde for Det Islandske <strong>Bridge</strong>forbund at sige velkommen og håbe at det<br />
ikke er sidste gang den her venskabsturnering bliver afholdt heroppe i det kolde nord.<br />
At vi har valgt at spille her, midt i det jordskælvsramte område har altså ikke noget at göre med at<br />
vi tror vi Islændinge har brug for hjælp fra jordens indre for gode resultater, tværtimod. Men vi<br />
håber at I får lidt tid til at nyde at kikke på varme kilder og de tropiske drivhuse som kendetegner<br />
byen.<br />
Det er i hvert fald sikkert at vi får bridge på höjeste niveau, for i Norden har vi jo spillere som<br />
respekteres i international sammenhæng.<br />
Men det som vi i Norden sætter måske störst pris på er venskab og sammenhold. Jeg håber at når<br />
vi allesammen siger farvel og tak for denne gang, har fået nye venner og gode minder hver i sin<br />
skattekiste.<br />
Guðmundur Ágústsson, præsident Islandsk <strong>Bridge</strong>forbund<br />
Guðmundur Ágústsson forseti <strong>Bridge</strong>sambandsins<br />
færir Aldísi Hafsteinsdóttur forseta bæjarstjórnar<br />
Hveragerðis þakklætisvott fyrir þátttöku bæjarins í<br />
Norðurlandamótinu í bridge.<br />
Aldís Hafsteinsdóttir forseti bæjarstjórnar<br />
Hveragerðis og Hálfdán Kristjánsson bæjarstjóri<br />
Hveragerðis.<br />
<strong>Bulletin</strong> staff: Ísak Örn Sigurðsson editor, Stefanía Skarphéðinsdóttir, Rebekka<br />
Aðalsteinsdóttir, Sveinn Rúnar Eiríksson tournament director, Jakob Kristinsson.
Time Schedule<br />
Tuesday - June 27th 10:00 - 12:00 Round 1, first half<br />
12:15 - 14:15 Round 1, second half<br />
15:00 - 17:00 Round 2, first half<br />
17:15 - 19:15 Round 2, second half<br />
Wednesday - June 28th 09:00 - 11:00 Round 3, first half<br />
11:15 - 13:15 Round 3, second half<br />
Thursday - June 29th Day off, tour to Gullfos,<br />
Geysir and Þingvellir<br />
14:00 - 16:00 Round 4, first half<br />
16:15 - 18:15 Round 4, second half<br />
19:30 - 21:30 Round 5, first half<br />
21:45 - 23:45 Round 5, second half<br />
Friday - June 30th 9:00 - 11:00 Round 6, first half<br />
11:15 - 13:15 Round 6, second half<br />
14:00 - 16:00 Round 7, first half<br />
16:15 - 18:15 Round 7, second half<br />
19:30 - 21:30 Round 8, first half<br />
21:45 - 23:45 Round 8, second half<br />
Saturday - July 1st 9:00 - 11:00 Round 9, first half<br />
11:15 - 13:15 Round 9, second half<br />
14:00 - 16:00 Round 10, first half<br />
16:15 - 18:15 Round 10, second half<br />
20:00 - ???? Dinner and Prizegiving<br />
ceremony
Names of players & captains<br />
ICELAND Erla Sigurjónsdóttir<br />
Dröfn Guðmundsdóttir<br />
Bryndís Þorsteinsdóttir<br />
Guðrún K. Jóhannesdóttir<br />
Ragnheiður Nielsen<br />
Hjördís Sigurjónsdóttir<br />
NPC Kristján Blöndal<br />
DENMARK Tina Ege<br />
Maria Rahelt<br />
Stense Farholt<br />
Nadia Bekkouche<br />
PC: Lotte Skaanning-Norris<br />
NORWAY Åse Langeland<br />
Eva Lund Heitmann<br />
Siv Thoresen<br />
Sölvi Remen<br />
NPC: Per Bryde Sundseth<br />
SWEDEN Pia Andersen<br />
Catarina Midskog<br />
Maria Grönqvist<br />
Catharina Forsberg<br />
PC: Anna Järup<br />
Ladies Open<br />
FINLAND Birgit Bärlund<br />
Raija Koistinen<br />
Pirkko Savolainen<br />
Sari Kulmala<br />
NPC: Kauko Koistinen<br />
FAROE ISLANDS Jórun Johannesen<br />
Randi Jacobsen<br />
Jóna Grunnveit<br />
Henriette Svenstrup<br />
Marjun Restorff<br />
Arnleyg Eikhólm Mikkelsen<br />
NPC: Heðin Mouritsen<br />
ICELAND Aðalsteinn Jörgensen<br />
Sverrir Ármannsson<br />
Anton Haraldsson<br />
Sigurbjörn Haraldsson<br />
Magnús E. Magnússon<br />
Þröstur Ingimarsson<br />
NPC: Guðmundur P.<br />
Arnarson<br />
FINLAND Clas Nyberg<br />
Pekka Vihtilä<br />
Pasi Kuokkanen<br />
Kenneth Simonsen<br />
PC: Olli A. Manni<br />
DENMARK Nils Mönsted<br />
Johan Hammelev<br />
Jens Ove Henneberg<br />
Flemming Pedersen<br />
PC: Hans Werge<br />
NORWAY Boye Brogeland<br />
Erik Sælensminde<br />
Tom Höiland<br />
Geir Brekka<br />
NPC: Einar Asbjörn Brenne<br />
SWEDEN Anders Morath<br />
Mårten Gustawsson<br />
Magnus Eriksson<br />
Ulf Nilsson<br />
Frederik Nyström<br />
Peter Strömberg<br />
NPC: Daniel Auby<br />
FAROE ISLANDS Árni Dam<br />
Marner Joensen<br />
Bogi Simonsen<br />
Arne Mikkelsen<br />
Arnbjörn J. Sivertsen<br />
Hans Jacob Petersen<br />
NPC: Niels Nielsen
Ladies & Open Teams<br />
Tournament program<br />
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3<br />
Round 1 Iceland – Faroe Islands Sweden – Denmark Finland – Norway<br />
Round 2 Denmark – Faroe Islands Iceland – Norway Sweden – Finland<br />
Round 3 Sweden – Faroe Islands Finland – Iceland Norway – Denmark<br />
Round 4 Faroe Islands – Norway Denmark – Finland Iceland – Sweden<br />
Round 5 Faroe Islands – Finland Norway – Sweden Denmark – Iceland<br />
Round 6 Faroe Islands – Iceland Denmark – Sweden Norway – Finland<br />
Round 7 Faroe Islands – Denmark Norway – Iceland Finland – Sweden<br />
Round 8 Faroe Islands – Sweden Iceland – Finland Denmark – Norway<br />
Round 9 Norway – Faroe Islands Finland – Denmark Sweden – Iceland<br />
Round 10 Finland – Faroe Islands Sweden – Norway Iceland – Denmark<br />
1. DENMARK<br />
2. ICELAND<br />
3. SWEDEN<br />
4. FINLAND<br />
5. NORWAY<br />
Teams<br />
6. FAROE ISLANDS
NM 1988 was the<br />
first win for Iceland<br />
The <strong>Nordic</strong> championships 1988<br />
where historical for Icelanders<br />
because Iceland won the title in<br />
Open-series for the first time. Players<br />
in the team where Jón Baldursson,<br />
Valur Sigurðsson, Karl<br />
Sigurhjartarson, Sigurður Sverrisson,<br />
Sævar Þorbjörnsson and Þorlákur<br />
Jónsson. None of them is in the Open<br />
team for the <strong>Nordic</strong> Championships<br />
2000. The <strong>Nordic</strong> Championships<br />
was unusually equal. Iceland<br />
finished with 178 points, Sweden<br />
just behind with 177, and Denmark<br />
173. Finland and Norway where not<br />
far away, finished with 149 and 148<br />
points.<br />
The last game between Iceland and<br />
Denmark in the last round was very<br />
difficult for Icelanders to watch.<br />
After the first 10 boards the Danes<br />
led by 43 imps to nil. But then the<br />
Icelanders began to fight back, and<br />
the game finished 15-15, Iceland<br />
scoring 76 imps, and Denmark 73.<br />
Meanwhile Norway had to get at<br />
least 12 points in their match against<br />
Sweden. 12 points was exactly what<br />
they got! If Sweden had got 2 more<br />
imps, they would have been<br />
champions.<br />
This hand was wery decisive in the<br />
Iceland-Denmark match.<br />
Hand 26. E/All<br />
North<br />
AK6<br />
KJ98<br />
AKQJ85<br />
-<br />
West East<br />
Q10874<br />
93<br />
A65 1074<br />
72 9<br />
A97 KQJ8543<br />
South<br />
J52<br />
Q32<br />
10643<br />
J62<br />
Closed room<br />
East South West North<br />
Jón B. Mohr Valur Dam<br />
3 pass 3 NT 4<br />
Pass 4 Pass 5<br />
Pass 5 Pass 6 ///<br />
West´s lead was the ace of clubs and<br />
after South had ruffed and drawn<br />
trumps, revealing that he had 4<br />
diamonds. EW saw that the slam<br />
depended on the hearts as south´s<br />
distribution had to be 3-3-4-3. When<br />
South played hearts, both EW<br />
showed an odd number by their<br />
counting methods. Declarer decided<br />
they where both lying, and played<br />
for west hawing four hearts to the<br />
ace and ten, thus getting only 11<br />
tricks. When this board came on<br />
rama, Iceland had the score of 100,<br />
and prospects were good. Sævar and<br />
Karl were playing against Stig<br />
Werdelin and Lars Blakset, and<br />
finished in 5 diamonds. Iceland won<br />
12 imps which secured the title for<br />
the Icelanders.<br />
Narrow win in 1999<br />
Last year <strong>Nordic</strong> Junior<br />
Championships was played in<br />
Iceland. Most of the time, Denmark<br />
looked wery much like winners, both<br />
in the older group and the school<br />
group. But in the last two games,<br />
Sweden got 43 points in the older<br />
group out of possible 50, but<br />
Denmark only 29 points. Sweden<br />
finished as Champions with 169<br />
points, and Denmark finished as<br />
runners up with 167 points. In the<br />
school group the Danish team<br />
finished more than 20 VP ahead of<br />
Sweden. Fredrik Nyström og Peter<br />
Strömberg where players in the older<br />
team, and did wery well. They are<br />
now playing in the open team in the<br />
upcoming Championships, and must<br />
be anxious to do as well in this<br />
tournament.<br />
Aggressive bidding<br />
and exact play<br />
In match four Sweden lost their<br />
game against Finland 9-21. But the<br />
Swedes had their moments in this<br />
game. In the second half, Tobias<br />
Törnqvist and Henrik Noberius bid<br />
wery agressively to 4 on this hand:<br />
Board 27, S/0<br />
North<br />
AK863<br />
KJ86<br />
8<br />
A72<br />
West East<br />
54<br />
J972<br />
Q953 107<br />
KQ62 A9753<br />
K108 Q4<br />
South<br />
Q10<br />
A42<br />
J104<br />
J9653<br />
South West North East<br />
Tobias Henrik<br />
Pass Pass 1 Pass<br />
1 NT D RD 3<br />
Pass Pass 3 Pass<br />
4 Pass Pass D ///<br />
East led the ace of diamonds and<br />
another to partners queen. Tobias<br />
did´nt want to shorten his trumps, so<br />
he discarded a club, and another one<br />
on the diamond king which followed.<br />
West then switched to a club to<br />
declarers ace. Now Tobias finessed<br />
the spade ten, played the queen and<br />
ruffed a club. Then he played the AK<br />
of trumps. The second trump did two<br />
things at the same time; pulled East´s<br />
last trump and squeezed West in<br />
hearts and clubs. West discarded a<br />
heart, and then it only remained to<br />
finesse the heart jack and win the<br />
tenth trick with a small heart; 590 to<br />
Sweden and a good swing.
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