Bulletin 26.06.00 - Nordic Bridge Union

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Ladies & Open Teams Tournament program Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Round 1 Iceland – Faroe Islands Sweden – Denmark Finland – Norway Round 2 Denmark – Faroe Islands Iceland – Norway Sweden – Finland Round 3 Sweden – Faroe Islands Finland – Iceland Norway – Denmark Round 4 Faroe Islands – Norway Denmark – Finland Iceland – Sweden Round 5 Faroe Islands – Finland Norway – Sweden Denmark – Iceland Round 6 Faroe Islands – Iceland Denmark – Sweden Norway – Finland Round 7 Faroe Islands – Denmark Norway – Iceland Finland – Sweden Round 8 Faroe Islands – Sweden Iceland – Finland Denmark – Norway Round 9 Norway – Faroe Islands Finland – Denmark Sweden – Iceland Round 10 Finland – Faroe Islands Sweden – Norway Iceland – Denmark 1. DENMARK 2. ICELAND 3. SWEDEN 4. FINLAND 5. NORWAY Teams 6. FAROE ISLANDS
NM 1988 was the first win for Iceland The Nordic championships 1988 where historical for Icelanders because Iceland won the title in Open-series for the first time. Players in the team where Jón Baldursson, Valur Sigurðsson, Karl Sigurhjartarson, Sigurður Sverrisson, Sævar Þorbjörnsson and Þorlákur Jónsson. None of them is in the Open team for the Nordic Championships 2000. The Nordic Championships was unusually equal. Iceland finished with 178 points, Sweden just behind with 177, and Denmark 173. Finland and Norway where not far away, finished with 149 and 148 points. The last game between Iceland and Denmark in the last round was very difficult for Icelanders to watch. After the first 10 boards the Danes led by 43 imps to nil. But then the Icelanders began to fight back, and the game finished 15-15, Iceland scoring 76 imps, and Denmark 73. Meanwhile Norway had to get at least 12 points in their match against Sweden. 12 points was exactly what they got! If Sweden had got 2 more imps, they would have been champions. This hand was wery decisive in the Iceland-Denmark match. Hand 26. E/All North AK6 KJ98 AKQJ85 - West East Q10874 93 A65 1074 72 9 A97 KQJ8543 South J52 Q32 10643 J62 Closed room East South West North Jón B. Mohr Valur Dam 3 pass 3 NT 4 Pass 4 Pass 5 Pass 5 Pass 6 /// West´s lead was the ace of clubs and after South had ruffed and drawn trumps, revealing that he had 4 diamonds. EW saw that the slam depended on the hearts as south´s distribution had to be 3-3-4-3. When South played hearts, both EW showed an odd number by their counting methods. Declarer decided they where both lying, and played for west hawing four hearts to the ace and ten, thus getting only 11 tricks. When this board came on rama, Iceland had the score of 100, and prospects were good. Sævar and Karl were playing against Stig Werdelin and Lars Blakset, and finished in 5 diamonds. Iceland won 12 imps which secured the title for the Icelanders. Narrow win in 1999 Last year Nordic Junior Championships was played in Iceland. Most of the time, Denmark looked wery much like winners, both in the older group and the school group. But in the last two games, Sweden got 43 points in the older group out of possible 50, but Denmark only 29 points. Sweden finished as Champions with 169 points, and Denmark finished as runners up with 167 points. In the school group the Danish team finished more than 20 VP ahead of Sweden. Fredrik Nyström og Peter Strömberg where players in the older team, and did wery well. They are now playing in the open team in the upcoming Championships, and must be anxious to do as well in this tournament. Aggressive bidding and exact play In match four Sweden lost their game against Finland 9-21. But the Swedes had their moments in this game. In the second half, Tobias Törnqvist and Henrik Noberius bid wery agressively to 4 on this hand: Board 27, S/0 North AK863 KJ86 8 A72 West East 54 J972 Q953 107 KQ62 A9753 K108 Q4 South Q10 A42 J104 J9653 South West North East Tobias Henrik Pass Pass 1 Pass 1 NT D RD 3 Pass Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass Pass D /// East led the ace of diamonds and another to partners queen. Tobias did´nt want to shorten his trumps, so he discarded a club, and another one on the diamond king which followed. West then switched to a club to declarers ace. Now Tobias finessed the spade ten, played the queen and ruffed a club. Then he played the AK of trumps. The second trump did two things at the same time; pulled East´s last trump and squeezed West in hearts and clubs. West discarded a heart, and then it only remained to finesse the heart jack and win the tenth trick with a small heart; 590 to Sweden and a good swing.
Page 1 and 2: Tuesday Nordic Bridge Championships
Page 3: Names of players & captains ICELAND

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