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as also did the play when East chose to lead a club.
Down one.
In the closed room N-S were Hans Göthe and Anders
Morath – Mr. Carrot himself. (If you are not linguistic
enough to see the similarity between the Swedish
word for carrot and the name Morath, just look at
the colour of his hair and you'll see why he's known as
Mr. Carrot.)
North South
1 1NT
2 3
3NT 4♣
4 4♠
6 6NT
The bidding needs to be explained. 1NT was a twoway
bid, inviting slam when followed by 30. 3NT
showed a weak balanced hand, and the remaining
bids were control showing. There was of course a
great deal of knocking on the table, following the 'alert'
procedure, but no one really took much notice until
North alerted the 4♣ bid. At this point West woke up
and inquired the meaning. Taking this as a warning
signal, Morath placed the contract at 6NT, to protect
♣K.
West led 2, giving the count away. South won in
hand, crossed to dummy with a diamond, and took
successful spade finesse. He proceeded to cash the
diamonds, throwing a spade, while West discarded a
couple of clubs. Then came a second spade finesse,
and when South now scored ♠A. West was in deep
trouble.
Finally he threw ♣Q. Now the low heart in dummy
went and Morath played ♣10 to the bare ace, taking
the rest with two heart tricks and a club.
Steen Møller
THE 1978 BOLS BRILLIANCY PRIZE
Gilles Cohen (FRA)
Journalist: Albert Dormer (GBR)
The 1978 BOLS Brilliancy Prize for the most brilliant
play or defence in any of the events of the 1978 World
Olympiad has been won by Gilles Cohen of Paris with
the deceptive play reported on Page 3 of this issue. M.
Cohen receives the BOLS Brilliancy Trophy and the
sum of $100. The winning journalist is Albert Dormer,
who receives $200.
There were 18 entries. The jury, consisting of
Herman Filarski (Chairman), Harold Franklin, Tannah
Hirsch, Richard Frey & Dirk Schroeder, placed Billy
Eisenberg second with the hand reported on P.2 by
Edwin Kantar. They receive $50 & $100 respectively.
Five prizes of $50 go to the following authors (in
168 IBPA Handbook 2010
brackets): Roudinesco (le Dentu), Sundelin (Dorthy
Francis), Fenwick (Oshlag), Amsbury (Klinger) &
Chagas (Truscott).
THE BOLS BRILLIANCY PRIZE is awarded for the
most brilliant play or defence in any of the events in
the New Orleans Olympiad. The jury consisted of
Tannah Hirsch, U.S.A., chairman; Harold Franklin,
Britain; Richard Frey, U.S.A; Herman Filarski, Holland;
and Dirk Schroeder, Germany.
The Prize is awarded to the player. In addition, the
journalist submitting the winning hand receives a cash
award ($200) and journalists submitting hands, which
receive honourable mentions, get smaller sums.
Under the rules prepared by Tannah Hirsch, panellists
were asked to treat the quality of the hand, not of
the writing, as of prime importance. The hands were
marked on a scale of 0 to 10.
LE ROI EST MORT VIVE LE ROI
By Albert Dormer
Some coups are a matter of pure technique. You plan
for a squeeze, or whatever, and if the cards lie in a
certain fashion your plan succeeds.
Whether such coups can be deserving of the term
'brilliancy' is a doubtful point, as the necessary technique
can be learned by rote and mechanically applied.
The defensive coup below is a true brilliancy. It
was invented on the spur of the moment — as perhaps
were some of the many fine recipes devised by
Erwen Lucas Bols, founder of the House of BOLS 400
years ago. It was not bound to succeed, but it did succeed,
simply because the declarer found it hard to
imagine that his opponent could be so inventive.
Dlr: East ♠ A Q 8 6 2
Vul: None 3
A J 9 7 5 2
♣ 6
♠ K J 10 7 ♠ 5 4 3
A 8 5 J 10 7 2
K 10 8 4
♣ 9 8 5 ♣ K Q J 10 7
♠ 9
K Q 9 6 4
Q 6 3
♣ A 4 3 2
East South West North
Cohen Mayer Souchon Frendo
Pass Pass Pass 1♠
Pass 2 Pass 3
Pass 3NT All Pass