Bulletin 4.indd - Bridge Federation Of Asia & Middle East

Issue No. 4
Sunday 31st May 2015
Final Push for the Seniors
Our smiling and industrious caddies and ushers, without whom the
Championships could never function.
The BFAME had elections for the posts of officers - a full list can be seen on page seven.
They also decided that the venue for the next Bridge Federation of Asia and Middle
East Championships will be held in 2017 in UAE.
After nine rounds in the Open, Jordan, three VPs
ahead of Bangladesh have opened a lead over Bahrain and UAE, who are currently favourites to take
the other two semi-final places. Pakistan followed by
India and Jordan have drawn away from the others
in the Women. Today is the final three rounds for the
Senior and India have an advantage over Sri Lanka
who are slightly ahead of Pakistan, Jordan will need
to make a big effort if they are to have a chance of
going to Chennai.
BBO Schedule Saturday May 29
10.30
10.30
14.30
14.30
17.30
17.30
Jor - Bah
Jor - Sri
Jor - UAE
Pak - Ind
UAE - Bah
Pak - Jor
Open
Seniors
Open
Women
Open
Seniors
Tomorrow the Seniors will have a day of rest. The following day the Seniors and Women will play their finals, whilst in the Open they will start
their semi-finals, concluding them on the day after and also the final.
Results & Standings
Open Championship
Round Robin 7
Bahrain 25 UAE
Jordan
60 Pakistan
Bangladesh 51 Qatar
Team
RR1
JOR 13.28
RR2
RR3
Round Robin 8
43 Pakistan
6 Bahrain
16 Bangladesh 20 Jordan
21 Qatar
21 UAE
RR4
RR5
RR6
RR7
RR8
Round Robin 9
35 Bahrain 44 Bangladesh 19
25 Jordan
50 Qatar
4
52 Pakistan 18 UAE
46
RR9 RR10 RR11 RR12 RR13 RR14 RR15
2.41 12.03 14.39 10.31 14.80 18.55 11.48 18.77
BAN 15.56 16.42
7.97 18.33 9.39 16.09 16.73
BAH 20.00 17.85
7.71
113.09
5.40 16.58 15.92
94.82
7.45 10.61 5.20 14.60 16.88 16.09
86.79
UAE
6.72
PAK
4.44 17.59 12.29 12.55
QAT
0.00
3.58 10.91
116.02
8.52 4.08
1.67 9.69
2.15 9.09
Total
3.91
0.00
3.91 1.48
5.61 16.09 20.00
3.42
3.91
63.47
3.27 3.12
1.23
61.81
Women Championship
Jordan
Palestine
Pakistan
41 UAE
20 India
Bye
Team
RR2 RR3
PAK
IND
RR1
22 India
30 Pakistan
UAE
RR4
RR5
28 Jordan
28 India
Bye
39
61
RR8
RR9 RR10 RR11 RR12 RR13 RR14 RR15
1.03 12.00
0.23
6.96
107.30
3.91 20.00 11.76 16.73 12.00 18.97 12.80 10.00 17.17
105.40
JOR
12.00 9.09 8.28 14.80
PAL
16.26 0.00 4.08 12.00 12.03
UAE
47 Pakistan
79 UAE
Palestine
RR7
16.09 12.00 15.92 5.20 19.93
3.74 10.91 12.00
3.27
RR6
47 Jordan
22 Palestine
Bye
7.97 12.00 14.80 10.00 13.04
101.94
0.57 7.20 19.77 12.00
0.07 19.43 5.20 12.00
Total
81.91
2.83
69.45
Senior Championship
Sri Lanka 48 Jordan
India
21 Pakistan
Team
32 Jordan
2 India
42 Sri Lanka 47 Pakistan
RR1
RR2
RR3
RR4
RR5
IND
10.61
3.91
6.96 11.48 19.25 17.97
SRI
11.48
6.48 13.04 15.38
6.72
PAK
9.39 13.52 15.38
8.52 13.28
JOR
8.52 16.09
4.62
4.62
RR6
RR7
RR8
50 India
15 Jordan
18 Sri Lanka 14
48 Pakistan 14
RR9 RR10 RR11 RR12
4.81 18.97 11.20
Total
105.16
2.03 14.08 17.03
8.80
94.14
5.40 15.19
2.69
86.34
1.03 17.31
71.36
0.75 14.60
5.82
2.97
All scores subject to official verification
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18th BFAME Bridge Championships — Amman, Jordan
Today’s Schedule
Morning Session
10.30
Start Times
Afternoon Session
14.30
Evevening Session
17.30
Open Championship
Round Robin 10
10.30 Round Robin 11
14.30 Round Robin 12
17.30
Jordan
Bahrain
Bahrain
Qatar
UAE
Bahrain
Qatar
Pakistan
Jordan
UAE
Pakistan
Jordan
UAE
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Qatar
Bangladesh
Women Championship
Palestine
Jordan
Palestine
UAE
UAE
Jordan
UAE
Pakistan
Pakistan
India
India
Palestine
Bye
Bye
India
Bye
Jordan
Pakistan
Senior Championship
Pakistan
India
India
Jordan
Sri Lanka
India
Jordan
Sri Lanka
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Pakistan
Jordan
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All
Another Round Up
H
ere we shall look at some of the deals that gave the
greatest number of swings. Our first deal features
a hand that was played in nine different contracts
over the fourteen tables.
Round 5
Board 3. Dealer South. E/W Vul.
♠ Q732
♥ J 10
♦ AQ 4
♣ J852
♠ A K 10 5
♥ 9754
♦—
♣ A K Q 10 9
W
N
S
E
♠J
♥ AQ 8
♦ K98653
♣ 643
♠ 9864
♥ K632
♦ J 10 7 2
♣7
The contract of Four Hearts declared by North was reached
five times and succeeded four. The only other contract to
make was Two Spades. Other contracts were the spade game,
and no-trumps at the one- and three-level, East/West were
not going to be left out and played in diamonds in various
denominations. None of these other contracts were successful.
The play in Four Hearts is not straightforward. There are
many traps for declarer. If after a diamond lead ruffed in hand
he cashes three top clubs he must discard diamonds and not
spades, then he should cash the ace and king of spades allowing East to ruff but now he is in control as the trump ace is
well-placed and the remaining trumps are 2-2.
Board 7. Dealer South. All Vul.
♠ Q976
♥ 87
♦ J2
♣ AQ J 9 6
Round
5 and 6
♠ 10 2
♥ J2
♦ Q3
♣ K 10 8 7 5 4 2
monds at all levels from two to five and hearts contract in the
other direction and even an optimistic 3NTx by North. The
most popular contract was Four Spades made twice and failed
twice. If you are in Four Spades it seems to me you have no
choice but to make the contract. Assuming the defence start
with three rounds of hearts (otherwise contract is easy), ruff
with the queen of spades and lead the jack of diamonds and
pray for a doubleton honour in the North hand and a favourable trump situation. South wins the diamond and continues
with another round of hearts, conceding a ruff and discard
you need to take the right view in the trump suit about the
position of the eight and the ten.
Board 16. Dealer West. E/W Vul.
♠ K 10 9 3 2
♥ K83
♦ 85
♣ 642
♠ AQ
♥ A 10 5 4
♦ 96432
♣ KJ
W
N
S
E
♠ 654
♥ 972
♦ A Q J 10
♣ Q97
♠ J87
♥ QJ6
♦ K7
♣ A 10 8 5 3
This time ten tables were in 3NT and one declarer failed in
his mission, strangely, he was the one who got a heart lead.
At the other tables the lead was a spade and when the queen
held declarer had to decide what was his best line. You have
little option but to cash the king of clubs and then run the
jack, when it holds what is your next move? Surely the best
bet is a small heart towards to the queen, at least this way
you are assured of an entry to the clubs. Though you do not
know for sure, the fall of the cards strongly suggest that they
break kindly. To fail you would East need to have the king of
hearts and West the ace of diamonds and that four diamonds
are cashable, not too likely.
♠ AK J 3
♥ 965
♦ A 10 9 7 6 5
♣—
♠ 854
♥ A K Q 10 4 3
♦ K84
♣3
You can find all the results and bulletins on the web-page: www.jordanbridgefederation.com/?page_id=910
This time we had ten different contracts! In spades and dia-
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All
Another Round Up
Nine tables bid the club slam , one a small slam in no-trumps
and one pair reached the grand. At one table reached Five
Clubs and gained six IMPs, the other table stopped in Three
Clubs!!! The question is how do you get to seven. One of
the drawbacks of a five-card major is that an opening bid of
One Club may well be on three cards, so North cannot leap
around and get excited about his club fit. After the reverse,
Round 6
Board 17. Dealer North. None Vul.
♠ QJ
♥ AQ
♦ A7 5 2
♣ K Q J 10 2
♠ 10 5
♥ 643
♦ Q84
♣ A8654
W
N
S
E
♠ A9 8 3 2
♥ K952
♦ J 10
♣ 97
♠ K764
♥ J 10 8 7
♦ K963
♣3
(an auction of 1♣ 1♥ 2♦) of course now North has ambitions. The question is what weapons does he have in armoury
to show a strong hand with club support and get across the
very important feature in his hand viz. the singleton spade.
A lot tried a Two Spades bid and then supported clubs but
South never really got the picture. Certainly a hand for you
and your partner to discuss an test your methods.
Board 30. Dealer East. None Vul.
The majority played in 3NT, Those who elected to play in
spades were thwarted by a club ruff. Those declarers who
received a diamond lead had the most work to do. To succeed you must attack the spades first otherwise North/South
can cash a couple of diamonds and eventually when South
gets his spade trick he will be able to cash the thirteenth diamond to sink the contract.
♠ QJ7
♥ 10 6
♦ KQ765
♣ K 10 4
♠ Q 10 7 5 2
♥ 9853
♦ 854
♣9
W
N
S
E
♠ K985
♥ KQ
♦ J984
♣ A87
W
N
S
E
♠ A4 3
♥ A9 8 7 5 2
♦—
♣ QJ32
♠ 10 6 2
♥ J43
♦ A 10 3 2
♣ 965
Board 22. Dealer East. E/W Vul.
♠4
♥ K7642
♦ KQ2
♣ AQ73
Round 5 and 6
♠ KJ83
♥ Q J 10
♦ J 10 7
♣ 854
♠ A96
♥A
♦ A963
♣ K J 10 6 2
Five tables attempted Four Hearts but only two of them
were successful, all the rest bar one successfully played a heart
partscore and that final table failed in 3NT. I cannot see an
obvious route to ten tricks in hearts and I have no play record
of a successful declarer. I can only assume a defensive error
but even that is not obvious excepting the lead of the ace of
diamonds. If you were a successful declarer come and tell me.
Butler Scores for Open after Nine Rounds
1
0.73
Rana Abdel-Hady - Jamal Abdel-Jalil
9
2
0.71
Ali Ahmmmed - Sk. Aminur Rahman
10 0.09
3
0.53
Md. Zahid Hossain - Mohammad Al Mamun
11 -0.38
Khawar Ansari - Masror Ansari
12 -0.49
Khaled Hassan
0.15
Mahesh Kumar - Padmini Dilip
Shujauddin Ahmed - Moazzem Hossain
4
0.41
El-Shourbagy Emad - Ahmed Mounir
13 -0.50 Abdallah Chaaban - Jihad Al Hajj
5
0.39
Marwan Ghanem - Serine Barakat
14 -0.57
6
0.27
Maci Teodoras - Basyouni Wael
15 -0.70 Jawed Niaz - Muhammad Shafique
7
0.18
Joan Halasa - Iskandar Imasaih
16 -0.81 Tamer Mahmoud
8
0.18
Humayun Sumar - Ravishankar Sadashiv
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Rita El Cordahi - Maan El Hashem
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Women
Jordan vs. UAE
W
ith Jordan needing a good win to overtake Pakistan and UAE equally needing a good result so as
to give them a chance to mount a charge towards
the top, it should be a good tussle, not all matches live up
their hype.
♠ KJ
♥ 982
♦ Q J 10 8 2
♣ 974
W
N
S
E
♠ Q 10 9 6
♥ J543
♦3
♣ A J 10 2
♠ A8732
♥ Q 10 7
♦ 974
♣ Q5
West
North
East
South
Pretti
Alalol
Cao
Alzaben
1NT
2♦
3NT
Pass
Pass
All Pass
2♣
2NT
Pass
Pass
North led the queen of diamonds which declarer took with
her ace. Declarer can only legitimately make her contract if
she finds the queen of clubs, which this declarer did not do
and was thus going to be two off but declarer took her eye of
the ball and presented the defence with another trick -300.
However what if you play a spade at trick two, the idea being
that you will then duck the next round of diamonds and then
take the club finesse toward South and if it fails now has to
decide between the majors and if she chooses unwisely you
have nine tricks.
Closed Room
West
North
East
South
Fakhuri
Jaffer
Najjab
Gupta
1NT
2♦
Pass
Double
2♣
All Pass
Pass
Did East/West have system faux pas? I am sure that East did
not want to play 2♦ doubled. We will not dwell on the play
save to say that declarer failed by one trick and having watched
the BBO live and at trick eleven I was wagering a large sum
it would fail by two tricks as declarer had no resource for
another trick, but bravely claimed a seven tricks for again of
three IMPs on the board rather than a loss of five.
♠ A K Q 10 7 5 4 3
♥—
♦ KJ4
♣ 53
♠8
N
♥ A7 4
W E
♦ Q76532
S
♣ Q94
♠ J62
♥ K Q 10 8 5
♦ 10
♣ K 10 7 6
Open Room
West
North
East
South
Pretti
Alalol
Cao
Alzaben
–
Pass
Open Room
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Board 5. Dealer North. N/S Vul.
♠9
♥ J9632
♦ A9 8
♣ AJ 8 2
Board 4. Dealer West. All Vul.
♠ 54
♥ AK 6
♦ AK 6 5
♣ K863
Round
Robin 7
1♠
4♠
Pass
All Pass
2♠
After the lead of a diamond declarer was not going to be
unduly taxed in making her contract. After taking her ace
West continued with a trump. Did North miss a theoretical
chance of making six by taking it in hand and playing a club
towards the king and settling for ten tricks. If she lets it run
to dummy she now has three entries to dummy and can take
a ruffing finesse in hearts and with some heart distributions
will be able to discard both her clubs
Closed Room
West
North
East
South
Fakhuri
Jaffer
Najjab
Gupta
–
Pass
Pass
Pass
1♠
3♦
4NT
5♠
Pass
Pass
Pass
All Pass
2♥
4♠
5♣
As a novice I was taught that you do not use Blackwood when
you have two losers in a suit or if you have a void (these were
the days before exclusion Blackwood), maybe if you have
both they cancel themselves out, but it appears not. You can
argue that North could expect a little more from the South
but even give South the ace of hearts extra, there is no play
for the slam and five cannot be underwritten. An unnecessary twelve IMPs out.
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Women
Jordan vs. UAE
Board 8. Dealer West. None Vul.
♠ 765
♥ K532
♦ 65
♣ 9743
♠ 843
♥ A87
♦ J 10 7 4 3
♣ A8
W
N
S
E
Round Robin 7
Board 14. Dealer East. None Vul.
♠ AK J 9 2
♥ 10
♦ A9 8
♣ KQ52
♠ A J 10 9 8 5
♥ 94
♦ K7
♣ Q72
♠ Q 10
♥ QJ964
♦ KQ2
♣ J 10 6
♠ 63
♥ K8
♦ QJ9543
♣ J84
W
N
S
E
♠ KQ72
♥ 653
♦ 62
♣ 10 6 5 3
♠4
♥ A Q J 10 7 2
♦ A 10 8
♣ AK9
Open Room
Open Room
West
North
East
South
West
North
East
South
Pretti
Alalol
Cao
Alzaben
Pretti
Alalol
Cao
Alzaben
Pass
Pass
3♠
Pass
3♦
All Pass
Double
Pass
–
Pass
Pass
Pass
–
2♦
3♦
5♦
Pass
Pass
Pass
All Pass
1♠
Double
The lead was the king of diamonds, and with the favourable
trump position and the ace of clubs onside and doubleton
declarer could make ten tricks. Declarer immediately took
this trick and started the long road to defeat by setting up
a force for the defence by playing a heart to king which lost
to the ace and a heart came back and the hand fell apart and
she was one down. A better line is to duck the first trick
and if they play hearts ruff the second round, cash two high
trumps and the ace of diamonds, ruff a diamond and play a
club off dummy.
Closed Room
West
North
East
South
Fakhuri
Jaffer
Najjab
Gupta
Pass
Pass
Pass
3♥
1♠
All Pass
2♥
West led her partner’s suit to the king, both sides played correctly and declarer lost her five tricks – two spaded and one
in each of the other suits for one down, a good save against
Three Spades.
2♣
2♥
4♦
A nice simple auction, leading to a good contract which
declarer brought home. If one was hyper-critical one might
say that West was a little timid in not mentioning his spade
suit, not only could it have led to a good sacrifice but might
well have impeded the opponent’s auction.
Closed Room
West
North
East
South
Fakhuri
Jaffer
Najjab
Gupta
–
1♠
3♠
–
Pass
All Pass
Pass
2♠
1♥
3♥
Here West’s intervention prevented the opponents attaining
game and was just one off so eight much needed IMPs to UAE.
At the end of the match Jordan won by 41 – 22 or 14.80
– 5.20 VPs.
Both teams will need to up their game if they hope to get
to the top spot.
The results for elections of officers in the Bridge Federation of Asia and
Middle East are detailed below.
President
Vice President
Vice President
Vice President
Vice President and Secretary
Treasurer
Representative to WBF
Mr Ashok Goel from India
Mr. N. R. K. Moorthy from India
Mr. Bahjat Al Majali from Jordan
Mr Ahmed Midfa from UAE
Mr. Azwerul Haq from Pakistan
Mr. Seenwera from Sri Lanka
Mr. Mazrah Jafri from Pakistan
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