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Daily Bridge in New Zealand
Nearly Ready.
The World Olympiad starts local time in Buenos Aires at 10am on Tuesday morning, at the Centro de Convenciones de Buenos Aires in the very early hours of Wednesday morning in New Zealand. Each of the four competitions, Open, Women, Mixed and Seniors will play a 6 day Round Robin to qualify 16 teams for the knock-out stages. The Open features 35 teams divided into 2 groups and playing 17 x 16 board matches (3 matches most days), one section with a bye. The top 8 from each section qualify for the knock-out stages.
The Mixed comprises 29 teams with 29 rounds including a bye. They will play 5x 10 board matches per day. The Women and Seniors’ events both consist of 24 teams with each country playing 4 x 12 board matches for each day.
The New Zealand Teams are:
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Open |
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Matthew |
Brown |
Michael |
Whibley |
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Matthew |
McManus |
Michael |
Ware |
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Leon |
Meier |
GeO |
Tislevoll |
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npc/chef de mission |
Jonathan |
Westoby |
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Women |
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Linda |
Cartner |
Glenis |
Palmer |
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Christine |
Gibbons |
Jenna |
Gibbons |
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Kate |
Terry |
Mindy |
Wu |
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npc |
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Kris |
Wooles |
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Mixed |
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Julie |
Atkinson |
Patrick |
Carter |
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Liz |
Fisher |
Blair |
Fisher |
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Jenny |
Millington |
Barry |
Jones |
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npc |
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Peter |
Newell |
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Seniors |
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Murat |
Genc |
Anne |
Somerville |
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Alan |
Grant |
Richard |
Solomon |
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Jane |
Skipper |
John |
Skipper |
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The Kiwis played some practice boards the day before the real event and the following interesting board occurred:
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West |
North |
East |
South |
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Pass |
Pass |
3 ♣ |
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Pass |
Pass |
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Would you reopen? It does seem that partner might be awaiting your double and at nil vul, it would not seem to cost you much if partner bids and fails in their contract. So you double and partner passes. The good news is now over as these were the four hands:
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North Deals |
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West |
North |
East |
South |
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Pass |
Pass |
3 ♣ |
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Pass |
Pass |
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West led a top spade and on East’s suggestion switched to a diamond. Declarer took their ace and played a low heart. The defence could take the top spade, 
A and two trump tricks though in the meantime, South could not be stopped from discarding or ruffing their three spade losers in dummy. 3
x made.
Had West led A and a second club, declarer could afford two spade losers and could still discard one spade on the third round of hearts.
One Kiwi pair had an excellent result from this board. The other hopes for a little better luck in the next two weeks.
Richard Solomon
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