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HUGE SCORE BY MACLEANS PAIR IN SCHOOL PAIRS COMPETITION

Sunday 18th June saw 22 students from Macleans College and Auckland Grammar School take part in a one session Pairs competition at the Auckland Bridge Club. The speed was, shall we say, “relaxed” meaning that the Howell movement of 22 boards was not quite completed in time. After all, the pizzas had to be eaten hot!

Honours on the day went to Macleans students led by Yiwei Qi and Eddy Tan who were on fire, scoring 75% while Kevin Hu and Georgia Wang finished second with 62.04%.

                                               

on fire: Yiwei Qi and Eddy Tan                                   Georgia Wang and Kevin Hu           4th placed Daniel Ahn and Darsh

                                                                                                                                          Chaudhari        

Auckland tournament players may have seen Georgia caddying at recent Congresses at the Auckland Bridge Club. It looks like she picked up a few good tips while she was there.

Georgia and Kevin did well to bid this 28 hcp slam, got doubled for their trouble but Georgia played it carefully for the loss of just a diamond trick to score a clear top:

 

While South might respond 2 and receive a value showing 2 response from North, a simple ace ask following the 1 opener from North would drive the partnership to slam. West may have doubled asking partner to lead South's first bid suit, diamonds, though, otherwise, the defence seemed to have little reason to double.

The top scores of the day were:

Yiwei Qi	Eddy Tan	75.00
Kevin Hu	Georgia Wang	62.04
Vincent He	Zachery Yan	60.19
Daniel Ahn	Darsh Chaudhari	58.33
Sheryl Luo	Tim Pan	57.69
Vivian Chen	Emily Yang	50.00

 

 

  concentration all round during the competition.

The National Youth Bridge Weekend takes place at the same venue on 18^th-20^th August while the Auckland – Northland Schools Teams competition is at the Howick Bridge Club on September 9^th…and New Zealand Youth Teams at the Distinction Hotel, Hamilton on September 29^th.

A special thanks to Tony Morcom for directing and scoring the Pairs event and to Lance Bowden for his continued support of schools’ bridge.

Richard Solomon

 

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