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End of the Sixth Day
DAY 6 Friday 20th September
Wuhan is 2 hours behind AEST. The BBO match times are shown in AEST as a 24-hour clock.
Match 16 12:00 to 14:30
The Open team were on BBO.
In the open room - for Australia Sartaj Hans was North and Peter Gill was South and for Chile Marcelo Caracci was West and Jose Manual Robles was East.
In the closed room - for Chile Joaquin Pacareu was North and Benjamin Robles was South and for Australia Tony Nunn was West and Liam Milne was East.
Boards of interest in this match:
In the open room, the Chilean EW had two terrible boards (letting a 3NT home when they had 5 tricks after the opening lead and bidding a grand slam missing a cashing ace) and a very soft defence to 3NT for an experienced pair.
In the closed room, the Chilean NS had a reasonable set but missed a straightforward small slam and bid a small slam that was less than 50% and duly went off.
Given these disasters, you would expect Australia to win and they did by 1 imp!!.
Board 22
In the open room, the bidding went as follows
1♣ was a precision ♣ showing 16+ points and 2♦ was a balanced 8-10 point hand.
West led the ♠8 and dummy played the ♠3. What should East do? If the ♠8 is 4th best then, with the rule of 11, there are three higher ♠ out and you can see the ♠T and your ♠Q. Therefore, declarer only has one higher ♠ than the !8. If it is the ♠J or the ♠9, then you must play the ♠Q. However, declarer had 16+ and with the cards you can not see in dummy and your hand there is 3 points in ♥s, 7 points in ♦s and 3 points in ♣s (that comes to a maximum of 13 points). Therefore, declarer must have the ♠A or ♠K, so you duck the ♠. Robles inexplicably played the ♠Q and this blew the defence. 3NT making.
Australia in the other room led a ♦ letting 3NT make. Therefore, this board was flattened.
There is nothing wrong with West leading a passive ♦ except on this hand it does not work.
Board 30
Depending upon which side you sit on, this was potentially a funny hand. Australia played 2♥ doubled as NS and 2♥ doubled as EW. It proved that it goes two off in each direction.
Nobody really did anything wrong but these things happened.
In the open room, East opened 1NT, Peter bid 2♦ showing one major and Sartaj bid 2♥. East with a maximum reopened with a double and that was it.
In the other room South did not bid ♥s so West transferred to 2♥ and North reopened with a double which was passed out.
I think all actions were reasonable and it is just unlucky.
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The Open Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
54 |
10.31 |
CHILE |
53 |
9.69 |
|
Current Position |
|
10th |
Current Total |
|
172.70 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
193.53 |
The hands are shown above.
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The Women’s Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
15 |
1.45 |
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO |
59 |
18.55 |
|
Current Position |
|
18th |
Current Total |
|
127.57 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
185.32 |
The Calypso music will be playing after this round as Trinidad and Tobago improve to 2nd last.
Board 22
This was flat in 3NT making
Board 30
A small loss to Australia in the partials.
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The Mixed Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
35 |
14.18 |
BARBADOS |
19 |
5.82 |
|
Current Position |
|
16th |
Current Total |
|
142.93 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
184.27 |
The Calypso music will be put on hold after this round as Barbados lost (Hey mon we are 4th last and you are 2nd last, why the celebration our Trinidad and Tobago neighbours?)
Board 22
This was flat in 3NT making
Board 30
A small pickup to Australia in the partials.
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The Senior Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
13 |
1.91 |
DENMARK |
53 |
18.09 |
|
Current Position |
|
14th |
Current Total |
|
157.42 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
180.40 |
Board 22
This was flat in 3NT making
Board 30
Flat board 2♥ doubled by NS 2 off.
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Match 17 15:30 to 18:00
The Open team were on BBO (as were the Mixed team but the excitement was in the Open match)
In the open room - for Australia Sartaj Hans was North and Peter Gill was South and for China Gang Chen was West and Zejun Zhuang was East.
In the closed room - for China Yi Liu was North and L Hu was South and for Australia Nabil Edgtton was West and Andy Hung was East.
Boards of interest in this match:
Board 9
Both North-South pairs were playing Precision. The auctions were basically identical, North opens 1♣, South bids 1♦ (negative), West bids 1♥ and then North 1NT and South bids 2nt which is raised to 3NT at one table and 3NT directly at the other table.
The lead is the ♥2. North wins the ♥ and leads the ♣A and then the ♣8 (unblocking) and both declarers finessed losing to the ♣Q and West exits a small ♥ and East plays the ♥T to indicate a ♠ holding (a card he will regret later).
It turned into a beautiful ending for Sartaj as he cashed his three remaining ♣s and came to hand with the ♠a to create this position is now as follows
Sartaj exited with the 7♥ and East was endplayed into having to lead a ♦ (if East had held unto the ♥T, he could have taken the trick and played a ♦).
Board 11
This hand indicates the problem with light reopening doubles.
In the open room, the bidding was
The modern style is to make takeout doubles over a pre-empt with many hands that are short in the pre-empted suit. Peter reopened as a passed hand and Sartaj thought he had enough to leave it in.
Sartaj led the ♦A and then switched to a ♠ and declarer won the ♠A. After cashing the ♣A, he must now get off dummy without losing control. He correctly led a small ♥ and guessed to put in the ♥T forcing Sartaj’s ♥K.
He was now home.
In the closed room, the bidding was
2♠ was ♠s and a minor and 3♣ was pass or correct. Andy’s double caused Nabil some concerns but he bid 4♣ and North did not double. 4♦ went one off.
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The Open Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
39 |
10.31 |
CHINA |
38 |
9.69 |
|
Current Position |
|
10th |
Current Total |
|
183.01 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
205.19 |
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The Women’s Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
35 |
10.00 |
INDIA |
35 |
10.00 |
|
Current Position |
|
18th |
Current Total |
|
137.57 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
200.96 |
Board 9
Each team made 3NT from North on a small ♠ lead.
Board 11
India were one off in 4♣ and Australia were 3 off in 5♣ doubled.
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The Mixed Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
33 |
11.20 |
NEW ZEALAND |
29 |
8.80 |
|
Current Position |
|
16th |
Current Total |
|
154.16 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
197.40 |
Board 9
Each team made 3NT from North on a small ♠ lead at one table on a small ♣ lead at the other.
Board 11
A flat board where 3C doubled went one off and 3D made 9 tricks the other way.
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The Senior Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
36 |
14.18 |
NORWAY |
20 |
5.82 |
|
Current Position |
|
13th |
Current Total |
|
171.60 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
190.79 |
Board 9
Each team made 3NT from North.
Board 11
Norway made 3♣ doubled and went one off in 2♠ in the other room.
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Match 18 18:10 to 20:40
The Open team were on BBO.
In the open room - for India Keyznd Anklesaria was North and Rajeshwar Tewari was South and for Australia Peter Gill was West and Sartaj Hans was East.
In the closed room - for Australia Andy Hung was North and Nabil Edgtton was South and for India Dipat Santra was West and Aniruddha Bhattacharjee was East.
Boards of interest in this match:
The boards were fairly flat in this set. Therefore, only one potential swing board is shown.
Board 28
How do you bid these hands? In standard, you treat the West hand as 22-44 balanced (perhaps a 2♣ opening) and East has 8 points and the partnership has a 4 4 ♥ fit.
It is easy to get to 5♥ and on the lie of the cards it is only a double dummy make (ie unlikely to make in practice). East has 4 3 3 3 hand with no filler cards in the black suits (this is a negative). However opposite 22-24, many hands might go close to 6♥ and be safe in 5♥ – not today.
Peter and Sartaj got to 5♥ and this is the day it does not make and India stayed in 4♥ (but they made 11 tricks).
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The Open Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
16 |
6.96 |
INDIA |
27 |
13.04 |
|
Current Position |
|
11th |
Current Total |
|
189.97 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
217.36 |
As shown above.
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The Women’s Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
44 |
17.17 |
FRANCE |
11 |
2.83 |
|
Current Position |
|
18th |
Current Total |
|
154.74 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
215.52 |
Board 28
The board was flat in 3NT making.
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The Mixed Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
42 |
15.38 |
INDONESIA |
20 |
4.62 |
|
Current Position |
|
16th |
Current Total |
|
169.54 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
207.71 |
Board 28
The board was flat in 3NT making.
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The Senior Team
|
AUSTRALIA |
41 |
10.61 |
TURKEY |
39 |
9.39 |
|
Current Position |
|
13th |
Current Total |
|
182.21 |
|
|
|
|
Total of 8th Place |
|
200.18 |
Board 28
Australia played in 4♥ and Turkey went down in 6♥.
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Posted by Chris on Friday, 20 September 2019 at 23:45