Dai y BU etin."'~WORLD PAIR OLYMPIAD """""" '""""

arae ~HENity FBANCIS

Editor

POLANS WIMS OPRM TRAMS,.Poland became the first Communist country evex' to ~ a world championship in contract

bridge this afternoon. The Polish took toy honors in the Hosenblum Open Teams, Although the.match was quite close through the first half, the Pohish had five big ~ge in a xow on Boards39-43 that put them so far ahead that Brazil had virtually no chance to catch them. See page 7fox' 'the stox'y of those hands.

Poland actually won by a scox e of l65-80, which in itself is a remaxkable achievement.Holding a top-flight opyonent to Only 80 lMPS in 64 boards ie xaxe indeed, and it represents ahigh level oi playa

Naturally all foux membex'8 of the Polish team were very excited when they crowdedaround the editor's table at the end of the match, Since ail xour speak English, we were ableto learn quite a bit about them..

The most interes<ing item wae that two members of the team were playing togetherin a new partnership. Ortgtnatty Andrzej ttstthosz was goiug to play with Luhasz Lebioda,

but Lebiode beoame iii and bad to ieave the tournament This .waa a very strongpartnersbips as witness the fact they fmiehed fouxth in the very strong Open Pairsearlier in the tournament,

--continued on page 8

Two highly distinguished gentlemen, Gen, Alfred M. Gruenther of the UnitedRates and Jaime Grtiz-Patino of Switzerland, are being si~liy honored at tonight'8Victory Banquet, Both are being named to the World Bridge Federation'8 Committeeof Hor!Ors the higheet honorary award given by the WBF the citation of theaward is for devoting time, energies and talents to the furtherance of bridge withoutthought of self*-aggxandizement.

At present thexe are only thx ee othex lilwwg Committee Qf Honor members Geoffrey Butler of England, honorary. chairman of the boaxd; Waldemar von Zedt-witz of the U. S,, and Andre LeMaitre of Belgium, secretaxy of tbe World BrMgeFederation and president of the European Bridge League.

Gen. Gruenthers who is the guest of honor at this. evening'8 proceedings, hasbeen honorary pxeeident of the WorM Bxidge Federation since ite inception in l958.During the Thirtiesz he wae coneidex'ed the most outetancULYkgtournament director inthe worLd, and he was the referee in such famous matches as Culbertson-Lenz andCulbertson-Sitns, He has written Several books on bxidge. He served in the U. S.Army for 38 years, retiring in l958 after serving as Supreme Comnmnder of AlBedForces in Europe for four years. He was president of the American Bed Cross formany years. His tvork in vaxious fields has been so outstanding'that he hae beenhonored in 14 countries other than the U, S, He hae been a majox help to the World continued on following pagesponsoredbythe .. Hyatt Regency Hotel

New Orleans La., U.S.A.June 17-30, 1978Contract Brgdge League

At the closing of the Fifth Woxld Pair Glympiad, 'Pd like to take this Qpyox~ity to thankLou Gurvich, chairman of the organizing commsttee and ail the people who woxked so hard tomake this Glympiad a success.

Gn behalf of all the players I'd like to express my appreciation to the American ContractBridge League fox' having staged this event, My appreciation goes especially to Dick Goldberg,executive secretary; and Baiph Cohen, his assistant, and all the staff that worked so hardbehind the scenes to have these events run smoothly and to the satisfaction of all the players.

I hope all the ylayers enjoyed themselves, made new friends, found the bridge interesting,and learned something about new techniques and methods, Go home with happy xnemories of twoweeks in New Orleans.

1 Wieh to remind 6V6X'y'One that Our neXt Glymyiads fOX' teaxnss WQI take Place in l980zstarting May 3, in the Netherlands. 1 hope many of you wio be with us in the Netherlands, andwe urge everyone to try and make the effort to encourage the snxall NCBGS to yarticipate inthe Team Glympiad, oux premiex event,

Gruenther, Grtiz-Patino Honox'ed continued fx'om fx'oDf page!

Bridge Federation, advising on many mattexs,Jimmy Pathlo, the energetilc and imaginative president of the World BrMge Federation, is

beginning a new foux-year term aa president after finishing a two-year term during which he hasvisited dozens of member iountries all over the world. Hie work over the past two yeaxs showsa complete dedication to fhe principle of the higheet ethics and proprieties in fop-level bridge,He hae handled moat ~cult situations in a moat forthright manner, Hie position ia thatacceptance to participate in a WBF event ia equivalent to a vote of confidence in the player,

This waa the second major honor accorded Patio at this Glympiad, Earlier he had beennamed BrMge Man of the Year by the International BrMge Press Association because of hisdogged determination to make international bridge a thoroughly honorable game. It ia Patino'savowed intention to aee fo it that individual co~ries handle problems involving honestyexpeditiously and faixly ao that worM bxMge vriQ not have the slightest tinge.

Congratulations, General Gruenther and Presideut Grtiz-Patino. Being named to theComite d'Honneux is an exceptional dietincfion.,

Deal 41 fxom the final saw Poland pick up 6 IMPs by stoppling in a partscore and bringingit home with a contract making trump en passant,

Dlr" North 4 63 2Vul: E-W 0 Q5

0 AKQV4 9954

everything went normally

F" ei iSGUTH WEST3. 4' Pass3 NT AQ Pass

4 AJ10VKJ0 J10534 J1087 k East led a heart and the defense took the first

4 KQ97 seven tricks in quick time for 150 to Poland.7 V32 ID the closed room:0 84. MSoieszCERk B|'RQCO Paleo CIRtfR4 AK33 1 0 1VI 14 1 NT

Pass 2'V 3 4 All PassEast'a bold overcall at unfavorable ~erability kept North-South out of the hopeless game

hopeless in spite of 25 high card points!; But M is no picnic either. There are five apparentlosers for declarex, twohearts, two spades and one trump. But watch what happened topoox' Cintx'a,West led the 'VK and co~ued with fhe VJ to East'e ace, East switchedto the 48, coveredby the king and won by West's ace. West returned the4J to declarer's queen. Things lookedfine to declarer unlesa the txumpa 4exe 4-3,, but declaxer cashed the ace and king of trumps andEast pitched a heart, Ne< declarer crossed to the 4A, cashed the 4Q and pxoceeded to take thetop diamonds, pitching a spade from hand,

To the 11th trick South led a diamond froxndummv and ruffed in hand as West followed helplesslyThen Bouth led bile last heart, and dummy'a trump waa destined to 07take a trick. Nilne tricks, 13.0 to Poland and 6 IMPs. 4'10 4 9

There is an alternative winmng line fox flashy declarere, athree suit squeeze, If, after cashing the 4A, declarex crosses to the 0 J4Q, watch what can happen to hapless West. Declarer cashes three 4 J 0 9diamondspitchknga spade and crosses to the 4K. The position is 0 7shown to the right, Declarer leads hie losing heart, and West, with 0--three top cards ca "Dot:3fxcr" i 'to '".a i'~ v;ifb. an j oj thexu @ 3

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President Alk van Loeben Sela of the Dufch BrMge Federation, a guest at the VictoryBanquet here tonight, met with the Executive Council of the World BrMge Federation yesterdayto talk over pjane for the 1980 Woxld Team Glympiad. This e'vient originally was to have beenstaged in North Amexlca, .but that Zone gxaciously gave up ita turn so tlbat the Netherlands couMhold the event in the year that is the Mth adversary of the 334ch BrMge Federation.

The Dutch plan to hold the tournament in Valkenburg instead of a larger city like Amsterdamor The Hague. The Executive Council wanted reassurance that Valkenburg can handle a majorevent such as the Team Glympiad. Van Loeben Sele confirmed that the city has adequate hotelsaDd playing apace,

President Jaime Grtiz-Patino decided to fox m a committee made up of hilmaelf; AndreLemaitre, president of the Euxopean Bxidge League, and Nile Jensen, vlcc preaMent of the EBL,to meet with van Loeben Sele and the Dutch tec~cal s&ff in Vaikenburg. They ~ check overthe site for playing space and hotels for two days, and if they agree Valkenburg ia satisfactory,that ia where the tournament wOI be held. However, if they do not agree, then the tournamentwill be held elsewhere.

Said van Loeben Sela, "We in the Netherlands thoroughly realize the importance of an eventlike this. Everything will be done to make it an exce!lextt tournament. We are consciious of ourresponsibilities to make fhie a first-class event. "

Pomem4 Tmwmya Smexmm, Rn Pemmeel'

AM OLVMPIA5 VO RIMSRRIoBy BGN KLINGER

Dli: NorthVul; N-S

EAST ouj4 K@37 Kq950424 9843

SOUTH Dummy!O' A 1065420 6OAQ64 KJ5

I led a low club, king from dumngr and Suziewon the ace and returned the 42 taken by dummy'slack, 42 from dummy: seven» Gine» king. How' doyou continue 7 I elected to play the ~g of hea;rts:

. 6 - 4 - 2. What do you do next 7

Fortunately I chose to continue with a secondheart North'a club and diamond holdings were prettywell maxked on the bidding, and with spades breakingthe only chance seemed to be to find partner with themagilcal VJ. ! As ural» partner did not let me down.

5 Edgar won the 'VJ with the ace and led the 719» hopingto pin the nine, but to no avail. '"I didn't expect it towork, " he said afterwards, "You wouldn't have comeall the way fxom Australia just to let me shine in 3NT, "

So I have a hand to rib Edgar about until wemeet again in hopefully two.years time, ItcertaQQy waa an Glymylad to remember.

4 J87'V J430 J98734 A2

It would make an interesting exercise to determine the x"easona why most of the playerstook part in this Pairs Glympiad, Certainly it could not, be a confidence at winning one of themajor events since ao few entranta had any genuine chance. Take the Open Pairs for exaxnyle;40 pairs made the ~l cutoQ» and there was only a handful of yaixs who did not nake the breakwho might have been conceded a chance of miming.

That leaves more than 75% of the field having competed without any x'ealhope of success.What then urges these ylayexa to take yaxt 7

I believe that 1 apeak for a large number of these competitors in saying that the incentiveis the opportunity to compete rathex than the oyyo&unMy to win, To be able to coxnpete againstplayers fx'om all over the globe at the game we all love best sees xnoat of ua spend a lot of timeand money to come to these championships. What we have at the end of these two weeks is littlemoxe than memoriea,

For me, this Glympiad will bring back a host of yleasant memories; ! The lavishness of the opening ceremony. ! The titanic struggle between the two youngster pairs Maxcelo Branco and Gabino

Cintra and Ex'ic Kokiah - Peter Nagy, in the Gyen Pairs Final. ! The vastness of the Mixed Paixs Geld and the devastation wreaked by Barry Crane

and Kerri Shuman, ! The excitement of the new event» the HosenblumCuy, ! The yolitenesa of xnostof the tournanxent directors. We found the dixectors invarilably

helpful» and when we put in a wrong scox'e in the Mixed Pairs» the director came ovex' andapologized for having to fine us i

! The efficiency of the oxganization, There waa a marked contrast between the smoothrunnkng here and the less-than~smooth handling in Monte Caxlo. In Monte Caxlo oaQyBulletins wex e hard to come by hexe they were plentiful; in M. C. hand records were delayedby up to 5 or 6 matches, here hand records were available immediately after the session, andcomylete yrixxtouts available within a couple of hours, etc, etc. !, All in ail the ACBI deserveshearty commendation for their organization even if they protest that it was nothing and that theirown nationals thx'ee times a year axe much more difficult to run!,

! The hospitality waa very welcome indeed organized touxs, river cruises, etc. again a marked contrast with the comylete absence of hospitality in Moxd;e Carlo, And everyoneat the registration and hospitality desks was always so friendlyf

8! The opyortunilty to meet and play against all the names which we only read about yearin and year out. To recogxdze that the depth of talent in the U, S.A. ia awesome, To meet andexchange views with fellow bridge journalists and even to cxoss swords with some of them. Itia not often that the editor of Australian Brid~e haa a chance to ylay against the editor of The~R'8 W ld th sit fP I" HddlM <hi. di'I diL 4Th hit' Htd 'V 1LI trust Edgar Kaplan wiQ forgive me for xecounting this hand fxom our meeting in the MzedPairs second session, hand 5!:

The auction that gets you to a makable grand slam is a good auction. The auction thatgets you to a grand slam, down one, is a not-so-bot auction, Canadians Bill Milgram and IrvingLitvack turned the Italians own syst~m against them oh this deal from tbe Swiss Teams.

IMr: SouthVul: N-S

1' itvackSOUTH1 02 $

5 NT GSFPass f!

Lauria !WESTPassPassPassPa ssPassPass

X~il ram PranooNORTH1 NT a!34 b!40 c!

d!7 4 e!Pass

EASTPassPassPassPa 88PassPass

4 7632!V K100 9109874 64

e! 2 of top 3 honors

0 9109The grand makes because East has in

diamonds only the 5-4-3 while West'8 spotcards are vital and he is tbe only player ableto control the heart threat. Gf course theItaly declarer never visuabzed such a possibility .and took the simple. finesse to the 0J and went quitely one down,

As we said to start with the auction that gets you to a makable

c

grand slam is a good anat on,

On Board 4 of the Open Teams, Pex-Glov Sundelin and Anders Morath of Sweden,playing against Vic Mitchell and Sam Stayman, had the opportunity to demonstrate theirbidding skills using the Carx'ot Club System developed by Morath.

MorathDlr: West 0 A.Q 7 5 2 WEST NORTH ZA STVul: Both V A J 6 Pass 1 4 ! Pass

0 K106 ' Pas8 1 NT ! PassA 8 Pass 2 0 ! Pass

0 K 83 Pass 4 4 ! Dbl..0 853 Pass Hedbl 9! Pass0 J43 Pass 4 NT 1! Passs Q J72 Pass 6 0 3! AH Pass

SundelinSOUTH.19 !2 4 !3 0 !Pass 8!4 {! {10!5 0 {12!

4 J964QK42OQ7410965

4 jL0'V 910970A 98524 K43

! Strong Club ! 18-20 HCP ! Shows 5 spades

! 8 plus points ! Modified Stayman ! At least 5 diamonds

and slam interest 8! over the double passis 2nd round club control

! Control in clubs

9! Shows the Ace 0! Natural -- shows five-card suit. ll! Shows 3 aces 2} Signoff 3! Haising to slam beca~se

of OK.As you can see the auction is quite impressive. The s>wm is not t' he greatest, depending

on a favorable lie of the trump suit andthe heart finesse but you' ve seen many worse. Slamslike this often win or lose! matches,

Because of the double of clubs, a club was led, taken by the king. Two rounds of diamondswere followed by the 4A and a spade ruff. With the OJ outstanding, Sundelin took the heart finesseand claimed when it worked.

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.AQ J 940 A42 a! 4 controls b! good suit0KJ c! 1st or 2nd control d! probably a doubleton-4 A73 not 3 card to K

f! just in case North hadIt is a matter of record that, only four clubs

declarer won five tricks in spades, theUA, two tricks in diamonds; a diamond ruff in the short trump hand and four top club tricksfor a total of thirteen. Declarex knew from North's 3C bid at his second turn that he had a"good" club suit -- that was either five to two honors or four such as he actually had. Thepass to 74 was just in case declarer had only a four-card suit as above, The hand atmatchpoints would have belonged in 7 NT if Nox'th had a five-card club suit that would runopposite CA-x-x. 4--

In fact at the other table the Italians were 9 Qin 7 NT down one on a neutral lead, The p]ay at 'QA627 NT makes via a Vienna Coup, i. e. win clublead, cash QA, xun black card winners to theposition shown to the right; 'V K 'V J

AIPN WeIll TheItI InlplleyI WemllPeter Pender wondered whathewae doing in 4 4' when he eaw the dummy, but

when the smoke had cleared,'. he actually had 11 tricks and he hadn't even used hie 4A This was Baerd 22 fxom the fixst session of the 'jinxed Pairs,Dlr: East 4' 10 7 5 EAST SGVTH WZSTVul: Z-W U 965 2 4 Pass 2 9

Cg KJ98 PR 88 Pass 24 K308 2 0 Pass 3 0

4' 986 4 4 Pass PassVQ'

NGBTHDbl,PassPassPass4 A 9482

'V AK2<! Q44! AC~J

0 1082 Pendex described partner'8 8 4' bid as"fox want, Qf something better to do" and hie

K cY 4 & as a "who knows" type bid,7 1084 Prospects cerl@inlyweren't bright, bui0A /65 Peter Lei ihe 98 ride to hie ~, and he4 9872 pexked up considerably when the 4'3 fell on

hi8 ace "'Aha ' he thought "maybe I havea chance after aD."

Another spade was won perforce by the king and South continued with a heart tothe ace. Peter drew the rema~ trm~p,then gave hi8foes a, dieca~g pxoblexn bycashing one moxe spade, Next came dumxny'8 'V Q-J foLlowed by a succeesM club hook.Then he led the last spade, and the pxeesure was too much. If Northkepthie9K, hewouldbe endpflayed with it, forced to give Peter the ]Acket two c]lub tricks. ~ when heditched the khng,he merely transferred the endplay io hie partner,.PeterLedB, almond,and after taking the ace, South had to give ihe last 'wo tricks to dummy'8 0 3.0-8. Thatanemic dummy actuaUy paced four iricke < And Peiex never did take a trick with thatCA although 'he took 3.1 oihersl

kldIIIINII$3IP, faI' 3IIIINl TWO 8!jII III Ã338I

At IMP scoring decLarer seldom hae B choice in ihe play. He is interested primarilyin making hie contract. even if.he should 'Lose Bn extra trick in the process. Sometimes hieviewpoint may be altered by the fact thai he is doublecii, but even then fox the most part,declarer will try for his contract unless that ie obviously impossible, Ai matchpointe, however,the play ie different Qne must consider ihe A.eld Brd ihe Likely contract at the othex tables.Sometimes it is important just io hoH youx minus to 'Less than the opposition" 8 p'Lus at the othertables. I was faced with such a problem durLig the third x Qund of the Mixed Pairs.

EAST

PassAll Pass

NGHTHPass3 NT33bl,

Boax'd: 4Dir WestVul: Both

SOUTHDbl,Pass

4i A@~9650 K482

4 974

0 10 AH. partnerehlps suffer from Bn occasional0 1062 bidding mieunder standing, We have the agreement4 AQJ863 that a jump shift by a passed hand shows support

8 for opener'8 suit, I didn't think it was on after a'V A@986 takeout double, but Mary did. Had I Alerted it ae0 K Q.4 3 showing B, f8~ ii 8 unM~ely that North would have4 1052 gambled 8 NT. And had ~.cIBry thought that I thought

she had B spade fit, she probably wouldn't have"saved" against 3 NT, considering thai we cou'd take the first 3.3. tricks l

With the. auction out of the way I have to explain whai went through my mind ae I declared44. For. starters, I dMni have any idea who had the K~. North or South might have that card,The only thing I was sure of was that North had Bt least 4 8 10 z x., South started with. ihe CK,and continued the suit and I ruffed. At this point I could have taken the next 3,0 ixicks for +990,bui seldomq xf everq do we play hands double-dummy! Bnd this wae no exception,

I decided that I was just tB~Jng B eave against 4V which wae ob',";ously cold. So ny objectivewae to avoid going dorm more than two tricks, Armed with this, I:"mmediately gave up a heart,preparing B crossruff of sorts. South wonthe VQ, and cashed ihe ~Q. I decided I could affordto discard on this trick to retain some control Qf the hand. South now weni in'o ihe tank for afew moments Bnd emerged with the ~!9. I was sure however, that she had the 7A,. so I rode thisto my king, pitching B club from duxnmy, Now I led a ciiub,, knowirg Bi this point thai North hadto have the king So I went up with the ace preparing io concede a club io 'ilortl" at the next trick

When North'84K came tumb',,L~ig down ihe rest wae easy, I trusted that 8 NT bid, so Bspade to ihe 9, foHowed by the K-A-Q, and ihe rest wexe mine. +790 was worth 189 out of 342matchpoints.

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Since I started to te'1 the story of how Barry Crane and Kerri Shuman carved theirway to the Mixed Pairs Championship, I had a bridge player's breakfast :00 a. m,!. Hetold me that one of the aspects of his style, also demanded of partners, s that they shouldget into the bidding light, tell the whole story as soon as bossible, then quit. One of thehands from the 10-board blitzkrieg that I kibiized demonstrates his point.Dlr: South 0 AVul: Both . 7 A K J 7 2

09s4 J5432

ShumanSOUTH

Pa ss

NORTH2 76 4

0 @10 742'0 830 0 J10520 j0

4 KJ953'0 910640 7644 9

Note the vulnerability. The Crane Crasherstook 112 out of 142 matchpoints. Had they beendoubled in 44, they would have got about 20 more.Would you have found it so easy to reach thegrand slam after this barrage '?

8 695

0AK34 A K@ 876 On the next board Crane held

4 K 9 2 A K 8 6 3 0 Q J 10 9 0 J and over-called H with K. When the opponents sailed into 44, he doubled and followed up with par defensefor plus 300 and another 118 matchpoints. Another of his theories in pxactice -- double at thedrop of a hat, ox even sooner.

The next set was against Benito Garozzo, arguably the best player in the world. When thefield is so large that you meet only a percentage I guess we would all Uke to have missed thistable. If it had to happen, then I guess we would hope that Benito doesn't get around to playingany hands.

Dlr: South 4 A Q 8 3Vul; None 0 K 5

0 7632965

CraneEAST2 0

GarozzoSOUTHPassDbl,3 0

WESTPQ ssPassBbl.4 J7542

7 J1O86044 KJ4

0 9 0AKQ J9 Benito owed a point on his opening and the4 A 10 8 7 3 overcall was natural, South's double was negative

O' K1096 and after 24 Crane was ~dill there. with the 34A@32 bid that pushed them over the top, Kerri told me

0 1085 that she was not keen on doubling Garozzo, but4@2 was even less keen on having to justify a pass to

Crane.The defense got oQ to three rounds of diamonds, then a fourth diamond, ruffedby the king.

Meanwhile Shuman pitched three hearts, Therr a small spade to the queen and a club. Crane letthis run round to partner's king and West played a spade, won in dumnly, Garozzo now tried the'VA and another toward the king. West ruffed, returned a frump and the great Italian was down500. Crane collected 136 matchpoixrts.

The next hand;

4' 10730 J3

K@54 KJ743

K4'V Q J720A74 A1OS62

0 @6520 109860 J10964 9

+

The same lineup. Gax'ozzo opened 1 NT,and after a Stayman major suit aslx, arrived in3 NT. Just the thing you don' i' like the xnanytimes world champion playing the hand in whatappeax's to be the common contract.

Crane, again following a principle -- gotoff to an attacking lead commensurate with therisk of giving a trick launched t' he 0K. Thiscould be fxom K-Q-10 but not K -Q-10-9.Declarer ducked, West contributing the jack and Cranecontinued with the +. Now Garozzo played a heartto the king, one to the queen and a third back to theace, no doubt trying fo get some sort of count. Crane

pitched a club, Benito then exited with a small diamond and ii must have been a disappointment tofind West cashing two diamonds, East and South pitched clubs,

West now goi off play with a heart to dummy's winner, Crane pitching the 43. A club wasplayed to the 9, queen and king, Crane winning and smoothly returning a club. After somethought -- and there was no wonder that the hand was difficutt to count declarer went in withthe ace, West the 42. All that remained was to try the 4K, another toward hand and guess, Eastwas known to hold two spades and perhaps Garozzo pondered on the potential dangerous lead inopting to try to drop the queen. Bown one and another 138 matchpoints went into the Cranebasket.

Thank you, Benito, for the usual sportsmanship ln that you don't mind my mentioning yourbad boards. Thank you, Barx'y, for teaching me a lot about the art of "rabbit kining",

The beginning of the end for Brazil against Poland came on ~xd 39, when they failedto get to game in diamonds while PoLand'8 Polec wasted DQtime in jumping to game afterMacieszczak raised him.

Dlr: SouthVul; Both

0 AZ950 9762<! K5$ 1085

If: PGLBchad guessed the OK was doubleton onhis right, he would have made six. After ~ngthe 'VK with the ace he led a club to dummy, playedthe0Q and overtookwith the .<A. IIe lost one spade,since th6 Rce iivas favoxably paced and the OK,

ln the Other room;A~ P Kii G~l WN1 4 1 Dbl.

ll Pass2Assumpcao Rnd Chagas play the 3 3 A

Precision Club, VYhen Chagas made anegative double Overhearts~ Assumpcao bid his diamond suit whicn Chagas raised~ butAssumpcao passed, They made 11 tricks but lost 10 Pi,IPs.

Polandgainedsix xnoxe IMPs on Board 40, when it easily might ha"e been size the othex wayDlr; WestVul; None

Bx'a neoEASY

ALL Pass

N03THPa 8837

4 AKJ927 70 K324 K@85

Fren@BL

+@63'0 KQ10830 A4'4'1076

On Board 42 Hranco arid Ciutra were in 4i?,

Dlx" EastVul; Both Maciezczak

0 A J40 K1080 8544 987

&96QQZ95430 K@24A2

4V wiLL make if the 8K is onside ox if theefBDSB doesn t Lead clubs befox"6 the O'K is knockecl

out. Maciezczak led the M then a diamond toPolec'8 ace, B~t then came the club switch andPQlRDcl woD R club Rnd the 4K fox' down Qne.

3x the Gthex room Chagas Rnd Assumpcao didn' tinterfere with the bidd'izig 8Q Wilkosz Rnd Prenkiel

Rt their table and plu.s 100 at the other table for 7 IMPs.

K9 873~i 60 A1064 J1054

rested in K, making four for plus 170

~~ the Closed Boom Branco'8 14 was strong,16+, Mi,'er South'8 overcall, North x'Ri86dpreempiively to 39, which ended the Ruction.

Cintra led the 05, which made the play go rapidly, Polec won the 010 as East ducked, drew oneroundof trumps with the king, and cashed the 0A. NB< he crossed to the QA and rMed a diamond,establishing the suit, The last trump was drawn, and dummy was entered with the 4A. Declarerdiscaxded two clubs Qn the diamonds, but had to lose two spade tx'icks at the endfor +200.

In the OpenBoom the Bra zilians bid to their heart game, but Frenkiel knew to lead a spadebecauseof the natural Opening bid. Wilko» v on the 4K Rnd found t' he devR~Mting 8~ to a lowclub, Assumpcao wi~g the Second round with the ace, Now Assumpcao made the crucialplay of Lea~g the ~W from dummy giving himself the only chance for game Rs the, cards lay adefensive error@ Wilkosz agonized for sevexal minutes before uucking~ and now Pedro Pauloapparently had won six IMPS for Brazil.

Buta funny thing happened ori the way to the bard... P, P. cxossed to the gK to ruff aspade, and then back to the 0A to rM another spade. Now wher he cashed the 7A he was at thecrossroads, To lead a club or a diamond 7 If he was going to le".d a diamond, then he had beencoldfQx'five hie could have Set up th6 chamoudsinstead Gf trumping Gut the Spades!. Also, theearlier club plays had been East'8 5 toWest'8 3, and theri West'8 2 and East 8 8. So, apparentlyplacingWestwith the high club,.Assumpcao led dummy'8 49. V/illcosz was quickto ~ the % andLead the 4K, proxnoting FrenkieVSQ3' as the se:ting trick. The ~~me of "Hot Potato" was over,and Poland had the Nz DtIP8,

BoarGl 4lq QD viMch Polan l picked up six xnox'6 IMP8 was one Gf the most interesting dealsof the match, and George Havas Q.'. Australia submitted R separate article or this deal. See p. 2,

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Q fj the Closed Boom Assumpcao Selected thev 84 opening salvo of the ~80 f While this was an0 A1094 apparent g4i of a trick to Pollec it simply was a4 Q J754 tracte of' 'tricks whxle he had <Rxned a diaIDGTM

trick., he no longex" had a dxscard for his third clubeWe won't know if Pol'ec would have Inisguessed truIDQS, for wnen be cxossed to dummy with the 4Ato lead R truIIIp Chagas jvnxped up with his Rce, PG'iec ruffed the diamond return, cashed the 4K,tuIDMing down the queen and bnished with a ace 'fAx~lch. He 6'83ted vvitn %K and Rnotjier~ effectivelyendplayIng wl'Oevex' won one 'uo D~c Rrex' H~" Longe~ ha J ~o~468» tl'P V ~Nerve 'e Io Polancl

Zhe Pobsh defense KTI the Open, Boom vfas impeccab16 to a poin4 Wilkosz started Kviththe 4@~ and Branco won the k'Lng. ]t was inxperative tolead R diRInond Rt Cfire-point» becRuse ifhe crossed to duIDIDV to start trumps first, the c~efenae would likely negotiate a club ruff. So,Hranco led the W, won by WHkoaz. At this poiIIt Wij1coaz craftily shifted to the V4, won byFrankiel. Franki@l returned a heart~ Rnd Branco was slated for cIown One~ Rnd 12 IiiIPfto Poland But BF~DCG cross~6 i Q the 4A a"Id !ed the e'].0... Rnd X'. ranjrd~j. duckedApparently Wilkosz' heart plays had Dot shown a doubleton in theix carding Inethods. Branco roseto the occasxon AVer1'>'" ~-" v~11 "~ ~~~~"a'$: ~ '~ ""~" ".""- 11'"-r-' v'1"- a "~ "I 't r-"'9 An~ everyoneIcnov/8 Q3~b 2n '}'Liai~;;!~'418&i,o~b. c.~.'~ko.! ".0e~-"*c,i,4<:, !:"vk 8:;,I

*'So Marian Frexikiel the capain agreed to p.*'.Ry with ',I~ilkosz and quite obviously they hit of offBll. As R matter Qf fact, Poland got strongex as t.,>6 event went on

I'reMel president of. the Polxsh I~rxdge Fedc;ra~ion~ 18the senior IDBInber Qf the tBRID at 59. He~ !oux'nalist fox' Polish television ancl a18G do68 Borne oridge %~K'iting,Wi1kGsz 42' R nmtaiiurgist

Ls,been a top playex' fox' Ioany years-. He won the Sunday TiIIxes brxdge in Iondon in ].972 and waaIcond on anothex' occasion» He represented Poland 1D Tea ID Qiyxnpiads in New York~ MRIDi and.Qnte Cax'lo. Poland placed foux&. in Monte CR11Q in, 1976.

Macieszczakq 36~ is a bridge journalist and a wri~er of bx idge iQQo~xs, He has beeDpla j''ingip-level bridge fox about 10 years, and has xepxesented Polandl foux tixnes in the Kuropeans. ljIB.SG ',vas on th6 teaID in Monte Cax'10.

Polec 39 '-1 chexnical engine~r in the JnsN'f1te Gf CDBY zstr$' has won xnany titles hi PolandId has represented his couIItry five tixnes in the Europeans.

PlayjiDg for Brazil wex'6 Gabriel Ctagas~ Pedro-Pan~0 AsBLInpcaoq xabino Cintraq Max'ce Grancor Boberto Taunay and Sex'gio Sax'bosa.

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