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E-W 1^st Janne & Paul Q 57% 2^nd Gerard & Derek 54%

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E-W 1^st Janne & Per Ande.. 64% 2^nd Gerard & Derek 60%

Fri 1^st 1^st Hans v & Paul Q 65% 2^nd Gun & Lennart K 53%

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Congratulations to Janne Roos for winning a closely fought Gold Cup competition. Next year should be very interesting as all three top contenders are now resident in Pattaya. Final Results were as below, with the top 20 scores for each competition on the last page.

1^st Janne Roos

2^nd Hans Vikman

3^rd Paul Quodomine

Silver Sally Watson

Bronze Alan Kleist

Dave’s Column Here is Dave’s first input on the play of the hand.

West East West North East South

♠ 75 ♠ A83 - - 1♥ pass

♥ K84 ♥ A10962 2♦ pass 2♥ pass

♦ AKJ43 ♦ 6 3♥ pass 4♥

♣ 653 ♣ AJ82

South leads the ♠Q. Declarer can expect four trump tricks, two ♦’s, two black aces and a ♠ ruff in dummy. How should declarer plan the play for ten tricks?

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Dave’s Column answer Board 26 from Wednesday 30^th

Dealer: ♠ K94 Book bidding

East ♥ J73 West North East South

Both vul ♦ Q1095 - - 1♥ pass

♣K97 2♦ pass 2♥ pass

3♥ pass 4♥ all pass

♠ 75 N ♠ A83

♥ K84 W E ♥ A10962

♦ AKJ43 S ♦ 6

♣ 653 ♣ AJ82 South leads the ♠Q. Declarer can expect four

♠ QJ1062 trump tricks, two ♦’s, two black aces and a ♠

♥ Q5 ruff in dummy. How should declarer plan the

♦ 872 play for ten tricks?

♣ Q104

Declarer should duck the first ♠, making sure that he can ruff a ♠ in dummy at the time he chooses. (It’s not an essential play as the cards lie on this deal but ducking is correct technique). Declare then wins the next ♠, takes the ♦AK to discard a ♣ and ruffs a ♦. He cashes the ♥AK and ruffs another ♦.

Since the ♦’s have split 4-3 declarer can now ruff a ♠ and discard another ♣ on the good 5^th ♦ as North ruffs. The defense get one trump, one ♠ and one ♣.

Declarer succeeds with good timing.

And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? 4♥=, 4♥-1 four times, 4♥-2 three times.

Dave’s 2^nd Column Here is Dave’s second problem, this time on defence.

Dealer: ♠ 109 Book Bidding

South ♥ Q72 West North East South

Love all ♦ Q102 - - - 2NT

♣ QJ983 pass 3NT all pass

N ♠ Q732 You are East. Partner leads the ♥J and

W E ♥ 963 declarer wins with the ♥A. Declarer then

S ♦ 96 leads the ♣K, West playing the ♣5.

♣ A764 Plan the defense.

Dave’s 2^nd Column answer Board 27 from Wednesday 30^th

Dealer: ♠ 109 Book Bidding

South ♥ Q72 West North East South

Love all ♦ Q102 - - - 2NT

♣ QJ983 pass 3NT all pass

♠ AJ86 N ♠ Q732 You are East. Partner leads the ♥J and

♥ J1084 W E ♥ 963 declarer wins with the ♥A. Declarer then

♦ 8753 S ♦ 96 leads the ♣K, West playing the ♣5. What do

♣ 5 ♣ A764 you do?

♠ K54

♥ AK5

♦ AKJ4

♣ K102

If you decide to duck the ♣K, how many ♣’s do you intend to duck? Note that with this layout ducking twice would be fatal. Allowing declarer to get home with three ♥’s, two ♣’s and four ♦’s (if declarer had a 5-card ♦ suit then ducking a ♣ just once would be fatal).

West is marked with 6-7 points on the auction. If he began with the ♥KJ10xx, he could hold no more than a king outside and declarer would have nine tricks if you return a ♥.

To set the contract you need to win the ♣A quickly and switch to the ♠Q; a low ♠ will not work - declarer will duck to dummy’s ♠109 preserving the stopper. To neutralize the power of dummy’s ♠ spots you must smother them by leading the ♠Q and hope that partner has the necessary ♠ holding to enable four winners in the suit.

And what happened at the Pattaya bridge club? 3NT+2 once, 3NT+1 twice, 3NT=twice and 3NT-1 three times

Final championship top 20 standings

	Gold Cup = Best 30	Silver Plate = Best 10	Bronze Medal = Best 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	1961.8 Janne Roos 1943.3 Hans Vikman 1926.0 Paul Quodomine 1817.2 Sally Watson 1770.2 Lars Broman 1748.3 Paul Scully 1746.5 Ivy Schlageter 1752.7 Gerard Hardy 1750.4 Derek Tyms 1733.2 Bob Pelletier 1726.9 Bob Short 1703.7 Robbie Georges	693.1 Janne Roos 689.2 Hans Vikman 673.0 Paul Quodomine 639.8 Sally Watson 639.6 Alan Kleist 634.5 Lars Broman 632.3 Per Andersson 631.2 Per-Ake Roskvist 630.7 Guttorm Lonborg 625.4 Jeremy Watson 622.6 Paul Scully 621.2 Ivy Schlageter 618.9 Bob Short 617.2 Gerard Hardy  617.2 Derek Tyms 612.9 Jean Wissing 612.7 Bob Pelletier 609.7 Jan v Koss 601.3 Royd Laidlow 599.2 Sean Burgess	355.2 Janne Roos 351.7 Hans Vikman 343.7 Paul Quodomine 341.7 Alan Kleist 332.6 Per-Ake Roskvist 332.0 Per Andersson 327.8 Sally Watson 327.6 Lars Broman 325.4 Jeremy Watson 325.3 Ivy Schlageter 322.3 Paul Scully 321.7 Bob Short 321.5 Guttorm Lonborg 320.1 Sean Burgess 316.9 Terje Lie 316.9 Jan v Koss 315.7 Jean Wissing 315.4 Bob Pelletier 313.5 Jeremy Watson 312.8 Dave Hurst