The Rosenblum

The World Open KO Teams starts to-morrow. There are at press time 147 teams, with 757 players from 48 countries.

I will be playing with Maurice De la Salle on the Todd Team, the other players are Doug Fisher, Bob Todd, Karl Gohl and Neil Kimelman. All friends from Winnipeg.

Teams will be seeded into 16 groups of 9 teams. Each group team will play a complete round robin in the next three days. 64 teams will qualify for the Knockout phase.  

This morning Apolinary Kowalski playing with Susie Miller, took the right view on this hand.

2nd Session Mixed Plate. Board 23. Dealer South. All Vul.

He was North held  ♠ 6 ♥ Q5 ♦ K532 ♣ J97642

This was the auction.

 

West	North	East	South
			2♦
Pass	5♦	5♠	Pass
6♠	6♦	DBL	Pass
Pass	Pass

These were the hands.

 

Dealer:South Vul:All	North ♠ 6   ♥ Q5   ♦ K532  ♣ J97642
West ♠ J87  ♥ J104  ♦ 84  ♣ AKQ83		East ♠ AKQ10954  ♥ Ak98  ♦ 9  ♣ 10
	South ♠ 32 ♥ 7632  ♦ AQJ1076  ♣ 5

 

West led the Ace of club then switched to a trump in time, however in the play East didn’t let West in again to lead the much needed second trump. South went down four for -1100 and with it most of the match points.

The World Mixed Pair won by Donna Compton and Fulvio Fantoni, second went to Kismet Fung and Brian Glubok. Joan Lewis and Robert Hopkins was third.