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Bulletin - 3 20th BFAME CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019, AMMAN, JORDAN of 14

Bulletin - 3 Wednesday, 26th June 2019

THE NEW BFAME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

The elections for the new executive council were held yesterday. The new committee is:

President Mr. Bahjat Al Majali (Jordan)

Vice Presidents

Mr. Azwer Ul Haque: Vice President & Secretary, BFAME (Pakistan) Mr. Ahmed Al-Midfaa: Vice President BFAME (UAE)

Mr. N R Kirubakara Moorthy (India) & Zone representative to WBF Mr. S. Sundareshan (India)

Mr. Abdul Hakim Sahab (Saudi Arabia) Mr. Mushfiqur Rahman Mohan (Bangladesh) Mr. Yousaf Shifiq Batshon, Treasurer (Jordan)

Mr. Ihsan Qadir, Associate Secretary (Pakistan)

We welcome the new President and Vice-Presidents in the executive council and say our sincere thanks to Mr. Ashok Kumar Goel, the outgoing President, who has been nominated as the President Emeritus, BFAME. Mr. Mazhar Jafri, President Emeritus of BFAME & zone representative stepped down voluntarily from his posts due to his health problems and all the council members thanked & praised him for his long service in the zone & the WBF. The council decided to honour him for his extra ordinary services by naming the Trophy for the Mixed team as “Mazhar Jafri Trophy”.


INDIA leads in the OPEN Teams At the end of the yesterday’s play (2nd day) of the 20th BFAME Championships, 6 rounds have been completed in the OPEN Team event. The teams will be playing one more round today to complete the proceedings of the first round-robin.

After 6 rounds, the Indian Team (Debasish Ray (NPC), Anirudh Bhattacharya, Dipak Santra, Keyzad Anklesaria, Kirubakara Moorthy NR, Rajeshwar Tewari, Uttam Gupta) has taken a commanding lead. Their score of 87.55 VPs is more than 16.5 VPs over the 2nd position holder. The Bangladesh team (Mirza Sajid ISPAHANI, Shah Ziaul HAQUE, Md. Rashedul AHASAN, A.H.M. KAMRUZZAMAN, M. Asifur Rahman CHOWDHURY, Md. Moshiur RAHMAN) is in 2nd position with 71.15 VPs, whereas Pakistan & Kuwait are in 3rd & 4th positions with 60.18 & 59.85 VPs, respectively. See detailed results on page 4 & 5.

Pakistan leads WOMEN Teams at the end of day-2

The 1st round robin of the Women’s event was completed yesterday after playing 1 round. The Indian team (Subhash Gupta (NPC), Alka Kshirsagar, Asha Sharma, Meenal Thakur, Nikita Kamal, Puja Batra, Rupa Bakeri) were the leaders at the end of 1st round robin with a score of 39.85 VPs.

Based on their ranks in the 1st round-robin, the teams were assigned new numbers for the 2nd round-robin,

One round of the RR-2 was played yesterday and at the end of the 2nd day, the Pakistan Women team (Qudsia Dosa, Rubina Agha, Rubina Saeed Hai, Shahnaz Pirzada, Fatime Raza, Najm Abid) are on top position with 51.57 VPs. The Indian team is in 2nd place with 46.57 VPs. The 3rd & 4th paces are taken by the Jordan and Palestine teams with a score of 30.51 & 30.35 VPs respectively. See detailed results on page 4 & 5.

INDIA leads the SENIOR Teams The Senior teams completed their first round-robin after playing 2 rounds yesterday. The Indian team (Dipak Poddar (Captain), Anal Shah (Coach), SUBRATA SAHA, JITENDRA SOLANI, RAMAMURTHY SRIDHARAN, SUBHASH DHAKRAS, SUKMAL DAS, SUBRATA SAHA) led the first round-robin with a score of 73.43 VPs. One round of 2nd round-robin was also played yesterday and India is still on top with 90.01 VPs.

The UAE team (Ahmed Al Midfaa, Darshan Valrani, Akiel Madi, Wael Al Agamawi, Huamyun Sumar, Nermeen Noorani) is in 2nd place with 80.83 VPs, and Pakistan is in 3rd place with 70.40 VPs. See detailed results on page 4 & 5.

INDIA leads the MIXED Teams The Mixed teams completed their first round-robin after playing 2 rounds yesterday. The Indian team (Ramratnam Krishnan (NPC), Bharati Dey, Bindiya Naidoo, Himani Khandelwal, Priya Ranjan Sinha, Rajeev Khandelwal, Sujit Kumar Basu) led the first round-robin with a score of 66.22 VPs. One round of 2nd round-robin was also played yesterday and India is still on top with 78.22 VPs.

The UAE team (Mohamed Manaf (NPC), Khaled Hasan, Nicole Elzir, Sawsan Al Ebiary, Tamer Abbas) is in 2nd place with 70.38 VPs, and Pakistan is in 3rd place with 68.42 VPs. See detailed results on page 4 & 5..

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Today’s Play Schedule Wednesday – 26th June 2019

OPEN TEAMS

TBL # RR-1, RND-7 (1030 Hrs.) RR-2, RND-1 (1430 Hrs.) RR-2, RND-2 (1730 Hrs.) TBL-01 JORDAN Vs UAE 2 (TBD) Vs 7 (TBD) 7 (TBD) Vs 1 (TBD) TBL-02 INDIA Vs BANGLADESH 3 (TBD) Vs 6 (TBD) 6 (TBD) Vs 2 (TBD) TBL-03 PAKISTAN Vs S. ARABIA 4 (TBD) Vs 5 (TBD) 5 (TBD) Vs 3 (TBD)

WOMEN TEAMS TBL # RR-2, RND-2 (1030 Hrs.) RR-2, RND-3 (1430 Hrs.) TBL-05 PALESTINE Vs INDIA INDIA Vs PAKISTAN

TBL-06 PAKISTAN Vs JORDAN PALESTINE Vs JORDAN SENIORS TEAMS

TBL # RR-2, RND-2 (1030 Hrs.) RR-2, RND-3 (1430 Hrs.) RR-2, RND-4 (1730 Hrs.) TBL-07 BANGLADESH Vs INDIA INDIA Vs JORDAN PAKISTAN Vs INDIA TBL-08 JORDAN Vs UAE UAE Vs PAKISTAN S. ARABIA Vs UAE TBL-09 S. ARABIA Vs PAKISTAN BANGLADESH Vs S. ARABIA BANGLADESH Vs JORDAN

MIXED TEAMS TBL # RR-2, RND-2 (1030 Hrs.) RR-2, RND-3 (1430 Hrs.) RR-2, RND-4 (1730 Hrs.)

TBL-10 S. ARABIA Vs INDIA INDIA Vs PAKISTAN JORDAN Vs INDIA TBL-11 PAKISTAN Vs UAE UAE Vs JORDAN S. ARABIA Vs PAKISTAN

TBD - The next round robin match will be decided based on the ranking of Previous Round Robin

Today’s Vu-Graph Matches on BBO

Round-1: 1030 Hrs BBO 1: INDIA Vs. BANGLADESH (OPEN) BBO2: PALESTINE Vs. INDIA (WOMEN)

Round-2: 1430 Hrs BBO 1: To be Decided (OPEN) BBO2: INDIA Vs. PAKISTAN (MIXED)

Round-3: 1730 Hrs BBO 1: To be Decided (OPEN) BBO2: INDIA Vs. PAKISTAN (SENIORS)


RESULTS AT A GLANCE

OPEN TEAM EVENT

Round Robin - 1

Rnk T# Team Name R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 TOTAL Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs 1 3 INDIA 6 17.45 5 13.52 4 15.19 B 12.00 2 14.39 1 15.00 7 87.55 2 7 BANGLADESH 2 10.31 1 11.20 B 12.00 6 12.03 5 15.92 4 9.69 3 71.15 3 4 PAKISTAN 5 6.48 B 12.00 3 3.81 2 19.34 1 8.24 7 10.31 6 60.18 4 5 KUWAIT 4 13.52 3 6.48 2 2.83 1 18.55 7 4.08 6 14.39 B 59.85 5 6 S. ARABIA 3 2.55 2 11.48 1 16.88 7 7.97 B 12.00 5 5.61 4 56.49 6 2 UAE 7 9.69 6 8.52 5 17.17 4 0.66 3 5.61 B 12.00 1 53.65 7 1 JORDAN B 12.00 7 8.80 6 3.12 5 1.45 4 11.76 3 5.00 2 42.13

WOMEN TEAMS Round Robin - 2

Rank T# Team Name CO RR1 R1 R2 R3 PEN TOTAL Vs. VPs Vs. VPs Vs. VPs VPs 1 2 PAKISTAN 33.85 3 17.72 4 1 51.57 2 1 INDIA 39.85 4 6.72 3 2 46.57 3 4 JORDAN 17.23 1 13.28 2 3 30.51

4 3 PALESTINE 28.07 2 2.28 1 4 30.35

SENIOR TEAMS Round Robin - 2

Rnk T# Team Name CO - RR1 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 PEN TOTAL Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs VPs 1 1 INDIA 73.43 6 16.58 5 4 3 2 90.01 2 2 UAE 67.55 5 13.28 4 3 6 1 80.83 3 3 PAKISTAN 55.60 4 14.80 6 2 1 5 70.40 4 4 JORDAN 40.20 3 5.20 2 1 5 6 45.40 5 5 BANGLADESH 38.57 2 6.72 1 6 4 3 45.29

6 6 S. ARABIA 24.65 1 3.42 3 5 2 4 28.07

MIXED TEAMS Round Robin - 2

Rnk T# Team Name CO - RR1 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 PEN TOTAL Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs Vs VPs VPs 1 1 INDIA 66.22 6 12.00 5 4 3 2 78.22 2 2 UAE 55.58 5 14.80 4 3 6 1 70.38 3 4 PAKISTAN 52.86 3 15.56 2 1 5 6 68.42 4 3 JORDAN 53.50 4 4.44 6 2 1 5 57.94

5 5 S. ARABIA 29.84 2 5.20 1 6 4 3 35.04


ROUND-BY-ROUND SCORE OF ALL EVENTS OPEN TEAM EVENT RESULTS

RR1 - Round # 4 TBL # Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs

1 5. KUWAIT Vs. 1. JORDAN 58-14 18.55-1.45 2 4. PAKISTAN Vs. 2. UAE 63-11 19.34-0.66 3 7. BANGLDESH Vs. 6. SAUDI ARABIA 49-42 12.03-7.97 8. BYE 3. INDIA 0 - 12.00


1 1. JORDAN Vs. 4. PAKISTAN 28-22 11.76-8.24 2 2. UAE Vs. 3. INDIA 34-51 5.61-14.39 3 5. KUWAIT Vs. 7. BANGLDESH 25-50 4.08-15.92 6. SAUDI ARABIA 8. BYE 12.00 - 0


1 3. INDIA Vs. 1. JORDAN 37-17 15.00-5.00 2 6. SAUDI ARABIA Vs. 5. KUWAIT 19-36 5.61-14.39 3 7. BANGLDESH Vs. 4. PAKISTAN 27-28 9.69-10.31 8. BYE 2. UAE 0 - 12.00

WOMEN TEAM EVENT RESULTS RR1 - Round # 3

TBL # Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs 5 1. PAKISTAN Vs. 2. PALESTINE 31-42 6.96-13.04 6 3. INDIA Vs. 4. JORDAN 31-41 7.20-12.80


5 1. INDIA Vs. 4. JORDAN 22-34 6.72-13.28 6 2. PAKISTAN Vs. 3. PALESTINE 71-34 17.72-2.28

SENIOR TEAM EVENT RESULTS RR1 - Round # 4

TBL # Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs 7 3. BANGLADESH Vs. 1. SAUDI ARABIA 45-25 15.00-5.00 8 6. INDIA Vs. 2. JORDAN 65-19 18.77-1.23 9 5. PAKISTAN Vs. 4. UAE 13-25 6.72-13.28


7 1. SAUDI ARABIA Vs. 2. JORDAN 38-51 6.48-13.52 8 4. UAE Vs. 6. INDIA 44-29 13.97-6.03 9 3. BANGLADESH Vs. 5. PAKISTAN 26-62 2.41-17.59


7 1. INDIA Vs. 6. SAUDI ARABIA 54-25 16.58-3.42 8 2. UAE Vs. 5. BANGLADESH 43-31 13.28-6.72 9 3. PAKISTAN Vs. 4. JORDAN 42-23 14.80-5.20

MIXED TEAM EVENT RESULTS RR1 - Round # 4

TBL # Home Team Visiting Team IMPs VPs 10 3. PAKISTAN Vs. 1. UAE 19-28 7.45-12.55 11 5. SAUDI ARABIA Vs. 4. JORDAN 31-34 9.09-10.91 6. BYE Vs. 2. INDIA 0 - 12.00


10 1. UAE Vs. 2. INDIA 38-41 9.09-10.91 11 3. PAKISTAN Vs. 5. SAUDI ARABIA 60-22 17.85-2.15 4. JORDAN Vs. 6. BYE 12.00 - 0


10 2. UAE Vs. 5. SAUDI ARABIA 37-18 14.80-5.20 11 3. JORDAN Vs. 4. PAKISTAN 13-36 4.44-15.56 1. INDIA Vs. 6. BYE 12.00 - 0


Tournament Draw

OPEN TEAMS (7 TEAMS) - ROUND ROBIN - 1

RND # TBL-1 TBL-2 TBL-3 BYE TBL Team # TEAM NAME 1 2 Vs 7 3 Vs 6 4 Vs 5 1 Vs 8 1 JORDAN 2 7 Vs 1 6 Vs 2 5 Vs 3 8 Vs 4 2 UAE 3 1 Vs 6 2 Vs 5 3 Vs 4 7 Vs 8 3 INDIA 4 5 Vs 1 4 Vs 2 7 Vs 6 8 Vs 3 4 PAKISTAN 5 1 Vs 4 2 Vs 3 5 Vs 7 6 Vs 8 5 KUWAIT 6 3 Vs 1 6 Vs 5 7 Vs 4 8 Vs 2 6 SAUDI ARABIA 7 1 Vs 2 3 Vs 7 4 Vs 6 5 Vs 8 7 BANGLADESH

8 BYE WOMEN TEAMS (4 TEAMS) - ROUND ROBIN - 2

RND # TBL-5 TBL-6 Team # TEAM NAME 1 1 Vs 4 2 Vs 3 1 INDIA 2 3 Vs 1 2 Vs 4 2 PAKISTAN 3 1 Vs 2 3 Vs 4 3 PALESTINE 4 JORDAN

SENIOR TEAMS (6 TEAMS) - ROUND ROBIN - 2

RND # TBL-7 TBL-8 TBL-9 Team # TEAM NAME 1 1 Vs 6 2 Vs 5 3 Vs 4 1 INDIA

2 5 Vs 1 4 Vs 2 6 Vs 3 2 UAE 3 1 Vs 4 2 Vs 3 5 Vs 6 3 PAKISTAN 4 3 Vs 1 6 Vs 2 5 Vs 4 4 JORDAN 5 1 Vs 2 4 Vs 6 3 Vs 5 5 BANGLADESH

6 SAUDI ARABIA

MIXED TEAMS (5 TEAMS) - ROUND ROBIN - 2 RND # TBL-10 TBL-11 BYE TBL Team # TEAM NAME

1 2 Vs 5 3 Vs 4 1 Vs 6 1 INDIA 2 5 Vs 1 4 Vs 2 6 Vs 3 2 UAE 3 1 Vs 4 2 Vs 3 5 Vs 6 3 JORDAN 4 3 Vs 1 5 Vs 4 6 Vs 2 4 PAKISTAN 5 1 Vs 2 3 Vs 5 4 Vs 6 5 SAUDI ARABIA

6 BYE NOTES: 1. The first Round-Robin was based on team nos. taken out in the Captain's Meeting. 1. In the subsequent Round-Robin, the same draw as of the first round-robin will continue with new Team Nos. being allocated to Teams, based on their rankings at the end of previous round-robin 3. There will be 2 Round-Robins in OPEN, 4 Round Robins in WOMEN and 3 Round-Robins each in MIXED & SENIORS event.


Open Room: NS (INDIA) – Uttam Gupta – NR Kirubakara Moorthy EW (PAKISTAN) – Khaled Mohiuddin – Md. Mubashir

Closed Room: NS (PAKISTAN) – Jahangir Ahmed – Mansoor Arslan EW (INDIA)–Keyzad Anklesaria – Rajeshwar Tewari

The match started with both teams bidding 4S on board 1 making with an overtrick.

Board 2, Dlr: East, Vul: NS

J8 A964 KT65 KJ9

K5 J76 AQJ92 AT4

QT732 K832 8 653

A964 QT 743 Q872

It was one of those boards where it is 20 HCPs against opponents19 HCPs and who ever bids get penalised. The Pakistan EW pair was in a bad 2D in open room. If West opens 1NT, East after stayman and getting 2D response would have bid 2H with weak hand or would have transferred to spades. 2S would have played better than 2D, which went 2 down. In the closed room, their partners competed to 3C with NS cards, which went 4 down giving India a gift of 11 IMPs on the board, without them doing anything great on their own.

Board 3, Dlr: South, Vul: EW

JT853 T7 JT63 K3

AK7 AKQ95 874 J2

Q9 J84 AQ95 T964

642 632 K2 AQ875

Both the tables were in 4H. In closed room, Rajeshwar Tewari got the lead of spade Jack and after winning with queen, took out the trumps in 3 rounds and played D8 and let it run. When the diamond King won, defenders could take their 2 club winners and contract was made.

In open room the contract went one down as diamond to the queen was played. That was another 12 IMPs to India.

Board 4 was a flat board both sides playing in a part game in spade.

Board 5, Dlr: North, Vul: NS

Q87 K762 3 A6532

A43 AT9853 Q QJ9

KJ962 AJ65 KT87

T5 QJ4 KT98742 4

Open Room:

West North East South Pass 1S Pass 2H Pass 2S Pass 3S Pass 4C Pass 4S All Pass Closed Room: West North East South Pass 1S Pass 2H Pass 2S Pass 3S Pass 3NT Pass 4S All Pass

EW of both the rooms reached the contract of 4S with near similar bidding. In the open room, South led his singleton club and partner won with Ace and gave ruff to south. South played back the DK, pinning the DQ. Declarer won with Ace and after winning tried to ruff a diamond in dummy. This got over ruffed by North, who gave another club ruff to his partner. South returned another diamond and declarer fearing a ruff by North ruffed with Ace of spade and played back a spade but did not finesse the queen going 2 down in the contract.

In the closed room, South also led his singleton club but North after winning with Ace did not give ruff to partner and instead led back his singleton diamond. Declarer won with Ace and ruffed a diamond, which got over-ruffed by North. Now North gave a club ruff and like in open room, the diamond return was ruffed with Ace, and DJ was discarded on the heart Ace. Declarer now took the spade finesse to score his contract and gain 11 IMPs on the board.

The next three boards fetched few IMPs for Pakistan but they again gave away 6 IMPs on board 9.

Board 10, Dlr: East, Vul: All

J742 97653 J J42

A953 QT986 AKQ8

Q86 AJT 754 9653

KT KQ842 AK32 T7

OPEN TEAMS – RR1, ROUND -3 (INDIA Vs. PAKISTAN )


Open Room:

West North East South Pass 1H DBL 2H Pass Pass DBL Pass 3C All Pass Closed Room: West North East South Pass 1H DBL 3H Pass Pass DBL Pass 3NT All Pass

In the open room, after a competitive bidding, EW purchased the contract in 3C. South led the HK, declarer discarding a spade from dummy. He now led a diamond and when south played low, he put the D9, which was unexpectedly won by North’s Jack. Heart was continued and the HT brought down the queen, declarer ruffing in dummy and playing another diamond. South won with the King and knowing that diamonds are going to get established, played the S10, which declarer ran to his queen. Declarer was now able to discard his spade loser on HJ and the contract was made with an overtrick.

In the closed room, helped by the pre-emptive 3H by North, East (Keyzad) was more aggressive with 3NT call. He received the HK lead and he discarded D6 from dummy and after winning with Ace, played back a spade, winning with SA after south gave S10. Now declarer played another spade towards his spade 8, South winning with SK. Not wanting to give a free heart trick (East can have 4 hearts, as North’s 3H does not guarenty 5 cards), South now shifted to D3 and declarer did well to put up the queen, which brough down the DJ from North. Declarer was in better control now and played back D8, South winning with King. Now South shifted to low heart and declarer won the trick and with 4 tricks in pocket, won the 4 club trick along with SQ to score his contract and gain 10 IMPs to India.

Board 13, Dlr: North, Vul: All

75 A642 AQJT875

AJT9 KT8632 KT9

K7432 J94 3 9432

Q865 AQ QJ875 K6

Open Room:

West North East South 2C Pass 2D(1) 2H 3C 3H 3NT 4H 5C Pass Pass 5H DBL All Pass Closed Room: West North East South 3C Pass 3NT 4H Pass Pass 4NT All Pass

After an interesting bidding sequence at both the tables, the Pakistan EW in open room did not allow the Indian NS to play in 5C, which scores as only one heart & diamond will be lost. They sacrificed in 5H, which was duly doubled and went 2 down for 500 to NS.

In the closed room, the Pakistan NS did well to be in 4NT. Knowing that South is holding 2 checks in heart, West did well to lead the Spade Ten, but that was also not enough as declarer has to only find the DK to score 7 clubs, 2 diamonds & Ace of heart for his 10 tricks. That was a well earned 4 IMPs for Pakistan.

On board 15, the Pakistani East – West were in 1 NT making 8 tricks for +120, whereas the Indian EW overbid to 3NT going 1 down for a 5 IMP gain to Pakistan.

Board 16, Dlr: West, Vul: EW

AK32 J6 K75 T632

T864 T9532 AKQ8

Q95 KQ7 AJ8643 9

J7 A84 QT92 J754

Open Room: West North East South Pass 1D Pass 1NT DBL All Pass Closed Room: West North East South Pass Pass 1D Pass 1H DBL RDBL 2C 2H 3C 3H All Pass In the open room, West doubled for take out in diamond but East with his diamond stack passed. West led the 4th best H3 and South ducked the HQ. The continuation HK was also allowed a trick and the 3rd heart brought the Ace out. Declarer now shifted to a diamond, West discarding S8 (discouraging) and East won with the DA and played back the club for West to take 2 more hearts and 3 club tricks. The contract went 2 down for 300 to Pakistan.

In the closed room, North opted to pass out and East opened with 1D, his partner responding a heart. North nowcame into action with a double and East showed his 3-carder heart support with Re-double. South bid his best suit and after some more competition, the final contract became 3H by West.

After receiving aa club lead, playing double dummy, you can discard 2 spades on club. Play a spade. Let us say North wins with King and plays a heart back, South can won with Ace and return another heart East winning with queen and now can ruff a diamond in dummy and a spade in hand to score 5 trumps, 3 clubs and a diamond to make 9 tricks. But went one down with another line of play giving 9 IMPs to Pakistan. INDIA won the match by 50-29.


Open Room: NS (KUWAIT) – Bader Alrefae – Imran Ali EW (BANGLADESH) – Rahman Md Moshiur - Kamruzzaman A.H.M

Closed Room: NS (BANGLADESH) – Haque Shah Zia-Ul - Islam Mohammad Monirul EW (KUWAIT)– Numan Al Turki – Ibrahim Al Qattan

Board 1, Dlr: None, Vul: All

A QJ3 QJ9876 873

Q84 AT974 AT42 J

KT975 K62 AKQT9

J632 85 K53 6542

Open Room:

West North East South 2D 2S 3D 4D Pass 4H Pass 4NT Pass 5H Pass 6S All Pass Closed Room: West North East South 1D DBL Pass 4H All Pass

The Bangladesh pair in EW position bid the hand well to reach the slam.

The question now was to play it well. South led a low diamond and declarer won in dummy wi, discarding a heart from hand. A low trump was pulled, North winning with the Ace and returning another diamond, declarer ruffing with Spade 10. When he correctly took the trump finesse in dummy he had no problem in scoring the contract.

Other table was only in 4H, making 11 tricks for a 11 IMPs gain to Bangladesh.

Board 3, Dlr: South, Vul: EW

K8 A9652 KT976 8

JT4 3 A84 KJ7632

Q762 KJT7 52 Q94

A953 Q84 QJ3 AT5

Open Room:

West North East South 1C Pass 1H Pass 1NT Pass 2C Pass 3C Pass 4H All Pass Closed Room: West North East South 1C Pass 1H Pass 1NT 2C 2D Pass 2H Pass 3D Pass 4D All Pass

In open room, after 1C-1H-1NT sequence, 2C seems to be check-back but what was 3C is not clear. But 4H was a reasonable contract. East led the D5 and West won with Ace and returned SJ declarer winning with SK and played a low heart. East tried his best by playing low but when queen was played from dummy and won the trick, it was all over. Declarer played the trump Ace and then started playing the diamonds. West could only get his 2 hearts besides the DA.

In the closed room, the bidding seemed to be going the open room way till West interrupted with 2C. But when North bid 2D and over 2H bid 3D, may be partner considered him to have 4 hearts and 5 diamonds. System permitting, North could have bid 3D showing 5-5 or could have raised partner’s 2H to 4H. In fact partner made things easy for him by bidding 4D, asking him to choose 4H or even 5D. Passing 4D was surely not a good bid. That was a loss of 7 IMPs to Bangladesh. On the next board Bangladesh again lost another 7 IMPs when they played the hand in both the rooms and both the contracts went down.

Board 7, Dlr: South, Vul: All

J976 KQJ6432 6 T

Q8 Q85432 AKJ72

AK543 A87 K 8543

T2 T95 AJT97 Q96

Open Room:

West North East South Pass 1D 2H 2S Pass 3C Pass 3H Pass 4C Pass 4NT Pass 5NT Pass 6C All Pass

OPEN TEAMS – RR1, ROUND -5 (KUWAIT Vs. BANGLADESH) )


Closed Room:

West North East South Pass 1D 4H 4S Pass 4NT Pass 5H Pass 6S All Pass Both the rooms reached the slam but in different black colour suits. In open room, East showed his club fit by bidding 3H (opponent suit) and they could play in a 5-4 club fit.

In closed room, North made life difficult for EW by barging in with 4H. Now over 4S, 4NT was taken as “for spades” and the club suit vanished from the scene.

In open room, the lead of D6 would have defeated the contract as South takes the DA and the diamond return can be ruffed by the C10, East unable to over-ruff. But the lead was HK and declarer won with the Ace, played a club to the Ace and pulled a small diamond to his King. South won the trick with Ace and played back DJ. Declarer won with the DQ and when North could not ruff it, the location of CQ was automatically found and contract made.

In other room, with spade not breaking and declarer not going for club finesse, the contract went 2 down and that was a massive 17 IMPs swing for Bangladesh.

Board 13, Dlr: North, Vul: All

KJ43 K7 975 T743

A6 AQ6 AJT4 KQJ8

QT972 9832 62 65

85 JT54 KQ83 A92

OPEN ROOM: West North East South Pass Pass Pass 2NT Pass 3H Pass 3S All Pass CLOSED ROOM: West North East South Pass Pass Pass 2NT Pass 3C Pass 3D Pass 3S Pass 3NT All Pass

It was a difficult hand to bid. East could have simply passed 2NT (21-22) but with both majors it was difficult to pass. As it turned out in closed room they overshot to 3NT, which went 2 down.

In open room, the lead was D7 to DQ and Ace. Declarer played the CK, South winning with Ace and playing the DQ and a heart back. Declarer hopped up with Ace and discarded one heart from dummy on club jack and another on DJ.

Declarer now played the D10 and when North ruffed, the last heart from dummy was discarded. North could play the HK, which was ruffed in dummy. A trump to the Ace and back made sure that the contract is made. That was another 8 IMPs to Bangladesh.

Board 14, Dlr: East, Vul: None

763 T853 A764 94

T QJ972 KQJ85 Q7

J5 AK6 T2 AJT832

AKQ9842 4 93 K65

OPEN ROOM: West North East South 1C 4S All Pass The lead was DK and declarer won in dummy with the Ace and played back a small club, East won with the Ace and after cashing HK, played back the diamond. West won the Jack and continued with HQ, which got ruffed and now declarer played 2 rounds of spade and ruffed his losing club in dummy to score the contract.

CLOSED ROOM: West North East South 1C 1S DBL 2S 3C 4S 5C Pass Pass 5S DBL All Pass South made his own life miserable by giving bidding scope to opponents. It would have been difficult for West to come into picture, if South directly jumps to 4S. Though 5C goes one down, but South could not resist bidding 5S, which was duly doubled for -1 and 11 important IMPs to Kuwait.

Board 15, Dlr: South, Vul: NS

QJ52 T64 JT542 6

AK9764 AQ A7 A93

83 KJ987 K6 KT75

T 532 Q983 QJ842

In open room, Bangladesh EW was in 6S going one down, whereas Kuwait EW in closed room went for Grand slam going 2 down for a 2 IMPs gain for Bangladesh.

Bangladesh won the match by 50-25.


Jordan Bridge Brief History - By Ghassan Ghanem

.......... To be Continued


DEFENSIVE TECHNIQUES IN BRIDGE PLAYING Examples Compiled and presented by Mazhar Jafri

EXAMPLE 2: Counting declarer’s tricks to find a clear-cut defense

3 2 8 4 3 K T 9 A K Q 9 3

J T 8 7 K T 9 A J 5 8 4 2

Vul: All, Lead: J

West North East South 1D Pass 2C Pass 2NT Pass 3NT All Pass

Bidding details 2NT is 12-14 hcps, balanced With 5

Partner leads the two clubs (4th best) and the eight is played from the dummy. Let us prepare a defense plan, taking account of the suit distribution

Normally one leads the spade jack (from KJ10 or AJ10 or J10). South captures it with the queen (Partner plays the spade six) and exits with a diamond. A simple defensive plan is: SOLUTION In this case, the plan to defend this contract boils down to counting declarer’s tricks: Three spades, five clubs (we know from the bidding that South has at least a doubleton in clubs) and a diamond if one fails to rise with the ace; just enough to make his contract.

So, one has to bet on the only chance one has – finding partner with the ace and queen of hearts. It would, however, be a mistake to lead the standard ten from his sequence, since partner may rise with the ace and play a spade. The correct card to play is the king of hearts.

Full hand

3 2 8 4 3 K T 9 A K Q 9 3

J T 8 7 K T 9 A J 5 8 4 2

9 6 5 4 A Q 6 2 7 6 7 6 5

A K Q J 7 5 Q 8 4 3 2 J T

In this deal, right defense consists of counting declarer’s tricks as well as anticipating any possible dilemmas our partner might have.

.......... To be Continued


The 20th BFAME Championships, AMMAN 23rd June to 30th June 2019

Championships Schedule Daily Timings 1030 – 1250 Hrs. Match 1 of the day - OPEN/WOMEN/SENIORS/MIXED Teams 1430 – 1650 Hrs. Match 2 of the day - OPEN/WOMEN/SENIORS/MIXED Teams 1730 – 1950 Hrs. Match 3 of the day - OPEN/SENIORS/MIXED Teams Note:

1. From Monday, Jun 24 till Thursday, Jun 27, there will be every day 3 matches per day for OPEN Teams. On Friday, Jun 28, there will be 2 matches in OPEN Teams & the first session of Semi-Finals of 16 boards will also be played from 1730 Hrs..

2. From Monday, Jun 24 till Friday, Jun 28, there will be every day 3 matches per day for SENIORS / MIXED. 29th June will be a rest day for SENIORS / MIXED

3. From Monday, Jun 24 till Friday, Jun 29, there will be 2 matches per day for WOMEN

Saturday, Jun 29 1030 – 1250 Hrs. Semi-Finals – 2nd Segment OPEN Teams 1430 – 1650 Hrs. Semi-Finals – 3rd Segment OPEN Teams 1730 – 1950 Hrs. Semi-Finals – 4th Segment OPEN Teams

Sunday, Jun 30 1030 – 1250 Hrs. Finals – 1st Segment (OPEN, WOMEN, SENIORS, MIXED Teams) 1430 – 1650 Hrs. Finals – 1st Segment (OPEN, WOMEN, SENIORS, MIXED Teams) 1930 Hrs. Prize Distribution over Victory Banquet

Finals: 32 boards (16x2) for all four categories on last day (Sunday, June 30)

No Smoking

Smoking in the playing area, is strictly prohibited and will attract heavy penalties.

No Mobile Phones Use of Mobile telephones is prohibited in the playing area, while the play session is on. No player can take the Mobile phone inside the playing arena. It has to be deposited outside playing area and TDs will make a random check. Strict action will be taken against the offending players.

IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE

The Tournament Directors would award penalties as prescribed by the Laws and Conditions of the contest for Use of Mobiles, Slow play or Late Arrival.

All players are informed that ENGLISH is the official language of the tournament for interacting while the match is on.

IMPORTANT LOCAL CONTACT OF ORGANISERS Mr. Bahjat Al Majali (Chief Organiser): +962 79 517 7111 Mr. Ramzi Ghousus: +962 79 591 5151 Mr. Raed Darwish: +962 79 666 5565

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