Willem leads Wbridge5 daily tournament

Good morning folks

I was just playing the daily Wbridge5 tournament. I am halfway through the 16 boards.
I had a look at the current overall scores. To my surprise I spot leading Irish player Willem Mevius up the top. Normally Willem attempts to stoke the robots and persuade them to give up tops. I have studied his form before.
However any player who scores 76% over 16 boards especially in a tournament frequented by players who make a decent effort to beat the robots each day they log in is a fine performance.
Personally today I am running at 60% after 8 boards. I don't expect to get anywhere near Willems score today.
Many decent Irish players have a go at the Wbridge5 daily tournament. The powerful Malahide player Big Wallace plays most days
Retired chess player Vincent Bissett also plays some days but the robots usually get the better of him. Rashers and Sausages also play most days. They are actually a sometimes partnership in face to face bridge. Swords legend Pat Cassidy also makes regular appearances.

http://bridgez.net:3002/ConnectingPlayer.html

The above link allows folk to play but you need to register first. Its FREE.

Another good free website where one can play as many or as few hands as one wants is
http://bridge-now.com

However this site has problems refreshing from time to time and one has to refresh the screen onself.
Also there is no claim function so one is slowed down regularly despite having all the tricks.
Still it provides a good service, giving weekly rankings and scoring each board right after you play it.

The daddy of them all is
www.bridgebase.com

This is also free but you can pay for some things if you like them like some good tourneys or rent some robots. It also has vugraph of regular world class games.
The Spingold Trophy ran last week up to yesterday. Pretty much all the players in these events take their bridge very seriously. There might be 80 teams entered and they cut it down to 64 for the first round proper ...Round of 64.
Every year several of the teams seeded 65-80 or higher knock off a top 64 team. This year seeds 42 58 and 63 failed to make the Round of 64 after being beaten in the opening round.
The opening round is normally 2 matches of 30 boards so it takes a good performance to qualify.