The 4 World championships continue but as we only have representatives in the D'Orsi Bowl we will focus on that. We got as far as round 6 in the last report. 3 rounds of 48 boards a day. Round 12 is running live as we speak. Board 21 just now was a grand slam bid by 21 of the 24 pairs. As two of them were in the same match NORWAY v NEW ZEALAND neither lost any imps. The sole loser was ENGLAND fresh from tonking Ireland in round 11 who lost 13 imps.
Meanwhile its Ireland powered by the awesome Mesbur Fitzgibbon partnership playing Netherlands and the score is 3-3 after 6 boards.
Round 7 . .saw Ireland dish out a 43-6 trimming to SWEDEN ..
Round 8 .. saw Ireland get a hiding from CHINA ...
And NO this did not happen in Malahide on one of the inter B or novice nights ..
This was a pair who had flown 9000 km to play a bridge game in the World Championships ..
I just cannot figure it ... 55 in the majors .. surely after whatever WEST opens we reach a 9 card spade contract .... even part score is a start ..
And you cannot just fetch up and play in the World championships ... you got to get on your countries team first and then qualify out of Europe .. and then fly 9000km in a round tin cigar tube.
East West got to declare 4H and NS found the good DOUBLE .. You own 3 ACES and the makings of 2 vulnerable undertricks ,,, but somehow the Chinese magician emerges with 11 tricks and 990 ...a 1490 gain on the board .. 990 plus the 500 he could have lost ..
Mesbur and Fitz dropped 550 on the board but they were losing 400 anyway for 5D making NS so no big deal.
Its like the time I dropped 2200 on a board as Thomas MacCormac whispered quietly from dummy ASAL ASAL ... I think its an Irish word .. and its a compliment for what I did.
We were playing in England and most don't speak Irish there ..
The 670 that McAulliffe McMaugh dropped at the other table was irrelevant as 2200 or 2870 is much same imps.
Here we saw Mesbur and Fitzgibbon find a STOP sign on their road to 6D and grind to a halt before they were finished bidding. The 3-2 fit was beyond them .. Just shows even THE GREATEST can have an accident .. I am suspecting one was cuebidding when the other thought it was canape .
However I could be totally wrong
Meanwhile in the live match the sheep have escaped again and are eating more lettuce.
Netherlands by 22-4 after 12 boards.
In the China match there was also a missed slam and a nearly making 3NT on board 1 ..as Ireland took the 40 imp hiding from the hosts.
Then came round 9 and INDONESIA ... and a much needed victory against LASUT and MANOPPO two legends of the bridge world .. I even have a book written by Henry Lasut on some bidding system from Indonesia. Lasut has been playing bridge a good while so he must like the game. Almost as long as Nick and Adam have been a partnership.
Breaking News Ireland got 13 imps on the final board as NETHERLANDS attempted a low percentage slam and it failed. So 17-22 loss but about 3 VPS better than after 15 boards.
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