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Maastricht - The Netherlands
11th WORLD TEAMS BRIDGE OLYMPIAD
1st WORLD UNIVERSITY TEAMS CUP
INDONESIA Vs DENMARK
(Round 3, Sunday, August 27th, 2000)
By Muhammad Reza, Indonesia |
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The University of Indonesia Bridge team played against the
powerful Denmark team in the 3rd Round of the 11th World Teams
Bridge Olympiad - 1st World University Teams Cup, Maastricht,
Netherlands, 2000. In the 2nd Round, the University of Indonesia
Bridge team gave away only 1 IMP to Czech Republic team and
scored 30 IMPs in return or 23-7 in VPs.
I played with my years-partner, Hidayattullah, was sitting
South and had to play 3NT against the strongest pair from
Denmark, G. Bjarnarson - K. Konow.
Board no. 3 was one of the interesting deal during the match.
Board 3, Dealer South, East-West Vul.
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 JT9x
 Axxx
 Ax
 xxx |
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Qxx
Jxx
QT9xx
Tx |
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xxxx
Qxx
Kx
KQ98 |
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AK
Kxx
Jxxx
AJxx |
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Open Room
| West |
North |
East |
South |
| Ellestad |
Yohanes |
Fyllingen |
M.Hidayattulah |
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1NT |
| pass |
2 |
pass |
2 |
| pass |
3NT |
All pass |
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Bjarnarson led his strongest suit, a fourth-best diamond
and ducked to Konow's K.
Konow continued attacking the diamond. It was only six (6)
tricks available. I cashed two top spades and when Q failed
to drop, I played a small heart ducked to Konow. Konow made
a fatal mistake by attacking with 8.
It took me quite some minutes when considering many possibilities
line of play and finally putting J
on the table. Relieved ... and now it had a chance to bring
home the contract if the hearts were favorable to be 3-3 and
West held the Q
with doubleton clubs. I cashed A
and Konow tried his best by dropping Q as a false carding,
however it could not stop me to play three rounds of hearts.
Bjarnarson got squeezed. If he discarded Q
, the J
will be ninth trick. If he kept
Q, he will be endplayed to give me the ninth trick in diamond
after giving him a trick in spade.
In the Closed Room, M. Hidayatullah
was sitting West and partnering withYohanes, led 9
against the same contract declared by Anders Hagen, his partner
was Anders Sigsgaard. The contract was one down.
The final score was 29-26 IMPs or 16-14 in VPs for University
of Indonesia Bridge team. This winning gave our team, or at
least myself, more confidence and fighting spirit after had
lost to Poland 11-19 VPs (17-32 IMPs) in the very 1st Round
- "Jet-LAG" said Freddy YH, the most senior player
from the our team. "The reason was quite acceptable,
at least for Freddy, because he just arrived one day after
the team arrived or only one day before the Olympiad started,
and he did not have enough rest", Tommy Suhendra,
the Team Manager confirmed.
Continuing with a high confidence after defeating Denmark
16-14 VPs in the 3rd Round, our team faced Latvia in the 4th
Round and we made no mistakes to give any IMP to Latvia. The
result was 43-0 IMPs for Indonesia or 25-4 in VPs.
University of Indonesia was 6th after the 4th round as shown
in the following list.
| 1 |
China
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89 |
| 2 |
Austria |
84 |
| 3 |
Norway |
78 |
| 4 |
Denmark |
78 |
| 5 |
Italy |
75 |
| 6 |
INDONESIA |
75 |
| 7 |
Germany |
72 |
| 8 |
Poland |
68 |
| 9 |
USA |
66 |
| 10 |
Hong Kong |
64 |
| 11 |
Czech Republic |
62 |
| 12 |
Belgium |
58 |
| 13 |
Chinese Taipei |
55 |
| 14 |
France |
55 |
| 15 |
England |
51 |
| 16 |
Netherlands |
51 |
| 17 |
Botswana |
50 |
| 18 |
Singapore |
47 |
| 19 |
Japan |
40 |
| 20 |
Yugoslavia |
35 |
| 21 |
Latvia |
30 |
| 22 |
Ireland |
24 |
University of Indonesia Olympiad
2000 Bridge Team
Left to Right: Freddy YH, Yohanes, Hidayattullah, Tommy Suhendra
(Team Manager), Muhammad Reza, M Hidayatullah and Elwindra
The race was still a long way to the final, it was still
17 Rounds, 12 boards each round, to be played!
Written by,
Muhammad REZA
GABRIAL–UI Member
(Gabungan Bridge Alumni Universitas Indonesia)
Mobile +62 813 1077 6621
Email: shevx07@yahoo.com
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