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The Helpers

The Lederer relies on many people to make the event run smoothly. These are some of them.

Victor Lesk: Event organiser
Vigfús Pálsson: TD
Will Clennell: TD
Paul Barden: Vugraph Coordinator
Brian Callaghan (left) and Peter Clinch: Commentators
Richard Creamer: Vugrapher
Gitte Hecht-Johansen: Vugrapher
Mark Lehto: Vugrapher

Boards 9 & 10 from Match 6

A couple of interesting defence problems on the last two boards of match 6.

The de Botton N/S pair (Lahrmann and Heiberg-Evenstad) get to a decent 4 spade contract. W (Tom Paske) overcalls 2 hearts along the way.

Paske leads KH and David Gold as East gives this some thought before ruffing it and playing the 8 clubs (a high card to say he doesn’t want a club returned). Paske cashes the AC then plays a little heart and Gold ruffs again. The small heart is a suit preference signal for clubs – Paske is hopeful of a club ruff but he won’t get one beause his trumps are not high enough. Gold cashes his AD before playing a club for two off. Nice work.

A swing for Black Adders on the last board of the set. 4 hearts was played at both tables but from different sides. Both opening leaders kicked off with a singleton but as you see only the 9 clubs was successful.

At one table the auction started 1C by E then 4C by S. X from W and 4H by east and X. by S to show he had a good hand for 4C. Now what to lead… Sadly the 10S didn’t work well.

Player Gallery

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Periculo v Harris: L-R Alex Allfrey (Periculo), Dennis Bilde, Andrew Robson, Zia
Harris v Periculo: L-R Ola Rimstedt (Harris), Patrick Lawrence, Mikael Rimstedt, Oliver Lawrence
Harris v London: L-R Jonathan Harris, Phil King, Steve Root, Kevin Caster
Black Adders v Norwegian Women – Clockwise from left Andrew Black, Gunn Tove Vist, Andrew McIntosh, Torild Heskje
Ireland v Black Adders: L-R Tom Hanlon (Ireland), Simon Cope, Frederic Volcker, Peter Crouch
Ireland v Black Adders: L-R Adam Mesbur, Tom Paske, Nick Fitzgibbon, David Gold
Ireland v London: L-R Mark Moran, Kevin Castner, John Carroll, Phil King
London v Ireland: L-R Brian McGuire (London), Nick Fitzgibbon, Gordon Rainsford, Adam Mesbur
London v deBotton: L-R Trevor Mathews (London), Nicolai Heiberg-Evenstad, David Muller, Christian Lahrmann
de Botton – Harris – clockwise from left: Artur Malinowski, Ola Rimstedt, Janet de Botton, Mikael Rimstedt
de Botton v London: L-R Thor-Erik Hoftaniska (de Botton), Phil King, Thomas Charlesen, Kevin Castner
Norwegian Women v Rosen: L-R Torild Heskje, John Atthey, Gunn Tove Vist, Neil Rosen
Norwegian Women v Rosen: L-R Marianne Harding, Seb Atisen, Ann Kari Fuglestad, Stefano Tommasini
Bessis v Gilis: L-R Guy Laffineur (Bessis), Erik Saelensminde, Irene Baroni, Simon Gillis
Gillis v Bessis: L-R Christian Bakke (Gillis), Thomas Bessis, Erik Berg, Michel Bessis