1 - European Bridge League
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9 th <strong>European</strong> Youth <strong>Bridge</strong> Pairs Championship Daily Bulletin, No 1, 08.07.17<br />
BOARd 22 sess. 3<br />
1085<br />
5<br />
1085432<br />
AJ8<br />
KJ9743 A<br />
Q10942 AKJ876<br />
6 J7<br />
K Q1042<br />
Q62<br />
3<br />
AKQ9<br />
97653<br />
E/EW<br />
11<br />
West North East South<br />
Clacey Drijver Angus Groenenboom<br />
4] 5{ All Pass<br />
1] Dble<br />
This went down three for 76% to NS. Had EW<br />
doubled, it would have brought them just 10% extra...<br />
The First Mini-Session<br />
By Patrick Jourdain (Wales)<br />
The first international event to be played without<br />
screens under the 2007 Laws, and the first <strong>European</strong><br />
Youth Pairs to have separate events for Under 26 Girls<br />
and Under 21, began with a field of ?? pairs in the U26.<br />
Your reporter chose to follow the ten boards of the<br />
first mini-session at the table where Jacob Hop, 23, and<br />
Vincent de Pagter, 22, of the Netherlands were<br />
stationary. The pair was part of the Dutch team that<br />
won the gold medal in the last EBL Youth Teams in Lido<br />
di Jesolo.<br />
For the first two boards they had been drawn against<br />
the Ellison brothers from Scotland but the brothers<br />
were one of the few “no-show”s of the event, so the<br />
Tournament Directors transferred a pair from another<br />
section. This proved to be Milan Macura & Michal<br />
Kopecky of the Czech Republic who had represented<br />
their country in Jesolo.<br />
The table began with Board 3, and I will keep the<br />
narrative in that order. The auction had several points<br />
of interest:
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