March 26 2019

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#WHJI 2019

6th BBO match Singapore-Belgium

Belgium
Dennis Dewit, Emiel Vandewiele, Clovis Dehaye, Jens van Overmeire, Sam Bahbout & NPC Wouter van den Hove.

Singapore
Teo Xue Heng, Linus Lee, Siew Kheng Hun, Yang Gan, Bryan Yang, Guan Xin & NPC Kelvin Ong

At the beginning of the match these were David Burn BBO´s comment’s:

Singapore losing finalists to Sweden in the World Junior Championships last year in China.

Belgium have a fine young team also.

Board 2

D. Burn comments about the bidding:

Mind you, the 1opening worked well in that it made it hard for NS to find a heart fit

North wanted to stress his diamonds rather than double 3and South suppressed his hearts because it was now or never for 3NT.

Lead: 4

Lee (SNG) played dummy’s 10, Dehaye (BLG) the Q and declarer won the first trick with his king to continue with a diamond to the 10…Q.

Dehaye (BLG) left his hand with his 6 declarer played his valet and West A won the second trick. The 9 return won next trick, and the 5 continuation let East to win the next trick to continue with the A, K, Q that finished the work. Three down.

At the other table the heart game was reached very fast and was easily done for a 14 IMPs gain.

Board 3 added another 14 IMPs to Belgium, again a 3NT contract was defeated in one table where a 4 was a success in the other table.