6th World Youth Open Championships: Boards by its Protagonists

August 21, 2019

Today started the Pairs event: Running Scores: U26 Open – U21 – U26 Women – U16.

The Qualification stage will be played during this Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22, at the end of this second day will be defined the pairs who will qualify to play the final next Friday. Without BBO vugraph we were able to find two young players who agreed to tell us some of the hands.

First Session

This first Board was played by NIJSSEN Oscar (Netherlands) & VAN DE PAVERD Tim (Netherlands) against a pair from Poland playing Polish Club.

Board 10 By NIJSSEN Oscar (Netherlands) & VAN DE PAVERD Tim (Netherlands)

Dealer East/All Vul

	K K Q 3 A 5 A J 9 8 6 5 3
10 8 5 4 A 9 7 K 9 7 3 K Q		J 9 7 6 J 5 2 Q 10 8 6 4 10
	A Q 3 2 10 8 6 4 J 2 7 4 2

West	North	East	South
	Tim Van de Paverd		Oscar Nijssen
		1(1)	1NT (2)
Pass	2 (3)	Pass	Pass
Pass	Pass	2 (4)	Pass
2NT (5)	Pass	3NT	All Pass

Lead: 6

The declarer won the first trick in his hand with his singletonK and continued withK, after winning the trick, he continued with J won by West with the king. Next came a diamond.

Tim raised with the ace and run his clubs for the surprise of the Poland pair: one spade, one heart, one diamond and 6 clubs made nine impossible tricks.

How could West or East imagine North spade singleton and seven clubs after his 1NT call?

 NIJSSEN O. – VAN DE PAVERD T.  ended the day first in the U21 category.

Rank	Pair	MPs	%
1	NIJSSEN O. – VAN DE PAVERD T.	1,687.04	62.39

What happened with Board 10 at all tables:

Board 11 By PORTA Federico (Italy)

Dealer South/Vul None

	A K 7 5 2 A 2 3 2 Q 8 7 5
8 9 7 6 5 3 K Q 8 7 J 10 6		J 10 9 J 8 4 J 10 6 5 4 A 4
	Q 6 4 3 K Q 10 A 9 K 9 3 2

West	North	East	South
	Federico Porta		Matteo Lombardi
			1
Pass	1	Pass	2
Pass	4	All Pass

Lead: J

Declarer won the diamond lead with his ace, and continued with three spade rounds (A, K and Q) watching West discards in the second and third rounds and realized that probably East was going to be short in clubs.

Federico continued with three rounds of high hearts discarding his diamond loser in the third round and ruffed dummy’s diamond in his hand to continue with a small club to the king winning the trick.

Next came a small club to West ace and declarer claimed the rest of the tricks.