June 09, 2019 Bulletin 2 Editor: Dilip Gidwani

MOROCCO SENIORS FINISH 1-2-3 IN THE AFRICAN OPEN PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Morocco Seniors team comprising of Abdella El Ghrari – Jean Hayat, Abes Alami – Guy Cambournac, Mohamed

Said Berrada – Abdel Kamel Rerhaye, swept the medals with a comprehensive and compelling demonstration

of consistent play through the three sessions. The 1-2-3 places oscillated between the three before settling

down to 1. Ghrari – Hayat, 2. Alami – Cambournac and 3. Berrada – Rerhaye. The South African pairs of Cathy

– Pierre and Tania-Vanessa put up a spirited fight but could not breach the Moroccan wall which the Seniors

built around the three top spots. Detailed scores and results are available on the last page of this bulletin.

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CORRECTIONS TO THE TEAM ROSTER:

SOUTH AFRICA:

REUNION:

OPEN WOMEN SENIORS

Captain: DORSEUIL ANDRE Captain:CADOR JEAN-CLAUDE Captain: HAMEL PATRICK

HUSEINALI NERGUIS AOUATE CATHERINE MEJEAN JEAN-MARCEL

GIRAUD CHRISTIAN WAN HOI REGINE SIMON PHILIPPE

MECHY JEAN-CLAUDE BOYER MARIE-THERESE MELIN GABRIELE

VIDAL JACQUES MICHAUX MARIE NEULAT JEAN-LUC

SCHILLI PATRICK BARON DANIELLE DRIEUX CLAUDE CHIRON FRANCOISE

EGYPT:

OPEN WOMEN

ANDREW CRUISE (PLAYING CAPTAIN) BEVERLY HEWETT

ROBERT PELHAM SULCAS PATRICIA CROSS

BRIAN KENNETH PINCUS DIANA ROSSLEE MALCOLM DAVID SIEGEL CAROL STANTON

HENDRICK CHRISTIAAN BAREN FICK TANIA RAWSON

ANTON HENK DER KINDEREN VANESSA ARMSTRONG

OPEN WOMEN SENIORS

KHALED EL BELTAGHY (NPC) Aser Fadaly (NPC) Maged Ekdawi (NPC)

Abdelrehman Mosaad Maud Khouri Mohamed Tanboli

Tarek Salah Marguerite Homsy Mohamed Fadel

Ahmed Zein Hoda Soliman Mohamed El Baz

Mohamed Abdelazim Cathrine Pascal Tarik Metwaly

Baher Ahmed Laila Badawi Amr Askalani

Ashraf Salah Nesrin Hamdy Bernard Pascal

Reda Amiry (Coach)

In the Zonal Team games, all players are requested to adhere to punctuality while reporting to the playing

table, at the beginning of each round. Ideally, please report, five minutes before start time, so you can check

your places, your opponents, your Bridge-mates and exchange convention cards.

Pendant le zonal, tous les joueurs sont priés d'être ponctuels lorsqu'ils se présentent à la table de jeu, au

début de chaque tour. Dans l’idéal, arrivez cinq minutes avant l’heure du début afin de pouvoir consulter

vos places, vos adversaires, vos partenaires et échanger vos feuilles de convention.

SCHEDULE OF MATCHES FOR DAY 1: JUNE 09, 2019

Rd.

No.

TIME Table

No. OPEN

(Home X Away)

Table

No. WOMEN

(Home X Away)

Table

No SENIORS

(Home X Away)

1 09.45

To

11.55

1→

2→

Morocco X South Africa

Reunion X Egypt

BYE X Tunisia

4→

5→

Egypt X Reunion

Morocco X Tunisia

South Africa X BYE

7→

8→

Morocco X Kenya

Reunion X Egypt

2 12.15

To

14.25

1→

2→

Tunisia X Reunion

Egypt X Morocco

South Africa X BYE

4→

5→

Reunion X South Africa

Tunisia X Egypt

Morocco X BYE

7→

8→

Reunion X Morocco

Egypt X Kenya

3 15.40

To

17.50

1→

2→

South Africa X Egypt

Morocco X Tunisia

Reunion X BYE

4→

5→

Reunion X Tunisia

Morocco X South Africa

Egypt X BYE

7→

8→

Morocco X Egypt

Kenya X Reunion

4 18.10

To

20.20

1→

2→

Morocco X Reunion

Tunisia X South Africa

BYE X Egypt

4→

5→

Egypt X Morocco

South Africa X Tunisia

BYE X Reunion

TO BE ADVISED

THE AFRICAN OPEN PAIRS – SESSION 2

BID BOLDLY, WIN MPs!

I was kibitzing one of, Morocco’s senior team players and amongst the leaders in the African Open Pairs; this is

how the auction and the play went

Board 3, dealer S, EW vulnerable,

West North East South

Pass

1♦ 1♥ 1NT 2♥

Pass!! Pass Pass

West’s pass of 2♥ was rather tame, it may be right to pass 2♥ on

some hands, but not today; to add insult to injury, the defense

could not muster their six defensive tricks as the ♣ shift was not

found in good time. (East led a ♦ and persisted with a ♦ when in

with a ♥, no good reason to lead a ♦ as a ruff will come at the

cost of a natural trump trick, hence East should try a ♣ or a ♠ lead). (!!) A double from West would

have extracted a 3♣ from East which makes in comfort. If East chooses to defend 2♥ doubled,

accurate defense yields only +100 to EW.

♠ J 9 8

♥ A 7 5 4 2

♦ K Q

♣ A T 5

♠ A K Q 2

♥ 8 6

♦ 8 6 5 4

♣ K J 2

N

E

♠ 7 4 3

♥ K Q 3

♦ T 2

♣ Q 8 7 4 3

♠ T 6 5

♥ J T 9

♦ A J 9 7 3

♣ 9 6

THE LUCK OF THE DRAW

Board 4, dealer W, Both vul.

This board had swinging results. On the table I kibitzed, EW got

to 4♠; west opened 1♠, North bid 2♦ and East bid 4♠, ending the

auction. Different lines of play yield 10, 11 or 12 tricks, all leading

to high MP scores. Wherever, South decided to intervene, the

situations varied from 5♠ making, 5♠x, making, and one pair got

to 6♠, also making. One NS pair bid 3 NT from the South side and

10 tricks rolled home!! For this kind of score to come home, the

chemistry on the table has to be spot on! Boo Boo on the auction

as well as on the defense!

PROTEAS USE MINOR SUIT STAYMAN TO TELLING EFFECT!

Board 15, dealer S, NS vul.

Siegal – Sulcais and Fick – Der Kin Deren from the South

African open team, were NS and got to the par contract of 6♣ via

a minor suit Stayman. Siegel(sitting North) opened a multi 2♦

after 2 passes,(whereas Fick opened 2NT) heard his partner bid

2♥, then bid 2NT and the minor suit stayman took over. While

Sulcais took the RKCB route (by bidding 4♦ RKCB on his

partner’s 4♣ reponse to the minor suit stayman); Der Kin’s 4♦

elicited a 5♦ response from Fick and the pair marched on to 6♣!

The play was routine as North was the declarer and with the ♦

suit coming home and the trump suit behaving, 12 tricks roll in

comfortably. These two were the only pairs to bid the minor

slam in the entire field.

♠ 4

♥ 9 7

♦ A K Q 9 8 7 4

♣ K 9 2

♠ A 7 6 5 3

♥ K T 2

♦

♣ A J 7 6 5

N

E

♠ Q J T 9 2

♥ Q 8 6 5

♦ T 3 2

♣ 4

♠ K 8

♥ A J 4 3

♦ J 6 5

♣ Q T 8 3

♠ A Q

♥ K J 9 7

♦ A Q 2

♣ A J 3 2

♠ T 8 7 3

♥ T 8 6 5 3 2

♦ J

♣ 8 5

N

E

♠ K 5 4 2

♥ A Q

♦ 9 8 5 4

♣ T 9 7

♠ J 9 6

♥ 4

♦ K T 7 6 3

♣ K Q 6 4

SOME SNAPSHOTS FROM THE AFRICAN OPEN PAIRS:

ZA Ladies Morocco’s Dr. Berrada v/s Bernard Pascal

The Moroccan Seniors Kenya Senior Ladies

The ZA Open team players in action

ELECTRONIC Line-ups. The following links can be accessed from your cell phones to make your

line-ups. The first link ( www.toygarabi.com ) will actually record your line up and the 2ndgiven links

will show you the completed line-ups for each category : Open : http://www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=333&id=1 Women : http://www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=332&id=1 Seniors : http://www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=334&id=1 Which you must use to confirm that your line-up is correctly done. Pass words to access through the first link can be collected from Waleed El Menyawi. In the event you need any help, please contact Waleed, Jean Francois, Khalil or Dilip, who will be happy to help.

LINE-UP ÉLECTRONIQUE. Vous pouvez accéder aux liens suivants à partir de votre téléphone cellulaire pour établir votre line-up. Le premier lien (www.toygarabi.com) enregistrera votre line-up et 2ème vous permet de consulter les line-up saisis pour chaque catégorie:

Open : http://www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=333&id=1

Women: http://www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=332&id=1

Senior : http://www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=334&id=1

Vous devez le consulter pour vous assurer que votre line-up est bien enregistré. Les mots de passe permettant d'accéder au premier lien peuvent être recueillis auprès de Waleed El Menyawi. Si vous avez besoin d’aide, veuillez contacter Waleed, Jean François, Khalil ou Dilip, qui se feront un plaisir de vous aider.

For the Zonal Teams, each Pair must carry two sets of Convention cards which are to be given to

each opponent player. Further, printing and photocopying facilities are not available with us and as

such, players may please use the hotel’s business centre for this purpose on their own.

Pour le Zonal par équipes, chaque paire doit apporter deux feuilles de Convention qui doivent

être remises à chaque joueur adverse. Nous ne pouvons pas imprimer ni photocopier, en cas

de besoin les joueurs peuvent utiliser le centre d'affaires de l'hôtel.

To access daily bulletins, results and any other information related to the African Zonal Teams, kindly

go to the official website of the Morrocan Bridge federation, http://bridgemaroc.ma/