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when West played low. He then led a
club to the ace, cashed the king and
played a heart to the ace, setting up
a loser-on-loser play. He cashed the
13th club, discarding a losing spade
on the trump winner. 11 IMPs to
ZIMMERMANN, now in the lead
by 1 IMP. On the next board, they
increased that by another 10 IMPs
when they bid 3NT and the other
table stopped in a partscore.
On Board 24, the North-South
hands had double major-suit fits and
each pair tried a different game:
Dlr: West  A 6 5
Vul: None k A J 9
l A J 2
' A 8 4 3
 K 7
k K Q 3
l K 10 8 5 3
' K 7 5
 Q 8 3
k 5 4
l Q 9 7 6 4
' J 10 2
 J 10 9 4 2
k 10 8 7 6 2
l -
' Q 9 6
West North East
2'
3l 4k All Pass
West
Pass
Pass
3l
2l Dbl
South
Manno Drijver Di Franco Brink
1NT Dbl
2l
North East South
Klukowski Zatorski Gawrys Pacht.
1NT
Pass 2'
2
4 All Pass
Manno opened 1NT; Drijver's
double was penalty. 2' was a run
to diamonds, and South's 2l was a
transfer to hearts. Klukowski raised
diamonds, and Drijver bid the heart
game.
At the other table, Zatorski passed
1NT. South balanced with 2', showing
both majors. 2l asked for the better
major, and spades were declared
by South, North raising to game.
At both tables, a diamond was led.
Both declarers ruffed trick one, as
entries to the weak hand are scarce.
Pachtmann had a somewhat easier
time in 4. He ran the 9 at
trick two, losing to East's queen. He
pitched a club on the diamond continuation,
winning in dummy with
the ace, and cashed the A. When
the king came down, he drew the last
trump in hand and played a heart up
to the A-J-9, West splitting his honors.
He lost a club, a spade and a heart
for plus 420.
Playing in hearts was problematic
for North. After ruffing the first
trick in dummy, he led a low heart to
his jack at trick two, then tried a low
spade to the jack and king, eventually
losing two spades, a heart and a club
for down one and 10 IMPs back to
STREET; now a 1-IMP match with
six boards to play. No more IMPs
were exchanged, which was somewhat
unusual considering in the
entire 60-board match there had not
been more than a two-board stretch
of pushes.
This was the second Spingold win
for Zimmermann, Klukowski and
Gawrys (2018), and Drijver and Brink
(2019), and the first NABC+ win for
Piedra. This same team won the 2022
Bermuda Bowl, representing Switzerland
at the World Team Championships.
Spingold
Knockout Teams
- 68 teams
1. Pierre Zimmermann - Michal Klukowski - Piotr
Gawrys - Sebastiaan Drijver - Sjoert Brink -
Fernando Piedra, Switzerland
2. Paul Street, Delray Beach FL; Nicolas L'Ecuyer,
Montreal QC; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Israel;
Piotr Pawel Zatorski, Poland; Andrea Manno -
Massimiliano Di Franco, Italy
3-4. Gary Donner, Bluffton SC; Marion Michielsen
- Per-Ola Cullin, Sweden; Brad Moss, Denver
CO; Joe Grue, New York NY; Cecilia Rimstedt,
Jacksonville FL
3-4. Bart Bramley - Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; Kit
Woolsey, Kensington CA; Peter Weichsel,
Carlsbad CA; Liam Milne - Andy Hung, Australia
5-8. Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON; Martin Fleisher, New
York NY; Chip Martel, Davis CA; Cedric Lorenzini
- Thomas Bessis, France; Tom Hanlon, Ireland
5-8. Laurence Lebowitz, Boston MA; Dennis Bilde,
Denmark; Agustin Madala, Argentina; Zachary
Grossack - Adam Grossack, Newton MA;
Michael Rosenberg, Sunnyvale CA
5-8. Warren Spector, Chilmark MA; Kevin Bathurst
- Vincent Demuy - Gavin Wolpert, Palm Beach
Gardens FL; John Hurd, New York NY; John
Kranyak, Greenville SC
5-8. Jeffrey Wolfson - Steve Garner, Chicago IL; Erik
Berg, Norway; Peter Crouch - David Gold - Zia
Mahmood, United Kingdom
9-16. Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV; Jacek Kalita - Michal
Nowosadzki, Poland; Antonio Sementa - Alfredo
Versace, Italy
9-16. Andrew Rosenthal - Chris Willenken - Jan
Jansma, New York NY; Aaron Silverstein,
Ridgefield CT; Boye Brogeland - Christian
Bakke, Norway
9-16. Reese Milner, Sarasota FL; Roy Welland,
New York NY; Sabine Auken, Denmark; Rafal
Jagniewski - Wojciech Gawel, Poland; Hemant
Lall, Marina Del Rey CA
9-16. Peter Bertheau, Sweden; Oren Toledano - Ami
Zamir, Israel; Daniel Zagorin, Chicago IL
9-16. Mike Rippey, Orinda CA; Kamil Nowak -
Piotr Marcinowski - Piotr Nawrocki - Piotr
Wiankowski, Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz,
Chapel Hill NC
9-16. Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; Daniel Lavee,
Thornhill ON; Jacob Freeman - Darren Wolpert,
Toronto ON; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX;
Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Powell OH
9-16. Sartaj Hans - Nabil Edgtton - Peter Gill,
Australia; Michael Whibley, New Zealand
9-16. Bruce Rogoff, Boca Raton FL; Eugene Saxe,
Briarcliff NY; Alexander Ornstein, New York NY;
Zygmunt Marcinski, Montreal QC
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