Thanks for bringing us these recaps Pete. That 6-6 minors hand reminds me of a hand where partner held something very similar and made grand off two aces when they picked the wrong one. I had blasted the grand as partner advertised a GF hand, but in fact had only a 14 count, admittedly with great shape and purity.
Nice commentary as always - thanks. One additional point on board 22, the lightner double hand - lead of the H2 is likely suit preference for the club return
This Boland Hanlon hand going off in 5 hearts surprises me at top level. Over 4 clubs, 4 hearts will have to be bid on a wide range of varying distributions and strength. For this reason I feel there is no other way than to play double over 5 clubs as a positive double encouraging to bid on, which if this is the agreement obviously Boland would happily refuse to do with KQ7 wasted value over the 4 clubs bidder and additional defense and no distribution. What am I missing here, what do you think?
I'm glad you mentioned that 1NT hand from the first match. was watching vugraph late at night and I thought that was a really interesting one I assume the intention of James's DK discard was to ensure that Liam had a diamond entry if he had Qxx, rather than potentially allowing declarer to duck a second diamond to the K. I'm not sure if that holding is consistent with the carding, but I believe Liam's low diamond at trick 3 was Smith rather than count (and his play of the C9 rather than the Q would suggest low suit preference as well). it was a neat play, so it was a bit of a shame that it didn't help at all
It is an Olympiad year (the same year as the summer Olympics, so once every 4 years) and in those each country gets only 1 team, and there are more countries participating (34 in the open instead of the usually ~22 or so). USA gets 2 teams in 2 of the 4 years, the olympiad with every country getting 1 team is in 1 of the 4 years, and then there is a transnational competition where multiple teams from one country or multiple countries can compete in 1 of the 4 years IIRC.
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Great commentaries! Keep them coming :)
Thanks for bringing us these recaps Pete.
That 6-6 minors hand reminds me of a hand where partner held something very similar and made grand off two aces when they picked the wrong one. I had blasted the grand as partner advertised a GF hand, but in fact had only a 14 count, admittedly with great shape and purity.
Nice commentary as always - thanks. One additional point on board 22, the lightner double hand - lead of the H2 is likely suit preference for the club return
This Boland Hanlon hand going off in 5 hearts surprises me at top level. Over 4 clubs, 4 hearts will have to be bid on a wide range of varying distributions and strength. For this reason I feel there is no other way than to play double over 5 clubs as a positive double encouraging to bid on, which if this is the agreement obviously Boland would happily refuse to do with KQ7 wasted value over the 4 clubs bidder and additional defense and no distribution.
What am I missing here, what do you think?
I'm glad you mentioned that 1NT hand from the first match. was watching vugraph late at night and I thought that was a really interesting one
I assume the intention of James's DK discard was to ensure that Liam had a diamond entry if he had Qxx, rather than potentially allowing declarer to duck a second diamond to the K. I'm not sure if that holding is consistent with the carding, but I believe Liam's low diamond at trick 3 was Smith rather than count (and his play of the C9 rather than the Q would suggest low suit preference as well). it was a neat play, so it was a bit of a shame that it didn't help at all
Thank you for your daily updates Pete. I note there is no USA2 this year. What is the reason?
It is an Olympiad year (the same year as the summer Olympics, so once every 4 years) and in those each country gets only 1 team, and there are more countries participating (34 in the open instead of the usually ~22 or so). USA gets 2 teams in 2 of the 4 years, the olympiad with every country getting 1 team is in 1 of the 4 years, and then there is a transnational competition where multiple teams from one country or multiple countries can compete in 1 of the 4 years IIRC.
Every 2 years is a Bermuda Bowl year where USA gets two teams. Olympiad years is one per country.