Challenge the Champs, III-A. East hands.

[Oren Goren]

Still actively seeking players of WELOS, which has yet to be completely defined online ...

 

These are the East hands in a Bridge World Challenge the Champs match, Book III, Match A. The West hands are in a separate post/file.

 

The matches were a series pitting World or National champion calibre pairs against each other, each independently bidding on sets of prepared and pre-scored hands. Each challenge was a new pair against the previous winner.

 

Can you score well with WELOS interference? Most of the hands were bid without opponent interference. We have changed any E-W first seat hands to second seat and used the first WELOS one-bid opener random shuffling produced for first seat, but the vulnerability conditions for the E-W pair were not changed.

 

WELOS one-bid openers count 8-11 including distribution and long suit points, and do not discount for no ace. They also could be 16(+).

 

Prepare your partnership methods to punish such effrontery, and see what contract you arrive at. If you decide that WELOS' incidental (!!) interference was significant, perhaps you should check out http://welos.proboards61.com.

 

You can check the results yourself with Book III, inexpensisve and valuable from http://www.bridgeworld.com, http://www.bridgeworld.com/default.asp?d=b...orld_books.html, or post/email your result and I will tell you how you scored (in confidence by email).

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East Hands

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1. N deals and bids 1♦; Neither vulnerable.

 

♠ A

♥ KT82

♦ A5

♣ KQJ973

 

 

2. N deals and bids 1♥. N-S vulnerable.

 

♠ AQ53

♥ A

♦ KQJ62

♣ J72

 

 

3. S deals and bids 1♠. E-W vulnerable.

 

♠ A973

♥ QJT

♦ T

♣ A8542

 

 

4. S deals and bids 1♠. Both vulnerable.

 

♠ A7

♥ QT963

♦ AJ86

♣ 65

 

 

5. N deals and bids 1♣. N-S vulnerable.

 

♠ Q94

♥ K62

♦ AQ8542

♣ K

 

 

6. N deals and bids 1♣. E-W vulnerable.

 

♠ AK7

♥ AKQ53

♦ J7

♣ K93

 

 

7. S deals and opens 1♦. Both vulnerable.

 

♠ 8543

♥ 8763

♦ 8

♣ 9872

 

 

8. S deals and opens 1♣. Neither vulnerable.

 

♠ 742

♥ A2

♦ KJ42

♣ KJ32

 

 

9. N deals and opens 1♥. E-W vulnerable.

 

♠ AK4

♥ 97

♦ AQ5

♣ KQT74

 

 

10. N deals and opens 1♥. Both vulnerable.

 

♠ KJ854

♥ AQ93

♦ Q

♣ 742

 

Bid 'em up!

 

Oren Goren

http://welos.proboards61.com

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