big swings

[Apollo81]

I played a live match last night where 130 IMPs were exchanged just in the second half (12 boards). I think that's a record for me. (the score in that half was 98-32)

 

Have you seen a bigger score in a 12-board segment? What was it?

[rogerclee]

http://usbf.org/docs/vugraphs/USJBC2008/Br...tage=SemiFinals

 

Pretty close, and the margin was a lot more.

 

I've done better than 65 in 6 (don't remember it exactly, but every board was a 10+ IMP swing), but 130 in 12 is really crazy.

[kfay]

http://usbf.org/docs/vugraphs/USJBC2008/Br...tage=SemiFinals

 

Pretty close, and the margin was a lot more.

 

I've done better than 65 in 6, but 130 in 12 is really crazy.

Heh. I was just about to write something about this.

 

It was pretty funny at the time. 130 is insane.

[gwnn]

Did you win or lose?

[Apollo81]

Did you win or lose?

won, scores:

 

+5

+13

+13

+13

+12

-20

+10

-6

+8

-6

+13

+11

[mtvesuvius]

Playing a KO in Houston (2 days ago) against a team of newcomers (lol)... 163 IMPs in 12 boards, only 91 in the second half though... We won it by 56, but wow!

[kenrexford]

In 1994 in Washington DC in I believe a morning KO, with 6 players at the two tables 16 or younger, me at 25, and the eighth about 40, the score at the half was 65-63. Not only is that quite a lot of IMP swings (128 total), but it may be about the closest margin for such a huge number of IMPs passing back and forth. All of that for us to have a +2 advantage. LOL

 

Another cute one was the two-board start in Pittsburgh years ago. On Hand #1, my partner and I ended uo doubled at 6NT when vulnerable, down -500 instead of -2600 on a nice falsecard, but +1430 was laydown in 6♠ (partner messed up Blackwood). On hand 2, I overcalled 1♣ with AKxx-xx-xx-AJ10xx, bidding 1NT (15-17) and then redoubled partner's 2♦ transfer to hearts (all in). Opener panicked and pulled to 3♣, hammered for -1400 against air. So, we lost 18 on the first board (but could have lost 22 but for my falsecard) but gained 17 on the second, for -1 net. "Back to par."

[keylime]

In Raleigh we had a 50 imp burst in 5, but nothing like this. :P

[jdonn]

I've won a 6 board match 75-0. Midnight of course. We thought one of the pairs must have the scores turned the wrong way.

 

I think my favorite story in this regard is from a 5 board round of the junior team trials about 8 years ago. Even though the margin was 'just' 55 (I forget exactly, but pretty sure it was fifty-something), the winning team had both pairs bring back five plus scores. What made it even funnier was that that round was that team's only win of the day, they went 1-8.

[skjaeran]

At the 2nd level in the District Teams Championship here in Oslo some 10-12 years ago 160 IMPs excanged hands over the first 16 board half, my team 30-some ahead. The 2nd half was more normal scoring, but mostly one-way, thus we chalked up 25 VPs.

 

And I remember winning 66-0 in an 8-board match about the same time, with two push boards.

[JanM]

This is a little different, but the most see-saw match I ever saw was the 1985 US Team Trials Final. After 46 boards, Chip's team was up "about 100." After 96 boards, they were down 35. After 128, they had won by "a little."

[brianshark]

One thing that struck me was the -20. I can't remember the last time I played a match with a 20 imp swing in one board. That's double vulnerable slam swing!

[mycroft]

I have two experiences (well three, but one's not a "swingy round" story):

 

Early in my career, I once lost a 7-board match 64... to 1. Win/Loss, so the tradition was just to say "Win by 3" on the ticket. I insisted they needed to have the real score there just because of the size.

 

A couple of years ago, the score after the first 12 was 50-50. We thought we had an up 30 card, our teammates were profuse in their apologies for being asleep before we sat down. (in the second half, they were awake, and we did have an up 30 card).

 

I won a midnight KO because the sixth board scoring was "+110" "Good, you went plus. Win 'em all." I'm sure we can all guess what their result was.

 

Now that I rememeber, pard and I were just "playing out the string" in a morning KO. I couldn't score up, because I was working the afternoon session; I just put the cards back in the board, put on my jacket and tie, and went to work. My teammates caught me at the sale table to tell me they'd see me at 0900 the next day. We'd blitzed the set 57-0...to win by 5. I know M-R do that regularly, but it was a first for me...