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semi finals: ants in their pants?
Published by stacy on October 10th, 2007 tagged Bridge, Shanghai | Comment now »
semi-finals, set six
With fourteen deals to come in the Bermuda Bowl semi-final, USA1 leads South Africa by 13 in the race to play Norway in the final beginning tomorrow. George, Martha and I spent the day shopping and touring — only checked the scores on my sidekick a couple of times. You’ll find today’s photos [...]
Published by stacy on October 10th, 2007 tagged Bridge, Shanghai | Comment now »
rocky third set
Spent the early evening watching the train wreck that has been the third set of boards in the USA1 match. With two deals to come we’re down 51 to 26 to South Africa — retaining the overall lead, its true, but for quite a while in the middle of the match the momentum definitely [...]
Published by stacy on October 9th, 2007 tagged Bridge, Shanghai | 1 Comment »
after the first nine boards
So far so good. After the first nine hands, USA1 is up 31 to 5 (add to that South Africa’s 9-imp carryover, for a real score of 31 to 14).
The other Bermuda Bowl match, Netherlands versus Norway, is much closer — 26 to 23 (Netherlands) after eight hands. Team Orange started life with [...]
Published by stacy on October 8th, 2007 tagged Bridge, Shanghai | Comment now »
on to the semis
Barry Rigal called it the biggest upset in Bermuda Bowl history last night, when South Africa beat Italy to advance to today’s semi-final match against USA1. Much will be written about that match, I’ll leave the erudite analysis to the expert players and commentators. Instead, I’ll reiterate my favorite point: opponent-picking is baaaaad business.
I’ll write [...]