Yesterday I played a bridge tournament in Zwolle (imps) with a very strong field including a lot of French players and some division players. I played with Jeroen, an excellent player from my club. We played a relatively simple system. The tournament started with 21 deals in the morning session (scoring -18 for us), 28 deals in the afternoon session (scoring +1) and 21 deals in the evening session (scoring +21) for a grand total of +4. All in all I’m pretty happy with the result.
Some details:
- the morning session went pretty well with the exception of a 3NT that I should have made. That cost us 11 imps. As far as I can tell 3NT is virtually unmakable. Perhaps there’s a better contract, not sure. We didn’t get any big swings our way in the morning session.
- In the afternoon session we started off with a big (+13) swing our way with a 4♠ doubled -3 for +800
We lost 11 imps with a slam that was bid by our opponents though 
We had some other plus-scores but lost another 12 with a bad sacrifice. Timing is hard. All in all +1 in this session was pretty good - The evening session was great! We had 1 bad score with another bad / foolish sacrifice (-9). We had somg big swings, beating their 5♦ (+11), making an impossible 3NT (+8) and the last one a 6NT doubled +1 for +10. The deal is included further down
All in all I guess I need to work more on timing my sacrifices and continue to work on making tight contracts.
| K82 | ||
| KJT953 | ||
| 62 | ||
| J3 | ||
| Q75 | 943 | |
| Q86 | 742 | |
| 7 | J98 | |
| QT8764 | K952 | |
| AJT6 | ||
| A | ||
| AKQT543 | ||
| A |
Our bidding was rather poor but I got in 6NT anyway which was doubled by RHO. I got a club plead and if you just run the diamonds then you can’t go wrong. You end by playing the ace of hearts, a spade to the K and the K of hearts. if the heart queen hasn’t dropped then you play a small spade to the ace after which the Q drops and you make another spade Nice squeeze!