Jan Kamras‘ team (with Johan Upmark, Fredrik Nystrom, Marion Michielsen, and Frederic Wrang) won the Cavendish Teams 2013 defeating in the final match Ireland (Tom Hanlon, Hugh Mc Gann, Tommy Garvey, John Carroll, Rory Boland and Mark Moran). Thirs place to Eidi (Michel and Thomas Bessis, Michel Eidi and Vassili Vroustis). The tournament took place 21st and 22nd of October in Montecarlo; the participating teams were 24.
Jan Kamras from Sweden, captain of the winning team, is also a member of EBL Executive Committee. Upmark and Nystrom won the 14th World Bridge Games in Lille (2012). Marion Michielsen, gold medal with Orange Women’s Team in Bali, won the Italian Mixed Teams Championship with Lavazza team (June, 2013).
More about Fredrik Nystrom? Read a nice interview realized by Norberto Bocchi for Neapolitan Club: click here >>
Tomorrow the Cavendish Pairs will start.
A short history of Cavendish. It was the 1975 when The Cavendish Club of New York started the so called “Cavendish Invitational Pairs”. In few years, the trophy became the most important pairs event in the World. In 1991 the Cavendish Club ceased the activity, but the tourney survived, just transferred to Las Vegas, thanks to WBP (World Bridge Productions, a corporation with Bob Hamman, Roy Welland, Bill Rosenbaum and Bob Blanchard).
Before the Cavendish Invitational Pairs there’s a Calcutta auction on the pairs participants; who thinks a pair will win, can “purchase” them, but in competition with others. The money of the auction makes the pool that will be divided between the other bidders in predetermined percentage, depending on the placement of the pair they bid on (or the pairs: in a Calcutta auction had better to wager on several runners).
According to an agreement between The Monaco Bridge Federation (FMB) and World Bridge Productions (WBP), since 2012 the Cavendish Invitational moved to Monaco.
All previous editions of the tourney were played in the week leading up the Mother’s Day, which is celebrated in U.S., and in Italy, on the second Sunday of May: now the Cavendish is held on October, after the International Teams Tournament of Monaco.
This year the total auction pool is € 878,000.
Full scores and results at official site: click here >>
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