After 5 days of bridge, the 8th bridge tournament “Riga Invites to Jūrmala” finished with Open pairs tournament. 63 pairs played 3 session tournament, 24 boards each session.
Winners with 59,93 % were polish grand masters Apolinary Kowalski and Jerzy Russyan, second place went to Karlis Rubins and Dmitrij Prokhorov (Latvia-Russia), who finished with 59,14 %, 3rd place goes to one more Latvian-Russian pair Juris Balasovs and Pavel Goverov with 57,99%.
Best Latvian pair Ugis Jansons and Aigars Germanis finished in the 4th place, but Sharon Hammer and Edu Piza from Costa Rica had a huge 3rd session (67,02%) and they finished in 5th place.
All details and results you can find at www.rigainvites.lv.
Picture: Tournament organizer Maija Romanovska, winners of the Open pairs Apolinary Kowalski and Jerzy Russyan, and tournament organizer Karlis Rubins.
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Karlis Rubins