Lorenzo Lauria ed Alfredo Versace hanno lasciato la squadra Zaleski e tornano a giocare per Angelini con un contratto a lungo termine. Fino al 2010 Lauria e Versace avevano giocato con lo sponsor ed amico Francesco Angelini: poi le spinose controversie sollevate dall’esclusione dei Fantunes dalla nazionale italiana avevano portato Lauria e Versace a firmare per il finanziere franco-polacco Romain Zaleski. Read the rest of this entry…
Italian stars Lorenzo Lauria and Alfredo Versace have left the team of Zaleski to rejoin again Angelini’s team for a long term contract. Untill 2010 Lauria-Versace have played with their sponsor and friend Francesco Angelini. But the sensational exclusion of Fantunes from the New Blue Team in 2010 aroused much controversy in Italian bridge. Read the rest of this entry…
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Il Festival del Bridge di Vilnius (Vilnius Cup) è considerato uno dei più interessanti ed impegnativi tornei dell’ Europa dell’ Est. Si svolge quest’anno dal 29 Settembre al 2 Ottobre 2011 presso il Pramogu Arena di Vilnius (stessa sede della passata edizione). La manifestazione, che ha luogo in Lituania sin dagli anni Sessanta, vede la partecipazione di giocatori di altissimo livello, tra i quali le stelle italiane Lauria e Versace. Read the rest of this entry…
The Vilnius Bridge Festival is one of the most beautiful and challenging East European bridge tournaments. The event takes place from September 29 to October 2 at Pramogu Arena in Vilnius (same location as last year). Held in Lithuania each year since the Sixties, it will see top-level participants including Italian stars Lauria and Versace. Read the rest of this entry…
Lodi 5 Giugno 2011. Buon successo del torneo Città di Lodi che con 73 coppie ha raggiunto l’obiettivo minimo sperato dai validi organizzatori. Nonostante la location inconsueta, che ha messo a dura prova i navigatori satellitari (provate a cercare via Emilia sul Tom Tom, senza numero civico….), ed il clima inclemente, visto che nel milanese s’è scatenato un vero e proprio nubifragio, la competizione è iniziata puntuale e quasi al completo. Read the rest of this entry…
Lodi 5 Giugno 2011. Romain Zaleski partecipa questo pomeriggio al 17° Torneo Città di Lodi. Il suo partner è Valerio Giubilo. Il finanziere franco-polacco Romain Zaleski è oggi il terzo dei maggiori sponsor del bridge italiano, l’unico in grado di competere con i due colossi storici Francesco Angelini e Maria Teresa Lavazza. Nel dicembre 2010, a pochi mesi dalla costituzione del suo nuovo team, la squadra di Zaleski vinse la Coppa Italia e lo scorso Maggio, a Salsomaggiore, ha vinto il titolo nel prestigioso Campionato Italiano a Squadre Open. Read the rest of this entry…
Lodi June 5, 2011. Romain Zaleski is playing the 17th “Citta di Lodi” Tournament. His partner is Valerio Giubilo. Nowadays the Franco-Polish financier Romain Zaleski is the third major sponsor of Italian bridge. He is the only one that seems able to compete with the two historic giants of professional Italian bridge, Angelini and Lavazza. In fact, In December 2010, a few months after the establishment of the team, Zaleski won the Italian Cup and last May in Salsomaggiore they reached the prestigious title of Italian Team Champions. Read the rest of this entry…
Come anticipato in un precedente articolo di Neapolitan Club, tutto il nuovo Team Zaleski (Alfredo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Valerio Giubilo, Mario D’Avossa, Riccardo Intonti) si è riunito ieri a Breno (Bs) per i festeggiamenti ufficiali della Coppa Italia vinta nel dicembre scorso, pochi mesi dopo la costituzione della squadra. Lo ha avvicinato Luciano Ranzanici per una breve intervista pubblicata in data odierna su Bresciaoggi. Queste le dichiarazioni di Romain Zaleski: Read the rest of this entry…
As mentioned in a previous article in Neapolitan Club, the new Team Zaleski (Alfredo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Valerio Giubilo, Mario D’Avossa, Riccardo Intonti) met yesterday in Breno (Brescia) for the official celebrations of the Italian Cup victory last December, a few months after the establishment of the team. Italian journalist Luciano Ranzanici approched him for a brief interview published today on Italian newspaper Bresciaoggi. These are Romain Zaleski’s responses: Read the rest of this entry…
Valerio, immagina di rivolgerti ad un giocatore principiante: come spiegheresti le caratteristiche di base del sistema che giocano Giubilo – Lauria -Versace ?
Si tratta di un sistema sostanzialmente semplice. Giochiamo l’apertura quinta maggiore, quadri quarte, 1 fiori preparatorio, 1 senza forte, 2 fiori apertura forzante di manche, 2 quadri bilanciata forte. Questa è forse l’unica apertura particolare ma oramai prevista in molti sistemi. Il vantaggio di questa apertura è che quando non si apre di 2 quadri si esclude di avere la bilanciata forte. Se cioè tu apri di 1 fiori o di 1 quadri e nel secondo giro mostri una mano forte, hai una mano certamente sbilanciata. Il non aprire 2 quadri è di per sé significativo. Read the rest of this entry…
noneValerio, suppose to address to a beginner: how do you explain the basic features of the system played by Giubilo-Lauria-Versace ?
It is a substantially simplex system. We play five card major, fourth diamonds, preparatory club (by 2+ cards), game forcing 2♣, strong balanced 2♦. The last one is maybe a little particular, but it today belongs to many systems; its advantage is that, when the opening is not 2♦, the strong balanced hand is ruled out. That is: when you open 1♣ or 1♦ and later you show a strong hand, you haven’t a balanced hand. I.e. if you open 1♣ or 1♦ and after you show a strong hand, you sure have an unbalanced hand. To do not open 2♦ is meaningful by self. Read the rest of this entry…
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Friday night in Montegrotto the team of Romain Zaleski takes the field. Next to the young but already titled pair D’Avossa – Intonti, we can see an unusual triad: Zaleski will alternate at the table with Valerio Giubilo and Apek Kowalski. The pair Versace-Lauria, in fact, doesn’t take part in the Montegrotto Bridge Festival because in these days is involved in the Spring North American Bridge Championships in Louisville (Kentucky). Read the rest of this entry…
Venerdì prossimo a Montegrotto scenderà in campo la squadra di Romain Zaleski. Accanto alla giovane ma già titolata coppia D’Avossa-Intonti vedremo un’insolita terna: Zaleski si alternerà al tavolo con Valerio Giubilo e Apek Kowalski. La coppia Versace-Lauria, infatti, non partecipa al festival di Montegrotto poichè impegnata in questi giorni a Louisville (Kentucky) per i Campionati di Primavera in America (Spring 2011 North American Bridge Championships). Read the rest of this entry…
Valerio, first of all let me congratulate you and the Zaleski team, your team mates, on your win at the Coppa Italia. Tell me how the Zaleski teamed came into being? Romain Zaleski is perhaps far better known today for his business prowess rather than for his success at the bridge table. He has always had a great passion for the game, he started playing in 1970, stopping for many years. In the mid-2000s, as his workload became less onerous, Romain decided to devote more of his time to competition. Read the rest of this entry…
Valerio, devo subito farti i complimenti per la Coppa Italia che hai appena vinto con il team Zaleski. Ma dimmi: come nasce il team Zaleski? Romain Zaleski è forse fino ad oggi più conosciuto per le sue imprese finanziarie che per quelle bridgistiche. Ha sempre avuto una grande passione per il bridge e giocava già negli anni Settanta, poi ha smesso per molti anni. Nella metà degli anni Duemila, essendo divenuto meno pesante il suo impegno lavorativo, Romain ha ripreso a giocare. Vive in Italia ma può definirsi un cittadino del mondo: trascorrendo molto tempo Parigi, ebbe modo di stringere amicizia con grandi giocatori professionisti francesi come Chemla, Faingenbaum e Pilon che poi ha ricontattato quando ha deciso di riprendere a giocare, ottenendo anche buoni risultati. Read the rest of this entry…
The Neapolitan Club comes mainly from H. S. Vanderbilt ' s Strong Club (1926) and from the Culberston System (1934). It employs sound openings and overcalling, and fully protected 3NT contract. As logical corollary for such sound system, it obeys the principle “first double”: it's better to punish opponents instead of looking for our own game contract.
Contested auction
Middle strength jump overcall: 12-15 points with a good six or more card suit. Standard double, takeout up to 4♦. 2NT overcall: clubs and lower rank free suit, reverse strength. Direct cue-bid: game forcing.
When LHO overcalls at one level, the double is punitive. When LHO doubles, the redouble is forcing up to game or at least to level 4 in a minor.
Openings
1♣: 17+, but 21-22 balanced and full protected (2NT).
1♥, 1♠: 12-16. Natural 4+ card suit.
1♦: 12-16, sometime by 3 cards. It can happen when the opener has only clubs or when he has not a biddable suit. “Biddable” in the opening bidding is a four card suit headed at least by Q9 or J10, or any five card suit.
1NT: 13-16, balanced or semi-balanced one suited in clubs.
2♣: 5+ clubs, 12-16. One or two suited.
2♦, 2♥, 2♠: Weak one suited.
Responses
On 1♣: controls by steps up to 2♦ (six or more). Weak jump from 2♥ to level three.
On 1♦, 1♥, 1♠: natural responses. Strong jump. 2NT and 3NT responses are very strong balanced (respectively: 17-18 or 16), without support in opening suit.
On 1NT (remember: it’s always one suited in clubs), all the responses are natural: 2♣ and 3♣ are support. Just 2♦, is a relais; the opener will bid 2♥ and the responder will explain his hand.
Other
Neapolitan Club does not employs 5CM nor Long Suit First systems. It follows the Principle of Preparedness, i.e. “The idea, originally called Anticipation, of looking forward to the next round of bidding when selecting a bid...” (ACBL Official Encyclopedia , VI ed. Page 362). Because of this Principle, the length of the suits is undefined. The only exception is when the opener has a reverse two suited hand with less than 17 points (with 17+ the opening is 1♣). In this case the reverse will be made bidding the short suit first (Albarran’s Canapé ).
Notes by Rhoda Walsh on the 1 NT gf response in the "2 over 1 game forcing system" (Walsh System). Rhoda Walsh, attorney, is a bridge theorist and champion: she’s WBF Grand Master and an ACBL Grand Life Master. 7th in all time masterpoint list for women; With Paul Soloway, John Swanson, and her ex-husband Richard Walsh, Rhoda is one of the co-developers of the 2 over 1 Game Forcing System, formerly known as theWalsh System. Table of Contents>>
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Mario Martinelli is a Neapolitan excellent player and accredited bridge teacher. He is an expert about systems and he developed the system "Standard BBO Italia". Mario is also the nephew of Eugenio Chiaradia, the creator of the Neapolitan Club, a system which our magazine is dedicated to. Index >>
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The idea was born in 2003 when I suggested to few of my friends from all over ex-Yugoslavia that we should start some kind of competition on BBO, primarily to allow teams from small towns to be able to play serious bridge without travelling. We started in spring 2004 with only 4 teams, playing on Tuesdays nights. By 3rd edition the League was already international and we moved to Wednesdays nights. Number of teams participating was gradually growing and now is from 24 to 30 each edition. It runs twice a year (spring and autumn) and every edition we have some new teams. read more >>
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The great Italian champion Norberto Bocchi will contribute articles on a regular basis to Neapolitan Club. Norberto will refer in his column ‘My Way’ to political issues which may arise in the bridge world and sometimes he will describe interesting hands. Read Bocchi's column >>
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NORBERTO BOCCHI released to Neapolitan Club a long interview a little before to leave Veldhoven. The Italian Champion reports with great sincerity on the atmosphere in Veldhoven, and explains the reasons for the Italian defeat against the Dutch in the semifinals. A quite “hot” interview. (read more >>)
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VALERIO GIUBILO. Nowadays the Franco-Polish financier Zaleski is the third major sponsor of Italian bridge. He is the only one that seems able to compete with the two historic giants: Angelini and Lavazza. Zaleski recently hired three top Italian players, who had previously played for the Angelini team: Lauria, Versace and Giubilo. Valerio Giubilo is seen as a major force in the composition of the new team. Giubilo, Lauria and Versace are completely interchangeable as teammates, as they have been playing the same system for a number of years. All together this was a good reason for Neapolitan Club to have an interview with the third man, Valerio Giublio. (read more)
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FEDERICO PRIMAVERA. The former member of Italian Junior team nowadays partner of Francesco Angelini and Benito Garozzo granted us a long interview. Federico Primavera tells us his experience with the mithic Garozzo and speaks about the most burning questions of Italian Bridge: The exclusion of Fantunes from the National team, The Angelini's disqualification and other. (reed more)
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ANTONIO SEMENTA. During the past months Neapolitan Club had interviews with all the players of the national selection of Italy. All but one, Antonio Sementa who is playing nowadays with Giorgio Duboin for Team Lavazza. Here is Sementa’s story. (read more)
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We give a follow up to previous interview with LORENZO LAURIA, September 15th 2010. Again Lauria is quite outspoken on different issues: the Reisinger Cup, the new Zaleski team, the Italian Cup, the break between Angelini and Fantunes and the related decision of Fantunes to play for Monaco. (read more)
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FULVIO FANTONI, the Number One of world ranking, has kindly granted us a very long and structured interview in which he accepts to discuss all the arguments proposted. There are references, direct and indirect, to the thorniest issues and to the latest Lauria's interview. (read >>) ___________________________________________________________
If you want to understand the sarcastic joke cracked by GIORGIO DUBOIN, you have to remember this famous Esopo's tale. A hungry fox saw some fine bunches of grapes hanging from a vine along a high trellis. He tried his best to reach the grapes by jumping as high as he could. All in vain, for they were just out of reach. So the fox gave up trying, and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern, remarking: "I thought those grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.” (read more >>)
ALFREDO VERSACE. The Club Team Championships, the divorce from Angelini, the interview that Fantoni has released to Jan van Cleeff: these and many other topics have been discussed in a bright and sincere interview with Alfredo the Great. (read >>)
AGUSTIN MADALA. The pair Bocchi-Madala can easily be considered as world class. Bocchi-Madala is a relatively new partnership but has achieved already some big results: with Italian Team Madala won the latest European Championship in Ostend. We were curious about the life of young Agustin and talked with him. Italian National Team, private life and bridge technique are the topics covered in this interview. (read more >>)
NORBERTO BOCCHI has kindly granted to Neapolitan Club a long and well-articulated interview. A number of topics is referred to, each accompanied by a quote, and the Italian Ace has been invited to discuss them. The result can be considered as a little vademecum: Bridge according to Norberto. (read >>)
LORENZO LAURIA has granted a long interview to Neapolitan Club in which he approached with clarity the topical issues proposed: above all the thorny affair dealing with the former team-mates Claudio Nunes and Fulvio Fantoni. Lauria expecially responds severely to some Fantunes' statements reported in the interview by Jan van Cleeff some day earlier for BridgeTopcis.com. (read >>)
CLAUDIO NUNES and FULVIO FANTONI participated in the Onstein Patton in The Netherlands. Jan van Cleeff took this opportunity to talk with them. As both Fantoni and Nunes share the same view on the matter, they are referred to as ‘Fantunes’. (read >>)
MARIA TERESA LAVAZZA. The frank statements of coach of the Italian open team to Neapolitan Club. Mrs. Lavazza is also, together with Francesco Angelini and Romain Zaleski, one of the three major sponsors of Italian top bridge. (read>>)
FRANCESCO ANGELINI'S REPLY. Neapolitan Club reported on discussions and conflicts between players and sponsors in Italy: is Francesco Angelini's turn to express his views. Of course this important Roman sponsor and player focusses on interview with Maria Teresa Lavazza. (read>>)
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SILVIO SBARIGIA was born in Rome and lives there. He has won the European championship in 1975, runner up at 1974’s and at Olympic games of 1976. Sbarigia is member of Neapolitan Club Technical Commettee.
Some articles by Paolo Enrico Garrisi, one of the founders of Neapolitan Club.
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