„Riga Invites to Jūrmala 2013” – 23 teams participated in the Teams Tournament. All the results were very exciting: Polish-Lithuanian team ERA (E. Vainikonis, A. Orlovich, P. Zatorski and M. Klukovski) won Latvian-Iceland-Denmark team Eyjafjallajokull (M. Lorencs, J. Bethers, J. Sigurjonsson and D. Ostergaard) by 21:19. Play-off for the 3rd place was won by even less margin: on the last board Latvian-Russian team Ksenia (U. Bethers, A. Imsa, K. Nekrasova and I. Volozenin) won team SweRusIsr (B. Wenneberg, P. Leandersson, A. Erastova and L. Fisher) by one overtrick IMP – 27:26.
The Open Pairs Tournament was played by 59 pairs. Winners with 63% were M. Klukovski-A. Orlovich, A. Erastova-L. Fisher finished 2nd with 61,7%, B. Gierulski-J. Skrypczak were 3rd with 61,2%.
The bid of the day was made by William Eisenberg on the last board of the tournament:
There is a bridge tip to never put down eight card side suit in the dummy, but as I had nine cards in clubs, I was secure of the result! 🙂 6♠ bid helped W. Eisenberg-K. Rubins to finish in the 4th place.
All details and results you can find at www.rigainvites.lv.
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Kārlis Rubins