International players Liam Milne and Susan Humphries were our guest experts fpr our May Swiss Pairs. They led the PBI at 5 workshop on "When to respond 'light'", and then followed with a pre-session talk on guidelines when low-level doubles would logically be for penalties. The workshop was well received with a number of players from North Shore making the journey to hear them speak. It will be interesting to see how many light responses appear at the club.
The Swiss Pairs showed some interesting - read difficult - boards. The first board at our table had the following bidding: 4H (5D) 5H (6D) P P 6H X All pass - down one when 6D makes. In fact 7D makes when played by the other hand but fails on an unlikely spade lead and ruff. Needless to say Cath Whiddon and I were on the wrong side of this board playing against Susan and Liam.
Triumphant over all were Marieta Borthwick and Annegrete Kolding, showing a consistency others lacked. Full results on our website.
Next month on 26 July our guest expert is Ed Barnes, with the Tuesday at 5 workshop on "Passive Defense - When to go passive and how to think about it" and the pre-session talk on "Declarer Play - hidden traps and how to see them."
