CAMPIONATI ASSOLUTI SQUADRE LIBERE E SIGNORE
Salsomaggiore April 30th – May 3rd 2015
May 3 2015
This is an excellent article from the second bulletin of the championships, Antonio Sementa tells us and analyzes two hands played in the second thursday’s match: Angelini-Vinci.
The match had several interesting moments and I think it must have been fun to follow it in the vugraph. I will comment a couple of hands, I’ll tell you one where we did well and one that was not a good one.
Dealer North, N/S vulnerable
Fantoni’s 2
showed a two colored hand with 
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My 2 described a limited hand with heart fit, or a hand with slam intentions with 4 heart cards.
Nunes’s 4 was no forcing, with 4 clubs.
4 was, frankly, a bit too timid statement, from my colleague Mustafa.
Over that, Fantoni competed with 5. This really benefited me, because if he say Pass I do not think that would have gone for the slam. The 5 gave me the opportunity to say 5
, showing slam interest. After Nunes’s pass, was easy for my partner to say 5…And this is the way how we arrived to 6.
The 7 defense is very good for East/West but almost impossible to arrive to: with that nice trumps is almost sure that the salm is down and for Nunes is almost impossible to say 7.
At the other room, Hugony-Vinci played the heart game (4+2): 13 IMPs for us.
What should you say after hearing 2? 1NT was obliged, meaning máx 10-11, with no 4 cards major. Partner’s 2 can be a one colored hand with 5 diamonds, every time he has two cards in a major.
Thinking he could have 5 diamonds, 4 hearts, 2 clubs and 2 spades, with only two diamonds I chose to pass. But I regret it… I should have say 2NT, surely.
However, the doubt existed because we were not vulnerable … If we were Vulnerable certainly would not have happened. In the other room, Saverio and Fabrizio arrived to game: 7 IMP for Vinci.