China: Sunchime Fund Cup 2012

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«Sunchime Fund Cup» International Bridge Elite Tournament 2012.  Watch it in BBO: Click Here

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The total prize money is € 25,000, including €250 for each match winners.

Final Results:

BUTLER 1º Posiciones

Ranking Rank Team VPs 1  Poland 201 2  Monaco 199 3  USA 193 4  B.Evertrust 172 4  Netherlands 172 6  S.Fund 166 7  S.Taihu 160 8  Z.Huamen 154 9  S.N.Power 151 10  B.Trinergy 142 11  G.Automobile 139 12  Z.Jingfan 128

Rank Name   boards 1 Curtis CHEEK USA 176 1 Ishmael DELMONTE USA 176 3 Cezary BALICKI Poland 176 3 Adam ZMUDZINSKI Poland 176 5 Fulvio FANTONI Monaco 176 5 Claudio NUNES Monaco 176 7 CHEN Yunlong Suzhou Taihu 80 8 Krzysztof BURAS Poland 176 8 G.NARKIEWICZ Poland 176 10 SHAN Sheng Beijing Evertrust 112 11 XU Qun Z.Huamen 112 11 CHEN Jun Z.Huamen 112 13 JU Chuancheng Beijing Evertrust 96 14 Bas DRIJVER Netherlands 176 14 Sjoert BRINK Netherlands 176 16 SHI Miao Beijing Evertrust 144 17 ZHANG Wei Suzhou Taihu 144 18 WU Shangjie Sunchime Fund 96  1st Playing Day, source: Event Bulletins

Desired and To Be Desired
The 4 matches played on tournament day 1 gave us little surprise to observe that the mighty MONACO team was leading the field with an average of 19.5VPs, and they accumulated 78 VPs in total. We would say that is quite a healthy score, but far from comforting lead. Because just 1VP behind, team POLAND was breathing down their neck. USA and Sunchime Fund also had strong games to gain 71 and 70 VPs respectively. At the bottom of cross-table were two Chinese teams, Zhejiang Jingfan and Geely Automobile who had lost every match in all their hard fights, better luck to them at day 2 and we would bet heavily that no one will leave this tournament with an empty hand.

An invitational tournament where 12 teams participate in a Round Robin format…all against all. Among the invited teams we can mention the Monaco team:  Geir HELGEMO & Tor HELNESS y Fulvio FANTONI & Claudio NUNES, for USA: Brad MOSS & Joe GRUE y Curtis CHEEK & Ishmael DELMONTE,  and the last world champions from Netherlands: Bas DRIJVER & Louk VERHEES JR y Ricco van PROOIJEN & Sjoert BRINK..etc…