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"The
Wuxi Illusionist"
by Fernando Lema y Ana Roth
Mr. Chen Yeh, The Chinese Contract Bridge Association, and the Wuxi's People
Government, brought together the 2011 Yeh Bros Cup to the lakeside city of Wuxi,
China. Date: Monday
18th April to Friday 22nd April 2011.
This
Yeh Cup edition
involved 28 teams
and the
victory
was for
the
Italian team
"Lavazza"
who beat
in the final a Swedish
team.
Surely
many were
the
hands
that
helped
the
Lavazza
team
to take over
the
U$S
100.000
award
and
the one we
bring
you today certainly was
one of them.
In
one
table
E/W
(Antonio
Sementa
and
Giorgio
Duboin),
played
3 ,
scoring
11
tricks
for
+200.
At the other
table
Agustin
Madala,
the Wuxi's
illusionist
...displayed
his
art
...
 Many
times
a
player
creates
an
optical illusion
to
confuse
his
opponent
and
make him mislead,
this is
what
happened
in the
7º Hand,
7º Round
of
the Qualifying
Stage where the
Lavazza
team
played against Japan
and
was
Agustin
Madala,
himself ,
who
told us
this story.
Dador: Sur, Todos Vulnerables
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H. Yokoi
|
N. Bocchi
|
K.
Furuta |
A.
Madala |
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|
|
1NT |
|
2NT* |
Paso |
3NT |
Paso |
|
4 |
Paso |
Paso |
Paso |
*Minors
Contract:
4
Lead:
7
Agustín
told us:
Norberto
lead the
7
and
when
I saw the dummy,
I
already
had
the
exact West's distribution:
2-0-5-6,
if not
so,
West
would had passed
over
3NT.
Dummy
played the
K,
I played my
A
and
returned
the
6.
West
won
with
dummy´s
Q,
Norberto´s card was the
4.
At this time
the
declarer is at home,
he only has to play a club
to his
10,
just
need
to repeat
clubs
until
I
take
my
A
and I am endplayed.
If I
return a trump,
he wins and plays another trump
and as I am again endplayed,
all my cards gives him the contract.
Anticipating
this,
when
West
played
a club from dummy I played my
J!,
the
declarer,
Hiroki
Yokoi,
won
the
trick
with
his
K.
..
and began
to
think:
"If
I
had
A J
in
the
trump suit,
and
he
played
an
honour
from
his
hand,
I
won
with the
A,
return a
and
Norberto can make his
9
"en passant
",
afterwards Norberto
changes
to
a diamond,
and my 
K J
defeats
the contract."
All
this,
made
West
play the
2
seeking for the drop of the
A
in
my
hand,
which
had
been
my
original
intention
...
I took
the
trick
with the
8,
cashed the
A
and
returned
the
9,
not
only
avoiding
the endplay,
but
generating
an endplay for the declarer,
result:
1 down..."
Final
act,
+100
for
N
/
S,
which added
to
the
+200
at the other table
gave
the
team
7
IMPs.
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