III Copenhagen Bridge Invitational – CBI Main Event, Sunday January 18 2015
The CBI Main Event is an invitational pairs event played in a cross IMP format through 19 Rounds, 8 boards in each round, 7 rounds played this friday, 6 rounds this saturday and 6 rounds on sunday.
Last Day: Before the play begun Mark Horton in the Official Bulletin explained what happened in the event during the second day with these words:
As the sun shone outside the temperature in the playing room was rising. A series of challenging deals tested the stars to the limit and resulted in violent swings in all directions. Helgemo and Helness made some attempts to break away from the field; however Versace & Tokay ran downthe breakaway and mercilessly continued their climb with flawless bridge. They have established a gap of 224 IMPs down to the Irish heroes Tommy Garvey-John Carroll with Helgemo-Helness and the winners of the Danish qualification Thomas Vang Larsen-Lars Lund Madsen in pursuit and a gap of 227 IMPs down to 5th place.
Versace-Tokay in a day with almost no mistakes, were leading the event and were 224 IMps over the second pair.
After the first matchs of the day Versace-Tokay kept the lead but the gap had narrowed to 99 IMPs. The liders had lost 60 IMPs in the first round, while the partnership from Ireland Tommy Garvey-John Carroll had added 85 IMPs. The two pairs in the third and fourth position had lost: -144 and -189 IMPs respectively. In the second match of the day, Versace – Tokay also lost some IMPs (25) but stayed as the liders because the pair from Ireland also lost but big: – 104 IMPs.
In the third match Versace-Tokay continued as the event leaders, with a very small lose of 21 IMPs, the runner ups recovered 56 IMPs and entered the last round with a 52 IMPs gap. Thirds; Geir Helgemo – Tor Helness but almost 200 IMPs below.
And the last match arrived…
Versace-Tokay with a very good round added 183 IMPs, thus finishing an excelente three days job, and winning the event with 880 IMPs, 145 IMPs over the second pair John Carroll – Tommy Garvey that finished with 635 IMPs. Geir Helgemo and Tor Helness stayed in their third position.
Last standings:
| Runde | Total | Plac. | ||
| 3 | Alfredo Versace – Mustafa Cem Tokay | 183 | 880 | 1 |
| 9 | John Carroll – Tommy Garvey | -10 | 635 | 2 |
| 14 | Geir Helgemo – Tor Helness | 64 | 569 | 3 |
| 1 | David Bakhshi – Simon De Wijs | 115 | 404 | 4 |
| 19 | Thomas Vang Larsen – Lars Lund Madsen | -68 | 248 | 5 |
| 6 | Kasper Konow – Michael Askgaard | 28 | 231 | 6 |
| 7 | Boye Brogeland – Alon Birman | 38 | 219 | 7 |
| 16 | Tom Hanlon – Andrew McIntosh | -183 | 186 | 8 |
| 20 | Michael Barel – Yaniv Zack | 68 | 182 | 9 |
| 17 | Per-Ola Cullin – Peter Bertheau | 148 | 163 | 10 |
| 8 | Sabine Auken – Roy Welland | -136 | 71 | 11 |
| 11 | Thomas Bessis – Michel Bessis | 136 | 10 | 12 |
| 12 | Fredrik Nyström – Johan Upmark | -38 | -270 | 13 |
| 10 | Björn Fallenius – Peter Fredin | 10 | -271 | 14 |
| 5 | Andrey Gromov – Alexander Dubinin | -64 | -312 | 15 |
| 15 | Zia Mahmood – Marion Michielsen | 140 | -334 | 16 |
| 13 | Diego Brenner – Gabriel Chagas | -28 | -341 | 17 |
| 2 | Dennis Bilde – Morten Bilde | -148 | -492 | 18 |
| 18 | Leonardo Cima – Valerio Giubilo | -115 | -607 | 19 |
| 4 | Søren Christiansen – Mats Nilsland | -140 | -1099 | 20 |