Chile leads the Open, Brasil leads the ladies and Argentina A leads the Seniors. Tomorrow afternoon will begin the semifinals...Watch the teams Champeonships, live in BBO.
As declarer, you sometimes might want to deceive the defense about your holding, to do so, you might have to sacrifice a potential trick to set up a smokescreen.
Sophisticated defense doesn't always succeed against a sophisticated declarer. Jais and Trezel played on the French team that won the 1960 Olympiad, but...
Brazil met Argentina in the third match of the day. At one of the tables for Argentina played: Pellegrini-Lucena, and for Brazil: Chagas - Villas Boas, at the other table Camberos-Muzzio (Arg) vs Brenner-Branco (BRZ).
In bridge you could say that there is a parallel, it is easy to find double-digit swings: 10, 11, 12, 13 ... but it is almost impossible to find plus-size swings as: 17, 19
