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“Sunchime Fund Cup” International Bridge Elite Tournament 2012. Watch it in BBO: Click Here
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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…
On the first day of play the Monaco team faced one of the China teams: Zhejiang Jingfan, match that ended with the victory of Monaco by 62-16. In Board 11 of the 16 boards of the match, Monaco declared a NT Grand Slam escaping from a Lightner Double to a 7
contract and found the 13th trick thanks to squezze. Let’s see how the facts were on the table:
Board 11 Dealer South None Vulnerable
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| West | North | East | South |
| Lian Ruoya | Fantoni | Gao Fei | Nunes |
| 21 |
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| Pass | 2 2 |
3 |
Double3 |
| 4 |
5 |
Pass | 5NT |
| Pass | 7 |
Double4 | Pass |
| Pass | 7NT | The End |
1 10-13, 5+ clubs, unbalanced
2 Relay
3 extra distribution
4 Lightner. “”Partner, I have a void, for you to figure out where””
Lead: K
Declarer won the lead with the A and find out East´s void playing the 
A. He continued with the A and K watching East pitching a heart in his second club. He played the A checking that West could continue the suit. Nunes continued playing the J to the Q and run all the clubs. East find himself in the impossible duty of taking care of the two red suits . The position remaining only 4 cards was:
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Now declarer played the 7, West pitched a spade, Nunes won the trick with the K and East played his 8, but Nunes continued with the K…and East was squezzed, if he pitched a heart, the J was the 13th trick and if he pitched a diamond…declarer two last diamonds completed the 13th tricks
In the other table the China players only played 6NT and while they made 13 tricks the board cost them 11 IMPs.