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Medellin, May 30, 2016
I was still in my box on Mount Olympus, when I had the opportunity to see a battle between Gods of the Olympus. In the third round of the Round Robin of the Open Teams of the Southamerican Championships, Milner Team played against the Chagas team.
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Board 7, All Vulnerable: In one of the tables the Lalls, chose to play a partscore in diamond; scoring +110.
At the other table Agustin Mandala and Alejandro Bianchedi had a different view of the hand, and raised the bet to the game level.
Welland opened 1
, Bianchedi passed, Auken too, and Agustín showed his hand saying 1NT. Alejandro interpreted that for that 1NT, he had enough for game.
Lead: 2
Madala made de first trick with the J, cashed the 
K and cashed the 9. Continued with the Q, Welland pitched the 
2, Auken showed her club. Agustín squeezed a little more the rope playing the 6. And Welland chose another spade, 6. Declarer continued with another annoying diamond, Auken this time chose a heart and Welland a club.
To close the show, Agustin left dummy playing a spade, and when Auken played the 7, he played the A… while we were looking Welland’s queen over the table, Agustin end-played Welland with a club, to receive after four clubs a heart for his 9th trick…
This was the next hand, perhaps the heat of the battle just lost, made Welland saw a slam, not played at the other room.
Mr Ahollan1, from BBO explained the bidding:
1 = (4)5+, des-bal
1NT: relay FG
2
= 5+ 4+!
2 = Relay
3 = exact distribution 4261
He wrote: I think 3 = Optional RKC for and for the angry people he added: for all of the complaints people sending me about Welland treating south as game-force… keep in mind the context of 1 known to be unbal, 5+ unless 4441.
Madala led a diamond. Ahollan1 wrote: declarer unfriendly lead from Madala. But the play was fast, and Welland must have felt an infinite peace.
Ahhh the match ended Milner:12.44 -Chagas: 7.56…