7th European Open Championships
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June 28, 2015 Tromso Norway
The 2015 Copa América is the 44th edition of the Copa América, the main international football tournament for national teams in South America, and currently taking place in Chile between the dates of 11 June to 4 July 2015.
Argentina advanced to the semifinals when Carlos Tevez scored the winning spot kick as Argentina beat Colombia 5-4 on penalties after a goalless draw that his side had dominated throughout. As Everton and Douglas Costa miss their penalties, Brazil was sent out of Copa America following a penalty shootout loss to Paraguay.
In the semi-finals Chile will face Peru this Monday, while Argentina will face Paraguay on Tuesday, 30th June.
As in the Copa America penalties are defining some important matchs, in the European Mixed Teams Championships some players are shooting penalities to define boards…
Breno team, who had finished second on the first day of the qualifying stage, took the lead after the first match of the day and eventually won the Round Robin. In the 9th Round in the Zaleski-Zimmermann match, Zaleski knowing that his team had enough lead decided to kick the ball…no luck.
Board 22
Olivieri opened 1NT and after a Pass, Zaleski begun with a transfer to heart, and after a 2
response he invited to slam with a 5NT call with no diamond control…
He kicked the ball expecting a diamond control in his partner hand, as she had opened 1NT and all his 16 points were outside the diamond suit. Perhaps if her partner didnt have 
A or K, those honors could split and opps wouldnt lead the suit…
Olivieri with J 9 7 support closed the heart slam.
Bad luck, Willard in South had A-K and the A frustrated Zaleski’s kick. 47 of the 87 tables playing the Mixed Teams European Championship decided to play slam in this hand, all of them were down.
In the same round and match, but on board 28 Phillipe Cronier from the Zimmermann team, decided to kik the ball too…also with negative results.
Board 28
Cronier opened 1 and his partner showed his spades with 1
, Cronier with no support, limited his hand with 1NT. After D’Ovidio showed a strong hand with a six-card spade suit, Cronier’s 4
accepted the spade as trumps and invited to investigate the slam. East showed her her first control with 4 and Cronier with no diamond control, kick the ball and said 5. d’Ovidio playing his partner had to stop diamond slam closed.
mostrara su palo sexto de espadas, Cronier con 4 mostró apoyo a espadas e invito a investigar el slam. Este mostró su primer control con 4, y Cronier sin stopper a diamante pateo al arco un 5. d’Ovidio playing his partner with a diamond stopper closed the spade slam.
Again a diamond lead frustrated the penalty kick, and again 43 tables played the slam in this board, but this time 20 defenders didnt find the diamond lead and the slam was made.
At the end of the match Fernando approached both players to ask the reasons for their actions. Zaleski told Fernando that he wanted to use their considerable advantage in the standings, and as his partner had much chance of having a diamond stopper, he decided to jump and make the defense to guess the lead.
Cronier in turn explained that it was possible that his partner with a singleton diamond, could have mention her heart first, his 5 (giving the possibility of a 5 response), was a way to give her some space to review the situation, but d’Ovidio had not interpreted his call in the same way.
Finally Silvie Willard and Andrea Manno, as their team goalkeepers stopped the penalties.