Jeg kom til skade for å si at NBF ikke har hatt kvinnelig president. Det stemmer selvsagt ikke, fordi Ambjørg Amundsen holdt sjefsklubba i årene 1967-71.

For noen dager siden fikk jeg vite at Jostein Sørvoll takker for seg etter en periode og ønsker avløsning når tida kommer til vårens generalforsamling. HER KAN DU LESE Jostein sin oppsummeringa av året.

Evå Flått har opparbeidet seg god erfaring som medlem av styret i NBF, nå som visepresident under Sørvoll sin ledelse. Valgkomiteen er godt i gang med sitt arbeid med å finne de personene som skal lede oss videre og jeg vet at de har spurt Eva om å stille. Hun vil ikke kommentere dette utover at hun bekrefter at hun er spurt og er i utgangspunktet positiv.. Når Eva er klar og inntillingen offisiell, håper jeg å få en aldri så liten prat med henne.



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Denne har jeg stjålet fra CSBnews og Steve Becker.

The biggest swings in team-of-four play occur on those rare hands where a pair at one table bids and makes a grand slam, while their teammates at the other table also bid and make a grand slam with the opposing cards! Unlikely as this might seem, that’s exactly what happened in today’s deal.

At the first table, South wound up in seven clubs doubled on the bidding shown. Had West led the ace of hearts, declarer would have gone down one. But it seemed to West that the ace of diamonds was much more likely to survive as the opening salvo than the ace of hearts.

This was certainly a reasonable assumption, but declarer ruffed the first diamond in dummy and easily made the grand slam. He trumped four diamonds in dummy and four spades in his hand, establishing dummy’s spades as well as his last diamond. After drawing East’s lone trump, South discarded his heart loser on a spade and had the rest of the tricks.

At the second table, after a different sequence of bids, West wound up in seven hearts. A spade lead by North would have stopped this grand slam, but instead North made the uninspired lead of the king of clubs. Declarer ruffed, drew two rounds of trumps, took the obvious finesses in spades and diamonds, and so made all the tricks. So the successful team scored 2,330 points at the first table for making seven clubs doubled, and another 2,210 points at the second table for making seven hearts undoubted, and thus gained 4,540 points on one deal!

What all this teaches us is difficult to say, but the fact is that at both tables a different opening lead would have set both slams!