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Louk Verhees (Elisabeth van Ettinger)

Captain and Slave

Playa Blanca (Panama), May 23, 2013     NIB’s Jan van Cleeff is in Panama where he and Elisabeth van Ettinger are to produce the Daily Bulletin for the CACBF Zonal Championships and the Transnational teams. In tomorrow’s bulletin you will find five questions for Louk Verhees, world champion from The Netherlands,... read more
 

We don’t give up

Playa Blanca (Panama), May 22, 2013 5 Questions to Maximo Crusizio & Rodrigo Garcia da Rosa by Jan van CleeffWho are you?My name is Maximo Crusizio, I am 21 years old. I study economics at the university of San Carlos de Bariloche, a small town on the Argentinian side of the Andes, at approximately 2,000 kilometers' distance... read more 		Rodrigo Garcia da Rosa (l.) & Maximo Crusizio (Elisabeth van Ettinger)
 
The venue: El Panama Hotel (Elisabeth van Ettinger)

CACBF will start soon

Panama City (Pan.), May 17, 2013 Tomorrow the International Open Bridge Festival in Panama will start with the Open Pairs. The Festival preceeds the CACBF, the championships of Zone 5, which begin Tuesday May 21st, 2013. These championships decide which teams in September will represent the Zone at the Bermuda Bowl, the... read more
 

Lauria-Versace win Turkish Teams

Antalya (Turkey), May 16, 2013 For three years Italian superstars Lorenzo Lauria and Alfredo Versace have been participating in the ever-popular Turkish Open Championship, held in Antalya every year during the month of May. This year Team Lauria consisted of two partnerships Mustafa Cem Tokay-Alfredo Versace and Lorenzo... read more 		Lauria-Versace win 2013 Turkish Teams
 
Kirchhoff Trials

Kirchhoff Trials online

The Hague (NL) / Clearwater (USA), May 15, 2013 As per today we put Topic No. 33 on Kirchhoff Trials online. This Topic is all about trial bids after 1M – 2M. The evolution of bridge theory guided us through quite a few different methods. Long-suit trials, short-suit trials, help-suit trials and the complex Garozzo trials, we have seen them all... read more
 

Horror from Norway

Aalesund (Norway), May 14, 2013 Eight teams from all over the huge country had to play an overwhelming 196 boards over three days to decide the Norwegian Club Team Championships. Four teams could still win the title before the last round, and after a very tight finish, TopBridge BC from Oslo held on to their slender lead and were... read more
 
Poizat (l.) and Cabanes (Agnès Fabre)

Cabanes-Poizat take pairs in Juan

Antibes-Juan les Pins (Fr.), May 14, 2013 Philippe Poizat and Bernard Cabanes have won the open pairs at the bridge festival of Antibes-Juan les Pins (Rivièra, South of France). Poizat is a senior European and World Champion and has won the open pairs two times earlier. Cabane is a French Champion. This is his second win in the open pairs. read more