Norway triumphed at the 56th European Team Championships held in Herning, Denmark at the end of June, hoovering up the gold medals in both the Open and the Women’s categories. But if you weren’t going to come in the medals, you still had everything to play for: the top eight teams out of 30 qualified for a place in the Bermuda Bowl (World Championships) next year. And more good news: England qualified in all four disciplines – Open, Womens, Seniors and Mixed.
No doubt Marianne Harding, for Norway, was delighted with the following result, where she showed us how to keep control against a bad trump break:
West’s double is by no means a certainty; she’s got no particular reason to believe the freely bid game should go down, but if things go badly for declarer, it could go several off, so there’s some reasonable equity in upping the ante a bit.
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