Since the beginning of September I don’t think there has been a single weekend when my team was not away playing in one or another tournament, so when I received an email asking everyone from the first division of the Premier League if they would like to play the Champions Cup in Israel I decided to stay in bed. What a mistake! It was a fabulous tournament attracting all the top European teams, predictably won by the Italian National super-squad. Frances Hindon and Graham Osbourne and Nick Sandqvist and David Burn represented England and after a great start they sadly lost their first play-off match against a strong Polish team by one IMP. On this board David and Nick managed to defeat an impregnable contract against one of the legends of the game, Poland’s Krzysztof Martens:
North’s opening club showed 16+ points and Marten’s 1NT response showed 8–11 points with no major.
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