If you like extremely high-level Pairs tournaments you would love Pierre Zimmermann’s Cavendish Monaco. Sixty pairs are auctioned off and battle it out over three days against some of the best players in the world. The scoring is IMPs across the field and competition is fierce. The winners this year were Ireland’s Adam Mesbur and Nick Fitzgibbon, who had a fantastic tournament, leading almost all the way.
My teammates Tom Townsend and Nick Sandqvist came eighth — well in the prizes. Check out Tom’s cute defence here:
2♣ was an inverted raise, and 3♣ the weakest rebid available. After opening the South hand, virtually the whole field was going off in 2 or 3NT, but the American N/S stopped safely in 3♣, and were destined to pick up a useful small swing.
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