1998 World Bridge Championships
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DAILY BULLETIN
Chief Editor: H. Francis Editors: M. Horton-B. Senior
Web Editor: Th. Matziaris

No.: 6 • Wednesday, 26 August 1998

Results Contents
Rosenblum Cup
McConnell Cup
Junior Pairs J1, J2
Continuous Pairs
Vivendi Rosenblum Cup
WBF: 40 years
Intra Finesse



21 nations in Rosenblum


Twenty-one nations qualified teams for the Round of 64 in the Vivendi Rosenblum Teams. All teams will play 56-board matches starting at 10.00 today. Host France leads the list with 13 qualifiers, two more than the United States.

Great Britain is next with 7, followed by Italy and Sweden with five. Denmark, Poland, and the Netherlands have three teams each. Two teams from Germany qualified.

The following countries qualified one team each: Switzerland, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Brazil, Croatia, South Africa, Canada, Russia, India, Turkey and Australia.

By far the best performance by an individual team was turned in by the Polish squad captained by Zakrzewski. Their total of 314 Victory Points far outdistanced all others. Second with 302 was Chagas' team from Brazil.

France and U.S. qualify 7 each in McConnell

Host France and the United States each qualified seven teams for play in today's Round of 32 in the Louis Vuitton McConnell Women's Teams. The American performance was quite strong, inasmuch as only eight U.S. teams entered the competition. Altogether 15 nations still are in the running. Italy has three, while Germany, South Africa and the Netherlands have two apiece.

Nations with one team are Russia, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia, Denmark, Great Britain, Egypt, Israel, Austria and China. The team captained by Karen Allison of the United States turned in the best team performance with 253 Victory Points. Second place also went to the United States - Lewis had 245.5.

Polish pair leads Juniors

Poland holds three of the top five positions at the halfway mark of the Junior Pairs. The 66 pairs will play the final two sessions today. In first place are I. Grzejdziak and U. Kielichowski of Poland with an average of 62.61 for the first two sessions.

That puts them well ahead of R. Probst and M. Teltscher of Great Britain, who have a 60.98 average. T. Przyjemski and M. Zarema of Poland are third with 60.05.

The top 17 pairs are all from Europe. The top non-European pair are A. Greenberg and C. Lubvesnik of the United States.

Results Contents
Rosenblum Cup
McConnell Cup
Junior Pairs J1, J2
Continuous Pairs
Vivendi Rosenblum Cup
WBF: 40 years
Intra Finesse



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