[nikos59]

Hi all

One of the biggest (or the biggest) swing in the European Championships
that just ended in Warsaw, was at Round 10:

Board 4 - Dealer West - Both vul.

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This is a normal 3NT by NS and it was the case in most tables (a couple
of Easts doubled for a club lead and when this was redoubled
the price tag was 1400). However, in the match between Bulgaria and
Finland, the Bulgarian EW in the Closed Room (Aronov-Stefanov)
bought the hand at 2Hxx (redoubled). Double-dummy analysis shows
that EW can only make 6 tricks but after the 10 of hearts lead
the results show that West made *ten* tricks, scoring a whopping
1640!!

Does anyone know what exactly happened?

TIA
Nikos Sarantakos

[Kaapo]

This is partly guessing, partly hearsay: The Bulgarian pair plays an Ekren variant where the 2♥ opening shows a weak hand with both majors, 4-4 suffices. This was opened and doubled, and after two passes the opener made some sort of an SOS redouble which was left in. At some point, defence tried to cash the ♣A. And somehow NS managed not to take any tricks in ♦s at all.

That probably gives enough of an idea what happened...