Olivieri and the “Vienna Coup” – FIRSTonline

The last ones Champions Cup controversial Boarium saw the presence of a large representation of the fairer sex. In addition to the open teams, the cards were also crossed by the champion teams of their respective teams Women’s National Championships. As organizing country Italy Was able to take part in the 2023 Italian Championship with two best-ranked teams, which represented the idea of ​​the GSA club Turin and Palcans Naples. Above all, the Turin team managed a brilliant and at the same time unfortunate second place, having lost the final against the strong English champions by just one point.

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Deal number 30: Gabriella Olivieri and the “Vienna Coup”

This week’s hand calls Gabriella Olivieri with fighting small bang a without trumps after the 9 lead and after South had shown a strong balanced hand with five diamonds in his bid and partner had announced hearts. The Italian achieved her goal through a special technical maneuver called Vienna coup. Can you imagine how the game believes and how the champion manages to claim the slam? The solution here next Saturday.

Solution for deal number 29 on Saturday November 23rd

Even though Andrea had a single and two aces, she went for the trump attack. From the explanation it appears that the dummy could not have been in diamonds for long, but rather in the suit, which was easily fifth in his partner’s hand, so it would have been easy for South to cut his losses to the dummy. The declarer took the trump lead and moved diamonds on K for Di Franco’s A, who repeated the trumps without giving his partner the cut. When South tried to cash in the Q, Andrea cut off with his last heart. At this point he ran into trouble on the way back. By playing clubs he would have given the player the K, and by cashing in the A he would have given South the opportunity to place a club on the dummy’s K. Where technology could not achieve anything, it was the moment of psychology. As if it were the most natural thing in the world, Andrea put the Q on the table! South, unable to see the cards, assumed he had QJx. He then decided to keep him in the grip to force him to either return to the suit under the jack or change the club. Manno consistently continued with the 7 and on the dummy’s 10 came Max’s J. The hand was decided with the loss of two tricks for a double score in Addaura’s favor.