Waiting ....

Today is the start of the Open Swiss Teams, a two-day event assuming you lie in the top half at the end of day one. Although the number of teams will be slightly fewer than Brighton at the end of August, the quality is a lot higher so we are not expecting any easy matches.

Yesterday four of us played in a compact knockout but won our matches in the wrong order. A big win followed by a small loss gave us the evening off - in compacts you have to win your second match if you want to play in the evening, it doesn't really matter what you do in the first.

Sam and Tim had a more successful day finishing 5th in the all-day pairs. They finished with a +2800 when a pair decided that redouble would be SOS after a fourth seat double of a 4♣ pre-empt was passed - pulling to the 3-3 spade fit would have been a similar, potentially worse score!