ARTICLE AND PHOTO FROM THE 13TH DAILY BULLETIN, Co-ordinator: Jean Paul Meyer - Editor: Mark Horton - Assistant Editors: Brent Manley & Brian Senior French Editor: Guy Dupont - Layout Editor: Stelios Hatzidakis - Photographer: Ron Tacchi

Norway vs USA II S7 - With 32 boards to play in the Bermuda Bowl final, USA II and Norway were tied at 195. Few could have envisioned this score when the Norwegians were ahead 164-85. The Americans mounted a strong charge in the fifth and sixth sessions to pull even. Thus it was, in essence, a 32-board match starting with the seventh session. Click Here for HTML page from Daily Bulletin site.

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Norway wins the Silver Medal: Geir Helgemo, Tor Helness, Boye Brogeland, Erik Sælensminde, Glenn Grøtheim, Terje Aa, NPC: Einar Asbjørn Brenne, Coach: Rolf E Olsen

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USA II give Rose a Birthday to Remember

USA II, comprising Rose Meltzer, Kyle Larsen, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, Alan Sontag and Peter Weichsel, won the Bermuda Bowl today, defeating Norway's Terje Aa, Boye Brogeland, Glenn Gr¿theim, Geir Helgemo, Tor Helness, and Erik S¾lensminde. Norway made a good start in the first of today's sessions and built up a useful lead. However, USA II came back and at the end of the first sixteen boards Norway's lead was only 2 IMPs. In the final session the Americans had the better of some heavy exchanges and finally won by 21 IMPs. Martel, Stansby, Sontag and Weichsel have all won before, but it is a first for Larsen.

The same is true for the amazing, history making, Rose Meltzer, the first woman to win a Bermuda Bowl - and on her birthday.What a present!

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Vugraphs Available

Yvane Calame had produced html pages of the semis and finals of the Bermuda Bowl. Click here ...

e-bridge Free "Viewgraph" of semi and final of Bermuda Bowl click here

Live video and vugraph were posted on the French Federation web site.November 1-3.

Bermuda Bowl semi-final and final deals available at U Oregon
I've put the vugraph data on my University of Oregon web site; the .pbn files now include room information as well as the usual stuff. As always, anyone is welcome to use this information for whatever purposes they wish. The Bermuda Bowl deals are in http://www.cirl.uoregon.edu/ginsberg/zip/bb.zip and are now also part of http://www.cirl.uoregon.edu/ginsberg/zip/2001.zip (which contains all deals I've got played in 2001). Thanks! Matt Ginsberg

BridgeVU is a free program by Fred Gitelman courtesy of BridgeBase Inc.

Bridgeplaza - We have been told that Bridge Plaza did not have a vugraph of this World Championship. Lack of sponsorship was cited as one of the reasons.

Thanks to the (onsite) VuGraph
by Jean-Paul Meyer, Daily Bulletin, World Championship, Paris France

You cannot hold a good championship without a VuGraph.The more efficiently it works, the better it is for players, spectators and journalists.With computers, cameras and screens all on the boat towards Bali, we could have fears when it was decided the championships would be played in Paris.Then, on Monday morning October 21st at the Stade de France when the first hand was played everything was working in time as if nothing unusual had happened. Moreover, everything next had to be transferred in the night at Saturday 27th to the Concorde Lafayette. A hard task for the workers but everything was done in due time thanks Jean-Claude Beineix's effectiveness. Perhaps it not for me to say, but the French Bridgevision gave a brilliant performance producing thousands of results and startling images.The cameramen often got laughs from the audience with well thought out and amusing shots. A lot of people have to be thanked; I present them in a non specific order:

Computer operators: Elisabeth Antelme, Patrice Piganeau, Odile Beineix, Brigitte Piquet. The lady with the microphone: Babette Piganeau. VuGraph crew: Bernard Delange, Bernardette Pasquier Paul Benisti. English commentators: Richard Colker, Eric Kokish, Barry Rigal and for a few sessions our guest star Bobby Wolff. French commentators: Michel Bessis, Philippe Cronier and Pierre-Yves Guillaumin. Thanks also to MOST of the scorers filling out the slips with results, MOST of them being right and to the caddies who both walked and used trolleys to transfer information as fast as possible.