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Show Better f Bridge Vry I ?A Pi t ROBERT D. jOSENBLUM tet . wiey News Servlce . hiehJy anticipated fea-His"; fea-His"; , ol the Internationa! J Press Association . . L, Switzerland, in July t ; . tie presentation of its al awards. FouI were made. The fflBEN award for "Bndge I'rAv ol the Year" in;- ,! to Edg Kaplan, a fei : BTld-ranking player who if : aids great influence as ed-t,oi ed-t,oi MW Bridge World." Sl-;.. w KOMEX award for t:v , -ust Bid Hand of the Year," endowed by George Rosenkranz of Mexico City, inventor of the Romex sy tem, was won by Chip Mar-tel Mar-tel and Lews Stansby of California. Cal-ifornia. The PRECISION award, sponsored by C.C. Wei, inventor of the Precision Preci-sion Club, for the best article arti-cle or series on a system or convention, was won by Jeff Rubens of New York. The CHARLES SOLOMON SOLO-MON award for "Best Hand of the Year" went to Mau-rizio Mau-rizio Sementa of Italy. His play was described by Ida Pellegri in the "Gazetta di Parma" and has been published pub-lished twice in IBPA Bul- letins in a translation by Michael Wolach. It is reproduced here. ' This hand occurred in a team-of-four event in, Viareggio. The opponents were members of a Monte Carlo team. North S A2 HKQJ4 DAKQ1063 : C 3 ! West East S3 SJ 1096 5 H 10987 H 5 D72 DJ985 CAK 9852 CQ104 South S KQ874 H A632 D 4 C J78 Dealer South. Both sides vulnerable. South West North East 1 S Pass 2 D . Pass 2 H ' Pass 4 NT Pass 5 D Pass 6 H All Pass West led the ace of clubs, on which East played the four, and he continued with the king, which declarer ruffed with the four of hearts as East followed with the ten. South drew dummy's king and queen of hearts and East discarded a spade on the second sec-ond round. As South how would you plan the play? Despite the 4-1 trump break the contract will easily be made if the diamonds or spades are divided. If they are not, however, there will be difficulty, as declarer cannot can-not afford to ruff a diamond to establish the suit. In play South cashed the Jack of hearts and East discarded dis-carded another spade. The discard was significant as South had bid the suit. Accordingly, Sementa read the distribution perfectly, and played the hand double dummy. After dummy's third trump he led a low spade to his queen, leaving this position: posi-tion: S A H - D A K Q 10 6 3 S - S J 10 H 10 H - D72 DJ985 C 9852 CQ S K874 HA D 4 C J |