Bridge Scanner is a great website set up about ten years ago by Lithuania’s Erikas Vainikonis, I imagine because it was almost impossible to find the running scores for any of the big tournaments.
At the moment the World Championships are being played in Denmark and it literally takes me 20 seconds to find the results in all the different tournaments that are being played simultaneously. England have a team in all four categories but only two qualified for the knockouts. The Open and the Seniors.
The bidding is fearless, When you bid as much as the Polish top players, you have to be able to perform the odd miracle in the play.
Here is Michal Nowosadzki playing for Switzerland in the qualifiers:
3♣ was a game try holding three Hearts and, as usual, there was no holding back in the auction. West started with two top Clubs, Michal ruffing.
You’d normally like to play trumps from dummy but entries are a problem; if you play Spades too early you may lose access to them, and if you ruff Diamonds you may well get shortened in both hands. Michal came up with a very nice solution when he decided to play trumps from hand instead, playing the overcaller for some kind of short Hearts. West won the Jack and continued Clubs, East throwing a Spade. Sticking with his plan, Michal cashed A, K of Diamonds, throwing dummy’s last Club, and used the Spades as a reserve-trump. The third Spade was ruffed by West with the Ace, who did his best by continuing Clubs, but dummy ruffs and East has no reply; whether he discards or overruffs, South is in control and will make the rest.
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