Tuesday 11 June Today was not so encouraging for the Australian teams: the open team’s run of losses was finally broken in the last match but they now lie eighth.  The women slipped to fifth, despite two wins and a bye, and the Lusk team in the seniors dropped to ninth.  The stars remain the seniors team, which won all three matches and has increased their lead over Indonesia.  They are now starting to play the top half of the […]

Monday 10 June After a few days of warming up the Chinese open team put the pedal to the floor yesterday.  Their three wins left them first at the end of the first round robin.  The first of their opponents was Australia.  Things were looking good for us after the first few boards when the Chinese got overboard at the five level in search of slam and missed a game: do you think responder can pass after the uncontested auction […]

The Australia Seniors are on vu-graph today’s first match

Sunday 9 June All of the Australian teams are there or thereabouts.  The seniors team remains in first place.  They compensated for their disappointing draw in the second match against one of the weaker teams by winning their third match by 65 IMPs, enough for 20-0.  As the second round robin begins in the seniors (the first was incomplete because of the number of entrants) they have won six and lost one with one draw.  The Lusk team has fallen […]

VCC June 6-10,Melbourne