43rd World Bridge Teams Championships
Lyon, France • 12 – 26 August 2017
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Les Halles de Lyon – Paul Bocuse. Lyon’s mythic indoor food market with an international reputation for offering the very finest gourmet food.
Les Halles de Lyon – Paul Bocuse is one of the reasons that Lyon is dubbed France’s capital of gastronomy. An incredible variety of the finest quality food all assembled under one roof.
History:
It was in 1859 that Lyon opened it’s first indoor food market in a large metallic structure located at Place Cordeliers in the centre of the city known as the “Presqu’ile”. One hundred years later the city decided to build a new indoor market representative of it’s commitment to gastronomy and in 1971 Les Halles was opened in the neighbourhood of La Part-Dieu close to Lyon’s main train station. Extensive renovations took place in 2004 resulting in the now 13,000 square metres of food vendors over 3 floors. The final touch was undoubtedly master chef Paul Bocuse adding his name to the title of the market and securing it’s reputation as one of the finest places for food anywhere.
 Carvalho |
 O. Rimstedt |
R. Dias |
M. Rimstedt |
| Pass | |||
| Pass | 2 |
2NT | 3 |
| All Pass |
10
West won the first trick with his A and returned a trump. East won with his queen, cashed his A and continued with a third spade.
Rimsted won with his K, continued with the 
Q, and claimed 10 tricks when the K appeared.
The bidding (open room):
| F. Nystrom |
G. Chagas |
J. Upmark |
M.Villas Boas |
| 1 |
|||
| Pass | 1 |
2 |
2 |
| 4 |
Double | Pass | 4 |
| All Pass |
9
Here the Brazilians didn’t stop before game and a club lead also helped them to make their contract with no problems.
These were Marion comments during the board:
- NS have a good game in 4 here, which can only be beaten by the diamond king lead, so East can score a ruff… After this lead (9), EW don’t have communication for the ruff anymore.
- At the other table the Rimstedt brothers missed game, which is quite unusual with their aggressive style. Note the 2NT overcall there by East after North’s heavy 3rd seat weak 2 bid.
