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Dear friends, Yesterday Kampala had a bye. However, the other teams in our group had matches to play. Needless to say, Foca beat the team of Zadar by a great margin score and Skopje Taftalidze ( we are facing this team next Wednesday) beat the team of Amed by a narrow margin score. For yourContinue reading “A couple of matches played by our opponents”

Dear friends, First of all, let me congratulate you again for last Wednesday’s match. We beat the team of Amed by the highest margin of all team matches in our group. Let me present to you our schedule for the next six weeks (also available here). Two things to notice here: next Wednesday we haveContinue reading “Our schedule”

Dear friends, Yesterday’s match with the team of Amed turned out to be a triumph for Kampala. After a bit of a bumpy start, due, mostly, to the other team’s advantage for playing 1nt (15-17) and transferring to hearts (having South as a declarer), Kampala managed to pick the optimum contracts and smash the opposition,Continue reading “First win for Kampala”

Dear friends, The ICL autumn ed. is set to start on Wednesday, 21 of September 2022. The Kampala team is playing its first match as a guest with the team of Amed; their captain and host is Vedat (English21). The first match will start at 20:00 CEST (Rome and Oslo time), that is an hourContinue reading “ICL Autumn Edition 2022 – First match”

Dear friends, On Wednesday Kampala is facing the team of Manchester United, that is also hosting the match. It will be a KO, 24 deals match. According to the latest instructions, the match should have started by 21:00 CEST, (that is 20:00 BST and 22:00 EEST), therefore it would be best if we were allContinue reading “KO phase this Wednesday, 27 of April”

Dear friends, In spite of the initial setbacks, our team finally made it to the KO stage of this edition of the ICL. Here’s the ranking in our group. Next Wednesday, no matches will be played. The KO matches will start on 27 of April, I will let you know in due time of theContinue reading “At last, the round robin stage is over”

Dear friends, Kampala did it again and beat the leading team of our group, Göttingen-Uni. Not much to say about this match, it was a good one. We made fewer mistakes and were quite lucky because they bid a wrong slam contract in hearts that, naturally, went down. You may download and check the dealsContinue reading “Kampala is back on track”

Dear friends, Rejoice! The match with the team of Dubrovnik Smart became a triumph for the team of Kampala; indeed. just like last year when playing at the group level, Kampala made very few mistakes and pulverized Dubrovnik Smart with 56-26. Apart from, perhaps, deal #3 and deal #10, Aystein/ Inger – Lise and Greer/KathContinue reading “Like “the good ol’ days””

Dear friends, Last Wednesday’s result was far from the one that we had hoped for, however it really doesn’t matter: we are all playing here for fun, in a friendly tournament. That being said, just for the record, the main issues that let this happen were: a string of seriously underbid makeable games (boards 8,Continue reading “Preparing for the 5th round”

Next Wednesday we are facing the team of Cardiff and we will be guests, therefore Lamford will set up the match. Till then, All the best!