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Dear friends, Rejoice! Last evening’s match was quite thrilling. A bit of a clumsy start, followed by a string of outstanding bid and played hands, followed by a couple of extremely costly, in terms of IMPs, mistakes. Eventually, Kampala made it and won the match by 10 IMPs. Well done to you, Kate/Greer and Aystein/Inge-Lise,Continue reading “At last, win for Kampala”

Dear friends, Our team is a bit far from its best shape. Last Wednesday Kampala lost by a margin of 28 IMPs to the team of Topoľčany. I do not think that they were that good. They were just a bit more cautious and we lost, mainly, due to our own mistakes. In my opinion,Continue reading “Kampala Blues”

Dear friends, As you all know, Kampala fought hard last Wednesday, but in the end Sindi was able to maintain its lead over our team. Mea culpa, I had checked the last few matches played by the captain of their team and I thought natural systems would be employed. Alas, they chose to play Precision.Continue reading “A bit of a sluggish start”

Dear friends, The spring session of the ICL is set to start on Wednesday, March the 2nd  at the usual time (20:00 GMT/21:00 CET/ 22:00 EET).  The 1st round of the ICL is played in groups. Here are the groups: Group A Bucharest Seniors Daniel Savin (Daniel Sav)  daniel.savin@ager.rodaniel.savin1901@gmail.com Dubrovnik Vedran Košta (Vedry) vedryx@gmail.com Firenze Luca MenichettiContinue reading “ICL spring session”

Dear team -mates, As you all know, our team did not make it to the next round in this edition of the ICL. We fought hard, but seemingly our opponents were very well prepared. In the last match, we beat the team of Minerve and they were also excluded. You may check the results belowContinue reading “ICL spring edition”

Dear team mates, Last Wednesday was a mini-disaster for Kampala, as our team was beaten (with a margin of 32 IMPs) by the team of San Severo. In the first half, a failed (makeable) contract by our opponents (and our first points) was followed by a failed (makeable) contract by our team (Inger-Lise & Aystein)Continue reading “Mistakes”

On Wednesday, the team of Kampala managed to make it and beat the team of Kozsalin. It was a narrow victory and mistakes were made; however a victory is a victory, especially after a string of unfortunate matches. I think that we were fortunate because in the last board, the excellent sacrifice bid by Inger-LiseContinue reading “At last victorious”

Dear team mates, As you all know, last week’s match was a disaster, not because of the score, but because the team that narrowly beat us is almost out of competition. Unfortunately, mistakes were made by both teams; the most obvious of all that changed the course of this dull match was on board 13Continue reading “Today’s match with Kozsalin”

Dear team mates Last week the team of Connacht made it and beat our team. It was a relatively dull match, with similar bidding and play between the two teams. The decisive boards, in my opinion, were the board #9 (where Kate and Greer lost two more tricks defending their contract) and the board #13Continue reading “Alas! Connacht beat us on Wednesday”

In spite of the great play of the team of Szprotawa, Kampala eventually managed to overcome the initial score advantage of our counterparts and beat these folks. After the first two rounds, this is the score table of our group: On Wednesday 29/09/2021, we re facing the team of Connacht. These guys (most probably gaykeavContinue reading “Victorious Kampala is preparing for the 3rd round”