District 8 Solvers Forum

Technical problems have prevented publication of the Solvers Forum in this issue. The writeup for the August problems will appear in the October issue. When our server is back online, all submissions previously made for the August problems will be retrieved and included in the October column.

The August problems are reprinted below. If you haven't yet submitted solutions for this set, you can send your bids and comments by email to kwalker2@comcast.net . Please send by September 25.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Solvers Forum -- August/October 2016 Problems

1. Matchpoints, NS vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
1D DBL Pass 2C
2D 2H Pass ???

What is your call as South holding:
Q63   2  Q982   KJ964 ?

2. Matchpoints, EW vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
3H 4NT * 5H ???

   * Minors

What is your call as South holding:
AK109762   7  J102   109?

3. IMPs, none vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
      1H
3D DBL Pass ???

What is your call as South holding:
KJ   AQ10873  Q   A987 ?

4. IMPs, both vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
      1C
2H 2S 5H ???

What is your call as South holding:
942   Void  AJ102  AKJ863 ?

5. Matchpoints, none vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
    Pass ???

What is your call as South holding:
Void   K109732  AQ74   1082 ?

6. Matchpoints, none vulnerable

  West   

  North  

   East   

  South  
Pass Pass 1S DBL
2S Pass Pass ???

What is your call as South holding:
AK984   KJ   AK6   K93 ?

Thanks for the problems to Jordan Chodorow (#1), Bridgewinners.com (#2) and Will Engel (#5).