Bridge Winners Profile for Christian Vennerød
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- Member Since
- Aug. 25, 2015
- Last Seen
- Jan. 23
- Member Type
- Bridge Official
- about me
Non Playing Captain and Selector of Norwegian National open team: from 2010 until .....? As such: gold medal in European Championship 2018.
- Country
- Norway
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- Rodvenn
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- What should the selectors do?
- I agree that if you do not trust your selector(s), a trial may be a better solution than a selector. But one swallow does not a summer make, and one (relatively short) tournament against comrades is a poor basis for predicting results in a long international tournament. Also, it ...
- What should the selectors do?
- I think it is strange that most people who comment on this thread believes that a competition against pairs of your own nationality is the best criterion for picking a team who will be competing against foreigners with partly other languages, other customs, other systems etc. (I have been the ...
- Analysis and Visualization - 54th EBTC
- Thank you, Ante yes. If one of our pairs were often slow starters, I would look into how to get them fired up. But the problem would probably apply only for the morning match. At the European we played 3 x 16 boards normally. Some days 4 x 16. So ...
- 2018 European Championships Results
- Amazing that Israel almost dominated the championship in spite of such short time to prepare! Very well done!
- Analysis and Visualization - 54th EBTC
- Thank you, Ante! As the npc of the Norwegian team for 8 years, I have calculated the relative butler myself for many years. But "by hand", not by a program. It is a lot of work, and I am very grateful that I do not need to do it now ...
- Wanted: Spectacular mistakes by Swedish star Peter Fredin...!
- As Norway's NPC, I was sitting between Boye Brogeland and Peter Fredin in the European championship in 2010. The very first board: None is vulnerable and Fredin's partner, Bjørn Fallenius, opens 1 spade and Boye enters with 1 NT. Fredin had: 64 EJT82 QT7 KJ5 Fredin doubled. Two ...
- UI issue, how to defend
- Wonderful, David! :) Have you tried it in real life?
- Improving vugraph
- Nothing beats a good journalist as commentator. Ok, maybe 2 journalists :)
- Improving vugraph
- The commentators today have often the wrong approach: Far too often they start each board with an assessment like: "Here we have a nice 4 heart contract. If North finds the trump queen, it is lay down." They are looking for the solution to the hand, not the challenges. The ...
- Return To Sender
- Very interesting, Mr PuczyńSki! Very well done. The world of bridge needs more people of your caliber.
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