Bridge Winners Profile for Magnus Olafsson
Basic Information
- Member Since
- May 27, 2014
- Last Seen
- 11 hours ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
Played bridge for a short time only (1986 to 1992) but did very well. Began to play again a little in mid 2014. One of the top Directors of the UN. Was on the team that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for looking for weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Retired in 2016 to be able to begin to play serious bridge again...
- Country
- United States of America
Bridge Information
- Favorite Bridge Memory
- Playing a Forcing Pass system in a match against Zmudzinski and Balicki in the early 1990s. They also played a Forcing Pass. The most common result was 1100. That was fun!
- Bridge Accomplishments
- Won the strong annual Icelandic Championship three times in row (1990 to 1992); three different teams, three partners.
- Favorite Tournaments
- ACBL Nationals
- BBO Username
- olafssonm
- ACBL Ranking
- None
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- Trivial - NO, something worse than trivial
- Wayne Burrows, Paul Barden and Paul Hightower (but also others, as appropriate): it gives me a great pleasure to confirm Wayne’s calculations. I decided to sit down at the kitchen table and work out the probability of four hits from first principles - using a pen and the back of ...
- Trivial - NO, something worse than trivial
- Paul, I think your previous comment hit the jackpot when you wrote: “ The WBF reports a strange decline in performance among top players...they just don't seem to be concetrating very well on Bridge!“. Brilliant. And thanks for your belief in me that I’ll get the four hits ...
- Trivial - NO, something worse than trivial
- And at the Club today (board 14, The Common Game), my second board was Q654 63 A1074 Q83 So close, yet so far away.
- considerably worse than trivial
- Jim, this is absolutely brilliant. Maybe Florentin can find an example?!
- Trivial - NO, something worse than trivial
- Damn you, Craig. And now I have to add your LCP to my task list. Trying to beat your 13-28 record is going to be nearly impossible, but I’ll give it a go. BTW, if I get 12-29; who’s the winner? Maybe we need to set up a ...
- Trivial - NO, something worse than trivial
- Yes, void is a hit. Singleton Ace is a hit. Very good observation Paul regarding max length.
- I AM NOT A JUNIOR ANYMORE
- John, a really great post. In a minute I’ll tell you why it’s so great. One of your great grandfathers, a guy called Plato (running around Athens some 2500 years ago) had this annoying tendency to ask penetrating questions beginning with “what is X”, such as: “What’s ...
- Restricted Choice - or not?
- Thanks Alan for posting. Always love to look at such a stuff. Actually, in this case, the solution is pretty simple. East can only have two possible cases: K9 or stiff K. It’s important to realize that each case doesn’t have the same probability. The a priori probability ...
- WOLFSON Wins Vanderbilt
- Congratulations to all. We Scandinavians love underdogs. Wolfson actually won the best bridge team ever. It was such a fun to watch these boards. I’m ever so grateful for the display.
- Test your analysis, COMMON GAME 13 DEC BOARD 5
- Thanks Barry. Your TCG posts are always interesting. After the game today, seven of us NYCpros discussed the boards - like we normally do. This board confused us. It took us a fairly long time, roughly three minutes, until Peter Trenka found the solution. It’s actually simple, but far from ...
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