Vosmoj bridzovij turnir "Riga Invites to Jurmala" nachinajetsa sevodnja s Invitational pairs. Vsja informacija na saite www.rigainvites.lv
Sevodneishaja igra budet pokazivatsa na TV - http://sportacentrs.com/sportacentrs_tv/live/12082014-tresdien_18_00_bridzs_riga_invites_2014.
Nachalo v 19.00 po Moskovskomu vremenji.
Neimanis – Geste wins the Invitational pairs
Yesterday evening Janis Neimanis together with Andis Geste from the Latvia won the Invitational pairs tournament in Jurmala, Latvia.
24 pairs played 7 rounds (4 boards in the round) and at the last round Neimanis-Geste were playing against Swedish pair Marten Gustawsson and Gunnar Andersson. The result of the tournament was manly decided on board No 27:
Finland wins the Open teams tournament
26 teams participated in the Open teams tournament during “Riga Invites to Jūrmala” festival. After 9 Swiss rounds Latvian-Estonian-Russian team Rigainvites.lv (K.Rubins, M.Romanovska, M.Tenn and D.Prokhorov) lead the field and could pick the opponent for the semi-final match. They could choose from team Klio (J.Alfejeva, S.Birins, M.Lebedeva and I.Khazanov), team Aris (A.Muhortov, V.Makarov, S.Vaganov and A.Tatarkin) and team Finland (K.Koistinen, S.Niemi, O.Parviainen and L.Utter), who grabbed last semi-final place in the last boards of elimination. Rigainvites.lv picked Finland and it was very unlucky pick for them: Finland won the 12 board semi-final by 29:25, meanwhile Klio won the second semi-final with 46:12. In the play-off for the 3rd place the winner was decided in the last board - team Aris overbid to the slam and went two down, giving the victory to Rigainvites.lv by 16:10. In the final Finland was better by 33:9.
The festival continues with Open pairs - 65 pairs will play 3 session event. All the details at www.rigainvites.lv.
Kowalski-Russyan wins Riga Invites to Jurmala Open pairs
After 5 days of bridge, the 8th bridge tournament “Riga Invites to Jūrmala” finished with Open pairs tournament. 63 pairs played 3 session tournament, 24 boards each session. Winners with 59,93 % were polish grand masters Apolinary Kowalski and Jerzy Russyan, second place went to Karlis Rubins and Dmitrij Prokhorov (Latvia-Russia), who finished with 59,14 %, 3rd place goes to one more Latvian-Russian pair Juris Balasovs and Pavel Goverov with 57,99%. Best Latvian pair Ugis Jansons and Aigars Germanis finished in the 4th place, but Sharon Hammer and Edu Piza from Costa Rica had a huge 3rd session (67,02%) and they finished in 5th place.
All details and results you can find at www.rigainvites.lv.
Pictures from the Invitational tournament: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.799483540091455.1073741837.520388958000916&type=1
Other pictures will be posted soon.
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