June 08, 2019 Bulletin 1 Editor: Dilip Gidwani

Grand Opening to the African ChampionshipsBernard Pascal, Mr. ElHamdani Sidi Ahmed, Chafika Tak Tak,Jean Claude Cador,Tahar Meddoun

A section of the audience Jean Francois Chevalier, Waleed El Menyawi, Khalil Bensouda

MOROCCO SENIORS 1-2-3 IN THE FIRST SESSION OF THE PAIRS

AT THE END OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE ALL AFRICAN PAIRS, THE TOP POSITION IS OCCUPIED BY ABDELLAH EL GHRARI – JEAN HAYET (69.3%); THE WINNERS OF THE 2005 EDITION IN CASABLANCA, GUY CAMBOURNAC – ABBES ALAMI (67.5%) ARE IN SECOND PLACE AND MOHAMMED SAID BERRADA – ABDELKAMEL REHRAYE(63.1%) ARE PLACED THIRD. ALL THE THREE PAIRS ARE MOROCCON AND REPRESENT THEIR NATION IN THE SENIORS. A GREAT START FOR THE GRAND YOUNG SENIORS!! THE SOUTH AFRICAN LADIES FOLLOW IN 4th and 5th PLACE.

Match-Time Round # Section Nations

09.45, June 09 1 OPEN Morocco X South Africa

12.15 June 09 2 SENIORS Morocco X Reunion

15.40 June 09 3 OPEN Egypt X South Africa

18.30 June 09 4 WOMEN Morocco X Egypt

09.45 June 10 5 WOMEN South Africa X Egypt

GENERAL CONDITIONS OF CONTEST & SUPPLEMENTAL CONDITIONS OF CONTEST can be found on the official website of the Moroccan Bridge Federation, i.e. . http://bridgemaroc.ma/

Our Tournament Director Waleed El Menyawi wants to highlight some areas such as alerting, systems, line-ups, review procedure, electronic policy, smoking norms, toilet protocol and protest-time. We reproduce below for brevity, his notes:(1) A change of players, pairs or partnerships can be made only at the beginning of a match or a session.(2) Every participating partnership in the Championships must complete, accurately and legibly,two WBF/ABF Convention Card (with supplementary sheets as appropriate).(3) The line-ups of the teams to be submitted no later than 15 minutes after the end of the previous session. Line-ups are to be submitted at the place designated by the Operation Director. This will be a dedicated area, where the teams will Line-Up. The time of the Line-Up will be recorded, and penalties for late line-ups will be mandatory accordingly. An official clock will be set in the playing area for the purpose of showing the official time.(4) A change of players, pairs or partnerships can be made only at the beginning of a match or a session.

(5) Both members of a partnership must adopt the same methods in the auction and in their carding.(6) The use of Mobile phone in the playing area is totally prohibited (no exception), a severe penalty of 2 VP will be given for each infraction and if the infraction is repeated, it will be reported to the Organizing committee for more penalties. Mobiles and any other electronic communication devices should not be brought to the playing area, otherwise should be handed to the T.D. in charge before play starts.(7) Random checking will be in order at any time during the play with the above penalty applied. Beside the above penalty a 50 US$ fine or equivalent will be applied if mobile is found with the player during the play session.(8) Smoking is not allowed in the playing building/Area, a severe penalty of 2VP will be given for such infraction and if the infraction is repeated, it will be reported to the Organizing committee for more penalties. Kindly contact your director for the designated smoking areas where you may smoke, however, during the duration of the matches, smoking is strictly forbidden.(9) The playing area includes the toilets. Players who would like to go to the toilets must inform the T.D. in charge who will provide an escort with the player to the toilets. Before going to the toilets any player must empty his/her pockets, bag, etc..; and the above mentioned penalties will be applied if appropriate.(10) Spectators are allowed in the open room but they must enter the room before the play of the session. If they leave the room they will not be allowed to come back. (11) Players are not allowed to watch their own team. No mobiles or smoking are allowed, and if found, the player will be taken away from the playing area and with the approval of the C.T.D. will never be allowed to enter the playing area for the rest of the championship.(12) Non playing captains are allowed to watch their own team in the closed or the open rooms with the provisions mentioned in ( 6-9 ).(13) Screen regulations shall be followed with written explanations and proper alert procedure.

Alerting Procedures: Players who participate in The ABF zonal championship are expected to protect themselves to a large extent. They are also expected to observe the spirit of the laws as the letter. Full disclosure is vital. Alerting should be done properly; see screen regulations, and explanations are given in writing.

Alerting Policy: The following classes of calls should be alerted:(1) Conventional calls.(2) Those calls which have special meanings or which are based on or lead to special understanding between partners. (see Law 40(b)).(3) Non- forcing jump changes of suit responses to opening bids or overcalls, and non-forcing new suit responses by un-passed hand to an opening bid one of a suit; “negative free bids”.(4) Opening bid of 1 must be alerted if it may show 2 cards.(5) Precision 1 / systems must be alerted as well as their conventional responses as each time they occur.

(6) For strong club/diamond systems all natural bidding should be alerted as showing a maximum of certain points.(7) Conventional special doubles and redoubles.

As the ABF canceled the Appeals committee

A review will be asked instead

REVIEW PROCEDURE: The ABF shall appoint a list of Reviewers for the Chief Tournament Director to choose from according to the case. When the tournament director notifies players of a decision, they will be told of their right to seek a review. See Section “Protest Time” for the time limit for seeking a review. The Reviewer will check that the Tournament Director has gathered the necessary evidence of what occurred when the infraction arose. The Reviewer will then need to be satisfied that the correct law was applied and that other Tournament Directors were consulted where appropriate. In matters involving the judgment that was exercised by a player following unauthorized information, incorrect explanation or failure to alert, the Reviewer will clarify that suitable players have been asked appropriate questions to enable a judgmental view to be obtained. Finally the Reviewer will check that the ruling that was issued based upon all the information available to the Tournament Directors was within the bounds of reasonableness. The fact that the reviewer might have determined a slightly different ruling would not be good reason for the ruling to be varied. In the event that the process had not been followed properly in some material way, the Reviewer will ask the Chief Tournament Director to correct the failings and issue a new ruling

PROTEST TIME: In respect of scores the protest time of all matches played in a day ends at the starting time of the first match on the day following, and in respect of the final day’s play two hours after the official finishing time of the final match but, in any case, not later than the official starting time of the Closing Ceremony. The time for a request for a Tournament Director ruling or for a review of a ruling already received ends 30 minutes after the end of the round. A fee of US$100 will be paid for the case to be reviewed; which will be forfeited if the Reviewer decides that the request has no basis.

The playing area for the Teams is on the 2nd floor of the Hotel Farah. The Open room is the “OUDAYAS”, the closed room is the “MENARA” and the two tables that will be on BBO are in the “KOUTOUBIA”. Remember, the middle room is the BBO room, the one to the right of the BBO room is the open room and the one to the left of the BBO room is the closed room

CAPTAIN’S MEETING IS AT 12.OO HRS IN ONE OF THE PLAYING ROOMS.ON THE 2ND FLOOR.

TEAM ROSTERS:

MOROCCO:

OPEN WOMEN SENIORS MIXED

ALAIN BOTBOL HANANE MECHAT ABBES ALAMI LAILA LAMRANI

PIERRE SIBONY HOURIA R HALLAM GUY CAMBOURNAC ALI EL AWAD

ABDELLATIF BELKOUCH ROKIA HAMAMSI ABDELLAH EL GHRARI LEILA KABBAJ

MOHAMED DINIA FATIM LAHLOU JEAN HAYET MLY AHMED KACIMI

STEPHANE DAHAN MARIE CLAIRE OHANA MOHAMED SAID BERRADA BERRADA FATTOUMA

ANDRE O HANA HAYAT HACHIMI ABDELKAMEL RERHAYE SAID EDDAHABI

TUNISIA:

OPEN WOMEN

BELLAZRAG Wissem / Capitaine Joueur SELLAMI Hedia/ Capitaine Joueuse

KLIBI Mehdi TRABELSI Ferdaous

HASSOUNA Abdelmalek BACCAR Hedia

JDIDI Lassaad SFAR Najet

GHODHBANE Anis DALDOUL Lilia

FOURATI Moez DORAI Mariem

SOUTH AFRICA:

OPEN WOMEN

ANDREW CRUISE BEVERLY HEWETT

ROBERT PELHAM SULCAS PATRICIA CROSS

BRIAN KENNETH PINCUS DIANA ROSSLEE

MALCOLM DAVID SIEGEL CAROL STANTON

HENDRICK CHRISTIAAN BAREN FICK TANIA RAWSON

ANTON HENK DER KINDEREN VANESSA ARMSTRONG

KENYA:

SENIORS

ARUNA SHAH

CHANDRAKANT SHAH

RAMULA SHAH

BENA SHAH

EGYPT:

OPEN WOMEN SENIORS

KHALED EL BELTAGHY (NPC) Aser Fadaly (NPC) Mohamed Tanboli

Abdelrehman Mosaad Maud Khouri Mohamed Fadel

Tarek Sadek Marguerite Homsy Mohamed El Baz

Ahmed Zein Hoda Soliman Tarik Metwaly

Mohamed Abdelazim Cathrine Pascal Amr Askalani

Baher Ahmed Laila Badawi Bernard Pascal

Ashraf Salah Nesrin Hamdy

REUNION:

OPEN WOMEN SENIORS

Captain:HUSEINALI TAKI Captain:CADOR JEAN-CLAUDE Captain:MEJEAN JEAN-MARCEL

HUSEINALI NERGUIS AOUATE CATHERINE HAMEL PATRICK

GIRAUD CHRISTIAN WAN HOI REGINE SIMON PHILIPPE

MECHY JEAN-CLAUDE BOYER MARIE-THERESE MELIN GABRIELE

VIDAL JACQUES MICHAUX MARIE NEULAT JEAN-LUC

DORSEUIL ANDRE BARON DANIELLE VIGNA GENEVIEVE

SCHILLI PATRICK CHIRON FRANCOISE DRIEUX CLAUDE

OPEN PAIRS SESSION 1 RESULTS:

Rang Score % Nom1 898,8 69,1 Abdellah EL GHRARI - Jean HAYET2 877,6 67,5 Abbes ALAMI - Guy CAMBOURNAC3 819,7 63,1 Mohamed Said BERRADA - Abdelkamel RERHAYE4 819,4 63,0 Tania RAWSON - Vanessa ARMSTRONG5 805,2 61,9 Diana ROSSELEE - Carol STANTON6 781,1 60,1 Hayat HACHIMI - Said BADRI7 778,4 59,9 Laila LAMRANI - Ali EL AWAD8 766,3 58,9 Rob SULCAS - Malcom SIEGEL9 760,1 58,5 Andrew CRUISE - PINCUS10 755,9 58,1 Bahia BENSALAH - larbi Guedira11 749,8 57,7 ABITAN - ABITAN12 732,7 56,4 Catherine T’KINT - Pierre T’KINT13 719,9 55,4 Adnane AMMOR - Toufik HAMAMSI14 719,6 55,4 Leila KABBAJ - Moulay Ahmed KACIMI15 718,1 55,2 GODEFROY - MAITRE16 710,3 54,6 RAMULA - BHANUMATI17 707,4 54,4 Mahjoub BARHBAR - Jaafar EL KETTANI18 701,1 53,9 Rajae ALAMI - Rafia BELGHITI19 687,9 52,9 Hendrik CHRISTIAAN BAREND - Anton HENK DER KINDEREN20 686,2 52,8 Omar EL ABRIDI - Hamid LFAL21 681,9 52,5 HUSEINALI - GIRAUD22 660,6 50,8 Elie LEVY - Abderrahim TAZI23 659,6 50,7 Farida GUERRAOUI - Khadija MARRAKCHI24 647,3 49,8 Zorka BOUCHKIF - Tahar MEDDOUN25 646,4 49,7 MEULIN - NEULAT26 645,8 49,7 Elghazoini Amina ALAOUI - Noel LAVERNY27 643,9 49,5 Beverly HEWITT - Patricia CROSSE28 637,8 49,1 bernard PASCAL - Philippe POLASTRON29 635,1 48,9 Hakima LARAQUI - Noufissa SEBTI30 632,0 48,6 Khadija BENNIS - Taleb Khalid BENNIS31 629,5 48,4 Brahim AGUIZOUL - Simo CHRAIBI32 623,3 47,9 Nadia BADRI - Nadia LAHLOU33 623,3 47,9 Alain LEONE - Pierre MOLINA34 613,8 47,2 C.V - ARUNA35 609,3 46,9 Karima NEKKACH - majid Alem36 608,3 46,8 Amina EL KETTANI - Loubaba EL KADIRI37 604,6 46,5 Graziella NABIL - Samira TEBER38 598,5 46,0 Zakia LOUDGHIRI - Salwa SEKKAT39 586,7 45,1 Richard BITTON - Roger YANS40 585,0 45,0 SCHILLI - DORSEUIL41 583,6 44,9 Abdellatif BELKOUCH - Mohamed DINIA42 581,3 44,7 RANJUNBEN - ARYA43 572,7 44,1 Alain BOTBOL - Pierre SIBONY44 562,2 43,2 Anissa LAMRINI - M’Hamed LAHLOU45 554,5 42,7 Colette MONTARRY - Gilberte SENAC46 531,0 40,8 Touria JAMAI - Naima CHRAIBI47 528,0 40,6 Youssef BELLIK - Ismail CHAMAR48 506,2 38,9 BERRADA - EDDAHABI49 505,3 38,9 Faouzia ARABI - Marianne TAZI50 475,3 36,6 Aicha GHISSASSI - Mohamed BERRADA51 445,9 34,3 Nadia HIJAOUY - michel Gasc52 437,8 33,7 Danielle BENJELLOUNE - Catherine OBER53 400,4 30,8 Aziza Bennani - mouna Bennani