Adam Meyerson, Greg Humphreys, Qixiang Sun, and I participated in the California Capital Open Swiss Championships June 2-3, 2002. Qi and I played a standard system while Greg and Adam played Recursive Diamond which requires you to open on garbage, wrong-sides heart contracts, and almost lands you in a slam in your void suit. :)) Just kidding guys. Not really.
First day consisted of 2 qualifying rounds. No hand records were
available for that day, but the highlight of the match was a board where I
was in 2
x -4 for -1100 while Adam made an overtrick in 2xx in the other direction for
+760. At least the same number of tricks was made at both tables ;) I
learned not to make 2 level overcalls red on white with 9 HCP and AJxxxx
suit and relatively flat 6-3-2-2 distribution. (On the second day, I
would be nailed again for overcalling on a 5
card AQxxx club suit with 11 HCP.) After some ups and downs, we qualified
for the second day, being in the top 20 of 41 teams.
Second day was played using predealt boards, barometer style (all tables playing the same boards at the same time). Hand records were given, though I haven't had time to put them all online yet -- check the links below for a few hands. We did badly in the second day, finishing 19th out of 20th. Here are the scores from both tables from the morning and afternoon sessions. Both the morning and afternoon sessions consisted of four 7-board rounds. In these charts, results for Qi and myself, sitting EW, are given under "Contract 1"; Greg and Adam's results are under "Contract 2".
In the morning, the two tables played in the same contract 11 out of 28 boards. In the afternoon, the two tables played in the contract 8 out of 28 boards, 6 of which were in the same match (boards 15-21, mostly flat game contracts). This includes the same contract played from the opposite direction.
This event was the first time I had the opportunity to play against top players. I don't remember round by round list of opponents, but our opponents included Gene Simpson, Hamish Bennett, Edith and George Rosenkranz, Billy Miller, Curtis Cheek, Ron Smith, John Sutherlin.
Theodore Hwa