Author: Marc Smith

Marc Smith visits the knockout stages of the MontreAlt Last week, we saw the number of surviving teams at the MontreAlt reduced from eight to four. The first of the semi-finals pitted together the two American-influenced teams, GUPTA (USA/France/Netherlands) and KOEPPEL (USA/Italy), who had finished first and fourth respectively in the Swiss qualifying stage of…

Marc Smith visits the knockout stages of the MontreAlt Last week, we saw eight teams qualify for the knockout stage of MontreAlt. As winners of the Swiss, GUPTA (USA/France/Netherlands) had first choice of quarter-final opponents from amongst the teams who finished fifth-eighth and they selected MACAVITY (Netherlands/Belgium), the only qualifiers to survive to the knockout…

Marc Smith visits the MontreAlt Quing event With live bridge still not an option, the second Major Alt Invitational event, dubbed ‘MontreAlt’, effectively replaces the Spingold at the cancelled US Summer Nationals, which were scheduled for Montreal. The success of the first Major Alt event meant that there were far more interested teams than the…