Tournament Director Chief Tournament Director   Marc van Beijsterveldt         Netherlands Directors Khaled Abdelazim               Egypt Waleed El Menyawi            Egypt Tarek Abdelrahman            Egypt Condition of contest General Rules & Regulations Teams Conditions Open and Mixed Pairs conditions

Marc van Beijsterveldt Chief Tournament Director Marc van Beijsterveldt (1960) of Tilburg, The Netherlands. international EBL-certified Tournament Director since 1995. Has served on EBL-, ABF- and WBF-Championships on five continents since 1996. TD on numerous festivals (The Hague, Cairo, Amman, Tunesia, Cyprus, Rhodes, Istanbul and many others). Secretary of the Dutch Bridge Federation's National Appeals Committee. Employee at the Dutch Bridge Federation's office; amongst others organiser of various national championships and so called "Diam Jack"-tournament, the yearly championship for club players with about 17.000 participating pairs Married to Maria van der List; three children (22, 18 and 10). Back to top

Khaled Abdel-Azim  Director Name                   : Khaled Hassan Helmy Abdel-Azim Date Of Birth      : September 15th, 1960 Education           : Bacholer Of   Civil Engineering Alexandria University Profession          : IT Manager, UNISOFT ·        Attend EBF Bridge Direction Course in 1992 & 1993. ·        EBF Official Bridge Director since 1993 ·        Attend WBF Training Course At Jordan 1995 ·        Attend the annual Training courses held at the Cairo Festival ·        Director of many national events and EBF championships and private             events, club           events, memorial events, special set events ·        Asst. Director in the following championships: ·       11th Cairo International Bridge Festival 1994 ·        12th Cairo International Bridge Festival 1995 ·         Director in the following championships: ·        13th Cairo International Bridge Festival 1996 ·        14th Cairo International Bridge Festival 1997 ·        15th Cairo International Bridge Festival 1998 ·        3rd Arab Bridge Championship – Sharm El Sheikh 2001 ·        19th Cairo International Bridge Festival 2002 Special Notes: ·        Translating the Duplicate Bridge Law to Arabic Language ·         Expert In computer Science & related Bridge Software or Tailor made             bridge software Back to top

Waleed El Menyawi Director   Name                   :      Waleed El Menyawi Date Of Birth      :      March 21st  , 1970 Education           :      Bachelor of Computer  Science “Long Distance education– USA “ Profession          :      Admin. Manager , EBF       Attend EBF Bridge Direction course in 1994 & 1996. Attend EBF Bridge Direction course in 1998 “ Mr. Bill Schoder “ Attend EBF Bridge Direction course in 2000 “ Mr. Ton Koijman “ EBF Offecial Bridge Directore since 1996. Attend Bridge Base  VU Graph Couarse in 2000. Head of the Egyptian VU Graph team. Director of many national events and EBF Championships Director of the Arab Bridge championship “ Hurgada 1998”   Asst. Manager of the following championships : ·        15th Cairo Int’ Bridge Festival  1998 ·        1st Zone 4 Juniors Championship. Cairo 1999   Executive Manager of the following championships : 16th Cairo Int’ Bridge Festival               1999 17th Cairo Int’ Bridge Festival               2000 18th Cairo Int’ Bridge Festival               2001       1st African Bridge Championship           Cairo 2001 3rd Arab Bridge Championship              Charm El Sheikh 2001 19th Cairo Int’ Bridge Festival               2002 1st Sharm El Sheikh Int’ Bridge Festival 2002 Back to top

Condition of contest General Rules & Regulations   The laws of duplicate contract bridge (1997) apply with the following complements:   A system or convention may be used only if it has been published in the English language. Each pair is obliged to use convention card issued by the organizers. Strong pass system where the pass shows the values of an opening bid, Highly unusual methods (HUM), Brown conventions may not be used. Players may not psyche an opening artificial bid (such as 2 clubs game forcing, 1 club precision, etc.) In pairs event opening suit bids of one in first and second seat should have at least 10 high-cards points (HCP). For freak distributions the rule of 19 applies where the combined number of cards in two long suits plus the HCP count must reach 19. Opening bid of 1 NT should not be less than 12 HCP in the 1st & 2nd seat. The partner of a player who has made a conventional call or any call whose partnership meaning may not be understood by the opponents must immediately alert, unless the opponents stated before the segment had started that they do not wish to be alerted. The accepted way to alert when conventional call was made is for partner to rap on the table immediately. The question whether the explanation given by the users of any system was adequate, if contested at the table, will be decided by the Tournament Director. He is entitled to impose procedural penalties and award adjusted scores. Players are reminded that once the auction has started, all inquiries relating to conventions used by any opposing pair are covered by law 20. Explanation among opponents of not the same language, unless other wise agreed, must be given in English. If a player in consequence of language difficulty is unable to provide adequate explanation about his partner’s conventional call, he must summon the Tournament Director for help which if he fails to do, the Tournament Director will regard the omission as a case of misinformation. If a player makes: An opening bid at the level of two, or Any bid of more than minimum necessary to overcall or respond in the selected denomination, he should first STOP. Then, having made the bid, he waits approximate 10 seconds to elapse after which he indicates to his left-hand opponent to go on. Mean while the player next in turn should decide if he is going to pass in the affirmative should do so upon release of the pause, in the tempo of the game, if the opponent has made a call before 10 seconds have elapsed, his side is subject to penalty, if the innocent side has been damaged. After the opening lead has been made, each player at his turn, including the declarer in his play from dummy, should pause for at least three seconds before playing to the first trick. In a pairs tournament, pairs are moving upwards, boards downward. The duplication safety of boards makes it necessary to check the hands once more after the first change. Failure to comply with this requirement, if it creates a fouled board, makes the blamable pair subject to penalty amounting to 25% of the match points available on the board. In this tournament no appeals can be lodged. The tournament directors are of high standards and will consult with players if deemed necessary. The chief tournament director’s decision is final.  In the mixed pairs ladies are required to take the South and West positions. Contestants in all pairs events are requested to fill out the traveling scores from the top. The scores are For a pass-out                        0 (Zero) For a missing pair       Bye In a pair event the North-South pair is responsible of keeping the scores. If a wrong entry is discovered and the error makes it necessary to recalculate the results, the involved North-South pair will penalized by half a top-score. to report a team match results, the score sheet of the North-South pair in the open room must be delivered. Playing time for a round, with comparing the delivery included, is 55 minutes plus a grace period of 5 minutes. For late delivery an automatic 2 VP penalty will be imposed. Upon either team. Like wise 2 VP is the penalty for a flaw in the score sheet. Minimum penalty for a slow play in a pairs event is 25% of the top score. In a teams event, the team mentioned first is the home team and sits N-S in the open room and E-W in the closed room. The other team, the visiting team sits first in both rooms. In teams event, both pairs of a team have played the match seated wrongly in identical compass direction, the penalty for either team will by 12 VP and -10 IMPs. At the auction time, once the auction has progressed to the point that the opener has had the opportunity to make a rebid, no conventional calls at the four level or higher should be alerted until the auction is over. After the auction is completed, the declaring side must make delayed alerts before the opening lead. The defenders alert their calls requiring a delayed alert but only after the opening lead has been made.  Frequencies of all boards will be printed after the end of the session for the inspection of results. A summary of a pair may be requested at a fee of 10 L.E. whish may be returned if there was an error by a director. Back to top

Rules and regulations for Open Pairs Event 1-    Three sessions of 26/27 boards each. 2-   Duplicate hands and integral top. 3-     Final ranking will be determined by total points of the three sessions.   Rules and regulations for Mixed Pairs Event 1-     Two sessions of 24/27 boards each 2-     Duplicate hands and integral top. 3-     Final ranking will be determined by total points of the two sessions. Back to top

Conditions of Contest Teams Tournament   Teams’ event will be played for 13 rounds; every round consists of 8 boards. One pair from each team meets one pair from the other team only. Playing time for each round is 50 minutes and 10 minutes for handling the scoring Number of matches in each session: Session 1:      3 matches Session 2:      5 matches Session 3:      5 matches Playing schedule for the first three rounds:  For rounds 4-8 teams will be divided in group A (6 teams), B (10 teams) and C (the rest of the teams). The movement will be Swiss After each round the two top teams from group B and C will go to group A and B respectively. The two bottom teams from group A and B will go to group B and C respectively. All teams keep their VP-scores. After round 8, the division in groups A, B and C will be done as follows: No. 1-4 in group A qualify for Final group A The best two teams from No. 5-6 in A and 1-2 in B qualify for final group A. The remaining teams from above mentioned four qualify for final group B No. 3-8 in B qualifies for final group B No. 9-10 in B qualifies for final group C No. 1-2 in C qualify for final group B Remaining teams in C qualify for final group C In rounds 9-13 group A plays a round robin with full Score Groups B and C play a Swiss movement, the teams already met in rounds 1-8 are not taken into consideration. After every round there will be an exchange of two teams between groups B and C. In the final round 13, group B and C will play a Danish movement. In case of a Tie, the tie will be broken according to the following: a-      VP total in match(es) between those teams b-     IMP differences in the match(es) between those teams c-      IMP quotient of all matches played by those teams In case an odd number of teams will participate, a team called “bye” will be added. The score for playing against “bye” will be 18 VP and 10 IMPs. No team will have a bye more than once In case these Regulations have no provision, the Chief TD will take the final decision.    Back to top