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Polish Mitchell Bridge Tournament: A Flexible and Quick Play Option

Learn about the Polish Mitchell bridge tournament format, offering flexibility in the number of boards and quick result generation. Ideal for big pairs tournaments and qualification rounds. Follow the unique procedure and advantages of this setup while acknowledging the few disadvantages based on experiences from various championships.

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Polish Mitchell Bridge Tournament: A Flexible and Quick Play Option

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  1. EBL TD Course 2006 Polish 5-table Mitchell by Slawek Latala, Jan Romanski

  2. Requirement of equipment: • Duplicating machine • Sufficient number of boards but five times less than on barometer

  3. Strongly recommended for: • big pairs tournaments • qualification rounds

  4. Procedure of Polish Mitchell: • Pairs should be spread among lines according to their strength, • Lines are changing to the next mini-session according to Howell method, • If more than 5 tables in the last section: • a) 6 or 7 – Appendix or reversed Appendix, • b) 8 – Appendix or reversed Appendix or Howell, • c) 9 – Rover.

  5. Advantages: • flexible number of boards; in normal 13-table Mitchell we play 26 boards or 52 boards, now we can play 30, 40, 50, 60 boards – depends on... • different size of playing areas • 10 boards = 80 minutes, players are kept on playing areas, nobody leaves • flexible breaks – for coffee or for lunch • quick results – during next round every player gets standings and his personal score (avoiding of mistakes)

  6. Disadvantages: • Law 88 says that average plus could be greater than 60% in the session (in short 10-board session – 75% or even more is normal), so it requires or changing of name “session” for “mini-session” or changing of conditions of contest,

  7. Experiences: • Poland Pairs Championship since 2001 • GP of Poland since 2003 (the biggest tournament – 359 pairs) • Pula Bridge Festival – 2005 • Russian Pairs Championship – 2005

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