{"id":12947,"date":"2020-10-23T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T09:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/?p=5102"},"modified":"2021-02-03T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:27:23","slug":"road-to-bic-advice-from-champions-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/en\/road-to-bic-advice-from-champions-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to BIC: advice from champions #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Every day until <strong>BIC kicks off on 26 October<\/strong> bridge champions <strong>Milan Macura, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Rombaut, Dominique Fontenau and Zia Mahmood<\/strong> will <strong>share advice<\/strong> to prepare the main event of autumn 2020.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blog-BIC-Conseil-n\u00b05_EN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5121\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is your best memory from a tournament? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominique Fonteneau<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>My first big tournament 30 years ago. The Open of La Baule international festival. I was 14 and my partner was 12. It was a four-day event. To fight fatigue we played all sessions drinking bottles of a well-known sparkling water with caffeine in it. We finished third in the handicap rankings and earned 3,000 francs. I\u2019ve never had any pocket money issues since then. I became the king of pinball and table football in secondary school, which contributed to poor school performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Milan Macura<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The nicest moment of my bridge\ncareer was playing against the top Dutch team in the semifinals of the 1st\nWorld Youth Congress. We were down by 30 IMPs after the first segment and we\nhad only 16 boards to win against multiple European and World Champions. I felt\nthe adrenalin&nbsp;till the last board where I had to make the best lead to\nkeep the partscore contract without overtricks. Guess what? We won by 1 IMP and\nafter that the whole Championships \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">J\u00e9r\u00f4me Rombaut<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When\nI\u2019ll raise the BIC cup on 1 November &#x1f60a;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zia Mahmood<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Whenever I used to play well or fall in love. Both are hard to do these days&#8230; So I stick to old memories!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/funbridge.com\/blog\/road-to-bic-advice-from-champions-4\/\"> &lt;&lt; Advices n\u00b04<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day until BIC kicks off on 26 October bridge champions Milan Macura, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Rombaut, Dominique Fontenau and Zia Mahmood will share advice to prepare the main event of autumn 2020. What is your best memory from a tournament? Dominique Fonteneau My first big tournament 30 years ago. The Open of La Baule international festival. I was 14 and my partner was 12. It was a four-day event. To fight fatigue we played all sessions drinking bottles of a well-known sparkling water with caffeine in it. We finished third in the handicap rankings and earned 3,000 francs. 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