At the Open Team Trials to select two teams to represent the United States in international competition, Your Editor has been photographing away since Sunday evening. All I can say is: the field is brutal. This event is a "double elimination" (you can lose once and still be one of the teams selected). But, every match, you seem to meet an opponent who is even more fierce than the once previously.
Teams must judge who to field against which pairs, what systems to play, what conventions will most wound - yet will be comprehensible to their own side. Choices and more choices.
In today's column, John Koch gives us a hand where choices must also be made.
Thanks, John - and here are a few photos, too, of Minnesota friends who are competing against the best - as they, too, are the best!
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