Sunday, July 31, 2011

Daily

83rd North American Bridge Championships

Volume 83, Number 10

Bulletin Editors: Brent Manley, Paul Linxwiler and Sue Munday

Lewis survives Donner rally, wins Mini-Spin I

The team captained by John Lewis held off a late challenge by Gary Donner’s squad in the Mini-Spingold I 0-5000 Knockout Teams to win 106102. Lewis, up 47 IMPs after three quarters of play, dropped 41 IMPs in the last set, and narrowly claimed the win. Playing for the winners were Lewis of Ft. Lauderdale FL, Susan Fuller and Maris Zilant of Miami FL, Howard Einberg of Los Angeles CA, Saul Gross of Miami Beach FL and David Sokolow of Austin TX. Winners of the Mini-Spingold I KO Teams: (front) Susan Fuller, Einberg and Sokolow were Howard Einberg, Maris Zilant; (back) Saul Gross, John Lewis continued on page 5 (captain) and David Sokolow.

NABC Chair thanks one and all

Staging an NABC is a labor of love by a dedicated group of volunteers behind the scenes. But it’s worth every minute when it’s a success according to Sally Rewbotham, 2011 Toronto NABC chair. Rewbothams’s “Red Hat” planning team worked for three-and-a-half years to bring the Summer NABC to fruition. The committee chairs, each of whom represents another dozen hardworking volunteers, were: Ina Demme, Program and Restaurant Guide and food; David Cohen, webmaster; Louise McNeely, partnerships, prizes and registration; Bruce Reid, CFO; Brigitte Blackhouse, treasurer; Paul Janicki, District 2 director; and Flo Belford, Intermediate-Newcomer program. “We want to thank all the players who supported the tournament with your attendance and your enthusiasm,” Rewbotham said. “We hope you had fun---and from what we’ve heard, it sounds like you did.” Rewbotham reported that attendance was well above the expected number of tables, particularly in the Intermediate/Newcomer games. “We were

expecting approximately 30 tables for these sessions and, instead, we had 50 or more. This says to us that the bridge teachers did a great job promoting the tournament. The I/N players’ enthusiasm bodes well for future bridge interest by these players.” The NABC chair also said that the Celebrity Speakers series was “overwhelmingly positively received” by all participants. “Thank you to all the presenters. Your efforts were appreciated by all of the audience members.” Rewbotham encouraged first-time visitors to Canada to come back--to visit and to play in regionals throughout the year. “This is a beautiful, friendly country with lots more to see,” she invited. “We look forward to seeing everyone the next time the NABC is held in Toronto,” she said. “From the whole Red Hat Team, hats off to you!”

“I have a life!”

Walter Rassbach celebrated his 62nd birthday on Thursday playing in the NABC+ Fast Pairs with his wife Nancy. This is not so unusual for hardcore bridge addicts, you might think, but given the twists and turns their lives have taken in the past 12 weeks, the fact that Rassbach was celebrating his birthday at all is nothing short of a miracle. Rassbach suffered from kidney disease. His condition had degenerated to the point where he had been on dialysis for two-and-a-half years, and the prognosis was grim. Because there was a distinct probability that he wouldn’t live long enough to see his name rise to the top of the national organ transplant list, he and Nancy considered going overseas where there would be less bureaucratic delay and expense. Then they learned about MatchingDonors, a 501(c)3 nonprofit Rassbach described as being like “an online dating service” for organ

Team Monaco, Nickell: last two standing in Spingold

Nick Nickell’s squad and Team Monaco, captained by Pierre Zimmerman, claimed the last two slots in the 2011 Spingold Knockout Teams. Team Monaco bounced the No. 4 seed captained by Marty Fleisher 137 to 124 to advance. Monaco came from behind to win the contest in the final quarter after trailing by 35 IMPs at the half. Zimmerman is playing with Franck Multon, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes, Tor Helness and Geir Helgemo. The winner of the other semifinal bracket wasn’t known till the wee hours of the morning following an appeal by Jimmy Cayne’s team that threatened a three-IMP victory by Nickell. Cayne lost the appeal, leaving the score at Nickell 106, Cayne 103. Nickell trailed by 38 IMPs at the half, but began a rally in the third quarter. Cayne’s lead was 16 IMPs as the last quarter began. Nickell outscored Cayne 27 to 8 in the last set to claim the win. Nickell of New York NY is playing with Zia Mahmood, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; and Jeff Meckstroth - Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Beach FL. Cayne, New York NY, played with Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria, Rome, Italy; Michael Seamon, Dania FL; Giorgio Duboin, Torino, Italy; and Antonio Sementa, Parma, Italy. Fleisher’s teammates were Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Chip Martel, Davis CA; Lew Stansby, Dublin CA; Robert Levin, Henderson NV and Steve Weinstein, Andes NY.

Sarniak sets pace in Roth Open Swiss Anna Sarniak’s squad scored 120 victory points in the qualifying round of the Roth Open Swiss Teams to lead the field of 185 entrants. Sarniak is playing with Josef Blass, Michael Askgaard, Martin Schaltz, Morton Madsen and Gregers Bjarnarson. Tied for second-third with 117 VPs are the teams captained by Aaron Silverstein and John Carruthers. Silverstein’s lineup is Andrew Rosenthal, Bjorn Fallenius, Peter Fredin, Chris Willenken and Michael Rosenberg. Carruthers team is John Gowdy, Martin Kirr, Linda Lewis, Paul Lewis and Jon Sveindal. Ninety-six teams qualified for today’s final.

Attendance: 13,289 tables Nancy and Walter Rassbach

donors and organ recipients. “Through a website, matchingdonors.com, a person can volunteer to be an altruistic (non-related living) donor,” Rassbach said. continued on page 5

Youth NABC

For news and results of the Youth NABC, please see the special Youth NABC insert.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS 11-11 pm

Restaurant finder

If you have a smart phone, finding a restaurant can be very easy for you. Simply open your browser and go to www.toronto.com/mobilerest. aspx. You can enter the name of a restaurant and get walking directions from where you are to the establishment. The Toronto NABC web site also features a full schedule of tournament events.

Play in the Fall NABC in Seattle, Nov. 24-Dec. 4

By Patti Hartley, Chair for Publicity, Seattle NABC

Welcome to the Great Northwest! As you enjoy the competition in beautiful Toronto, give some thought to the next NABC tournament in the equally gorgeous city of Seattle. Many nickname it “God’s country” because of the numerous spectacular water views and lush greenery. Even in November, the evergreens spread their colorful finery. The playing area is in the convention center, located in the heart of the city. It offers the convenience of close eating, shopping and sightseeing. The world famous Pike Place Market features local artists, craftspeople, fresh produce and lovely flowers --- as well as the tossing fish market. Some of the finest restaurants and stores are in walking distance from the playing center. The Seattle Center (home of the 1962 Worlds Fair) has been developed with a center house that hosts many activities, and the Pacific Science Center provides all-day entertainment. The landmark Space Needle provides an excursion to the top, with lunch in the revolving restaurant. The Seattle Aquarium is located downtown, and the Woodland Park Zoo is open all year round. Seattle is truly a wonderful place to visit for you and your family.

Convention card reminder

Each player is required to have a convention card filled out legibly and on the table throughout a session. Both cards of a partnership must be identical and include the first and last names of each member of the partnership. If a director determines that neither player has a substantially completed card, the partnership may play only the Standard American Yellow Card and may use only standard carding. This restriction may be lifted only at the beginning of a subsequent round after convention cards have been properly prepared and approved by the director. Further, the partnership will receive a 1/6-board matchpoint penalty for each board played, commencing with the next round and continuing until the restriction is lifted. In IMP team games, penalties shall be at the discretion of the director. If the director determines the partnership has at least one substantially completed convention card but has not fully complied with ACBL regulations, the director may give warnings or assign such penalties as he deems to be appropriate under the circumstances. The objective of these warnings and penalties is the encouragement of full compliance with ACBL regulations.

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Sunday, July 31

Ballroom, Convention Level (Royal York)

Mixed coup By Barry Rigal

This board from the first qualifying session of the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams looks like a trap for the strong 1NTers – at many tables East-West struggled to record plus 90. In the match between Fraser and Rigal, a weak 1NT auction saw the Frasers record plus 140 for the par result. Dlr: South ♠A95 Vul: None ♥Q7 ♦ J 10 9 7 4 ♣J95 ♠ K Q 7 ♠ 10 8 6 2 ♥ A 10 8 2 ♥J654 ♦ Q 5 ♦A62 ♣ A Q 10 3 ♣84 ♠J43 ♥K93 ♦K83 ♣K762 In the other room, Sue Picus (West) opened 1NT and East guessed well to use Stayman to put his partner in 2♥. On the lead of the ♦J, declarer ducked and South won the king. What should South return? His choice of a club was uninspired. Picus finessed, cashed the ♦Q and ♣A, ruffed a club, cashed the ♦A to pitch a spade, then led a spade to the king, winning North’s spade return with the queen. This was the ending: ♠9 ♥Q7 ♦ 10 9 ♣— ♠— ♠ 10 8 ♥ A 10 8 2 ♥J65 ♦ — ♦— ♣ 10 ♣— ♠J ♥K93 ♦— ♣K Picus ruffed a club with the ♥5 as North pitched the ♠9, then led a heart to the 8 and queen. North returned a diamond, and Picus ruffed with the jack in dummy. If South overruffed, Picus would be able to win the ♥A and draw trumps with the ♥10. If South discarded, she would be caught in a trump coup at the end.

What do you call a ninecard suit? By Sumner Steinfeld

With apologies to computers everywhere, playing in the Roth Open Swiss Teams, I picked up this people-dealt hand: ♠A K Q 9 8 7 5 3 2 ♥— ♦— ♣A 5 3 2. I was in third seat, white against red. Partner, someone I used to like, opened 4♥. 4♠ by me would be key card Blackwood for hearts, and 5♠ would be exclusion key card Blackwood for hearts. 6♠ seemed a little extreme, so I passed. There was a quiet pause as I table my hand. Partner held: ♠6 ♥A K Q J 8 5 4 2 ♦10 6 2 ♣4. A diamond lead holds him to four, but with a spade lead, he made seven. At the other table, the auction was 4♥ - Pass – 4♠ - Pass; 5♥ - Pass – 5♠ - All Pass. A spade leads sets 5♠, but on a diamond lead 5♠ made seven for a push. Everyone knows the answer to the question, “What do you call an eight-card suit?” The answer is, “Trumps!” Now I know what you call a nine-card suit: “Dummy”

Electronic Device Policy

The electronic device policy is revised as follows: 1. For all NABC+ rated events at NABCs: Electronic devices, including but not limited to, phones, cameras, PDAs, and others capable of sending or receiving electronic communication are excluded from the playing areas during any session of play. This does not apply to health-related equipment. 2. For all events at an NABC other than a NABC+ rated event: Except for health‑related equipment, or by permission of the Director‑in‑Charge of the tournament, cell phones, audible pagers or similar equipment may not be operated or operable in any manner in the playing area during a session of play. Any such equipment must not be visible during the session. Sponsoring organizations of other ACBL‑sanctioned events are encouraged to adopt a similar policy. 3. These restrictions in numbers 1 and 2 above apply to all pairs, team members, captains, coaches, play recorders (except those designated by ACBL) and kibitzers and are in force throughout any actual playing session or segment of play. 4. A violation of any of the restrictions in numbers 1 and 2 above will result in a disciplinary penalty of one full board (12 IMPs at that form of scoring) for the first offense. A second offense will result in disqualification from the event for the pair/team. Kibitzers violating this policy will be removed from the playing area for the remainder of the session.

Shuttle pickup changes at Royal York

Due to the Caribana Parade this weekend, shuttle pick-up for guests at the Royal York will move to the Front Street entrance. Shuttles are provided between the Sheraton Centre and Fairmont Royal York. One shuttle will run continuously between the hotels from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Additionally, a second shuttle will run during these times: 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. The pick-up location at the Fairmont Royal York is on Front St.; the pick-up location at the Sheraton Centre is on Richmond St.

Caribana Festival

North America’s largest cultural festival, Caribana, will take place in Toronto this weekend. Tens of thousands of tourists are expected to enjoy the celebration and parade. Bridge players staying at the Royal York should note the following: During Caribana Weekend (Aug. 29-31): The shuttle will pick up and drop off from Front Street. You may be required to show your guestroom key to access the elevators. The elevators will not run from the Avenues level (basement) after 11 p.m. The West doors of the hotel will be locked at 11 p.m. Please use the Front or East doors.

Masterpoint disclaimer

Scores as reported in the Daily Bulletin are subject to change because of score changes or corrections. The masterpoint awards as shown are, therefore, also subject to change.

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JUST FOR NEW PLAYERS Transfers or Stayman? by Barbara Seagram

When partner opens 1NT, you are now the captain of the hand and in charge of getting your side to the best contract. Two of the most commonly used conventions are Stayman and Jacoby transfers. It is important to know when to use each of these conventions without getting them muddled. You hold: ♠Q J x x ♥A Q x x x ♦J x ♣x x Partner You 1NT 2♦ 2♥ 3NT Pass After partner’s 1NT opening, you decide to transfer to hearts and then bid 3NT to offer partner a choice of playing in 3NT or 4♥ depending upon the number of hearts he holds. The catch is that you will play in 3NT when partner holds the following: ♠A K x x ♥K x ♦A x x x ♣Q x x Groan! You will be hard pressed to make 3NT but 4♠ is a fine contract. What went wrong? You chose the wrong tool for the job. Look what happens if you use Stayman instead. Partner You 1NT 2♣ 2♠ 4♠ Pass Stayman definitely got us to the better contract in this case. Here’s the rule: With four cards in one major and five cards in the other, you must use Stayman, not transfers. So, what will you do if the 1NT opener instead responds 2♦ (“ No, I don’t have a fourcard major”) to your Stayman query? With 10 or more high-card points, you would bid 3♥, showing a five-card heart suit. Opener will wonder why you did not transfer to start with, and will realize that you must have five

Thinking bridge By Eddie Kantar

Dealer: North North Vul: Both ♠A6 ♥KQ4 ♦A542 ♣QJ84 West East ♠ Q 9 8 ♠ J 10 6 5 3 ♥ 8 3 ♥9762 ♦ J 10 9 3 ♦Q876 ♣ A 10 9 2 ♣— South (you) ♠K74 ♥ A J 10 5 ♦K ♣K7653 West North East South 1NT Pass 2♣ Pass 2♦ Pass 3♣ Pass 4♣ Pass 4NT Pass 5♠ Pass 6♣ All Pass Opening lead: ♦J Bidding commentary: North does well to raise clubs as there may be a slam. In my view, after four-level, game-forcing club agreement, 4♦, not 4NT, should be Roman key

hearts and four spades. 3♥ is forcing. Opener will raise to 4♥ with three hearts or bid 3NT without three‑card support. With only 8 or 9 HCP, bid 2♥ after opener’s 2♦ response. This shows five hearts, four spades and an invitational hand. Opener can decide what to do next. How do you respond to 1NT when you have two five-card majors? ♠K Q x x x ♥A Q x x x ♦x ♣x x Rule: Whenever you have two five-card suits in life, you always bid the higher one first-as opener, as responder to the opening bid, as overcaller and now. Here’s how the bidding would go: Partner You 1NT 2♥ 2♠ 4♥ The 4♥ bid announces that, in addition to having five spades, you have five hearts, and allows partner to choose the best contract. Until now, you have had game‑going hands. Now you are dealt this disappointment: ♠A x x x x ♥x x x ♦x x x ♣x x Partner once again opens 1NT and you consider passing. If you pass, you are providing partner with only one trick. 1NT is a tough contract to make when partner has trash. Your side will be much safer playing this hand in spades. Remember that the 1NT opener cannot have a singleton or a void when he opens 1NT, so at least your side will have seven spades between you. The hand will be easier to control in a suit contract. Here’s the auction: Partner You 1NT 2♥ 2♠ Pass In order to use Stayman, traditionally you needed to have 8 or more HCP. However, sometimes you are dealt something like this: ♠5 4 3 2 ♥7 6 5 4 ♦7 5 4 3 ♣7 or ♠5 4 3 2 ♥7 6 5 4 ♦8 7 5 4 3 ♣­—. On this hand, you can use Stayman also. Some people call this “garbage Stayman.” You bid 2♣ when partner opens 1NT and then pass whatever partner bids, even if he responds 2♦. Partner will have more fun playing

this deal in 2♦ than in 1NT. He will even be able to ruff his losing clubs with your tiny diamonds. You must not use Stayman when you have no short suit. No shortness, no Stayman. For example, with: ♠A x x x ♥K x x ♦Q x x ♣Q x x, just respond 3NT. You have no ruffing values and no reason to wish to avoid playing in notrump, so bid 3NT. Stayman and transfers are, like all conventions, very useful, but only when you use them properly and with a full understanding of all the ramifications. Take time to learn how to use them and apply them when appropriate. Remember, just because you have a hammer, not every problem is a nail.

card Blackwood. 4NT is clumsy when clubs is the agreed suit and often leads to trouble when two key cards or even one key card and the queen are missing. However, all’s well that ends well. Defensive commentary: East should signal encouragement at trick one by playing the ♦8. Play commentary: Sometimes the easiest hands to play are ‘one suit problem’ hands. This is one of them. The only loser is in clubs and the only thing that can go wrong is 4-0 clubs as the contract is frigid if clubs are 3-1 or 2-2.

Consider the two possibilities: First East having the ♣A-10-9-2. You should see that you cannot do anything about that, so forget it. What about West? Now we are talking. If you correctly start trumps with the ♣K, West is helpless. Say West wins the king, remaining with the 10-9-2. No problem. Dummy has the Q-J-8 and you can easily pick up the remaining clubs with no loser. Playing the ♣K at trick two is an example of asking yourself, “what can go wrong?” and doing something about it.

IMP strategy

extra tricks are chump change. (OK, I know we have all won or lost a match by 1 IMP.) There are other considerations as well. 1. Make or set the contract. Do not worry about over (or under) tricks. If you are in the right spot, that will usually work out in your favor. Trust your bidding system. Even at pairs, you will be a winner if you are in the right suit at the right level despite blowing an overtrick once in a while. 2. Stretch to bid a game. If vulnerable, game should be bid even if it is as a low as a 40% chance. If not vulnerable, it should be a 50% prospect. If you bid three vulnerable games that your opponents do not bid and you make only one of them, you break even. If you are in an auction and the decision is now in your hands whether to bid game or not --- if you have to think about it, bid continued on page 14

(for Swiss teams, knockout teams and IMP Pairs) By Steven Gaynor

Steven Gaynor is a Diamond Life Master who lives in St. Louis Park MN. He is a member of the ACBL Charity and Goodwill committees. In a matchpoint event, we are always looking for that extra trick or playing in a risky major suit or notrump rather than a poor scoring, but safer, minor suit. Why? Because it pays off big time. We may even risk our contract to make a play for an overtrick. On defense we strive not to blow a trick rather than beat a contract. When scoring is done by IMPs, however, the strategies change drastically. Now just making or beating a contract can give us a big score, but

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Mulligan needed

On this deal from the first final session of the NABC+ Fast Pairs, Steve Shirey figures a decision he made in the bidding cost 66 matchpoints – not easy to do on a 65 top. Shirey was West. Dlr: West ♠QJ872 Vul: None ♥85 ♦ 10 3 2 ♣J87 ♠ A 10 6 ♠K4 ♥ J 10 7 ♥AQ9 ♦ Q 8 ♦AKJ975 ♣ A 10 5 4 3 ♣Q2 ♠953 ♥K6432 ♦64 ♣K96 West North East South Pass Pass 2NT Pass 4NT Pass 6♦ Pass 6NT All Pass The only lead to beat 6♦ is a spade – it allows the defenders to take the vital entry out of dummy before clubs are set up (two pitches are needed for hearts because the finesse loses). On the other hand, 6NT has no play whatsoever. Shirey figures the net loss this way: 6♦ making would have been good for 58 matchpoints. Down three in 6NT – the actual result – earned his side 3.5 matchpoints. On top of that, they were assessed a slow-play penalty of 11.6 matchpoints. The net result after the penalty was minus 8.1 matchpoints, compared to the 58 they probably would have earned – 6♦ would not have taken long to play – and the net loss was 66.1.

Every (under)dog has its day By Barry Rigal

Eric Leong’s team lost in the round of 64 to the Carolyn Lynch team, but there was a moment of glory for the underdogs. Dlr: North ♠A98 Vul: None ♥AKQ74 ♦ 10 9 7 ♣ A 10 ♠ K 4 2 ♠ 10 6 5 ♥ 8 5 ♥J92 ♦ A 8 6 4 2 ♦KJ ♣ 9 6 2 ♣QJ853 ♠QJ73 ♥ 10 6 3 ♦Q53 ♣K74 West North East South 1♣ (1) Pass 1♠ Pass 2♦ (2) Pass 2♥ (3) Pass 3♥ Pass 4♥ All Pass (1) Polish club: 12-14 balanced, or strong (2) Three-card raise, 17+ high-card points (3) Four spades, 8-10 HCP When Leong found himself on lead to 4♥, he knew the opponents were in a 4-3 fit, with a spade suit on the side. He decided to go for the gusto with an underlead of the ♦A. His partner won the ♦K and took his ruff, and exited passively with a trump. Declarer drew trumps and led a club to the king, then advanced the ♠Q. Leong passed the second test, ducking and insuring his side score a spade trick for down one. Had he covered, declarer could finesse against the ♠10 and bring home 10 tricks. At the other table, Leong’s teammates reached 3NT and made it for plus 10 IMPs.

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TOURNAMENT APPEALS In order to keep the bridge public informed of appeal results in a timely fashion, the NABC Daily Bulletin staff publishes write-ups. Every effort is made to ensure that these reports are accurate and complete. Before they are published in the NABC Appeals Casebook, however, revisions may be made.

APPEAL CASE 3

Event: von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs Session: First semifinal Stephen McDonnell Board 21 ♠ Q J 10 7 6 Vul: N-S ♥2 Dlr: North ♦7643 ♣862 Mark Itabashi Fred Hamilton ♠ A 9 5 4 2 ♠8 ♥ K 10 9 8 6 4 ♥53 ♦ — ♦ K Q 10 9 ♣ A 3 ♣ K Q J 10 9 4 Jonathan Weinstein ♠K3 ♥AQJ7 ♦AJ852 ♣75 West North East South Pass 1♣ 1♦ 1♥ 1♠ 2♣ Dbl (1) 2♦ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♠ Dbl Pass Pass Redbl Pass 3NT Dbl Pass (2) Pass 4♣ Pass 5♣ Pass Pass Dbl Redbl All Pass (1) Alerted and explained as promising three spades. (2) Agreed break in tempo (BIT) of at least 2030 seconds. Contract: 5♣ redoubled by East Opening lead: ♠K Table result: Making five, E-W plus 800 Director ruling: 3NT doubled by East, down one, N-S plus 100 Committee ruling: N-S: 5♣ doubled by East, making five, N-S plus 550 E-W: 3NT doubled by East, down one, N-S minus 100 Facts: Due to the case arising at the end of the game, the facts were determined in screening. The Ruling: The director ruled pursuant to Law 16B and 12C.1.(e) that the final contract should be adjusted to 3NT doubled by East, down one, plus 100 for North-South because passing 3NT doubled was deemed to be a logical alternative to bidding 4♣. The Decision: New facts were discovered in screening, namely that the auction at the table was not the one on which the original ruling had been based. The hour being late, rather than make a ruling based on the new facts the screening director referred the case directly to the Appeals Committee for a ruling. Thus, neither side brought the appeal and there was no question of merit. North, South, and East attended the hearing. E-W statements: East stated that he bid 3NT under duress --- his partner’s auction forced him to do so with a diamond stopper. After hearing the double he couldn’t imagine a hand where it would be right to play 3NT, the more so since West had not redoubled, which he would do with, say: ♠A x x x x ♥A K x x x x ♦ — ♣A x. Regarding the play in 3NT, East suggested that were he declaring that contract, he would always make it, ducking the first round of spades, winning the second, running clubs, and leading a heart toward the dummy. If South played the 7, he would play the 10 as his only chance to make the contract. N-S statements: East had already shown a weak hand with reluctance to play in notrump by

rebidding 2♣, then 3♣, then passing the double of 3♠. Passing 3NT would have been logical. West could have a hand that makes 3NT cold such as: ♠A K x x ♥J 10 x x x x ♦x ♣A x. 3NT might well have play even if East held less, as in fact he did. As for the play in 3NT, the chance that North holds a singleton heart honor is a priori the same as a low singleton heart, and the extra chance that North holds ♥J x seems to swing the percentage play in favor of the ♥K. Further, the play of the ♥K guarantees at worst down one. New facts discovered by the Appeals Committee: The duration of West’s hesitation over the double was approximately 30 seconds. South explained that he intended his double of 2♣ as card showing, and that they had no agreement about this auction. The Appeals Committee determined: 1. That Unauthorized Information (UI) was available, namely West’s slow pass. 2. That the UI demonstrably suggested East’s 4♣ call over pass. 3. The pass would have been less successful than 4♣ --- even if 3NT makes, plus 550 is less than plus 800! 4. After some discussion, the committee agreed that pass would be a logical alternative. It judged that most top experts would seriously consider pass and some would in fact pass. Accordingly, the committee determined that the 4♣ call was illegal (an “irregularity”) and to adjust the score per Law 12c1e. In the absence of the illegal 4♣, the contract would have been 3NT. The adjustment for each side hinged on how often East would make 3NT were he declaring it. Law 12C1e reads: (i) the score assigned in place of the actual score for a non-offending side is the most favorable result that was likely had the irregularity not occurred. (ii) For an offending side the score assigned is the most unfavorable result that was at all probable had the irregularity not occurred. The play to the first eight tricks would almost certainly go as East had suggested. After that, there were several possibilities. If South ducked the heart lead, declarer might play dummy’s king, making when North holds a singleton heart honor (presumably the jack on account of South’s double of 3NT) or when South holds ♥A Q x and a sixth diamond. Holding ♥A Q x, South might play the queen in an attempt to create an entry to the North hand. Then declarer could make by ducking. On the actual deal, though, if South plays the ♥Q, declarer must cover with dummy’s king. One Appeals Committee member estimated declarer would make the hand five times out of six, another two times in three, and the rest judged the likelihood in between, roughly three times in four. The standards established by the ACBL Laws Commission say that “at all probable” means roughly one time in six and “likely” roughly one time in three. Accordingly, the Appeals Committee adjusted the E-W score to minus 100 for 3NT doubled by East, down one, the most unfavorable result for E-W that was at all probable, and the N-S score to minus 550 for 3NT doubled by East, making, the most favorable result for N-S that was likely. The Committee: Adam Wildavsky (NonVoting Chairman), Jeff Aker, David Bakhshi, Bruce Rogoff, Josh Parker, and Stephen Landen.

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APPEAL CASE 4

Event: von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs Session: First semifinal Peter Fredin Board 21 ♠ Q J 10 7 6 Vul: N-S ♥2 Dlr: North ♦7643 ♣862 Joshua Parker Bruce Rogoff ♠ A 9 5 4 2 ♠8 ♥ K 10 9 8 6 4 ♥53 ♦ --- ♦ K Q 10 9 ♣ A 3 ♣ K Q J 10 9 4 Gary Gottlieb ♠K3 ♥AQJ7 ♦AJ852 ♣75 West North East South Pass 2♣ (1) 2♦ 2♥ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♠ Dbl Pass (2) Pass 4♣ All Pass (1) Alerted as Precision. (2) Long pause of at least 30 seconds. Final contract: 4♣ by East. Opening lead: ♦A. Table result: Making six, E-W plus 170. Director ruling: 3♠ doubled by West, down two, N-S plus 300. Committee ruling: 3♠ doubled by West, down two, N-S plus 300. The Facts: 2♥ was described as a one-round force. East-West did not mention during the table ruling that 3♠ might not be natural. East-West told the table director that East had denied four spades during the auction. The Ruling: The director ruled pursuant to Law 16B that the final contract should be adjusted to 3♠ doubled by East, down two, plus 300 for North-South because the unauthorized information available as a result of the hesitation demonstrably suggested that 3♠ doubled might not be the best final contract. The director ruled that pass was a logical alternative to bidding at West’s final turn to call. The Appeal: East-West appealed the director’s ruling and only East attended the hearing. Appealing Side: West asserted during the hearing that 3♠ had nothing to do with spade length and confirmed that this type of hand had not previously been discussed. Upon questioning, West explained that double at his first turn to call would have been negative. West stated that 3♠ asked for a diamond stopper and was surprised to discover later that East did not bid 3NT over the double. West also confirmed the extremely long break in tempo by East. The Decision: The committee accepted the break in tempo of at least 30 seconds. It concluded that East likely denied four spades when he rebid 3♣ instead of 2♠, and that a pass in tempo over North’s double of 3♠ would have been consistent with better spade holdings such as K-x-x, Q-x-x, K-x or even x-x-x and less than full diamond protection. From West’s point of view, a partner who has denied a diamond stopper is likely to hold some values in the majors. Hence, passing 3♠ doubled would be a logical alternative to bidding 4♣. The slow pass by East suggested that passing would not have been the winning action. Therefore, the committee ruled as the director had and adjusted the score for both sides to 3♠ doubled by West, down two. The Committee: Doug Doub (Chairman), Chris Moll (Scribe), Blair Seidler, Ed Lazarus, and Gail Greenberg.

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Howard Weinstein City of residence San Diego CA Date of birth April 29, 1953

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members of the winning squad in the same event in 2002. The runners-up were Donner of Bluffton SC, Deborah Murphy of San Francisco CA, Lauren Friedman of Daly City CA and Larry Lerner of Warren NJ. After an event first quarter, Lewis opened up a large lead in the second quarter to lead 61-20 at the half. They gained an additional 6 IMPs in the third set to lead 98-51. Donner got hot in the last quarter, but was unable to overcome Lewis’s lead.

Place of birth Minneapolis MN Favorite color Blue (other than the blue redouble card) What kind of food makes you happy? Asian What drink? Good red wine What kind of music do you like? Classic rock What do you do when you are not playing bridge? Golf, table tennis What do you see as your best-ever result? Second in the 2007 Bermuda Bowl. My favorite result was plus 3200 vs. Bill Pollack and Tom Sanders only hours after they asked me to captain their team for the team trials. (They saved over 7♥ when every other pair went down in 6*H.) Is there a bridge book that had a significant influence on you? Reading the great book, Adventures in Card Play, by Geza Ottlik. Unfortunately it had a negative effect, as backwash squeezes didn’t come up and I now had difficulty taking a simple finesse or counting to 13. What jobs other than bridge have you had? Retired now. I was an options trader in Chicago. Before trading, I used to develop applications software for options analysis and accounting. Is there something you would love to learn? A more consistent golf swing, but it seems to be too elusive

Dining specials at the Sheraton

Bistro 25% discount for breakfast buffet Traders Featuring the $9.99 lunch Keith’s Indian Pale Ale: 2 Pints for $12.00 Buckets of beers (4 domestic bottles): $19.99

Notice to players

Each player must have an ACBL convention card filled out and on the table. Please note that other types of convention cards, such as the WBF convention card or homemade cards that do not sufficiently resemble the ACBL convention card, are not acceptable substitutes.

Runners-up in the Mini-Spingold I KO Teams: Deborah Murphy, Larry Lerner, Lauren Friedman and captain Gary Donner.

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On Feb. 8, Rassbach emailed a potential donor in Crescent City CA. On Feb. 14, the donor contacted Porter Hospital, located in the Rassbachs’ hometown of Denver CO. She identified herself as an altruistic donor for Rassbach, after which she underwent intense physical and psychological evaluation before being approved for the procedure. On May 6, the transplant surgery was conducted. “I could tell the moment I woke up that something that had been broken was now fixed,” he said. At the same time Rassbach contacted his altruistic donor, Associated Producers, Ltd. contacted Rassbach. The Ontario film-production company expressed interest in documenting his quest for a kidney. Two-time Emmy winner Ric Bienstock is heading up the crew filming “Organs.” Documentary footage has been filmed in four sessions--the last being just before game time on Thursday here in Toronto. Rassbach gets very emotional when he talks about altruistic organ donation in general, and specifically the freedom it has brought him and Nancy. The biggest benefit is being able to claim the 24 hours a week he used to spend in dialysis. “When we traveled to bridge tournaments, I would have to get up at 3 a.m. for dialysis. Playing cards till 11 at night didn’t leave much time for sleep.” With his life expectancy extended from six to 20 years thanks to MatchingDonors, Rassbach says, “I will spend of the rest of my life enabling other altruistic donations.”

Life Master news

Bruce Altschuler of Oswego NY earned the points he needed to make Life Master playing in the Friday evening side game. Phyllis Kreider, San Rafaael CA, picked up the masterpoints she needed to earn her gold card playing in the Friday-Saturday bracketed knockouts.

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PAIRING IN TODAY’S SPIN 1. (8.) Team Monaco 2. Nickell 90 Tables Nick Nickell - Zia Mahmood, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; Jeff Meckstroth - Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch FL vs Team Monaco: Pierre Zimmermann - Franck Multon - Fulvio Fantoni - Claudio Nunes - Tor Helness - Geir Helgemo, 98000 125.00 3/4 James Cayne, New York NY; Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria, Rome Italy; Michael Seamon, Dania FL; Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; Antonio Sementa, Parma PR 43100 Italy 125.00 3/4 Martin Fleisher, New York NY; Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Chip Martel, Davis CA; Lew Stansby, Dublin CA; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Steve Weinstein, Andes NY 80.00 5/8 Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; Andrew Gromov - Aleksander Dubinin, Moscow Russia; Cezary Balicki, Smolec Poland; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice 40-479 Poland 80.00 5/8 Roy Welland, New York NY; Alexander Smirnov, Lubeck Germany Germany; Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Josef Piekarek, Hamburg Germany 1. Diamond

167

64. O’Hara

87

33. Bjarnarson

143

32. Fireman

109

17. Berg

219

48. Coats

68

49. Popper

65

16. Ekeblad

138

9. Rosenthal

148

56. Nellissen

73

80.00 5/8 Team Iceland: Jon Baldursson, Hafnarfjordur Iceland; Thorlakur Jonsson, 200 Kopavogur Iceland; Adalsteinn Jorgensen, 112 Reykjavik Iceland; Bjarni Einarsson, 740 Neskaupstad Iceland 80.00 5/8 Gregers Bjarnarson, Copenhagen 2100 Denmark; Michael Askgaard, Gentofte 2800 Denmark; Martin Schaltz, Odense 5000 Denmark; Morten Lund Madsen, Denmark 50.00 9/16 George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL; Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona 080 Spain; Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina; Tarek Sadek - Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt 50.00 9/16 Aubrey Strul - Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Boye Brogeland, Norway; Erik Saelensminde, Jessheim Norway; Steve Garner, Chicago IL; Howard Weinstein, San Diego CA 50.00 9/16 Andrew Rosenthal - Aaron Silverstein - Bjorn Fallenius - Chris Willenken, New York NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Michael Rosenberg, Cupertino CA 50.00 9/16 Piotr Gawrys - Jacek Jerzy Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Krzysztof Jassem, Puszczykoud Poland; Krzysztof Martens, Rzeszow 35- Poland 50.00 9/16 Rose Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; Kyle Larsen, San Francisco CA; Diego Brenner, L’Eixample Barc Spain; Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Matt Granovetter - Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 50.00 9/16 Richard Schwartz, East Elmhurst NY; John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV; Cornelis Van Prooijen,

1. Diamond 49 62 97 131 32. (33.) Bjarnarson 47 107 128 135

17. Berg 23 67 111 16. Ekeblad 44 79 117

9. Rosenthal 24 70 116 24. (41.) Rigal 15 37 61

1. (33.) Bjarnarson 60 86 125

160

16. Ekeblad 10 40 74

106

124

1. (33.) Bjarnarson 48 60 102 125

166

8. Team Monaco 38 53 93

129

41. Rigal

135

24. Grue

92

25. Ventin

190

40. Pettis

138

57. (72.) Bettadapura

169

8. Team Monaco

178

5. Jacobs

214

60. Levinson

56

37. Blanchard

81

28. Markowicz

137

5. Jacobs 35 88

21. Team Iceland

160

44. Bowman

78

12. (21.) Team Iceland 20 47 127 142

53. (76.) McLellan

113

12. Gordon

212

13. Meltzer

174

52. (77.) Hou

77

45. McKellar

117

20. Sonsini

121

29. Hanlon

161

36. D’Orsi

56

61. Narasimhan

101

4. Fleisher

128

25. Ventin 58 107 111 8. Team Monaco 35 68 97

5. Jacobs 30 73 116 28. Markowicz 26 46 63

21. Team Iceland 49 68 105 12. Gordon 8 36 63

13. Meltzer 43 100 129 20. Sonsini 13 47 74

29. Hanlon 13 38 67 4. Fleisher 43 78 111

104

Nieuw Vennep Netherlands; Louk Verhees, 2215 SH Voorhou Netherlands; Eldad Ginossar, Moshav Zofit Israel; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba 44 Israel 50.00 9/16 Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Sam Lev, New York NY; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Sjoert Brink, Rotterdam 3 Netherlands; Bas Drijver, Capelle Aan Den Netherlands 50.00 9/16 Sheila Ekeblad, Providence RI; David Bakhshi, London England; Jan Jansma, Spijkenisse Netherlands; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI; Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; Mark Feldman, Austin TX 25.00 17/32 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL; Fred Gitelman - Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV; Brad Moss, San Anselmo CA; Eric Greco, Wynnewood PA 25.00 17/32 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Venice FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Terje Aa, Heimdal Norway; Jorgen Molberg, Trondheim Norway 25.00 17/32 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Simon De Wijs, Doorn 304G Netherlands; Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Tilburg Netherlands; Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands 25.00 17/32 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; Bruce Ferguson, Palm Springs CA; Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; James Krekorian, Pensacola FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC 25.00 17/32 Barbara Sonsini, Woodside CA; Garey

9. Rosenthal 32 61 91

127

8. Team Monaco 84 102 130

168

175

8. Team Monaco 34 52 4. Fleisher 37 87

131 143

2. Nickell 16 38

172 92

142

93

107

92 144

27

12. (21.) Team Iceland 26 84 97 133 4. Fleisher 21 42

176 94

3. Cayne

137



13. Meltzer 22 29 76

119

4. Fleisher 45 103

176

129

88

146

76

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GOLD KNOCKOUT TEAMS Hayden, Tucson AZ; Fu Zhong, Beijing People’s Republic of China; Jie Zhao, Tianjin People’s Republic of China; Chris Compton, Dallas TX; Gunnar Hallberg, Brighton United Kingdom 25.00 17/32 Kevin Bathurst, New York NY; Daniel Zagorin, Skokie IL; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden; Fredrik Nystrom, 11421 Stockholm Sweden; Per-Ola Cullin, Johanneshov Sweden; Johan Upmark, 115 58 Stockho Sweden 25.00 17/32 Steve Robinson, Arlington VA; Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Adam Wildavsky, New York NY; Douglas Doub, W Hartford CT 25.00 17/32 Juan Carlos Ventin, 08021 Barcelona Spain; Pablo Lambardi, Buenos Aires 10 Argentina; Joaopaulo Campos, Sao Paulo 01229 Brazil; Miguel Villas-Boas, Sao Paulo Brazil; Alejandro Bianchedi Ernesto Muzzio, Buenos Aires Argentina 25.00 17/32 Justin Lall - Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Winthrop Allegaert - Judith Bianco, New York NY; Lapt Chan, Forest Hills NY; Jaggy Shivdasani, Pleasantville NY 25.00 17/32 Victor Markowicz, Boca Raton FL; Julian Klukowski, Warsaw Poland; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw Poland; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin 20-732 Poland; Shalom Zeligman, Bat-Yam Israel 25.00 17/32 Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland; Hugh McGann, N Yorkshire England; Sartaj Hans, Bondi Nsw Australia; Anthony Nunn, Artarmon Nsw Australia

7 (10.) Welland 39 89 109

2. Nickell 28 57 91

113

79

94

7. Strul 16 36 81

104

10. Welland 48 72 104

127

137

146

137

124

15. Mahaffey 13 37 67

100

2. Nickell 43 80

177

106 3. Cayne 30 93

95

121

102

3. Cayne 20 60

110

138

6. Lynch 20 34

66

85

115

170

14. Schwartz 53 86 112

121

7. Strul 48 85 126 26. (39.) Ivatury 7 21 49

23. Robinson 34 76 94 10. Welland 33 65 88

15. Mahaffey 53 95 124 18. Onstott 20 40 72

31. Levine 27 89 2. Nickell 55 82

130

6. Lynch 35 77

135

7. Strul

120

58. (71.) Crawford

17

39. Ivatury

163

26. Morgan

117

23. Robinson

137

97

42. Shen

121

135

55. Volcker

108

10. Welland

201

15. Mahaffey

122

50. (79.) Kahlenberg

117

47. (82.) Ng

120

18. Onstott

164

31. Levine

155

34. (57.) Crispin

121

63. Gipson 2. Nickell

83 185

3. Cayne

159

62. Kujirai

66

35. Shanghai Chuangyu

150

30. Grabel

165

19. (34.) Shugart

177

46. Miles

101

51. Bloom

154

14. Schwartz

161

11. Gawrys

159

54. (75.) Gurvich

35

43. China Trinergy

67

22. Bathurst

147

27. Lall

150

38. DeFalco

103

59. Leon

95

6. Lynch

206

181 72

175 96

110

146

118

170

3. Cayne 37 96 30. Grabel

148

168

32

48

70

39

19. (34.) Shugart 25 62 85 14. Schwartz 40 80 124

11. Gawrys 33 75 97 22. Bathurst 46 66 89

11. Gawrys 37 64 101 103

25.00 17/32 Ross Grabel - Jon Wittes, Palm Desert CA; Mark Cohen, Glen Ridge NJ; Milton Rosenberg, St Charles IL; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA 25.00 17/32 Mike Levine, Pinckney MI; Dennis McGarry, Stuart FL; Jerry Clerkin - Dennis Clerkin, Bloomington IN; Stephen Landen, Ellicott City MD; Daniel Gerstman, Buffalo NY 25.00 17/32 Rita Shugart, Pebble Beach CA; Marshall Lewis, Cleveland Hgts OH; Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL; Jean-Michel Voldoire, Paris France 25.00 17/32 Uday Ivatury - Christal HennerWelland, New York NY; Eugene Hung, Palo Alto CA; Ari Greenberg, San Francisco CA; Roger Lee, Monrovia CA 25.00 17/32 Barry Rigal, New York NY; David Caprera, Denver CO; Brady Richter, Summit NJ; Jeff Aker - Joshua Parker, Briarcliff NY; Bruce Rogoff, Tenafly NJ

27. Lall 19 38 6. Lynch 29 46

112 157

154 113

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85

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Tell me more There’s more to a bridge player than just tricks and masterpoints. This feature will let you in on a few of their secrets.

Steve Robinson City of residence Arlington VA Date of birth Jan. 4, 1941 Place of birth Washington DC What kind of food makes you happy? I’d just as soon eat at Taco Bell than Chez Five-Star Restaurant What drink? Diet soda. What are your favorite books? Watson’s Play of the Hand and Five Weeks to Winning Bridge What kind of music do you like? 50s, 60s and 70s What do you do when you are not playing bridge? Writing bridge columns What do you see as your best-ever result? Winning the Rosenblum in Miami in 1992. Who is your favorite bridge player? I appreciate the skill of Meckwell. What is your favorite bridge convention? Puppet Stayman over 1NT What jobs other than bridge have you had? Computer programmer. I was so good at my job that I had plenty of time to think about bridge. Do you have any superstitions concerning bridge? Change seats when doing poorly. If you could invite any three people, past or present, to dinner, who would they be? Three women similar to Marilyn Monroe. Is there something you would love to learn? To be a better partner. FRIDAY-SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET 1 9 Tables 12.89 1 Bill Wheeler - Paul Crookall - Catherine Chell, Ottawa ON; Ed Chajkowski, Kemptville ON 9.02 2 Tammy Moll - Chris Moll, Raleigh NC; Cameron Doner, Richmond BC; Kay Enfield, Santa Fe NM 5.80 3 Ken Gee, Regina SK; Hannah Moon, Prince Albert SK; Jerry Stamatov, Bulgaria; Diyan Danailou, 4.51 4 Gerald Lackner, Graz Austria; Senta Lackner, Hofbauerweg 11 Austria; Peter Steiner, Semriach Austria; Andrea Muliar, Vienna Austria FRIDAY-SATURDAY COMPACT KO BRACKET 2 13 Tables 5.88 1 Ruth Yeselson, Highland Park NJ; Curtis Kristensen, Duluth MN; Howard Huynh, Lubbock TX; Hugh Cleland, Toronto ON 4.12 2 James Stahl - Linda Stahl, Chagrin Falls OH; Janet Rice - Thomas Rice, Cleveland OH 2.65 3 Daniel Rosenblatt, Winston Salem NC; William Blackadder, Summerstown ON; G Wood, Toronto ON; Richard Bowley, N10 3nd United Kingdom 2.06 4 James Keegan, Cambridge MA; Jane Adams, Lexington MA; Ru Hong Terajewicz, Brookline MA; Alix Taylor, Lincoln MA

WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY SIDE GAME SERIES 56.25 Tables / Based on 22 Tables 7.84 1/2 Jason Rotenberg, Ridgefield CT 7.84 1/2 Shailesh Gupta, Alison Viejo CA 4.41 3/4 Blake Sanders, Jonesboro AR 4.41 3/4 Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR 4.99 5 Buddhadeb Biswas, Lexington MA 3.38 6 Fay Teal, Kitchener ON 3.30 7 Howard Siegel, Chestnut Hill MA 6.0 Tables A 1.68 1 1.26 2 1.30 3 0.71 4 0.98 0.64 0.64 16.0 Tables A 3.67 1 2.75 2 2.06 3 2.26 4 1.49 5/6 1.49 5/6 0.95 0.72 16.0 Tables A 3.94 1 3.49 2 2.62 3 1.96 4 2.05 5 1.44 6 1.82 1.37 1.03 27.0 Tables A 5.61 1 4.21 2 3.76 3 3.45 4 2.82 5 2.11 6 1.59 2.80 2.39 1.79 1.35 1.01 0.91

SATURDAY MORNING AUDREY GRANT 49ER PAIRS B 1 2 3/4 3/4

C 1 2

Cheryl Richman - Ellen Eyman, Toronto ON Brian Ferguson, Halifax NS; Michael Ross, Boutiliers Pt NS Carol Newhouse, Newmarket ON; Susan Miller, Toronto ON Linda Patrick, Toronto ON; Anthony Duthie, Clearwater FL John Moreland - Beverly Moreland, Campbellville ON Meena Sakhuja, Toronto ON; Malvika Chopra, Thornhill ON Virgina Cowan - Rae Weingarden, Toronto ON

67.50% 62.00% 52.00% 49.00% 48.00% 47.50% 47.50%

SATURDAY MORNING AUDREY GRANT 299ER PAIRS B 1 2 3 4 5/6 5/6

C 1 2/3 2/3 4 5

Kelly Skalicky, New York NY; Nancy Chorpita, Haddonfield NJ Jennifer Huntsman - Dingbin Feng, Moncton NB Hani Cassis - Paula Cassis, Mississauga ON Jeffery Jones, Vero Beach FL; David Armstrong, Whitmore Lake MI Charlene Richardson - Janice Holmes, Moorefield ON Betty Hayhurst, Parkersburg WV; Grace Meehan, Antigonish NS Leona Parkinson, Southampton ON; Rosemarie Schmidt, Kitchener ON Ian MacIver, Newmarket ON; Anita Pennings, Alliston ON

68.56% 63.26% 59.66% 59.28% 58.52% 58.52% 53.60% 51.14%

SATURDAY MORNING SIDE GAME B 1 2 3 4 5 6

C 1 2 3 4

Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD Buddhadeb Biswas, Lexington MA; Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL Nancy Littenberg, Port St Lucie FL; Carol Bedell, Williamsville NY Gayle McLean - Don McLean, St Louis MO Ben Yang, Warren NJ; Charles Burns, Vancouver WA Paul Lindauer, Varna IL; Howard Siegel, Chestnut Hill MA Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS; Gheorghe Beres, Windsor ON Douglas Cote, Woodstock ON; Tzvetalin Vassilev, North Bay ON Glen Perry, Voorheesville NY; Carolyn Timmermann, Vancouver WA

67.27% 62.71% 62.03% 61.38% 59.85% 59.47% 58.30% 56.85% 52.94%

SATURDAY-SUNDAY SIDE GAME SERIES B 1 2 3 4 5 6

C 1 2 3 4 5 6

Ralph Edwards, North York ON; John Anthony, Vancouver BC Lynn Jones, Timonium MD; Paul Benedict, Pikesville MD Jed Drew, Tillsonburg ON; Chuck Chang, Chicago IL Barry Harper, Regina SK; Anne Dawson, Delhi LA Isadore Sharp - Rosalie Sharp, Toronto ON Mary Lawand - Rene Lawand, Etobicoke ON Suzanne Nichols - Grady Nichols, Diamondhead MS Susan McQuillan, Pittsburgh PA; Gail Hastings, Verona PA Jason Lindop, Montreal QC; Alexander Brookes, Toronto ON Russell Craft - Dee Craft, Smith’s Parish Bermuda James Stahl - Linda Stahl, Chagrin Falls OH Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS; Gheorghe Beres, Windsor ON Gayle Tunnell - James Tunnell, San Francisco CA

JOHN RAYNER’S B/C/D DAYLIGHT PAIRS 56.5 Tables / Based on 58 Tables B C D 21.42 1 1 Loring Harkness III, Kilauea HI; Dileep Bal, Kapaa HI 16.07 2 2 David Lin - Jorry Chu, Mississauga ON 12.05 3 3 1 Michael Bilon, Toronto ON; Thomas Revesz, Scarborough ON 9.04 4 4 2 Bernie Katchen, Toronto ON; Percy Goldenberg, Willowdale ON 7.14 5 5 3 David Ryder - Donald Ryder, Toronto ON 6.12 6 6 Alan Bronstein, Christiansted VI; Thomas Shelley, St Croix VI 5.36 7 7 Peter Yard, Cincinnati OH; Jean Fox, Baldwinsville NY 4.76 8 8 4 David Graham - Jill Graham, Boca Raton FL 4.28 9 Richard Dubrovsky - Leora Dubrovsky, Howell NJ 3.89 10 Bruce Greenspan, Danvers MA; Judy Cardin, Bonita Springs FL 3.57 11 Gloria Tsoi, Arlington MA; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro PA 4.19 12 9 5 Diane Herniman - Hazel Hewitt, St Marys ON 3.06 13 10 Carol Ward, Arvada CO; Margaret Devere, Denver CO 2.87 14 11 6 Polly Siegel, Los Altos CA; Randy Ryals, Menlo Park CA 4.73 15 12 7 Mary Regottaz, Kenner LA; Katherine Pugsley, Oakville ON 2.52 16 13 Anne Bovingdon, North York ON; Paul Prechner, Toronto ON 6.0 Tables A 1.68 1 1.26 2 0.95 3 0.91 4 0.60 0.60

126.70% 126.70% 121.81% 121.81% 120.63% 119.97% 117.62%

62.31% 59.00% 58.65% 56.92% 56.50% 55.92% 55.50% 55.15% 53.42% 53.08% 50.85% 50.77% 50.69%

63.14% 59.81% 59.60% 59.21% 59.05% 59.02% 58.23% 58.10% 58.01% 57.44% 56.15% 56.13% 55.66% 55.66% 55.65% 55.42%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON AUDREY GRANT 49ER PAIRS B 1 2 3/4 3/4

C 1 2

John Kittredge - Paul Rolfe, Toronto ON James Fraser - Marsha Fraser, Hamilton Bermuda Bev Kilpatrick, Aurora ON; Gayle Connor, Richmond Hill ON Raza Ali - Janet Blair, Toronto ON Nancy MacDonald Exel - Carolyn McAvoy, Mississauga ON Shamsuddin Khaja, Toronto ON; Carol Newhouse, Newmarket ON

58.75% 56.25% 53.75% 52.92% 52.08% 52.08%

Daily Bulletin Volume 4, Number4 Sunday, July 31, 2011

Snowden team comes on strong to win Aileen Osofsky Swiss The team captained by 13-year-old Burke Snowden surged into the lead in the next-to-last round with a blitz and then sealed the deal with a near-blitz in the final round to win the Aileen Osofsky National Swiss Teams on Saturday. With the victory, Snowden and his partner, Ben Kristensen, swept the two national events at the Youth NABC. On Friday, they forged their first late comeback to win the Baron Barclay National Youth Open Pairs. Snowden, Fort Collins CO, and Kristensen, Duluth MN, played with Winners of the Aileen Osofsky National Swiss Teams: Burke Hakan Berk, Potomac MD, and David Snowden, David Soukup, Hakan Berk and Ben Kristensen. Soukup, Arlington VA. Second place went to Evan Berman, Sarasota FL; Zach Brescoll, Versailles KY; Allison Hunt, Charlotte NC; Asya and Nikita Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL, and Blake Sanders, Jonesboro AR. Each member of the winning team receives a $1000 scholarship provided by the Aileen Osofsky Memorial Fund. Snowden and Kristensen each won $1000 for their Open Pairs win on Friday. After four of the six rounds on Saturday, the Snowden team was lying fifth with 89 Victory Points (30-point Second place in the Swiss Teams went to Evan Berman, Nikita Ladyzhensky, Asya Ladyzhensky, Zach Brescoll, Allison Hunt scale) but close to the leaders. They and Blake Sanders. took all 30 VPs in round five then Spalding, Ruth Wexel, Jacob Wexel and added 28 in the final round to win Peter Ku. going away. • Jason Miller as the winner of the Mystery They were presented the trophy at the closing Bridge Hand drawing from among those ceremony, which included awarding of trophies for who correctly guessed that the Duke of the Open Pairs and Open Pairs consolation. Cumberland was on the Youth NABC logo. Other announcements: • Ryan Miller as the winner of the • The 2011 Youth Ambassadors – Konner Sportsmanship Trophy (see separate article).

Atlanta Junior Bridge has had a huge presence at each of the four Youth NABCs, the first being held in the Atlanta area in 2008. Here are some of the Atlanta contingent in Toronto.

See you at the 2012 Youth NABC, July 19, 20 and 21 in Philadelphia. Don’t miss it!

Mission accomplished: young players had fun in Toronto

Grace Park of Moncton NB stood near the director’s table at the end of the Aileen Osofsky National Swiss Teams on Saturday. Asked how her team did, Park said softly, “We were above average.” Then she perked up and, with a smile on her face, added: “We had fun, and that’s why we came.” Park said that when she returns to Moncton, she will visit the Lion’s Club facility every Carol Bongard Wednesday to play bridge to sharpen her skills in hopes of doing better next year in Philadelphia, when the fifth Youth NABC is scheduled (July 19-21). “I’m planning to be there,” she said. As with the three previous Youth NABCs, participants and observers alike had nothing but positive comments about the event. Youth NABC Chair Dana Norton assessed the three-day tournament as a success, certainly continued on back page

Ryan Miller gets high praise from his peers Each year at the Youth NABC, the players vote on who among them provides the best example of sportsmanship. The winner receives the Sportsmanship Trophy. This year, the honor went to 17-year-old Ryan Miller of Tampa FL “I’m speechless,” he said. “It’s amazing.” With the award, Miller will receive a $1000 scholarship funded by Phil Gordon, the poker star and ACBL national champion (Roth Open Swiss Teams in 2008). Miller will be a high school senior this fall. He is just a few silver points short of becoming a Life Master. He was taught to play seven years ago by his grandmother, Sandra Rosenblum. Miller said he learned a lot about proper behavior at the table from his grandmother. “She taught me everything about bridge,” he said. Further, he added, “There are lots of posters all over our bridge club (in Tampa) about Zero Tolerance.”

The logo for the Youth NABC in Toronto features a happy-looking beaver, so these Orlando moms showed up with special beaver hats and tee shirts. They are Susan Laugen, Julie Wheaton, Anissa Dyen and Chris Koebke. Each had a child playing in the youth tournament.

Irina Ladyzhensky of Ellenton FL poses with three of her children and one “adopted son” at the Youth NABC: Alexandra, “adoptee” Evan Berman, Nikita and Asya. The young fellow who snuck into the photo at the bottom is unknown.

These four players are from the Memphis area, where ACBL Headquarters is located: Sutton Hewitt, Eric Rodriguez, Nassem Yousef and Piper Ziebarth.

Bridge isn’t the only game played at the Youth NABC. These youngsters enjoyed a game of Connect prior to the start of play on Saturday.

Volunteer has wide bridge experience

One of the volunteers at the 2011 Youth NABC in Toronto is a man who has seen the world of tournament bridge from a number of perspectives. David Halasi was a caddy at the 1993 Summer NABC in Washington DC when he found out that caddies could get free bridge lessons. “I loved the game so much I quit caddying so I could play,” he said. Back home in Toronto, David Halasi he played even more and was lucky enough to have some mentors with international credentials, notably Fred Gitelman, George Mittelman and John Gowdy. Halasi became good enough to represent Canada in international competition – thanks, he says, to the ACBL and the Canadian Bridge Federation. Bridge, he said, “has been a great way to keep my mind focused.” He became a club director in 1994 and a tournament director three years later. He is now on the board of directors of Unit 166 in Toronto. Halasi was helping out with the Card Rook games at the Youth NABC. He said it would have been difficult to organize such an event when he started playing because there was no networking as there is today on sites such as Facebook. Halasi is now a financial analyst for Loblan, Canada’s largest grocery chain, and is married to Wanda, a former caddy. He doesn’t play as much bridge as he used to, but he still appreciates its value: “It’s a great way to make friends.”

19 Tables A B C 12.68 1 9.51 2 7.13 3 5.35 4 5.28 5 1 2.32 6/8 3.96 6/8 2 2.32 6/8 2.97 3 1 2.23 4 2 1.67 5 3 7.0 Tables 1.23 1 0.92 2 0.69 3 0.52 4 0.39 5

AILEEN OSOFSKY NATIONAL SWISS TEAMS Burke Snowden, Fort Collins CO; Hakan Berk, Potomac MD; David Soukup, Arlington VA; Ben Kristensen, Duluth MN Evan Berman, Sarasota FL; Zachary Brescoll, Versailles KY; Allison Hunt, Charlotte NC; Asya Ladyzhensky - Nikita Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL; Blake Sanders, Jonesboro AR Brandon Harper, Winter Park FL; Oren Kriegel, Skandia MI; Ryan Miller, Tampa FL; Ricoh Das, Alpharetta GA Arjun Dhir - Murphy Green, Alpharetta GA; Richard Jeng - Andrew Jeng, Johns Creek GA Xinyu Feng - John Maguire, Moncton NB; William Zhu - Chris Chen, San Francisco CA Zachary Grossack, Newton MA; Matthew Weingarten, Safety Harbor FL; Mili Raina - Laura Green, Alpharetta GA Anuj Das - Caleb Colburn - Timmy Green, Alpharetta GA; Geoffrey Webb, Kelowna BC Kevin Rosenberg, Cupertino CA; Jeffrey Schwartz, Fairfax VA; Victor Lamoureux, Dartmouth NS; Peter Ku, Princeton Jnct NJ Joseph Lieberman, Los Angeles CA; Christopher Welland, New York NY; Alexandra Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL; Morgan Compton, Dallas TX Peter Wexel - Jacob Wexel, Lilburn GA; Armin Askari, Thornhill ON; Allen Yu, Toronto ON Edward Li - David Yoon - Linda Cai, Bayside NY; Sarah Chen, Fresh Meadows NY

147.00 134.00 122.00 110.00 107.00 104.00 104.00 104.00 102.00 96.00 94.00

SATURDAY AFTERNOON CARDROOK PAIRS

10.0 Tables 1.45 1 1.09 2 0.82 3 0.61 4 0.46 5 0.36 6

Evan Jones, Lower Coverdale NB; Jake Rice, Riverview NB Nicholas Laugen, Altamonte FL; Spencer Dyen, Apopka FL Grace Strasen, Woodacre CA; Sedef Berk, Potomac MD Rhyanne Melanson - Rhys Melanson, Ottawa ON Sarah Carl, Orange Beach AL; Kathryn Manning, Pensacola FL

58.17% 56.67% 56.37% 54.55% 53.00%

SATURDAY MORNING CARDROOK PAIRS Emily Kim - Nayoung Ko, Moncton NB Jake Rice, Riverview NB; Evan Jones, Lower Coverdale NB Sarah Carl, Orange Beach AL; Kathryn Manning, Pensacola FL Olivia Edstrom - Kristofer Edstrom, Apopka FL Konner Spalding, Versailles KY; Elisabeth Slighton, Hong Kong Leila Feng - Joanna Huang, Ottawa ON

65.88% 63.30% 57.64% 56.70% 55.76% 54.79%

Evan Jones and Jake Rice were first East-West in the Morning Card Rook Pairs and first North-South in the Afternoon Card Rook Pairs.

Nayoung Ko and Emily Kim were tops North-South in the Morning Card Rook Pairs.

Hi! My name is. . .

Hi! My name is. . .

Hi! My name is. . .

Allison Hunt

Arjun Dhir

Angie Green

What city do you live in? Charlotte NC

What city do you live in? Johns Creek GA

What city do you live in? Alpharetta GA

How old are you? 15

How old are you? 15

How old are you? 15

What is your favorite color? Yellow

What is your favorite color? Pink

What is your favorite color? Orange

What is your favorite class in school? Math

What is your favorite class in school? Lunch

What is your favorite class in school? History

Do you have a favorite book or author? Louis Sachar

Do you have a favorite book or author? Harry Potter

Do you have a favorite book or author? Pride and Prejudice

Who is your favorite musical artist? Brad Paisley

Who is your favorite musical artist? Mac Miller

Who is your favorite musical artist? I don’t listen to much music

Do you like to dance? Yes!

Do you like to dance? Yes

Do you like to dance? No

What is your favorite movie? The Graduate

What is your favorite movie? Happy Gilmore

What is your favorite movie? Pride and Prejudice

Who is your favorite actor? Orlando Bloom

Who is your favorite actress? Natalie Portman

Why do you like playing bridge? It’s fun to meet new people

Who is your favorite actress? Natalie Portman

Why do you like playing bridge? It’s social and I meet new people

Why do you like playing bridge? Making 7NT redoubled

When you’re not playing bridge, what do you like to do? Play tennis

When you’re not playing bridge, what do you like to do? Play piano, cross country, hang out with family and friends

When you’re not playing bridge, what do you like to do? Dancing, hanging out with friends What do you want to be when you grow up? Rich

What do you want to do when you grow up? Doctor They were first East-West in the Afternoon Card Rook Pairs: Spencer Dyen and Nicholas Laugen.

When asked what game they were playing on Saturday before the start of play, one of the youngsters said, “We don’t know – maybe a messed up game of cutthroat?”

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in terms of fun for the participants. She had high praise for the volunteers who helped make it happen, “especially (Co-Chair) Carol Bongard and Wanda Pearce. Patty Tucker conceived of the Youth NABC and, with help, made it a reality. She said the Toronto tournament was further proof that making bridge fun for young people is important work. “It was built with the intention of promoting fun,” she said. “Winning is nice, but what is really important is the social interactions of the kids and the connections they make that will last a lifetime.” Tucker has been working with Fred Gitelman, founder of Bridge Base Online, to establish a BBO site only for Youth players (19 and younger). All the details have not been worked out, but it’s expected to go live sometime near the end of the year. Meanwhile, Tucker said, she enjoyed being around the lively group of young bridge players, many of whom were new to her. “We get some of the same ones from year to year, but there are new ones coming all the time,” Tucker said. Tom Rodriguez, from the Memphis TN suburb of Germantown, has attended all four Youth NABCs with sons Eric and Kevin. “It’s a great thing,” he said. Although he doesn’t play bridge, Rodriguez said he approves of his sons’ interest in the game. “It’s great for the mind and gets them away from the TV. Eric is really good – he knows all the cards that have been played.” Irina Ladyzhensky brought her three children from Ellenton FL in the Sarasota area. Her daughter, Asya, is in high school but has been teaching bridge in middle schools in their area. The first time they attended a Youth NABC, said Ladyzhensky, “I had to drag them to it. They thought bridge was just going to be a lot of old people, but now they want to come. Asya has played every day.” Four mothers from the Orlando area – Susan Laugen, Julie Wheaton, Anissa Dyen and Chris Koebke – traveled to Toronto with their children. The moms are big fans of bridge. Said Dyen, “From the teaching standpoint, they are learning higherlevel thinking and skills that are not part of the school curriculum.” Laurie Wexel of Lilburn GA brought six of her children to play in their 4th Youth NABC. Many aspects of bridge are good for the youngsters, she said. One of them, she noted, is that they have to set goals. “They work extra jobs to save money for the trip,” Wexel said. Even better, she said, “bridge is interactive with social elements, and it helps them with logic and critical thinking, and it’s something they can take with them their whole lives. Each Youth NABC is like a family reunion.” On Friday night after the Youth NABC games had concluded, all six of the Wexel youngsters still wanted to play, so 9-year-old Phoebe and 10-yearold Isaac played in a 49er game, 12-year-old Mary and 15-year-old Ruth played in a 299er Swiss and 14-year-old Peter played with 17-year-old Jacob in an Open Swiss. Mother Wexel smiled in recounting Peter’s joking reaction to the higher level of competition, “He said, ‘My bridge esteem is shot, but I had fun.’ “

Hi! My name is. . .

Hi! My name is. . .

MacKenzie Curry

Ruth Wexel

What city do you live in? Riverview NB

What city do you live in? Lilburn GA

How old are you? 12

How old are you? 15

What is your favorite color? Blue

What is your favorite color? Blue

What is your favorite class in school? Math

What is your favorite class in school? Spanish

Do you have a favorite book or author? Rick Riordan

Do you have a favorite book or author? No, but I love mysteries

Who is your favorite musical artist? Linkin Park

Who is your favorite musical artist? Too many to choose from

Do you like to dance? Yes

Do you like to dance? Yes

What is your favorite movie? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

What is your favorite movie? Can’t pick – love too many

Why do you like playing bridge? I like the game big time

Who is your favorite actor? George Clooney

When you’re not playing bridge, what do you like to do? Read

Who is your favorite actress? Love too many!

What do you want to do when you grow up? No clue

Why do you like playing bridge? I love playing When you’re not playing bridge, what do you like to do? Play piano and tennis What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to be a pharmacist

2011 Youth Ambassadors: Peter Ku, Jacob Wexel and Ruth Wexel. Not pictured: Konner Spalding.



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NORTH-SOUTH Emily Kim - Nayoung Ko, Moncton NB Sarah Carl, Orange Beach AL; Kathryn Manning, Pensacola FL Konner Spalding, Versailles KY; Elisabeth Slighton, Hong Kong Nicholas Laugen, Altamonte FL; Spencer Dyen, Apopka FL NORTH-SOUTH Evan Jones, Lower Coverdale NB; Jake Rice, Riverview NB Grace Strasen, Woodacre CA; Sedef Berk, Potomac MD Rhyanne Melanson - Rhys Melanson, Ottawa ON

SATURDAY MORNING CARDROOK PAIRS SECTION PPP EAST-WEST 65.88% 1 Jake Rice, Riverview NB; Evan Jones, Lower Coverdale NB 57.64% 2 Olivia Edstrom - Kristofer Edstrom, Apopka FL 56.70% 55.76% 3 Leila Feng - Joanna Huang, Ottawa ON 54.79% 51.88% 4 Pierce Melanson, Ottawa ON; Brandon Yu Lin, Edison NJ SATURDAY AFTERNOON CARDROOK PAIRS SECTION PPP EAST-WEST 58.17% 1 Abigail McClelland, Orillia ON; Rotating Person, ON 56.37% 2 Nicholas Laugen, Altamonte FL; Spencer Dyen, Apopka FL 54.55% 3 Sarah Carl, Orange Beach AL; Kathryn Manning, Pensacola FL

63.30% 54.36%

77.08% 56.67% 53.00%

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JOHN RAYNER’S A/X DAYLIGHT PAIRS 16.0 Tables / Based on 73 Tables A X 26.49 1 1 Fred Day - Doris Opdenvelde, Toronto ON 19.87 2 2 Margaret Walters, Australia Australia; Dan Perco, Stoney Creek ON 14.90 3 Judi Radin, New York NY; Stacy Jacobs, Hinsdale IL 11.18 4 Dave Swarthout - Donna Swarthout, Newberry MI 12.65 5 3 David Baker, Kitchener ON; Dragana Kovacevic, Markham ON 9.49 6 4 Michael Ranis, New York NY; Fred Hawa, White Plains NY 7.50 7 5 Steve Merovitz, Laval QC; Luc Tremblay, Sainte-Julie QC 6.03 8/9 6/7 William Garrard Jr - Donna Garrard, Irving TX 6.03 8/9 6/7 Michael McGuire, Hernando MS; Ned Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 4.62 10/11 Bette Cohn - Gen Geiger, Sarasota FL 5.00 10/11 8 Max Tang, Scarborough ON; Merryl Chin, Toronto ON

61.94% 59.62% 59.13% 56.09% 54.73% 54.33% 53.77% 52.24% 52.24% 52.08% 52.08%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON AUDREY GRANT 299ER PAIRS 16.0 Tables A B C 3.67 1 1 1 Pat Beattie, East Devonport Australia; Jenny Murphy, Tasmania Australia 2.75 2 William Pollock - Mary Gordon, Toronto ON 2.50 3 2 2 Anne Volpe, Toronto ON; Linda Gilpin, North York ON 1.87 4 3 Alex Bedley - Jim Bedley, Richmond Hill ON 1.41 5 4 3 Robert Koves - Robin Koves, Toronto ON 1.05 6 5 4 David Choi, Pak Pat Shan Rd Hong Kong; Vincent Lam, 1.66 6 5 Leona Parkinson, Southampton ON; Rosemarie Schmidt, Kitchener ON 1.16 6 Thomas Gillett, Toronto ON; Ted Capes, Willowdale ON

62.50% 60.52% 58.33% 57.77% 57.20% 56.44% 55.80% 55.32%

33 Tables A B C 6.52 1 4.89 2 6.22 3 1 4.67 4 2 3.94 5 3 1 2.96 6/7 4/5 2 2.30 6/7 4/5 2.22 6 3 1.66 4 1.25 5 5.5 Tables A 2.26 1 1.70 2 1.27 3 0.95 4

STRATIFIED SIDE SWISS TEAMS Ken Gee, Regina SK; Hannah Moon, Prince Albert SK; Jerry Stamatov - Diyan Danailou, Bulgaria Sandra DeMartino, Riverside CT; Greta Pineles, Jackson NJ; Marianne Goff, Margate City NJ; Margaret Coe, Linwood NJ Terry Richardson, Austin TX; Joe Handler, Toronto ON; Joy Rieckers - Marian Wilson, Tucson AZ Larry Custead - Jo Custead, Saskatoon SK; Bahadur Rajani - Aby Rajani, Toronto ON Brandon Harper, Winter Park FL; Ryan Miller, Tampa FL; Ricoh Das, Alpharetta GA; Oren Kriegel, Skandia MI Victor Lamoureux, Dartmouth NS; Peter Ku, Princeton Jnct NJ; Jason Miller, Tampa FL; Evan Berman, Sarasota FL Alice Harper, Winter Park FL; Janice Trott, Devonshire Bermuda; Nea Willits, Paget Bermuda; Sandra Rosenblum, Tampa FL James Stahl - Linda Stahl, Chagrin Falls OH; Janet Rice Thomas Rice, Cleveland OH Liqun Wang - Margaret de Groh, Ottawa ON; Hany Hebisha, Nepean ON; Betty Wong, Kanata ON Burke Snowden, Fort Collins CO; Ben Kristensen, Duluth MN; David Soukup, Arlington VA; Hakan Berk, Potomac MD

102.00 91.00 87.00 86.00 85.00 81.00 81.00 76.00 73.00 72.00

SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS B 1 2 3 4

C 1 2

8 Tables A B C 2.54 1 2.13 2 1 1.60 3 2 1.67 1

Harry Eaglesham - Lorraine Eaglesham, Unionville ON Nancy MacDonald Exel - Carolyn McAvoy, Mississauga ON Joseph Lieberman, Los Angeles CA; Christopher Welland, New York NY Jeffery Jones, Vero Beach FL; David Armstrong, Whitmore Lake MI

68.48% 59.77% 56.13% 54.17%

SATURDAY EVENING 299ER SWISS TEAMS Michael Miranda, Toronto ON; Abdulhak Bulbulia, Thornhill ON; Emile Macedo, Markham ON; Mel Rebello, ON Xinyu Feng - Dingbin Feng - Jennifer Huntsman, Moncton NB; Connie Bartlett, Riverview NB Alex Bedley - Jim Bedley, Richmond Hill ON; Charlene Richardson - Janice Holmes, Moorefield ON Natalie Schacter - Millie Deverett, Toronto ON; Sharon Schnayer, Laval QC; Judy Harte-Lovelace, Southampton Bermuda

SALLY’S “ALMOST THERE” STRATIFIED OPEN PAIRS 43.0 Tables A B C 18.55 1 1 Steve Smolen, San Francisco CA; Chris Chung, Palo Alto CA 13.91 2 2 Joyce Goldstein - Jack Wertheimer, Brooklyn NY 10.43 3 3 Theodore Glaessner - Cecil Glaessner, Pacific Plsds CA 7.83 4 4 Malcolm King, Toronto ON; A. Bruce Cameron, Mississauga ON 6.34 5 Mark Liberman - Barbara Shnier, Toronto ON 5.30 6 David Pankratz, Santa Rosa CA; Hindupuram Sriharsha, Orillia ON 4.64 7 Rashid Khan - Vera Carpenter, Toronto ON 4.52 8 5 Douglas McCormac, North Dartmouth MA; Frank Wharton, London Nw3 1en England 4.95 9 6 1 Rod MacDonald, Ottawa ON; Philip Kopala, Tarpon Springs FL 3.37 10 Steve Mager, Hermosa Beach CA; Gerri Soffa Carlson, Rncho Pls Vrds CA 3.09 11 Karl Hicks, Dominion NS; Don Brock, Brampton ON 3.71 12 7 2 D Sutherland, Northville MI; Douglas Hosfeld, Chatham ON 3.01 8 Harold Baba, Thornhill ON; Linda Lord, Schomberg ON 2.91 9 Marie Wiley - Audrey Craig, London ON 2.78 3 Zizhuo Wang, Palo Alto CA; Edmund Wu, San Francisco CA 2.09 4 Jim Fenwick, Markham ON; Manmohan Bhavra, Niagara Univ NY 1.65 5 Stanley Sterenberg - Laura Schisgall, New York NY 1.41 6 Veronica Peacock, Vancouver BC; Ian McArthur, Oshawa ON

93.00 88.00 70.00 57.00

59.66% 59.63% 58.49% 57.82% 57.70% 57.61% 57.17% 57.15% 56.43% 55.99% 55.98% 55.34% 55.02% 54.42% 54.33% 51.98% 51.84% 50.49%

FRIDAY MIDNIGHT KO BRACKET 1 9 Tables 2.88 1 Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Barry Margolin, Arlington MA; Peter Boyd-Bowman, Greensboro NC; C. Alex Hudson, Raleigh NC 2.02 2 James Lay, Daytona Beach FL; Greg Johnson, League City TX; Penny Sweeney, Traverse City MI; Jay Baum, Germantown TN 1.15 3/4 Sean Gannon, Decatur GA; Joshua Parks, Charlottesville VA; Andre Asbury, Warner Robins GA; Alex Dezieck, Wilbraham MA; Shaz Taslimi, Montreal QC 1.15 3/4 Adam Kaplan, New Port Richey FL; Justin Lall, Dallas TX; Joshua Donn, Las Vegas NV; Warren Hulme, Munster ON FRIDAY MIDNIGHT KO BRACKET 2 9 Tables 2.88 1 Robert Glickman, Seattle WA; Matt Meckstroth, San Antonio TX; Zachary Grossack, Newton MA; Jesse Stern, Lutz FL 2.02 2 Christal Henner-Welland, New York NY; Roger Lee, Monrovia CA; Allison Howard, Cookeville TN; Kevin Dwyer, Fort Myers FL 1.15 3/4 David Metcalf, Newton MA; William Campbell, Pacific Grove CA; Trevor Ames, Minnetonka MN; Robyn Powers, Angryville NY 1.15 3/4 Greg Humphreys, Charlottesville VA; Mitch Towner, Austin TX; Cristal Nell, Redmond WA; Max Aeschbacher, Salt Lake City UT THURSDAY-FRIDAY MORNING COMPACT KO BRACKET 2 (corrected) 16 Tables 7.09 1 Gerald Viedrah, West Bloomfield MI; Marilyn Shore - Joel Shore, Bloomfield MI; Richard Menczer, Bloomfield Hls MI 4.96 2 Tom Shannon - Jan Stewart, Toronto ON; Grant Mackinnon, Burlington ON; Thomas Collins, New Harbor ME 3.19 3 Theo Allen - Jeffrey Allen, Armonk NY; Sam Litovsky, Cote St Luc QC; Marilyn Maher, Washago ON 2.48 4 Mary Freier - Denise Hoffman, Marquette MI; Ashley Szymski, Aurora IL; Shirley Kriegel, Skandia MI

Lost and found

The Lost and Found station for events at the Royal York is located in the Algonquin Room at the Royal York on the Mezzanine Level. Found items include car keys, reading glasses, a makeup purse and a bracelet. FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET 1 13 Tables 28.61 1 Jay Whipple III, Boca Grande FL; Ed Schulte, Tampa FL; Milan Macura, 75301 Czech Republic; Michal Kopecky, 54101 Czech Republic 20.03 2 Kimberly Whipple, Boca Grande FL; Kenny Horneman, Charlottesville VA; Owen Lien, Flat Rock NC; Kevin Dwyer, Fort Myers FL; Jon Rice, Raleigh NC; Charles Jeffrey Jr, Safety Harbor FL 11.44 3/4 David Binney, Seattle WA; Jennifer Ballantyne, Vancouver BC; Joel Fuhrman, Kirkland WA; Barton Buffington, North Kingstown RI 11.44 3/4 Dede Pochos - Robert Stayman, New Rochelle NY; Ellyn Plato - John Boyer, Hastings Hdsn NY FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET 2 12 Tables 17.45 1 Stephen Goldin, North York ON; Peter Deluca, Woodbridge ON; Eric Caulfield, Brampton ON; Selma Abramsohn, Thornhill ON 12.22 2 Norman Cannon, Fort Myers FL; Robert Smink, Newtown Sq PA; Hilary Hayden, Mahone Bay NS; Fran Smith, Glen Ellyn IL 6.98 3/4 Effie Augustus, Orillia ON; Leonard Dale Mary Ellen Dale, Barrie ON; Peggy Pearson, Perkinsfield ON 6.98 3/4 Ralph Tamlyn - Gloria Tamlyn, Larchmont NY; Rona Levine - Stephen Levine, New York NY FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET 3 13 Tables 13.54 1 Frank Shostack, Willowdale ON; Sharon Berghaus - Paul Roth, Toronto ON; Jim De Boer, Scarborough ON 9.48 2 Nancy Klym - Diane Campbell - Janet Sharpe, Calgary AB; Marilyn Maher, Washago ON 5.42 3/4 Richard Wan, Point Pleasant NJ; Ruth Harris Lynn Chapin - Christopher Chapin, Manasquan NJ 5.42 3/4 Wayne Ruttan - Joyce Ruttan, Scarborough ON; Patricia Ungaro - Dale Smith, Toronto ON FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO BRACKET 4 12 Tables 10.15 1 Claire Young - Wallace McOuat, San Anselmo CA; Phyllis Kreider - Donald Kreider, San Rafael CA 7.11 2 Carrie Bell - Barbara Minogue, Callander ON; Carol Valin - Linda Karam, North Bay ON 4.06 3/4 Ian Walker, Port Elgin ON; Hardev Bains, Pickering ON; Carol Miller, Toronto ON; Karen Kline, Thornhill ON 4.06 3/4 Kai Tong - Larry Richardson, Kingston ON; Stanley Marshall, Brockville ON; C Dennis Dressler, Enterprise ON

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A walk on the Wagar side

I/N Top 100 continued from page 3

game. 3. Do not double their partial. You better have them down two in your own hand before you chance a double of a bid below game. And ‘down two in your own hand’ means you have a fistful of trump tricks. Do not count on your partner for many of these tricks. 4. Do not go for numbers. Don’t make some wild, preemptive bid just because you have six or seven (or more) cards in one suit. It is not worth it. Your competitive bidding should be more constructive at IMP scoring. Upgrade your overcalls by at least a queen. This means that if you would overcall with 8 points at pairs, overcall with 10 or more at IMPs. 5. Play your safest contract. If in the bidding your find you have a better fit in a minor than a major, play in the minor, especially at a partial. You want to make whatever contract you bid. Plus 110 is only a bit worse than plus 140 and it may not even make any difference sometimes. This also applies to game and slam bidding. If partner opens 1NT and you have a four-card major with at least invitational values, bid Stayman. Plus 620 and plus 630 are the same at IMPs. 6. Do not stretch to bid slams. Only bid slams that are at least 75%. 7. Do not stretch to bid slams. Oh, is this a repeat? Well, good. The point needs extra emphasis. 8. You have partners at the other table. Don’t make a risky bid or play because you think you are down in a match. Recently in a seven-board match, we bid a slam down two vulnerable for minus 200, bid 3NT with a combined 21 high-card points after a bidding misunderstanding --- which my partner played well for down one and minus 100 --- and doubled them in 4♥, making five for minus 990. We thought we were slaughtered. Wrong. We won IMPs on all three boards and blitzed the other team. 9. Don’t be a hero. Do not make a confusing bid that (1) may be passed when it is forcing or (2) shows extra values that you don’t have. Make the call that shows your strength. 10. Take out insurance. In every team game, there will be a hand where both sides can make game. Usually it is a wild hand with lots of distribution, doubles fits and long suits. It is usually right to bid one more --- unless you are sure they are going down and you cannot make your bid. 11. Take a chance to beat a contract. You may take a risk that he would never dream of at matchpoints --- such as leading the king from K-x, hoping to find your partner with the ace of that suit or the queen and a quick entry in trumps. Sometimes you give up an overtrick, so you lose 1 IMP. If your bold play sets a contract just one time in 10, you area ahead. 12. If it’s hard for you, it’s hard for them. The player sitting in your seat at the other table is holding the same cards you are. This guiding principle will help you on several of the points already listed.

By Mark Horton

17 squads lined up at the start of the Wagar Women’s Teams, and whilst that is nothing to write home about, there was no shortage of quality as the field was packed with multiple world champions. Am I alone in being concerned about the numbers? Things are even worse in England, where the National Women’s Team Championship is in danger of being discontinued. The early rounds are a reporter’s dream---they play different deals in every match! At least they are predealt. Who to watch with so many stars in action? I took a simplistic approach, deciding to sit at the table nearest the door. That happened to feature the match in which Joyce Hampton, Jenny Wolpert, Sabine Auken, Daniela von Arnim, Bénédicte Cronier and Sylvie Willard faced Sally Strul, Lisa Berkowitz, Susan Miller and Bronia Jenkins. What would you do with this hand? ♠A K J 9 8 6 4 ♥K Q 5 4 ♦K ♣4 At game all, your left hand opponent opens 3♣ and this is followed by two passes. Suppose you could bid 4♣ to show the majors? If you did that and partner bids 4♥, would you pass and hope for the best? You might double, but sometimes partner passes and that might not be best. Anyhow, North did the natural thing and bid 4♠. The opening lead was the ♣A and when that held the defender continued with the king, her partner following. Dummy was: ♠7 ♥10 9 8 6 3 2 ♦A 7 ♣10 8 7 6 After ruffing what do you do next? When this was posed to me as a problem I suggested that it was unlikely that the preemptor held a singleton heart, so the indicated line was to overtake the ♦K and play a spade to the jack. Time for the full deal: Dealer: East ♠ A K J 9 8 6 4 Both: Vul ♥KQ54 ♦K ♣4 ♠ Q 10 5 2 ♠3 ♥ A J 7 ♥— ♦ Q J 9 4 ♦ 10 8 6 5 3 2 ♣ 5 3 ♣AKQJ92 ♠7 ♥ 10 9 8 6 3 2 ♦A7 ♣ 10 8 7 6 You see I was right about that singleton heart, but the 3-0 break meant declarer had to go one down. Full marks to East for her initial effort. Neither team could reach a slam on this deal: Dealer: North ♠ A 10 9 8 7 5 None: Vul ♥AKQ74 ♦— ♣ 10 9 ♠ K 6 4 ♠J ♥ 8 6 3 ♥ J 10 5 2 ♦ A K 5 4 3 ♦762 ♣ 3 2 ♣K8765 ♠Q32 ♥9 ♦ Q J 10 9 8 ♣ A Q J 4 At the table I was following, the bidding went like this: West North East South 1♠ Pass 2♦ Pass 2♥ Pass 2♠ Pass 3♥ Pass 4♣ Pass 4NT Pass 5♦ Dbl 5♠ All Pass I can’t for the life of me imagine why you would want to use Blackwood on this deal once partner has cuebid in clubs, but making 12 tricks was worth an IMP. Declarer did not quite make the most of this deal:

Dealer: North ♠ K 7 3 Vul: N-S ♥QJ86 ♦ 10 7 3 ♣Q93 ♠ Q J 10 4 2 ♠85 ♥ 4 3 ♥ A 10 2 ♦ A K Q 2 ♦J86 ♣ 6 2 ♣ K 10 7 5 4 ♠A96 ♥K975 ♦954 ♣AJ8 West North East South Pass Pass 1♣ 1♠ Dbl Pass 2♥ All Pass West kicked off with three rounds of diamonds and then switched to the ♠Q. Declarer won in hand and played a trump. When that held she played a second heart and East won and returned a spade. Declarer won and drew the last trump, having played trumps in such a way as to be in hand, with the eight in dummy and the nine in hand. She exited with a spade. West won and played a club, leaving declarer with a club loser, minus100. With West almost certainly 5=2=4=2 declarer can end up in dummy on the third round of trumps and play the queen of clubs. When that is covered she wins with the ace and then chooses which opponent to endplay. At the other table West made nine tricks in 2♠ to win one IMP. One got away on this deal: Dealer: East ♠ A 8 4 Vul: Both ♥2 ♦K984 ♣K9762 ♠ J 7 ♠95 ♥ A Q 8 6 5 ♥ K 10 9 4 3 ♦ Q 10 6 5 ♦AJ3 ♣ Q 10 ♣543 ♠ K Q 10 6 3 2 ♥J7 ♦72 ♣AJ8 West North East South Pass 1♠ Pass 2♠ Pass Pass Dbl Rdbl 3♥ 3♠ All Pass Missing this game cost 10 IMPs. Dealer: North ♠ A K Q J 8 4 3 Vul: Both ♥Q ♦J86 ♣ 10 6 ♠ 9 5 ♠62 ♥ 10 9 5 4 ♥J72 ♦ A ♦K9753 ♣ A K Q 7 3 2 ♣J54 ♠ 10 7 ♥AK863 ♦ Q 10 4 2 ♣98 West North East South 4♠ Pass Pass Pass While West was toying with the idea of bidding over 4♠, I noted that “it might be necessary to underlead the clubs at some point.” East led the ♦3 and West won with the ace. There is a case for underleading at once in case North has a singleton club, but West marked time by playing the ♣Q, which collected the 10 from North and the 4 from East. Now West had to weigh the likelihood of East having a trump trick (even a singleton ♠K might be enough). I suspected that East had the ♦K, as you would certainly make an attacking lead in this situation, and if that is the case, the chance of partner having a trump trick diminishes. Eventually West played another club. . .but it was the king. Naturally it was a flat board. Strul led 85-52 IMPs after 32, but their opponents added 103 IMPs in the second half to win going away, 155-121.

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Another walk on the Wagar side By Mark Horton

The final of the Wagar Women’s teams between Hampton and Westheimer featured no less than seven World Champions, so it figured to be an exciting match. That was certainly the case over the first 16 deals. Dlr: Both ♠ K J 10 9 3 Vul: West ♥QJ432 ♦9 ♣98 ♠ Q 4 ♠6 ♥ 10 8 7 5 ♥AK9 ♦ J 10 6 ♦AQ84 ♣ Q 6 4 2 ♣ A 10 7 5 3 ♠A8752 ♥6 ♦K7532 ♣KJ West North East South Quinn Wolpert Breed Hampton Pass Pass 1♣ 1♠ 2♣ 4♠ 5♣ Dbl All Pass Open Room West North East South Quinn Wolpert Breed Hampton Pass Pass 1♣ 1♠ 2♣ 4♠ 5♣ Dbl All Pass South led her heart and declarer took North’s jack with the ace and played ♣A and a club. She had to lose a spade and a diamond, minus 100. Closed Room West North East South von Arnim Disa Auken Westheimer Pass Pass 1♣ 1♠ Pass 4♠ Dbl All Pass West led the ♥5 and East won with the king and cashed the minor suit aces. Declarer had the rest, plus 790 and 12 IMPs for Westheimer. Dlr: North ♠854 Vul: N-S ♥Q5 ♦QJ83 ♣8732 ♠ A J 3 ♠Q97 ♥ 8 6 ♥ A K 10 7 3 2 ♦ A K ♦96 ♣ A K Q J 10 9 ♣65 ♠ K 10 6 2 ♥J94 ♦ 10 7 5 4 2 ♣4 West North East South Quinn Wolpert Breed Hampton Pass 2♥ Pass 3NT All Pass West made no attempt to discover how strong East was. Plus 490. Closed Room West North East South von Arnim Disa Auken Westheimer 1♥ Pass 2♣(1) Pass 2♦(2) Pass 2♥ Pass 3♥(3) Pass 3♠ Pass 3NT(4) Pass 4NT Pass 5♥(5) Pass 5♠ Pass 6♥(6) Pass 6NT All Pass (1) Game-forcing. (2) At least five hearts, no other five-card suit. (3) Six hearts. (4) No shortage. (5) Two key cards without the queen. (6) No side king. On the opening deal of the match Auken had opened a Multi on: ♠ A K 10 5 3 2 ♥ 10 9 ♦ Q 3 2 ♣ 8 2 Here she preferred the one level, probably because her three-card suit was in the other major. West forced to game with 2♣ and then used a series of asking bids to find out about East’s hand.

Declarer won the diamond lead, crossed to dummy with a heart and played a spade to the jack. When that held, North conceded, telling South she was squeezed in the majors. Well, yes and no. Provided North hangs on to her spades, the eight will have a role to play and declarer will score only twelve tricks. Plus 1020 was 11 IMPs for Hampton. Dlr: East ♠962 Vul: E-W ♥964 ♦ 10 5 4 ♣Q864 ♠ J 10 8 5 ♠AKQ ♥ 7 ♥ A K J 10 8 2 ♦ K Q J 8 3 2 ♦76 ♣ 10 3 ♣AJ ♠743 ♥Q53 ♦A9 ♣K9752 West North East South Quinn Wolpert Breed Hampton 2♣ Pass 3♦ Pass 3♥ Pass 3♠ Pass 4♥ All Pass Should West have emphasized her diamonds, rather than introduce spades? Declarer made eleven tricks, Plus 650. Closed Room West North East South von Arnim Disa Auken Westheimer 1♣(1) Pass 2♣(2) Pass 2♦ Pass 2♥(3) Pass 2sx* Pass 3♠(4) Pass 4♦(5) Pass 4♠(6) Pass 4NT(7) Pass 6♦(8) All Pass (1) Strong. (2) 8 + HCP, diamonds. (3) 5+ diamonds, four spades. (4) 8-10 HCP, six diamonds. (5) Optional key card for diamonds. (6) 1 or 4. (7) ♦Q? (8) Yes, but no side king. This time it was East who was asking the questions. There was some doubt about the meaning of 3♠—it might have been 4-2-5-2, rather than six diamonds. Declarer won the spade lead and played on trumps. Plus 1370 and 12 IMPs. Dlr: East ♠8764 Vul: Both ♥ A Q 10 ♦6 ♣AQ532 ♠ J 5 ♠ K 10 9 ♥ K J 9 8 5 ♥3 ♦ A 7 5 ♦ Q J 10 9 8 4 2 ♣ K J 4 ♣76 ♠AQ32 ♥7642 ♦K3 ♣ 10 9 8 Open Room West North East South Quinn Wolpert Breed Hampton 3♦ Pass Pass Dbl Pass 3♠ 4♦ Pass Pass 4♥ Pass 4♠ Dbl All Pass West decided to bide her time, a policy that turned out badly. She cashed the ♦A and switched to the ♥5. Declarer put up the ace, played a spade to the queen, cashed the ♦K discarding a club and ran the ♣10. A club to the jack and queen was followed by a spade to the ace and a club. East ruffed, but had to concede a ruff and discard, Plus 790. It seems churlish to point out that had declarer put in the ♥Q at trick two she would have recorded an overtrick.

Closed Room West North East South von Arnim Disa Auken Westheimer 3♦ Pass 4♦ All Pass West “stood not upon the order of her going, but went at once” and that was enough to keep North-South quiet. Declarer had to lose two spades, two clubs and a heart, minus 200, but 11 IMPs. Dlr: West ♠— Vul: N-S ♥ K 10 9 8 ♦AJ7632 ♣863 ♠ A Q 6 5 4 ♠KJ987 ♥ J 7 5 2 ♥A63 ♦— ♦4 ♣ K Q 7 4 ♣ 10 9 5 2 ♠ 10 3 2 ♥Q4 ♦ K Q 10 9 8 5 ♣AJ Open Room West North East South Quinn Wolpert Breed Hampton 1♠ Pass 4♦ Dbl Rdbl* 5♦ Pass Pass 5♠ All Pass North led the ♦A and declarer ruffed, drew two rounds of trumps ending in dummy and played a club to the jack and queen. She crossed to dummy with a trump and played another club. South won and blotted her copy book by exiting with a low heart, rather than the queen. Now declarer could win with dummy’s ace, cash two clubs ending in dummy and play a heart. South won and had to give a ruff and discard. Minus 450. Closed Room West North East South von Arnim Disa Auken Westheimer 1♠ Pass 2♥ 3♦ 4♦ 5♦ Pass Pass 5♠ 6♦ Dbl All Pass A vulnerable save is a very rare bird—and without a club lead declarer might well make her doubled slam. However, West led the ♣Q and that was one down, minus 200. 6 IMPs to Westheimer that should have gone the other way. Although they had been on the wrong end of the big swings by 3-1, Westheimer had picked up a few bits and pieces to close down only 37-44. SATURDAY-SUNDAY KO BRACKET 1 10 Tables Molan Chan - William Chan, Van Buren ME; Robert Michaud, Saint David ME; Hon Ho, North York ON vs Linda Harrison, Calgary AB; Hao Ge, Bay Village OH; Nongyu Li, Sunnyvale CA; Yan Wang - Nannan Chen, Scarborough ON Claire Tornay - George Tornay Jr, Palm Beach Gdns FL; Marcia Schloss - Anita Gumuchdjian, New York NY vs Roy Perry - Thomas Dale, St. John’s NL; Barbara Rhoades, Wilmington DE; Richard Lash, St John’s NL SATURDAY-SUNDAY KO BRACKET 2 12 Tables Claude Depatie, Saint-Mathias-R QC; Ghislaine Carignan, Brossard QC; Francine Methot-Page, Longueuil QC; Cecile Rodier, Saint-Hyacinthe QC vs Thomas Poisson, Nobel ON; Thomas Poisson, Belle River ON; Tony Viidik - Joan Viidik, Waterloo ON Margaret Eddleston - Bernard Eddleston, Hitchin Herts England; Bev Drill - Arnold Drill, Kaneohe HI vs Marie Duval, Montreal QC; Albert Zagury, Mont-Royal QC; Harry Freedman, Ottawa ON; Paulin Nault, Saint-Anicet QC SATURDAY-SUNDAY KO BRACKET 3 13 Tables Claudette Roush - Nan Fulweber, Houston TX; Peter Pivko Susan Pivko, Milburn NJ vs Linda Leaming, Rockford IL; Per Halvorsen, Norway; Murat Berk, Potomac MD; Sally Craig, Port Moody BC Thomas James - Chris James, Scarborough ON; Helene Taylor Richard Garlick, Alliston ON vs Doug Darnley - Brenda Griffiths, Pickering ON; Robert Fukunaga, Thornhill ON; Tore Eriksen, Toronto ON

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MINI-SPINGOLD I KO TEAMS

62 Tables 100.00 1 John Lewis, Fort Lauderdale FL; David Sokolow, Austin TX; Howard Einberg, Los Angeles CA; Maris Zilant, North Miami FL; Susan Fuller, Miami FL; Saul Gross, Miami Beach FL 75.00 2 Gary Donner, Bluffton SC; Deborah Murphy, San Francisco CA; Lauren Friedman, Daly City CA; Larry Lerner, Warren NJ 50.00 3/4 Bob Lyon - Brad Bartol - Matt Cory, Indianapolis IN; Zach Brescoll, Versailles KY 50.00 3/4 Sally Hill, Webster NY; Jerome Weiss, Penfield NY; John D’Errico, Alton NY; Gary DeWitt, Williamson NY 22.50 5/8 Ned Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR; Jerry Fong, Marianna AR; Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR; Mike McGuire, Hernando MS 22.50 5/8 Jack Brown - R Elwin Brown - David Gordon - Maher Saleh - Tim Edwards-Davies, Ottawa ON; Motaz Faraq, Kanata ON 22.50 5/8 Michael Bodell, Santa Clara CA; Andrew Hoskins, Burlingame CA; Jannes van ‘t Oever, Berkeley CA; William Campbell, Pacific Grove CA 22.50 5/8 Alex Dezieck, Wilbraham MA; Joshua Parks, Charlottesville VA; Nick Smith, Westmount QC; Shaz Taslimi, Montreal QC 10.00 9/16 Natalie Bassil, Boston MA; Roger Johnson, Sarasota FL; Joe De Gaetano, Atkinson NH; Paul Nason, Los Angeles CA 10.00 9/16 Leigh Ives - Rob Avery, Barrie ON; Hindupuram Sriharsha, Orillia ON; George Knight, Victoria Harbour ON 10.00 9/16 Louise Clark - Steve Clark, Glencoe IL; Michael Strong - Johanna Strong, Winfield IL 10.00 9/16 Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; Lee Ohliger, Ridgewood NJ; Larry Ascher - Diana Tenery-Ascher, Englewood NJ 10.00 9/16 Henry Caspar, Katy TX; Terry Richardson, Austin TX; Cole Powell, Oakland CA; Dan Hoekstra, Portland OR 10.00 9/16 Patrick White, Bothell WA; Vic Quiros, Scottsdale AZ; Steven Shaye, Slingerlands NY; Larry Rosen, Albany NY 10.00 9/16 Constance Sackville, Vero Beach FL; Vincent Messina, Wolfeboro NH; Carol Fielder, Jackson MS; Mary Ann Belden, Kosciusko MS 10.00 9/16 Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON; Barbara McLendon, New York NY; Joan Millens, Kingston NY; David Sabourin - Gordon Zind, Ottawa ON; Anton Blagov, Richmond Hill ON

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Smart phone users on the go now have a complete directory of sanctioned duplicate games at their fingertips. Launched in July, ACBL Mobile enables iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users instant access to an index of clubs throughout the U.S. and Canada. “Find a Club” searches may be conducted by using the device’s GPS tracking capability or manually by city/state or zip/ postal code. “The positive response has been overwhelming,” said Vicki Campbell, ACBL director of marketing and education. “Within two weeks of its release, the new app had been downloaded by 1600 individuals.” Posting on the ACBL’s Facebook page, Michael Nistler (www.bridgehands.com) called the app “Awesome! Definitely integrates with iPhone including hotlinks for club email address (push to create email), phone (push to dial club), and best of all, club website (push to open browser and go to club website).” ACBL Mobile is free and available through the iTunes app store.“The number of ACBL members using smart phones has doubled in the past year,” Campbell said. “That — plus the fact that we know our members like to travel — made creation of a mobile application a logical service.” Campbell also sees the application as a beneficial marketing tool for local clubs. Not only does the information retrieved by the application provide a directory of clubs including address, phone number and distance, but it also details a schedule of games. “Although the search results reflect the latest information the ACBL has, it’s always prudent to phone in advance of a game to make sure there has been no change in the time or location,” Campbell cautioned. Plans are currently underway to develop the app for use on other smart phone platforms including the Android, Blackberry and Windows. “We’ll also be adding features such as ‘Find a Teacher’ and ‘Find a Tournament,’” Campbell said.

QUALIFIERS IN THE ROTH OPEN SWISS TEAMS

96 Tables / Based on 185 Tables 1 Anna Sarniak, Warsaw Poland; Josef Blass, Chapel Hill NC; Michael Askgaard, Gentofte Denmark; Martin Schaltz, Odense 5000 Denmark; Morton Madsen, Vallensbaek Strd Denmark; Gregers Bjarnarson, Copenhagen 2100 Denmark 30.00 2/3 Aaron Silverstein - Andrew Rosenthal - Bjorn Fallenius - Chris Willenken, New York NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Michael Rosenberg, Chappagua NY 27.75 2/3 John Carruthers, Harrow ON; John Gowdy, Markham ON; Martin Kirr, Toronto ON; Linda Lewis - Paul Lewis, Sioux Falls SD; Jon Sveindal, Bergen Norway 27.75 4 Sylvia Moss - Migry Zur Campanile, New York NY; Jo Anna Stansby, Dublin CA; Marion Michielsen, AM Rotterd Netherlands; Laura Dekkers, Netherlands 26.25 5/6 Stasha Cohen - Mark Cohen, Glen Ridge NJ; Geoffrey Brod, Avon CT; John Stiefel, Wethersfield CT; Richard DeMartino, Riverside CT; Pat McDevitt, Brookline MA 25.50 5/6 Patricia Tucker - Claudia Feagin - Jack Feagin Jr, Atlanta GA; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA 25.50 7 Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Venice FL; Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Terje Aa, Heimdal Norway; Jorgen Molberg, Trondheim Norway 23.25 8 Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON; Ishmael Delmonte, New South Wales Australia; Joe Grue, New York NY; Curtis Cheek, Las Vegas NV; Daniel Korbel, Waterloo ON; Darren Wolpert, Thornhill ON 21.75 9 Victor Markowicz, Boca Raton FL; Julian Klukowski, Warsaw Poland; Shalom Zeligman, Bat-Yam Israel; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin 20-732 Poland; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw Poland 20.25 10/14 John Onstott, New Orleans LA; Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; James Krekorian, Pensacola FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Vincent Demuy, Laval QC; Bruce Ferguson, Palm Springs CA 19.50 10/14 Samantha Nystrom, Port Moody BC; David Grainger, Bend OR; Martin Henneberger, Coquitlam BC; Yasuko Shrenzel, Honolulu HI; Tadashi Teramoto, Tokyo Japan 19.50 10/14 Walid Elahmady - Tarek Sadek, Cairo Egypt; Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; George Jacobs, Hinsdale IL; Norberto Bocchi, Barcelona 080 Spain; Agustin Madala, Buenos Aires Argentina 19.50 10/14 Godefroy De Tessieres, Paris France; Philippe Cronier, Paris 75018 France; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Michael Polowan, New York NY; Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Daniela von Arnim, D-68766 Hockenh Germany 19.50 10/14 Roy Welland, New York NY; Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Alexander Smirnov, Lubeck Germany; Josef Piekarek, Hamburg Germany 19.50 15/17 Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; Aleksander Dubinin Andrew Gromov, Moscow Russia; Cezary Balicki, Smolec Poland; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice Poland 18.00 15/17 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Fred Gitelman - Geoff Hampson, Las Vegas NV; Brad Moss, San Anselmo CA 18.00 15/17 Yuxiong Shen, Shanghai 20004 People’s Republic of China; Wei Wang - Zijian Shao, Shanghai People’s Republic of China; Xiaodong Shi, Naperville IL; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ 18.00 18/21 Michael Bodell, Santa Clara CA; Patrick White, Bothell WA; Vic Quiros, Scottsdale AZ; Andrew Hoskins, Burlingame CA; William Campbell, Pacific Grove CA 17.25 18/21 Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON; Bert Eccles, Montreal QC; David Colbert, Etobicoke ON; Keith Balcombe, Oshawa ON 17.25 18/21 John Bowman - Bill Bowman - Stephen Brown, Ottawa ON; David Kent, Lake Mary FL 17.25 18/21 Christopher Cowan - Sallie Caty, Oakville ON; Martin Miller, Rochester NY; Patti Lee, Toronto ON 17.25 22/23 Paul Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Robert Todd, Tallahassee FL; John Hurd - Joel Wooldridge, New York NY; Krzysztof Buras, Warszawa Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Bielsk Poland 16.50 22/23 Hemant Lall - Justin Lall, Dallas TX; Jaggy Shivdasani, Pleasantville NY; Winthrop Allegaert - Judith Bianco, New York NY; Lapt Chan, Forest Hills NY 16.50 24/25 Larry Sealy, Huntsville AL; Jim Foster, Birmingham AL; Eugene Saxe, Briarcliff NY; Dick Yarington, Seattle WA; John Lusky, Portland OR; Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA 15.75 24/25 Kirubakara Moorthy, Chennai India; Kirshnan Ramaratnam, Jersey City NJ; Sathya Bettadapura, Campbell CA; Doug Dey, Raleigh NC 15.75 26/28 Dean Panagopoulos, Lynn MA; James Rasmussen - Pamela Miller, Cambridge MA; Yiji Starr, Wayland MA 14.25 26/28 Franklin Lowenthal, Pleasanton CA; Jim O’Neil, Palo Alto CA; Mike Cailean, Santa Clara CA; Gary Macgregor, Portola Valley CA 14.25 26/28 Bruce Rogoff, Tenafly NJ; Robert Lebi, Toronto ON; Jessica Larsson, Stockholm Sweden; Kathrine Bertheau, Taby Sweden 14.25 29/32 Veronique Bessis, Paris France; Catherine D’Ovidio, Courbevoie 9240 France; Irina Levitina, Hackensack NJ; Victoria Gromova, Moscow 117296 Russia; Tatiana Ponomareva, Moscow Russia 13.50 29/32 Charles Martineau, Brossard QC; Andre Chartrand, Montreal QC; Serge Chevalier, Laval QC; Jean Castonguay, Lery QC 13.50 29/32 Ernesto Dorsi, Sao Paulo Sp 05 Brazil; Marcos Thoma, San Paula, Sp 0 Brazil; Mauricio Figueiredo, Sao Paulo Brazil; Joaquin Pacareu, Santiago Chile Chile; Benjamin Robles, New York NY 13.50 29/32 Joan Eaton, North York ON; Candace Griffey, Vero Beach FL; Mary Savko - Ellie Hanlon, Barre VT 13.50 33 Craig Ganzer, Brooklyn NY; Robert Brady, McLean VA; Mihaela Balint, Greenwich CT; Marius Agica, New York NY 12.00 34/35 Joao Paulo Campos, Sao Paulo 01229 Brazil; Miguel Villas-Boas, Sao Paulo Brazil; Alejandro Bianchedi - Ernesto Muzzio, Buenos Aires Argentina; Pablo Lambardi, Buenos Aires 10 Argentina; Juan Carlos Ventin, 08021 Barcelona Spain 11.25 34/35 Max Aeschbacher, Salt Lake City UT; Ankur Rathi, Fort Worth TX; Cristal Nell, Redmond WA; Theresa Andino, Tallahassee FL 11.25 36/39 Steve Robinson, Arlington VA; Peter Boyd, Darnestown MD; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Fred Stewart, Bloomington NY; Adam Wildavsky, New York NY; Douglas Doub, W Hartford CT 10.50

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David Abelow, Owings Mills MD; Richard Wegman, Bethesda MD; David Ruderman, Burtonsville MD; Lyle Poe Jr, Ellicott City MD; Brad Theurer, Gaithersburg MD 10.50 Ringo Chung, Mississauga ON; Helen Hackner, Willowdale ON; Dimitar Cvetkov, Milton ON; Edmund Fok, Scarborough ON 10.50 Karen Willenken, New York NY; Lynn Johannesen - Dale Johannesen, Saratoga CA; Sally Woolsey, Kensington CA 10.50 Brad Bart, Burnaby BC; Lynne Feldman, San Diego CA; Michael Yuen, Vancouver BC; Kiz Fung, Edmonton AB; Ellis Feigenbaum - Marjorie Michelin, Laguna Woods CA 9.75 Wayne Eggers, Woodridge IL; William McFall, New Berlin WI; Sharon Meng-Horton, Dade City FL; Jerry Poliquin, Gurnee IL; James Diebel, Wood Dale IL 9.75 Mike Marlin - Sandra Marlin, Versailles KY; Susan Bullard - H Gordon, Lexington KY 9.75 Kevin Bathurst, New York NY; Daniel Zagorin, Skokie IL; Fredrik Nystrom, 11421 Stockholm Sweden; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden; Johan Upmark, 115 58 Stockho Sweden; Per-Ola Cullin, Johanneshov Sweden 9.75 Jon Wittes - Ross Grabel, Palm Desert CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA; Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON; Roger Lee, Monrovia CA 9.00 Mike Levine, Pinckney MI; Dennis McGarry, Stuart FL; Daniel Gerstman, Buffalo NY; Stephen Landen, Ellicott City MD; Dennis Clerkin - Jerry Clerkin, Bloomington IN 9.00 Fred King, Falls Church VA; Barry Bragin, Silver Spring MD; Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA 8.25 Tom Hanlon, Dublin 6 Ireland; Hugh McGann, N Yorkshire England; Anthony Nunn, Artarmon Nsw Australia; Sartaj Hans, Artarmon NSW Australia 8.25 Rai Osborne, Anaheim CA; Charles Miner, Orlando FL; Haisam Osman, Highlands Ranch CO; Pam Stratton, Las Vegas NV; Julie Zhu, Vero Beach FL 8.25 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Simon De Wijs, Doorn G Netherlands; Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Tilburg Netherlands; Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands 7.50 Paul Janicki, Markham ON; Morrie Kleinplatz, Windsor ON; Barry Senensky, Thornhill ON; Robert Kuz, St Andrews MB 7.50 William Arlinghaus, Ann Arbor MI; Richard Popper, Wilmington DE; Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; Craig Robinson, Lansdale PA 7.50 Yingdan You, ; Sui Sim Lian, Singapore; Kelvin Ng, Singapore 80609 Singapore; Tan Wei Seng, S 806097 Singapore; Cheng Yen Lam, S600236 Singapore 7.50 Howard Liu, Naperville IL; Drew Becker, Chicago IL; Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ; Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY 7.50 Kyle Larsen, San Francisco CA; Rose Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; Diego Brenner, L’Eixample Barc Spain; Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Pamela Granovetter - Matt Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 7.50 Renee Mancuso, Los Angeles CA; Christal Henner-Welland - Uday Ivatury, New York NY; Sheri Winestock, Las Vegas NV; Eugene Hung, Palo Alto CA; Ari Greenberg, San Francisco CA 7.50 Larry Ascher - Diana Tenery-Ascher, Englewood NJ; Lee Ohliger, Ridgewood NJ; Jonathan Ohliger, El Cerrito CA 6.75 Kevin Conway, Kirkland Lake ON; Robert Crosby, Edmonton AB; William Koski, King City ON; Dale Freeman, Englehart ON 6.75 Arun Goyal - Rachna Goyal - Mike Ma, Cincinnati OH; Stephen Moese, West Chester OH; Randall Rubinstein, Queens NY; Allen Reiter, Caesaria Israel 6.75 Michael Levinson, Daly City CA; Paul McDaniels, Richmond CA; Steve Clark, Carlsbad CA; Alan Schwartz, Fairfax VA; Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Mary Paul, Toronto ON 6.75 Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ; Barbara Sonsini, Woodside CA; Fu Zhong, Beijing People’s Republic of China; Jie Zhao, Tianjin People’s Republic of China; Gunnar Hallberg, Brighton United Kingdom; Chris Compton, Dallas TX 6.75 Reese Milner, Los Angeles CA; Gavin Wolpert, Jupiter FL; Thomas Bessis, Paris France; Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA; Ron Smith, San Francisco CA 6.75 Bob Gorsey, Bedford MA; Carole Weinstein, Acton MA; Neil Montague, Swampscott MA; Bernard Schneider - Frances Schneider, Riverside CT 6.75 Justin Blanchard - Catalina Robles, New York NY; David Sabourin - Gordon Zind, Ottawa ON 6.75 Fred Hoffer, Montreal QC; Don Piafsky, Toronto ON; Barry Piafsky - Jessica Piafsky, New York NY; Frederic Volcker, Issy les Moulin France 6.00 Ron Zambonini, Nepean ON; Waldemar Frukacz, Gloucester ON; Jacek Jerzy Kalita Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland; Krzysztof Jassem, Puszczykoud Poland; Krzysztof Martens, Rzeszow Poland 6.00 Helen Raleigh - Robert Heitzman Jr, Suffern NY; Alan Kleist, Cheverly MD; Kenton Schoen, Burke VA 5.25 Ken Cohen, Philadelphia PA; H. Thomas Hunt, Charlotte NC; Rick Rowland, Wilmington DE; Thomas Weik, Reading PA 5.25 Dan Morse, Houston TX; Robert Bitterman - Jerry Helms, Charlotte NC; Steve Shirey, Fort Worth TX; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX 5.25 Dori Byrnes, Morris Plains NJ; William Ehlers, Montclair NJ; Sylwia McNamara Michael McNamara, White Plains NY 5.25 Richard Schwartz, East Elmhurst NY; John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV; Louk Verhees, 2215 SH Voorhou Netherlands; Eldad Ginossar, Moshav Zofit Israel; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba 44 Israel; Cornelis Van Prooijen, Nieuw Vennep Netherlands 5.25 Phil Gue - Paul Wyer, Australia; Jenni Carmichael, Kennesaw GA; Chris Wiegand, Portland OR; Karen McCallum, Exeter NH; Tania Reyes Hiller, Shrub Oak NY 5.25 Ray Jotcham, Scarborough ON; Lewis Richardson, Toronto ON; James Priebe, Mississauga ON; Stephen Mackay, Markham ON 4.50 Martin Bloom, Sydney Australia; Peter David Gill - Andrew Peave, Sydney Australia; David Wiltshire, Paddington N Australia 4.50 Allan Stauber, Palm Bch Grdns FL; Marc Rabinowitz, Sunny Isles Bch FL; Eric Robinson, New York NY; Warren Rosner, White Plains NY; Ethan Stein, Irvington NY; J Robinson, Montreal QC 3.75 Sheila Adamson, Scotland Eh8 7d United Kingdom; Anne Symons, Falkirk Scotland; Samantha Punch, Stirling United Kingdom; Stephen Peterkin, Stirling United Kingdom 3.75

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Toronto 2001 — A look back Another day at office By Marc Smith

It was the early hours of the morning, but a large crowd was still gathered around the table where Jeff Meckstroth and Eric Rodwell were playing the final few deals of a match in which they were trailing by 20‑25 IMPs going into the final set. No one knew at the time, but the Nickell team was still down by a double‑figure score with three deals remaining. This was Board 14 of 16 at Meckwell’s table. ♠AQJ53 ♥ Q 10 ♦ A Q 10 6 2 ♣5 ♠6 ♥K9873 ♦54 ♣AKJ84 Where would you like to play these North‑South cards? At the other table, North‑South reached 3NT from the South seat. Bob Hamman led a heart to the 10 and ace, and Paul Soloway shifted to a club. How do you like your chances now? Declarer won the ♣A and played a diamond to the 10 and king, but when Soloway then returned a heart, declarer’s hand was effectively dead. The 4‑2 diamond break meant that declarer could make only eight tricks—N‑S minus 50. At the Meckwell table, Meckstroth bid his suits facing a strong 1♣ opening, and he then pressed on with 4♦ over 3NT. Rodwell corrected to 4♥ and there matters rested. West led a highish spade and Meckstroth won the ace to lead the ♥Q. Bruce Ferguson, sitting East, grabbed the ♥A and returned a club, and Meckstroth put in the jack after considerable thought. The ♣A‑K followed quickly, then a ruff of the fourth round of clubs. Meckstroth then led the ♠Q from dummy and ruffed away East’s king. Cashing the ♥ K extracted East’s last trump, and now Meckstroth led his winning club. West could score his low trump and the jack, but that was all. The diamond loser went on the ♠J. Declarer had lost just three trump tricks: N-S plus 420. 10 IMPs to Nickell. They went on to gain two more swings on the last two deals at Meckwell’s table and won the match by a margin just in double figures. An exciting finish for the spectators who had stayed into the early hours to see the conclusion of the match, but just another routine day at the office for Jeff and Eric.

Comeback kids

Going into the second half of their semi final match in the 2001 Grand National Teams Flight B, the squad captained by Gary Moore trailed their District 1 opponents by 3 IMPs. The team took care of that matter right out of the box with a 15–IMP gain on the first board of the set. The team—Moore, Ari Greenberg, Lisa Liberati, Chris Lubesnik, Kevin Bathurst and Randolph Hammock---never looked back, winning the championship the next day. This was the deal that jump-started their comeback: Dlr: North ♠KJ954 Vul: None ♥J ♦7652 ♣KQ6 ♠ 3 ♠A87 ♥ K 10 9 8 7 6 5 3 ♥4 ♦ 9 3 ♦ K Q 10 8 4 ♣ 9 2 ♣A854 ♠ Q 10 6 2 ♥AQ2 ♦AJ ♣ J 10 7 3

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Nickell shines

On this deal from the 2001 Life Master Pairs qualifying, Nick Nickell demonstrated some keen dummy play. His partner was Richard Freeman. Dlr:West ♠976 Vul: E-W ♥J5 ♦Q8 ♣KJ7532 ♠ A J 2 ♠ 10 5 4 3 ♥ K Q 9 7 3 2 ♥4 ♦ A 4 ♦ K J 10 9 2 ♣ A 9 ♣ Q 10 6 ♠KQ8 ♥ A 10 8 6 ♦7653 ♣84 West North East South Nickell Freeman 1♥ Pass 1♠ Pass 2NT Pass 3NT All Pass North kicked off with a low club and Nickell put in dummy’s 10, which won. A heart to the king held, and now Nickell turned to diamonds. He played ♦A and another diamond and was gratified when the queen appeared. He cashed dummy’s winners in the suit, shedding hearts. When he then led a spade from dummy, South put in the king and Nickell took the ace. These cards now remained: ♠97 ♥— ♦— ♣KJ3 ♠ J 2 ♠ 10 5 4 ♥ Q 9 ♥— ♦ — ♦— ♣ A ♣Q6 ♠Q8 ♥ A 10 8 ♦— ♣— Reading the position accurately, Nickell next cashed the ♣A. What could South do? He pitched his low spade, but Nickell hadn’t come this far to misread the ending. He exited with the ♠J. All South could do was cash the ♥A. Plus 660 was worth 37.5 of 38 matchpoints.

74/76 77/79 77/79 77/79 80/85 80/85 80/85 80/85 80/85 80/85 86/90 86/90 86/90 86/90 86/90 91/92 91/92 93/96 93/96 93/96 93/96

Nicolas Hammond - Edward Foran, Marietta GA; Scott Stearns, Elberta AL; Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS 3.75 Doug Andrews, Etobicoke ON; Brian Johnston - John Cook, Toronto ON; Brooke Nelles - Dwight Bender, London ON; Craig Macintosh, Scarborough ON 3.00 Mary Oshlag - Richard Oshlag, Memphis TN; Paul Munafo, Huntsville AL; Gary Kessler, Springfield IL 3.00 Sheila Ekeblad, Providence RI; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI; David Bakhshi, London England; Jan Jansma, Spijkenisse Netherlands; Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; Mark Feldman, Austin TX 3.00 Claude Vogel, Chicago IL; Ginny Schuett - Jeff Schuett, Riverwoods IL; Suzi Subeck, Glenview Nas IL; Stanton Subeck, Glenview IL; Chris Benson, Le Roy IL 2.25 Hirsh Schnayer, Laval QC; Michael Efraim, Mont-Royal QC; Juliette Fajgelzon, Saint-Laurent QC; John Laufer, Toronto ON; Theo Lichtenstein - Bob Soni, Tallahassee FL 2.25 Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Sjoert Brink, Rotterdam Netherlands; Bas Drijver, Capelle Aan Den Netherlands; Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Sam Lev, New York NY 2.25 Jane Ball, Doylestown PA; Howard Cohen, Philadelphia PA; Corey Krantz, Drexel Hill PA; Meyer Kotkin, Cherry Hill NJ 2.25 Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA; Yatindra Sahae, Carmel Valley CA; Detlef Ladewig, Toronto ON; Chuck Said, Nashville TN 2.25 Derek Sanders - Derek Diamond - Brian Spears - John Murdoch, 2.25 Joseph Sauro, Oakville ON; Danny Ioannidis, Stoney Creek ON; Lee Daugharty, Brampton ON; Stephen Young, Mississauga ON 1.50 William Pettis - William Cole, Silver Spring MD; Ai-Tai Lo, Reston VA; Thomas Carmichael, Kennesaw GA; Jeff Roman, Alexandria VA 1.50 Alain Henault, Longueuil QC; Eric David, Sainte-Julie QC; Marius Moldovan, Pointe-Claire QC; M. Xavier Combey, D D O QC 1.50 William Camp, Chester NS; Gur Baykal, Markham ON; Leo Weniger - Roderick Mackenzie, Halifax NS 1.50 G S Jade Barrett - Karen Lee Barrett, Elk Point SD; Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; Jim Looby, Burbank CA; Anne Dawson, Delhi LA; Barry Harper, Regina SK 1.50 Gerry Marshall, Calgary AB; Hendrik Sharples, Brush Prairie WA; Ross Rainwater, Vancouver WA; Ray Miller, Seattle WA; Kelley Hwang - Erez Hendelman, New York NY 0.75 Judith Gartaganis - Nicholas Gartaganis, Calgary AB; Jeffrey Smith - Isabelle Smith, Ottawa ON 0.75 Hansa Narasimhan, Los Altos Hills CA; Amar Banerjee, Bhadreswar 91 India; Sumit Mukherjee, Rolkata India; Bhabesh Saha - Kaustabh Nandi, Kolkata West Be India; Debaboala Majumdesh, 0.00 Stephen Castellino, Fremont CA; Paul Cornelius, Mountain View CA; Tien-Chun Yang, San Jose CA; Pat Galligan, San Mateo CA 0.00 Tod Zhang, Toronto ON; Mark Wang, Scarborough ON; Qiang Li - Qian Ren, North York ON 0.00 Geeske Joel, Palo Alto CA; Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX; Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA; Jill Levin, Henderson NV; Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; Debbie Rosenberg, Cupertino CA 0.00

14.0 Tables A 3.64 1 2.73 2 2.05 3 1.54 4 2.24 5 1.10 6 0.83

SATURDAY EVENING SIDE GAME B 1 2 3 4 5 6

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Polly Siegel, Los Altos CA; Randy Ryals, Menlo Park CA Nicholas Hartung, Astoria NY; Peter Merker, Mentor OH Russell Craft - Dee Craft, Smith’s Parish Bermuda Natalie Bassil, Boston MA; Brenda Montague, Swampscott MA Michael Levine - David Smith, Toronto ON Michael Hebbert, Thornbury ON; Curtis Kristensen, Duluth MN Steven Wallis, Tampa FL; Tammy Moll, Raleigh NC

62.66% 61.06% 60.42% 58.65% 58.01% 57.53% 57.37%

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SATURDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS ONLY SESSION SECTION HH A B C 1 1 Harry Eaglesham - Lorraine Eaglesham, Unionville ON 2 2 1 Nancy MacDonald Exel - Carolyn McAvoy, Mississauga ON 3 3 2 Joseph Lieberman, Los Angeles CA; Christopher Welland, New York NY 4 4 Jeffery Jones, Vero Beach FL; David Armstrong, Whitmore Lake MI

68.48% 59.77% 56.13% 54.17%

SALLY’S “ALMOST THERE” STRATIFIED OPEN PAIRS 2ND OF 2 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS WWW XXX YYY A B C A B C 1 Ronald Hemeon - Lil Hemeon, Saskatoon SK 61.86% 1 2 1 Joyce Goldstein - Jack Wertheimer, Brooklyn NY 61.44% 2 1 3 2 Douglas McCormac, North Dartmouth MA; Frank Wharton, London Nw3 1en England 58.85% 3 4 Rashid Khan - Vera Carpenter, Toronto ON 57.81% 4 2 5/6 Scott Hiller, Marshall MN; Abe Jakob, Ft Lauderdale FL 57.24% 5 5/6 3 Robert Pezzack - Shirley Wright, Toronto ON 57.24% 6 3 7 Steve Mager, Hermosa Beach CA; Gerri Soffa Carlson, Rncho Pls Vrds CA 56.07% 7 4 8 4 Jane Dickey - Suzanne Siebert, Little Rock AR 55.75% 8 5 1 9 5 William Kraybill, Lewis Center OH; Maria Tsoukalas, New York NY 55.53% 9 10 6 1 J Wilmer Winsor, Napanee ON; Shiree Shafrir, Trenton ON 55.33% 10 6 2 11 7 Marilyn Lindsay - Gaylia Ohlman, Kingston ON 54.11% 11 12 8 Alice Wegman, Bethesda MD; Ted Withers, Windsor NS 53.57% 12 7 13 9 Harold Baba, Thornhill ON; Linda Lord, Schomberg ON 53.26% 13 8 14 Richard Lesage, Montreal QC; Vincent Messina, Wolfeboro NH 53.21% 14 9 15 10 Theodore Glaessner - Cecil Glaessner, Pacific Plsds CA 53.05% 15 16 James Melville, Springfield IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL 51.50% 16 10 3 17 11 Serdar Ozyetis, Mississauga ON; Bonnie Bagley, Colorado Spgs CO 51.48% 17 11 4 12 2 D Rowe, Peterborough ON; Heidi Smiles, Harwood ON 51.33% 12 13 3 Stanley Sterenberg - Laura Schisgall, New York NY 50.70% 13 4 Jim Fenwick, Markham ON; Manmohan Bhavra, Niagara Univ NY 50.52% 14

Mark Liberman - Barbara Shnier, Toronto ON Steve Smolen, San Francisco CA; Chris Chung, Palo Alto CA Walter Rassbach - Nancy Rassbach, Westminster CO Robert Macneal, Aurora ON; Paul MacFarlane, Keswick ON Roisin O’Hara, Oakville ON; Robin Stephens, Toronto ON Marie Wiley - Audrey Craig, London ON Lon Sunshine, Framingham MA; Ivanie Yeo, Brighton MA Jane Guan - Xiao (Joe) Zhao, Hamilton ON Richard Williams - Jody Williams, San Carlos CA D Sutherland, Northville MI; Douglas Hosfeld, Chatham ON Hal Knilans - Gerri Knilans, Thousand Oaks CA David Aderente, Ann Arbor MI; Thomas Beukema, Petoskey MI Michael Kraut, Royal Oak MI; Thomas Thomson, Warren MI Joan Stephens, Toronto ON; Paul O’Hara, Oakville ON Martin Chaitt, West Palm Beach FL; Ellasue Chaitt, Palm Bch Gdns FL Karen Lane, Toronto ON; Brian Greenway, Elliot Lake ON Zizhuo Wang, Palo Alto CA; Edmund Wu, San Francisco CA Veronica Peacock, Vancouver BC; Ian McArthur, Oshawa ON Rod MacDonald, Ottawa ON; Philip Kopala, Tarpon Springs FL Carol Harries, Kingston ON; Stephen Pozez, Tucson AZ

SATURDAY EVENING SIDE GAME NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AA A B C A B C 1 1 1 Polly Siegel, Los Altos CA; Randy Ryals, Menlo Park CA 62.66% 1 1 1 2 2 Nicholas Hartung, Astoria NY; Peter Merker, Mentor OH 61.06% 2 2 2 3 3 2 Russell Craft - Dee Craft, Smith’s Parish Bermuda 60.42% 3 4 Natalie Bassil, Boston MA; Brenda Montague, Swampscott MA 58.65% 4 3 5 4 Michael Hebbert, Thornbury ON; Curtis Kristensen, Duluth MN 57.53% 5 4 6 5 Steven Wallis, Tampa FL; Tammy Moll, Raleigh NC 57.37% 6 5

Michael Levine - David Smith, Toronto ON Debbie Robertson, Willowdale ON; Brian A. Power, Thornhill ON Michael Rosen, New York NY; Bella Ionis-Sorren, Ft Lauderdale FL James Easterling, Casselberry FL; Peggy Casey Fitzpatrick, Saugerties NY Raymond Jung - William Mellon, Hamilton ON Andre Asbury, Warner Robins GA; Sean Gannon, Decatur GA

SATURDAY SIDE GAME NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS MM NN A B C A 1 Barry Harper, Regina SK; Anne Dawson, Delhi LA 56.92% 1 2 Ken Gee, Regina SK; Hannah Moon, Prince Albert SK 55.67% 2 3 1 Susan McQuillan, Pittsburgh PA; Gail Hastings, Verona PA 55.15% 3 4 2 Barbara Glickman, Boca Raton FL; Morton Glickman, Willowdale ON 55.08% 4 5 3 Lamar Marutani, Vallejo CA; Elianor Kennie, Kentville NS 53.88% 5 6 4 Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL; Jackie Thompson, Silver Spring MD 53.78% 6 7 5 Hindy Wiseman - John Wiseman, Thornhill ON 53.62% 7 8 Paul Thurston - J Thurston, Wellington ON 53.38% 8 9 6 1 Russell Craft - Dee Craft, Smith’s Parish Bermuda 53.08% 9 10 7 Daniel McGuire - Molly Hosford, Las Vegas NV 52.54% 10 11 Roman Smolski - Vera Petty, Warwick Bermuda 52.42% 11 8 Darla Petersen, Ajax ON; Alfredo Ringel, Guadalajara Mexico 52.31% 2 James Stahl - Linda Stahl, Chagrin Falls OH 50.85% 3 Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS; Gheorghe Beres, Windsor ON 50.77% 4 Howard Sloan, New York NY; Elinor Crandall, Amherst MA 48.97%

B C 1 2 1 3 4 5 6 2 7 8 3 9 10 4 5

JOHN RAYNER’S B/C/D DAYLIGHT PAIRS SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS DD XXX B C D B C D 1 1 David Lin - Jorry Chu, Mississauga ON 61.78% 1 1 2 2 1 Polly Siegel, Los Altos CA; Randy Ryals, Menlo Park CA 61.70% 2 2 1 3 3 Patrick Heading - Vivian Heading, Ormond Beach FL 58.55% 3 3 2 4 Gloria Tsoi, Arlington MA; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro PA 56.15% 4 5 4 Stephen Kwan, Richmond Hill ON; Shelley Kuan, Toronto ON 55.70% 5 4 3 6 5 2 Erica Gilbert - Angela Mancini, Toronto ON 55.31% 6 5 4 7 6 Francee Olch, Pickering ON; Sally MacRae, Toronto ON 54.94% 7 6 8 7 Edwin Hamilton - Marie Hamilton, Saint-Lambert QC 54.43% 8 7 9 8 Susan Korbel, Waterloo ON; David Silver, Thornhill ON 54.12% 9 8 10 9 Bert Sheldon, Houston TX; Paul Sitz, Ramsey MN 53.56% 10 9 5 11 10 Peter Yard, Cincinnati OH; Jean Fox, Baldwinsville NY 52.30% 11 12 Carol Maggipinto - Mark Maggipinto, Aptos CA 52.03% 12 10 3 Paul Cozzi - Barbara Lamb, Toronto ON 49.52% 4 Richard Fox, Baldwinsville NY; Bruce Altschuler, Oswego NY 49.26% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS YYY ZZZ B C D B C D 1 Anne Harper - Jim Hobson, Thunder Bay ON 63.15% 1 1 1 2 1 1 Diane Herniman - Hazel Hewitt, St Marys ON 58.31% 2 3 2 Barry Martin - Connie Martin, Dallas TX 58.23% 3 2 4 3 2 Douglas Holm - Larry Sugden, Guelph ON 58.00% 4 5 4 Alan Bronstein, Christiansted VI; Thomas Shelley, St Croix VI 57.62% 5 3 6 5 3 David Graham - Jill Graham, Boca Raton FL 57.31% 6 4 7 6 Nicholas Ogan, Moreland Hills OH; Chantal Whitney, Shaker Heights OH 57.08% 7 8 7 Michael Hebbert - Janice Hebbert, Thornbury ON 54.85% 8 5 9 8 Percy Schacter, Toronto ON; Ejaz Qureshi, Scarsdale NY 54.77% 9 6 10 9 4 David Sarten, Tas 7004 Australia; Susanne Sarten, Tasmania 7004 Australia 53.92% 10 7 2 11 Terry Richardson, Austin TX; Reg Young, London ON 52.23% 11 8 3 4 5

EAST-WEST 63.75% 60.27% 58.79% 57.47% 56.97% 56.88% 56.62% 56.61% 55.29% 55.04% 54.46% 54.33% 54.23% 53.94% 53.07% 52.59% 52.13% 51.23% 51.06% 49.53%

EAST-WEST 58.01% 57.05% 56.09% 55.93% 55.13% 54.33%

EAST-WEST Ralph Edwards, North York ON; John Anthony, Vancouver BC Lynn Jones, Timonium MD; Paul Benedict, Pikesville MD Jed Drew, Tillsonburg ON; Chuck Chang, Chicago IL Isadore Sharp - Rosalie Sharp, Toronto ON Mary Lawand - Rene Lawand, Etobicoke ON Suzanne Nichols - Grady Nichols, Diamondhead MS Jason Lindop, Montreal QC; Alexander Brookes, Toronto ON Robert Bishop III, Holmes Beach FL; Meg Hughes, Bradenton FL Nancy Sachs - Paul Pschesang, Cincinnati OH Gayle Tunnell - James Tunnell, San Francisco CA Peter Merker, Mentor OH; Nicholas Hartung, Astoria NY Amanda Jeger, Frankfurt Germany; Estera Lisker, East Quogue NY Pamela Nixon, Montreal QC; Jack Barclay, Oshawa ON

62.31% 59.00% 58.65% 56.50% 55.92% 55.50% 53.42% 53.09% 53.03% 50.69% 50.42% 50.31% 49.12%

EAST-WEST Loring Harkness III, Kilauea HI; Dileep Bal, Kapaa HI Bernie Katchen, Toronto ON; Percy Goldenberg, Willowdale ON Michael Bilon, Toronto ON; Thomas Revesz, Scarborough ON Bruce Greenspan, Danvers MA; Judy Cardin, Bonita Springs FL Akbar Husain, Markham ON; Bala Iyer, North York ON Catherine Balant, Newmarket ON; Vivienne Whitworth, Richmond Hill ON Anne Bovingdon, North York ON; Paul Prechner, Toronto ON Honey Moore, Toronto ON; Sheree-Lynn Katz, Willowdale ON Lilian Grant, Willowdale ON; Viv Perks, Markham ON Shirley Derrah - Robert Derrah, Springfield MA Carolyn Sullivan - James Sullivan, Richfield OH Val Irvin - Linda Herman, Toronto ON

66.20% 64.50% 62.73% 61.34% 59.79% 56.04% 54.38% 53.60% 52.79% 51.81% 50.15% 49.86%

EAST-WEST David Ryder - Donald Ryder, Toronto ON Richard Dubrovsky - Leora Dubrovsky, Howell NJ Carol Ward, Arvada CO; Margaret Devere, Denver CO Debbie Wastle - Delma Murray, Victoria BC Bram Bevis Dresden - Beverly Tait Dresden, Greenbrae CA Marilyn Rochford - Ronald Rochford, Brampton ON Kenneth Masson - Rosemarie Masson, Richmond Hill ON Marie Smerjac, Castle Rock CO; Lane Byl, Niagara-On-Lake ON Mary Peterson, Santa Cruz CA; Nancy Driscoll, Capitola CA Margaret Wynarchuk, Richmond Hill ON; Joy Shapiro, Thornhill ON Esther Climans, Thornhill ON; Jo Ann Slack, Thornhill Mary Regottaz, Kenner LA; Katherine Pugsley, Oakville ON Gaye Kastning, Bonita Springs FL; Mary Dacks, Markham ON

64.77% 61.23% 58.77% 56.85% 55.38% 54.85% 53.46% 53.31% 51.77% 51.54% 51.15% 50.85% 48.92%

JOHN RAYNER’S A/X DAYLIGHT PAIRS SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AA EAST-WEST A X A X 1 1 Margaret Walters, Australia Australia; Dan Perco, Stoney Creek ON 63.30% 1 Judi Radin, New York NY; Stacy Jacobs, Hinsdale IL 2 2 Fred Day - Doris Opdenvelde, Toronto ON 60.90% 2 1 David Baker, Kitchener ON; Dragana Kovacevic, Markham ON 3 Dave Swarthout - Donna Swarthout, Newberry MI 55.93% 3 2 Michael Ranis, New York NY; Fred Hawa, White Plains NY 4 3 Tom Ross, Lincoln CA; Vern Schmidt, Dickinson TX 54.49% 4 3 Peter Smith - Bruce Richmond, Sault Ste Marie ON 5 Glenn Eisenstein - Abbie Cole, New York NY 53.04% 5 Sean Gannon, Decatur GA; Andre Asbury, Warner Robins GA 6 4 Roger Dunn - Gisele Caron, Longueuil QC 52.56% 6/8 4/6 Michael McGuire, Hernando MS; Ned Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR 5 Steve Merovitz, Laval QC; Luc Tremblay, Sainte-Julie QC 52.40% 6/8 4/6 F Ruth Tate - J Howard Tate, Toronto ON 6/8 4/6 Wensong Zhen, Scarborough ON; Fred Li, Toronto ON

62.18% 58.49% 58.01% 57.53% 52.88% 51.76% 51.76% 51.76%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON AUDREY GRANT 49ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION BBB A B C A B C 1 James Fraser - Marsha Fraser, Hamilton Bermuda 56.25% 1 1 1 2 Bev Kilpatrick, Aurora ON; Gayle Connor, Richmond Hill ON 53.75% 2/3 2/3 2/3 1 Raza Ali - Janet Blair, Toronto ON 52.92% 2/3 2/3 2/3

John Kittredge - Paul Rolfe, Toronto ON Nancy MacDonald Exel - Carolyn McAvoy, Mississauga ON Shamsuddin Khaja, Toronto ON; Carol Newhouse, Newmarket ON

58.75% 52.08% 52.08%

SATURDAY AFTERNOON AUDREY GRANT 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION EEE A B C A B C 1 1 1 Pat Beattie, East Devonport Australia; Jenny Murphy, Tasmania Australia 62.50% 1 2 2 2 Anne Volpe, Toronto ON; Linda Gilpin, North York ON 58.33% 2 1 1 3 3 Alex Bedley - Jim Bedley, Richmond Hill ON 57.77% 3 2 2 4 4 3 Robert Koves - Robin Koves, Toronto ON 57.20% 4 3 3 5 5 4 David Choi, Pak Pat Shan Rd Hong Kong; Vincent Lam, 56.44% 5 4 4 6 6 Gerald Parks - Victor Zubacs, Toronto ON 53.22% 6 5 6

William Pollock - Mary Gordon, Toronto ON Leona Parkinson, Southampton ON; Rosemarie Schmidt, Kitchener ON Thomas Gillett, Toronto ON; Ted Capes, Willowdale ON Betty Hayhurst, Parkersburg WV; Grace Meehan, Antigonish NS Lois Matton, Guelph ON; Faye Baker, Stoney Creek ON Virginia Tencate - Shirley Richardson, Mississauga ON Bill Pope - Bev Pope, Burlington ON

SALLY’S “ALMOST THERE” SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS FF GG HH A B C A B C 1 1 Malcolm King, Toronto ON; A. Bruce Cameron, Mississauga ON 66.65% 1 2 2 1 Rod MacDonald, Ottawa ON; Philip Kopala, Tarpon Springs FL 61.84% 2 1 3 3 Steve Smolen, San Francisco CA; Chris Chung, Palo Alto CA 59.11% 3 4 4 2 Zizhuo Wang, Palo Alto CA; Edmund Wu, San Francisco CA 56.63% 4 2 5 Hal Knilans - Gerri Knilans, Thousand Oaks CA 56.22% 5 3 6 5 3 D Sutherland, Northville MI; Douglas Hosfeld, Chatham ON 55.74% 6 4 7 6 David Aderente, Ann Arbor MI; Thomas Beukema, Petoskey MI 53.85% 7 8 7 Laura Lipman, Augusta ME; Lawrence Cheetham, North Hampton NH 53.64% 8 9 8 4 Joan White - Helen Keohane, Watertown NY 53.54% 9 5 10 Richard Williams - Jody Williams, San Carlos CA 53.26% 10/11 6/7 1 11 9 Michael Kraut, Royal Oak MI; Thomas Thomson, Warren MI 53.04% 10/11 6/7 12 10 Ernest Napier, Brooklyn NY; Cynthia Colin, New York NY 52.68% 12 8 2 13 Roisin O’Hara, Oakville ON; Robin Stephens, Toronto ON 52.40% 13 9 3 14 11 Jill Thompson - Jill Foran, Toronto ON 52.23% 14 15 12 Joan Stephens, Toronto ON; Paul O’Hara, Oakville ON 51.97% 15 10 16 13 Marie Wiley - Audrey Craig, London ON 51.95% 16 11 17 Mark Liberman - Barbara Shnier, Toronto ON 51.70% 17 12 18 14 Robert Macneal, Aurora ON; Paul MacFarlane, Keswick ON 51.06% 18 13

EAST-WEST

EAST-WEST 60.52% 55.80% 55.32% 53.41% 53.05% 52.86% 51.69%

EAST-WEST David Pankratz, Santa Rosa CA; Hindupuram Sriharsha, Orillia ON Theodore Glaessner - Cecil Glaessner, Pacific Plsds CA Karl Hicks, Dominion NS; Don Brock, Brampton ON Greg Johnson, League City TX; Jay Baum, Germantown TN Joyce Goldstein - Jack Wertheimer, Brooklyn NY Harold Baba, Thornhill ON; Linda Lord, Schomberg ON Rashid Khan - Vera Carpenter, Toronto ON Steve Mager, Hermosa Beach CA; Gerri Soffa Carlson, Rncho Pls Vrds CA Douglas McCormac, North Dartmouth MA; Frank Wharton, London England Jim Fenwick, Markham ON; Manmohan Bhavra, Niagara Univ NY Alice Wegman, Bethesda MD; Ted Withers, Windsor NS Malcolm McColl - Andrew McColl, Port Hope ON Stanley Sterenberg - Laura Schisgall, New York NY James Melville, Springfield IL; Will Engel, Freeport IL Kyle Hall, Brockville ON; Dick Sangster, Powell River BC Carol Harries, Kingston ON; Stephen Pozez, Tucson AZ Tim Ayers - Roy Banner, Victoria BC Sandra Prosnitz - Julian Laderman, Bronx NY

65.54% 63.87% 62.30% 58.38% 57.82% 56.78% 56.53% 55.97% 55.34% 53.39% 53.39% 53.16% 52.88% 52.48% 52.28% 51.82% 51.59% 51.16%

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Today’s Bridge Events RY = Fairmont Royal York Hotel; SC = Sheraton Centre Hotel Sunday, July 31, 10 a.m.

Event Session Sold Flight A/X Swiss Teams 7 matches, 8 boards, play-through Flight B/C/D Swiss Teams 7 matches, 8 boards, play-through Saturday-Sunday Side Game Series Stratified 299er Swiss Teams 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs 0-20, 0-5 Pairs

Entry/player/session ACBL members*

Other

1-2

RY – Canadian Room, Convention Level

1-2

SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse

$16

$18

3rd single single single single

SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse

$16 $16 $15 $15

$18 $18 $17 $15

$16 $16

$18 $18

$16

$18

$20

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$20

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$16 $15 $15 $15

$18 $17 $17 $15

Sunday, July 31, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Stratified Open Pairs 1-2 Saturday-Sunday Bracketed Knockout Teams 3-4

SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse

Sunday, July 31, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.

Stratified Fast Open Pairs

1-2

SC - Sheraton Hall A, Lower Concourse

ROTH OPEN SWISS TEAMS

1-2 F

SPINGOLD KNOCKOUT TEAMS

1-2 F

Saturday-Sunday Side Game Series Stratified 299er Swiss Teams 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs 0-20, 0-5 Pairs

4th single single single single

Sunday, July 31, 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.

RY – Concert Hall, Convention Level

Sunday, July 31, 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.

RY – British Columbia Room, Mezzanine Level

Sunday, July 31, 2 p.m.

SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse SC - Grand Ballroom Foyer, Lower Concourse

$16

$18

Unless otherwise noted, strat breaks for all stratified events are: A (3000+), B (750-3000), C (0-750). For strati-flighted events, A/X are 5000+/0-5000 and play in their own game; B (1500-3000), C (750-1500) and D (0-750) play in their own game. All stratification will be based on the average for the pair or team. In any event or flight with an upper limit, no individual player’s masterpoint total may exceed that upper limit. *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

See you at the Fall NABC in Seattle! SATURDAY MORNING AUDREY GRANT 49ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION BBB A B C A B C 1 Cheryl Richman - Ellen Eyman, Toronto ON 67.50% 1 2 Linda Patrick, Toronto ON; Anthony Duthie, Clearwater FL 49.00% 2 1 1 1 1 Meena Sakhuja, Toronto ON; Malvika Chopra, Thornhill ON 47.50% 2 2 Kathleen Zaichuk - Carol Kittredge, Toronto ON 47.00% SATURDAY MORNING AUDREY GRANT 299ER PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION EEE A B C A B C 1 1 Kelly Skalicky, New York NY; Nancy Chorpita, Haddonfield NJ 68.56% 1 1 2 2 Jennifer Huntsman - Dingbin Feng, Moncton NB 63.26% 2/3 2/3 1/2 3 3 1 Jeffery Jones, Vero Beach FL; David Armstrong, Whitmore Lake MI 59.28% 2/3 2/3 1/2 4 4 Elizabeth Walker - Michael Walker, Toronto ON 55.11% 4 4 5 5 Raza Ali, Toronto ON; Alex Louie, Vancouver BC 53.60% 5 6 6 Daniel McCleary - Jane McCleary, Flatts, Smith’s Bermuda 53.41% 6 5 3 2 Tom Burdett, Campbell River BC; Douglas Ryder, West Hill ON 50.57% 6 3 Liesl Harmse, Warwick Bermuda; Judy Harte-Lovelace, Southampton Bermuda 47.92% 4 Faye Baker, Stoney Creek ON; Lois Matton, Guelph ON 47.35% SATURDAY MORNING SIDE GAME NORTH-SOUTH SECTION NN A B C A B C 1 1 Buddhadeb Biswas, Lexington MA; Margaret Hansell, Champaign IL 62.71% 1 2 2 1 Nancy Littenberg, Port St Lucie FL; Carol Bedell, Williamsville NY 62.03% 2 1 3 3 Gayle McLean - Don McLean, St Louis MO 61.38% 3 2 4 4 2 Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS; Gheorghe Beres, Windsor ON 58.30% 4 3 1 5 Earl Knipfel, Moose Jaw SK; Robert Porter, Henderson NV 54.92% 5 4 6 5 3 Glen Perry, Voorheesville NY; Carolyn Timmermann, Vancouver WA 52.94% 6 5 6 Albert Walz - Beverly Walz, North East PA 52.29% 2 JOHN RAYNER’S B/C/D DAYLIGHT PAIRS MORNING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS WWW XXX B C D B C D 1 1 Loring Harkness III, Kilauea HI; Dileep Bal, Kapaa HI 60.08% 1 1 2 Carolyn Sullivan - James Sullivan, Richfield OH 58.46% 2 2 3 2 1 Shirley Derrah - Robert Derrah, Springfield MA 58.00% 3 3 4 3 2 Maureen Donovan, Halifax NS; Patricia Morrison, Wellington NS 57.69% 4 4 1 5 4 Anne Bovingdon, North York ON; Paul Prechner, Toronto ON 56.46% 5 5 2 6 Gloria Tsoi, Arlington MA; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro PA 56.15% 6 6 7 5 3 S Joan Dixon, Toronto ON; Margaret Cann, Sydney NS 56.08% 7 7 8 6 Edwin Hamilton - Marie Hamilton, Saint-Lambert QC 55.00% 8/9 8 9 Jeanne Gray, Broomfield CO; Jeanne Achziger, Denver CO 54.23% 8/9 10 7 4 Bernie Katchen, Toronto ON; Percy Goldenberg, Willowdale ON 53.92% 10 9 3 11 Bruce Greenspan, Danvers MA; Judy Cardin, Bonita Springs FL 53.54% 11 10 4 12 8 Honey Moore, Toronto ON; Sheree-Lynn Katz, Willowdale ON 53.23% 12 9 5 Richard Barclay, Mahone Bay NS; Bill Barclay, Barrie ON 52.08% 10 Margaret de Groh - Liqun Wang, Ottawa ON 51.92% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS YYY ZZZ B C D B C D 1 1 1 Mary Regottaz, Kenner LA; Katherine Pugsley, Oakville ON 60.45% 1 1 2 Shona Donovan - Mark Donovan, Kingston ON 57.81% 2 2 1 3 2 2 Esther Climans, Thornhill ON; Jo Ann Slack, Thornhill 55.90% 3 4 3 Marie Smerjac, Castle Rock CO; Lane Byl, Niagara-On-Lake ON 55.65% 4 3 5 4 Sandra Rosenblum, Tampa FL; Alice Harper, Winter Park FL 55.49% 5 6 5 3 Robert Brown - Stephen Felson, Cincinnati OH 55.00% 6 4 7 Richard Dubrovsky - Leora Dubrovsky, Howell NJ 54.78% 7 5 8 6 4 E Anne Mitchell - Lloyd Mitchell, Truro NS 53.62% 8 6 2 9 7 5 David Ryder - Donald Ryder, Toronto ON 53.32% 9 10 8 Somers Collins, Roland AR; Andrew Collins, Little Rock AR 52.56% 10 7 11 9 Carol Ward, Arvada CO; Margaret Devere, Denver CO 52.56% 11 12 Margaret Wynarchuk, Richmond Hill ON; Joy Shapiro, Thornhill ON 52.12% 12 8 3 9 4

EAST-WEST Brian Ferguson, Halifax NS; Michael Ross, Boutiliers Pt NS Carol Newhouse, Newmarket ON; Susan Miller, Toronto ON John Moreland - Beverly Moreland, Campbellville ON

62.00% 52.00% 48.00%

EAST-WEST Hani Cassis - Paula Cassis, Mississauga ON Charlene Richardson - Janice Holmes, Moorefield ON Betty Hayhurst, Parkersburg WV; Grace Meehan, Antigonish NS Bill Pope - Bev Pope, Burlington ON S Cohen, Northbrook IL; Ellen Katz, Riverwoods IL Leona Parkinson, Southampton ON; Rosemarie Schmidt, Kitchener ON Ann Sellers, Chaumont NY; Joan Peterson, Cape Vincent NY

59.66% 58.52% 58.52% 55.30% 53.98% 53.60% 51.70%

EAST-WEST Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; G S Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD Ben Yang, Warren NJ; Charles Burns, Vancouver WA Paul Lindauer, Varna IL; Howard Siegel, Chestnut Hill MA Douglas Cote, Woodstock ON; Tzvetalin Vassilev, North Bay ON Jim Mulbrandon, Verona WI; Norm Bash, West Bloomfield MI Steven Schwarzwaelder, Sewickley PA; Joseph Velardita, Clarkston GA Jed Drew, Tillsonburg ON; Rod MacDonald, Ottawa ON

67.27% 59.85% 59.47% 56.85% 55.44% 51.38% 48.19%

EAST-WEST Peter Yard, Cincinnati OH; Jean Fox, Baldwinsville NY Marion Robertson - Douglas Keller, San Francisco CA David Lin - Jorry Chu, Mississauga ON Michael Bilon, Toronto ON; Thomas Revesz, Scarborough ON Mischel Postas, Campbell CA; Karen Rice, San Jose CA Marlene Weiss - Howard Weiss, Boca Raton FL Hugh Currie - David Promislow, Toronto ON Stephen Kwan, Richmond Hill ON; Shelley Kuan, Toronto ON Mary Lou Kerr - Mary Eliza Jacob, Toronto ON Judy Brown, London ON; Noreen Franklin, Ingersoll ON Peter Yuen, Markham ON; Walter Jaworski, Toronto ON Nea Willits, Paget Bermuda; Janice Trott, Devonshire Bermuda

64.15% 61.23% 57.85% 56.46% 54.62% 54.31% 54.15% 53.31% 53.31% 53.23% 52.54% 52.46%

EAST-WEST Alan Bronstein, Christiansted VI; Thomas Shelley, St Croix VI David Graham - Jill Graham, Boca Raton FL Chris Chan, Scarborough ON; Vikrant Mehta, Mumbai Denise Hoffman, Marquette MI; Jim Jackson, Amasa MI Benjamin Eisenberg - Susan Eisenberg, Lords Valley PA Robert Raf, W Bloomfield MI; Ronna Galin, West Bloomfield MI Bram Bevis Dresden - Beverly Tait Dresden, Greenbrae CA Diane Herniman - Hazel Hewitt, St Marys ON Pierre Choquette - Isabelle Cote, Quebec QC Percy Schacter, Toronto ON; Ejaz Qureshi, Scarsdale NY Terry Richardson, Austin TX; Reg Young, London ON Marilyn Macdiarmid, Moncton NB; Bill McNichol, Riverview NB Suzy Ryder - Thomas Ryder, Boise ID Shirley Kriegel, Skandia MI; Mary Freier, Marquette MI

JOHN RAYNER’S A/X DAYLIGHT PAIRS FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION AA EAST-WEST A X A X 1 1 Reza Shaygan, Toronto ON; Douglas Markovic, Maple ON 57.53% 1 1 Fred Day - Doris Opdenvelde, Toronto ON 2 2 Carl Jones, Chicago IL; Milton Geiger, St Williams ON 56.73% 2 Dave Swarthout - Donna Swarthout, Newberry MI 3 3 Margaret Walters, Australia Australia; Dan Perco, Stoney Creek ON 55.93% 3 Judi Radin, New York NY; Stacy Jacobs, Hinsdale IL 4 4 Max Tang, Scarborough ON; Merryl Chin, Toronto ON 55.61% 4 2 Roberto Verthelyi, New York NY; Randy Okubo, Saint Paul MN 5 5 William Garrard Jr - Donna Garrard, Irving TX 54.97% 5 Bette Cohn - Gen Geiger, Sarasota FL 6 Marlene Moscoe, Willowdale ON; Rhona Shub, Toronto ON 54.01% 6 3 John Duquette, Oshawa ON; Nancy Adrian, Victoria BC 4 Steve Merovitz, Laval QC; Luc Tremblay, Sainte-Julie QC 5 Michael McGuire, Hernando MS; Ned Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR

60.42% 58.89% 57.67% 56.22% 55.95% 55.76% 54.59% 53.95% 53.85% 53.72% 52.96% 52.15% 50.68% 50.21%

62.98% 56.25% 56.09% 55.77% 55.61% 55.45% 55.13% 52.72%