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Daily BulletinTuesday, December 3, 2019 Volume 92, Number 5

92nd Fall North American Bridge Championships [email protected] | Editors: Paul Linxwiler and Chip Dombrowski

Goodwill MessageYou can be competitive and still be friendly,

caring and ethical.Sandy DeMartino, ChairAileen Osofsky Goodwill Committee

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The Aileen Osofosky Goodwill Committee held its fall meeting Monday night. ACBL President Russ Jones told a story about some hotel guests who wandered into the convention area, not knowing what was going on there. “When they found out the people in the ballrooms were playing bridge, they said, ‘It doesn’t look like they’re having any fun,’” he said.

About 120 committee members attended the reception and listened to the presentation by committee chair Sandy DeMartino and the other speakers. No one was playing bridge at the time, but they looked like they were having fun.

Jones talked about how social bridge players are a prime market for recruiting, but duplicate bridge has a perception problem. “They say, ‘You guys are so mean,’” he said. “We want them to look at the duplicate game and say, ‘They’re having fun.’ We’ve got to treat people nice.”

The main event of the meeting was the presentation of a special award to a volunteer in the host district. District 21 Director Jackie Zayac presented the award to Marion Robertson of San Francisco, who has been a volunteer in the local bridge community since 1990.

Robertson got her start in volunteering while her husband was attending Harvard, when they realized their neighbor was Julia Child, Zayac said. Robertson asked her neighbor if she needed any help with anything, and she was asked to help with washing dishes.

“How many bridge players benefitted from that

Goodwill honors volunteer, brings the fun

experience?” Zayac said. “At unit games she would make lunch for 30 tables.”

Robertson served as District 21 president in 2002–03 and as vice president the two years before. “I got to be president for three years,” Robertson said, “because the previous president moved away while I was vice president.”

According to Zayac, since Robertson’s term expired, she has been a member of the executive advisory committee for every district president since.

Goodwill Committee Chair Sandy DeMartino, left, and District 21 Director Jackie Zayac, right, present a special award to Marion Robertson, a longtime local volunteer.

You ought to be in picturesPlayers who attain the rank of Life Master in San

Francisco are invited to stop by the Daily Bulletin office to get their photos taken.

The office is located in Foothill F on the second floor of the Marriott.

Players who attain higher ranks such as Bronze, Silver or Gold Life Master are also welcome to get their photos taken.

The office is open at noon each day.

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McMurdie, Jones win Super Senior Pairs

Weinstein wins Mitchell BAM

Winners of the Mitchell Open BAM: Andy Hung, Liam Milne, Michael Becker, Howard Weinstein, Peter Weichsel and Bob Hamman.

Veronica McMurdie and Dick Jones, a couple from Sacramento CA, won the Super Senior Pairs, a four-session contest limited to players 70 and older. McMurdie and Jones, who finished with a score of 1233.93 matchpoints, edged out Joseph Viola III and Om Chokriwala of California who scored 1231.52 (38 was top).

McMurdie and Jones, who qualified eighth in Sunday’s qualifying round, scored 55.56% in the first final session and 61.23% in the second to grab the win.

This was the first NABC win for McMurdie and Jones, although the contest does not confer Grand Life Master eligibility.

Jones rarely attends NABCs. In fact, this is the first NABC that Jones has played in since 1964(!).

Howard Weinstein’s team had a monster first final session to win the Mitchell Open BAM by nearly three boards. Weinstein played with Michael Becker, Bob Hamman, Peter Weichsel, Liam Milne and Andy Hung.

No one was more surprised to learn they’d won than Hung, who thought it was a three-day event and that they still had a day to play, Becker said.

It’s the first NABC win for Australians Milne, 31, and Hung, 32. “It feels good,” Milne said.

“They played unbelievably,” Weichsel said of his young teammates.

Becker has now won this event the last three times it’s been played in San

Schreiber, Feldman lead 10K IMP quals

Californians William Schreiber and Ron Feldman had the best score in Monday’s opening round of the 0-10,000 IMP Pairs, and they lead the list of qualifiers in today’s two-session final. Schreiber and Feldman have a carryover of 17.00 IMPs.

In second with 15.04 IMPs are Pablo Lambardi of Buenos Aires Argentina, and C. Valerie Gamio of Palos Verdes Peninsula CA.

Third place is occupied by Craig Kavin of Newbury Park CA and Susan Miller of Boca Raton FL with a score of 14.55 IMPs.

Lopsided results in Soloway Rd. of 16

Most of the matches in yesterday’s round in Soloway KO Teams featured blowouts, an unusual outcome in a top-level event.

The top-seeded Warren Spector team had a fairly even match against Daniel Korbel (No. 16) and company through the first three quarters of play, but Spector treated Korbel to a 55-9 pummeling in the last set to win the match by 42 IMPs.

Team Lavazza, the No. 2 seed, trailed No. 15 Andrew Rosenthal for the entire match, and Rosenthal stayed in control to win 121-100, the closest match of the round.

The No. 3 seed led by Nick Nickell stayed just out of reach of Hemant Lall’s squad, the No. 14 seed, through the first three quarters, but as is their habit, Nickell poured it on in the last set to win by 53 IMPs.

John Onstott (No. 4) was manhandled by Blass npc (No. 13), as Blass won by 83 IMPs.

The No. 5 seed led by Edward Xu was shown the door by the No. 12 seed captained by Laurence Lebowitz, 130-59 in just three quarters of play.

No. 11 Peter Crouch sent No. 6 Chen Zhao to the sidelines, as they won their match by 60 IMPs.

No. 10 Pierre Zimmermann defeated No. 7 Paul Street by 48 IMPs, and Juan Carlos Ventin (No. 9) took the measure of Jimmy Cayne and crew, 113-70.

Winners of the Super Senior Pairs: Veronica McMurdie and Dick Jones.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Daily Bulletin

Bridge Bucks and check cashing

Bridge Bucks and check-cashing services will be available on level B2 from 9:30 to 10 a.m. and noon to 1 p.m.

Check-cashing limit is $500.Players may purchase Bridge Bucks using all

major credit cards.

Don’t miss these free lectures by some of the best-known players in the game! Talks will be held in the SoMa Room, level 2. Speakers and topics are subject to change.

Tuesday, Dec. 39:15 am Jerry Helms Preempts6:45 pm Cris Barerre Bridge Maxims

Wednesday, Dec. 49:15 am GS Jade Barrett Law of Three Even and Three Odd6:45 pm Donna Compton Guard the 4

Thursday, Dec. 59:15 am Bruce Greenspan Top 10 Tips6:45 pm Jennifer Kuhn Finesses

SPECIAL EVENTSMEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS

CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM

Tuesday, December 39 am–noon Club Director Refresher Course. A continuing education

course for club directors to increase their skills. Participants must attend both sessions. Fee: $15 covers both days. Sign up at the door. (Pacific D, level 4)

10 am–6 pm World Bridge Federation meeting. (Pacific E, level 4)10 am–6 pm World Computer Bridge Championship. (Sierra H, level 5)

Wednesday, December 49 am–noon Club Director Refresher Course, session 2. A continuing

education course for club directors to increase their skills.

Participants must attend both sessions. Fee: $15 covers both days. (Pacific D, level 4)

10 am–noon Unit/District Disciplinary transition meeting. District and unit presidents, district recorders and disciplinary chairs are invited to meet with National Recorder Robb Gordon to discuss the transition to district control of the disciplinary process. (Pacific F, level 4)

10 am–6 pm World Computer Bridge Championship. (Sierra H, level 5)

Thursday, December 510 am–6 pm World Computer Bridge Championship. (Sierra H, level 5)

HOSPITALITY AND ENTERTAINMENTFood will be served after the evening session through Saturday, Dec. 7.

Tuesday, Dec. 3 It’s It ice cream.

Wednesday, Dec. 4 Clam chowder soup.

Thursday, Dec. 5 Cheese and crackers.

ParkingParking is difficult in San Francisco. The

Marriott offers valet parking only, for $79.99 a day. There is a municipal parking garage on Mission between Fourth and Fifth streets. Rates are $3/hour, with a $34 daily maximum.

STEM contacts neededThe ACBL Educational Foundation is

searching for ACBL members who have may have contacts with national STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) accreditation bodies. The Ed Foundation’s plan is to create bridge modules that can be integrated into STEM curriculums at schools in the U.S.

Members with information or leads should contact Project Committee Chair Barbara Heller at [email protected].

As players increasingly look to digital platforms to provide instructional bridge content as well as opportunities to play, developers of these platforms are on the lookout for ways to attract potential customers by providing unique, interesting material. Bridge teachers also rely on digital platforms more and more to help their students learn about the game.

Two developers – Bid 72 and BridgeBee – are looking to expand their content by asking teachers and other contributors to upload lesson material that can be used not only by their own students, but by other users of the apps, although there are some significant differences between the two products.

bid72Designed as a site to help partnerships practice

their bidding, bid72 is reaching out to bridge educators.

According to bid72’s Jan van Cleeff, “As the new app on bridge education, bid72 has developed special functionality for new players for smartphones and tablets (Android/iOS). Bridge teachers can upload their own boards with themes of their liking. Alternatively, bid72 offers ready-made sets of 100 boards with themes such as limit bids, Stayman and Jacoby transfers. It all works very smoothly. Students open the app and the relevant boards are waiting for them. When a bidding session is finished, a teacher receives a sheet with explanations on the auction.

“Teachers may also receive a PowerPoint presentation with the relevant hand records and an overview of all auctions, allowing teachers to monitor progress of their students.”

Interested parties can contact [email protected] or email van Cleeff at [email protected].

Teachers and players can also check out www.bid72.com to find a wealth of interesting stuff on bidding.

BridgeBeeA collaboration between Baron Barclay Bridge

Supplies and Pianola (the bridge club website platform), the BridgeBee app is still in beta testing, but its goal is to offer interactive bridge lessons, curated by renowned authors such as Marti Ronemus and Frank Stewart.

James Ward of BridgeBee says, “The experience will be like reading your favorite bridge column or book, but it’s interactive. You can play the cards trick by trick.”

To add to its existing content, BridgeBee developers are actively soliciting contributions from teachers and players to construct a vast library of hands, and they are even offering compensation for individuals willing to input lesson material. This will allow subscribers to practice and play new hands that cater to various interests and skill levels, with guidance from authors, teachers, and experts.

A formal launch is planned at the Spring NABC in Columbus.

BridgeBee’s key features include an easy-to-understand interface that accommodates all types of users, quality content, a library of bridge hands that can be stored to subscribers’ accounts that can be accessed from various portable devices, and an interactive learning environment that allows subscribers to experience each hand, play-by-play, to better understand the intricacies in a way that a book may not be able to provide.

More information is available at www.bridgebee.app or by email at [email protected].

App developers look to increase bridge content, services


entries outside of hearts to set up the suit: one to get over there to ruff the fourth round of hearts, and one to get back to dummy to use the established fifth heart after drawing trumps. If you don’t have the necessary entries, forget long suit establishment and try something else.

Win the ♣A, cash a high spade from your hand, leaving two trump entries in dummy, and then the ♥A K and ruff a heart. Assuming 4-2 hearts, return to dummy with a spade, ruff a heart high setting up the fifth heart, and cross back to a spade to discard the ♣Q on the long heart. Beautiful.

The full deal: ♠ A 10 2 ♥ A K 8 7 5 ♦ J 9 8 ♣ 10 2 ♠ 6 4 ♠ 5 3 ♥ Q J 6 4 3 ♥ 9 ♦ K Q 10 ♦ A 7 4 2 ♣ J 9 8 ♣ K 7 6 5 4 3 ♠ K Q J 9 8 7 ♥ 10 2 ♦ 6 5 3 ♣ A Q

What happened? East ruffed the second heart and cashed the ♣K, down two and the club finesse was onside all along! Why am I so mean to you? I wasn’t. You played the hand properly. Only someone who misplayed the hand badly and took the club finesse made it. For shame if you made this hand!

JUST FOR NEW PLAYERSTake All Your Chances

By Eddie Kantar

♠ A 10 2 ♥ A K 8 7 5 ♦ J 9 8 ♣ 10 2

♠ K Q J 9 8 7 ♥ 10 2 ♦ 6 5 3 ♣ A Q

You crawl into 4♠ after partner responds 2♥ to your opening 1♠ bid and raises your 2♠ rebid to 4♠.

West leads the ♦K, ♦Q and ♦10 to East’s ace and East exits with the expected low club. Plan the play.

The club finesse is a 50-50 shot. However, setting up the hearts for a club discard, needing no worse than 4-2 hearts, logs in at 84%.

Warning: When setting up a long suit, side entries to the hand with the long suit must be conserved. And there must be enough of them. If hearts are a likely 4-2, you will need two dummy

Christy Kelso, left, and Sally Giloth came from Santa Barbara. Giloth, who has been playing duplicate for 10 years, went to her first NABC a year ago in Honolulu to take the Best Practices Teacher Workshop. A retired teacher, she has been teaching beginners since then. “I only teach beginners, because I’m not much more,” Giloth said. “It’s hard to go back and forth between what I play – 2/1 – and what I teach – Standard American.” Kelso has been relearning bridge since 2015. She’s been learning a bit more lately thanks to a mentorship program that Giloth started at the Santa Barbara Bridge Center. On Monday afternoon they were playing in the 299er Pairs after playing in their first knockout in the morning. “We’re having fun here,” Giloth said.

Vugraph operators neededExperienced vugraph operators are needed today

for the Soloway KO Teams broadcast on BBO. The first session each day starts at noon, the second session starts at 7 p.m. ACBL pays operators $50 per session.

If you are available, please email Jan Martel at marteljan at gmail.com, or text her at 530-574-5780, and she will answer any questions you may have. Thousands of BBO spectators around the world will appreciate your help!

VendorsPlayers are invited to check out the vendors on

the bottom level of the Marriott. Whether you’re in the market for bridge-related books, software, dealing machines, jewelry or clothing, you’ll find it there.

Disciplinary transition meeting

District and unit presidents, district recorders and disciplinary chairs: You are invited to meet with National Recorder Robb Gordon to discuss the transition to district control of the disciplinary process. The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Pacific F on level 4. Bring your own coffee.

Convention card reminder

Each player is required to have a convention card filled out legibly and on the table throughout a session. The convention card must include the first and last name of each member of the partnership, and the cards must be identical.

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.

NABC results by email/text

Want to be notified when results and the Daily Bulletins from the NABC are posted online? Want to see your results in the events you played in? ACBL Live does just that.

With the ACBL Live notification system, you will receive emails and/or text messages after each session with links that go directly to the information you’re looking for. The email/text message will contain your score for the session and a link to your results. (These results will also be available on your MyResults page at MyACBL.) Players will also receive a notification to indicate when the Daily Bulletin for that day is available.

This service is automatic for members unless they have specifically opted out. To receive text messages, go to MyACBL at acbl.org and select Update My Information to enter your email address and/or cell phone number.

Also at MyACBL, visit the Privacy Settings tab to make sure you’ve selected the Subscribe setting for General Email Communication and Cell Phone Text Communication to receive these notifications.


Playing in an NABC+ pairs game? Buy your entry early!

In an effort to speed up the start of all NABC+ pairs events – which require additional time for proper seeding – the ACBL asks participants to please buy their entries at least 15 minutes before game time. This is especially true if you expect to be a seeded pair.

SUNDAY ZIP KO 7 Tables 3.17 1 Aaron Jones - Jennifer Lin, North Bethesda MD; Daniel Sonner, Redwood City CA; Laura de Vesine, San Jose CA 2.22 2 Susan Morse-Lebow - Monique Thomas, Los Angeles CA; Samantha Macdouglas - Brian Reynolds, Canoga Park CA 1.27 3/4 Douglas Hong, San Jose CA; John Worley, Fort Collins CO; Bingjie Wang, New York NY; Christopher Rivera, Sunnyside NY 1.27 3/4 Daniel Lyder, Vancouver BC; Jacob Freeman, Toronto ON; Samuel Kuang, Elmhurst NY; John Ramos, Los Angeles CA

SUNDAY-MONDAY MORNING COMPACT KO 6 Tables 5.30 1 Donald Thomas - Gary Miyata - Roz King - Jewel Daniels, San Diego CA 3.71 2 James Tanner, Highland CA; Gary Silvius - Stephen Silvius - Elizabeth Silvius, San Bernardino CA

MONDAY-TUEDAY MORNING COMPACT KO 10 TablesJulian Standen - George Jeffrey - Ronald Mulcare, San Francisco CA; R. Rozen, Bel Tiburon CA vsPeter Clay - Kathleen Clay, Wellesley MA; Harold Nordstrom, Reading MA; Susan Lincoln, Boxford MA

Lakshmi Vora, Bloomfield Hills MI; Vishwas Gadgil, Troy MI; Deborah Goldsmith, San Diego CA; Naresh Kapila, Auburn Hills MI vsSusan Morse-Lebow - Monique Thomas, Los Angeles CA; Samantha Macdouglas, Canoga Park CA; Sheila Leventhal, Palm Beach Gardens FL

SUPER SENIOR PAIRS 39.0 Tables / Based on 74 Tables 60.00 1 Veronica McMurdie - Dick Jones, Sacramento CA 1233.93 45.00 2 Joseph Viola III, Altadena CA; Om Chokriwala, Sherman Oaks CA 1231.52 33.75 3 Markland Jones, Phoenix AZ; Patricia Dovell, Gainesville FL 1222.89 26.67 4 Farid Assemi, Fresno CA; James Slinger, Corralitos CA 1211.26 24.00 5 Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Manfred Michlmayr, Orinda CA 1192.87 21.82 6 Allan Graves, St. Johnsbury VT; Kay Enfield, Santa Fe NM 1178.55 20.00 7 Christopher Smith - Deborah Drury, Vero Beach FL 1174.32 18.46 8 Ken Gamble, Capitola CA; Ken Llacera, Santa Cruz CA 1167.78 17.14 9 Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL; Rozanne Pollack, New York NY 1162.76 16.00 10 Barbara Prior, Novato CA; Peter Sager, San Rafael CA 1162.75 15.00 11 Petra Hamman, Carrollton TX; Peggy Sutherlin, Costa Mesa CA 1162.46 14.12 12 Lawrence Lerner, Warren NJ; Lauren Friedman, Daly City CA 1160.14 13.33 13 Jeffrey Miller, Peoria AZ; Phil Warden, Madison WI 1131.80 12.63 14 Sidney Brownstein, Santa Monica CA; Ed Davis, Seal Beach CA 1131.08 12.00 15 Jeffrey Taylor, Eugene OR; Peter Lit, Elk CA 1130.78 11.43 16 Ed Ulman, Portland OR; Jean Barry, Livermore CA 1120.11 10.91 17 Edward Barlow, Sunnyvale CA; Maris Zilant, Miami FL 1118.32 10.43 18 Joe Houde, Vista CA; Andrew Loh, Solana Beach CA 1109.74 10.00 19 Nancy Popkin - Alan Popkin, St. Louis MO 1102.53 9.60 20 Bud Marsh - Marianne Spanier, Scottsdale AZ 1099.41 9.23 21 Ronald Powell, Santa Clara CA; Bob Sanner, Palo Alto CA 1095.84 8.89 22 Michael Kelley - Martina Kelley, Lake Zurich IL 1091.82 8.57 23 Philip Hiestand, Irvine CA; Rai Osborne, Anaheim CA 1090.49 8.28 24 Roger Allen - Ron Grove, Victoria BC 1089.38 8.00 25 V. Jay Tipton - Linda Tipton, Irvine CA 1086.96 7.74 26 Robert Wood, Naples FL; Max Rutherford, Mississauga ON 1084.62 9.76 27 Cliff Campbell, Thunder Bay ON; Alfred Lee, Foster City CA 1082.83 7.27 28 Subba Ravipudi, Downey CA; Yas Takeda, Hacienda Heights CA 1080.98 13.32 29 Harriel Shea - David Gambelin, San Jose CA 1075.16 6.86 30 Stephen Castellino, Castro Valley CA; Bruce Horiguchi, Gardena CA 1073.56 6.67 31 Ravi Bhalla, Berkeley CA; Atam Lalchandani, Incline Village NV 1070.75 6.49 32 David Pelka, Los Angeles CA; William Hall, Thousand Oaks CA 1067.97 6.32 33 W. Reynolds, South Pasadena CA; Lance Kerr, Sylmar CA 1065.56 7.26 34 Geoff Booth - Robert Sandfield, Houston TX 1062.84 6.41 35 Jim Leary - Pat Leary, Livermore CA 1052.97 8.67 36 Bob Enenstein, Los Altos CA; Richard Spitalnick, Sunnyvale CA 1052.16 5.71 37 Gilbert Reeser, Pleasanton CA; Ameen Paul, San Ramon CA 1051.85

QUALIFIERS IN THE 0–10,000 IMP PAIRS 16.0 Tables Carryover 1 William Schreiber, Valley Glen CA; Ron Feldman, Redondo Beach CA 17.00 2 Pablo Lambardi, Buenos Aires Argentina; C. Valerie Gamio, Palos Verdes Peninsula CA 15.04 3 Craig Kavin, Newbury Park CA; Susan Miller, Boca Raton FL 14.55 4 Arjun Dhir, Johns Creek GA; Linda Robinson, Arlington MA 13.19 5 Alene Friedman - Michael Rosen, New York NY 11.31 6 Chuck Wong, Danville CA; Albert Shrive, Naples FL 10.99 7 Suman Agarwal, Columbus OH; Joe Monro, Beverly Hills MI 8.86 8 Donald Cline, Ventura CA; Josh Rosenbluth, Oxnard CA 8.40 9 Aaron Jones, North Bethesda MD; Peter Gelfand, Corralitos CA 6.92 10 Carlos Munoz, White Plains NY; Paul Janicki, Markham ON 6.84 11 Bob Klein - Erwin Linzner, Santa Rosa CA 6.44 12 Kathrine Loh - Michael Gosnell, Walnut Creek CA 5.31 13 B. Wayne Stuart III - Peggy Haigler, Raleigh NC 5.16 14 Lee Ohliger - Joyce Menezes, Ridgewood NJ 5.10 15 Eric Genheimer, Edmond OK; Edward Piken, Palos Verdes Peninsula CA 3.93 16 Dori Cohen - Rob Gordon, Woodbury NY 3.75 17 David Sackett - Darcy White, Prescott AZ 3.46 18 Ke Zhao, Edison NJ; Scott Brozell, Half Moon Bay CA 3.32 19 Simon Ortmann, Allerod Denmark; Katherine Field, Chapel Hill NC 3.20 20 Larry Leskiw, Martinez CA; John Feo, Kennewick WA 3.15 21 Jim Liu, Saratoga CA; Susan Zhang, Los Altos Hills CA 2.56 22 Anthony Barre, Sunnyvale CA; Donald Dalpe, Fort Myers FL 1.55 23 Yu-Shiang Cheng, New Taipei City Taiwan; Li-Hsiang Kuo, Ann Arbor MI 1.21 24 Frank Treiber III, Toledo OH; Rhonda Monro, Beverly Hills MI 1.11 25 Marusa Gold, London England; Peter Cheung, Fremont CA 1.01 26 Mary Vickers, Apex NC; John Hogan Jr., Wayne NJ 0.78 27 Jim Johnsen - Phyllis Yates, San Diego CA 0.56 28 Richard Reitman, Los Gatos CA; Keith Garber, Las Vegas NV 0.49 29 Robert Dean - Marcia Dean, San Jose CA 0.30 30 Seth Cohen, Brooklyn NY; Magnus Olafsson, New York NY 0.18 31 Michael Wolf - Molly O’Neill, Fort Lauderdale FL 0.03 32 Sharon Christenson, Sun City AZ; Scott Hiller, Naples FL 0.00

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Open BAM

Second in the Mitchell Open BAM: Cenk Tuncok, Giorgia Bottta, Margie Cole and Alejandro Bianchedi.

Francisco, including in 2007 and 2012.The team scored 14 and 17.5 in Sunday’s

qualifying sessions to qualify 12th-14th with a carryover of 2.17, then 19.5 and 14.5 in Monday’s final sessions. Their final score of 36.17 was far ahead of the second-place team captained by Margie Cole, which scored 33.33.

Cole played with Alejandro Bianchedi, Giorgia Botta and Cenk Tuncok.

Shortly before the start of the Fall NABC, Milne and Hung played against each other in the Australian team trials, where Hung’s team won. “I’m lucky enough to have him as a partner rather than an opponent now,” Milne said.


Forget winter. Set your sights on springtime

FEB. 24-MARCH 1, 2020 MARRIOTT RESORT & SPA(843) 686-8400

to springtime in Hilton HeadSee fliers on information table. Chair: Tom Schlossberg (843) 368-6690, [email protected]

Hilton Head Island SC, when one of the ACBL’s largest Regionals goes annual — Bridge rate is only $119, including parking and internet, with no resort fee.

• This is two weeks later than normal for a 3200-plus table tournament, a better time to walk the white sands along the Atlantic shore.

• It is the ONLY Regional in North America these dates.• Gold Rush at 9 am and 1 pm; other prime time events at 1 and 7, ensuring large

morning sessions and plenty of time for dinner (some great local restaurants).


Goodwill Reception

Among her service to the district, Robertson:• wrote the district bylaws.• served on the youth bridge committee since its

inception.• wrote guidelines for distributing grants.• negotiated a lease for a district van.• serves as information chair for this NABC as she

did for the 2012 Fall NABC.Robinson also served on the board of the Western

Conference for 12 years and rewrote its bylaws.“Marion’s biggest

contribution is she always says yes,” Zayac said.

DeMartino also announced the Goodwill Member of the Year, who will be presented with the award in Columbus. William Stine of Rancho Mirage CA will be recognized for his selfless commitment to our players and the game, she said, citing his nomination. “As tournament and unit chairperson, he has established a group of volunteers and works alongside them at every opportunity,” she said. When two new directors needed transportation to attend a training program, he gave up a day of his time to drive them and wait while they completed their class.

Both Joe Jones, the ACBL executive director, and Russ Jones, the outgoing president, talked about how goodwill is critical to recruiting and retaining new members. Joe Jones applauded the committee members for their volunteerism and for being goodwill ambassadors.

“Goodwill is fundamental to growing the game and building membership,” he said. “As ambassadors of the game, you set the example everyone should follow in order to ensure the future of the game we love so much.”

About 120 people attended the Goodwill reception.

ACBL Executive Director Joe Jones

ACBL President Russ Jones

MITCHELL OPEN BAM 56 Tables / Based on 114 Tables140.00 1 Howard Weinstein, Rancho Mirage CA; Michael Becker, Boca Raton FL; Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; Liam Milne, Sidney Australia; Andy Hung, Brisbane Australia 36.17105.00 2 Margie Cole - Alejandro Bianchedi, New York NY; Giorgia Botta, Brooklyn NY; Cenk Tuncok, Amesbury MA 33.33 78.75 3 G. Venkatesh, Carmel CA; Anil Padhye, Mumbay India; Sundarram Srinivasan, Chennai India; P. Sridhar, Chennai India; Michel Abecassis, Paris France; Marc Bompis, Bourg La Reine France 32.11 56.38 4/6 Jean Fantun - Veronique Ventos, Paris France; Jean-Pierre Desmoulins, Suresnes France; Colin Deheeger, Les Vlis France 32.09 56.38 4/6 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Ulf Nilsson, Dalby Sweden; Peter Gill, Sydney Australia; Owen Lien, Oak Park MI 32.09 56.38 4/6 Paula Nataf, Beverly Hills CA; Romain Tembouret, Asnia¨res France; Laurent Thuillez - Pascale Thuillez, Villiers St. Frederic France; Anne-Laule Tartarin, France 32.09 46.67 7 Curtis Cheek - Huub Bertens - Paul Lewis - Linda Lewis, Las Vegas NV; Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Hjordis Eythorsdottir, New York NY 31.89 43.08 8 Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba Israel; Piotr Pawel Zatorski, Gdansk Poland; Ken Bercuson, Las Vegas NV; George Mittelman, Thornhill ON 31.61 40.00 9 George Whitworth, Coarsegold CA; James Tritt, Orange CA; Robert Giragosian, Bakersfield CA; Stephen McConnell, Evanston IL 31.37 37.33 10 Rodrigo Garcia Da Rosa, Argentina; Rita Shugart, Pebble Beach CA; Maximo Crusizio, Argentina; Juan Castillo, Fort Lauderdale FL 30.76 35.00 11 Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA; Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV; Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA; Mitch Dunitz - Billy Cohen, Sherman Oaks CA 30.15 32.94 12 Michael Kovacich, Stone Mountain GA; Robert Fendrick, Marietta GA; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON; Alex Hudson, Raleigh NC 30.00 31.11 13 Daniela von Arnim, Hockenheim Germany; William Watson, Sunnyvale CA; Roland Rohowsky, Nueruberg Germany; Geeske Joel, Palo Alto CA 29.96 29.47 14 Robert Katz, Ann Arbor MI; Jonathan Fleischmann, Bloomfield MI; Claude Vogel, Chicago IL; John Jones, Santa Fe Springs CA 29.54 27.34 15/16 Anne Brenner - David Caprera, Denver CO; Robert Bitterman, Sarasota FL; Robert Cappelli, Sanibel FL 29.52 27.34 15/16 Bruce Rogoff, Boca Raton FL; Alexander Ornstein, New York NY; Dan Jacob, Vancouver BC; Robert Lebi, Toronto ON 29.52 25.45 17 Kauko Koistinen, Espoo Finland; Connie Goldberg, Gladwyne PA; Vesa Fagerlund, Tampere Finland; Hua Poon, Singapore Singapore; Jie Li - Fu Zhong, Beijing People’s Republic of China 29.50 24.35 18 Sam Lev - Daniel Lev, New York NY; Gary Cohler, Delray Beach FL; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Berend Van Den Bos, Den Haag Netherlands; Joris van Lankveld, Amsterdam Netherlands 29.46 23.33 19 Samuel Gillis, London, England; Erik Saelensminde, Bergen Norway; Per Erik Austberg - Arild Rasmussen, Norway 29.37 22.40 20 Jun Shang - Jiashen Yin - Yizhuo Zhang, Beijing People’s Republic of China; Yanhui Sun, People’s Republic of China; Yichao Chen - Junjie Hu, Shanghai China 29.33 21.54 21 Brian Glubok, New York NY; Ettore Bianchi, Dobbs Ferry NY; Irene Baroni, Moniga Italy; Alessandro Gandoglia, Rome Italy 29.24 20.74 22 Adam Wildavsky - Michael Polowan, New York NY; Douglas Doub, West Hartford CT; Haig Tchamitch, Paradise Valley AZ 28.93 20.00 23 Diana Schuld, Glen Head NY; Alan Kudisch, East Norwich NY; Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX; Toni Bales, Pickerington OH 28.72 19.31 24 Peter Trenka, New York NY; Igor Savchenko, Morris Plains NJ; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ; Alex Perlin, Metuchen NJ 28.67 18.67 25 Lew Stansby - JoAnna Stansby, Dublin CA; Crispin Barrere, Berkeley CA; Mark Perlmutter, San Diego CA 28.50 18.06 26 Maciej Klis, Krakow Poland; Kamil Walczyk, Radom Poland; Stanislaw Pajak, Starachonice Poland; Janusz Gawecki, Kielce Poland 28.24 17.50 27 Edward Nagy, Danville CA; Gene Simpson, San Rafael CA; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA; Gary Soules, Elk Grove CA 28.15 16.97 28 Michael Kamil - Gabrielle Sherman, Austin TX; David Treitel, Miami FL; Matt Granovetter, Cincinnati OH 28.09


The 2018 winners of the Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs were Robert Levin and Joe Grue.

Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs

The eventThe Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs ranks with

the von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs in the summer and the Platinum Pairs in the spring as the most prestigious — and toughest — pair events on the ACBL calendar. Like the LM Pairs and Platinum Pairs, the Blue Ribbon Pairs is played over three days and includes two qualifying, two semifinal and two final sessions.

Entry is restricted to winners and runners-up in regional championships — plus high finishers in North American championships, members of current Grand National district championship teams, members of current official teams representing ACBL and the top 100 lifetime masterpoint holders.

The Blue Ribbon Pairs was renamed the Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs in 1999 to honor one of bridge’s all-time great players, writers, administrators and the authority on the laws of the game.

Kaplan (1925–1997) won his first North American championship in 1953 – the Vanderbilt – and his last in 1997 – the Open Swiss Teams at the Spring NABC in Dallas.

Kaplan was recognized as the world’s foremost authority on the laws of duplicate and rubber bridge. He became co-chairman of the ACBL Laws Commission in 1978 and was co-chairman of the WBF Laws Commission at the time of his death.

He was named ACBL Honorary Member in 1993. In 1995 he was inducted into the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame and the WBF Hall of Fame.

The trophyThe event is contested for the Cavendish Trophy,

awarded for the National Open Pair Championship and donated by the Cavendish Club of New York in 1928. Since 1963, the trophy has honored the winners of the Blue Ribbon Pairs.

Winners and runners-up:1963 1. B. Jay Becker, Dorothy Hayden;

2. Harold Harkavy, Cliff Russell1964 1. Robert D. Hamman, Lewis L. Mathe;

2. Gunther Polak, Robert G. Sharp1965 1. Chuck Henke, John H. Moran;

2. Michael S. Lawrence, Ron Von der Porten1966 1. Charles Coon, Richard Zeckhauser;

2. Leland Ferer, Gratian Goldstein1967 1. Sami R. Kehela, Baron Wolf Lebovic;

2. Phil Feldesman, Lewis L. Mathe1968 1. Larry Cohen, Richard H. Katz;

2. Bobby Goldman, Michael S. Lawrence1969 1. Erik Paulsen, Alex Tschekaloff;

2-4. Sami R. Kehela, Eric R. Murray; 2-4. Tom Hodapp, Robert F. Morris; 2-4. Larry Cohen, Richard H. Katz

1970 1. Chuck F. Burger, Ira S. Rubin; 2. Richard Freeman, Cliff Russell

1971 1. Roger Bates, John M. Grantham; 2. Hermine Baron, Michael S. Lawrence

1972 1. Richard Khautin, Warren Kornfeld; 2. Garey Hayden, Mark Lair

1973 1. Steve Robinson, Kit Woolsey; 2. Kathie Cappelletti, Mike Cappelletti

1974 1. Edgar Kaplan, Norman Kay; 2. Roger Bates, George Rosenkranz

1975 1. Steve Robinson, Kit Woolsey; 2. Ron E. Andersen, Hugh C. MacLean

1976 1. Jay Apfelbaum, Bill Edelstein; 2. James Jacoby, David Berkowitz

1977 1. Lou Bluhm, Thomas K. Sanders; 2. Kathie Cappelletti, Mike Cappelletti

1978 1. Ron E. Andersen, David Berkowitz; 2. Ted Horning, Peter Nagy

1979 1. Robert Levin, Ron Smith; 2. James Bennett, Chester Davis

1980 1. Warren Rosner, Allan Stauber; 2. Dan Morse, G. Robert Nail

1981 1. Larry N. Cohen, Ron Gerard; 2. Chip Martel, Lew Stansby

1982 1. Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth; 2-3. Robert Blanchard, Drew Casen; 2-3. Peter Boyd, Steve Robinson

1983 1. Marty Bergen, Larry N. Cohen; 2. Peter Weichsel, Mike Lawrence

1984 1-2. Jack Kennedy, Bobby Wolff; 1-2. David Funk, Mark Lair

1985 1. Eric Rodwell, Walter Johnson; 2. Kit Woolsey, Ed Manfield

1986 1. Bob Hamman, Ron Von der Porten; 2. Kit Woolsey, Ed Manfield

1987 1. Fred Stewart, Steve Weinstein; 2. Kerri Shuman, Robert Levin

1988 1. Marty Bergen, Larry N. Cohen; 2. Robert Levin, Ron Smith

1989 1. Mark Molson, Robert Lebi; 2. Gaylor Kasle, Roger Bates

1990 1. Kit Woolsey, Ed Manfield; 2. Brian Glubok, Sam Lev

1991 1. Bob Hamman, Nick Nickell; 2. Mark Tolliver, Marc Zwerling

1992 1. Haig Tchamitch, Adam Wildavsky; 2. Brad Moss, Ravindra Murthy

1993 1. Bob Hamman, Michael Rosenberg; 2. Martin De Bruin, Steve Price

1994 1. Mark Lair, Alexander Weiland; 2. Fred Stewart, Steve Weinstein

1995 1. David Berkowitz, Larry Cohen; 2. Paul Kiefer, Jerry Helms

1996 1. Jim Krekorian, Bob Blanchard; 2. Larry Cohen. David Berkowitz

1997 1. Adam Wildavsky, Allan Falk; 2. Geir Helgemo, Tony Forrester

1998 1. Zia Mahmood, Howard Weinstein; 2. Eric Rodwell, Marty Seligman

1999 1. Jill Meyers, John Mohan; 2. John Sutherlin, Russ Ekeblad

2000 1. Richard Coren, Marc Jacobus; 2. Robert Levin, Steve Weinstein

2001 1. Salvador Assael, Nafiz Zorlu; 2. Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Steve Landen

2002 1. Sidney Lazard, Bart Bramley; 2. Kit Woolsey, Fred Stewart

2003 1. Michael Seamon, Geir Helgemo; 2. Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson

2004 1. Tarek Sadek, Walid Elahmady; 2. Robert Levin, Steve Weinstein

2005 1. Gavin Wolpert, Jenny Ryman; 2. Sabine Auken, Daniela von Arnim

2006 1. Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes; 2. Drew Casen, Jim Krekorian

2007 1. Steve Landen, Pratap Rajadhyaksha; 2. Ernesto Muzzio, Alejandro Bianchedi

2008 1. Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth; 2. Frederic Wrang, Martin De Knijff

2009 1. Bart Bramley, Bjorn Fallenius; 2. John Hurd, Joel Wooldridge

2010 1. Jay Borker, Jan Jansma; 2. Bas Drijver, Sjoert Brink

2011 1. Josh Donn, Roger Lee; 2. Billy Cohen, Brad Moss

2012 1. Brian Platnick, John Diamond; 2. Geoff Hampson, Eric Greco

2013 1. Steve Weinstein, Agustin Madala; 2. Bar Tarnovski, Dror Padon

2014 1. John Hurd, Justin Lall; 2. Nick Demirev, Eldad Ginossar

2015 1. John Hurd, Joe Grue; 2. Thomas Bessis, Frederic Volcker

2016 1. Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell; 2. Billy Cohen, Ron Smith

2017 1. Joe Grue, Eric Greco; 2. Matt Granovetter, Sylvia Shi

2018 1. Joe Grue, Robert Levin; 2. Chris Compton, Eldad Ginossar

MONDAY-TUESDAY DAYLIGHT KO 1 9 TablesHilda Setton, Italy; Pierre Franceschetti, Paris France; Quentin Robert, Paris France; Julien Bernard, Le Vesinet France; Nicholas Lhuissier, Rueil Malmaison France; Jerome Rombaut, Hem France vsRuth Fleischmann, New York NY; Mustafa Cem Tokay, Manhattan NY; Gokhan Yilmaz, Istanbul Turkey; Omer Ekinci, Astoria NY

Giuseppina Di Dio - Gianni Balbi - Franco Caviezel, Venice Italy; Peter Schneider, New York City NY vsRobert Hollman, Santa Barbara CA; Bruce Ferguson, Palm Springs CA; Neil Chambers, Schenectady NY; John Schermer, Seattle WA; Veri Kiljan, Tilburg Netherlands; Luc Tijssen, Tilburg Netherlands

MONDAY-TUESDAY DAYLIGHT KO 2 12 TablesLynne Koeppel - Betty Levin - Jess Jurkovic - Robert Barrington, New York NY vsSteve Chen - Sarah Chen - Charlie Chen - Andrew Chen, San Jose CA

Brian Samuels - Jan Samuels - Kip Kado - Barbara Shukov, Los Altos CA vsCyndy Sidore - Dennis Viner, Princeville HI; John Tippet, Fort Collins CO; Loring Harkness III, Kilauea HI

MONDAY-TUESDAY DAYLIGHT KO 3 12 TablesDale Berger, New York NY; Bonnie Apfelbaum, Greenwich CT; Nance Lodge, Rancho Mirage CA; Barbara Astrin, Encino CA vsJon Rayden - Donald Cohn - Buz Battle, Los Altos CA; Richard Herzog, Los Altos Hills CA

Brian Castle - Patrick Staley, San Diego CA; Linda Atkinson, Encinitas CA; Ramey Farah, La Jolla CA vsLily Lister - Lamya Abougoush - Frances McDonald - Nancy Engbloom, Calgary AB

MONDAY-TUESDAY DAYLIGHT KO 4 14 TablesPeter Krag - Ashish Gupta - Andrew Hong, San Francisco CA; David Gelles, West Richland WA vsXuyang Zhang - Suhang Li - Ziqian Wang - Yufan Chen - Jiayi Shi - Shuoming Ma, Shanghai People’s Republic of China

Mary-Jill Clemens, Moraga CA; Karen Corburn, Brentwood CA; Yilmaz Ozturhan, San Ramon CA; Bill LeMaire, El Sobrante CA vsRobert Barnes, Concord CA; Furqan Naeem, Pittsburgh CA; Clare Smith, Walnut Creek CA; Jeanette Bartz, Clayton CA


TOM PAJAK MONDAY MORNING SIDE PAIRS 16.0 Tables A B C 5.63 1 1 Glenn Boyce, Piedmont CA; Edwin Seputis, Oakland CA 67.58% 4.22 2 Penny Kallaus, Holualoa HI; Robert Liu, Honolulu HI 65.33% 3.17 3 Clay Hamner, Chapel Hill NC; Kevin Wilson, Knoxville TN 60.00% 2.38 4 Gary Tomczyk, Las Vegas NV; Eugene Chan, Richmond BC 59.69% 3.74 5 2 Sandra Lehman - Ron Haack, New York NY 56.24% 2.80 6 3 1 Jaquett Heck, Hobe Sound FL; Mari Stuart, Greenwich CT 55.64% 2.52 7 4 Craig Smith, Luzern Switzerland; Dell Berg, Redmond WA 54.86% 1.58 5 Linda Dunn, Memphis TN; Hal Jones Jr., Lorton VA 53.94% 1.76 6 Thomas Pajak - Shirley Rodenborn, Oakland CA 53.75% 1.84 2 Harry Potter, Vienna VA; James Mosley, Falls Church VA 53.60% 1.38 3 Ralph Lipe - Lynda Lipe, Bellevue WA 53.19%

TERRY TERZIAN MEMORIAL MONDAY MORNING 299ER PAIRS 22.5 Tables A B C 4.95 1 1 1 Amy Salisbury - Dana Bisconti, Atherton CA 72.11% 3.71 2 2 Sonja Mooradian - Art Mooradian, Fort Myers FL 61.90% 2.44 3/4 3/4 2 Terry Galusha - Gary Galusha, Boulder CO 60.71% 2.44 3/4 3/4 Gary Nelson - Alice Nelson, Bend OR 60.71% 1.57 5 5 Marcy Tivol, Palo Alto CA; Marleen Zwiers, Menlo Park CA 59.52% 1.58 6 6 3 Peter Sorensen - Shirley Ehrlich, Mill Valley CA 58.33% 1.18 4 Blair Hull, Piedmont CA; Tillie Myers, San Jose CA 55.65% 0.89 5 Timothy Byrnes, Perpigna France; Amy Drexel, Dublin CA 54.76% 0.66 6 Lynn Gurnee, Fremont CA; Jacky Poulsen, Livermore CA 52.38%

TERRY TERZIAN MEMORIAL MONDAY MORNING 99ER PAIRS 8.0 Tables A B C 2.40 1 Jane Hyatt - David Graves, Columbia SC 65.77% 2.10 2 1 Michael Whitaker, Moraga CA; Edward Marlovits, Walnut Creek CA 58.93% 1.58 3 2 1 Lori Sherk - Judy Seropan, San Francisco CA 58.04% 1.18 4 3 2 Ronald Forney, Lafayette CA; Dianne Wesselhoft, Danville CA 55.95% 0.76 5 Marcia Thompson - Richard Thompson, Los Altos CA 53.87% 0.89 4 Robert Oconnor, South Bend IN; William Schultz, Oakland CA 53.27% 0.66 5 Jeff Slavitz, Tiburon CA; Karen Antonelli, San Francisco CA 50.60%

TERRY TERZIAN MEMORIAL MONDAY MORNING NEWCOMER PAIRS 6.0 Tables A B C 1.71 1 1 1 Megan Sanguinetti - Sarah Malarkey, San Francisco CA 72.91% 1.28 2 2 2 Allan Blank - Zandra Krischer, San Francisco CA 54.91% 0.96 3 3 3 Paula McNally, Greenbrae CA; Nancy Phillips, San Rafael CA 54.45% 0.72 4 4 4 June Taylor, Tenmile OR; Kent Taylor, Half Moon Bay CA 53.64%

NABC Electronic Device Policy

Except by permission of the director in charge, any electronic equipment or device capable of receiving or sending an electronic signal, or capable of communicating in any way, may not be operated or functioning in any manner in the playing area during a session of play. Any such equipment must not be visible during the session and must remain off at all times.

The above restrictions apply to all players, captains, coaches, kibitzers and play recorders except those persons granted permission by the ACBL, and are in force throughout any playing session or segment of play. Further restrictions and requirements apply in events involving live internet and/or vugraph coverage.

A violation of any of the above restrictions will result in an automatic penalty, pursuant to Law 91 of the Laws of Duplicate Bridge.

NABC+ events• First offense of any kind (ringing, answering or

initiating a call, texting or browsing) in a session: One full board, 12 IMPs or 20% of the maximum available VPs per match, at the respective form of scoring.

• Second offense in the same session or third offense within the event, disqualification of the pair or team from the event.

Other events• First offense, in the same session – ringing

only: one-quarter board, 3 IMPs or 1 VP, at the respective form of scoring; first offense in the same session – answering or initiating a call, texting or browsing: one-half board, 6 IMPs or 2 VPs, at the respective form of scoring.

• Second offense in the same session: two full boards, 20 IMPs or 50% of the maximum available VPs per match, at the respective form of scoring.

• Third offense in the event: disqualification of the pair or team from the event.

Kibitzers violating this policy will be removed from the playing area for the remainder of the session.

This policy applies to all events at NABCs.

MONDAY AFTERNOON SIDE SWISS TEAMS 25 Tables A B C 6.53 1 Sylvia Moss, Boca Raton FL; Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX; Eldad Ginossar, Chicago IL; David Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Ishmael Del’Monte, Las Vegas NV 70.00 4.90 2 Thomas Burg - Sylvia Terraneo - Terry Weigkricht, Vienna Austria; Peter Zelnik, Austria 65.00 4.73 3 1 Dinesh Agrawal - Rajendra Agrawal - Janet Sharpe - Diane Campbell, Calgary AB 59.00 3.55 4 2 1 Claire Young - Wallace McOuat, San Anselmo CA; Steve Dickason - Connie True, Little Rock AR 54.00 2.66 5 3 2 Brian Childers, Germantown MD; David Sisson, Fremont CA; Mary Baxter, Silver Spring MD; Thomas Stanley, Occoquan VA 49.00 1.55 6 Caroline Allen, San Francisco CA; Jim O’Neil, Cupertino CA; Heather MacGregor, Portola Valley CA; Cecelia Zachar, Santa Rosa CA 48.00 1.75 4/5 Norma Shaw - Michelle Rosenzweig - Cheryl Miller - Carole Bennett Cardinal, Santa Barbara CA 46.00 1.75 4/5 3 Maria Black - Margaret Wahlborg - Christian Gilles - James Bechtel, Santa Barbara CA 46.00

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Nail LM actionBy Barry Rigal

Finn Kolesnik and John Ramos defended 4♠ on this deal from the second final session of the Nail Life Master Pairs: Dlr: North ♠ Q Vul: N–S ♥ 7 2 Bd: 21 ♦ A K 9 8 5 4 ♣ Q 8 5 4 ♠ A 8 4 ♠ K 9 7 5 2 ♥ A 10 6 4 3 ♥ K Q J ♦ Q 10 7 ♦ 6 3 2 ♣ A 10 ♣ 7 3 ♠ J 10 6 3 ♥ 9 8 5 ♦ J ♣ K J 9 6 2 West North East South 1♦ 1♠ Pass 2♦ Pass 2♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass

We can all see that the defenders can take four tricks easily enough. Kolesnik led the ♦J to the queen and king, and Kolesnik might have done best to shift to a club. When he played the ♠Q, declarer misguessed, running this to dummy and playing a second trump, ducking it to South. Back came a club. Declarer won the ace and played the ♠K and another spade, pitching a club from dummy. this produced an unusual position ♠ — ♥ 7 2 ♦ A 9 8 ♣ Q 8 ♠ — ♠ 9 ♥ A 10 6 4 3 ♥ K Q J ♦ 10 7 ♦ 6 2 ♣ — ♣ 7 ♠ — ♥ 9 8 5 ♦ — ♣ K J 9 6

If South cashes the ♣K, declarer pitches a diamond from dummy and has the rest. Ramos played a low club and let partner in to cash out for down two.

The next deal saw two different declarers looking for pressure in the endgame: Dlr: East ♠ A K 9 8 2 Vul: E-W ♥ A K 6 Bd: 22 ♦ J ♣ A K 7 4 ♠ Q 3 ♠ 10 7 6 5 ♥ Q J 9 4 3 ♥ 10 2 ♦ K 10 6 4 3 2 ♦ 8 7 5 ♣ — ♣ Q J 10 6 ♠ J 4 ♥ 8 7 5 ♦ A Q 9 ♣ 9 8 5 3 2

Ramos declared 3NT after a Gazzilli auction where North showed spades and clubs and South showed diamond values: West North East South Pass Pass Pass 1♠ Pass 1NT Pass 2♣ (1) Pass 2♦ (2) Pass 2♥ (3) Pass 2♠ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♦ Pass 3♥ Pass 3♠ Pass 3NT All Pass

(1) 16+ HCP(2) 7+ HCP(3) spades + second suitWest did well to lead a top heart. Ramos cashed

one club to find the bad news and ran the ♠8 to West, who exited in hearts. Ramos unblocked spades, cashed the second top club and ran spades. In the four-card ending, West kept two hearts and two diamonds, so Ramos threw him in with a heart to lead diamonds into the tenace for 10 tricks.

Ron Gerard, North, playing with Mathias Felmy, played 4♠ after West had opened 2♥ in third seat. He won the heart lead and played spades from the top, letting East win the 10 and lead a second heart. Gerard won and drew the last trump, then cashed the ♣A to find the bad news. Now he cashed the last trump (forcing a diamond out of East) and the master club; West put him under pressure by pitching diamonds at every turn so that he could avoid the endplay. The four-card ending: ♠ — ♥ 6 ♦ J ♣ 7 4 ♠ — ♠ — ♥ Q J 4 ♥ — ♦ K ♦ 8 7 ♣ — ♣ Q J ♠ — ♥ 8 ♦ A Q 9 ♣ —

West had had to pitch the ♦10 to maximize the pressure, and Gerard (who knew West had 2=5=6=0 pattern) guessed well to lead the ♦J to the ace, bringing home the overtrick.

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The 2018 Whitehead Women’s Pairs champs were Tatiana Dikhnova and Tatiana Ponomareva.

Women’s Pairs compete for Whitehead Trophy

Play begins today in the Whitehead Women’s Pairs with two qualifying sessions, followed by two final sessions tomorrow.

At stake is the Whitehead Trophy, donated in 1930 by Wilbur C. Whitehead of New York, a great bridge authority and a member of the team that won the Vanderbilt Cup in 1928, the first year it was in play.

Whitehead (1866–1931) was president of the Simplex Automobile Company, but bridge held such a fascination for him that he retired from business in 1910 to devote his life to bridge.

He was the inventor of many bidding and play conventions, the quick-trick table of card values, the Whitehead system of requirements for original bids and responses and the Whitehead table of preferential leads.

Whitehead was instrumental in standardizing procedures in auction bridge and later in contract bridge.

This event was for many years played at the Spring NABC until moving to the fall last year.

Previous winners:1930 Olive Peterson, Maud Zontlein1931 Vivi Hanson, Elinor Murdoch1932 Mrs. Jay S. Jones, Olive Peterson1933 Doris Fuller, Mrs. Courtand Smith1934 Helen Bonwit, Helen White1935 Bertine Teichman, Mable Ulbrich1936 Mrs. Jay S. Jones, Sally Young1937 Mable Ervin, Doris Fuller1938 Helen Sobel, Sally Young1939 Helen Sobel, Sally Young1940 Edith Atkinson, Mrs. John Waidlich1941 Mae P. Rosen, Edith Seligman1942 Mae P. Rosen, Edith Seligman1943 Mae P. Rosen, Edith Seligman1944 Ruth Sherman, Margaret Wagar1945 Peggy Golder, Olive Peterson1946 Edith Seligman, Sally Young1947 Gratian Goldstein, Josephine Gutman1948 Gratian Goldstein, Josephine Gutman1949 Kay Rhodes, Ruth Sherman1950 Mrs. John Kelly, Dorothy Thompson1951 Alwina M. Dunphy, Mrs. Edward Minear1952 Shirley Fairchild, Elaine Lee1953 Mrs. Harold P. Swearingen, Barbara Weiner1954 Margaret Alcorn, Sally Neely1955 Kay Rhodes, Margaret Wagar1956 Kay Rhodes, Margaret Wagar1957 Kay Rhodes, Margaret Wagar1958 Betty Nail, Phyllis Novak1959 Betty Adler, Dorothy Hayden1960 Mary Jane Farell, Peggy Solomon1961 Agnes Gordon, Betty Haddad1962 Carol Sanders, Sylvia Stein

A similar event was held at the Spring NABC 1958-1962 with these winners:1958 Kay Rhodes, Margaret Wagar1959 Bert Epstein, Blossom Grossblatt1960 Gretchen Feldstein, Jane Mueller1961 May Belle Long, Effie Woods1962 Clarice Holt, Mrs. Greeley Warner

1963 Mrs. K.L. Sargent, Mrs. Ray Tobin1964 Margaret Alcorn, Lucille Patterson1965 Nancy Gruver, Sue Sachs1966 Virginia Heckel, Edith Kemp1967 Garner McDaniel, Terry Michaels1968 Hermine Baron, Rhoda Walsh1969 Gale Clarke, Gloria Noszka1970 Robin Klar, Tina Rockaway1971 Amalya Kearse, Jacqui Mitchell1972 Kerri Davis, Rhoda Walsh1973 Ann Economidy, Vivian Williamson1974 Pat Leary, Jan Stansby1975 Jacqui Mitchell, Gail Moss1976 Gail Schaab, Barbara Staton1977 Jacqui Mitchell, Gail Moss1978 Babs Charney, Flo Rotman1979 Anne Burnstein, Edith Kemp1980 Mildred Boyce, Barbara Norwood1981 Emma Jean Hawes, Dorothy Hayden

Truscott1982 Hermine Baron, Beverly Rosenberg1983 Evelyn Levitt, Jo Morse1984 Judy Tucker, Jacqui Mitchell1985 Dale Dermer, JoAnne Caplan1986 Edith Freilich, Nancy Gruver1987 Tobi Deutsch, Kay Schulle1988 Sally Wheeler, Georgiana Gates1989 Nadine Wood, Jeanne Elkner1990 Tobi Deutsch, June Deutsch1991 Leslie Paryzer, Nancy Widman1992 Cheri Bjerkan, Janice Seamon1993 Carol Sanders, Betty Ann Kennedy1994 Corinne Kirkham, Ann Kluewer1995 Lila Perlstein, Juanita Chambers1996 Nancy Widman, Leslie Paryzer1997 Susan Wexler, Margie Gwozdzinsky1998 Judi Radin, Valerie Westheimer1999 Harriet Eaton, Ellen Crawford2000 Joan Stein, Eunice Rosen2001 Judi Radin, Sylvia Moss2002 Cheri Bjerkan, Sue Weinstein2003 Joan Eaton, Candace Griffey2004 Jacqui Mitchell, Amalya Kearse2005 Gail Greenberg, Laurie Vogel2006 Sylvia Moss, Judy Radin2007 Kamla Chawla, Irina Ladyzhevsky2008 Chris Benson, Lynne Feldman2009 Lisa Berkowitz, Joann Glasson2010 Suzy Burger, Linda Lewis2011 Diana Schuld, Marjorie Michelin2012 Patricia Norman, Georgiana Gates2013 Jan Assini, Joanne Weingold2014 Ran Jingrong, Wen Wang2015 Benedict Cronier, Emily Harrell2016 Shawn Quinn, Nancy Passell2017 Katarzyna Dufrat, Justyna Zmuda2018 Tatiana Dikhnova, Tatiana Ponomareva

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Super Seniors

Third place went to Markland Jones of Phoenix AZ and Patricia Dovell of Gainesville FL who scored 1222.89.

Age requirement for Senior events

You must at least 60 years old to play in ACBL Senior events through 2019.

Second in the Super Senior Pairs were Joseph Viola and Om Chokriwala.


The popular Learn Bridge in a Day class drew 12 tables of students on Saturday. Patty Tucker teaches the class at each NABC and some regionals each year.

Patty Tucker also taught Doubles in a Day to eight tables of students on Sunday. Later that night some students eagerly practiced usage of the double card in the evening 299er game.

MONDAY AFTERNOON SIDE PAIRS 29.0 Tables A B C 8.45 1 1 Norman Trabulus, New York NY; Charles Bilich, Hewlett NY 64.16% 6.34 2 Paul Burnham, Wilton CT; Sonja Smith, North Granby CT 58.86% 4.88 3 2 Arif Janjua, Saratoga CA; Mukund Thapa, Palo Alto CA 58.60% 3.66 4 3 Sandra Forsythe, Centerville OH; Wendy Fotland, San Jose CA 56.49% 4.55 5 Ken Gee, Regina SK; Hannah Moon, Sasakatoon SK 55.97% 2.01 6 Ann Borgschulte, San Anselmo CA; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA 55.53% 3.19 7 Don Friedman - Louis Lipset, San Francisco CA 55.13% 1.13 8 Tomi Storey, Frisco TX; Melody Euler, Temple TX 54.83% 3.17 4 Lynn Larson - Paul Christ, Traverse City MI 54.52% 2.22 5 Carol Maggipinto - Mark Maggipinto, Aptos CA 54.48% 1.59 6 Raeann Koerner - Anne Cline, Ventura CA 54.27% 1.19 7 Ryan Gossiaux, San Francisco CA; Ying Lin Gu, San Diego CA 53.75% 2.63 1 David Jamison - Eve Thompson, San Francisco CA 53.29% 1.97 2 David Bucher - Willi Williams, Roseville CA 51.18% 1.48 3 Roger Leemis - Terran Leemis, Bloomfield Hills MI 45.81% 1.11 4 Charles Mann, San Francisco CA; Joy Light, Kalamazoo MI 45.24%

MONDAY DAYLIGHT A/X PAIRS 44.5 Tables / Based on 134 Tables A X 45.75 1 Corey Krantz, Delray Beach FL; Bruce Lang, West Palm Beach FL 58.37% 34.31 2 Robert Todd, Tallahassee FL; Bill Cook, Louisville KY 58.23% 27.45 3 1 Bernard Yomtov, Cambridge MA; Allen Hawkins Jr., Birmingham AL 58.10% 19.30 4 Gilbert Stinebaugh, Van Nuys CA; Cliff Goodrich, Long Beach CA 57.29% 20.59 5 2 Bob Lafleur - Jan George, Las Vegas NV 56.64% 13.07 6 Morris Chang, Santa Clara CA; Wenfei Wang, Shanghai China 56.58% 15.44 7 3 Henri Farhi - Kit Humphrey, Chula Vista CA 56.20% 10.17 8 Hiroko Yanagisawa, Tokyo Japan; Kazuo K Furuta, Kanagawa-Ken Japan 56.09% 9.15 9 Jeffrey Rothstein, New York NY; Russell Samuel, Coram NY 55.52% 11.58 10 4 Lance Chamberlain, Rochester MN; Florin Constantin, Alameda CA 55.27% 9.15 11 5 Jacob Freeman, Toronto ON; Harrison Luba, Lynnfield MA 55.16% 7.04 12 Patrick Questembert - Erez Hendelman, New York NY 55.04% 8.18 13 Tobi Sokolow - Claudette Hartman, Austin TX 55.04% 6.10 14 Kenji Miyakuni - Ayako Miyakuni, Tokyo Japan 54.97% 5.72 15 Sam Madison-Jammal - Lynne Feldman, San Diego CA 54.57% 5.73 16 Winthrop Allegaert, New York NY; Joan Cremin, Paradise Valley AZ 54.47% 7.84 17 6 Jian Wang, Alameda CA; Ben Yang, Warren NJ 53.94% 8.18 18 James Melville, Springfield IL; Vladislav Isporski, Sofia Bulgaria 53.89% 6.86 19 7 Michael Roche, Victoria BC; Daniel Lyder, Vancouver BC 53.82% 8.18 20 Suresh Mahajan, Del Mar CA; Yatindra Sahae, Carmel Valley CA 53.73% 4.16 21 Muriel Altus - Philip Altus, Tampa FL 53.72% 6.10 22 8 Todd Wachsman, Delray Beach FL; Peter Jargowsky, Boca Raton FL 53.68% 5.73 23 9 David Gurvich - Rachael Moller, New York NY 53.65% 4.99 10 Brenda Pugsley - Paul Pugsley, Carson City NV 53.64% 4.60 11 Virginia Ewick - Rene Reid, Reno NV 53.40% 4.22 12 Marolyn Imaoka, San Jose CA; Tim Benoit, Esbon KS 53.40% 3.92 13 Tushar Gheewala, San Francisco CA; Arun Savara, Honolulu HI 53.08% 3.66 14 Eileen Paley, White Plains NY; Ritsuko Kai, Chofu-Shi Japan 53.04% 3.43 15 Robyn Hedly, Denver CO; Margaret Glasner, Yuma AZ 52.66%

Gifted studentGary Near reported the following deal from the

first qualifying session of the Super Senior Pairs. Near was playing with Fred Chasalow against Hall of Famer Fred Hamilton and Rose Boot:

Dlr: East ♠ 2 Vul: E-W ♥ A 9 8 7 Bd: 6 ♦ 8 6 3 ♣ A J 7 4 2 ♠ A K 9 4 ♠ 6 5 ♥ K 6 5 2 ♥ Q J 4 3 ♦ A Q ♦ 10 5 ♣ K 8 3 ♣ Q 10 9 6 5 ♠ Q J 10 8 7 3 ♥ 10 ♦ K J 9 7 4 2 ♣ —

West North East South Boot Chasalow Near Hamilton Pass 2♠ (1) 2NT Pass Pass 3♦ Dbl All Pass

(1) WeakThe meaning of the double was, perhaps, unclear

on this unusual sequence, but Near lost just two trumps and two spades to make 3♦ doubled for plus 470 and 92% of the matchpoints.

At the break, Near wandered out to the hallway and encountered Hamilton, and old friend and mentor. Defending his decision to open a weak two-bid and bid again, Near said, “Freddie, you always taught me that when you have a distributional hand, to bid ’em up.”

Hamilton, grinning, said, “I taught you too well!”

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QUARTERFINAL PAIRINGS IN THE SOLOWAY KO TEAMS

16 Demirev w/d17 Korbel 147

9 Fleisher 11024 Ventin 130

8 Hill 10525 Cayne 132

5 Kasle 12028 Xu 141

12 Rippey 12221 Lebowitz 126

13 Ginossar 10220 Blass npc 210

4 Tulin 8229 Onstott 84

2 Lavazza 24431 Questembert 60

15 Rosenthal 16918 Levine 87

10 Zimmermann 20723 Mandala 90

7 Gupta 13026 Street 136

6 Zagorin 4527 Zhao 130

11 Crouch 14922 De Leon 120

14 Lall 13219 Pavlicek 90

3 Nickell 13530 Molenaar 82

1 Spector 17 44 74 12916 (17) Korbel 17 56 78 87

9 (24) Ventin 28 68 91 1138 (25) Cayne 33 38 48 70

5 (28) Xu 15 44 59 w/d12 (21) Lebowitz 63 102 130

13 (20) Blass npc 51 101 121 1514 (29) Onstott 12 24 50 68

2 Lavazza 36 58 85 10015 Rosenthal 40 84 104 121

10 Zimmermann 39 71 77 1287 (26) Street 26 45 69 80

6 (27) Zhao 19 35 50 6811 Crouch 24 90 115 128

14 Lall 22 42 75 903 Nickell 25 55 94 143

1 Spector8 (24) Ventin

5 (21) Lebowitz4 (20) Blass npc

2 (15) Rosenthal7 (10) Zimmermann

6 (11) Crouch 3 Nickell

1 Spector 16232 Pellegrini 123

32 TablesWarren Spector, Palm Beach FL; Gavin Wolpert, Palm Beach Gardens FL; Vincent Demuy, Palm Beach Gardens FL; John Kranyak, Las Vegas NV; John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Wooldridge, Astoria NY vsJuan Carlos Ventin, Barcelona Spain; Frederic Wrang, Stockholm Sweden; Antonio Palma, Evora Portugal; Diego Brenner, Barcelona Spain; Miguel Villas-Boas, Salvador Brazil

Nick Nickell, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Beach FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Steve Weinstein, Montclair NJ vsPeter Crouch, Surrey England; Simon Cope, Hertfordshire UK; Espen Erichsen, Tunbridge Wells UK; Fredrik Helness, Oslo Norway

Pierre Zimmermann - Geir Helgemo - Franck Multon - Tor Helness, Monaco; Michal Klukowski,Poland; Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland vsAndrew Rosenthal - Aaron Silverstein - Chris Willenken - Jan Jansma, New York NY; Boye Brogeland, Flekkefjor Norway; Christian Bakke, Bergen Norway

Josef Blass (npc); Jacek Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Jacek Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Michal Nowosadzki, Wejherowo Poland; Sjoert Brink - Sebastiaan Drijver, Geneva Switzerland vsLaurence Lebowitz, Boston MA; Adam Grossack - Zachary Grossack, Newton MA; Michael Rosenberg, Sunnyvale CA; Johan Upmark - Fredrik Nystrom, Stockholm Sweden

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MONDAY DAYLIGHT B/C PAIRS 48.5 Tables / Based on 89 Tables B C 30.31 1 Joyce Nakasaki - Joseph Thomas, Redondo Beach CA 66.45% 22.73 2 Thomas Rush, Houston TX; Wes Peirce, The Woodlands TX 61.33% 17.05 3 H. Vince Mueller - Henry Kingdon, San Rafael CA 60.13% 16.83 4 1 Gail Gabiati - Hinda Gilbert, San Francisco CA 60.01% 12.62 5 2 Howard Booth, Summit NJ; Steven Fox, Kensington MD 59.05% 9.47 6 3 Matthew Quint, San Rafael CA; Ralph Briskin, Emeryville CA 58.80% 7.58 7 Paul Fried, Monroe Township NJ; Herb Wiltsek, San Francisco CA 58.78% 7.10 8 4 Mary Bates - Jay Bates, San Mateo CA 58.53% 6.06 9 Paul Sitz, Ramsey MN; Bert Sheldon, Houston TX 58.38% 5.61 10 5 Xin Ge - Brandon Ge, Cupertino CA 58.26% 5.05 11 6 Chris Chou, San Jose CA; Kris Wong, San Francisco CA 58.02% 4.66 12 Maureen Weiman - Magnus Weiman, Eden Prairie MN 58.00% 4.33 13 Lelvin Crowe, Cordova TN; Sam Graham, Germantown TN 56.55% 4.04 14 Carol Foster - Gary Waldron, Laguna Beach CA 55.02% 4.21 15 7 Alan Bostrom, San Francisco CA; Jerome Gordon, Salem OR 55.00% 3.74 16 8 Raluca Dobrescu, Woodside NY; Brooke Cohen, New York NY 54.43% 3.37 17 Julius Kerenyi - Douglas Allan, Lincoln CA 54.18% 3.19 18 Larry Shannon, Yorba Linda CA; Neil Joseph Smyth, Santa Cruz CA 54.06% 4.06 19 Nadyne Cheary - Jerry Miller, Silver Spring MD 53.99% 3.37 20 9 Jan Grieff Zinner - Eli Zinner, Nipomo CA 53.91% 2.76 21 James Madison, Silver Creek WA; Gerald Wagner, Lacey WA 53.61% 3.06 22 10 Franz Delahan - Madeline Delahan, Washington DC 53.58% 2.53 23 Sara Foster, San Francisco CA; Linda Danzig, Tiburon CA 53.40% 2.42 24 Sandra Macpherson, Halifax NS; Steven Paxhia, Milton MA 53.12% 2.81 25 11 Frances Bennett, Palo Alto CA; Josephine Ventura, San Mateo CA 52.89% 2.59 12 James Coke, Shingle Springs CA; Danielle Hejmanowski, Folsom CA 52.87% 2.40 13 Debbie Machlin, Los Altos CA; Daniel Claassen, Fremont CA 52.73% 2.24 14 Sidney Leibowitz, Boynton Beach FL; Mark Langer, Racine WI 52.60% 2.10 15 Susan Pfeister, Belvedere CA; Joseph Dibenedetto, Hartsdale NY 52.32% 1.98 16 Jennifer Kuhn - Suzanne Vuko, San Mateo CA 52.30% 2.03 17 Wayne Rechnitz - Debby Rechnitz, Orinda CA 51.96%

TERRY TERZIAN MEMORIAL MONDAY AFTERNOON 99ER PAIRS 10.0 Tables A B C 2.67 1 Jane Hyatt - David Graves, Columbia SC 65.77% 2.00 2 Malgorzata Koziol, Las Vegas NV; Allan McAllister, Oakland CA 61.90% 1.50 3 Carolyn Johnston - Mark Reed, San Francisco CA 59.23% 0.99 4/5 Jim Taylor, Santa Rosa CA; Mark Rudow, Santa Rosa CA 55.95% 1.60 4/5 1 1 William Sorenson - Janis Greenberg, San Francisco CA 55.95% 0.63 6 Eric Bishop - Marc Lorenzen, San Francisco CA 54.76% 1.20 2 2 David Anderson - Kent Taylor, Half Moon Bay CA 52.38% 0.90 3 Mary Krienke - Scott Krienke, Hartland WI 51.49% 0.68 4 Jeffrey Roos - Cynthia Molstad, San Francisco CA 48.81%

MONDAY COMPACT KO 1 16 Tables 33.39 1 Jovanka Smederevac - Alexander Wernle, Vienna Austria; Victor King, Hartford CT; Karen McCallum, Exeter NH 23.37 2 Danny Sprung - Joann Sprung - Sheri Winestock - Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV 15.03 3 Jeff Roman, Bend OR; Rick Roeder, La Mesa CA; Olin Hubert, Atlanta GA; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA 11.69 4 GS Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Kenneth King, Pleasanton CA; Thomas Maccormac, Dublin Ireland; Jim Looby, Las Vegas NV

MONDAY COMPACT KO 2 14 Tables 17.85 1 Maxim Siline - Xiaoqian Liu, Hudson MA; James Rasmussen - Pamela Miller, Cambridge MA 12.50 2 Alamiro Pinoargote, Ecuador Ecuador; Ruben Cabrera, Venezuela; Caru Vidigal - Lucia Menezes, Rio De Janeiro Brazil 8.03 3 Claire Alpert - Michael Ranis - Irina Kislitsyna, Miami FL; Leonardo Fruscoloni, New York NY 6.25 4 Somers Collins, Little Rock AR; Bo Liu, Irvine CA; Sherman Gao, Brea CA; Zheng Zhang, Toronto ON

MONDAY COMPACT KO 3 12 Tables 11.35 1 Peter Rans - Robert Williams, Halifax NS; Carolyn Wood, Cobbs Creek VA; Scott Rappard, Dartmouth NS 7.95 2 Lisa Mita, Berwyn PA; Edward Alcoff, Fort Myers FL; Jacqueline Abrams, Naples FL; Melanie Manfield, Chevy Chase MD 5.11 3 Karen Hudesman - Donald Stark - Mirjana Reams - Ann Romeo, Seattle WA 3.97 4 Vicki Chang - Lewis Voils - Nancy Voils, Berkeley CA; Don Steedman, Albany CA

MONDAY COMPACT KO 4 12 Tables 8.24 1 James Tanner, Highland CA; Elizabeth Silvius - Stephen Silvius, San Bernardino CA; Bipin Patel, Redlands CA 5.77 2 Hal Saunders - Dawn Ligon – N. Dennis Berg - David Roe, Santa Barbara CA 3.71 3 Niel Thomas, Kamuela HI; Dee Fulton, Holualoa HI; Will Williams, Honolulu HI; William Belanich, Glen Allen VA 2.88 4 Kathryn Papermaster, Horseshoe Bay TX; Vera Baum, Los Altos CA; Jung Hu, San Jose CA; Ying Liu, Palo Alto CA

MONDAY B/C/D PAIRS 18.0 Tables B C D 10.50 1 Kenneth Johnson – H. Lyle Supp, Morgan Hill CA 61.27% 7.88 2 Douglas Grant, San Francisco CA; Charles Riffle, Emerald Hills CA 59.75% 5.91 3 J. Michael Hill - Mae Hill, Columbus OH 58.71% 4.43 4 Linda Dunn, Memphis TN; Hal Jones Jr., Lorton VA 57.46% 3.50 5 Beverly Pogoda Meyers - Joseph Meyers, New York NY 55.34% 6.60 6 1 1 Bridget Poizner, San Diego CA; Arda Kabaca, Toronto ON 54.85% 4.95 7 2 2 Larry Whitlow, Saskatoon SK; Andrew Mitchell, Oak Harbor WA 54.41% 2.33 8 Michael Hughes, San Jose CA; Ben Tucker, Vashon WA 53.65% 2.10 9 Marion Robertson, San Francisco CA; Dolores Aquino, Houston TX 53.43% 3.71 3 Susan Bogan, Fair Oaks CA; Diane Strategos, Sacramento CA 53.00% 2.78 4 3 Jaquett Heck, Hobe Sound FL; Mari Stuart, Greenwich CT 52.61% 2.20 5 Jack Hawks - Belinda Ledgerwood, Walnut Creek CA 52.56% 1.89 6 Charles Messenger, Salinas CA; Bill Cohen, Pebble Beach CA 51.63% 1.77 4 Robert Baltz, Santa Clara CA; Anna Reuter, Palo Alto CA 51.20%

MONDAY EVENING SIDE PAIRS 23.0 Tables A B C 7.15 1 Nils Kvangraven, Kristiansand Norway; Jerry Thorpe, Tacoma WA 63.40% 5.36 2 Bonnie Bagley, Colorado Springs CO; Nancy Boyd, Memphis TN 61.76% 5.63 3 1 1 Neil Vaz, San Francisco CA; Vijesh Iyer, Palo Alto CA 60.78% 2.70 4/5 Ellen Anten, Encino CA; Gilbert Stinebaugh, Van Nuys CA 58.50% 4.22 4/5 2 Andrew Straus - David Achterkirchen, San Francisco CA 58.50% 3.17 6 3 2 Christiane Turner, Ketchum ID; Helen Spalding, San Francisco CA 57.41% 2.38 7 4 3 Yardena Arar - Christian Goetze, San Francisco CA 57.19% 1.99 5 Lawrence Sherman, San Diego CA; Mike Munson, La Jolla CA 55.56% 1.34 6 Felix Springer, West Hartford CT; Jim Cheney, Hilo HI 55.23% 1.42 7 Marjorie O’Malley - Charles O’Malley III, San Diego CA 55.12% 1.26 4 Kathleen Malcolmson, Richmond TX; James Soller, Houston TX 52.61% 0.94 5 Damon Suden - Anthony Chiocchi, New York NY 49.35%

TERRY TERZIAN MEMORIAL MONDAY EVE 299ER PAIRS 11.0 Tables A B C 3.15 1 1 Sonja Mooradian - Art Mooradian, Fort Myers FL 67.56% 2.36 2 2 1 Ashish Gupta - Andrew Hong, San Francisco CA 63.69% 1.77 3 3 2 Jennifer Fong, San Francisco CA; Megan Jenks, Sacramento CA 55.95% 1.33 4 4 3 Joni Conner, Santa Rosa CA; Stephanie Poley, Sebastopol CA 55.36% 1.00 5 5 4 Robin Rakusin, Reno NV; Mary Ann Kennerly, Concord NC 53.87% 0.75 6 Nancy Caldwell, San Jose CA; Kathy Ormseth, Saratoga CA 53.57%


Mini-Blue champs from 2018: Virgil Massey and Charlene Sands.

Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs The Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs, a national-

rated event limited to players with less than 6000 masterpoints, begins today. The contest features a two-session qualifier, a two-session semifinal and a two-session final.

Players must have earned a Blue Ribbon qualification to participate. Players from outside North America must be granted a waiver to enter.

Previous winners:2005 1. Marty Harris, Jacob Morgan;

2. Frank Wharton, Paul Walker2006 1. Joe Houde, Divakar Bhargava;

2. John Klayman, Lawrence Lau2007 1. Patricia Menefee, Andre De Leon;

2. Metin Gokcen, Sadik Arf2008 1. Chris Coffman, Roger Coffman;

2. Gene Maki, Arne Maki2009 1. Harold Huffaker, Ronald Huffaker;

2. Gerrie Owen, Leonard Schaen2010 1. Mark Jones and Doug Levene;

2. Dean Panagopoulos and Yiji Starr2011 1. Susan Fulton, John Hogan;

2. William Grant, Andrew Loh2012 1. Kevin Young, Peter Worby;

2. Vic Quiros, Harvinder Sidhu2013 1. Suman Agarwal, Harjinder Ajmani;

2. Terry Schleppegrell, Marion Kelly2014 1. Ina Demme, Bill Kertes;

2. Christina van Leeuwen, David MacRae2015 1. Teresa Boyd, Grant Robinson;

2. Joan Rubin, Om Chokriwala2016 1. Radu Nistor, Joan Brody;

2. Michael Schrage, Edward Rauch2017 1. Saul Gross, Juan Castillo;

2. Margie Cole, Leonardo Fruscoloni2018 1. Virgil Massey, Charlene Sands;

2. Barry Margolin, Mark Krusemeyer

Use of the bidding box – Alerts and Announcements

When using bidding boxes, the ACBL requires that players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the same time.

When making an Announcement, use the Announcement word (such as “transfer”) and tap the Alert strip at the same time. A player who Alerts or Announces a bid must make sure his opponents are aware that an Alert or Announcement has been made.

MONDAY DAYLIGHT GOLD RUSH PAIRS 76.0 Tables 7 3 2 20.14 1 Malcolm Mendelson - Jacob Rosenberg, Moraga CA 64.91% 15.11 2 1 Ken Pelowski - Lori Mirek, Atherton CA 60.24% 11.33 3 Terry Grant - Daphne Bransten, San Francisco CA 60.24% 8.50 4 Peter Marcus, Lynnfield MA; Mark Spiro, Encinitas CA 59.77% 8.95 5 2 1 David Rogers Oliver Jr. - Linda Bithell Oliver, Trinidad CA 59.69% 5.75 6 Joel Reimnitz - Charlene Reimnitz, Pacific Grove CA 58.93% 5.04 7 John Shribbs - Patricia Shribbs, Petaluma CA 57.91% 4.48 8 James Chenu - Julie Chenu, Sacramento CA 57.59% 4.03 9 Carol Ramberg - Irene White, Fair Oaks Ranch TX 57.26% 3.66 10 Miriam Steinberg - Marc Grunseth, Carmichael CA 56.92% 6.71 11 3 2 Mike Klayman - Lea Salem, San Francisco CA 56.81% 3.10 12 Susan MacDonald, San Anselmo CA; Susan West, Golden Valley MN 56.72% 2.88 13 Patricia Barnes - Sharon Neff, Lincoln CA 56.58% 2.69 14 Susan Barkley, Atherton CA; Vivien Moyer, Portola Valley CA 56.54% 2.52 15 Joanna Greenspan - Susan Montgomery, New York NY 56.33% 2.37 16 Bill Dougherty - Joanne Cornbleet, Saratoga CA 56.18% 5.03 17 4 3 Leslie Zimring - Michael Zimring, San Rafael CA 56.16% 2.12 18 Marvin Kirchner - Charles Gherman, San Francisco CA 56.12% 2.30 19 Ed Gould - Cornelia Gould, Indian Wells CA 56.06% 1.88 20/21 Marcia Taylor, Nanaimo BC; Elaine Marcail Sforza, Las Vegas NV 55.85% 1.88 20/21 Dennis Stroiney - Christine Stroiney, Orangevale CA 55.85% 3.98 22 5 Clive Surfleet, Los Altos CA; Bob French, San Carlos CA 55.65% 3.41 23 6 4 Bharat Kamdar, Monte Sereno CA; Sudhir Virmani, Sunnyvale CA 55.55% 2.30 24 Richard Bryant - Kathy Feeney, Tucson AZ 55.55% 2.86 25 Margy Evans - Art Evans, Alamo CA 55.45% 2.98 26 7 Jan Conklin - Howard Neckel, Santa Rosa CA 55.34% 1.84 27 Bob Gagnon - Devra Drysdale, Calgary AB 55.27% 2.65 28 8 5 Anthony Chiocchi - Damon Suden, New York NY 55.21% 1.68 29 Kathryn Ells, Halifax NS; Elly Bronk, Bedford NS 55.15% 2.39 30 9 Alan Woodberry - David Ehlers, Orinda CA 54.83% 2.61 31 10 6 Kevin Babcock, San Francisco CA; Douglas Babcock, Fitchburg WI 54.74% 2.33 32 11 7 Kayden Ge - Min Bai, Cupertino CA 54.63% 1.85 33 12 8 Mark Kogan - Patti Kogan, Orinda CA 54.63% 1.70 34 13 9 Kirsten Beda - Brigitte Sandquist, San Francisco CA 54.59% 1.53 35 Carol Avenmarg, Aptos CA; Margaret Suddards, Santa Cruz CA 54.35% 2.27 36 Rich Nielsen, Los Altos CA; William Bushnell, Sunnyvale CA 54.21% 1.06 37 David Gordon - Rosalind Gordon, Lake Worth FL 54.16% 1.68 38 14 10 Anna Ravenscroft, Sunnyvale CA; Judy Huckabay, Fremont CA 54.03% 1.49 15 11 Diane Schnarr - Paul Schnarr, Salt Lake City UT 53.91% 2.27 16 Frank Nester, Mount Carroll IL; Marvis Olson, Calgary AB 53.85% 1.53 17 12 David Pierce - Joan Pierce, Walnut Creek CA 53.26% 1.68 18 Herbert Nakagawa, Honolulu HI; David Ouyang, Waianae HI 52.99% 1.19 19 Margo Seymour - Dale Seymour, Los Altos CA 52.84% 1.14 20 Stephen Levinson - Nancy Levinson, San Rafael CA 52.49% 1.12 21 13 Marjory Greenwald, Palo Alto CA; Lorie Pelc, Los Altos CA 52.27% 1.07 22 14 S. Douglas Weil - Jeffrey Dielle, San Francisco CA 52.26%

TERRY TERZIAN MEMORIAL MONDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS 18.0 Tables A B C 4.20 1 1 1 Cynthia Wener, Foster City CA; Nora Frei, Belmont CA 65.48% 3.15 2 Jo Lepley - Joan Murdoch, Santa Barbara CA 61.78% 2.07 3/4 Brian Klein - Bruce Rutan, San Francisco CA 61.31% 2.76 3/4 2 Cathy Wagener, Petaluma CA; Maxine Reagh, Sebastopol CA 61.31% 2.07 5 3 Sandra Lehman - William Lehman, New York NY 61.14% 1.90 6 4 2 Les Nakasaki, Montebello CA; Don Nakasaki, Chino CA 60.33% 1.16 5 Christy Kelso - Sally Giloth, Santa Barbara CA 60.20% 1.25 6 Gary Nelson - Alice Nelson, Bend OR 59.82% 1.25 3/4 David Niver - Judy Niver, Alamo CA 54.76% 1.25 3/4 Brandon Wong, San Francisco CA; Liz Koh, San Mateo CA 54.76% 0.80 5 Pat Silverstein - Russell Silverstein, Walnut Creek CA 52.38%

Appealing a ruling Players in NABC+ events who want to appeal a director’s ruling initiate the process by speaking with

the director who delivered the original ruling. The table director will fill out paperwork regarding the appeal, and the appellants will explain what they believe to be wrong with the initial ruling. From there, the case may be handled by a variety of means. When the appeals reviewer receives the case, the circumstances of that particular case will determine whether the case can be resolved by the original staff (in the case of misapplication of Law or regulation, for instance), a panel of directors, or even a committee-type hearing which could include bridge experts.


Super Senior Super Superb Strip Squeeze

By Bob SannerIn the second qualifying session of the Super

Senior Pairs on Sunday, my partner Ron Powell showed that a few seniors still have some brain cells left by executing an elegant strip squeeze. Dlr: South ♠ K J 10 7 4 3 Vul: None ♥ 7 6 Bd: 11 ♦ J 9 6 5 ♣ 5 ♠ A Q 2 ♠ 8 6 5 ♥ Q 8 2 ♥ A K 9 5 3 ♦ K 10 8 2 ♦ 7 4 3 ♣ J 9 4 ♣ A K ♠ 9 ♥ J 10 4 ♦ A Q ♣ Q 10 8 7 6 3 2

West North East South Me Ron 3♣ Pass Pass 3♥ Pass 4♥ All Pass

South led the ♠9. Clearly, the spades were offside, and the lead looked like a singleton, so Ron rose with dummy’s ace. He played the ♥A K and lead a diamond. South rose with the ♦A and exited with a club. Ron won in hand, drew the remaining trump, returned to hand with a club and led another diamond. But when South played the queen, Ron ducked in dummy!

South returned the ♣Q, which declarer ruffed. Ron had a perfect count: South had started with a 1=3=2=7 pattern. This was the position: ♠ K J ♥ — ♦ J 9 ♣ — ♠ Q 2 ♠ 8 6 ♥ — ♥ 9 ♦ K 10 ♦ 7 ♣ — ♣ — ♠ — ♥ — ♦ — ♣ 10 8 7 6

When declarer led the last trump, a spade was discarded from dummy. North had to discard the ♠J, but then a spade lead put North on lead with the king, forcing him to return a diamond into dummy’s tenace. Making four.

In our section, 12 declarers made nine tricks, but five achieved 10 tricks.

MONDAY-TUESDAY KO 1 9 TablesGaylor Kasle, Boca Raton FL; Piotr Tuczynski, Poznan Poland; Joshua Donn, Las Vegas NV; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin Poland; Wlodzimierz Starkowski, Poznan Poland; Bartosz Chmurski, Lomianky Poland vsRose Meltzer, Chapel Hill NC; Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Heights IL; Andrzej Knap - Arthur Wasik, Madrid Spain; Piotr Nawrocki, Warsaw Poland; Piotr Wiankowski, Gdansk Poland

Justine Cushing - Melih Ozdil, New York NY; Sadik Arf, Saratoga CA; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw Poland; Jacek Romanski, Lublin Poland vsShen Qi, Shanghai People’s Republic of China; Di Zheng, Los Angeles CA; Wei Zhang, Suzhou People’s Republic of China; Liang Li - Wen Hu, Nanjing People’s Republic of China; Zuo Xiao Xue, Horn Lake MS

MONDAY-TUESDAY KO 2 14 TablesR. Carmel Bailey - Candace Flemming - Helen Prowse - Kathryn MacIsaac, Halifax NS vsChuck Reppas, Leavenworth WA; Kit Morse, San Mateo CA; Ralph Lipe - Lynda Lipe, Bellevue WA

Anne Wilson, San Jose CA; Carolyn Drozdiak, Los Gatos CA; Marilyn Bowie, Reno NV; Diane Weissman, Fountain Hills AZ vsKathie Hoehne, Anchorage AK; Shirley Liss, Fairbanks AK; Terrance Hill - Paul Hochfeld, Corvallis OR

MONDAY EVENING A/X/Y SWISS TEAMS 28 Tables / Based on 48 Tables A X Y 16.44 1 Howard Epley, Kent WA; David Johnson, Calgary AB; Jon Bartlett, Happy Valley OR; Roger McNay, Beaverton OR 64.00 12.33 2 1 Carlos Pellegrini - Alexis Pejacsevich, Buenos Aires Argentina; Hansa Narasimhan, Mountain View CA; Matt Brown, Cambridge ON; Gonzalo Rubio, Santiago Chile; Michael Whibley, Auckland New Zealand 60.00 9.25 3 Valentin Kovachev, Las Vegas NV; Ahu Zobu, Istanbul Turkey; Viktor Aronov, Sofia Bulgaria; Diana Marquardt, Del Mar CA 54.00 5.35 4/6 Ton Bakkeren, Oisterwijk Netherlands; Frank Bakkeren, Lg Oisterwijk Netherlands; Thibo Sprinkhuizen, Rotterdam Netherlands; Guy Mendes De Leon, Amsterdam Netherlands 53.00 5.35 4/6 Ruth Fleischmann, New York NY; Mustafa Cem Tokay, Manhattan NY; Omer Ekinci, Astoria NY; Gokhan Yilmaz, Istanbul Turkey 53.00 5.35 4/6 Dori Byrnes, Morris Plains NJ; Mark Dahl, Richmond VA; Iulian Rotaru, New York NY; Radu Nistor, Woodside NY 53.00 2.56 7/8 Alfred Lee, Foster City CA; Gerald Lackner, Furstenfeld Austria; Ed Lazarus, Baltimore MD; Jan Zadroga, Todz Poland 51.00 2.56 7/8 P. Drew Cannell, Dol-Des-Ormeaux QC; Michael Radin, New York NY; Barbara Kasle, Boca Raton FL; Michael Lipkin, Brooklyn NY 51.00 4.69 2 1 Sam Dinkin, Austin TX; Michael Shuster, Collegeville PA; Sean McNally - Morgan Johnstone, Minneapolis MN 47.00 3.52 3 2 Hugh Miller - Catherine Miller, Spring TX; Art McHaffie - Joy McHaffie, Santa Fe NM 46.00 2.43 4 Bo Xiao, Fremont CA; Shao Hong Wu, Guangzhou Guang China; Luen-Jyh Luo, Milpitas CA; Tsao-Tung Tsai, Cupertino CA 43.00 2.64 5/6 3 William Campbell - Suzanne Campbell, Marina CA; Roberto Verthelyi, New York NY; Gilbert Ramirez, Reno NV 41.00 1.60 5/6 Eugene Saxe - Jeff Aker - Kate Aker, Briarcliff NY; Jeffrey Goldman, Norwalk CT 41.00 1.98 4 Gerrie Owen, Celina TX; Daniel Blaettler, Melbourne FL; Thomas Trudeau, San Antonio TX; Kim Brinkman, Flower Mound TX 37.00

MONDAY EVENING B/C/D SWISS TEAMS 20 Tables B C D 6.00 1 Ellen Coffield - Byron Southern, Little Rock AR; Arjun Singh, Lakewood CO; Michael Hughes, Jefferson City MO 68.00 4.50 2 1 1 Cindy Scheinfeld - Jill Jacobs - Beth Wilf, New York NY; Sara Kober, Scarsdale NY 58.00 3.38 3 2 Tom Moore - Dorothy Moore, Keller TX; Betty McCauley, Oklahoma City OK; Wilma Hill, Arlington TX 54.00 2.53 4 3 Belinda Gu - Ryan Gossiaux, San Francisco CA; Elena Grewal, Palo Alto CA; Ying Lin Gu, San Diego CA 52.00 1.90 5 4 2 Paul Davis, Mountain View CA; Geraldine Macdonald, Los Altos CA; R. Shenkin - Susan Shenkin, West Chester PA 49.00 1.42 6 5 Kathy Twomey, Bloomfield Village MI; Cecil Henry, Kingman AZ; Sally Craig, Port Moody BC; Teresa Martin, Bathurst Australia 48.00 1.42 3 Donald Thomas - Gary Miyata - Roz King - Jewel Daniels, San Diego CA 45.00

MONDAY A/X/Y OPEN PAIRS 40.0 Tables / Based on 82 Tables A X Y 39.35 1 Richard Pavlicek, Fort Lauderdale FL; Jim Munday, Southaven MS 59.73% 29.51 2 Robert Shore, Los Angeles CA; Kent Hartman, San Diego CA 58.92% 22.13 3 Melanie Tucker, New York NY; Cecilia Rimstedt, Kungsbacka Sweden 57.93% 21.60 4 1 Jonathan Cohn, Gillette WY; Dan Parish, Sun City AZ 57.64% 16.20 5 2 Naren Gupta, Woodside CA; Marion Michielsen, Stockholm Sweden 57.49% 11.24 6 Joann Glasson - Bob Glasson, Pennington NJ 56.69% 12.29 7 3 1 Tien-Chun Yang, San Jose CA; Stephen Tu, Milpitas CA 54.95% 8.74 8 Per-Ola Cullin, Enskededalen Sweden; Vinita Gupta, Woodside CA 54.93% 7.87 9 Paul Benedict, Pikesville MD; Lynn Jones, Timonium MD 54.71% 7.15 10 Rosemary Boden - Bella Ionis-Sorren, Fort Lauderdale FL 54.64% 6.56 11 Abe Pineles, Jackson NJ; Alexander Allen, Annandale NJ 54.53% 6.05 12 Serdar Ogut, Darien IL; Richard Meffley, Fresno CA 54.44% 5.62 13 Glenna Shannahan, Indian Wells CA; Stan Fuhrmann, Madison WI 54.32% 9.22 14 4 2 Richard Leres, Oakland CA; Nadine Levine, Alameda CA 54.31% 4.92 15 Richard Popper, Wilmington DE; Prahalad Rajkumar, Chennai India 54.05% 4.63 16 John Kloke II, Richmond VA; Donna Rodwell, Clearwater FL 53.99% 4.37 17 Tracey Bauer, San Rafael CA; Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA 53.96% 7.20 18 5 Tadashi Yoshida - Makiko Sato, Tokyo Japan 53.73% 6.91 19 6 3 Robert Raf, West Bloomfield MI; Brian Raf, Portland OR 53.45% 3.75 20 James Weeks, Palm Desert CA; Jim Darvey, Rancho Mirage CA 53.20% 5.40 21 7 Alex Kornel - Barbara Seagram, Toronto ON 53.04% 4.80 8 Li Yiting, Herndon VA; Laura Dekkers 52.74% 4.32 9 Justyna Zmuda, Skwaina Poland; Sharon Goldman, New York NY 52.32% 5.18 10 4 Christina Parker - Stewart Rubenstein, Chestnut Hill MA 52.10% 4.10 11 5 Lee De Simone, Paso Robles CA; Marshall Lewis, Bloomington IN 51.91% 3.32 12 Bob Drake, Wassenaar Netherlands; Jan Van Cleeff, The Hague Netherlands 51.81% 3.09 13 Amr Elghamry, San Dimas CA; Paul Nason, Los Angeles CA 51.73% 3.51 6 Kathy Venton, Petaluma CA; Larry Spanier, Rohnert Park CA 51.11% 3.12 7 Samuel Amer, New York NY; Kerry Kappell, Sunnyside NY 50.79% 3.03 8 Sumit Daftuar, San Marino CA; Carol Frank, Burbank CA 50.03%


Tomorrow’s Bridge EventsWednesday, December 4, 9 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* OtherWednesday-Thursday Morning Compact Knockout Teams 1-2 Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24Tuesday-Wednesday Morning Compact Knockout Teams 3-4 Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24Tom Pajak Monday-Wednesday Morning Side Game Series 3rd single session Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24

Wednesday, December 4, 10 a.m.Terry Terzian Memorial 299er & 99er Pairs single Soma, 2nd Level $15 $19Terry Terzian Memorial 0-20 Pairs single Soma, 2nd Level $15 $15

Wednesday, December 4, 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.Fast Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/750) 1-2 Golden Gate A, Level B2 $20 $24

Wednesday, December 4, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m.Daylight A/X/Y Swiss Teams (unlimited/6000/4000) 1-2 Golden Gate C, Level B2 $20 $24Bracketed B Teams (0–3000) 1-2 Golden Gate C, Level B2 $20 $24

Wednesday, December 4, Noon & 7 p.m.SOLOWAY KNOCKOUT TEAMS 1-2 SF Sierra J, 5th Floor $30 + screen fee of $20/team/session

Wednesday, December 4, 1 p.m.Wednesday-Thursday Side Game Series 1st single session Nob Hill, Bottom Level $20 $24

Wednesday, December 4, 1 & 7:30 p.m.KAPLAN BLUE RIBBON PAIRS 1-2 SF Yerba Buena 9, Bottom Level $30 —WHITEHEAD WOMEN’S PAIRS 1-2 F Yerba Buena 9, Bottom Level $30 —0-6000 MINI-BLUE RIBBON PAIRS 1-2 SF Yerba Buena 9, Bottom Level $22 —Frank Lowenthal Memorial Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/750) 1-2 Yerba Buena 6, Bottom Level $20 $24Harvey Brody Memorial Open Swiss Teams (unlimited/3000/1500) 1-2 Yerba Buena 7, Bottom Level $20 $24 Gold Rush Swiss Teams (750/300/200) 1-2 Yerba Buena 7, Bottom Level $20 $24Cure Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Wednesday-Thursday Knockout Teams 1-2 Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24 Harvey Brody Memorial Tuesday-Wednesday Knockout Teams 3-4 Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24

Wednesday, December 4, 3 p.m.299er & 99er Pairs single Soma, 2nd Level $15 $19

Wednesday, December 4, 7:30 p.m.Evening Board-a-Match Teams (unlimited/3000/750) single Golden Gate C, Level B2 $20 $24 Open to Swiss drop-ins and new entrantsWednesday-Thursday Side Game Series 2nd single session Golden Gate C, Level B2 $20 $24299er Swiss Teams single Soma, 2nd Level $15 $19299er Pairs single Soma, 2nd Level $15 $19

Wednesday, December 4, 11:30 p.m.Zip Knockout Teams single Soma, 2nd Level $16/team/match

Note: Entry for the REISINGER BOARD-A-MATCH TEAMS required by 9 p.m. Thursday.

Unless otherwise noted, strata breaks for all stratified events are: A (3000+), B (750-3000), C (0-750). Three-flight events are divided A/X (6000+/0-6000); B/C (1500-3000, 0-1500); Gold Rush (300-750/200-300/0-200). Two-flight events are divided A/X/Y (6000+/4000-6000/0-4000); B/C/D (1500-3000/750-1500/ 0-750) if no Gold Rush OR A/B/C (3000+/1500-3000/0-1500) and Gold Rush (300-750/200-300/0-200). In B flights, no single player may be over 3000. In Gold Rush events, no single player may be over 750. BOLD, UPPER CASE = NABC+ events. UPPER CASE = NABC events.*Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

International FundIn NABC+ events, $1.50 (per person, per session) of each entry fee will be allocated to the ACBL International Fund. These funds are used to underwrite part of the expenses of ACBL players who participate in international competition.

Single dummy or double dummy?

By Barry RigalThese deals comes from the first qualifying

session of the Mitchell Open Board-a-Match Teams. Dlr: East ♠ 8 6 5 2 Vul: Both ♥ A 10 7 6 3 Bd: 10 ♦ Q 10 8 ♣ A ♠ J 9 4 ♠ 10 7 ♥ Q J 9 8 5 4 ♥ K ♦ 3 ♦ J 9 7 5 4 2 ♣ 8 7 4 ♣ K J 9 2 ♠ A K Q 3 ♥ 2 ♦ A K 6 ♣ Q 10 6 5 3

The best plays at single dummy and double dummy aren’t always the same. But this is a fairly gentle entry to the world of double dummy.

If you played 6♠ on an unopposed sequence, you’d win the diamond lead and use two trump entries to try to ruff a couple of clubs, then try to come back to hand in diamonds to draw the last trump. Disaster: West ruffs in and down you go.

But say East opens 2♦ and you play slam, maybe on an auction: West North East South 2♦ Dbl Pass 3♦ Pass 4♦ Pass 4♥ Pass 6♠ All Pass

West leads his singleton diamond, so now you can play with the sight of all 52 cards. Can you make slam now?

Say you win the ♦Q, play the ♣A, trump to hand, ruff a club and lead a trump to hand to ruff another

club.Trumps have broken, but the ♣K has not put in

an appearance. So now you have to guess, knowing East will have quite a few values in clubs and hearts because he opened vulnerable.

If West is 2=6=1=4, you must come to hand with a diamond, but if you guess well you will play the ♥A and ruff a heart, draw the last trump and exit in clubs to East. That player only has diamonds left, so your hand is high. Dlr: North ♠ 7 Vul: None ♥ K J 8 7 6 Bd: 17 ♦ A 9 8 7 3 ♣ J 4 ♠ Q 10 8 6 5 ♠ A K J 9 ♥ 10 9 3 ♥ A 5 2 ♦ 5 ♦ 10 6 ♣ K 10 5 3 ♣ A 9 7 6 ♠ 4 3 2 ♥ Q 4 ♦ K Q J 4 2 ♣ Q 8 2 West North East South Pass 1♠ Pass 2♠ Dbl Redbl 3♦ 4♠ All Pass

Brian Senior sat East playing old-fashioned

Acol and weak notrumps, hence the 1♠ opener. The defense led a top diamond and shifted to the ♥Q. Senior ducked and won the next heart, ruffed a diamond and drew trumps, leaving a complex choice of endings: ♠ — ♥ J 8 ♦ A 9 ♣ J 4 ♠ 10 ♠ 9 ♥ 10 ♥ 5 ♦ — ♦ — ♣ K 10 5 3 ♣ A 9 7 6 ♠ — ♥— ♦ Q J 4 ♣ Q 8 2

At this point it looked as if North was 1=5=4=3, so the best play might be to play South with a doubleton club honor. So you lead a club to the king and plan to duck a club to South’s doubleton honor for the ruff-sluff. As the cards lie, North has an unexpected shape, and South will be endplayed on the third club. Note that if declarer exits with a heart in the six-card ending, North can safely lead a diamond because if this gives a ruff-sluff, declarer will have begun with four clubs in each hand.

MonitoringACBL monitors events at North American Bridge Championships with both visible and concealed real-

time cameras in public spaces. The images are recorded and available for later inspection and review by ACBL management and tournament officials, among others, including members of the Anti-Cheating Commission. These recordings are also uploaded to the internet following the NABC.

By general monitoring of the session and participants’ behavior, ACBL has another source of information that may be useful in determining facts and settling issues or disputes arising from some types of ethical and behavioral complaints or actions. Please summon a director if a problem occurs at the table. This procedure is intended to assure everyone that the playing field is level and that misbehavior will not be tolerated.


and sectionals, as well as cruises (with another local director, Barbara Prior), but her primary focus has been directing and teaching in Marin, and that remains so to this day.

Peggy says she is trying to do less as she gets older, but doesn’t see herself “retiring” in the full sense of the word anytime in the near future. She enjoys the active bridge community in Marin, surrounded by lovely people (for the most part), and says it is a pleasure to be a part of it. She is humbled and honored to have received this gift of a named day at the San Francisco NABC from Marin bridge players. It is something she will never forget! And neither will her legions of students and club players who made this day possible. Along with contributions of money, there was an outpouring of “Peggy stories.” Her community is thrilled to be able to celebrate this special day with her in the “City by the Bay.”

Tom PajakIf Tom Pajak were

a baseball player, he’d handle all nine positions flawlessly and be revered by teammates and opponents alike. Unanimous MVP, with a smile for everyone and remarkable aplomb in all situations. That sums

up Tom’s service to Unit 502 (and the larger bridge community) over several decades, even serving as president of District 21 for the past two years. The Unit 502 board voted unanimously to honor Tom with this token of our thanks and admiration.

The Monday-Wednesday Morning Side Game Series is named in honor of Tom Pajak.

Harvey Brody 1939–2018Harvey Brody loved San Francisco, and lived

Today’s Sponsors

Today’s Bridge EventsPeggy Tatro DayTuesday, December 3, 9 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* OtherTuesday-Wednesday Morning Compact Knockout Teams 1-2 Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24Monday-Tuesday Morning Compact Knockout Teams 3-4 Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24Tom Pajak Monday-Wednesday Morning Side Game Series 2nd single session Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24

Tuesday, December 3, 10 a.m.Peggy Tatro 299er & 99er Pairs single Soma, 2nd Floor $15 $19Peggy Tatro 0-20 Pairs single Soma, 2nd Floor $15 $15

Tuesday, December 3, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m.Peggy Tatro Daylight Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/1500) 1-2 Golden Gate C, Level B2 $20 $24Peggy Tatro Daylight Gold Rush Pairs (750/300/200) 1-2 Golden Gate A, Level B2 $20 $24Monday-Tuesday Daylight Knockout Teams 3-4 Golden Gate A, Level B2 $20 $24

Tuesday, December 3, Noon & 7 p.m.SOLOWAY KNOCKOUT TEAMS 1-2 QF Nob Hill, Bottom Level $30 + screen fee of $20/team/session

Tuesday, December 3, 1 p.m.Monday-Tuesday Side Game Series 3rd single session Pacific A, 4th Floor $20 $24

Tuesday, December 3, 1 & 7:30 p.m.KAPLAN BLUE RIBBON PAIRS 1-2 Q Yerba Buena 10, Bottom Level $30 — Pre-qualification required. 2 qualifying, 2 semifinal, 2 final sessions.WHITEHEAD WOMEN’S PAIRS 1-2 Q Yerba Buena 9, Bottom Level $30 — 2 qualifying, 2 final sessions0-6000 MINI-BLUE RIBBON PAIRS 1-2 Q Yerba Buena 7, Bottom Level $22 — Pre-qualification required. 2 qualifying, 2 semifinal, 2 final sessions. Limited to players with less than 6000 masterpoints.0-10,000 IMP PAIRS 1-2 F Foothill C, 2nd Floor $22 —Peggy Tatro Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/1500) 1-2 Yerba Buena 6, Bottom Level $20 $24Peggy Tatro Gold Rush Pairs (750/300/200) 1-2 Yerba Buena 6, Bottom Level $20 $24Harvey Brody Memorial Tuesday-Wednesday Knockout Teams 1-2 Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24Monday-Tuesday Knockout Teams 3-4 Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24

Tuesday, December 3, 3 p.m.Peggy Tatro Afternoon Side Swiss Teams single Golden Gate A, Level B2 $20 $24Peggy Tatro 299er & 99er Pairs single Soma, 2nd Level $15 $19

Tuesday, December 3, 7:30 p.m.Lee Pollak A/X/Y Side Swiss Teams single Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24Lee Pollak B/C/D Side Swiss Teams single Yerba Buena 8, Bottom Level $20 $24Monday-Tuesday Side Game Series 4th single session Golden Gate C, Level B2 $20 $24Peggy Tatro 299er Pairs single Soma, 2nd Floor $15 $19

Tuesday, December 3, 11:30 p.m.Peggy Tatro Zip Knockout Teams single Soma, 2nd Floor $16/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, strata breaks for all stratified events are: A (3000+), B (750-3000), C (0-750). Three-flight events are divided A/X (6000+/0-6000); B/C (1500-3000, 0-1500); Gold Rush (300-750/200-300/0-200). Two-flight events are divided A/X/Y (6000+/4000-6000/0-4000); B/C/D (1500-3000/750-1500/ 0-750) if no Gold Rush OR A/B/C (3000+/1500-3000/0-1500) and Gold Rush (300-750/200-300/0-200). In B flights, no single player may be over 3000. In Gold Rush events, no single player may be over 750. BOLD, UPPER CASE = NABC+ events. UPPER CASE = NABC events.*Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

International FundIn NABC+ events, $1.50 (per person, per session) of each entry fee will be allocated to the ACBL International Fund. These funds are used to underwrite part of the expenses of ACBL players who participate in international competition.

Today is Peggy Tatro DayPeggy Tatro is a fixture

of Marin Bridge. Her Terra Linda Bridge Club runs five and occasionally six games a week, many with multiple sections. The welcoming and congenial atmosphere draws both local players and those from neighboring units.

Peggy grew up in Shawnee Mission KS and came to the Bay Area in 1977, pregnant with her second son. She finished her college studies at UC Berkeley, remembering that it seemed like the oldest person in her literature classes was in her late 20s! In 1981, her mother urged her to learn bridge because her husband was working 80 hours a week and she was home alone with two small boys. Taking that advice to heart, Peggy played avidly during the 1980s and participated in her first NABC in 1986 in Pasadena.

Peggy’s bridge career began with her “helping out” at a local bridge club during that time, becoming an ACBL accredited teacher. She got divorced in 1990, and at the same time the opportunity arose to teach and direct bridge at a local tennis/fitness club (Rolling Hills Club, owned by Warren Wertheimer). Peggy took the director course and began running bridge activities there in September 1990 on a part-time basis. In addition to full-time motherhood and her work at the tennis club, Peggy was attending business school. After graduation, she had the opportunity to take over a bridge club in San Rafael, with two sanctioned games per week. After giving a lot of thought to the direction she should go – corporate America or local bridge – local bridge was her choice. Peggy has never looked back. Over the years she has directed at regional tournaments

here for almost five decades. He was born on Sept. 16, 1939, in Kalamazoo MI and liked to joke that he flunked out of the University of Michigan three times because he found bridge to be so much more interesting than his classes. Eventually, he got his degree in finance, and moved to San Francisco where he worked as an accountant until he became a full-time bridge pro in 1988. He amassed over 19,750 masterpoints and earned the title of Grand Life Master when he won the Lebhar IMP Pairs at the 1991 Las Vegas NABC. When diagnosed with ALS two years ago, Harvey handled it his way, and passed quietly in his sleep in January 2018. The Tuesday-Wednesday Knockout Teams are named in memory of Harvey Brody.

Lee Pollak: a WinnerAbout 25

years ago, when Lee Pollak’s mother, Arnette Labe’ Stark, died, Lee created a bridge club to memorialize her mother’s love of the game. This act also embodied the essence of Lee: honoring family, partnering with her husband Stu, playfulness, lifelong learning – all in the company of friends.

We salute Lee and look forward to playing with her, competing with her tonight! The Evening Side Swiss Teams are named in honor of Lee Pollack.

Lee Pollack with her mother, Arnette.

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