A NEWSLETTER FOR JUNIOR PLAYERS THE GRAPEVINE COLLEGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP SET FOR 2005 Attention ACBL college students! Win a trip to play at the North American College Bridge VOLUME 17 • NO. 1 JAN. 2005 Team Championship in Atlanta! Qualifying college teams will win an expense-paid trip to play in the look final during the Atlanta Summer North American Bridge Championships receive $500 scholarships paid directly What’s July 22–23, 2005. to their school. Teams placing first and The 2005 rules will allow any number second will receive 80% regional-rated Inside of four-person teams from a college/ gold points. For more information, check the 2005 North American College World University Team university to enter. There may be several Bridge Team Championship Conditions Championship ...... 2 teams from the same school in the event. The zonal qualifying stage will be of Contest on the ACBL web site at Kokish named Coach for held on bridgebase.com Feb. 19, 2005. http://www.acbl.org/juniors/ Canadian Juniors ...... 2 To register teams contact Charlotte juniorTournaments.html. Worldwide Collegiate Blaiss at [email protected] In 2004, 18 different schools signed Bridge Championship.....3 before Feb. 12. up and six of them qualified to play in King/Queen of Bridge.....4 Teams must consist of four players the final. Those six teams all received born in 1979 or later. Players must free trips to the Summer NABC in New Beginner’s Corner...... 4 attend the same school and must be York City. In 2005, the scholarships Play contest...... 5 currently taking at least 7 semester could be doubled to $1000 per Briddles ...... 5 hours of credit. member of the winning team if total team participation reaches 36 or more. Bridgeword Crossword Members of the winning team will Puzzle ...... 6 FYI ...... 7 New Competition Held for High Schools A new online high school team Members of the single winning team USA2 adds third pair ...... 7 competition will be held for high school will receive $250 college scholarships. Agrawal new Junior Corps students in 2005. Online play will be For the conditions of contest, check member ...... 7 on bridgebase.com on Feb. 19, 2005. the web site at http://www.acbl.org/ Youth & Junior To register, contact Charlotte Blaiss at juniors/juniorTournaments.html. MP Races ...... 8 [email protected]. Win an Apple iPod Mini ! Juniors, recruit new Junior members and get a chance to win a new Apple iPod AMERICAN CONTRACT Mini (green). For every member under 26 that you recruit between now and July BRIDGE LEAGUE 2990 Airways Blvd. 31, you will receive an into the drawing for the MP3 player. The drawing will Memphis TN 38116 take place on August 1, 2005. Please send an e-mail(s) to [email protected] with www.acbl.org the player numbers of all your new Junior recruits. Make sure that your name and player number are on any membership application that a new recruit submits. New memberships for Juniors include both the $5 student membership for those applicants who have participated in a school bridge program and the standard $14 membership for everyone else. Go out and recruit and then listen to your reward! USA Takes Bronze in World University Team Championship The USA University team won the bronze medal at the 2nd World University Teams Championship in Istanbul Turkey during the 2004 World Championships October 23 through November 6, 2004. In the 15-team event, the USA squad of Charlie Garrod, Noble Shore, Marc Glickman, Ari Greenberg, Joon Pahk, and John Kranyak, npc Donna Compton and coach Chris Compton finished third with 247 victory points behind Poland with 284 and Belgium with 276. Round 5: Turkey vs USA Donna Compton said she was proud of the team This round featured a very quiet set of deals with for coming home with the bronze medal because a very few swing opportunities. Both sides played combination of late planning and not much practice fairly accurately, leading to a low-scoring 25-6 win did not make things easy. She said that in the end the for the Americans. The USA won a partscore swing team bonded because of the experience and that she on the very first deal: had nothing but praise for the young players. 1. Dealer North. None Vul. The following are two boards from round five that K 9 3 helped secure USA a win over Turkey. J 6 5 3 2 A 8 7 6 4 Kokish named Q 10 6 J 8 7 5 4 Q 10 9 A Coach for K J 4 3 10 9 2 Q 10 9 A K 5 3 Canadian A 2 K 8 7 4 Juniors Q 8 7 6 5 The Canadian Bridge J 2 Federation recently named Eric Kokish as coach Open Room for the 2005 Canadian Junior Team. West North East South The Canadian team will be competing in the Kranyak Dalkilic Glickman Eskizara 10th World Youth Team Championship in Sydney, Pass 1 Pass 2 All Pass Australia, August 8-17, 2005. Closed Room The Canadian Junior Team is: Tim Capes, West North East South Toronto ON; Vincent Demuy, Laval PQ; David Paksoy Greenberg Seker Pahk Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Charles Halasi, Toronto Pass 1 Pass ON; Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON; Gavin Wolpert, 1NT(i) Pass 2(ii) Dbl Thornhill ON; NPC: Jonathan Steinberg and Pass 2 Pass Pass Coach: Eric Kokish 2 3 All Pass

2 (i) Forcing reached; minus 50, and 5 more IMPs to the USA. (ii) Clubs or any strong hand The 3rd World University Bridge Championship Joon Pahk’s aggressive in the will be jointly hosted by FISU, WBF and the China Closed Room allowed N/S to locate their heart fit and University Sports Association in 2006 at Tianjin Normal compete to the three level. Against 3, East, Basar University. Tianjin, a costal city located 130 km south Doga Seker, cashed the AK and then switched to a of Beijing, is one of the four municipalities of China spade. Declarer carefully won in hand to unblock the with about 10 million inhabitants. Accommodations A, and played a small heart toward dummy. East won and competition site will be a three-star hotel. Cultural and played a spade to dummy’s now-bare ace. The events and sightseeing activities will be included in the play proceeded: diamond , heart to dummy’s king, program of the championship. diamond ruff, spade ruff, diamond ruff, club ruff. The final trick was won by Serhat Ozer Paksoy’s master The 9th Annual Worldwide Junior , but declarer already had nine tricks in the bag. Collegiate Bridge Team Championship Note the precise timing of the crossruff: if declarer wins will be held on OKbridge via the Internet on the first spade in dummy, he will lack the entries to take April 23-24, 2005. The event starting time is three diamond ruffs in hand, and his contract will fail. set tentatively for 10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time In the Open Room, West, John Kranyak judged to (OKbridge Time). downgrade his flat 10-count, and the American pair Eligibility: The team event is open to all Juniors bought the contract cheaply in 2. Marc Glickman (under 26) who are currently enrolled in a college or had no trouble taking nine tricks for +140 and 7 IMPs university. A team must consist of four, five or six to the USA. players, with at least two of its members attending Board 3. Dealer South. E/W Vul. the same school. All team members must agree to K 4 play under the name of one college or university. A 8 7 4 2 Participants will be supplied with a complimentary, K Q 9 temporary OKbridge membership two days prior to J 8 2 the event. J 9 8 2 A 10 7 3 Conditions of Contest: Teams will enter two or K J 6 three pairs into a 30-board tourney. If teammates J 7 6 3 A 8 4 2 happen to be paired against each other for a round, 9 7 5 K Q 6 3 they will just sit out the two boards of that round. Q 6 5 Teammates’ average IMPs per board scores will Q 10 9 5 3 be added together to establish first, second, third 10 5 and fourth-place teams. The first-place team will A 10 4 pick the team they choose to play against in the 20- board semifinals, which will be played after a short Open Room intermission. The final will be held on April 24 at the West North East South convenience of the participants. Kranyak Dalkilic Glickman Eskizara The contest will be conducted in accordance Pass with the Laws of Duplicate and Pass 1 Dbl 4 the rules and regulations of tournament bridge Closed Room of the American Contract Bridge League. ACBL West North East South will be awarded to the top teams. Paksoy Greenberg Seker Pahk How to enter: To enter a team, register via e-mail Pass [email protected] and include the name of the Pass 1 Dbl 2(i) college you will represent, the names and e-mail Pass 2 Pass Pass addresses of all team members (designating one 2 Pass Pass 3 team member as captain). Please include team All Pass members’ OKbridge names (if they are already (i) Good heart raise OKbridge members). Despite his five-card trump support, Pahk judged For more information: Please see the Fifth well to compete to only 3 because of his balanced Chair Foundation’s web site (information available pattern, and indeed only nine tricks were there for soon) http://www.fifthchair.org or e-mail Dawn at: the taking. In the Open Room, the no-play game was [email protected]. 3 King/Queen of Bridge There’s no guarantee that you’ll Contract: 3  5 3 win a world or North American Dealer: West  A 6 3 2 championship if you become the Opening  Q 8 7 next King or Queen of Bridge, Lead: J  A K 7 6 but consider this: the previous heart in each hand and you would  A K 6 2 31 monarchs own seven world not have eliminated any losers.  K J 8 5 championships, four Junior world Since, it is also unlikely that you  9 6 5 championships and more than 67 will get a diamond trick with this  5 4 North American titles. holding, your best bet is to ruff If you are a graduating high school two spades in the dummy. That What is your best chance for senior and an ACBL member who requires you to have two trumps taking nine tricks in hearts? plays and promotes bridge, apply in the dummy! Therefore your best now to become the 2005 next King If you go through your PLAN, play is to win the and or Queen of Bridge. your objective is to lose no more play the A and K on the next The contest was established in than four tricks. You have two two tricks. 1973 by the late Homer Shoop and spade losers, three diamond Now, assuming the Q has not the International Palace of Sports, losers and one heart loser. You fallen, you have the time to ruff which he founded. The ACBL will need to eliminate two of those both of your spades in the dummy. Educational Foundation, funded by losers in order to make your You can let the opponent with the a grant from the Shoop foundation, contract. You could try to avoid Q have it whenever he wishes presents a $1000 scholarship to the a loser in hearts by finessing for to take it. Note that if the Q falls winner. Previous winners include, the Q. This would beat the under the K or A, you can then Jeff Meckstroth, Robert Levin, Steve percentage of playing the A and play the J to pull the last trump. Weinstein, Brad Moss, Eric Greco, K in the hope that the Q would This will then leave you with no Kent Mignocchi, Joel Wooldridge, fall. However, this is not the best trump losers, and you will still be John Kranyak and Robert Glickman. plan. If the lost and the able to ruff one of the spades in To enter, contact Charlotte Blaiss at opponents returned another heart, the dummy. You will end up with [email protected] before March 31. you would be left with only one nine tricks or four losers.

Contract: 4 Dbl K J The Challenge: Continue from Dealer: East J 10 8 7 6 Play contest here with the best line of play for A 8 3 2 making your contract. J 10 West leads the 2 and the J The Reward: Win free entries loses to the Q. East returns the to all events at the Atlanta NABC 8 A which South ruffs. South then in July of 2005 by submitting a K Q 9 5 4 leads the K which West wins correct detailed play analysis to K J 9 3 with the A. West continues with [email protected]. All submissions K 7 6 another heart to dummy J. You must be made by Feb. 15. All Bidding: lead the J from dummy which contestants must be ACBL Junior West North East South East wins with the ace and returns members (under 26). A drawing 1 2 the Q to your K. You ruff from correct submissions will take 2 3 Pass 4 your last club in dummy and East place on Feb. 16 to determine the Dbl Pass Pass Pass discards a spade. winner. 4 Briddles Answers on pg. 6

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Down finesse backwards 15. 4 Bid made to hinder the opponents best fourth 14.

by disrupting their bidding 1 Nine of diamonds slam small 13.

6 Trump Ten 2 First hand bath 12.

7 Butcher 3 Having to do with position in squeeze crisscross 11. 8 Result if both sides have done as bridge and football strength through lead 10.

well as possible 5 Player who commits an irregularity reversal dummy 9. 8. skip bid bid skip 8.

10 Position in respect to your RHO 8 No bidding sacrifice phantom 7.

14 Huge hand 9 John Lowenthal Club suit long 6.

15 Deals with blackwood interference 11 Suit with 4+ cards contract cold 5.

18 Queens and jacks 12 Communication 4. 20 Finesse 13 Off score top 3.

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22 Card sense or instinct 17 Most conventional calls 2 1. 24 Artificial Bidding Convention 19 Pre-bridge playing auction event Briddles: to Answers 25 Short suit first 23 Your middle opponent 6 Encourage your club to hold yet reached their 16th birthday Junior Fund Games to support will be $1 per session, except in Junior Programs! NABC-surcharged events. At all NABCs, the entry fee for paid up JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP ACBL members in good standing RATES $14 who have not reached their 26th birthday will be no more than Junior membership rates have 50% of the regional-rated event gone from $12.75 to $14 starting entry fee. Jan. 1, 2005. School memberships The ACBL encourages all for those who have completed a districts, units and bridge clubs school bridge class and are under to consider similar policies for its 20 years of age will remain at $5. regional tournaments, sectional School memberships may not be tournaments and club games. processed without the name of JUNIOR MONTH the school and date of birth on the February is designated as Junior application or renewal form. $5 NORTH AMERICAN Month! Juniors, please encourage memberships also require the name BRIDGE your clubs to hold sectional-rated of the bridge teacher in whose black-point games designated course the student is participating CHAMPIONSHIPS as Junior Fund Games for its or has participated. Please note Make plans to attend one of members (this means participants that school memberships do not the three NABCs held each year. can win more masterpoints for include The Bridge Bulletin. Meet bridge players from across playing!). An additional fee of $1 the world! Play bridge or watch per player per session above the JUNIOR ENTRY FEE some of the best players play! The regular fee is charged by the ACBL first Saturday of each NABC is with the monies going to the Junior PLAYER POLICY designated Junior Day. programs. Remember that Junior The ACBL policy for entry fees During the Spring NABC in Fund Games may be held any for Junior players at the NABCs Pittsburgh, a special reception will other month of the year except for remains a great deal! The entry be held. Come and meet some April and September. fee for all players who have not fellow Junior players!

USA 2 ADDS RICE Crank and Andrew Hurd, who Altair Engineering Inc. in Troy MI. finished first, and Noble Shore Agrawal became interested in BROTHERS AS and Charlie Garrod, who finished bridge when THIRD PAIR; STEVE second at the US Junior Team he was in his ROBINSON IS NPC Trials in New York City in July senior year in 2004. Steve Robinson is NPC. India but could Jon and Mike Rice, twin brothers not find people living in North Carolina, have been who could teach added as the final two members AGRAWAL NAMED him the game. of the US Junior Team 2. The team However, when th AS NEW JUNIOR will represent the US at the 10 he went for his World Youth Team Championship CORPS MEMBER internship in Ireland in 2002, he Gaurav Agrawal recently was came across some tutors of the named as ACBL’s newest Junior system who helped him learn Corps member. the game. Since his move to the Agrawal came to the United US, he is learning and playing States from India in 2001 and the SAYC system and trying to finished his master of science improve each day. degree in mechanical engineering Agrawal’s first targets are to be a in Sydney, Aug. 8-17, 2005. They at Ohio State University in 2003. Life Master as fast as possible and join fellow team members Tim He is a design/project engineer at to spread the game among others.

7 AMERICAN CONTRACT PRSRT STD BRIDGE LEAGUE U.S. POSTAGE 2990 Airways Blvd. PAID Memphis, TN 38116–3847 MEMPHIS, TN Permit No. 854 EDITOR Harley Bress CONSULTING EDITOR Charlotte Blaiss DESIGN & LAYOUT

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Results as of Dec. 22, 2004 22, Dec. of as Results

ON Toronto Blagov, Anton 31. 74

246 WA Bellevue Chalfan, Jennifer 31. S

SK Regina Dulmage, James 30. 74

250 CA Stanford Ieong, Samuel 30.

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Daniel Goldfein, Lincolnwood IL Lincolnwood Goldfein, Daniel 29. 75 261 TN Knoxville Fournier, Jared 29.

E MI Arbor Ann Yuan, Xing 28. 75 263 MA Cambridge Wong, Henry 28.

Gregory Vance, San Leandro CA Leandro San Vance, Gregory 27. 78 271 NY York New Wilderman, Daniel 27. E

Dan Dwyer, Lehigh Acres FL Acres Lehigh Dwyer, Dan 26. 78 280 ON Toronto Mason, Matthew 26.

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PA York Zeller, Shane 24. 79 282 TX Houston Haddad, (Tony) Anton 24.

Alex Phillips, North Little Rock AR Rock Little North Phillips, Alex 23. 82 A 298 MD Park College Gill, Michael 23.

86 PA Elizabeth Collura, Angela 22. Daniel Korbel, Waterloo ON Waterloo Korbel, Daniel 22. 299

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Jason Feldman, Champaign IL Champaign Feldman, Jason 21. 301

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95 OR Portland Flores, Nicholas 20. David Grainger, Etobicoke ON Etobicoke Grainger, David 20. 314

R 96 NJ Kinnelon III, Mann George 19. Robert Glickman, Woodland Hills CA Hills Woodland Glickman, Robert 19. 354

120 NY York New Pearlman, Lindsay 18. Kevin Dwyer, Lehigh Acres FL Acres Lehigh Dwyer, Kevin 18. 392

125 ON Ottawa Sabourin, David 17. Tim Crank, Wheaton MD Wheaton Crank, Tim 17. 420

128 MA Cambridge Chiu, Jason 16.

Jon Rice, Winston-Salem NC Winston-Salem Rice, Jon 16. 433 R

134 AL Birmingham Hollingshead, Daniel 15. McKenzie Myers, Eugene OR Eugene Myers, McKenzie 15. 436

134 CA Stanford Mayefsky, Eric 14. Mike Rice, Winston Salem NC Salem Winston Rice, Mike 14. 462 H

O 142 NC Hickory Lien, Owen 13. John Kranyak, New York NY York New Kranyak, John 13. 546

144 IL Joliet Dajwlowski, Michal 12. Joel Wooldridge, Buffalo NY Buffalo Wooldridge, Joel 12. 554

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392 FL Acres Lehigh Dwyer, Kevin 2. Vincent Demuy, Montreal QC Montreal Demuy, Vincent 2. 1311

804 ON Thornhill Lavee, Daniel 1. Ian Boyd, Calgary AB Calgary Boyd, Ian 1. 1432