Sunday, Dec. 6

Kolesnik, Levine rematch Weinstein, Grue lead Pairs The NAOBC Premier KO has only been held Steve Weinstein and Joe Grue lead the NAOBC twice, and both times it’s come down to the same Premier Pairs after Saturday’s qualifying sessions. two teams. Kolesnik and Levine, co-champions of They scored 61.07% in the first session and 64.77% in the summer event, will meet again in today’s final. the second to average 62.92%. They have a carryover Depending on which match you watched, of 11.92%. Saturday’s open knockout semifinal was either Just 0.72% behind are Arizonans Haig Tchamitch thrilling, or on the ho-hum side. and Robb Gordon. Team Kolesnik (Finn Kolesnik - Jacob Freeman Three other pairs averaged over 60%: Adam - Bob Hamman - Bart Bramley - Peter Weichsel - Grossack and Eric Schwartz of Massachusetts with Kit Woolsey) was firmly in command all day against 60.45%, Robert Cappelli of Sanibel FL and Robert Tulin (Stan Tulin - Cornelis Van Prooijen – Dror Katz of Ann Arbor MI with 60.38%, and Les and Padon - Louk Verhees Jr. - David Bakhshi – Alon Gloria Bart of Bradenton FL with 60.10%. See Premier, page 4 128 pairs qualified for today’s final.

Mini: Todd, Goulding Abedi, Mumtaz lead 5K Pairs Teams Todd and Goulding are contesting today’s of Kuwait and of final in the NAOBC 0–5000 KO. Imran Abedi Rizwan Mumtaz Plainville CT lead the 0–5000 Pairs after Saturday’s Todd (Katherine Todd - Marcel Verhaegen - qualifying sessions. They scored 67.63% in the first Gabriele Zanasi - Christian Lahrmann - Castor session and 61.63% in the second for an average of Mann) defeated Patel (Jayendu Patel - Mukund 64.63%. The carryover was not available. Thapa - Stephen Castellino - Paul Cornelius - In second are Piotr Olzewski and Jacek Leznicki Tanaaz Timblo - Shailesh Gupta) 147–97. of New Jersey with 61.74%. They are 0.09% ahead of Goulding (Philip Goulding - Craig Biddle - Alan Paul Holmes of Wadsworth OH and Eric Gettleman Leaver - Robert Zimmermann - James Fox) of of Ellicott City MD. Pennsylvania beat Capal (Tracy Capal - Warner 100 pairs qualified for today’s final. Solomon - David Sherman - Peter Hasenson) after trailing by 1 going into the fourth quarter. Rappaports lead 0–1500 Pairs Micro: Ge, Rockoff A Beverly Hills couple leads the 0–1500 Pairs after The finalists in the NAOBC 0–1500 KO are teams Saturday’s qualifying sessions. Mark and Larisa Ge and Rockoff. Rappaport scored 60.32% in the first session and Ge (Xin Ge - Sarah Chen - Serena Guo - Wanwan 67.93% in the second to lead the qualifiers with Ren - Brandon Ge - Brent Xiao) of California 64.13%. The carryover was not available. eliminated Lieberhaber (Aaron Liebhaber - Alan They are just 0.03% ahead of Matt Sherman of Davidson - Adam Siegel - Amit Duvshani - Lee Lin - Mechanicsburg PA and John Burns of Indianpolis Vladimir Kolbun) 139–87. IN. Arland and Sunila Kukarni of Ladera Ranch CA Rockoff (Kyle Rockoff - Daniel Weiss - Gan Yang are third with 63.98%. - Tak Chun Wong - Sarik Goyal - Ben Fisk) were The Rappaports have won four mid-flight pairs 147–97 victors over Niu (Xiaoyuan Niu - Jia Mi - events in online regionals this year. Bing Tong - Bindhu Aravapalli) of Georgia. 140 pairs qualified for today’s final. Online Bridge: Different Mechanics, Same Laws By Robb Gordon, ACBL National Recorder When we play online, we are still playing bridge. The Laws two identical convention of and ACBL Regulations still apply. But cards with their names facing facts, some things are different. Here are a few: on them. The rules apply to BBO as 1. Revoking and leading out of turn are impossible. well, except you need have 2. You must self-Alert. only one card. To make a 3. Because you are Alerting only the opponents, and convention card, log in. asking questions only of one or both opponents, partner Click Account on the right does not “hear” your explanations or questions and tabbed menu and select the that avenue of Unauthorized Information has been Convention Cards heading. eliminated. This saves a lot of arguments and bad It is pretty easy to recall a feelings. saved card or to complete and save a new one. 4. Breaks in are awkward. At the table, if somebody Remember to load your card takes a lot of time, you can see that they (presumably) by completing the Use With are thinking. In online bridge, it could mean that their Partner blank with your partner’s BBO name. tea kettle started whistling and they went to turn off the burner. Law 73E2: 6. The ACBL Convention Charts apply here. Make sure your If the Director determines that an innocent player convention is permitted in the game you are playing. has drawn a false inference from a question, For example, a 2♦ opening that shows a weak hand remark, manner, tempo or the like, of an opponent with length in one of the majors is an Open+ Chart who has no demonstrable bridge reason for the convention and is not permitted in any event in the action, and who could have been aware, at the online regional. time of the action, that it could work to his benefit, 7. It has come to our attention that some players have the Director shall award an adjusted score. more than one BBO user ID. Please only use one ID This rule applies. When you spill coffee or are distracted when playing in ACBL games with human opponents. by a phone call, it is incumbent on you to make sure We are screening for this. the opponents know so they are not deceived by your 8. Because you are playing in an ACBL game against inattention. human opponents, we encourage you to make sure your 5. The ACBL has long had a rule that partnerships have profile displays your real name.

Keep it Clean Most of us are honest and want to play the game properly. When you play against Fees an opponent you suspect is not playing in accordance with the Laws, or violating the Code of Disciplinary Regulations, please file a Player Memo. There is a version Entry fees for events streamlined for online play reports available at www.acbl.org/bbomemo/. You may in this tournament are privately text your director as well, but making a public accusation is itself a violation paid at time of initial of the CDR, so please report suspicious conduct in an actively ethical way! registration with no additional cost per “I’ve volunteered to be one of the investigators when there session. Each event has is suspicion of Unauthorized Information during online play. its own fee. There are a lot of factors to consider, not least of which is the suspected player’s experience level. Accusations of cheating are a serious matter. Anyone can do something strange on one deal; but when a pattern emerges, there is smoke. Where there is smoke, there is often fire. For charges to be filed, more than one investigator has to come to the same conclusion. The game will be better and more popular if we all behave ethically. Big Brother is watching you.” – Larry Cohen BBO Help Desk – How to report a deal When something happens in an online game that seems suspicious to you, you may want to report it. There are several options: You can call the director, you can file a player memo with the ACBL recorder, you can flag the deal for BBO to review, or you can simply save a deal for your own records.

1 2 During or after a game, you can find your played Once you are in the results of either the current deals in the History tab. If it’s during the game, go to game or the past game you are looking for, select My Table. If it’s later, go to Recent tournaments and the you want to look at by clicking on that line. find the appropriate game. The deal will appear in the bottom of the right panel.

3 4 Focusing on the bottom right corner of the , From this menu, select Export. That will bring up click the triple bar in this area to access the menu. another menu of export options.

5 To flag the deal for BBO, click Send abuse report. 6 A prompt will allow you to enter your comments about the deal. To save the deal for your records, If you want to call the director during a game, click click Save deal as. To file a player memo, click the triple bar in the main section of the screen at Handviewer link. You can copy and paste this link top left. From the menu that appears, select Call into an email, a text file or the player memo form Director. You can also use this menu to view your at acbl.org/bbomemo. opponents’ convention cards. Premier continued from page 1 Birman), leading after each quarter wire-to-wire. So, for those of you keeping score in your head, Kolesnik’s largest lead was 29 IMPs after the first Levine is down 21 IMPs with five boards to go. They quarter, and they never looked back. Tulin was within next won an IMP on an overtrick. Then 5 more when 16 at the half, thanks to a second quarter in which Meckstroth played 2♠ making, 3♠ at the other table they outscored Kolesnik by 13. Part of that run was a down one. Then 11 more when Helness–Helgemo 17-IMP pickup after a vulnerable diamond slam bid played 5♣ making, Meckstroth saving in 5♠ down one by Padon-Birman made, while Freeman-Kolesnik had at the other table. their auction jammed when, over Freeman’s strong Board 13 was a push. notrump, Bakhshi declined to show a two-suiter in the Last board, Levine down by 4 IMPs. majors, instead jumping to 3♥. After Kolesnik, who held four spades, doubled, Freeman chose to bid his Dlr: East ♠ Q 6 4 three-card spade suit. Kolesnik made a slam try. They Vul: None ♥ 7 6 eventually played in 5♠ down two, thanks to a 5–1 Bd: 14 ♦ J 8 6 4 3 split. No matter, Kolesnik won the third quarter ♣ K J 5 by 8 and kept the fourth quarter close, giving up only 5 ♠ 5 2 ♠ K 10 9 7 3 IMPs. They finished with a 19-IMP edge. ♥ A K 9 8 5 2 ♥ 10 4 The Gupta team (Naren Gupta - Zia Mahmood - ♦ K Q ♦ 5 Simon De Wijs - Bauke Muller, - Frederic Volcker ♣ A 4 3 ♣ 10 8 7 6 2 - Thomas Bessis) faced off against (Mike Levine ♠ A J 8 Levine - Eddie Wold - Jeff Meckstroth - Eric Rodwell ♥ Q J 3 - Geir Helgemo - Tor Helness). Trailing by 8- and 10- ♦ A 10 9 7 2 IMPs after the first two quarters, they put together a 36-22 third quarter, thanks mostly to two slam swings. ♣ Q 9 They led by 4 IMPs going into the last quarter. West North East South Gupta picked up 14 more IMPs on the first board of Bessis Helgemo Volcker Helness the last set. Pass 1NT South has a strong 1=0=7=5 hand. After two passes, 2♦ Pass 2♥ Pass Muller opened an artificial ♣1 showing 15-plus HCP. ♦ Rodwell overcalled 2♦, showing a 6-card major. After Pass Dbl Pass 3 de Wijs chimed in with 2♠, Meckstroth, holding All Pass ♠A Q 9 8 and four hearts, raised hearts. Muller bid 4♦. Bessis’ 2♦ was alerted as showing one major. 2♥ De Wijs, in diamonds, bid his five-card club suit. was pass or correct. After Helgemo balanced with a Muller now was able to cuebid 5♥. De Wijs signed double, Helness bid 3♦. With the ♠K onside, the path off in 6♣, making seven after a heart lead to dummy’s to nine tricks was straightforward. ace allowed declarer to shed his stiff spade. Helness- Helgemo bid 7♣ on a more natural auction. Volcker At the other table, after Muller’s 1NT, Rodwell ♥ doubled. Bessis led a spade, setting it one trick. overcalled a natural 2 which was immediately doubled by de Wijs. Muller did not bid diamonds, After two pushes, Gupta added another 5 IMPs instead trying 2NT. Rodwell led a fourth-best heart extending their lead to 23. Levine won 13 IMPs on the and, after getting in with a diamond, quickly set the next two boards, 11 coming from a slam swing. After a contract two tricks. Plus 5 in the Levine column to win push, they picked up 1 IMP, then lost 12 on board 9. the match by 1 IMP on the last board. Qualifiers in the NAOBC Premier Pairs 1 Steve Weinstein – Joe Grue 62.92 11.92 54/55 Craig Allen – Stephen Donahue 53.67 3.44 2 Haig Tchamitch – Robb Gordon 62.20 11.26 56 Tracy Brines – Joyce Goldstein 53.57 3.35 3 Adam Grossack – Eric Schwartz 60.45 9.66 57 Jeff McKee – David Brower 53.56 3.34 4 Robert Cappelli – Robert Katz 60.38 9.59 58 Stephen Kennedy – Chris Compton 53.52 3.30 5 Les Bart – Gloria Bart 60.10 9.34 59 Sylvia Moss – Roger Lee 53.46 3.25 6 Geoff Hampson – Ralph Katz 59.83 9.09 60 Martin Caley – Diane Graese 53.35 3.15 7 Shawn Drenning – Zachary Madden 59.79 9.05 61 Weizhong Bao – Frank Feng 53.29 3.09 8 Kevin Rosenberg – Robert Levin 59.33 8.63 62 Jeff Aker – Lisanne Norman 53.25 3.05 9 Jeff Roman – Ralph Buchalter 58.77 8.12 63 Douglas Doub – Adam Wildavsky 53.13 2.94 10 Mark Lair – Nersi Nazari 58.36 7.74 64 Phil Clayton – Andrew Gumperz 52.97 2.80 11 Ming Sheng – Winston Huang 58.16 7.56 65 Richard Zeckhauser – Michael Rosenberg 52.96 2.79 12 Aaron Silverstein – Andrew Rosenthal 58.05 7.46 66 Linda Friedman – Daniel Friedman 52.91 2.74 13 Lyle Poe Jr. – Linda Marshall 57.66 7.10 67 Philippe Galaski – Roger Webb 52.83 2.67 14 Mark Itabashi – Mitch Dunitz 57.47 6.92 68 Andrew Gofreed – Muh-Sha Crawford 52.77 2.61 15 Mark Weisman – Howard Engle 57.46 6.92 69 James Rasmussen – Parul Jain 52.71 2.56 16 Neil Silverman – Irina Kislitsyna 57.39 6.85 70 Zachary Grossack – Linda Robinson 52.64 2.49 17 Marjorie Michelin – Ellis Feigenbaum 57.17 6.65 71 Leonardo Cima – Ettore Bianchi 52.60 2.46 18 Jack Oest – David Caprera 56.75 6.26 72 Jordan Kaye – Jonathan Fleischmann 52.44 2.31 19 Barry Plotkin – Michael Botwin 56.51 6.04 73 Ira Hessel – Dan Morse 52.42 2.29 20 Deanna Samuels – Gary Polonsky 56.16 5.72 74/75 Joshua Donn – Carole Liss 52.37 2.25 21 P. Drew Cannell – Stanley Landers 55.95 5.53 74/75 John Mohan – Allan Deserpa 52.37 2.25 22 Dianne Barton-Paine – Francesca Walton 55.91 5.49 76/77 Bob Gwirtzman – Stephen Nellissen 52.26 2.15 23 Aaron Jones – Harrison Luba 55.59 5.20 76/77 Lynne Tarnopol – David Berkowitz 52.26 2.15 24 Michael Massimilla – Louis Glasthal 55.52 5.14 78/79 Claude Vogel – George Jacobs 52.23 2.12 25 Billy Miller – Edward Zuckerberg 55.49 5.11 78/79 Ahmed Yousry – Lawrence Derito 52.23 2.12 26 Ljudmila Kamenova – Alex Perlin 55.45 5.07 80 Aarnout Helmich – Dominique Custers 52.18 2.07 27 Mel Colchamiro – Jack Lipson 55.25 4.89 81 Will Ehlers – Owen Lien 52.13 2.03 28 Ding-Hwa Hsieh – Lin-Huan Chen 55.22 4.86 82 Mark Aquino – Andrew Chesterton 52.12 2.02 29 Robert Lavin – Phyllis Quinn 55.18 4.82 83 Maxim Siline – Carrie Liu 52.08 1.98 30 Jim Foster – Bryan Howard 54.93 4.59 84 Eric Kahn – Siraj Haji 52.07 1.97 31/32 Andrew Stark – Franco Baseggio 54.86 4.53 85 Crispin Barrere – Leo Bell 52.00 1.91 31/32 David Lindop – Doug Baxter 54.86 4.53 86 Gary Macgregor – Mike Cailean 51.98 1.89 33 Mike Passell – Andy Goodman 54.84 4.51 87 Shan Au – Douglas Simson 51.97 1.88 34 Mark Ralph – William Harker 54.80 4.48 88 Walter Schenker – Brian Glubok 51.96 1.87 35 Shigang Liang – Michael Wang 54.72 4.40 89/90 Fred Schenker – Bernie Greenspan 51.94 1.85 36 Sam Hankins – Joshua Mullins 54.71 4.39 89/90 Bill Schreiber – Peter Knee 51.94 1.85 37 Thomas Anderson – Ryley Breiddal 54.61 4.30 91 David Warner – Loie West 51.83 1.75 38 Richard Chan – Peter Peng 54.57 4.26 92 Eric Laurant – Nicolas Hammond 51.82 1.74 39 Anam Tebha – Marc Warner 54.54 4.24 93 Yanong Han – Wanfeng Mou 51.76 1.69 40/41 Nancy Katz – Migry Zur Campanile 54.24 3.96 94 Mark Dahl – Richard Oshlag 51.70 1.63 40/41 Valentin Kovachev – Douglas Fjare 54.24 3.96 95 Christoph Eick – William Van Dame 51.68 1.61 42 Joel Wooldridge – Jodi Edmonds 54.21 3.93 96 Frederic Pollack – Carolyn Lewis 51.67 1.61 43 Paul Spear – Harvinder Sidhu 54.17 3.90 97/98 Zachary Wasserman – Yoko Sobel 51.53 1.48 44 Tobi Sokolow – Claudette Hartman 54.14 3.87 97/98 Herbert Jordan – Erez Hendelman 51.53 1.48 45 Richard Popper – Chris Moll 54.13 3.86 99 Michel Schneider – Michael Kruley 51.51 1.46 46 Heinrich Berger – Davies Guttmann 54.11 3.84 100 Cheri Bjerkan – Rozanne Pollack 51.46 1.41 47 Ehud Friedlander – Yuval Shahar 54.03 3.77 101 Michael Crane – Richard Temkin 51.34 1.30 48/50 Judy Elbogen – Lee Maddocks 53.96 3.71 102 Bob Etter – Gary Soules 51.24 1.21 48/50 Monique Smith – Merril Hirsh 53.96 3.71 103 Jan Jansma – Jay Borker 51.16 1.14 48/50 John Hinton – Bob Lyon 53.96 3.71 104 Jessica Lai – Grant Vance 51.04 1.03 51 Ben Bomber – Amy Casanova 53.86 3.61 105 Peter J Boyd-Bowman – Hugh Brown Jr. 51.02 1.01 52 Terry Oleske – Jonathan Greenspan 53.80 3.56 106 Beatrice Kemp – Paul Johnson III 50.97 0.96 53 John Fout – Stephannie Culbertson 53.73 3.49 54/55 Iftikhar Baqai – Ross Grabel 53.67 3.44 continued on page 8 Qualifiers in the NAOBC 0–5000 Pairs 1 Imran Abedi – Rizwan Mumtaz 64.63 55 Ross Graham – John Armstrong 52.51 2 Piotr Olszewski – Jacek Leznicki 61.74 56/57 Jay Cherlow – Eric Branfman 52.32 3 Paul Holmes – Eric Gettleman 61.65 56/57 Per Berg – Andy Germain 52.32 4 Christine Denny – Thomas Rush 60.03 58 Philip Kuhn – Jennifer Kuhn 52.25 5 George Woltman – Dwight Meredith 59.77 59 Wilmont Howard Jr. – Steven Buchthal 52.22 6 James Breihan – Joe Yassi 59.41 60 Anne Frayne – Robert Zangri 52.16 7 Joel Singer – Michael Cohen 59.02 61 Linda Green – Marlene Aron 52.13 8 Bo Han Zhu – Sean McNally 58.27 62 Daniel Jablonski – Vikram Srimurthy 52.04 9 Ron Karr – David Neuman 57.82 63/64 Jane Petering – Kathleen Byrne 51.96 10 Davis Heussler – David Colligan 57.37 63/64 Frank Xie – Luen-Jyh Luo 51.96 11 Ilan Tadmor – Kimberly Fanady 57.28 65 Bob Lawrence – Richard McMillan Jr. 51.90 12 Gary Anziani – Bill McCarty 57.22 66 Mike Peng – Robert Griffiths 51.89 13 James Orleans – Paul Hattis 57.06 67 Geoffrey Stokes – Douglas Smith 51.82 14 Boris Tenchov – Brian Snell 56.70 68 Gary Miyashiro – Michael Hess 51.81 15 Lawrence Kidder – Laura Krauss 56.31 69 John Garrison – Alison Shoemaker 51.77 16 Ashwini Datar – Vilas Namjoshi 56.24 70 Marilyn Jeshion – Michael Jeshion 51.73 17 Shankar Dutta – Rathin Basu 56.18 71/72 Ora Lourie – Yu Nadler 51.72 18 Mike Munson – Nancy Munson 56.16 71/72 Paul Muench – Michael Boreson 51.72 19/20 Tom Bishel – James Bishel 56.15 73 Peter Clay – Paul Harris 51.65 19/20 Margaret Way – Diana Diel 56.15 74 Jim Colvin – Trevor Dundas 51.60 21 Susan Cooper – Zelig Rubenstein 55.82 75 Jay Tang – Weican Xiao 51.53 22 Margaret McManus – Dennis Gamble 55.66 76/77 Christopher Moh – Jordan Lampe 51.50 23 Greg Coles – George Knight 55.57 76/77 Allen Pattee – Lawrence Cheetham 51.50 24 Suzanne Cook – James Harris 55.40 78 George Browne – Lee Weiner 51.48 25 Mark Blanchard – Amy Rhodes 55.36 79 Mark Cohen – Larry Plotkin 51.44 26 Tracey Bauer – Kevin Cline 55.35 80 Jan Noll – Anne Ballard 51.41 27 Pamela Mayne – John Mayne 55.34 81/82 Arthur Gong – Eric Xiao 51.36 28 Lisa Mita – Edward Alcoff 55.16 81/82 Bruce Maier – Jean Simons 51.36 29 Anil Altindag – Linda Drake 55.06 83 Edward Yosses – Paul Perkowski 51.33 30 Govind Narayan – Mark Gospodnetic 54.97 84 Brian Zhang – Andrew Chen 51.24 31 Herb Freedman – Jack Alhale 54.89 85 Samuel Amer – Linda Einhorn-Ihde 51.21 32 David Ticen – Kurt Zhang 54.88 86 Spencer Carr – William Brackett 51.18 33 Felix Springer – Trevor Reeves 54.59 87 Brian Sims – Carol Waters 51.00 34 Kenan Ozkurt – Craig Henderson 54.55 88 Barbara Kotton – David Norris 50.87 35 David Goldfarb – Harry Elliott 54.48 89 Richard Franklin – David Venetianer 50.82 36 Leah Shao – Jian-Ping Chen 54.32 90 Thomas Foerster – Barry Dehlin 50.81 37 Joan Dziekanski – Marilyn Schapiro 53.63 91 Don Liu – Andrew Hanes 50.60 38 Jim Tully – Kay Korte 53.62 92 Shirley Carroll – Barbara Sue Seal 50.54 39 Bernard Klein – Leon Masiewicki 53.49 93 James Lasswell – Thomas Burgeson 50.50 40 David Reiter – Gordon Deckelbaum 53.46 94 David Bogolub – Rick Schoenfield 50.48 41 Lisa Bievenue – Georgia Heth 53.39 95 Mary Ose – Carrie Touslee 50.47 42 Anita Albert – Stan Pushkarsky 53.22 96 Frank Bowen – James Bowen 50.36 43/44 David Ng – Kenneth Hui 53.14 97 June Patton – William Nason 50.34 43/44 Sriram Ganesan – S. Reese Koppel 53.14 98 Charles Sheaff – Scott Weber 50.32 45/46 Marc Sylvester – Ryan Connors 53.13 99/100 Teri Smoot – David Willmott 50.26 45/46 Robert Lupton – Joe Jenkins 53.13 99/100 John Miller – Niel Thomas 50.26 47/48 Ethan Wood – Jane McLaughlin 53.12 47/48 Larry Lowell Jr. – Hal Jones Jr. 53.12 49 Richard Wang – Donald Richards 52.95 50 Jan Popiel – Edward Scolnick 52.92 51 Amy Brisson – Hal Hindman 52.83 52 Kelvin Raywood – Shelley Burns 52.74 53 Ronald Vickery – Donna DePesa 52.71 54 Steve Valencic – Robert Vollbracht 52.56 Qualifiers in the NAOBC 0–1500 Pairs 1 Mark Rappaport – Larisa Rappaport 64.13 55 James Van Etten – Keith Glover 54.13 2 Matt Sherman – John Burns 64.10 56 Ed Prosser – John Woog 54.06 3 Arvind Kulkarni – Sunila Kulkarni 63.98 57/58 William Anspach – Mark Stein 54.01 4 Jeffrey Olson – Jake Olson 62.40 57/58 Vijesh Iyer – Neil Vaz 54.01 5 Guohui Zhang – Dongsheng Wu 62.29 59 Steve Vrooman – Bill Hogsett 54.00 6 Feng Liu – Jacinda Liu 61.04 60 James Mosley – Harry Potter 53.97 7 Suryanarayan Lakshmanan – David Finlon 60.64 61 Kent Ritchie – Michael Ross 53.96 8 Rodrigo Garcia Da Rosa – Talbott Maxey 60.32 62 John Jordan – Kathryn Garrity 53.95 9 Michael Weinzimer – Tammy Gray 60.11 63 Charlene Friedman – Cynthia Yock 53.86 10 S. Leech – Dexter Senft 59.95 64 Edward Lechner – Erich Schifter 53.80 11 Susan Smith – Doug Smith 59.78 65 Ibrahem El-Raheb – James Ertel 53.75 12 Alex Martelli – Anna Ravenscroft 58.75 66 Stuart Litwin – Linda Griffith 53.64 13 Alan Munro – James Dahlberg 58.54 67 Debbie Nash – Bill Nash 53.57 14 Vito Perillo – Beverly Simpson 57.96 68 Myrtle Herzenberg – Julie Wood 53.49 15 Geoffrey Edwards – Rosemary Nishimura 57.81 69 David Cancian – Richard Giles 53.46 16 Gordon Pattee – Dailey Pattee 57.79 70 Darrick Chee – Nancy Alvarado 53.33 17 Yalin Celikler – Valentin Kirov 57.68 71 Liz Orolowitz – Miriam Kirsh 53.29 18 Steven Siegel – Lawrence Gordon 57.65 72 Edward Astrachan – David Cohen 53.21 19 Alexander Stille – Barbara Devaney 57.52 73 Catarina Kiefe – Robert Farmer 53.18 20 Diana Chirita – Alan Silver 57.13 74 Sudhir Virmani – Bharat Kamdar 53.14 21 Alexandre Tovbis – Joseph Thal 57.03 75 Peggy Casey Fitzpatrick – Amanda Stewart 53.10 22 Peter Doubilet – Carol Benson 56.96 76 Richard Tisch – Bruce Adler 53.05 23 Howard Booth – David Edelson 56.83 77 Ken Trock – Francis Gupta 53.01 24 Marc Elster – Mickey Imber 56.72 78 Garson Heller Jr. – Marianna Wright 52.95 25 Joseph Grill – William Gold 56.64 79 Edward Johnson – Kenneth Iobst 52.86 26 Anda Cosma – Marius Cosma 56.55 80 Edward Carlson – Rachel Denk 52.84 27 Adele Lewchuk – Bob Frender 56.36 81 Arda Kabaca – Jon Rosen 52.74 28 Eric He – Edward He 56.27 82 Holli Mast – Stephen Mast 52.72 29 Valarie Remmers – Dale Remmers 56.19 83 Alexander Ayzenberg – Jaclyn Ayzenberg 52.68 30/31 Nick Migliacci – Colin Schloss 56.18 84 David Wolfgang – Allen Rudd 52.63 30/31 Jacob Baron – Daniel Aldrich 56.18 85 Yang Xu – Isaac Stone 52.61 32 Douglas Spiker – Lewis Rothberg 56.17 86 Melanie Haddad – Terry Kee 52.60 33 Paul Martin – Gordon Martin 56.13 87/88 Donald Aschenbrenner – Feza Buyukdura 52.53 34 Jiaheng Hu – Hengrui Xing 56.05 87/88 Kirk Freyermuth – Hugh McSheffrey 52.53 35 Phyllis Pascal – Mirna Hofbauer 55.83 89 Kadie Davis – Josh Rich 52.43 36 Bernhard Kohn Jr. – Eric Vogel 55.68 90 Michael Gilpin – Melanie Sabo 52.42 37 Qing Lu – Jung Hu 55.65 91 Emelie Quennell – Melissa Martin 52.38 38 Anthony Hawks – Jack Hawks 55.31 92 Dana Daugherty – Takwah Tsang 52.37 39 Georges Allard – Ann McKellow 55.23 93 Paul Davis – Geraldine Macdonald 52.34 40/41 Bob Johnston – P Cochrane 55.17 94 Richard Jackson – Sandra Jackson 52.33 40/41 Rajeev Jog – Niraj Jain 55.17 95 G Michael Sears – Rohan Mandayam 52.25 42 Denise Pitsch – H. Paul Davis 55.08 96 Herb Brown – Satadru Roy 52.07 43 Cornelius Duffie – Christopher Donnelly 54.91 97/98 Wayne Walker – David Olenic 52.04 44 Daniel Balof – Barry Balof 54.73 97/98 Bill Davis – D John Cunningham 52.04 45 David Lindley – Patrick Herbst 54.70 99 Jake Liu – Sandy Graham 52.00 46 Derek Dillon – Erik Caspersen 54.66 100 David Rosnick – William Scott 51.87 47 Jayne Spahn – Ritambhar Burman 54.65 101 Craig Olson – Michael Lawrence 51.86 48 William Keys – Deborah Armstrong 54.45 102 Jon Gassaway – Bruce Backup 51.84 49 Ruth Shilkret – Jill Kolody 54.44 103 Charlotte Harris – Jeffery Harris 51.72 50 Stuart Nelan – Robert Bender 54.43 104 Jane Lehman – Mary Robinson 51.69 51 David Scott – Dorothy Norwood 54.40 105 Dori Senerchia – Carolyn Bitetti 51.68 52 James Schnepf – Connie Nelson 54.28 106 Jan Kasper – Dexter Perkins III 51.63 53 Joel Steinberg – Robert Goldbloom 54.21 54 John Juba – Barb Lennington 54.18 continued on page 8 Premier qualifiers continued from page 5 0–1500 qualifiers continued from page 7

107 Marti Malcolm – Chuck Malcolm 50.96 0.95 107 Al Mince – Barry Malone 51.62 108 Ari Sippola – Pawel Hanus 50.82 0.83 108 Elizabeth Kirkpatrick – Mauris Mertens 51.59 109/110 Roland Laframboise – Keith Heckley 50.81 0.82 109/110 James Lanzo – Rajarshi Roy 51.56 109/110 Nick Wiebe – Sara Rothmuller 50.81 0.82 109/110 Carolyn Farren – Paulette Moe 51.56 111 Ron Smith – Tod Moses 50.80 0.81 111 Muriel Klinger – Carole Felberbaum 51.47 112 Stanford Christie – Michael Christensen 50.79 0.80 112 Bonnie Scheeland – Karen Stone 51.45 113 John Ramos – Mitch Towner 50.74 0.75 113 William Strauss – Daniel Bunde 51.44 114 Roger Bates – Steven Love 50.73 0.74 114 Barbara Davis – Steven Davis 51.42 115 Qiang Zhang – Guanghao Xiao 50.71 0.72 115/116 Mark Spiro – Steve Reid 51.41 116 Norman Schwartz – Henri Farhi 50.55 0.58 115/116 Brian Dudley – William Shepherd 51.41 117 En Xie – Debra Romero 50.51 0.54 117 Gail Pimm – Carol Clements 51.34 118 Bob Klein – Nancy Gunn 50.44 0.48 118 Lawrence Abate – Robert Sommerstein 51.31 119 Mark Zellmer – Mark Boswell 50.42 0.46 119 Denise Anthony – Michael Anthony 51.30 120 William Watson – Geeske Joel 50.35 0.39 120/121 Daniel McClenathan – Jack Sieling 51.28 121 Jian Wang – Bob Wang 50.34 0.39 120/121 Keith Thompson – James LaFave 51.28 122 Shan Huang – Joan Millens 50.30 0.35 122 Michael Schwartz – Barbara Schwartz 51.27 123 Sathya Bettadapura – Steve Chen 50.21 0.27 123 Brad Stout – James Eldred Pascoe 51.26 124 Robert Bitterman – Mark Bendure 50.17 0.23 124 Dana Shelley – Philip Abrahamson 51.12 125/127 Charles Davis – John Hassett 49.98 0.06 125 Paddy Fiorino – Jay Evert 51.07 125/127 Christian Wassvik – Erik Rynning 49.98 0.06 126 Kenneth Winter – Ted Peck 50.96 125/127 Matthew Weingarten – Andrew Cavalier 49.98 0.06 127 Joann Krey – Joel Lipset 50.95 128 Judy Zhu – Platt Hill 49.92 0.00 128/129 Patty Garvy – Deborah Bricker 50.84 128/129 Rene Shumak – Jon Levine 50.84 130 Charles Wiggins Jr. – James Collart 50.75 Click here for Premier KO Bracket 131 Claude King – Peter Giannandrea 50.72 132 Bharat Shah – Arvind Sharma 50.68 133 Zsoka Balla – Martin Klaponski 50.58 134 Wilt Cooper – Donna Agee 50.57 135 Jane Roeser – Nancy Spence 50.53 Click here for 0–5000 Bracket 136 Donald Duncan – Nancy Mitchell 50.48 137 Peter Campbell – Robert Morrison 50.46 138 James Bishop – Lawrence Brough 50.45 139 Vivian Heggie – Robert Seaver 50.44 Click here for 0–1500 Bracket 140 Stan Piltch – Rita Vachani 50.41

Final pairings NAOBC Premier KO NAOBC 0-5000 KO NAOBC 0-1500 KO Mike Levine, Boca Raton FL; Eddie Philip Goulding, Wexford PA; Xin Ge - Brandon Ge, Cupertino CA; Wold, Houston TX; Jeff Meckstroth, Craig Biddle - Robert Zimmermann, Sarah Chen, San Jose CA; Serena Guo, Clearwater Beach FL; Eric Rodwell, Pittsburgh PA; Alan Leaver, Mars PA; Dublin CA; Wanwan Ren, Sunnyvale Clearwater FL; Geir Helgemo - Tor James Fox, Canonsburg PA CA; Brent Xiao, Fremont CA Helness, Monaco vs vs vs Katherine Todd, New York NY; Kyle Rockoff, Gilbert AZ; Daniel Finn Kolesnik, Ventura CA; Jacob Marcel Verhaegen, Netherlands; Weiss - Sarik Goyal, Evanston IL; Gan Freeman, Toronto ON; Bob Hamman Gabriele Zanasi, Palermo Italy; Yang, Pittsburgh PA; Tak Chun Wong, - Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Peter Christian Lahrmann, Denmark; Castor Malibu CA; Ben Fisk, Cincinnati OH Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; Kit Woolsey, Mann, Lund Sweden Kensington CA