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N S ? t n i r p n i s i h t g n i d a e r e b r e h t a r u o y d l u o W WBL omBudsman contents Any player with helpful director issues suggestion Box Do you have a suggestion that including criticism or praise of the direct - might help to increase membership or ing staff may contact the Ombudsman, otherwise improve the Washington Adrienne Kuehneman and be assured Bridge League? Give any and all ideas that the source of the information will re - articLe page to Don Berman, 301-776-3581, main confidential. Information should be [email protected], 13707 En - provided in writing and may be handed President’s Letter ...... by Ellen Cherniavsky 2 gleman Dr., Laurel, MD 20708, or to her at any game, or mailed to her at WBL Bulletin & WBL eNews www.WashingtonBridgeLeague.org. 6333 Tone Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817-5811. —Would you rather be reading this in print? ...... 3 §¨©ª ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ §¨©ª Bits and Pieces... deadline : march 20, 2017 to submit new articles to the editor for the mar/apr 2017 issue Run for the Board?; Time to Renew?; Welcome to the Washington Bridge League; 2016 Round Robin Winners; ...... 4 Washington Bridge League BULLETIN (usps #861-240) VOL . 75, #1— S UBSCRIPTION $12 PER YEAR FOR MEMBERS OF UNIT #147 . N ON -MEMBER SUBSCRIPTION RATE 2016-2017 WBL/NVBA Player of the Year; IS $18 PER YEAR . P UBLISHED BI -MONTHLY BY THE WASHINGTON BRIDGE LEAGUE AT 14517 P ERRYWOOD DRIVE , BURTONSVILLE , MD 20866. ALL EDITORIAL AND GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE WBL Education Foundation ...... 19 EDITOR AT 901 C LIFTONBROOK LN, S ILVER SPRING , MD 20905-3711. Editor — Donna Rogall (240-461-4261), [email protected] WBL Non-Life Master Sectional: March 23-26, 2017 ...... 5 I/N Columnist — Vince Wilmot, [email protected] Columnists — Steve Robinson, Richard Colker, Ellen Cherniavsky, Hakan Berk 70th Annual City of Washington Tournament: April 6-9, 2017 ...... 6 The opinions expressed by our columnists do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the ACBL, the WBL, or even the editors of this publication. The WBL is not responsible for the claims of its advertisers. Friday Night Specials: April 6—7:30 pm: Relaxed & Fun IMP Pairs/Teams Ellen Cherniavsky, President — (301-649-1350), [email protected] —PLUS, Separate Intermediate/Novice Pair Game 2-for-1 entry . . 7 Linda Marshall, Vice President — (301-320-6057), [email protected] Rose Berman, Treasurer — (301-776-3581), [email protected] WBL Solvers’ Club ...... by Steve Robinson 8 Melissa Price, Secretary — (301-464-1261), [email protected] Thursday Night Unit Game... UNIT DIRECTORS Hadi Abushakra — (301-946-5630), [email protected] 2016 Trophy Race Winners ...... by Alex Gretsinger 14 Carole Banks — (301-622-0923), [email protected] Alex Gretsinger— (410-949-4834), [email protected] 0-20 Game & Lesson Thursday Nights, Carpools ...... 14 Clyde Kruskal — (301-927-1023), [email protected] Schedule, WBL Cell Phone, Map, Guaranteed Partner Program . . .15 Lloyd Rawley — (301-513-5338), [email protected] Sylvia Shi — (240-406-8102), [email protected] The Unit Game— Notices: Youths 25 and Under are Half Price; SOME KEY VOLUNTEERS Julie Marquette — NLM Tournament Chair , (301-642-9197), [email protected] Bring a Friend; The WBL is on Facebook!; The WBL Online Brad Theurer — Sectional Tournament Chair , ( 301-527-8819), [email protected] Spare Brains or Muscles?; Upcoming Sectionals ...... 16 Marty Bley — Regional Tournament Chair , (240-441-9885), [email protected] Adrienne Kuehneman — WBL Ombudsman (301-229-2022) NVBA Spring Sectional Tournament: April 27-30, 2017 ...... 17 Don Berman, Webmaster — (301-776-3581), [email protected] Alex Gretsinger, e-List Administrator — (410-949-4834), [email protected] ~ §¨ University of Maryland’s Collegiate Bridge Bowl Eileen Houghton — Membership Secretary (301-431-1522), [email protected] Peter Boyd — Historian [email protected] Adventures ©ª ~ ...... by Hakan Berk 18 Chris Miller — Unit Game Chief Director & Club Manager (301-318-6083), [email protected] Clyde Kruskal — Unit Game Chair (301-395-0480) Congratulations! 2016 New Life Masters ...... 20 Barbara Doran — Unit Game & Tournament Partnerships (301-608-0347), [email protected] 55th Annual Presidential Tournament: January 6-9, 2017—Results . . . .22 Hugo Van Dyke — WBL Bridge in Schools Coordinator, [email protected] Bob Bell — Unit Recorder (301-920-0402) WBL WEBSITE: DISTRICT 6 SITE: NLMasterPointers ...... by I/N columnist, Vince Wilmot 28 www.WashingtonBridgeLeague.org www.districtsixbridge.org Stepping Up to New Heights ...... 29 To geT on an email lisT for Bridge neWs & Bridge proBLems , send a Need a Partner or a Ride to the Unit Game? ...... back cover noTe To sTeve robinson aT robinswr @erols .com requesTing such . Solvers’ Club’s New Problems ...... back cover - 1 - president’s Letter WBL BuLLetin & WBL e-neWs by WBL President, Ellen Cherniavsky Would you rather be reading this in print? [email protected] Printed mail subscriptions are reasonably priced: The WBL Bulletin has ceased free mail distribution. The bulletin will continue to be avail - able free online through our website: washingtonbridgeleague.org . You can be notified when The January sectional yielded many pos - to have had to turn people away. Thanks to the new issue is available online if we have your email address—see below. itive results but also highlighted problems Bill Cole for negotiating this compromise, as which need to be addressed in the future. On well as working with the county to reduce the ¨Yearly (6 issues), Printed Mail Subscriptions are available: the plus side, the new Friday evening event charge for rental to reflect a starting time of WBL members ...... $12.00/year Non-member ...... $18.00/year – IMP pairs/teams – was a big success! Play - 2:00 pm. The bulletin comes out six times a year. To subscribe, give or mail a check to “Washington ers attended who had not been to a Friday We are starting to see the payoff for show - night sectional in years. Feedback was uni - Bridge League” via WBL Treasurer, Rose Berman, at: 13707 Engleman Dr., Laurel, MD 20708- ing respect for our playing area. At close on 1325. Please include your full name and address (and player number if you are a WBL member). versally positive. At the same time, the NLM Friday and Saturday, players volunteered to game nearly doubled in size, perhaps in re - pick up their trash and push chairs neatly ¨We have established a WBL Unit Membership Email Database. sponse to the discount being offered. We had under the tables. Because of that, partici - stepped up efforts to advertise the sectional, The emailings are used for occasional bridge news only. pants in the Saturday and Sunday morning including the description of the new event One use is be to inform you when the bulletin is available online. games were greeted by neat, orderly playing and the discount, and believe the publicity There will be no advertising, sharing or publishing of the addresses. conditions, and were inspired to help main - blitz was instrumental in increasing atten - tain them. Sunday closing went faster than Send your email , name and player number to WBL e-List Administrator, Alex Gretsinger, dance. These efforts should be continued ever, with more people aiding in folding up at: [email protected] with future sectionals. On the minus side, dif - their tables, stacking chairs, and disposing of Please also indicate if you would like to be included on Steve Robinson’s email list in order ficulties arose in fulfilling our promise of trash. Thanks to all who cooperated in these to receive additional bridge news, bridge problems, and other tidbits. You will be able to un - guaranteed teammates when the pair slated efforts. It is always more difficult to change a subscribe from either list. to take on this role became unavailable a few culture than to build one, and as a group we days before the event. We need a process to can be proud of successfully changing the P a
make sure we have guaranteed teammates in i culture of our sectionals so that we keep our d place; if someone shows up without a partner, A wonderful playing site, which took so much d v
we will try to find that player someone to play e effort to regain, in top shape. r t i
with, but we will not guarantee a person both s e a partner and teammates. Finally, a note about the website. An at - m e n
tempted upgrade by the WBL web service t Financial results are not yet in, but we be - provider actually resulted in the frustrating lieve that the sectional showed a loss, though loss of the database for the last two months. considerably less than the one for the October sectional. The main reason for this is the lack People didn’t know the url through of revenue from the Saturday morning game. which WBL information could be reached, Because of the snow, the county cancelled all or had gotten used to not being able to ac - activities in county buildings until 12:00 pm. cess it. This impeded our efforts to let play - We only found out about this at 8:15 am, and ers know the Saturday game had been posted the cancellation on the website (more cancelled, not to mention our efforts to pub - on this later) as soon as possible, but there licize the sectional through this medium.
really wasn’t time to warn players that the The District 6 website can now be accessed P a game would not take place, and roughly 120 via www.districtsixbridge.org ; the WBL site i d people showed up. The person in charge at can be reached through a link on the D6 A d v the Senior Center authorized us to use the fa - home page. In addition, the WBL website e r t i cility for an informal bridge game, but on the (washingtonbridgeleague.org ) should be s e m
condition that we not charge an entry fee. So fully operational by the time you read this e n the game was held, and we were grateful not with the same address as before. t - 2 - - 3 - Bits and pieces "%!" " $
run for the Board? issue, it’s time to renew! It’s not too early Unit If you would like to run for the board, to renew for anyone else ;) ...See where to 147 please submit a bio form and picture to the send your check on the top of page 3. editor by March 20 to be published in the eLcome to the next issue. The offices of President, Vice W President, Treasurer, and Secretary are one Washington Bridge Non LifeMaster League
year terms. The six Unit Director positions
are two year terms, at least three of which The WBL welcomes the following new Sectional
will be open this year. Elections will be ACBL members: Dr Ken Chase, Rachel Evans, held at the Annual Meeting and District 6 Barry Grossman, Mr Lee Haller, Mrs Marcia Saturday & Sunday: NEWPORT MILL MIDDLE SCHOOL
STaC — Stratified Pairs on May 11 at the Haller, Karen E MacIntyre, Ms Yolanda Ma- 11311 Newport Mill Road, Kensington, MD 20895
Unit Game. For more information, contact mone, Jerry Reynolds, Ms Selma Sawaya, Mr Ellen Cherniavsky at 301-649-1350 or Chen Zhao, Cecilia Chambers, Ms Janet Cole- Play for Silver!
Maryland Hospitality [email protected] . man, Emmett R Costich, Ms Gail Fleder, Linda Hantman, Robin Hoiler, Mr Christopher Lewis, Lunch & refreshments included Sat. & Sun.! NLMs with fewer than 500 MPs time to reneW? Jennifer R Rasmussen, Ms Barbara Schrader,
If you started your paper WBL Bulletin Emanuel Stock, and Mrs Virginia Voorhees. hursday, March 23: OHR KODESH: 8300 Meadowbrook Ln., Silver Spring, MD subscription with the March/April 2016 T In addition, we welcome the following
transfers from other units: Jonathan Bart, NLM StrataFlighted Pairs (NLM<500/200/100 and separate 20/10/5) 7:30 pm Mr Hugh F Cole Jr, Dr Valerie K Davis, Mrs
Bettina Hoar, Anita Newport, Mr Charles riday, March 24: ROCKVILLE DBC: 11815 Seven Locks Rd., Potomac, MD Did You Know? Koser, Dr D Robert Levering, Mrs Cheryl F and NLM Stratified Pairs (500/100/20) ...... 11:15 am The Rockville Duplicate Bridge Club Sherman, Dr M B Slomka.
has a game almost every day! Please join us at our weekly Unit Game on Thursday evenings and fre - Saturday, March 25: Rest of tournament at: NEWPORT MILL MIDDLE SCHOOL Join us often and spread the word! quent the local bridge clubs in the area. Free ½ hour lesson before afternoon game, by Leslie Shafer, ACBL Teacher of the Year! DAY TIME LOCATION Information can be found at: Monday* 11 : 15 A M S t J a m e s www.WashingtonBridgeLeague .org . NLM StrataFlighted Pairs (500/200/100 and separate 50/20/10) . . .10:30 am NLM StrataFlighted Pairs (500/200/100 and separate 50/20/10) . . . .3:00 pm Tuesday 7:00 PM Rockville S. C. 2016 round roBin Winners Wednesday 10:30 AM Temple Beth Ami Congratulations to last year’s Round Sunday, March 26 (All day playthrough with lunch break) Thursday* 11 : 15 A M S t J a m e s Robin Winners! It’s time to start thinking about getting your team together for the 2017 Stratified Swiss Teams (500/200/100) ...... 10:30 am Friday * 11 : 15 A M S t J a m e s event. Here are the 2016 overalls: —All events are stratified by average masterpoints, but no individual’s masterpoint total may Saturday* 1:00 PM St James Flight A exceed the event’s upper limit. Strata may be adjusted according to attendance.— *0-1000 game in addition to the open game 1) Sylvia Shi, Daniel Korbel, Noble Shore, ——as attendance allows—— Mike Gill, Alex Prairie, Stephen Drodge TOURNAMENT CHAIRS: www.rockvilledbc.com 2) Brad Theurer, Bob Bell, Fred King, Lyle Julie Marquette, 301-642-9197, [email protected] & Yaeko Perera Poe Jr, David Ruderman, Richard Wegman — t Need a Partner? Call Mark Lavine: 301-503-3348 n PARTNERSHIPS: ,[email protected] e 3/4) Bill Cole, Steve Robinson, Mark Shaw, Andrea Weiswasser m Locations: e s i Peter Boyd, Roger Pies t St James Episcopal Church Rockville Senior Center r e DIRECTIONS to Newport Mill Middle School: Take the Beltway (I-495) to the Georgia Ave exit v 11815 Seven Locks Road1150 Carnation Dr 3/4) Mike Berard, Murat Berk, Hakan Berk, d
A Potomac, MD Rockville, MD (Exit 31A, MD 97) North (towards Wheaton). Go 1.6 miles then bear left onto Viers Mill Rd. Go 1.0
d Peter Van Zijl, Richard Wissing i a Temple Beth Ami, 14330 Travilah Rd, N. Potomac, MD miles then turn left onto Newport Mill Rd. Go 1/4 mile to school on left. P
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