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10 Daily Bulletin Sunday, July 27, 2008 Volume 80, Number 10 Daily Bulletin 80th Summer North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Dave Smith Welland, Gromov to play for Spingold championship The team led by Roy Welland, down 23 IMPs The finalists are Welland, Brian Glubok, Steve at the halfway point of their semifinal match Garner, Howard Weinstein, Billy Cohen and Ron against the James Cayne team (Weed, npc), took Smith facing Gromov, Aleksander Dubinin of the lead with a 42-16 third quarter and held on for Russia, Cezary Balicki and Adam Zmudzinski of a 113-95 win. Poland. The victory puts Welland in the final against The match will be shown live on Bridge Base the Russian-Polish team captained by Andrew Online (www.bridgebase.com) starting at 11 a.m. Gromov, who defeated the Rose Meltzer team and 6 p.m. 148-136. Assistant Tournament Chair Bonnie Bagley and Cederborg, Gordon leads Chair Ken Monzingo are pleased with the Las Vegas NABC. Hampton in Open Swiss A team captained by Phil Gordon leads 107 Volunteers Mini-Spingold final others who qualified for the final today of the Teams captained by Warren Cederborg and NABC+ Open Swiss Teams. The team is Gordon make it happen Joyce Hampton cruised into the final of the Mini- and Joshua Donn of Las Vegas, Jason Feldman of Spingold I (0-5000) with easy wins. San Diego CA, Terje Aa of Heimdal, Norway, and Good tournaments don’t just happen. Behind The California-based Cederborg team (Greg Joergen Molberg of Trondheim, Norway. They the scenes, there is a tremendous amount of work Michaels, Dayou Zhou, Stephen Tu) defeated the have a 30 IMPs carryover. that goes on. Donald Florida squad 169-84. Florida was listed Close behind is second place are Steve “The support of our volunteers has been great,” in Saturday’s Daily Bulletin as the loser of the Robinson, Peter Boyd, Kit Woolsey and Fred says Tournament Chair Ken Monzingo. “Bonnie semifinal match against Jim Russell. The teams Steward. Their carryover is 27.86 IMP. feels the same way. I’ve been managing regionals discovered Saturday morning that both had scored This is a new event, first played in 2005. The and have been an assistant NABC chair for 30 a board incorrectly, so Florida was in. defending champions are Lou Ann O’Rourke, years, and I’ve never seen anything like it.” Bonnie In the other semifinal match, Hampton (Lucas Marc Jacobus, Norberto Bocchi, Giorgio Duboin, Bagley is the assistant chair. Lebioda, Jon Rice, Mike Rice, David Grainger) Geoff Hampson and Eric Greco. They are tied for Monzingo says there are too many volunteers to knocked off Michael Cassel II 187-129. 38th. name all of them, but he is especially appreciative of Line scores Marilyn Mason, the IN chair; Della Willis, who was in charge of the partnership desk; Jenny Pinto, who Cederborg 36 81 119 169 Zur Campanile manned the Awards Desk; Adis Dombu and Justine Florida 17 34 69 84 Hancock, who helped with hospitality; Barbara leads Fishbein Dunkley from Unit 373 and Tom Shulman from Las Cassel 39 83 90 129 Migry Zur Campanile, a Vegas for general support; Pam Allen, who arranged Hampton 63 91 137 187 member of the winning Continued on page 14 squad in the Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match Teams on Friday, is leading the race for Duplicate any time, anywhere the Fishbein Trophy (most masterpoints at the Summer NABC) with one day to play. is goal of Danish entrepreneur Zur Campanile will have bridge – the ability to play duplicate to finish well in the Open Swiss Teams because bridge any time, anywhere with real the winners of the Spingold Knockout Teams will cards. each receive 250 masterpoints. The product is called Bridgespinner, which Just envisions as Today’s Goodwill gesture: a virtual bridge club – but not Internet- Say ‘Thanks!’ based. With Bridgespinner, you could play a session of duplicate, using real As we prepare to leave this wonderful Lss Vegas cards, no matter where you are. NABC, let’s all take an extra moment to say The core of the product is a unit “thank you” to our hosts. The hospitality and that can connect – via wifi or mobile entertainment have been phone – to a central server that allows spectacular. for downloading of randomly dealt I look forward to see you at the Fall NABC in Boston. hands, previously played tournaments, lesson deals – you name it. Aileen Osofsky, Chairman The Bridgespinner holds two National Goodwill Committee Peter Just with a computer image of Bridgespinner. decks of cards with invisible coding Growing up in Denmark, Peter Just knew for dealing purposes. The device deals 2008 Summer NABC bridge because his family played for as long as he the cards according to the desired type of game. The could remember. He found rubber/party bridge to be cards come out of slots in the device, which looks 24,222 unsatisfying, however, so he was drawn to like a small model of a flying saucer. It can be duplicate. seated in a specially built table so that the surface of - 18,942.5 Five years ago, he sold the communications the table is completely flat. The dealer can also company he founded and immersed himself in a stand alone in any setting. It is battery operated. project he hopes will produce his ideal scenario for Continued on page 5 5,279.5 to go Page 2 Daily Bulletin (2) The overly optimistic might try 4♠, but a Sweating the small stuff Board-a-match 4♦ bid seems the safest retreat. You need plus scores at BAM, though, and with this hand, you can By Karen Walker bidding quiz ♠ be fairly certain you won’t be getting one on Dlr: East K 9 5 4 By Karen Walker ♥ offense. Partner has a strong hand for his high-level Vul: Both K 8 Many players consider board-a-match (BAM) ♦ double, so pass and hope he has enough quick tricks Q 10 5 4 scoring to be the toughest form of the game. It’s ♣ to scrape up a set. Partner held: J 8 6 similar to the head-to-head competition of IMPs, but ♠ ♠ ♠ K 7 6 A 10 8 6 2 J 7 each board is scored like matchpoints with a top of ♥ ♥ ♥ AK 8 5 7 3 Q 9 6 5 2 1. You either win (1), lose (0) or tie (1/2) the ♦ ♦ ♦ A 10 7 6 5 7 2 AJ opposing team, and the smallest scoring increment ♣ ♣ ♣ K Q 10 4 3 A 9 5 2 makes a difference. ♠ 4♦ will go down one, two or three, depending Q 3 The second qualifying session of the Mixed ♥ on how partner guesses the layout, and 4♣ goes A J 10 4 Board-a-Match teams featured several bidding ♦ down one or two. K 9 8 6 3 decisions that are particularly interesting at this form ♣ K 7 of scoring. Try these problems: (3) At IMPs, you might consider a 5♥ bid as West North East South “insurance” – you’re willing to go minus 100 or Lair Hamilton (1) Board 14. You are West. 1♥ Pass ♠ even minus 300 to avoid a possible minus 620 for Dlr: East A K 9 3 2 1♠ Pass 1NT All Pass ♥ defending their vulnerable game. That type of Vul: None A 10 8 Fred Hamilton shared this interesting defense ♦ compromise offers no benefit at BAM, though, 8 3 from the second final session of his team’s win in ♣ Q 8 7 because any negative point differential – whether it’s 10 points or 1000 – will still be a zero. the Truscott Senior Swiss Teams. Fred’s partner West North East South was Mark Lair and his teammates were Reanette 1♣ Pass Essentially, you need to guess right now ♠ Frobouck, John Carruthers and Allan Graves. 1♠ 2♦ Pass (a) Pass whether you can set 4 and whether a bigger plus score might be available if you declare 5♥. The red- Fred, South, led a low diamond against East’s ? ♦ vs.-not opponents seem pretty happy with their 4♠ 1NT contract. Mark played the Q, won by (a) Denies three-card spade support ♦ ♣ contract, and it’s sounding like both sides have a big declarer’s A. Declarer now laid down the A ♣ double fit. When in doubt at BAM, it’s often wise to and Fred promptly dumped his K. (2) Board 15. You are South. Fred knew declarer held the ♦J, but he didn’t ♠ put on the pressure, so try 5♥. Maybe the opponents Dlr: South J 9 3 2 know it was unguarded, so he didn’t want to be on ♥ will be so anxious to declare that they’ll bid 5♠, or Vul: N-S J 4 2 lead at this point. He was also fairly sure his ♦ maybe 5♥ will make. Q 9 4 3 partner held the ♣J, as if declarer held that card, ♣ The bad news is that 4♠ was going down 5 4 he likely would have gone to dummy with the ♠A West North East South because partner held wasted spade cards: ♠ to finesse clubs. Pass Q J 6 ♥ Declarer now had two fast club tricks, but he Pass 1♦ 3♣ Pass Q 10 9 7 2 ♦ couldn’t establish a third without giving North the 4♣ Dbl Pass ? AQ 4 3 ♣ 2 lead. When he did, Mark played back a diamond The good news is that he had the diamond fit and declarer pitched a club, a heart and a spade (3) Board 19.
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