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Hall of Fame Takes Five
Friday, July 24, 2009 Volume 81, Number 1 Daily Bulletin Washington, DC 81st Summer North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Paul Linxwiler Hall of Fame takes five Hall of Fame inductee Mark Lair, center, with Mike Passell, left, and Eddie Wold. Sportsman of the Year Peter Boyd with longtime (right) Aileen Osofsky and her son, Alan. partner Steve Robinson. If standing ovations could be converted to masterpoints, three of the five inductees at the Defenders out in top GNT flight Bridge Hall of Fame dinner on Thursday evening The District 14 team captained by Bob sixth, Bill Kent, is from Iowa. would be instant contenders for the Barry Crane Top Balderson, holding a 1-IMP lead against the They knocked out the District 9 squad 500. defending champions with 16 deals to play, won captained by Warren Spector (David Berkowitz, Time after time, members of the audience were the fourth quarter 50-9 to advance to the round of Larry Cohen, Mike Becker, Jeff Meckstroth and on their feet, applauding a sterling new class for the eight in the Grand National Teams Championship Eric Rodwell). The team was seeking a third ACBL Hall of Fame. Enjoying the accolades were: Flight. straight win in the event. • Mark Lair, many-time North American champion Five of the six team members are from All four flights of the GNT – including Flights and one of ACBL’s top players. Minnesota – Bob and Cynthia Balderson, Peggy A, B and C – will play the round of eight today. • Aileen Osofsky, ACBL Goodwill chair for nearly Kaplan, Carol Miner and Paul Meerschaert. -
Bridge Glossary
Bridge Glossary Above the line In rubber bridge points recorded above a horizontal line on the score-pad. These are extra points, beyond those for tricks bid and made, awarded for holding honour cards in trumps, bonuses for scoring game or slam, for winning a rubber, for overtricks on the declaring side and for under-tricks on the defending side, and for fulfilling doubled or redoubled contracts. ACOL/Acol A bidding system commonly played in the UK. Active An approach to defending a hand that emphasizes quickly setting up winners and taking tricks. See Passive Advance cue bid The cue bid of a first round control that occurs before a partnership has agreed on a suit. Advance sacrifice A sacrifice bid made before the opponents have had an opportunity to determine their optimum contract. For example: 1♦ - 1♠ - Dbl - 5♠. Adverse When you are vulnerable and opponents non-vulnerable. Also called "unfavourable vulnerability vulnerability." Agreement An understanding between partners as to the meaning of a particular bid or defensive play. Alert A method of informing the opponents that partner's bid carries a meaning that they might not expect; alerts are regulated by sponsoring organizations such as EBU, and by individual clubs or organisers of events. Any method of alerting may be authorised including saying "Alert", displaying an Alert card from a bidding box or 'knocking' on the table. Announcement An explanatory statement made by the partner of the player who has just made a bid that is based on a partnership understanding. The purpose of an announcement is similar to that of an Alert. -
SEVERANCE © Mr Bridge ( 01483 489961
Number: 212 August 2020 BRIDGEJulian Pottage’s Double Dummy Problem VER ANCE SE ♠ A 8 ♥ K Q 10 ♦ 6 5 4 3 2 ♣ J 10 2 ♠ K 10 7 ♠ J ♥ N ♥ 2 W E J 8 7 6 ♦ 9 8 7 S ♦ A Q J 10 ♣ A Q 9 5 4 3 ♣ K 8 7 6 ♠ Q 9 6 5 4 3 2 ♥ A 9 5 4 3 ♦ K ♣ Void Contract 5♠ by South Lead: ♥2 This Double Dummy problem can also be found on page 5 of this issue. The answer will be published on page 4 next month. of the audiences shown in immediately to keep my Bernard’s DVDs would put account safe. Of course that READERS’ their composition at 70% leads straight away to the female. When Bernard puts question: if I change my another bidding quiz up on Mr Bridge password now, the screen in his YouTube what is to stop whoever session, the storm of answers originally hacked into LETTERS which suddenly hits the chat the website from doing stream comes mostly from so again and stealing DOUBLE DOSE: Part One gives the impression that women. There is nothing my new password? In recent weeks, some fans of subscriptions are expected wrong in having a retinue. More importantly, why Bernard Magee have taken to be as much charitable The number of occasions haven’t users been an enormous leap of faith. as they are commercial. in these sessions when warned of this data They have signed up for a By comparison, Andrew Bernard has resorted to his breach by Mr Bridge? website with very little idea Robson’s website charges expression “Partner, I’m I should add that I have of what it will look like, at £7.99 plus VAT per month — excited” has been thankfully 160 passwords according a ‘founder member’s’ rate that’s £9.59 in total — once small. -
Skill Preferred, but Luck Is More Than Welcome Strul Takes Slim Lead In
Saturay, December 1, 2007 Volume 80, Number 9 Daily Bulletin 80th Fall North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Paul Linxwiler Skill preferred, but luck Strul takes slim is more than welcome lead in Reisinger Many years ago, Allan Falk was playing in the Vanderbilt The team captained by Aubrey Strul, winners of the Mitchell Board-a-Match Knockout Teams. At one point early in the event, Falk and Teams earlier in the tournament, hold a narrow lead going into today’s semifinal his teammates found themselves pitted against a squad that sessions of the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams. included some of the continent’s best players. Strul, a Floridian, is playing with Michael Becker, Larry Cohen, David Falk remembers the occasion so well because the Berkowitz, Chip Martel and Lew Stansby. heavily favored team bid five slams that rated to make After two qualifying sessions, they were one board clear of the Russian- better than two-thirds of the time – and each went down on a Polish foursome of Andrew Gromov – Aleksander Dubinin and Cezary Balicki – foul trump split, and each was a loss for the stars. Falk and Adam Zmudzinski. company surprised even themselves by advancing in the The field will be reduced to 14 teams for the two final sessions on Sunday. Vanderbilt. It doesn’t take much analytical skill to conclude that the major factor in the win by Falk’s team was good, old-fashioned luck. They were in the right place at Austrians leading the right time. Falk does note, by the way, that his team was good enough to win two more matches after their big upset. -
A Gold-Colored Rose
Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer – Editor: Brent Manley – Assistant Editors: Mark Horton, Brian Senior & Franco Broccoli – Layout Editor: Akis Kanaris – Photographer: Ron Tacchi Issue No. 13 Thursday, 22 June 2006 A Gold-Colored Rose VuGraph Programme Teatro Verdi 10.30 Open Pairs Final 1 15.45 Open Pairs Final 2 TODAY’S PROGRAMME Open and Women’s Pairs (Final) 10.30 Session 1 15.45 Session 2 Rosenblum winners: the Rose Meltzer team IMP Pairs 10.30 Final A, Final B - Session 1 In 2001, Geir Helgemo and Tor Helness were on the Nor- 15.45 Final A, Final B - Session 2 wegian team that lost to Rose Meltzer's squad in the Bermu- Senior Pairs da Bowl. In Verona, they joined Meltzer, Kyle Larsen,Alan Son- 10.30 Session 5 tag and Roger Bates to earn their first world championship – 15.45 Session 6 the Rosenblum Cup. It wasn't easy, as the valiant team captained by Christal Hen- ner-Welland team mounted a comeback toward the end of Contents the 64-board match that had Meltzer partisans worried.The rally fizzled out, however, and Meltzer won handily, 179-133. Results . 2-6 The bronze medal went to Yadlin, 69-65 winners over Why University Bridge? . .7 Welland in the play-off. Left out of yesterday's report were Osservatorio . .8 the McConnell bronze medallists – Katt-Bridge, 70-67 win- Championship Diary . .9 ners over China Global Times. Comeback Time . .10 As the tournament nears its conclusion, the pairs events are The Playing World Represented by Precious Cartier Jewels . -
USA Recapture Mcconnell Cup
Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer (France) Issue: 12 Chief Editor: Mark Horton (England) Editors: Brent Manley (USA), Brian Senior (England) Layout Editor: George Hatzidakis (Greece) Photographer: Ron Tacchi (England) 28th August 2002 USA recapture McConnell Cup ATTENTION!!! All events begin at 10.00 Open and Women's Pairs 152 pairs play in the Open Pairs Semi-final. Approxi- mately 66 of these will qualify for the final, where about six more pairs are expected to drop in from the Rosenblum semi-finals and final to make a 72-pair final. An American team won the inaugural McConnell Cup 52 pairs play in the Women's Pairs Semi-final.We ex- contest in Albuquerque in 1994 and now eight years pect 21 to qualify for the final, with another 11 pairs later the trophy returns to its native soil.The all Amer- joining them from the McConnell semi-finals and final ican final saw Irina Levitina, Kerri Sanborn, Lynn Deas, to make a field of 32 pairs for the final. Beth Palmer, Randi Montin and Jill Meyers (pictured Both finals will be played over five sessions commenc- above) comfortably outscore Judi Radin, Shawn Quinn, ing on Thursday morning at 10.00 a.m. Mildred Breed, Rozanne Pollack, Hjordis Eythorsdottir and Valerie Westheimer. Seniors Pairs In the Power Rosenblum, after two scintillating semi fi- There are 72 pairs playing in the Seniors Pairs Qualify- nals, Lavazza meet Munawar in today's final. ing stage, of which 28 will go through to the final.This is a three-session event that starts at 10.00 a.m. -
Nickell Rolls to Vanderbilt Win Ahead of Him in 1977
March 6-March 16, 2003 46th Spring North American Bridge Championships Daily Bulletin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Volume 46, Number 10 Sunday, March 16, 2003 Editors: Brent Manley and Henry Francis Mark Blumenthal is winning again Vanderbilt winners: Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, Nick Nickell, Coach Eric Kokish, Bob Hamman, Richard Freeman and Paul Soloway. Mark Blumenthal had many years of stardom Nickell rolls to Vanderbilt win ahead of him in 1977. He was already an ACBL The Nick Nickell team broke open a close Pavlicek’s team, essentially a pickup squad Grand Life Master and World Life Master. He had match in the second quarter and went on to a 158- with two relatively unfamiliar partnerships, were already finished second in the Bermuda Bowl twice. 77 victory over the Richard Pavlicek squad in the impressive in making it to the final round. Pavlicek In 1977 he had won the Vanderbilt and also the Mott- Vanderbilt Knockout Teams. played with Lee Rautenberg, Mike Kamil, Barnet Smith Trophy. It was the second victory in the Vanderbilt for Shenkin, Bob Jones and Martin Fleisher. And then it happened. He had open heart surgery Nickell, Richard Freeman, Bob Hamman, Paul The underdogs led 31-28 after the first quarter, – three operations. Something went wrong and he Soloway, Eric Rodwell and Jeff Meckstroth. The but Nickell surged ahead with a 49-7 second set. A slipped into a coma for 30 days. His brain was par- team won for the first time in 2000, although individ- turning point in the match was a deal in which tially deprived of oxygen for a while, so when he ual team members have multiple wins in the Kamil and Fleisher reached a makable vulnerable regained consciousness he discovered he had lost the Vanderbilt. -
BULLETIN Editorial
THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE PRESS ASSOCIATION Editor: John Carruthers This Bulletin is published monthly and circulated to around 400 members of the International Bridge Press Association comprising the world’s leading journalists, authors and editors of news, books and articles about contract bridge, with an estimated readership of some 200 million people BULLETIN who enjoy the most widely played of all card games. www.ibpa.com No. 563 Year 2011 Date December 10 President: PATRICK D JOURDAIN Editorial 8 Felin Wen, Rhiwbina ACBL tournaments are noted for their ability to handle walk-up entries, even in elite Cardiff CF14 6NW, WALES UK (44) 29 2062 8839 events with hundreds of tables. Only events which require seeding of teams require [email protected] some sort of pre-tournament entry. For all other events, entries are accepted up until Chairman: game time. PER E JANNERSTEN Nevertheless, there are some areas that can be improved upon and these were evident Banergatan 15 SE-752 37 Uppsala, SWEDEN in Seattle at the Fall NABC. The first was in broadcasting the events over BBO. The main (46) 18 52 13 00 events at the Fall Nationals are the Reisinger, the Blue Ribbon Pairs (each three days in [email protected] length), the Open Teams (Board-a-Match) and the Open Pairs (each two days long). Executive Vice-President: There are also big events for seniors, juniors and women, the biggest of which is the JAN TOBIAS van CLEEFF Senior Knockout Teams. So we had ten days of top-flight competition – unfortunately, Prinsegracht 28a only three days’ worth was broadcast on BBO (semifinals, one match only, and finals of 2512 GA The Hague, NETHERLANDS the Senior KO and the third day of the Reisinger). -
System Notes
System Notes James Sundstrom Nathan Savir April 9, 2009 Notation Legend M Either Major. If used multiple times, it always refers to the same major. For example, 1M-2| -2M means either the auction 1~ -2| - 2~ or 1♠ -2| -2♠ , no other auction. m Either minor. As per M. OM Other major. This is only used after 'M', such as 1m-1M-2NT-3OM. om Other minor. As per OM. R Raise. Used in some of the step based system to mean a simple raise, such as 1~ -2~ . DR Double Raise. Q Cuebid. Acknowledgements Special thanks are owed to Blair Seidler, without whose teaching I probably would not ever have written these notes. If I did write them, they surely would not be nearly as good as they are. These notes are a (mostly very-distant) relative of his Carnage notes, though a few sections have been borrowed directly from Carnage. 1 Contents I Non-Competitive Auctions4 1 Opening Bid Summary6 2 Minor Suit Auctions7 2.1 Minor-Major................................7 2.1.1 Suit Bypassing Agreements...................7 2.1.2 New Minor Forcing........................7 2.1.3 Reverses..............................8 2.2 Minor Oriented Auctions.........................8 2.3 NT Oriented auctions...........................8 2.4 Passed Hand Bidding...........................8 3 Major Suit Auctions9 3.1 1 over 1 Auctions.............................9 3.2 Major Suit Raise Structure........................9 3.2.1 Direct Raises...........................9 3.2.2 Bergen...............................9 3.2.3 Jacoby 2NT............................9 3.2.4 3NT................................ 10 3.2.5 Splinters.............................. 10 3.3 Passed Hand................................ 10 3.3.1 Drury.............................. -
CONTEMPORARY BIDDING SERIES Section 1 - Fridays at 9:00 AM Section 2 – Mondays at 4:00 PM Each Session Is Approximately 90 Minutes in Length
CONTEMPORARY BIDDING SERIES Section 1 - Fridays at 9:00 AM Section 2 – Mondays at 4:00 PM Each session is approximately 90 minutes in length Understanding Contemporary Bidding (12 weeks) Background Bidding as Language Recognizing Your Philosophy and Your Style Captaincy Considering the Type of Scoring Basic Hand Evaluation and Recognizing Situations Underlying Concepts Offensive and Defensive Hands Bidding with a Passed Partner Bidding in the Real World Vulnerability Considerations Cue Bids and Doubles as Questions Free Bids Searching for Stoppers What Bids Show Stoppers and What Bids Ask? Notrump Openings: Beyond Simple Stayman Determining When (and Why) to Open Notrump When to use Stayman and When to Avoid "Garbage" Stayman Crawling Stayman Puppet Stayman Smolen Gambling 3NT What, When, How Notrump Openings: Beyond Basic Transfers Jacoby Transfer Accepting the transfer Without interference Super-acceptance After interference After you transfer Showing extra trumps Second suit Splinter Texas Transfer: When and Why? Reverses Opener’s Reverse Expected Values and Shape The “High Level” Reverse Responder’s Options Lebensohl Responder’s Reverse Expected Values and Shape Opener’s Options Common Low Level Doubles Takeout Doubles Responding to Partner’s Takeout Double Negative Doubles When and Why? Continuing Sequences More Low Level Doubles Responsive Doubles Support Doubles When to Suppress Support Doubles of Pre-Emptive Bids “Stolen Bid” or “Shadow” Doubles Balancing Why Balance? How to Balance When to Balance (and When Not) Minor Suit Openings -
U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, 2008
U.S. Government Printing Offi ce Style Manual An official guide to the form and style of Federal Government printing 2008 PPreliminary-CD.inddreliminary-CD.indd i 33/4/09/4/09 110:18:040:18:04 AAMM Production and Distribution Notes Th is publication was typeset electronically using Helvetica and Minion Pro typefaces. It was printed using vegetable oil-based ink on recycled paper containing 30% post consumer waste. Th e GPO Style Manual will be distributed to libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program. To fi nd a depository library near you, please go to the Federal depository library directory at http://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/public.jsp. Th e electronic text of this publication is available for public use free of charge at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/stylemanual/index.html. Use of ISBN Prefi x Th is is the offi cial U.S. Government edition of this publication and is herein identifi ed to certify its authenticity. ISBN 978–0–16–081813–4 is for U.S. Government Printing Offi ce offi cial editions only. Th e Superintendent of Documents of the U.S. Government Printing Offi ce requests that any re- printed edition be labeled clearly as a copy of the authentic work, and that a new ISBN be assigned. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512-1800; DC area (202) 512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402-0001 ISBN 978-0-16-081813-4 (CD) II PPreliminary-CD.inddreliminary-CD.indd iiii 33/4/09/4/09 110:18:050:18:05 AAMM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE STYLE MANUAL IS PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION AND AUTHORITY OF THE PUBLIC PRINTER OF THE UNITED STATES Robert C. -
Schedule Welcome to the Summer NAOBC
Wednesday, July 14 Welcome to the Summer NAOBC We are pleased that you have joined us for the ACBL’s fourth North American Online Bridge Championships. These contests have been popular and greatly enjoyed by those who played in them. Like last time, we are offering three flights of both knockout and pair events. We have also expanded to include additional pairs events, also with three flights, lasting two days and three days. We hope that our members will continue to find these tournaments a source of education and fun. Please check out the online Daily Bulletins for updates on the events, tips on how to upload your convention card and use other features of BBO, and guidance from the ACBL National Recorder on rules for ethical play online. We invite you to give us your feedback on your experience so that we can make these events even more successful in the future. Please play nice, play fair and have fun. Joseph Jones Executive Director Schedule Premier KO Two-Day Pairs Grand National Teams See full schedule at acbl.org/naobc. All flights All flights All flights Wednesday, July 14 Swiss qualifying Thursday, July 15 Round of 16 Friday, July 16 Quarterfinals Saturday, July 17 Qualifying sessions Semifinals Sunday, July 18 Final sessions Finals Monday, July 19 Opening Round Tuesday, July 20 Round of 32 IMP Pairs Wednesday, July 21 Round of 16 Qualifying sessions Three-Day Pairs Thursday, July 22 Quarterfinals Final sessions All flights Friday, July 23 Semifinals Two-Day Pairs Qualifying sessions Saturday, July 24 Finals Qualifying sessions Semifinal sessions Sunday, July 25 Final sessions Final sessions About the Grand National Teams, Championship and Flight A The Grand National Teams is a North American Morehead was a member of the National Laws contest with all 25 ACBL districts participating.