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Anaheim Daily Bulletin 10 DailyDailyAugust 10-August 20, 2000 72ndBulletinBulletin Summer North American Bridge Championships Friday, Aaugust 11, 2000 Anaheim, California Vol. 72, No. 10Sunday, August 20, 2000 Editors: Henry Francis and Paul Linxwiler Bill Gates finds duplicate bridge a "window" to fun Bill Gates is accustomed to taking on software as part of the Gates team in Anaheim, but is recover- competitors, government anti-trust lawyers and fed- ing from surgery and was unable to attend. Gitelman, eral judges, but this weekend he’s facing some really too, was supposed to be part of the team but wasn’t tough opposition. available to play since he is still doing battle in the Rumors of the Microsoft chairman’s attendance at Spingold Knockouts as a member of the squad the Anaheim NABC have been circulating all week. captained by Roy Welland. Those rumors proved to be true, as Gates entered the It is no secret that players and ACBL officials alike Mixed Board-a-Match Teams Saturday with partner are delighted with Gates’ participation in the game. Sharon Osberg of San Francisco and teammates Sheri His presence attracts media attention to bridge, and as Weinstock of Toronto and Howard Weinstein of Chi- with any celebrity, provides an opportunity for the game cago. to be showcased to the general public. Gates has been much in the news of late, with In an interview preceding the first qualifying ses- Microsoft battling an anti-trust suit in the federal courts sion, Gates appeared excited to be attending his first that threatens the software giant with possible parti- national event. He and Osberg were engaged in the tioning. typical, last-minute fine-tuning of agreements. Gates With regards to Gates, however, many bridge play- sought clarification from Osberg on a series of ers have paid less attention to his legal troubles and points: more to the fact that he has recently been spotted play- “How likely are we to encounter big club sys- ing at several ACBL-sanctioned events. Although this tems, and what defense do we play against them?” is the first North American Bridge Championship that or “How do we treat a Precision one diamond Gates has attended, online enthusiasts have known for opener?”, and so on. Osberg reminded him of their some time that Gates can frequently be found playing methods each time. bridge on OKbridge or at The Zone, his own online Gates and Osberg play fairly straightforward game site. methods. Gates frequently plays with partner Osberg, as “We don’t play two-over-one,” said Gates. “It’s well as Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and pretty much standard Yellow Card.” bridge software designer and Bridge Base founder Fred Gates took time out from the convention card Gitelman. Indeed, Buffett was also scheduled to play Continued on page 4 Microsoft chairman and bridge enthusiast Bill Gates Caddy champs really Welland, Meltzer square know how to play off in Spingold final The caddy champions are a brother act –Marc Teams captained by Roy Welland and Rose Glickman, 17, and Robert Glickman, 14, were the victors Meltzer triumphed yesterday in semifinal Spingold in the special caddy championship game Friday night. action to advance to today’s championship round. Clearly the brothers know something about the game. As The Welland squad (Brad Moss, Marc Jacobus, of Friday night, Marc had won 60 masterpoints at this Fred Gitelman, Magnus Lindkvist and Peter Fredin) NABC, and Robert wasn’t far behind with 35. defeated the team of George Jacobs, Ralph Katz, Marc has been playing bridge since he was 14, but he Alfredo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Giorgio Duboin didn’t try duplicate until this year. The game really turns and Norberto Bocchi, 151–138. him on. He’s had some outstanding games here – second After a close first quarter, Welland had a large overall in a Flight B Swiss, second in the Flight A Charity second set to lead at the half, 88–50. The Jacobs Pairs, and second in one of the knockout events. He came team narrowly won the third quarter 33–30, and close to winning the knockout – the teams were tied at mounted a rally in the fourth quarter — winning it the end of regulation but Marc lost in the four-board play- 55–33 — but fell short of closing the gap by 13 off. Marc also went to the ACBL Bridge Camp. IMPs. Robert would have loved to go to the bridge camp, Chairman Kopec In the other bracket, Meltzer’s team (Peter but he couldn’t – too young. He too has been playing for Weichsel, Alan Sontag, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, about three years, but he too also has just started dupli- enjoyed the job and Kyle Larsen) suffered a disastrous first quarter cate. In the knockout event where Marc was second, Rob- against the squad led by Steve Robinson (Peter Boyd, ert was tied for third – he lost to his brother in a semifinal. The first chairman of the Anaheim NABC resigned Kit Woolsey and Fred Stewart), but rallied late in He also has a first in a board-a-match game. a few years ago. At this point, the eyes of the District the second half to win 128–115. The boys have an avid fan – Jim, their father. He has 22 Board of Directors fell on Sandy Kopec, the Or- Robinson jumped out to a 57–9 lead, which in- managed to instill his love of the game in his sons. ange County representative to the board. What could creased slightly by half time when the score was be more natural than to ask her to chair the tourna- 87–36. ment? She was asked, and she said yes. “I guess you might say I inherited the folks who work regionals with Continued on page 4 me – here we go again! We have to do this. And they came through. They were very efficient. That’s why everything has gone so perfectly at this tournament.” Wadas and Shugart Kopec is certainly right – this has been a fine tour- nament. We’ve had good playing space, fine entertain- lead Mixed Teams ment, tasty refreshments, helpful volunteers, etc. “I want to thank all my chairmen – they’ve been Teams captained by Judy Wadas and Rita terrific,” Kopec said. “And I want to say a special thank Shugart will lead 52 teams into today’s final two you to my husband Conrad. I don’t think I could have sessions of Mixed Board-a-Match Teams. Each will done it without his help.” go into the final with a carryover of 3.65 boards. Once this is over, Kopec will go back to directing Playing with Wadas are Bart Bramley, Paul the Huntington Beach game and playing bridge. “I love Lewis and Linda Lewis. Shugart once again is go- to play and I love to direct. I like people. That’s what ing with Andrew Robson, Tony Forrester and Geir I’ve enjoyed most about this tournament – dealing with Helgemo. In third place are Mary and Richard the people. I think the majority of bridge players are Oshlag plus Robert and Cindy Bernstein, with a Marc and Robert Glickman really nice people.” carryover of 2.96 boards. Page 2 Daily Bulletin A Losing Option by Rich Colker In the closing minutes of Friday’s close quarterfinal Spingold match between Rita Shugart and Rose Meltzer, this little gem came along. It could only have happened against a top expert like Alan Sontag. Board 58 « Q 9 7 Dlr: East ª Q 10 5 Vul: Both © A J 10 6 4 3 ¨ 9 « A 8 6 4 « K J 2 ª K 9 6 4 ª J 3 2 © Q 7 © 9 8 ¨ 8 7 4 ¨ A K Q J 3 « 10 5 3 ª A 8 7 © K 5 2 ¨ 10 6 5 2 West North East South Sontag Robson Weichsel Shugart They finished second in the Wagar Women’s Knockout Teams. Left to right: Peggy Sutherlin, Shawn Quinn, 1NT Pass Mildred Breed, Joan Jackson, Robin Klar, npc Bob Hamman and Petra Hamman. 2¨ 2© Pass Pass 2NT Pass 3¨ All Pass After a mildly competitive auction Alan Sontag, Squeezing the declarer Count, count, count by virtue of his earlier Stayman bid , became declarer in 3¨. Andrew Robson led the ¨9 and Sontag won Karen McCallum and Kerri Sanborn executed a neat Geoff Hampson took advantage of all the clues and drew a second trump, Robson pitching a diamond. squeeze on declarer on this hand from the Wagar Women’s as declarer on this deal from the second round of Knockout Teams quarterfinals. the Spingold. He was playing with partner Eric Sontag then led a diamond from dummy and Shugart « rose with the king to play a third trump, Robson pitch- A Q J 10 6 Greco. ª « ing another diamond. When Sontag drew the last trump, 7 3 Dlr: North K 10 8 4 © ª pitching the ©Q from his own hand, Robson had an 10 7 2 Vul: None Q J ¨ © answer — not an obvious one, but one which had a J 8 3 9 5 « K 9 8 4 « 7 5 ¨ K 10 6 5 3 chance to succeed only against one of the world’s great ª ª players. Q 8 K J 9 6 4 « Q 6 3 « J 9 5 © K Q 9 3 © 5 4 ª A 10 8 6 2 ª 9 7 5 3 Robson could see that Sontag would have no al- ¨ ¨ A 9 5 K Q 10 6 © Q J © K 10 8 6 3 ternative to taking the spade finesse for his ninth trick « 3 2 ¨ Q 9 4 ¨ 7 and that it was destined to win, with the queen-third ª A 10 5 2 « A 7 2 sitting as it was in front of the king-jack-third.
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