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“Trumping In”  Waverley Bridge Club Newsletter “Trumping In” Waverley Bridge Club Newsletter . www.waverleybridgeclub.com.au Phone: 03 9807 6502 July 2015 ABN 86 643 699 219 DUPLICATE CHAMPION COMING EVENTS Congratulations to our June winner, Jenny Gray OLIVE SHRIMPTON SWISS PAIRS whose average score for the month was 63.68% Red Points Mondays 10.00 am July 27, August 3 and 10 Entry fee: $33 members; $39 non-members Payable on July 27 Entry forms at www.waverleybridgeclub.com.au. You can also put your names on the entry form on the Events board. NATIONWIDE PAIRS FOR JULY July dates are: Friday 10.30 am July 17 and 31 Entry fee: $10 for members and $12 for non- members There will be no lunch break for the NWP players. Normal duplicate will also be played and there will The first ten placegetters winning Championship be the usual lunch break for these players. Points awards for June are as follows: 1st 10 points Jenny Gray ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS nd 2 9 points Barry Levi rd Annual subscriptions are now overdue. 3 8 points Nicole McManamny th 4 6.5 points David Isaacs Please let us know if you are a Home Club or an th 4 6.5 points Margaret Arnold-Levy Associate member, and also if there have been any th 6 5 points Joan Quirk changes in your personal details since last year. th 7 4 points Anna Nugent th Subscriptions have not altered this year and are: 8 3 points Julia Guttmann 9th 2 points Judy Herman Home Club members: $45; Associate members: $20. th 10 1 point Sylvia Kudelka For Home Club members: $30 of your annual subscription is sent to the VBA and ABF as annual You can see cumulative scoring on our website - capitation fees. The remainder, and the whole $20 www.waverleybridgeclub.com.au. Look for the for Associate members, is retained by WBC to assist Club Champion tag on the left of the home page. with club expenses. 1 RANK PROMOTIONS MARY HAS RECEIVED A 'GONG' Congratulations to the following players who have recently achieved rank promotions. Graduate Master 2+ MP Helen Clissold, Abe Grauman, Jenny Lawrence, Barry Parnell Club Master 5+ MP Rex Harding, Andrew Krajewski, Jennifer McFarland, Mariette Read Local Master 15+ MP Prithiraj De Zoysa, Zoltan Tari, Ildiko Tari **Local Master 35+ MP Linda Pooler Mary with Kim Frazer, Secretary of the VBA and convener of the VCC *Regional Master 100+MP Earlier this year, the VBA Council introduced the Greta Hutchinson inaugural Victorian Bridge Awards of Excellence to Life Master 300+MP (incl 180+red & gold) recognise individuals who have made a significant Kim Hoff contribution to the growth and enjoyment of our game. The four categories for the awards for 2014 were teacher, official, volunteer and sportsmanship. RECENT RESULTS Presentations were made at the recent VCC event and GNOT HEAT Mary Elson won the award for teacher of the year. I am 1. Willcox - Martin Willcox, Michael Gurfinkiel, Phillip sure that I speak for all members when I say that this is Fent, Rob Stewart, Kevin Chan, Andre Krolikowski well deserved and is a most appropriate recognition of 2. Hickman - Lyndy Hickman, Penny Corrigan, Kim Hoff, the work Mary has done, not just in 2014 but over many Jenny Hoff, Earl Dudley years, in introducing people to the world of bridge. The success of her efforts is amply reflected by the growth in 3. Palmer - Kathy Palmer, Alan Sharp, Greg Carter, Devi both our membership and attendance numbers in recent Carter. years. HARRY WATERS SWISS PAIRS Mary will get very annoyed if I say much more but please 1. Elaine Dickson, Joan Kent be sure to offer her your congratulations next time you 2. Jens Norlyng, Annabel Norlyng see her. Rob Quirk 3. Graeme Neale, Margaret Perry ALERTING - FOR IMPROVING PLAYERS MID-WINTER PARTY If the opponents have having a gay old time bidding away and one of them alerts a bid - A great time was had by all at our Mid-Winter Party held on Thursday June 25th. do not ask for an explanation of the bid if you don't intend to enter the auction! 88 players came along and joined in the fun. Thanks to all the participants, huge thanks to the Some less experienced players think that they are volunteers and congratulations to the place- required to ask for the meaning of alerts - NO, they are getters: not!! Quite often, if you ask, you are just helping the 1. Inpa Inpanathan, Chula Naranong opponents remember their system, and quite apart from 2. Margaret Perry, Shirley Baker this, the question may have a detrimental impact on 3. Dell Macneil, Warren Cousins your partnership's subsequent actions. Dell and Warren also came first in the Under 150MP You can, of course, ask for an explanation of any bid at section. all when it is your turn to bid. Just make sure that the alerted bid would impact your decision as to what to bid Congratulations to all players. yourself, then ask away. 2 A player who asks for the meaning of an alerted bid: WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH 1NT Pass 2♦ (alert) ? (please explain) holding: ♠83 ♥K42 ♦KQJ962 ♣105 and then passes is barring his partner from making a diamond lead. After the enquiry, South should have doubled to tell partner that he has a great holding in that suit and requesting a diamond lead. If you have no intention of bidding, wait until after the auction ends, then, if you are on lead, ask for "an explanation of the auction please" Never ask for the meaning of a specific bid. If you are not on lead, wait Akiko and Dell celebrating their victory in the Under 200MP until partner has his lead face-down on the table, then event at the VCC and holding the Frank Power Trophy awarded for the first time at this event. ask "for an explanation of the auction please." Your opponent then have to explain the meanings of all of Frank Power, who died in July 2014, was a major force in their partner's bids. youth and children's bridge in the Eastern Region and A corollary of all this is, when you alert a bid, you say ran a most successful schools program in and around "Alert" and bring out the Alert card. You do not say any Bairnsdale, which has now been taken over by Bev more - don't say - "Alert, it's a transfer" or "Alert, it's Fisher. Intermediate" or any such. Just say "Alert" and then stop talking. NEW 'NO-FEAR' DUPLICATE SESSION VALE BEV BAUM We have started a new duplicate session on Bev, a member of WBC Tuesday afternoon aimed specifically at since 2012, died new and improving players. suddenly on June 23. She will be a sad loss to The session runs from 1.30 till 4.30 pm every Tuesday our Supervised where afternoon concurrently with the Tuesday afternoon she and Helen Kaye- Supervised session and is directed by Bill Jacobs. Smith added greatly to There is a short talk on an interesting topic before play everyone's enjoyment starts at approximately 1.45. of the sessions. We'll miss you Bev. Entry is restricted to players with fewer than 35 MP on January 1, 2015. WBC SUCCESSES AT THE VICTOR You are able to use your cheat sheet to help solve a CHAMPION CUP knotty problem but will not be able to ask any questions. Congratulations to our WBC members who were place- The movement is run a little slower than a normal getters at the VCC held over the Queens Birthday duplicate so it should be a no-stress session. weekend. No complicated systems or conventions can be used at Under 200 MP Swiss Pairs: this session. 1. Dell Macneil and Akiko Stark Come along and try this new session. We think we can 2. Jolanta Terlecka and Rosemary Polya promise you a fun, relaxed time as you begin to develop 3. Tony Georgeson and Terry Earle or improve your duplicate playing skills. Restricted Swiss Pairs Table fees will be: Members: $9.00 Non-members: $11.00 4th were: Sally Thornton and Margaret Copland 3 from the Library but has been replaced. Lyndy first read NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY this book when she was learning and it had an enormous The Librarian is enjoying helping so many new borrowers effect on her, enabling her to visualise opponents' hands find great books to assist them. However, spare a and locate missing cards. thought for her when you write your name as a squiggle, and then file the card under your name instead of the 2. Robert Darvas, 'Right Through the Pack'. author's name, and then keep the book for ages because A complex book where each card in the pack tells its you "like it". own story. Most of our borrowers are very respectful, but the time 3. Hugh Kelsey, 'Kelsey on Squeeze Play'. spent with the problems of others has blown out. This book is the combination of four earlier books, This is what we mean, below. The last entry is quite including Strip Squeezes, Double Squeezes and Triple indecipherable. If this is you, could you please return Squeezes. Lyndy and Penny Corrigan were mentored by your books to the Returns drawer at the bottom of the Victor Muntz for quite some time, and after he died in Library cabinet. Thanks. 2012 Lyndy received an inscribed copy from his family. Librarian: All these books are in the Library. RECENTLY PURCHASED Two books by Terence Reese and Roger Trezel - 1.
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