Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Volume 85, Number 6 Daily Bulletin 85th North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Paul Linxwiler Rosenthal, Mahaffey Adams grabs exit Spingold early The No. 11 and No. 12 seeds captained by Andrew Rosenthal and Jim Mahaffey, respectively, Senior Swiss title were the highest seeds to be upset in the round of 64 in the Spingold KO Teams. Rosenthal (Aaron Silverstein, Bjorn Fallenius, Peter Fredin, Johan Upmark and Fredrik Nystrom) Winners was defeated by the U.K.-U.S. team of captain of the Truscott/ Stephen Peterkin, Samantha Punch, Christopher USPC Gibson and Chris Wiegand 151-102. Senior Mahaffey (Tony Forrester, Giorgio Duboin, Swiss Antonio Sementa, Walid Elahmady and Tarek Sadek) Teams: lost to Omer Ekinci’s team (Ovunc Yilmaz, Zizhuo Mark Wang and and Erez Hendelman) 145-122. Itabashi, The No. 3 seed led by John Diamond survived John a scare by defeating the No. 62 seed captained by Sutherlin, Haibo Zhao by a single IMP, 168-167. Al Stone, Fred Hamilton, captain Dee Mini-Spingolds now Adams and Dan Morse. in quarterfinal round Eight teams remain in each of the Mini-Spingold Knockout Teams, entering the third day of play today. The squad captained by Dee Adams overtook Ed wins. This is the second national win for Itabashi Matchups by captain in the 0-5000 Mini- White’s team in the final round of the Truscott/U.S. here in Atlanta — he won the von Zedtwitz Life Spingold I: Deborah Murphy vs Peter Merker; Marc Playing Card Senior Swiss Teams to win the contest Master Pairs on Sunday. Sylvester vs Richard Smith; Yi Ouyang vs Arjun by 5.41 victory points. White, of Grand Blanc MI, played with Cam Dhir, and Nicolas Hammond vs Doug Millsap. Adams, of Memphis TN, played with Al Stone, Doner of Richmond BC, and Polish players Jan In the 0-1500 Mini-Spingold II, it’s Jeff Thomas also of Memphis, and Fred Hamilton of Palm Desert Zadroga and Kazimierz Omernik. vs John Felker; Grant Petersen vs Bill Grainger; CA, Mark Itabashi of Murrieta CA, Dan Morse of White was in first place going into the final Barbara Newman vs Jess Jurkovic, and Martin Houston TX and John Sutherlin of Dallas TX. round, leading second-place Adams by 14 VPs. The Deneroff vs Jerry Nolic. With the victory, Adams became a Grand Life two squads met in the final, but White suffered a Master. It is also the first NABC title for Stone. The near-blitz allowing Adams to claim the title. other members of the squad have multiple NABC Chicago pair leading Wernher Young players make Valentin Kovachev and Lynne Rosenbaum, from the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, have a slim lead a case for bridge going into the two final sessions of play today in the Publicity for Wernher Open Pairs. Their carryover score of 215.30 bridge can be is just ahead of the 212.73 posted by Emory Whitaker hard to come by, of Macon GA and Jon Nance of Springfield MO. and occasionally In third place with 210.88 are Bernace de Young when a member and Sean Ganness of Miami FL. of the news media notices duplicate, the resulting report We want your photo! isn’t what most ACBL members See page 2 for deatils. would want broadcast. On Tuesday, three young bridge WBF reports inside players had a Today and through the end of the tournament, chance to talk Richard and Andrew Jeng talk to Elly Yu of WABE, the Atlanta affiliate of the middle four pages of the Daily Bulletin include about the game National Public Radio. reporting from the World Youth Open Bridge they love with a Championships. reporter from the At the outset of the interview, Yu confessed that Atlanta affiliate of National Public Radio – and they she knows nothing about bridge, and she asked the acquitted themselves in spectacular fashion. Jengs if they could give her a quick lesson. Their All three are products of Patty Tucker’s Atlanta quick answer was a polite, “No.” Goodwill Message Junior Bridge: Andrew and Richard Jeng of Johns As the interview progressed, Yu seemed to grasp Creek and Murphy Green of Alpharetta. Both cities some of the elements of the game and the people who are suburbs of Atlanta. play. The Jengs told her they had taken the Teacher Accept defeat and victory with grace. Accreditation Program last week at the NABC and Sandy DeMartino, Goodwill Chair The Jengs and Green were asked to tell their stories to Elly Yu, an intern at WABE (90.1 FM). have plans to teach their friends and at Northview The broadcast of the interviews has been tentatively High School in Johns Creek. Richard already has ATTENDANCE scheduled for mid-August. teaching experience from the 25-member bridge club Yu had heard about the tournament and the he established at his middle school. through Monday afternoon young players through a WABE editor, who knows The brothers have stellar records as players, Stephanie Nguyen, senior manager at GolinHarris, an including a win in the Young 0-1500 Life Master 7672.5 tables Atlanta public relations firm working with the ACBL. continued on page 7 Page 2 Wednesday, August 7, 2013 Daily Bulletin SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS Wednesday, August 7 Friday, August 9 9 am–noon Club Director Refresher Course. Second day of the 8:30–9:30 a.m. TourneyTRAX Q&A. Meet with members of the ACBL continuing education seminar for bridge directors to staff for an interactive session about TourneyTRAX, the new increase their skills. Must attend both sessions (Tuesday and tournament information system. Free. Atrium Tower, level 2, Wednesday). Atrium Tower, level 2, Conference Suite 226. Conference Suite 222. Sunday, August 11 TBA Peter Pender Memorial Vugraph Theater. Location TBD. CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM Be sure to hear these expert lecturers at the Atlanta NABC by some of the best- known players and teachers at 9:15 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. Hanover Hall, LL2. Friday, August 9 Wednesday, August 7 9:15 am Mike Flader Ruling the Game 9:15 am Michael Huston Finessing 6:45 pm Sam Marks The Use and Abuse of Blackwood 6:45 pm Patty Tucker Double, Double Toil & Trouble Saturday, August 10 Thursday, August 8 9:15 am GS Jade Barrett Losing and Winning Trick Count 9:15 am Kevin Wilson Fitting Honors 6:45 pm Marty Nathan Introduction to Signals 6:45 pm Billy Miller Dear Billy Live ENTERTAINMENT and HOSPITALITY Location: Peach Pit on LL2, unless otherwise noted Robert recently released his debut album, Let’s Try That Wednesday, August 7 Again. 8:15-9:15 a.m. Beginner Yoga (bring a towel) 9-10 p.m. Global Dance will be a classic performance inspired by 8:45-9:30 a.m. Dr. David Schulman is the Director, Emory Sleep Laboratory dances from Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Lebanon, Spain and and Program Director for Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care India. Medicine at Emory University. He recently was honored with 10:30 p.m.- Small, pulled pork barbecue sandwiches and chips the 2013 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award. Dave 12:30 a.m. has also done well in NABCs, coming in second with Steve 10:30 p.m.- Robert Meadows, country and contemporary Callaham in the Young LM Pairs in 2009. He will speak on 12:30 a.m. “Sleep as Key to Health” in Suite 222 on the Atrium Level. Friday, August 9 2-2:45 p.m. Stephen Peterkin and Jeffrey Tsang, pianists 8:15-9:15 a.m. Zumba 2:15-2:45 p.m. Ice cream 1:45-2:30 p.m. Charlie Crawford, President, Georgia Battlefields, will 6:30–7:30 p.m. Vegetables, dip and assorted cheeses speak on Atlanta’s significance during the Civil War, and the 6:30–9:30 p.m. Cash bar campaign that led to its capture, including photos from 1864 6:30-8:15 p.m. Mark Larson, The Piano Guy and singer. Come and sing and today. Room 222, Atrium Level along with Mark or just enjoy listening to him perform. 2-2:45 p.m. Pianist 8:30 p.m.- till Texas Hold’em 6:30–7:30 p.m. Hot Dogs 10:45 p.m.- Hot dogs 6:30–9:30 p.m. Cash bar midnight 6:30-10:30 p.m. Stephen Lee Band will perform songs from the Beatles, Elton 11 p.m.-midnight Mark Larson, piano and vocals John, Stevie Wonder and more. Thursday, August 8 10:45 p.m.- Ice cream 8:15-9:15 a.m. Zumba 12:30 a.m. 2-2:45 p.m. Pianist 11 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Music and games 6:30-8:30 p.m. Robert Meadows will sing country and contemporary songs. NABC Slideshow Monitoring Check cashing and The Atlanta planning committee is putting At this and future North American Championships, ACBL will be monitoring NABC+ bridge bucks together a slideshow of the overall winners of The check-cashing desk, located in the lobby tournament events. We will take pictures of overall events with visible, real-time cameras. The images will be recorded and will be available for later official area on LL1, will be open between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. winners in the Prize Room located on the Exhibit every day through Friday, Aug. 9. Level, two floors below the main lobby. The Prize inspection and review. By general monitoring of the session and There is a limit of $500 per day for check Room will be open each day between 9:15-9:50 cashing.