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TH WORLD BRIDGE S E R I E S ORLANDO, FLORIDA | 21ST SEPTEMBER - 6TH OCTOBER 2018 15Editor: Brent Manley • Co-Editors: Barry Rigal, Brian Senior Daily Bulletin Journalists: David Bird, Jos Jacobs, Ron Tacchi • Lay-out Editor: Monica Kümmel Issue No. 8 Friday, 28th September 2018 LOTS OF ACTION AS TEAMS FINALISTS DETERMINED Our beautiful and smiling ladies from the reception desk, Jan Martel, Vicky Chediak, Johanna Kowalczyk, Branca Grguric, Gildana Caputo, Silvia Valentini and Fernanda Joanitti are there for you every day from 9 a.m. The six finalists for the Open, Women’s and Senior teams were determined on Friday with no shortage of drama. The championship matches, starting today, feature Zimmermann versus Lavazza in the Open Teams, Baker versus Smith in the Women’s and Milner versus China Evertrust in the Seniors. In the Open Teams (Rosenblum Cup), the Pierre Zimmermann team was behind 105-82 with one set to play but outscored the Warren Spector squad 39-12 over the final 14 boards to win 121-117. They will face the powerful Lavazza squad, 149-91 winners over the Alexander Allfrey team. In the Women’s Teams (McConnell Cup), Lynn Baker and company led all the way against the Irene Baroni team, winning 189-130. Baker will play against the Nicola Smith team for the championship. Smith trailed by 28 after three sets and was down 2 IMPs with a set to play but won the final set 21-17 to advance. The Senior Teams (Rand Cup) final will feature the Reese Milner team against Contents China Evertrust, who shrugged off an early deficit to charge into the final with a BBO Schedule . .2 174-140 victory over a team featuring two of the game’s biggest stars — Bob Hamman and David Berkowitz. Milner, down by 15 IMPs with a set to go, Back Room Business . .5 outscored the Neil Silverman squad 57-7 over the final 14 deals to win handily. The first 28 deals of the women’s semi-finals . .6 Hool — a teaching tool for kids .10 Programme on Saturday 29th: FROGS v ALLFREY . .11 Rosenblum, McConnell, Rand Joan Gerard Cup STRUL v SPECTOR 10.00 - 12.20 10.00 - 12.20 (16 boards) LAVAZZA v CHAGAS . .17 13.30 - 15.50 13.20 - 15.40 (16 boards) SMITH v APEROL . .22 16.10 - 18.30 16.10 - 18.40 (16 boards) The Reviewer . .25 Open Pairs A Women Pairs A Seniors Pairs A ALLFREY v LAVAZZA . .26 10.00 - 12.20 (16 boards) 10.00 - 12.20 (16 boards) 10.00 - 12.10 (15 boards) China Evertrust upsets Wolfson 13.20 - 15.40 (16 boards) 13.20 - 15.40 (16 boards) 13.20 - 15.30 (15 boards) team . .28 16.10 - 19.40 (22 boards) 16.10 - 19.00 (18 boards) 16.10 - 19.20 (21 boards) Results . .32 Before you leave for your lunch break, please make sure that times have not changed JANNERSTEN FÖRLAG OFFICIAL SUPPLIER 15th WORLD BRIDGE SERIES Orlando, Florida IBPA Payment for Mixed Teams BBO SCHEDULE If you want to play in the Mixed Teams event, please 10:00, 13:30, 16:10 Annual register (possible online) and pay as soon as General possible. This helps you and others avoid long Finals of the Teams events Meeting queues at the registration desk! Zimmermann - Lavazza Monday (And the ladies you see in on the front page will be Smith - Baker October 1st grateful if you don’t all go there at the same time) China Evertrust - Milner 10:00; 13:20, 16:10 9am Meeting room is 6 tables from the Open Pairs next to bulletin office. The WBF in social media The line in front of the registration desk is still We will broadcast a live show during the last empty, it won’t stay like that! match of the day, starting at 17.40 (Orlando time). Check your time-zone and don't miss the action! Follow us on the WBF Official Youtube Page. World Bridge Federation WBF Official Worldbridgefederation www.worldbridge.org #WBF #Bridgeforpeace #WorldBridgeSeries #Bridge Also visit the Championship Page: The medalists of the overall ranking of the Youth http://championships.worldbridge.org/orlandows18 Triathlon: Cheng DENG (bronze), Zhijie YUAN (gold), for Infos, News, Results and Rankings Haochen LIU (silver), with WBF President Gianarrigo Rona 2 Rosenblum 1 CONNECTOR 92 ! !"#$% &'( 64 JJ MAXROD 85 "# $%)%*+!,"-. '' $ !/$$%!0/* &(1 ! !"#$% &&' #! 2%+3/00/$ &45 #$ ",,6*%# &(& 32 DE BOTTON 138 #$ !7-$"+/8%$ 5' 33 VENTIN 97 #% ",,6*%# &&5 $ !/$$%!0/* '' ! ",,6*%# 9' $" :-..%*."$$ &&4 $& 8/,"$2+;<$-/*= 5> 16 JUSTER 118 $& )-!?# '@ 49 CHINA XHJT 39 &' 8/,"$2+;<$-/*= &(> $" ;<=0%* 55 $& 8/,"$2+;<$-/*= &(' $( :-..%*."$$ &'& $) !7-$"+/8%$+( &&> 17 ZIMMERMANN 144 $) 6,%-=7%* 9A 48 ZHAO 135 %( !7-$"+/8%$+( &1( $ :-..%*."$$ &&4 ! 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" -)(,## !&# !! 6(,00#*2.")#)% !($ ' -,#&+( !$% ( %,#3+(-)& !"& ) %,#3+(-)& !&( !* /1,#+2%+&,"(% )' ' *7% $# ) %,#3+(-)& !() ' *7% !'' !& %,-%"& %' McConnell ! !"#$%& !"# " '()*+ !$! ! '()*+ %&' # $!,-"# %&% # $!,-"# !($ $ ."&$ !") ! '()*+ % /$.,- & /$.,- !*$ ' 01)%% '$ % /$-"%) !#& & /$.,- !$( % 2,'*+,)(,- !)( ( /$-"%) !"% 4 September 21st - October 6th 2018 15th WORLD BRIDGE SERIES Back Room Business Ron Tacchi Producing a bulletin is no mean feat — for those onsite it remotely in the middle of the French countryside? The can mean 12+ hour days. One needs to be there well answer is two knights in shining armour who came before play starts and obviously one cannot go home until galloping to my rescue. The first is well-known — BBO, as the bulletin has been put to bed, nearly always at least an from these championships there is a transmission from hour or two after play finishes. It is no wonder then that every session. This transmission is stored by BBO in an occasional minor proof-reading error occurs. But something called a ‘lin’ file and they can be accessed from hopefully you have noticed that in general this does not within the BBO website going back years — a tremendous happen with the hand diagrams. Why is this? I hear you ask. archive for all those interested in past derring-do. The The answer is that the deals are taken from the source and second is Richard Spalding, of whom some of you may not put into a database which can be interrogated to provide have heard. He is the person responsible for the program the hand(s) required. I shall now chronicle the convoluted ‘Bridge Composer’. This program has a multiplicity of process which unfurls as the deals are captured. functions — go to the website www.bridgecomposer.com, I It all started in a championship far, far away, at the strongly recommend it, to find out the myriad of useful beginning of the century. I had the idea that it should be things this software can perform. For the purposes of the possible to take the ‘dup’ files — these are the files which hand production it has a unique ability for me — it can take are used by the Duplimate machines to deal the cards into a ‘lin’ file and export it into a ’dup’ file. the boards — and load them into a database. So early one This is the start of a long and tiresome process. The ‘lin’ morning (just as the sun was rising) I wrote a quick and files contain the hands twice as it has both tables’ data dirty Visual Basic problem to load up the hands into an within it. This requires another little Q&D program to Access database and then another to allow other members extract only every other deal from the ‘dup’ file. Having of the bulletin team to extract and paste the deals into done this, I need to concatenate two sessions’ files their documents. together as the actual boards into which they are dealt are The main problem with the program was that it was numbered (at this stage of the competition) 1-28. immediately successful. This precluded changing it as Those of you who are as ancient as I am will recognise everyone was adept at using it. This means that because the that the easiest way to do this is with a DOS Copy original program has little or no error checking or command.
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  • BULLETIN Editorial

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    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).