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Big Night Propels Doub to BAM Victory
Friday, August 3, 2018 Volume 90, Number 8 Daily Bulletin 90th North American Bridge Championships [email protected] | Editors: Paul Linxwiler and Sue Munday Nickell, Lavazza Big Night Propels exit Spingold Doub to BAM Victory The Spingold round of 16 was harsh to the higher-ranked seeds, with half of them losing their In 2010, after Doug Doub matches. and Yiji Starr won the four- The No. 2 seed led by Nick Nickell was session Goldman Cup Pairs shown the door by the original No. 47 seed, Hyatt at the New York Regional, npc. Hyatt’s roster is Hansa Narasimhan, Carlos they agreed they had to play Pellegrini, Michael Whibley, Sumit Mukherjee and together again. It’s taken eight Debabrata Majumder. Hyatt led Nickell the entire years to make good on that match and won 143-91. commitment and make good, No. 4 Lavazza also got bounced from the event, they did – sneaking by the May losing 131-85 to Stan Tulin and company, the No. 13 Sakr squad to win the Freeman seed. Tulin’s lineup includes Cornelis van Prooijen, Mixed Board-a-Match Teams. Alon Birman, Dror Padon, David Bakhshi and Louk Completing the winning quartet are Rose Yan from continued on page 5 Beijing and Jiang Gu from Mountain Lakes NJ. QF action in the A blazing 19.50 second final sealed the deal for Doub; however a penalty came close Winners of the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match: Doug Doub, Yiji Starr, Mini-Spingold KOs to pushing the match the Rose Yan and Jiang Gu In today’s semifinal round of the 0-6000 Mini- other way. -
Anaheim Daily Bulletin 5
DailyDailyAugust 10-August 20, 2000 72ndBulletinBulletin Summer North American Bridge Championships Friday, Aaugust 11, 2000 Anaheim, California Vol. 72, No. 5Tuesday, August 15, 2000 Editors: Henry Francis and Paul Linxwiler Special game highlights ABA/ACBL Day Today is a big day for United States bridge – we are building bridges for bridge. For the first time ever, the American Bridge Association and the American Contract Bridge League are co-sponsoring a major event at a North American championship tournament. Today’s two-session stratified pairs game is the ABA/ ACBL Stratified Open Pairs. That’s the highlight of ABA/ACBL Day. Anyone playing in this game can have any points Directors honored at Goodwill reception (l to r) Sol Weinstein, Doug Grove, Bobbie Shipley, John Ashton, won credited to either their ABA or their ACBL record. Goodwill Chairman Aileen Osofsky, Chris Patrias, Millard Nachtwey, Betty Bratcher and Tom Quinlan. All each player has to do is enter the player number of the organization to which they want their points cred- ited. Goodwill honors chief directors But ABA/ACBL Day goes further than that. Any The Goodwill Committee honored the directors Now it was time to introduce the three teams. player competing in an event that begins and ends to- who run the North American championships at Spring – Chris Patrias and John Ashton; Summer – day has the same right of choice as to where his points yesterday’s Goodwill Day reception. Sol Weinstein and Doug Grove Fall — Millard will go. That’s true for the morning games, the side The first director called forward by Goodwill Nachtwey and Betty Bratcher. -
MINUTES of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Bridge Federation Incorporated Held at the Holiday Inn & Suites Markham, on May 26 - 28, 2010
MINUTES of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Bridge Federation Incorporated held at the Holiday Inn & Suites Markham, ON May 26 - 28, 2010 PRESENT: Kathie Macnab - Zone I Director Jean Castonguay - Zone II Director Nader Hanna - Zone III Director & President Neil Kimelman - Zone IV Director Alex Fowlie - Zone V Director Peter Morse - Zone VI Director & Vice-President Janice Anderson - Executive Assistant, Executive Secretary and Treasurer George Retek - ex-officio Director - District 1 Paul Janicki - ex-officio Director - District 2- only the morning of May 26 Claire Jones - ex-officio Director - District 18 NOTE: Throughout these minutes, the following abbreviations are used: CBF - will refer to the Canadian Bridge Federation Incorporated ACBL - will refer to the American Contract Bridge League CBC - will refer to the Canadian Bridge Championships CNTC - will refer to the Canadian National Team Championship with A and B designating the flights CWTC - will refer to the Canadian Women’s Team Championship COPC - will refer to the Canadian Open Pairs Championship CSTC - will refer to the Canadian Senior Team Championship CIPC - will refer to the Canadian Imp Pairs Championship COC - will represent the Canadian Olympic Committee AGM - will represent the Annual General Membership meeting of the CBF. WBF - will refer to the World Bridge Federation BC - will refer to the publication Bridge Canada DIC - will refer to director-in-charge NPC - will refer to non-playing captains Nader Hanna, as CBF President, assumed the Chair and Janice Anderson, as Executive Secretary, was directed to act as Secretary of the meeting. The Chairperson declared a quorum present and the meeting to be regularly constituted. -
11,080 Tables Allegaert Takes Mixed BAM Dhir Wins Mini-Spin I In
Saturday, August 10, 2013 Volume 85, Number 9 Daily Bulletin 85th North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Paul Linxwiler Allegaert takes Mixed BAM The two teams leading the Freeman Mixed won by slightly less than a quarter of a board (.24). Board-a-Match Teams after the first final session For Allegaert, Petra Hamman and Judy Bianco, it switched places when the last board was played – was a repeat of their win in the event two years ago. good news for the Winthrop Allegaert squad, who Their teammate, David Grainger, won his first North American championship. His other significant win was in the Canadian National Teams Championship. Second place went to Robert Brady, Craig Ganzer, Dana Berkowitz and Mihaela Balint. In third, about one-third of a board behind second, were Louk Verhees, Anna Sarniak, Winners of the NABC+ Fast Pairs: Larry Sealy Josef Blass, Emma Sjoberg, and Jim Munday Ewa Harasimowicz and Marcin Lesniewski. Sealy–Munday are After the first final session, the Brady team had a score Fast Pairs champs of 22.13 to Allegaert’s 21.87. Winners of the Freeman Mixed BAM: Winthrop Allegaert, Petra Larry Sealy of Huntsville AL and Jim Munday Hamman, David Grainger and Judy Bianco. continued on page 4 of Southaven MS paired two strong sessions in the final of the NABC+ Fast Pairs to win the contest by two-thirds of a board. It was the first NABC title for both players, each of whom have previously finished Dhir wins Mini-Spin I in squeaker second in national-level contests. -
Bridge World Mourns Three Earned a Silver Medal at Match the Amount
Saturday, March 30, 2019 Volume 61, Number 9 Daily Bulletin 61st Spring North American Bridge Championships [email protected] Editors: Paul Linxwiler, Sue Munday and Chip Dombrowski Vandy semis: Dahl, Oshlag grab Silodor win Mark Dahl of Richmond VA and Richard Wolfson vs. Lavazza, Oshlag of Memphis TN topped the field in final of the Silodor Open Pairs, winning the four-session Nickell vs. Levine contest by a third of a board. In second was the In the semifinal round of the Vanderbilt KO first-time partnership of Michael Rosenberg of Teams, Jeff Wolfson’s squad will face Team Sunnyvale CA and Adam Grossack of Newton Lavazza (Dennis Bilde captain), while Nick MA. Nickell and company will battle Mike Levine’s Dahl and Oshlag, who qualified second after team in the other bracket. Thursday’s opening round, scored 56.84% in the In the quarterfinal round, Wolfson narrowly first final session and 63.88% in the second. This defeated Jacek “Pepsi” Pszczola’s team, 150-143, after Pszczola mounted a furious fourth-quarter continued on page 5 rally that fell just short. Lavazza handled George Winners of the Silodor Open Pairs: Richard Mittelman’s squad, 170-148. Levine had a close Oshlag and Mark Dahl. match against Andrew Rosenthal’s team – the lead margin rarely exceeded single digits – but Pollack, Bjerkan win Women’s Pairs prevailed 96-90. Nickell, however, clobbered Rozanne Pollack of New York and Cheri Warren Spector’s team in their quarterfinal match, Bjerkan of Elmhurst IL won the Smith Life winning 134-42 in three quarters of play. -
100 Clubs in 100 Days | the Travelogue of ACBL President Craig Robinson
100 Clubs in 100 Days | The Travelogue of ACBL President Craig Robinson 100 Clubs in 100 Days The Travelogue of ACBL President Craig Robinson Home About Schedule Tour Map Tour Map in Google Earth Club #100: Kathy’s Duplicate BC in St. Petersburg, FL Posted on December 12, 2011 For my 100th club, I flew to St. Petersburg Florida. Kathy’s Duplicate BC is owned by Kathy Newell and runs on Wednesday’s at the St Petersburg BC. I arranged with Gretchen Funk and Leon Lyday to keep the second half of my purpose for visiting St. Petersburg a secret. Not only was I attending my 100th club, I was naming Charles Gill, manager of the St Petersburg BC, as the recipient of the Nadine Wood Volunteer of the Year Award. Charley is President, manager, part-time director, partnership chairman and ACBL President Craig Robinson he writes a clever email on the upcoming club happenings every week! He is a great guy and I wish every club had a Charley. To surprise me, Charley presented me with a caricature of yours truly in honor of my 100 clubs in 100 days. It is really just fabulous. We both pulled off a surprise! Well I achieved the 100 clubs but I needed more. I decided to visit another club that was in somewhat familiar territory. In about 1973, I founded the South Jersey BC with two other guys and we had games seven nights a week. We introduced a day game and a Visit the ACBL home page game for players with less than 100 points. -
San Antonio Daily Bulletin 9
July 21-July 31, 1999 71st Summer North American Bridge Championships SanSan Antonio,TexasAntonio,Texas Vol. 71, No. 9 Friday, July 30, 1999 Editors: Brent Manley and Henry Francis AllisonTheir opponents ends had earned Assini a reputation streak, as come- wins Wagar Womens KO DailyDaily back kids, but there are a couple ofBulletinBulletin pretty good back- from-the-brink stories on the squad which won the Wagar Women’s Knockout Teams Thursday night. In fact, two members of the winning team -- Carol Sanders and Lynn Deas -- are making comebacks from grave illnesses. Earlier this year, there was doubt whether either would play bridge again. Both, it seems, are back at full strength. Joining with Beth Palmer, Rozanne Pollack, Lisa Berkowitz and Connie Goldberg, and with Karen Allison as non- playing captain, they scored an impressive victory, 219- 53, over the team captained by Jan Assini. Wagar Women’s Knockout champs: seated, Carol George Jacobs and Ralph Katz. Gracious in defeat, Assini said, “It was fun to be in Sanders and Lynn Deas; standing, Connie the final.” She played with Laurie Kranyak, Mary Goldberg, Rozanne Pollack, Lisa Berkowitz, non- Oshlag, Sharon Jabbour, Susan Miller and Candace playing captain Karen Allison and Beth Palmer with daughter Julie Pettis. Fowler. Jacobs, Katz triumph On their way to the final, the Assini team knocked off the No. 1-seeded squad headed by Kathie Wei- “Wein bid NABCour games andIMP most Pairsof our slams. Our Sender, then defeated teams led by Judi Radin and defense was flawless. And we didn’t get any bad trump Shawn Quinn. -
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. -
Kansas City Daily Bulletin 1
March 15-March 25, 2001 Kansas City, Missouri 44th Fall North American Bridge Championships Vol. 44, No. 1 Friday, March 16, 2001 Editors: Henry Francis and Jody Latham Merblum, Doub win NA Open Pairs Meyers, Davis finish second A New England pair took the lead after the first final session of the North American Open Pairs Flight A and held on to score an 8-point win. Douglas Doub 1A of West Hartford CT and Frank Merblum of Bloomfield CT, representing District 25, scored 417.41 matchpoints to 409.62 matchpoints for Jill Meyers of Santa Monica CA and Ed Davis of Seal Beach CA, representing Dis- trict 23. This was the first North American victory for Merblum, an actuary for Mass Mutual. Doub, who teaches bridge, scored his second national win – he won the Open Board-a-Match Teams in St. Louis. The winners have been playing together 15 years. This was the fifth time in the last six years that they Frank Merblum (left) and Doug Doub have represented District 25. They were third after Ralph Cohen suffers Wednesday’s second qualifying session and took the lead after the first final session. Robson badly hurt 3 health problems Merblum found a neat line of play on this deal from Ralph Cohen, former CEO for the ACBL and one the second final session: of the League’s leading players, discovered recently after fall over cliff Continued on page 3 that he was suffering from three major health prob- Friends of Andrew Robson are well aware of his lems – a perforated ulcer, an aneurism and kidney great love of hill walking. -
CEO Report Fall 2007
CEO Report Fall 2007 To: ACBL Board of Directors cc: ACBL Board of Governors From: Jay Baum, CEO ACBL MEMBERSHIP • Membership through October – Continues an upward trend. Year-to-date we have gained 992 members. October 2007 vs October 2006 shows an increase of 1,229. The new member total for the year is 9,694, an increase of 354 over last year. Active Membership Chart http://web2.acbl.org/bb/BOD/OctoberActiveMembers.pdf FINANCE Financial Forecast 8/31/07 http://web2.acbl.org/bb/BOD/FinancialForecast83107.pdf Financial Position 8/31/07 http://web2.acbl.org/bb/BOD/FinancialPosition83107.pdf CLUB & TOURNAMENT TABLES • Tournament Tables – All categories remain strong despite fewer tournaments. The tables per tournament count will end with Regionals having a good increase, Sectionals a slight increase and STaCs a small decrease. Table count http://web2.acbl.org/bb/BOD/OctoberTC06_07.pdf Distribution Analysis http://web2.acbl.org/bb/BOD/Distribution%20Analysis.pdf • Club Tables – Are projected to have a slight increase with online tables seeing healthy growth. • Online Tables – We estimate 325,000 for 2007. • Total Tables – We have a very realistic chance to break the 3,000,000 sanctioned tables mark for the first time in ACBL history. • ACBLscore Program – New club game in version 7.50 of the update is now at www.acbl.org. • Special Games Benefit – The ACBL Educational Foundation games may be held in lieu of or in addition to the current special fund games: Junior, Charity and International Fund games. The Educational Foundation games award masterpoints at 100% sectional black. -
Hall of Fame Class of 2017 Casualties: Gupta, the ACBL Hall of Fame Will Induct Three This Time World Grand Masters
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Volume 60, Number 6 Daily Bulletin 60th Spring North American Bridge Championships [email protected] Editors: Paul Linxwiler and Chip Dombrowski Vanderbilt Round 2 Hall of Fame class of 2017 casualties: Gupta, The ACBL Hall of Fame will induct three this time World Grand Masters. Zimmermann, Fireman year, including Jeff Meckstroth, who was chosen Closer to home, Meckstroth has amassed 60 The round of 32 in the Vanderbilt KO Teams by the electors. The Hall of Fame Committee also NABC titles since his first in 1979, including saw a few minor upsets and many close matches. selected Zeke Jabbour and the late Peter Nagy as 30 of the premium variety: six Vanderbilts, 12 The No. 8 seed captained by Vinita Gupta lost recipients of the Blackwood and von Zedtwitz Spingolds, nine Reisingers and three Kaplan Blue narrowly to the Chinese-Singaporean squad led awards, respectively. Ribbon Pairs. He sits atop the list of ACBL’s top by Chen Zhao, originally seeded 40th, 106-100. Jeff Meckstroth 500 masterpoint holders with more than 83,000 Pierre Zimmermann’s team (No. 12) fell to Hemant Meckstroth’s dazzling bridge career is being masterpoints. He has won Player of the Year Lall’s crew (No. 21), 142-123. John Schermer interrupted for a brief spin on the red carpet. The (platinum points) three times, and the annual Barry and company (No. 19) took the measure of Paul Clearwater Beach Crane masterpoint race a record 11 times. Fireman’s team (No. 15), 146-91. FL resident will The lion’s share of Meckstroth’s success The closest match of the day was No. -
9871 Tables Meyers Squad Dominant in Mixed BAM Victory Jacob, Kamel Get Fast Open Win Gu Team Wins Mini-Spin II
Saturday, July 31, 2010 Volume 82, Number 9 Daily Bulletin 82nd North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley, Paul Linxwiler and Dave Smith Meyers squad dominant Diamond, Meltzer in Spingold final Teams captained by John Diamond and Rose in Mixed BAM victory Meltzer will play 64 boards today to determine the In one of the strongest winner of the 2010 Spingold Knockout Teams. performances ever in the event, Diamond (Brian Platnick, Eric Greco, Geoff the foursome captained by Jill Hampson, Fred Gitelman and Brad Moss) earned Meyers led from the outset in their spot in the final with a 121-89 victory of winning the Richard Freeman the team led by James Cayne (Michael Seamon, Mixed Board-a-Match Teams by Alfredo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Antonio Sementa 5.46 boards. and Giorgio Duboin). The winners are Meyers, The Diamond-Cayne match was interrupted for Santa Monica CA; Gary Cohler, about 30 minutes during the second quarter when Miami FL, and JoAnna and Sementa began feeling ill. Medical help was called Lew Stansby, Dublin CA. for, and Sementa was taken to a local hospital. Two Meyers and Cohler were playing boards were thrown out and additional boards were together for the first time. put in play. Sementa later returned and finished out Second place went to Gloria the match playing with Duboin. Lauria and Versace and Les Bart, Bradenton FL, continued on page 5 and Sally and Kit Woolsey, Mixed BAM winners Gary Cohler, Jill Meyers, JoAnna Stansby and Kensington CA. Lew Stansby. continued on page 5 Russell, Kleinplatz in Mini-Spingold final Jacob, Kamel get The squads led by Jim Russell and Morrie Kleinplatz routed their opponents in their respective semifinal matches in the Mini-Spingold Fast Open win I 0-5000 Knockout Teams to advance to today’s Dan Jacob and Nagy Kamel, two longtime pace – 11-minute rounds, compared to the usual 15 final.