Sunday, August 16, 2015 Volume 87, Number 10 Daily Bulletin 87th North American Bridge Championships [email protected] Paul Linxwiler and Brent Manley It’s Cayne, Monaco Mini-Spingold champ: Zolotow in Spingold final Steve Zolotow’s team defeated Jonathan Teams captained by James Cayne and Pierre Fleischmann’s squad in the final of the Mini- Zimmermann, both with double wins in the Spingold Spingold 1 (0-5000) KO Teams, 147-68. Zolotow, Knockout Teams, will play for a third title in four of Las Vegas, played with Anam Tebha, also of Las 15-board sessions today. Vegas, Christian Jolly of Huntsville AL, Oren Kriegel Cayne led the winning Spingold team in of Skandia MI and Sean Gannon of Decatur GA. 1989 and 1990 for two of his 16 North American Fleischmann of Bloomfield MI played with championships. Xu Wang of Rego Park NY, Jordan Kaye and Brad Zimmermann, a relative newcomer to NABCs, Dracka of Farmington Hills MI and Jin Hu of Wappingers NY. continued on page 10 For the winners, captain Zolotow is the “senior” member of the squad: His four teammates are all Platnick maintains lead in Junior players. Tebha, Jolly, Kriegel and Gannon will Roth Open Swiss attend the World Youth Open Bridge Championships in Croatia later this month. After yesterday’s semifinal round in the Roth Winners of the Mini-Spingold I (0-5000) KO Open Swiss Teams, Brian Platnick’s squad leads the “I love their enthusiasm,” said Zolotow of his Teams: captain Steve Zolotow, Anam Tebha, remaining field of 40 qualifiers for today’s two- continued on page 10 Sean Gannon, Oren Kriegel and Christian Jolly. session final. The Platnick crew also topped Friday’s opening round. In second place is the squad led by Dick Bruno, Old friends celebrate Red Ribbon victory Two men who learned bridge and played together and in third is Nick Nickell’s team. Both teams trail as youngsters in Chicago stormed into the lead after the leaders by more than 5 victory points. the first final session of the Bean Red Ribbon Pairs and survived a below-average last round to win the Kent squad leads event by about 10 matchpoints on a top of 38. Paul Hattis of Newton MA and Jim Orleans of 10K Swiss Northbrook IL were in 25th place after Friday’s two The team captained by Robert Kent leads the qualifying sessions, but they had a 67.41% game in qualifiers in the 0-10,000 Mixed Swiss Teams going the first final session to take a slim lead going into into the final two sessions today. Last year’s winners, the evening session. They scored 65.18% in the captained by Jeffrey Rothstein, were second among final session despite collecting only 29.5 out of 76 the teams advancing. matchpoints on the final round. Kent is playing with his wife, Ellen, and Suzi and Second place went to Richard Wimberley of Stan Subeck, co-chairs for this tournament. Evans GA and Jesse Chao of San Francisco CA. Jeffrey Rothstein is playing with his wife, Linda, Hattis is a professor at Tufts Medical School and Ava and Elliott Grubman. Bean Red Ribbon Pairs winners: Jim Orleans and Paul Hattis. continued on page 10 Hard-working board member dedicated to computer bridge By his own admission, Al Levy has a tendency to For the past 19 years, Levy has been running the “get involved,” especially with organizations. He has World Computer-Bridge Championships, nurturing been on the ACBL Board of Directors, representing the competition and helping it expand from five District 24, since 1996 and serves as executive vice- programs in the first year to as many as 10. The 19th president of the World Bridge Federation and as the edition of the tournament, with eight contestants, WBF’s IT chair. He has served on various committees concluded on Saturday at the Summer NABC. Al Levy, second from right, presents the with both organizations. Long after the winner was determined, Levy was trophy to the winners of the Computer-Bridge Few of his endeavors, however, have taken up as poring over results and Championship: from left, Martin Pattenier and much of his time as computer bridge play. continued on page 10 Wim Heemskerk. At right is Yves Costel, runner- up in the tournament. Thanks for coming to Chicago! Jack wins 10th By Tournamant Co-Chairs Suzi and Stan Subeck On behalf of the local tournament committee, We worked very hard to see that the weather Computer-Bridge title we would like to thank you for coming to Chicago cooperated … and for most of the week, it did. The two most successful programs in the 19-year for the 2015 Summer North American Bridge Thanks again for playing. We look forward to history of the World Computer-Bridge Championships Championships. Your support and dedication is what seeing everyone in Denver. met in the final on Saturday at the Summer NABC. these tournaments successful. Jack, whose developers are from the Netherlands, Thanks, also, to the greatest volunteers in defeated the French program Wbridge5. The final the world for working in harmony at this NABC. score was 165-148. Those manning the Information, Registration, Tours Jack has now won the title 10 times, Wbridge5 and Partnership Desks did an awesome job. Our three. Neither has finished lower than third-fourth in hospitality chair worked well with the hotel. Our the competion. treasurers kept us in the black. Our Intermediate/ The field this year was made up of eight teams, Newcomer chairs boosted our attendance with their continued on page 10 prodding of local newbies. Our caddy chair kept everyone on their toes. Our volunteer chair spent ATTENDANCE hours lining up a great staff. All in all, committee members were supportive of one another, and through Friday everything worked in sync. The Youth NABC was great. All of the young 13,097 tables players appreciated the chance to play face to face. Page 2 Sunday, August 16, 2015 Daily Bulletin SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS Sunday, August 16 11 a.m. Peter Pender Memorial Vugraph Theater. Location Joliet Room, 3rd Floor. 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