Volume 79, Number 6 79th Summer North American Bridge Championships DAILY Nashville, TN BULLETIN Wednesday, July 25, 2007 Editors: Brent Manley and Dave Smith No. 3 Jacobs goes Brod team repeats in Senior Swiss down in A New England team captained by Geof Brod was undefeated in eight matches to It’s almost like waiting for the other shoe to win the Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss Teams drop: Who will be the first high seed to take a fall with a score of 132.81. The winners are: in the Spingold Knockout Teams? Brod, Richard DeMartino, John Stiefel and On Tuesday, it was the team captained by Zia Pat McDevitt. Mahmood, 178-160 losers to the foursome The same team — with one change — originally seeded No. 67. won last year in Chicago in an exciting final The new No. 3 seed is the squad led by by 1 victory point. Steve Earl played on that Hailong Ao of Herndon VA. His teammates are team, but he couldn’t come, so McDevitt Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ; David was invited to join the team. This year’s Chechelashvili, San Diego CA, and Jian-Jian victory was by 10.45 VPs. “Last year was Wang, Clarksville MD. too close. This is more like it,” quipped The underdogs took a modest lead in the first DeMartino. quarter of the match with the powerhouse squad of The Brod squad was in danger of not Zia, Michael Rosenberg, George Jacobs, Ralph Katz, Robert Levin and Steve Weinstein. Continued on page 11 Ao and company expanded the lead to 30 The winners of the Truscott/USPC Senior IMPs at the halfway point before they saw all but Swiss Teams are: (seated) Geof Brod and 1 IMP of the lead disappear as Zia rallied in the John Stiefel: (standing) Pat McDevitt and third quarter. The unheralded team did not fold in Richard DeMartino. the face of the rally, however, as they won the Continued on page 14 A walk among Wagar moves into 16 teams left in the giants semifinal round The scene outside the Exhibit Hall on Tuesday Teams captained by Lynn Baker, Hansa Mini-Spingold I morning was, as Yogi Berra would have put it, Narasimhan, and Phyllis Fireman Play continues today with 16 teams competing déjà vu all over again as Bob Hamman and Bobby moved into today’s semifinal round of the Wagar in the Mini-Spingold I (0-5000) KO Team. Most Wolff sat face to face across the table for the first Women’s Knockout Teams. of the higher seeds won, but, as usual, there were time in nearly a decade. Here are the semifinal matchups: some upsets. The #3 seed, Myoloski, was defeated It was just one , and not a very No. 1 seed Baker (Karen McCallum, Kerri by the original #30 seed Biswas 117-105 IMPs. successful one, but it was a noteworthy reunion Sanborn, Irina Levitina, Lynn Deas, Beth Palmer) #23 Grainger defeated #10 Russo by a 125 to 43 nonetheless. versus No. 4 Fireman (, Mildred score. In the closest match of the day, #11 Lucas The occasion was an exhibition match of sorts Breed, Janice Seamon-Molson, , beat #22 Lavin 125—124. arranged by , who was living up to ). Play will conclude Saturday. his commitment to play with the person who held the winning ticket in a raffle. That person was Continued on page 15 Tommy Latham of the Nashville area. Ultimate team The raffle was part of a major fund-raising Quarterfinals set in effort started by Zia more than a year ago to help player earns Jane pay for a new school in an earthquake-ravaged area of his native Pakistan. More than $150,000 Mini-Spingold II Johnson award was raised, almost entirely in contributions from There are eight teams left in the Mini- bridge players, bridge clubs and a variety of Spingold II (0—1500). The top two seeds, #1 bridge organizations. Nabrynski and #2 Ferguson, have advanced. Some Zia reports that the school will open in late of the lower seeds, however, have also survived: August with a capacity of 180 students. Original seeds #25 Gianera, #26 Callaham and He and Latham played in the opening-night #27 Meckstroth all won their matches. pairs game at the NABC last week, but the deal Play will conclude Friday. was that the winning ticket holder was owed two sessions. No Smoking To live up to that, Zia arranged for him and Players are reminded that smoking is Latham to play 15 boards against a series of prohibited in the Nashville Convention Center. As expert players, including Hamman and Wolff, a government building, the state of Tennessee bars German stars Sabine Auken and Daniela von smoking anywhere in the Arnim; Italian world champions Alfredo Versace facility. Violators will be and Norberto Bocchi; the reigning World Open fined $250. Players are Pairs champions Zhao (Jack) Jie and Fu Zhong; also reminded that Chief Tournament Director Rick Beye, left, with and American star David Berkowitz. violations of ACBL policy Jane Johnson Award winner Harry Falk. It was all meant to be fun, and Latham was in this matter may result in Harry Falk, who left the mattress business to not disappointed. scoring penalties. Thank become a tournament director 10 years ago, has “It was a pleasure playing with Zia,” Latham you for your cooperation. received the Jane Johnson Award for 2007. The said. “I like the way he treats people.” Latham honor goes to the TD who best exemplifies the said his wife, Patricia, was charmed by the suave Goodwill message late Johnson’s commitment to customer service. Zia. For the pairs game last week, after he was Greet and welcome opponents Earlier this year, Mose Reed, head of introduced to Patricia, Zia hurried away to get her Compliment opponents’ play Facilities Management at the ACBL, earned the a chair so she could kibitz their game. “He really Discuss hands after the game Jane Johnson Award for Headquarters staff. impressed her,” said Latham. Smile often Falk, of Palm City FL, does most of his work During the fund-raising period, thousands of , Chairman Continued on page 6 Continued on page 4 National Goodwill Committee Page 2 Daily Bulletin

SPECIAL EVENTS MEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS Sunday, July 29 6 p.m. til . Room: Renaissance, Grand Ballroom - West. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Vugraph. Room: Renaissance, Grand Ballroom - West. NASHVILLE CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM Don’t miss these free lectures by some of the game’s top players daily at 6:45 p.m. Responding To a 9:15 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. in the I/N area. Wednesday, July 25 Friday, July 27 9:15 a.m. Phillip Alder Balanced Hands: What Range 9:15 a.m. Barry Harper Cue Bids and Q Bids and Why 6:45 p.m. Coley McGinnis Takeout Doubles 6:45 p.m. Mike Huston Saturday, July 28 Thursday, July 26 9:15 a.m. David Birnbaum Signals 9:15 a.m. Allan Mazer You Have the Right to Remain 6:45 p.m. Jeff Roman The Differences between Pairs Silent! and Teams

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The tour desk is open on the exhibition level 5-10 p.m. (ala carte / menu) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. See the Child Care handsome young man for more information and to NABC child care services are provided during Music City Ballroom sign up – prepayment is required. the afternoon and evening sessions in Nashville Dinner 4-8 p.m. (Buffet ONLY) $16.95 per We know some of you have Grand Ole Opry from Friday, July 20 to Sunday, July 29 (including person for Buffet (Bridge player tickets. See the tour desk to purchase a ticket for the NABC and regional events on the last day). special!) round trip transportation for the Friday performance Special arrangements may be made for the Bar 11 a.m.-2 a.m. (may close earlier or to indicate for Saturday. If you would like to shop morning knockouts and fast pairs events. Dinner based on business) Friday night, you can take the Opry Shuttle and visit and after-hour sessions are also available. Drop- Opry Mills during the performance. ins are welcome subject to availability. Coffee Cart / Cash Sales in Hotel Lobby Age-appropriate toys, games, books, activities, 6:30 a.m.-7 p.m. computer programs, music, arts and crafts, dramatic play and movies are provided. Field trips For those guests who are Marriott Rewards are planned throughout the week. There will be a members, all they need to do is show their room pizza party between sessions on Thursday, and a key to receive their 25% off for food in sleepover party on the Saturday, July 28. There are Commerce Street Grille, the Coffee Stand in the also bridge lessons and play prior to and during Lobby, and the Bridge Restaurant located in the the evening sessions for those children interested Music City Ballroom. The discount applies only to in learning the game. food in all of the hotel outlets. For further information or to sign up your child, please contact Donna at 615-255-8400, Pre-Alert/ Romm #1206, or ask for details at the bridge Disclosure forms Registration Desk. If your partnership plays special overcalls, you must fill out a pre-Alert/Disclosure form and make Craig Duncan played the fiddle between Notice to players it available to your opponents when you play in sessions yesterday. Each player must have an ACBL convention events that allow Mid-Chart and Super-Chart card filled out and on the table. Please note that conventions. Entertainment other types of convention cards, such as the WBF This applies to NABC+, regional or higher Tonight’s entertainment is the or homemade cards that do not knockout and Flight A Swiss games. Look for the Johnny and the Jets (playing 50s sufficiently resemble the ACBL convention card, light blue forms on the table where convention music) and Young Elvis. are not acceptable substitutes. cards are available. All late-night entertainment and food will be in the Renaissance Ballroom West. Daily Bulletin Page 3 JUST FOR NEW PLAYERS your partner, too, if you plan to have Reading and using a discussion after the game. At the a hand record top you’ll see a square identifying the By Lynn Berg session. Usually there will also be a One of the great five- or six-digit number — this is benefits of playing ACBL’s way of making sure the hand bridge at a tournament record is unique, not used for any is the chance to review other session at any tournament. the hands when the There are billions and billions of session is over. Few deals, so uniqueness is no problem! local clubs have the Remember, too, that the hands are facilities to pre-deal randomly dealt by computer. There’s hands and provide hand no discarding of dull hands or records, but you’ll find selection of devilish ones. Whatever these useful sheets of anyone tells you, there’s not an evil information at most gnome in Memphis who makes sure sectionals and virtually every regional or NABC. all your will lose and your A unique set of hands is prepared for each trumps break badly. The deals are starting time of every pair game, so if you are never changed in any way once the playing in the afternoon session on Saturday, you computer deals them —- and no one will play the same hands as everyone else in the sees them until the TD opens the tournament playing in that same session. This packet for hand duplication at the means that if you have expert acquaintances start of the game. playing at the same time as you, it will be easy to Each deal is identified by the find out what they did with the hands or what board number. The dealer and the they would advise you to do. Hand records are a vulnerability are shown, though you wonderful tool for mentoring. can always find that information in your convention card, too. You’ll see You’ll make best use of a hand record if you bad result when the opponents bid and make 4♠. each hand presented in map fashion —- North at keep a clear record of your own results in your You look at the Deep analysis and see the top and the other directions arranged convention card. Making a note of the opening that 10 tricks are available in spades. Now you accordingly. lead can be a big help—-there’s plenty of room to know that your poor result is because of the If the Deep Finesse analysis is available, do so, and making a habit of this notation will opponent’s bidding, not your play. Yes, I know, you’ll also see a little grid in one corner of each serve you well. Circle the number of any deal it’s still a bad board, but if you are using the hand square that tells you what tricks are available to you want to look at later. Sometimes you can also record to discover what actually went on in the be taken on this deal. Mind you, this information note the bidding of a troublesome hand, if you session, this information is important. doesn’t tell you what contracts are biddable, only think it might be a factor. You can have a non-confrontational what tricks can be taken. Also keep in mind that A pleasant side effect of knowing you will discussion with your partner or a lively post- Deep Finesse arrives at its analysis of makeable have a hand record to discuss after the game is mortem with a group if you all have hand contracts by looking at all four hands, which you that there’s little reason for discussion as you records. You can assess the strengths and don’t get to do. The DF feature is included for play. Minimizing the talk during the game will weaknesses of the game, away from the pressures the sake of interest, not to show anyone up. make the play more tranquil and may help you of the game and the heat of battle. This gives you Even so, the information on makeable and your partner relax and have more fun. a chance to try to correct problems and even to contracts can be comforting. Let’s say you get a When you get your hand record, get one for bask in a recollection of your successes.

one suit, hearts. Whenever there are losers in only uncomfortable options. East can lead a heart into Thinking bridge one suit, it behooves declarer to try to strip the the A—J and lose a heart trick or exit with a By Eddie Kantar hand (remove all of the opponents’ safe exit diamond, giving declarer a and sluff —- and Dlr: South ♠ K 10 6 5 cards) before attacking the critical suit. also lose a heart trick. If a diamond is returned, Vul: Both ♥ A J 9 4 The play should go like this: South wins the South, with two hearts in the closed hand and ♦ Q , draws trumps and plays three more three in dummy, discards from the short heart ♣ Q J 3 2 rounds of clubs, discarding a heart (clubs are now hand and ruffs in the long heart hand. Declarer ♠ 8 4 ♠ 7 2 stripped). Declarer returns to the ♦A, stripping has the rest with the ♥A and high . ♥ 7 2 ♥ K Q 6 that suit, and runs the ♥ 8 into East’s queen. If the hand is not stripped before hearts are ♦ K J 9 3 2 ♦ 10 8 7 6 5 4 (Defenders normally win tricks with the lower played, East will have safe exit cards upon ♣ 10 9 8 7 ♣ 6 4 equal.) winning the ♥Q and will wind up taking two ♠ A Q J 9 3 This leaves East with a choice of two heart tricks. ♥ 10 8 5 3 ♦ A ♣ AK 5 West North East South 1♠ ♦ ♠ Directors have the Pass 4 Pass 6 hardest job at a All Pass tournament. Opening lead: ♣10. Besides selling Bidding commentary: North’s leap to 4♦ is entries, scoring a “splinter” jump. It shows opening-bid strength, the game and primary spade support (four or more cards) and, taking rulings, most important, a singleton in the jump suit. they field Splinter jumps often lead to slams. South knows questions, answer that North, who has opening bid values, must complaints and try to keep things have heart values because South has everything ♦ running smoothly. else! A double of 4 by East would be a lead- Their motto is: directing double and would show diamond “The director is strength, not necessarily length, perhaps K-Q-x your friend.” Next or K-J-x. time you see Judy Lead commentary: The club lead is Cotterman and normal, but only a heart lead defeats this Priscilla Smith, contract. remember to tell Play commentary: There are losers in only them thanks. Page 4 Daily Bulletin

Sending a message This deal from the GNT Flight A Final posed a defensive problem. Dummy ♠ 6 ♥ K 4 3 ♦ A 9 7 5 4 ♣ K Q 10 3 You ♠ K 3 ♥ J 8 7 6 ♦ Q 10 8 ♣ J 9 8 5

North South ♠ Finishing second in the Morehead Flight A 1 New York took second place in the GNT ♦ ♠ Championship Flight: (front) GNT was a team from the New York City Area: 2 2 ♣ ♦ and ; (back) Robert Levin and (front) David Gurvich, Ljudmila Kamenova; 3 3 Glenn Milgrim (back) Sorin Pleacof, Valentin Garciu and 3♥ 3NT Michael Lipkin. Pass

Partner leads the ♥2 against 3NT. This is ducked to your jack which holds as declarer plays the 10. You continue with the ♥6, the ♥A playing the ♥5. Declarer plays a diamond to the 9 and your 10. You lead the ♠K, and partner plays the jack. Your discards are upside-down, if that matters. What do you do now? At the table, the defender from District 24 continued spades. Declarer won the ace, and cleared diamonds to make the contract for a result duplicated at the other table. Here is the complete deal (rotated):

Dlr: East ♠ 6 ♥ The Sheinwold Flight B GNT second-place The British Columbia squad finished second in Vul: E-W K 4 3 finishers were from Massachusetts: (front) the Mac Nab Flight C GNT: (front) Roy Li and ♦ A 9 7 5 4 Florin Constantin and Greg Ingolia; (back) Bob Long Xie; (back) Baixiang Liu and Kai Zhou. ♣ K Q 10 3 McCaw and Lew Gamerman. ♠ Q J 10 5 2 ♠ K 3 ♥ ♥ This was the very first board they played – Q 9 5 2 J 8 7 6 Zia ♦ ♦ versus Hamman and Wolff, one of the all-time K 6 Q 10 8 ♣ ♣ Continued from page 1 great partnerships in the history of the game. The 7 4 J 9 8 5 ♠ two former members of the Aces have not played A 9 8 7 4 ♥ raffle tickets were sold. Interestingly, Latham together since the late Nineties. A10 ♦ bought only one. It wasn’t easy for him, however. Dlr: North ♠ 9 J 3 2 ♣ He was attending the 2006 Spring NABC in Vul: None ♥ J 6 4 3 A6 2 Dallas and read about the raffle. “I thought it was ♦ Q 5 ♠ a good cause,” Latham said. He nearly didn’t get ♣ A K J 9 6 5 You did well to switch to the K. If you ♦ to purchase a ticket, however, because he went ♠ K 7 3 2 ♠ Q 5 4 routinely return a heart when in with the 10, from office to office asking about the tickets. At ♥ — ♥ A 10 8 5 2 declarer has no problem giving up a second the fifth office, he met with success and bought ♦ A K 10 7 2 ♦ 9 6 4 diamond to set up that suit. This gives him three the lone raffle ticket. ♣ 8 7 4 2 ♣ 10 3 diamonds, three clubs, two hearts and one spade ♠ The drawing took place during the 2006 Fall ♠ A J 10 8 6 for nine tricks. When you lead the K, however, NABC in Hawaii, and the winning was ♥ K Q 9 7 declarer must or you can continue the suit published in the Daily Bulletin there. Latham ♦ J 8 3 when if you get in again in diamonds. ♠ found out from a friend of a friend who had read ♣ Q If partner has the A J 10 9, you need to about it in Honolulu. West North East South continue spades. A continuation would be Zia was overwhelmed with the generosity of Wolff Zia Hamman Latham necessary in that case because declarer could have the worldwide bridge community in its support of 1♣ Pass 1♠ a hand similar to this: ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ the project. 2♦ 3♣ Pass 3♥ Q 8 7 5 4 2 A 10 K 10 5 A6. On May 19, Pass 4♥ Pass Pass Partner knows his spades are not strong President Jose Damiani visited Karachi, Pakistan, Dbl All Pass enough to continue (and he has no entry) and so for the opening of the school, whose official name Wolff started with the top two diamonds. He he was trying to tell you to revert to hearts. What is the World Bridge Campus. It is planned to played a club at trick three, taken by Latham in do you think is the best card to send the message? accommodate 180 or more students from three to hand with the queen. The contract is unbeatable if 10 years old with an all-female teaching staff. declarer plays correctly, but he erred by playing Said Zia: “The school is proof that when the ♥K from hand. Now it was Hamman’s move, people of diverse religions and cultures come and he erred by ducking. If he had won the ♥A NE BRIDGE together, nothing is impossible.” and played another heart, Latham would have had He said a plaque will be placed on the school no chance at 10 tricks. SUPPLY with these words: When Hamman ducked, however, Latham did Your local Regional Bookseller, “This campus has been built by contributions not make a second mistake. He played the ♠A, NE Bridge Supply, from bridge players around the world. May these ruffed a spade and simply ran club winners. offers 20% off all current books students achieve their dreams and share the same Hamman pitched plain cards from hand but and computer software. love for their fellow humans as shown by those eventually had to ruff. Latham overruffed and 25% off orders of $100 or more. who have made this school possible.” played a spade from hand, ruffing with dummy’s Come see our huge selection Added Zia: “ should be ♥J. The ♥A was the third and last defensive trick. of 60%-off books. proud.” Zia was elated, shaking Latham’s hand and He was also proud of the world-class bridge saying, “Can I kiss you?” We also have Mel Colchamiro’s players who showed up to help Latham have one Latham could always succeed if he knows that How You Can Play Like an Expert of the most memorable experiences of his bridge one opponent has all five outstanding trumps. If (Without Having to Be One), career. the ABTA Book of the Year runner-up. Continued on page 6 Daily Bulletin Page 5

Kyle Larsen, a Aggressive bidding New Life Masters Grand Life Master pays off John Hogan of Wayne NJ has achieved Gold from San Life Master, a rank that requires 2500 Francisco, has You don’t win major matchpoint events by . He needed 25 points, which he advanced past the being timid. Playing in the first final of the von earned in the Bracketed KO playing with Betty 20,000 masterpoint Zedtwitz Life Master Pair, Chip Martel held: Cox, Caryll Schenker and Liz Charnock. plateau. Larsen is ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ A Q 10 3 A Q J Q 6 4 3 2 9. Kathy Coleman achieved Life Master in the the youngest ♦ ♠ He opened 1 , his left-hand opponent bid 1 Bracketed KO. She needed 2.8 gold points and player to win the and Martel’s partner, Zia Mahmood, doubled. won 3.87. Her teammates are Carolyn Marks, Pam Board-a- Match Teams, RHO passed, and it was his turn to bid. Gladysz and Joy McKenzie-Smith. All are from All bids are flawed. As Martel explained, 1NT doing so when he Fort Worth TX. was 18. He is a is an underbid (and you have a singleton), your Scott Scobell of The Villages FL is a new Life diamond suit is not suitable for a 2♦ rebid, and so World Grand Master and won the World Team Master. He needed 2.55 gold points and won 2.98 Championship in Paris in 2001 and the Martel chose a bid that came with risk, but with in the Monday-Tuesday KO Teams playing with Rosenblum Knockout Teams in Verona, Italy, in the biggest payoff —- pass. The bidding Bud Feron of Dartmouth NS, Helen Long of 2006. proceeded as shown below (deal rotated). Rockville MD and Al Liepold of Silver Spring ♠ Full-time player Dlr: North 5 2 MD. ♥ Gene Simpson has Vul: Both 10 6 5 3 Rolf Nilsson of Glen Allen VA needed 0.05 ♦ passed the 25,000 10 9 7 gold points to make Life Master. He won those masterpoints level. ♣ Q 10 8 7 Monday night playing in the Knockout Team with Simpson, a Grand ♠ ♠ J 6 A Q 10 3 his wife Yvonne and Jeffrey Biggers and Pat Life Master from ♥ ♥ 9 7 4 2 AQ J Hunter, a husband-wife pair from Loudon TN. San Rafael CA, is a ♦ ♦ K 8 5 Q 6 4 3 2 Brigitte Smith of Havertown PA earned her perennial ♣ ♣ contender in the A J 6 3 9 gold card in the Compact Knockout Teams. Her ♠ Barry Crane Top K 9 8 7 4 partner was Gayle Davis of Haverford PA. Their ♥ 500. He won the K 8 teammates were Robert and Marjorie Smink of ♦ AJ North American Newtown Square PA. Swiss Teams in ♣ K 5 4 2 Harris Schenker earned enough masterpoints 1983, the in 1998 and West North East South to move up in rank to Gold Life Master. He went the Senior Swiss Teams in 1999. He has also Zia Martel over playing in the Saturday-Sunday knockouts. participated in international play and finished ♦ ♠ Pass 1 1 His partner was Tony Greene, and their teammates 12th in the Senior Pairs in Montreal. ♣ Dbl Pass Pass 2 were Melanie and Doug Hirt. All four players live Dbl All Pass in Nashville. Lost and Found ♣ Zia led the 3 and declarer erred by playing Avinash Lagu of Carmel IN earned the points A lost and found has been set up in the Daily ♣ the 8. When Martel produced the 9, declarer had he needed to become a Life Master. He was Bulletin Office in the Convention Center Meeting to win in hand. If declarer had guessed to win the playing in the Senior Pairs with Mary Lagu. Room 102. Please come by and check if you’re ♣ ♠ ♥ 10, he could have led toward his K or K. He New Life Masters report in to the Daily missing anything. was in his hand, however, so he tried the effect of Bulletin office, Convention Center Meeting Room ♥ the K. Martel won and shifted to a low diamond. 102. Include name and home town, partner or ♣ That was ducked to Zia who played A and teammates, what event you went over in, and how Baron Barclay another to dummy’s 10. many points you needed/won. Declarer led the ♠2 to his king and continued with another. Zia won the ♠J and led a fourth Bridge Supply round of clubs. Declarer now finished minus 800, It’s a maker Visit our location in the Nashville and Martel and Zia scored 37 matchpoints on a 38 By Convention Center, lower level, top. This result contributed to their 66.37% game It’s always nice to reach 3NT when your in the pre-function area. for the session, and they went on to win the event. opponents have opened a strong 1NT. It also nice ACBL members receive a to make it as well! Grant Baze has Sue Picus played with Gladys Collier and won 10% discount. topped the 40,000 the two-session Senior Pairs on Monday, aided by masterpoint level. this deal (hands rotated): Baron Barclay has the newest book titles, Baze, a full-time Dlr: East ♠ Q 3 gift items and the Nashville NABC player from San Vul: Both ♥ A K 8 7 Diego, is a Grand souvenir shirt, ♦ 6 Life Master who ♣ Plus a large selection of books won the Barry A Q J 8 5 3 ♠ ♠ available at half price. Crane Top 500 in AJ 6 10 9 8 5 2 1984, 85 and 87. ♥ Q 10 4 ♥ 6 3 2 He was the first ♦ K Q 10 4 2 ♦ J 9 7 player to win more ♣ K 7 ♣ 9 4 than 3000 ♠ K 7 4 masterpoints in one year. Baze is a World ♥ J 9 5 International Master and won the Senior ♦ A 8 5 3 Teams in Paris in 2001 and in Monte Carlo in ♣ 10 6 2 2003 and won the Transnational Teams in West North East South Estoril, Portugal, in 2005. Collier Picus Pass Pass Entries 1NT Dbl (1) 2H* (2) Pass All North American championships with no 2♠ 3♣ Pass 3NT upper masterpoint limitation $18 All Pass (Note: only ACBL members are eligible to (1) One suit. play in NABC+ events.) (2) Transfer. Other North American championships Picus could infer her partner’s hand type on $16.50 the second round of bidding and hoped to run the (Note: only ACBL members are eligible to clubs. After three rounds of diamonds, Picus won play in these events.) in hand and peeled off the clubs via a finesse. Regional championships $15.50 for ACBL In the four-card ending, dummy held the ♠Q members, $17.50 for all others and the ♥A K 8. Picus held two spades and the All other events $14.50 for ACBL doubleton ♥J, forcing West down to ♥Q 10 4 and members, $16.50 for all others. the singleton ♠A. Now a spade exit endplays West to concede the rest. Page 6 Daily Bulletin

Zia West North East South Von Arnim Zia Auken Latham Continued from page 4 Pass 4♠ Pass 6♠ All Pass it’s West, there will be no play for 10 tricks, so he No problems there as Von Arnim had an easy must consider that West has doubled because he is 12 tricks. Now consider the auction from the virtually certain that North-South are playing a , with Zia in the South seat playing 4—4 fit with a 5—0 split. To succeed, declarer against Marcelo Branco (West) and Gabriel ♠ must win the club lead and cash the A and ruff a Chagas. ♦ ♠ spade or cash the good J, the A, followed by a West North East South spade ruff, then good clubs from dummy. Zia Later in the match, with Auken in the East seat 3♥ playing with Bocchi, the deal was played again – it Zia Mahmood and Tommy Latham do battle 3♠ Pass 4NT 5♣ was a fun match, after all – and the bidding was against Bobby Wolff, left, and Bob Hamman, Pass Pass 5NT Pass identical, including the double by the player with playing together for the first time in years. 6♥ Pass 7NT Pass the trump . deals come from past matches, including one Pass Dbl All Pass Bocchi also led his high diamonds, switching between Pakistan and Brazil in the Bermuda Bowl No doubt East thought West’s pass showed to a club at trick three. from long ago. With Zia doing his usual one ace (double with none, pass with one), and Zia piped up: “Do what you did last time, maneuvering, the final result was sensational. Here who can blame East for assuming more values in Tommy... Oh, he’s forgotten.” are the hands and the auction from Tuesday: the West hand than he actually had, but Kokish ♣ Actually he didn’t forget. Latham won the Q Dlr: South ♠ A2 had this comment along with the hand record: ♥ and again erred by playing the K from hand. Vul: None ♥ 9 6 “Now maybe Chagas-Branco should know who Fortunately for Latham, Auken duplicated ♦ K 9 8 7 5 3 has how many whatsis and whosis, but the fact Hamman’s error of ducking, and the result was the ♣ 7 3 2 remains that Zia’s campaign of terror helps them same – plus 590. ♠ K 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 ♠ Q J 3 go wrong. Could happen to anyone, we guess.” The game was played in the true spirit of fun, ♥ 7 5 ♥ AK 4 and there was a lot of joking around. ♦ 10 ♦ A Q 4 2 Check cashing Wolff had to leave for a meeting, so Hamman ♣ K 5 ♣ AQ 4 played a couple of boards with Ljudmila ♠ — expands hours Kamenova. ♥ Q J 10 8 3 2 The Check cashing booth is open each day After Latham made a slam in spades, Hamman ♦ J 6 from Noon to 1 p.m. To accommodate the players lamented, “They’re beating up on me again. ♣ J 10 9 8 6 who play at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., they are now Nothing ever changes.” going to be open from 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. as well. The deals were provided by Eric Kokish, who The booth is located outside Meeting Room 108 in coaches the Nick Nickell team and others. The the Nashville Convention Center, lower level.

Dan Colatosti of Falk Pollack is Grand LM Waltham MA has Continued from page 1 Bill Pollack, who does most of his playing at advanced to Grand NABCs, has passed the 10,000 masterpoint level, Life Master, a rank that requires in the Sunshine State, leaving for NABCs and the enough to make him a Grand Life Master. Besides the masterpoints, winning an hugely popular regional in Gatlinburg TN. unrestricted NABC National TD Patty Johnson is field supervisor the rank requires at least one victory in event and earning for TDs in Florida, and she had nothing but praise more than 10,000 a nationally rated for Falk. masterpoints. “I am so lucky to have him,” she said. “He event with no upper Colatosti is a has so much talent, and he is very popular with masterpoint retired executive other tournament directors and players.” restrictions. with a business Chief TD Rick Beye also gives Falk high Pollack meets form manufacturing company. He won the marks. the victory North American Swiss Teams in St. Louis in 1997, and has been second twice in the Senior “Harry is the epitome of the team player,” said qualification with plenty to spare. He KO Teams. He has played frequently with John Beye. “He arrives early and leaves when all the Malley, Sheila Gabay and the late Paul Kinney. work is finished. He is always available to help has won the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams and the Mixed Board- “John is my best friend,” said Colatosti. “He anyone, and he looks for ways to make a taught me a lot about the game.” Colatosti is a-Match Teams (four times). He and Martin tournament better – and he is always playing less bridge now. He spends winters in professional.” Fleisher were second in the Von Zedtwitz Life Florida and is working on his golf game. Falk said he was surprised to receive the Master Pairs at the Summer NABC in Chicago award and very gratified to be well-regarded by last year. He has also placed second in the Look in your his bosses. Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams. Falk left New York about a decade ago – he Pollack and his wife, Rozanne, have an registration bag enviable record in international compeitition, worked in the family mattress manufacturing Some lucky players will find a special surprise placing third in the World Mixed Pairs and second business before that – and took up tournament in their registration bags. in the World Mixed Teams. He also has a third in directing. Necessary Elements the Rosenblum Knockout Teams. “I like what I do,” he said. “I like the players, (www.jewelryinsterling.com) has donated about Until 18 months ago, Pollack had spent his and I feel that I have a pretty good rapport with 80 pieces of jewelry as surprise gifts. You might entire working career in the information them. I like being in the bridge world.” receive one, along with the usual assortment of technology business. Now he is chairman and Jane Johnson was head of Club and Member goodies including a travel alarm clock, a blinking CEO of Chamco Auto, a Parsippany NJ-based Services for many years before her death in guitar , GooGoo Cluster candy, a convention company that will be importing cars made in November of 2000. The service award was named card sticker, etc. in her honor. China to the U.S. next year. Daily Bulletin Page 7

TOURNAMENT APPEALS In order to keep the was invitational. East said that he felt he had a West North East South bridge public informed of close decision between passing 4♦ and bidding 2♠ appeals results in a timely 5♦. The MI caused him to lean toward a pass. Pass 4♣ (1) Dbl Pass (2) fashion, the NABC Daily Neither North nor South appeared at the hearing. Pass 4NT (3) Pass 5♦ (4) Bulletin staff publishes The Decision: North-South did not appear at Pass 5♠ All Pass write-ups. Every effort is the hearing, so without any evidence to the (1) West asked at second turn – explained as made to ensure that these reports are accurate and contrary, the committee had to assume mistaken “Don’t know.” Intended as modified Gerber. complete. However, before they are published in the explanation rather than mistaken bid. The (2) Meaning asked at end of auction. No clear NABC Appeals Casebook revisions may be made. committee felt that it was possible that South had agreement —- could be 0 or 1 or undiscussed. an invitational raise, which would imply that West (3) Intended as Key Card in spades APPEAL CASE 3 was broke. In that case, 4♦ may be the limit of the (4) 0 or 3. hand. Therefore, East-West may have been Final Contract: 5♠ by South Subject: Misinformation (MI) damaged by the MI and should get redress. The Opening Lead: ♣7. Director-in-Charge: Henry Cukoff committee adjusted the result to that which would Table Result: 5♠ making five, North-South Event: von Zedwitz LM Pairs have been obtained had East bid 5♦ —- East-West plus 450. Session: Second Semifinal plus 400 and North-South minus 400. Facts: The North-South convention card for Andrew Kaufman Dissenting opinion (Jeff Goldsmith): interference over ace-asking bids is marked D1P2 ♠ Board: 17 K Q 10 5 I believe East can tell from his hand that and R1P2, which they say means that (re)double is ♥ Vul: None K 8 7 5 2 South did not have an invitational raise. If North the first step (i.e. equals 1 or 4) and pass is the ♦ Dlr: North — has 11 HCP, South has at most 8. Perhaps he is second step (equals 0 or 3). East stated that North ♣ K 9 8 7 inviting with shape rather than high cards, but, if said that pass showed one keycard. Jarel Lilienstein Jacek Pszczola so, regardless of what North-South call it, it is a Director’s Ruling: South’s answer that he did ♠ ♠ 6 3 2 A J 9 7 preemptive raise. It’s not as if South was not know what 4♣ was demonstrably suggested ♥ ♥ J 10 6 A upgrading his hand due to holding a couple of “re-asking” for keycards. In accordance with Laws ♦ ♦ Q J 10 8 7 A K 5 4 2 aces. In fact, West had a working two-count (but it 16A and 12C2, the result was adjusted to 6♠ by ♣ ♣ 10 3 AJ 2 could have been zero and 5♦ would still have South down one, North-South minus 50. Vic Quiros made if diamonds were 2—1), so I do not see how The Appeal: North wasn’t 100% sure what ♠ 8 4 the purported MI was relevant to East’s decision. South’s pass meant. This was a new partnership. ♥ Q 9 4 3 This is, however, a close call. I suspect that some He wasn’t even sure that 4♣ was Key Card, ♦ 9 6 3 committees would rule as ours did and some as though when he bid it, he hoped it was and that ♣ Q 6 5 4 my dissent answers were “standard” Key Card West North East South The Committee: Jeff Goldsmith, chair, E.J.D answers: 0, 1 without, 1 with, 2 without and 2 ♦ ♥ 2 (1) Dbl 3 (2) Kales, Ed Lazarus, Chris Moll and Jim Thurtell. with. He felt that 4NT would have been a 100% Pass Pass Dbl Pass call behind screens. East-West did not appear at 4♦ All Pass APPEAL CASE 4 the hearing. (1) Four spades, five hearts and minimum The Decision: South’s statements clearly opening bid (). Subject: Unauthorized Information (UI) made UI available to North. 6♠ was determined to (2) Alerted and described as inviting game. Director-in-Charge: Henry Cukoff be a logical alternative (LA) to 4NT. Indeed, some ♦ Final Contract: 4 by West. Event: von Zedwitz LM Pairs of the appeals committee members felt that there ♥ Opening Lead: 2. Session: First Final was no LA to 6♠. Since 4NT was demonstrably ♦ Table Result: 4 making five, North-South Bryan Maksymetz suggested over 6♠ by the UI and 6♠ was a less ♠ minus 150 Board: 19 AJ 2 successful LA, the score was adjusted to 6♠ down ♥ Facts: East asked twice (before his second Vul: E-W A K Q J 5 one —- North-South minus 50 and East-West plus ♦ double and final pass) about the meaning of the Dlr: South A 10 7 3 50. There were no other results deemed at all ♥ ♣ 3 bid and was told it was invitational. After the 9 probable or likely other than 6♠ down one and 5♠ play of the hand, South maintained that the Sid Brownstein Janice Seamon-Molson making five. ♠ ♠ sequence was undiscussed and North claimed that 7 K 9 8 An appeal without merit warning (AWMW) ♥ ♥ his description was correct. East claimed that he 9 7 3 2 10 was issued to North-South. 4NT is not a normal ♦ ♦ ♦ would have bid 5 with correct explanation. K 9 8 6 4 Q 5 2 bid, one which many players might have chosen ♣ ♣ Director’s Ruling: The director determined 10 8 7 A K J 6 3 2 without UI. A procedural penalty (PP) for blatant that East had sufficient information to bid his hand use of UI was considered and rejected because the ♠ properly. Therefore, in accordance with Law Q 10 8 5 4 3 situation was complicated, and because if North ♥ 21B2, there was no damage. The table result of 8 6 4 had claimed 4♣ was intended as a splinter, he ♦ ♦ 4 making five was allowed to stand —- North- J would have been able to keep his result. Punishing ♣ South minus 150. Q 5 4 honesty seems unproductive. The Appeal: East asked twice about the The Committee: Jeff Goldsmith, chair, E.J.D ♥ meaning of 3 . North appeared very sure that it Kales, Ed Lazarus, Chris Moll and Jim Thurtell. 1500). In a three-way contest with one team Bermuda Bowl for my bridge team.” NABC Diary advancing, they won their matches 70-69 and 51- He is hoping the FBI – or perhaps the mayor Happy ending 50. of the city of Nashville – will give this case a look. of Germantown TN was Once bitten but not shy Mini yarborough distraught on Monday when A player from a foreign land visited the Daily Eli Schneider of East Brunswick NJ was she realized between sessions Bulletin office to lodge a light-hearted complaint. amazed on Tuesday when he picked up the of the Senior Swiss Teams that It seems that he had played a knockout match following hand, dealt by humans in the one- her grandmother’s 100-year- against a world-class player who took umbrage at session Swiss Teams: old watch had slipped from her wrist. She wasn’t the fact that her team was defeated rather soundly ♠6 4 3 2 ♥6 5 3 ♦6 5 4 3 ♣5 2. sure where she lost it, but she didn’t have much by his. Schneider said he had never seen a hand so hope that she would ever see the heirloom again. They were sitting at a table when she bad in all his years of playing bridge. After the Imagine her relief when, during the final round motioned for him to come closer. He thought she round, he shared the details with TD Bernie of the evening session of the event, she heard a was going to say something nice. Instead, she bit Gorkin, who tried to put a positive spin on the tournament director announce that a watch had him on the nose. collection by commenting on the doubleton club. been turned in. All she had to do was describe it. It was a playful gesture, but the player was “Well,” said Gorkin, “at least you get a point for With the precious possession back in hand, concerned about how the episode would look, distribution.” Oshlag could only send out a great big thank-you partly in terms of his relations with women. Schneider was quick to point out that his to whoever turned in the watch. More important, he said, is the potential holding of 5-2 was in the opponents’ trump suit negative effect on his bridge play. (they were in 6 ♣). Cutting it close In a letter of protest, he wrote: “Last but not The team captained by Jane Dickey of Little least, now my nose may not be so good in finding Rock AR cut it as close as possible in the first day the queen in a two-way finesse any more. That of the Mini Spingold II Knockout Teams (0— could cause a bad tragedy, such as losing the Page 8 Daily Bulletin

South decided it was time to abandon science Smoke gets in your eyes The long and and jumped to 6♥ and that persuaded North that By Michael Huston winding road South must have both major-suit aces and some Sometimes we play a card because its very good clubs, so he went on to 7♣. With so meaning is smoky – that is, it is a bit deceptive By What do you do while you are driving from much outside clubs, South, worried about a and might keep the winning play from being clear possible trump loser (sic) bid 7♦, offering North a to our opponents. Here is a deal from the first Nashville to Toronto? Well, provided you can trust the driver to keep his or her mind on the job, the choice of contracts. round of the Senior Swiss Teams on which both As you might imagine, this auction had take a sides tried to deceive. It was the defense that got it obvious answer is to discuss a bridge hand or two. That is how I got involved with the deal lot of time, and North, at the end of a long day wrong. (this was round eight) missed a chance for glory ♠ below that comes from the Sunday Swiss in which Dlr: South A Q 8 7 by missing the unusual (but not unique) ♥ the Toronto squad of Ray and , teamed Vul: E-W Q 7 4 opportunity to find the right suit to play in at the ♦ with Bill and Leah Milgram to finish third. K Q 5 highest possible level by rejecting 7♠ in favor of ♣ Dlr: South ♠ K Q 7 4 10 6 2 7♥. ♠ ♠ Vul: N-S ♥ K Q 8 7 5 10 6 5 Lest you think this is an easy hand, you might ♥ ♥ ♦ — A K J 10 6 5 2 9 3 like to the consider the contract reached at the ♦ ♦ ♣ A 9 4 2 A 8 7 4 J 10 9 other table – 6♣! ♣ 7 ♣ K Q J 9 8 4 ♠ ♠ K J 9 4 3 2 A J 8 3 ♥ ♥ 8 A 10 6 Tears of joy ♦ ♦ 8 3 2 AK 6 By Glenn Eisenstein ♣ ♣ A5 3 J 8 3 With all due respect to Jimmy Dugan (and West North East South West North East South Tom Hanks), sometimes there is crying in 2♠ Ray Linda baseball. At least there was recently at Fenway ♣ 4♥ 4♠ All Pass 1 Park, where the Red Sox played the Texas ♥ ♦ Gary Sawyer of Ruidoso NM was declarer. I Pass 1 3 3NT Rangers. ♦ ♥ led the ♥A. Fortunately, declarer could not Pass 5 Pass 6 As a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, the ♣ ♦ deceive me on this trick, so I continued with a low Pass 7 Pass 7 Dodgers couldn’t make me cry, although they ♥ club. Declarer played low from dummy and my Pass 7 All Pass came close. And many times in the Sixties, my partner, Bruce Reeve, played the unnecessary ♣J. Given a free run, you would expect North- beloved New York Mets made me wince....but it Sawyer said later he was a bit disappointed South would have a reasonable chance to reach took a special occasion in, of all places for a New ♠ not to see the ♣9 or ♣8 from Bruce, but he 7 , but once East took away some space, life Yorker, Fenway Park in Boston, to bring tears to proceeded very well, winning the trick. became considerably more difficult. my eyes. He played a trump to hand and advanced the The first problem fell to South, who had to It was Monday, July 2. The Red Sox were ♦3, the next wisp of smoke. I ducked, and he won choose between 3NT and double. playing the Texas Rangers, an evening game. It in dummy. He then returned to hand with a trump Before we examine the consequences of her was the first time I had ever actually stood on the and played the ♦8. I fell from grace and played actual choice let’s take time out to discuss what grass at Fenway, staring at the Green Monster. As my ♦A, unsure of the diamond position and might happen after a double. the color guard came in from center field to ♠ fearing that my ♦A might not take a trick on the Ideally North would like to bid 3 , but while present the flag, I heard the public address third round of the suit. I played a third round of we were discussing the hand Ray expressed some announcer tell the crowd to give a rousing the suit, avoiding the . doubts as to the forcing nature of the bid, and it is welcome to Samantha Eisenstein Watson, six-year ♥ Declarer won in dummy, ruffed a heart, certainly true that North might have bid 1 on a cancer survivor. As she walked to the mound to returned to dummy with a trump and played the much weaker hand. sing the Star Spangled Banner, the events of the ♥Q, discarding a club from his hand. I won the Looking at it now, I suspect that it would be last eight years rushed through my mind, and my ♥K but had nothing but hearts or diamonds left, hard to construct a hand for South where there heart. ♠ so I had to give him a ruff-sluff and he made his will not be a further bid after 3 , but it is easier to It was Conquer Cancer Day, and through her game (we lost 10 IMPs because declarer went conclude that away from the pressure of being at work with the Wellness Community in Boston and down in the same contract at the other table). the table. the SAMFUND, which helps young adults with ♦ Later, Bruce pointed out, while smoking, that Most likely North would bid 4 and if South the problems they face after their battles with ♠ all I had to do was duck the second diamond and bids 4 North can ask for key cards and might childhood cancer, Samantha had been asked to do ♠ the contract could not be made because he could well go on to 7 . Of course, South might not bid the honors that night. ♠ ♥ have won the third round of diamonds and cashed 4 , preferring 4 , after which North might feel it Seeing her smiling face on the scoreboard two club tricks. was time to show some club support as opposed to Jumbotron and hearing the words “six-year cancer I tried to defend myself on the grounds of introducing the spade suit. (If I gave you the full survivor” did indeed bring tears to my eyes. Tears second-hand smoke, but I did not prevail. discussion that took place we could fill the Daily of joy, and of gratitude as I thought of all that had Bulletin – and that includes the results pages!) happened since the Fall NABC in 1999, in the Mind you, I’m not sure how good a contract very same city. ♠ Bid Box Alerts and 7 actually is in light of the bad breaks that might We have come nearly full circle. Soon it will be expected after the preempt. be another Fall NABC in Boston, and if you see Announcements South’s actual choice of 3NT probably someone with a great big smile on his face every When using bid boxes, ACBL suggests that expresses the values quite well, but you might be day, it will have nothing to do with bridge results. players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the worried that partner will imagine that it is based Two months ago, Samantha and Adam Watson same time. on a decent club suit and one or more diamond were married on the beach in St. Thomas, in front When making an announcement, use the stoppers. of 100 of her closest friends and family, as the announcement word — such as “transfer” — and After 3NT, North might well do best to try a wedding service was performed by the young man ♦ tap the Alert strip at the same time. bid mentioned above, 4 , looking for more who was her bone marrow donor. My eyes were ♠ A player who Alerts or announces a bid information, great if South bids 4 , but more not the only moist ones that day, either. ♥ should make sure his opponents are aware that an complex if South bids 4 , but eventually he There is so much to be thankful for. Alert or announcement has been made. decided to use Exclusion RKCB and jumped to 5♦. (Our conclusion was that this was premature, but it looked like a good idea at the time.)

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY MORNING SIDE SERIES SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 1 36.0 Tables 8 Tables ABC 21.47 1 Daniel Colatosti - Rick Binder, Waltham MA; John Malley, Pascoag RI; Mark Aquino, Jamaica Plain MA; Sheila 6.98 1 Natalie Bassil, Boston MA; Bud Biswas, Lexington MA 69.13% Gabay, Newton MA 5.24 2 Chuck Krueger, Kings Mountain NC; Carol Mahoney, Kokomo IN 62.84% 16.10 2 Ken Gee, Regina SK; Edward White, Grand 5.76 3 1 1 Kay Jones, The Villages FL; Ruth Zowader, Madison NJ 60.42% Blanc MI; Samantha Nystrom, Burnaby BC; John Russell, North 4.32 4 2 2 Brian Snyder, Hamburg PA; Lori Lerner, Narberth PA 60.04% Barringto IL; Cameron Doner, Richmond BC 3.24 5 3 3 Edith Lucky - Patricia Todd, Natchitoches LA 58.85% 1.83 6 Melvin Lechner, Boca Raton FL; Elliot Sternlicht, New York NY 58.52% SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 2 8 Tables 2.13 4/5 Kathy Rolfe, Lake Winnebago MO; Kerry Brothers, Oxbow ND 57.58% 16.80 1 William Higgins - Nancy Sachs - Amitabh 2.13 4/5 4 Judith Shore, Germantown TN; Susan Plummer, Collierville TN 57.58% Raturi, Cincinnati OH; Yauheni Siutsau, Loveland OH 1.51 6 5 Jane Anne Gawlas - Carol Armstrong, Charlotte NC 57.52% 12.60 2 Joyce Hampton, Blythewood SC; Lucas 1.12 6 Dr Narain Saxena, Oak Ridge TN; John Thomas, Chattanooga TN 57.20% Lebioda, Columbia SC; , Waterloo ON; David Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Jon Rice - Mike Rice, Winston Salem NC

TUESDAY AM 100/200/300 PAIRS SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 3 25.0 Tables 8 Tables ABC 13.90 1 Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR; Jerry Fong, 4.95 1 1 1 Gerald Lockhart - Susan Lockhart, Saginaw MI 63.99% Marianna AR; Brian Cummins, Arlington TN; Glen Okui, Memphis 3.71 2 2 2 Diana Maniscalco - Michael Maniscalco, Port Jefferson NY 60.71% TN 2.78 3 3 3 James Wesson Gregory, Carthage MS; Iris Gregory, Starkville MS 59.82% 10.43 2 Hannah Moon, Prince Albert SK; McKenzie Myers, Portland OR; Tammy Pepper, Thousand Oaks CA; Tiger Li 2.09 4 4 Don Norsworthy - Joan Norsworthy, Germantown TN 58.93% Li Williams, Vancouver WA; Jan Zadroga, Ksiazenice Poland; 1.57 5 5 Dianne Rogots - Linda Schanz, Las Vegas NV 58.63% Witold Turant, Lodz Poland 1.17 6 6 4 Gordon Parks - Char Parks, Long Grove IL 56.85% 0.87 5 Norman Sweed - Ronnie Sweed, Potomac MD 56.25% SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 4 1.19 6 Jon Ladd - Judith Ladd, Gainesville FL 54.76% 8 Tables 12.38 1 Oscar Johnson - Judith Johnson, Prattville AL; TUESDAY AFTERNOON FAST PAIRS Lee Stimson - Luanne Russell, Alexander City AL 28.0 Tables 9.29 2 William Bob Case - Verdie White - Doris Ham - Monica Mitchell, Hot Springs AR ABC 18.55 1 Paul Kelley Jr - Rosemary Kelley, Austin TX 61.17% SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 5 13.91 2 Eli Schneider - Cynthia Schneider, East Brunswick NJ 59.85% 8 Tables 10.43 3 1 1 Michael Abrams, Pasadena CA; Robert Abrams, Atlanta GA 58.71% 10.15 1 Adam Kaplan - Todd Kaplan, New Port Richey 7.83 4 Gary Schwartz, Huntsville AL; Peter Matthews Jr, Roslindale MA 57.67% FL; Jon Brandon, Denver CO; Kathy Stanford, Leesburg FL; Michael Sherman, Chickamauga GA; Eberhard Jehle, 5.87 5 Janet Wickersham, Sierra Madre CA; Betty Jackson, Seal Beach CA 56.34% Charlottesville VA 5.31 6 2 2 Nancy Minor - Mary Murray, Savannah GA 55.59% 7.61 2 Don Morgan, Houston TX; Marcia Bryant, 3.98 7 3 Margery Martin, New Rochelle NY; Carol Willner, Larchmont NY 54.92% Southern Pines NC; Nonna Lehmkuhl, Marblehead MA; Susan 2.99 4 Gary Brown, San Francisco CA; Mark Kotlarsky, Laurel MD 54.73% Swope, Riverside CT 3.44 5/6 3 Lloyd Routman, Boynton Beach FL; Mark Routman, Cleveland MS 54.45% 2.80 5/6 Deanna Lewis, Presque Isle MI; Dorothy Demarest, Naples FL 54.45% SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 6 8 Tables 1.96 4 Daniel Bunde, Urbana IL; William Lindemann, Champaign IL 51.99% 7.95 1 Bob Allard, Murfreesboro TN; Donald Rizer, Walterboro SC; Grady Thurman - John Arnholter - Malik Kabir - MONDAY-WEDNESDAY SIDE SERIES Madina Kabir, Nashville TN 35.0 Tables 5.96 2 Scott Scobell, The Villages FL; Bud Feron, ABC Dartmouth NS; Helen Long, Rockville MD; Alfred Liepold, Silver 6.83 1 Abbie Cole, New York NY; Sharon Jabbour, Boca Raton FL 66.67% Spring MD 5.12 2 Judy Elbogen, Mission Viejo CA; Dee Adams, Memphis TN 63.89% SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 7 5.61 3 1 Geoffrey Cross, Fernandina FL; Marianne Cross, Fernandina Bch FL 63.19% 6 Tables 4.21 4 2 Evelyn Gilliard, East Point GA; Estelle Lavender, Birmingham AL 62.96% 5.79 1 Barbara Murphy, Needham MA; Alan Korpi, 2.16 5 Elayne Kadis - Kenneth Kadis, Boca Raton FL 60.65% Waltham MA; Mary Ann Baird, Glencoe AL; Amelia Cartrett, 1.62 6 Arline Susswein - Viktor Anikovich, Los Angeles CA 60.42% Attalla AL 4.34 2 Ann Witt, Aurora IL; Nance Booty, Naperville 4.10 3 1 Steven Lipson - Serl Zimmerman, Palm Desert CA 58.56% IL; Kathleen Wiegand - Toni Schmitt, Oak Ridge TN 3.08 4 2 Debbie Wagner, Athen GA; James Smith, Brooklyn Park MN 58.33% 2.31 5 3 Jay Hitt, Goodlettsville TN; Tim Butterbaugh, Paducah KY 58.10% SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 8 1.33 6 Marge Chipman, Hendersonville TN; Janice Miller, Carthage TN 56.71% 6 Tables 1.77 4 Frances Scales, White’s Creek TN; George Moorman, Nashville TN 55.79% 5.21 1 Mary Kocurek - David McCarron, Austin TX; 1.30 5 James Rash, Bellefontaine OH; G Jean Lee, Cocoa FL 55.56% Norma George, Summerfield FL; Harriet Moore, Dalton GA 3.91 2 Leonard Ellis, Franklin NC; Jean Orr, 1.68 6 Theresa Schneider, Northbrook IL; Mary Schultze, Union MI 53.47% Middletown CT; Jacqueline Key, Charlotte NC; Arnold Hoffmann, Huntersville NC TUESDAY SENIOR PAIRS 30.5 Tables SUNDAY-TUESDAYMORNING KO # 9 ABC 6 Tables 11.20 1 Joseph Toce, La Crosse WI; Bruce Thiher, Minneapolis MN 66.11% 4.69 1 Jourdain Patchett - Gail Jeffrey, Sarasota FL; Betty Tilton, River Forest IL; Mary Misischia, University Park FL 8.40 2 Annette Lee McHann, Brandon MS; Justina McKee, Fernwood MS 60.10% 3.52 2 Jay D Shah, St Louis MO; Linda Evans, Saint 6.30 3 Geraldine Chavez, Cincinnati OH; Georgette King, Miami Beach FL 58.83% Louis MO; Candyce Gregston - Frances Grogan, San Angelo TX 6.14 4 1 Jenny Hulsey, Collierville TN; Rachel Bass, Germantown TN 57.79% 3.54 5 Nada Sundermeyer - Clay Sundermeyer, Bellevue WA 57.77% MONDAY-TUESDAY AM COMPACT KO I 2.80 6 Brian Hingerty, Knoxville TN; Julian Heicklen, Teaneck NJ 57.75% 12 Tables 18.40 1 Ahmed Sorathia, Chino CA; Mariko Kakimoto, 4.61 2 Evelyn Albert - Jack Albert, Boca Raton FL 54.88% Newport Beach CA; Lu Kohutiak - Yvonne Hernandez, Murrieta 3.45 3 Tom Beardsley, Richmond KY; G Mackey, Lexington KY 53.51% CA 2.59 4 Kenneth Hardcastle - Gladys Hardcastle, Atlanta GA 53.23% 13.80 2 Bob Carteaux, Fort Wayne IN; Bernard Gorkin - 3.56 5 1 Barbara Stone - Joel Stone, Glencoe IL 52.11% Mary Gorkin, Baldwinsville NY; Richard Meffley, Fresno CA 2.41 6 Pamela Wiegmann - J Wiegmann, Lewisville TX 51.56% 10.12 3 Gayle Andrews, Stanton CA; Subba Ravipudi, 2.67 2 Avinash Lagu - Mary Lagu, Carmel IN 51.08% Downey CA; Yas Takeda, Hacienda Hgts CA; Yoon Kyung Kim, Alta Loma CA 2.00 3 James Lawler, Brentwood TN; Lawson Freeman Jr, Nashville TN 50.96% 8.28 4 Rick Kaye, Bingham Farms MI; Leonard 1.63 4 Kathleen Zipp, Denver CO; Elizabeth Thornton, Englewood CO 49.04% Melander Jr, West Bloomfield MI; William Hunter, Reading MA; 1.56 5 Gwen Kyle - Cathy Youmans, Knoxville TN 48.78% Shome Mukherjee, Randolph MA

TUESDAY AFTERNOON 100/200/300 PAIRS MONDAY-TUESDAY AM COMPACT KO II 19.0 Tables 12 Tables 12.42 1 Fay Teal, Kitchener ON; Ellen Miller, Highland ABC Park IL; Alan Walters, Cape Porpoise ME; Velma Graham, 4.10 1 1 Pete Partin - James Rabb, Birmingham AL 64.58% Germantown TN 3.08 2 2 1 Mary Hamlett - Loretta Gibbens, Nashville TN 63.10% 9.32 2 Herbert Fallin Jr, Alexandria VA; La Quitta 2.31 3 3 2 Gary Fong - Gladys Fong, Saratoga CA 60.42% Talbot, Indialantic FL; Gloria Flicker - Ron Flicker, Forest VA 1.73 4 4 Tom Beard - Sarah Pentecost, Dresden TN 60.12% 6.83 3 Jack Dorr - Stephanie Dorr - Richard Bird - Janie Bird, Wilmington NC 1.41 5 5 Muriel Brathwaite, Temple Terrace FL; Ryan Miller, Tampa FL 59.82% 5.59 4 Stephen Babin, Normal IL; Betty Capodice - 1.34 6 6 3 Richard Bofferding - Diane Bofferding, Saginaw MI 58.93% Eunice Patton - Stephen Hawthorne, Bloomington IL 1.00 4 Cathy Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR; Virginia Dethomas, Hot Springs Vil AR 56.55% MONDAY-TUESDAY AM COMPACT KO 3 0.89 5 Earline Cress - Sharyn Slaughter, Brentwood TN 51.79% 12 Tables 0.62 6 James Powers, Naples FL; James Carey, Clinton IA 51.19% 10.17 1 Robert Porter, Henderson NV; Joseph Collins, Regina SK; Alan Cummings, Los Altos CA; John Ide, Cape Canaveral FL 7.63 2 Peter Bonfanti - Shane Blanchard, New York NY; Lorraine Cable, Dorchester MA; Doug Anderson, Quincy MA Page 10 Daily Bulletin

5.59 3 Paul Wolf II, Shrewsbury MA; Susan Eastman, TUESDAY AFTERNOON 20/50 PAIRS Delmar NY; Thomas Cheng, Halifax NS; Ronnie Burns, Fort Smith 4.5 Tables AR AB 4.58 4 Steven Juk - Kristina Juk, Shelbyville TN; Sue Montgomery, Brentwood TN; Ann Lauterbach, Nashville TN 1.58 1 1 Regenia Weakley - David Weakley, Hendersonville TN 60.03% 1.19 2 2 Robert Bartlett - Mary Ellen Bartlett, Oak Grove MO 56.35% MONDAY-TUESDAY AM COMPACT KO IV 0.89 3 Lynne Beresford, Fort Washington MD; Jackie Jones, Apopka FL 55.04% 16 Tables 0.67 4 Polly Lanz, Maryville TN; Susan Williams, Walland TN 53.18% 9.15 1 Robert Smink - Marjorie Smink, Newtown Sq PA; Gayle Davis, Haverford PA; Brigitte Smith, Havertown PA 6.86 2 Barbara McPeak - Kenneth McPeak - Betty TUESDAY EVENING SIDE GAME Grandstaff, Lebanon TN; Ralph Boles III, Huntsville AL 33.0 Tables 5.03 3 Jane Ettelson - Elizabeth Freeman - Ann ABC Ruwitch - Gayle McLean, Saint Louis MO 6.52 1 Ramon Harris - Gardner Dixon, Nashville TN 65.05% 4.12 4 Rick Goad - Tamah Goad, Lake Charles LA; 4.89 2 Nancy Boyd, San Ramon CA; Jean Molnar, Chula Vista CA 61.81% Sally Blewett, Beaumont TX; Patsy Pierce, Hardin TX 3.67 3 Frances Schneider - Bernard Schneider, Riverside CT 60.88% MONDAY-TUESDAY AM COMPACT KO V 2.41 4/5 Paul Tobias - Elizabeth Tobias, Austin TX 60.42% 16 Tables 4.55 4/5 1 Evelyn Gilliard, East Point GA; Estelle Lavender, Birmingham AL 60.42% 7.01 1 Frances Pullen - Marguerite Smith - Maryl 3.41 6 2 Nancy Massey - Cecil Crowson Jr, Morelos Mexico 59.72% Elliott - Harry Trewhitt, Cleveland TN 2.88 3 1 Jerry Haney - Judith Haney, King George VA 59.26% 5.26 2 James Mills Jr, Captain Cook HI; Chuck Clark, 2.16 4 2 Phyllis Bishop, Loveland OH; Susan Hermans, West Chester OH 58.80% Kailua Kona HI; Ellen Starr, Canton GA; Norma Crist, Marietta GA 1.62 5 3 Robert Abrams, Atlanta GA; Michael Abrams, Pasadena CA 56.02% 3.86 3 Adam Parrish, Cincinnati OH; David Britt, 1.37 6 Lee Stimson - Luanne Russell, Alexander City AL 54.86% Erlanger KY; Susan Halasi, Toronto ON; Dorcas Downs, 1.22 4 Elaine Vona - Mary Miller, Redmond WA 53.56% Thomasville NC 0.91 5 Rees Mitchell, Brentwood TN; Gregory Reichert, Nashville TN 53.01% 3.15 4 Susan Oberwortmann - Richard Oberwortmann, Tullahoma TN; Jacqueline Vivelo, Old Hickory TN; Janet Oram, TUESDAY 1 PM OPEN PAIRS Nashville TN 45.0 Tables MONDAY-TUESDAY AM COMPACT KO VI ABC 16 Tables 24.50 1 Jesus Arias - Susan Schnelwar, New York NY 60.35% 5.84 1 Peggy West, Gallatin TN; Syble Johnson, 18.38 2 Franklin Kasle, Flint MI; Martin Hirschman, Southfield MI 59.26% Hendersonville TN; Margo Mueller, Memphis TN; Linda Williams, 13.78 3 1 Rona Levine, New York NY; Gloria Tamlyn, Larchmont NY 58.82% Livermore CA 10.34 4 Andrew Tylman, Toronto ON; Martin Hunter, Mississauga ON 58.17% 4.38 2 Jackie Jones, Apopka FL; Lynne Beresford, Fort Washington MD; Terryl Francis, Glen Carbon IL; Carol Merwin, 7.75 5 Cameron Doner, Richmond BC; Terry Currie, Houston TX 57.92% Roseville CA 5.81 6 Richard Bender, Springfield MO; Paul Ross, Fair Grove MO 57.19% 3.21 3 Frank Wiley - Sylvia Wiley, Oakville ON; Ken 5.20 7 Ernest Stuber Jr, Germantown TN; Madie Brice, Cordova TN 56.92% Facer - Dorothy Facer, Mississauga ON 3.27 8 David Wakeman - Rita Wakeman, Irvine CA 56.86% 2.63 4 Phyllis Widder, White Plains NY; Loretta Fink, 7.75 2 Roxana Tom, Campbellton TX; Roxana Tom, San Antonio TX 56.21% Palm Beach Gdns FL; Susan Aronson, West Palm Bch FL; Sandy Bogner, Palm Bch Gdns FL 5.81 3 Keith Overpeck - Thomas Reece, Louisville KY 54.19% 4.36 4 Nathaniel Reid - Barbara Boswell, Cincinnati OH 53.27% MONDAY-TUESDAY CONSOLATION KO 1 3.27 5 Danielle Le Blanc - Osvaldo Barreiro, Pasadena CA 53.05% 6 Tables 2.71 6 Steven Goodman - Laurence Mayer, Overland Park KS 52.72% 7.72 1 John Kinst, Batavia IL; Donald Croysdale, Elm 4.70 1 Frazer McCrorey, Highlands NC; Karen Coulter, Columbia SC 52.34% Grove WI; Michael Strong - Johanna Strong, Winfield IL 3.53 2 Patrick Dutson, Cincinnati OH; Joe Sinkey, Athens GA 51.20% 5.79 2 Steven Wheeler, Northvale NJ; Sheldon Margulis, Saint Louis MO; Dolores Brenner, Santa Fe NM; Martin 2.64 3 Matthew O’Connor, Ridgewood NJ; Jennifer Broekman, Fair Lawn NJ 50.33% Morris, Wheeling IL 1.98 4 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Peter Manzon, Waltham MA 49.24% 4.25 3 Debbie Feldman, Oakville ON; Carolyn 2.05 5 Jane Anne Gawlas - Carol Armstrong, Charlotte NC 48.31% Feldman, Toronto ON; Wendy Dooley - Ron Sutherland, Mississauga ON TUESDAY EVENING 50/100/300 PAIRS 14.0 Tables MONDAY-TUESDAY CONSOLATION KO 2 6 Tables ABC 6.48 1 Janice Bruce, Bristol TN; Frances Stras - 3.39 1 Merelyn Hallowell - Alice Luxmore, Keswick ON 63.45% Virginia Wooten - Lou Dorsey, Kingsport TN 2.54 2 Terrence Ibbs, Miami Beach FL; Jackie Erickson-Schwei, Destrehan LA 62.69% 4.86 2 Chris McNaughton - Judy McNaughton, 1.91 3 Richard Coulter, Columbia SC; Roy McCrorey, Highlands NC 58.71% Scottsdale AZ; Guy Bruno, Peoria AZ; Richard D’Litzenberger, 2.02 4 1 1 Ann Brewster, Rochester NY; Olivia Guthrie, Walnut Creek CA 58.33% Leavenworth WA 3.56 3 David Jenkins - Lu Jenkins, Rockford IL; 1.07 5 Linda Schanz - Dianne Rogots, Las Vegas NV 57.77% Douglas Gugger, Freeport IL; Richard Gibons, Princeton IL 0.85 6 Mary Ann Oakley - Godfrey Oakley Jr, Atlanta GA 57.20% 1.52 2 Frances Murrell - Betty McCauley, Oklahoma City OK 56.06% MONDAY-TUESDAY CONSOLATION KO 3 1.14 3 Beverly Broomhead, Villa Hills KY; Frances Brothers, Union KY 52.65% 6 Tables 1.03 4 2 Kevin Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY; Trevor Ames, Springfield MA 51.33% 5.83 1 Trevor Lumb, Atlanta GA; Carol Fielder, 0.64 5 Sandy Gregory - Grace Whitlow, Nashville TN 49.43% Jackson MS; Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Peter Manzon, Waltham MA 4.37 2 Timothy Casey Jr - Suzanne Casey - Gene Ness TUESDAY EVENING 100/200/300 SWISS - Colleen Ness, Tampa FL 15 Tables 3.21 3 Charlotte Blum, Bakersfield CA; Patty Riffel, ABC Pocahontas AR; Robert Tapp, Madisonville KY; Ray Andersen, 3.53 1 1 Carol Branand, Robbinsville NC; Janet Bornhoeft, Northfield IL; Newburgh IN Theresa Schneider, Northbrook IL; Mary Schultze, Union MI 59.00 MONDAY-TUESDAY CONSOLATION KO 4 2.65 2 2 1 Elisabeth Price - Argenta Price, Reno NV; Alex Lovejoy, Summit 8 Tables NJ; Jonathan Bittner, New Haven CT 58.00 5.25 1 Ann Harper - Oscar Harper III - John Markham 1.99 3 Jean Moser - Bonnie Hill, Murfreesboro TN; James De Berry, - Clair Chisler, Montgomery AL Cookeville TN; Carolyn Clark, Sparta TN 53.00 3.94 2 Arlene Karel, Highland Park IL; Leslie Rawitt, 1.49 4 Robert Allison - Joan Allison, Waterford MI; Stuart Danoff - Woodland Hills CA; M Fierman, Encino CA; Nancy Frank, Glencoe IL Joan Danoff, Stamford CT 51.00 2.89 3 Juhz KokKO Cashiers NC; Nancy KokKO 1.27 5/6 3 Gerald Lockhart - Susan Lockhart - Richard Bofferding - Diane Naples FL; Sandy Barrow, Macon GA; Pat Buchanan, Highlands Bofferding, Saginaw MI 44.00 NC 0.98 5/6 Ole Nordhild, Firestone CO; James Thompson, Richland WA; Christopher Stack, Brentwood CA; Gerdur Kristjansdottir, MONDAY-TUESDAY CONSOLATION KO 5 Longmont CO 44.00 8 Tables 4.73 1 Sheila Mehaffy - Gwen Gaston - Diane Lord - Sherry Wortsmith, Little Rock AR 3.55 2 Barbara Kincaid - James Kincaid, Knoxville TN; Brenda Goldberg, Shaker Heights OH; Peta Moskowitz, Cleveland OH

Friday HELIX BIOMEDIX Morning Steve Beatty, President and CEO of Helix BioMedix, will give a one-hour update of publicly available information to anyone interested. Date: Friday Morning Time: 10 a.m. Location: Room 108 of the Nashville Convention Center, lower level Daily Bulletin Page 11

TUESDAY EVENING SWISS MONDAY-TUESDAY CONSOLATION KO 6 91 Tables 8 Tables ABC 4.00 1 Susan Scheinerman, Melville NY; Marie Edwards, Syosset NY; Brenda Cooperman, Jericho NY; Leah 12.35 1 Dano De Falco, 35030 Rubano (P Italy; Patricia Cayne, New York Chodes, Plainview NY NY; Gabriella Olivieri, Alessandria Italy; Charles Weed, 3.00 2 Polly Arnold, Raleigh NC; Edith Walker, Shreveport LA 67.00 Nashville TN; Janice Walker, Lewisburg TN; Sandra Hakooz, Cary 9.26 2 R Fogel - Phyllis Fogel, Lombard IL; James Kehoe, Glen Ellyn IL; NC John Kinst, Batavia IL 65.00 2.20 3 Denise Twitty, Wylie TX; Mimi Lempert, Plano 6.95 3 Phil Hook, Atlanta GA; Phillip Kielpinski, Amarillo TX; Don TX; Jeannette Hallquist, Keswick VA; Florence Gado, Oneonta NY Heisler, West Seneca NY; Laurence Rivkin, Dunwoody GA 64.00 COUNTRYTIME KO I 5.21 4 Daniel Lavee, Thornhill ON; Barbara McLendon, New York NY; John 16 Tables Barth, Santa Cruz CA; Yasuko Shrenzel, Honolulu HI 61.00 52.90 1 David Maidman - Marin Marinov, New York 10.16 5 1 Claybourne Waldrop Jr, Arlington TX; Virginia Sherman, Dallas NY; Roumen Trendafilov - , Varna Bulgaria 39.68 2 James La Fountain, Temple TX; Thomas TX; Eric Bell, Norman OK; Jay Barron, Tulsa OK 60.00 Corlett, Waco TX; Jean Cole, San Miguel De A Mexico; Pam 7.62 6/7 2 Brandon Harper, Winter Park FL; Sandra Rosenblum - Ryan Miller, LaShelle, Round Rock TX Tampa FL; Carl Nelson Jr, Dublin GA 59.00 26.45 3/4 Sheldon Margulis, Saint Louis MO; Gary 2.57 6/7 Carol Duren - Rosemarie Laursen - Janice Hazel, Savannah GA; Kessler, Springfield IL; David Better, Doylestown PA; Daisy Betty Anderson, Chesterfield MO 59.00 Goecker, Yardley PA 26.45 3/4 John Hogan Jr, Wayne NJ; Betty Cox, 1.65 8 William McFall, New Berlin WI; Donald Croysdale, Elm Grove WI; Randolph NJ; Elizabeth Charnock, Madison TN; Caryll Michael Strong - Johanna Strong, Winfield IL 58.00 Schenker, Nashville TN 5.72 9 3 Reca Williams - Vicki Buchanan, Nashville TN; Tommy Latham, White House TN; Lucy Milton, Brentwood TN 57.00 COUNTRYTIME KO II 4.29 10 4 Dick Wilson - Marilyn Goldman, Rochester NY; Judy Dever - 16 Tables Barbara Denley, Memphis TN 55.00 38.60 1 Lynne Cook, Riverview MI; Debra Eaves, Northville MI; John Shufelt - Jean Shufelt, Naples FL 5.01 5 1 Roma Chandra - Lois Geer - Bryan Geer, Silver Spring MD; Shlomit 28.95 2 Marvin Lampert - Robert Moorman, Jr, Rind, Rockville MD 54.00 Huntsville AL; Douglas Lampert, Meridianfille AL; Mary 3.76 6/7 2 Terry Doyle - Ratna Omidvar - Jan Stewart - Joan Renzoni, Conaway - Pat Yakubovic, Birmingham AL Toronto ON 53.00 19.30 3/4 James Fowlkes - Patricia Fowlkes, Garner NC; 2.11 6/7 Glenn Gray - Virginia Gray, Kennesaw GA; Edward Bryan - Joyce Patricia Worthley, Andover MA; Sandra Hammer, New Smyrna Bryan, Marietta GA 53.00 Bch FL 19.30 3/4 William McFall, New Berlin WI; Donald 2.47 3/4 Don Malone, Sharon WI; Nancy Beitler, Boca Raton FL; Debbie Croysdale, Elm Grove WI; Michael Strong - Johanna Strong, Wagner, Athen GA; Ann Powell, Athens GA 49.00 Winfield IL 2.47 3/4 Lane Byl, Niagara-On-Lake ON; Cynthia Keaton, Coppell TX; Betti Harris, Huntington Bh CA; Kathryn Greenhoot, Charlotte NC 49.00 COUNTRYTIME KO III 1.59 5 James Mills Jr, Captain Cook HI; Chuck Clark, Kailua Kona HI; 16 Tables 32.93 1 Robin Brown - Lawrence Brown, Dobbs Ferry Dorothy Demarest, Naples FL; Jane Ettelson, Saint Louis MO 44.00 NY; H Jay Sloofman, Ardsley NY; Betty Fleischer, Ossining NY 1.04 6/7 Rose Francis, Cartersville GA; Ann Witt, Aurora IL; Nance Booty, 24.70 2 Geo. Fred Williams III, Knoxville TN; Ruth Naperville IL; Helen Paracka, Rome GA 42.00 Zowader, Madison NJ; Kay Jones, The Villages FL; Barton 1.04 6/7 Jean Stewart - Stephen Markman, Virginia Beach VA; Marjorie Buffington, North Kingstown RI Carpenter, Chesapeake VA; Steve Schatzman, Va Beach VA 42.00 16.47 3/4 Zerelene Jones, Lafayette LA; Susan Meyers, Mt Kisco NY; Jason Lindop, Montreal QC; A Lindop, Toronto ON Senior Swiss DeMartino, National Board of Directors 16.47 3/4 Edward Mitchell, Hyannis MA; Bee Hallett, member from District 25, has won the North Fort Myers FL; Billie Vickers, Montgomery AL; Lynne Logan, Diamondhead MS Continued from page 1 American Swiss, the Senior KO, as well as this event twice. He is a retired insurance executive COUNTRYTIME KO IV advancing to the final. In Monday’s qualifying from Riverside CT. 12 Tables play, they were below average after five rounds 26.90 1 Les Gerig, Leawood KS; Angie Knechtges, Jay Stiefel is a semi-retired consulting actuary. Grafton OH; Sunny Hoffman - David Hoffman, Indianapolis IN with a score of 49 VPs. They won the last three He won the National Swiss Team in 1976 as well 20.18 2 David Cook - Donald Wood, Pinehurst NC; matches, however, to qualify handily. this even twice. He is from Wethersfield CT; Donald Snelgrove, Southern Pnes NC; Rebecca Markham, Vass In the final, Brod advanced to third place at Pat McDevitt of Brookline MA is a managing NC the half-way point. In the fifth match they defeated 13.45 3/4 Carol Duren - Janice Hazel - Rosemarie real estate property owner. He won the Senior KO Laursen, Savannah GA; Betty Anderson, Chesterfield MO the leaders, the Schenker team, by 14 to 6 VPs. In in 2000 and the six-session Life Master Paris in 13.45 3/4 Claybourne Waldrop Jr, Arlington TX; the sixth match, they won over the Hand team 20 Atlanta in 2005. Virginia Sherman, Dallas TX; Eric Bell, Norman OK; Jay Barron, Tulsa OK to 0, vaulting them into the lead. Geof Brod of Avon CT is a retired investment The event was still in doubt with one match to manager. He has won this event twice. COUNTRYTIME KO V go, however, as six teams were still in contention. The second place team had a score of 122.36 15 Tables They won the last match versus the Freed team. 24.21 1 Martha Hawley, Carmel Valley CA; John Ide, and they are: Jeffrey Hand, David Butler, Joseph Cape Canaveral FL; Theodore Egner - Kay Egner, Pompano Hand won their last match as well to finish Godefrin, Ed Schulte, Larry Bausher, and Steve Beach FL second. The Hand team was the leader after Becker. 18.16 2 Alice Van Hoesen, Marco Island FL; Sherry qualifying play. The Schenker team finished third with 115.6 Steffey - Sugar Rubin, Naples FL; Linda Percy, Bonita Springs All the members of the winning team have FL VPs. They are Walter Schenker, Donna Morgen, 12.11 3/4 Peter Misslin - Julia Misslin, Vonore TN; multiple NABC titles. Fred King, and Richard Popper. Charles Skinn - Jack Carr, Knoxville TN 12.11 3/4 Janet Bender - Elinor Saperstein, Nashville TN; Joanne Sneed, Old Hickory TN; Shirley Braverman, Lake Worth FL

COUNTRYTIME KO VI 16 Tables 21.79 1 Bobbie Kiefer - John Kiefer - William Moore - Ann Moore, Johnson City TN 16.34 2 Ann Lauterbach - Carol Martin - Peggy McHenry, Nashville TN; Sue Montgomery, Brentwood TN 10.90 3/4 Dloye Swift, Slidell LA; Pam Peard, Calgary AB; Deb Gregory - Joy Sisk, Madisonville KY 10.90 3/4 Steven Juk - Kristina Juk - Jerry Grohowski, Shelbyville TN; Roy Berkon, Nashville TN

COUNTRYTIME KO VII 16 Tables 19.61 1 Lawton Hutchison - Barbara Hutchison - Joyce Cooper - George Richards, Austin TX 14.71 2 Loretta Green, Belleville ON; Barbara McPeak - Kenneth McPeak - Betty Grandstaff, Lebanon TN 9.81 3/4 Phyllis Bishop, Loveland OH; Susan Hermans, West Chester OH; David Britt, Erlanger KY; Roselyn Burman, Boca Raton FL 9.81 3/4 Barbara Heller, Armonk NY; Ellen Greenfield, Greenwich CT; Susan Melchner, New York NY; Barbara Seidenberg, White Plains NY

COUNTRYTIME KO VIII 16 Tables 17.65 1 Christopher Webb - Lee Webb, Blythewood They were second in the Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss Teams: (front) David Butler, Jeffrey Hand, SC; Carol Clemenz - Fred Clemenz, Lexington SC 13.24 2 Juhz Kokko, Cashiers NC; Nancy Kokko, (back) Steve Becker, Ed Schulte and Larry Bausher. Not pictured: Joseph Godefrin. Naples FL; Sandy Barrow, Macon GA; Pat Buchanan, Highlands NC Page 12 Daily Bulletin

8.83 3/4 Charles Badain - Elaine Badain, Nokomis FL; QUALIFIERS Farald Riegel - Mary Riegel, Osprey FL 8.83 3/4 Judith Shore - Coleen Kemper, Germantown TN; Susan Plummer, Collierville TN; Louise Ruleman, Memphis Carryover TN 1 Ahmed Sorathia, Chino CA; Mariko Kakimoto, Newport Beach CA 126.11 3.97 5/8 Rex Swauger - Frank Nelson II - M Swauger, 2 George Wang - Janet Ju, El Monte CA 120.98 Louisville KY; Kenneth Gustafson, Crestwood KY 3 Daniel Korbel, Waterloo ON; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON 116.62 COUNTRYTIME KO IX 4 Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL; Warren Oberfield, Pittsburgh PA 110.10 16 Tables 5 Linda Smith - , Hixson TN 103.20 15.30 1 Peter Stoll - Sara Stoll, Lower Gwynedd PA; 6 Ellyn Plato, Hastings Hdsn NY; Helen Raleigh, Suffern NY 101.86 Danny Brawer, Mercer Island WA; Leonard Schiff, Lake Worth 7 Carolyn Sessler, Waltham MA; Anton Tsypkin, Sharon MA 95.14 FL 8 Martin Hinds, Bakersfield CA; Anne Arndt, Puyallup WA 93.40 11.48 2 Sheila Mehaffy - Diane Lord - Sherry 9 Jo Morse, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Haig Tchamitch, Scottsdale AZ 93.27 Wortsmith - Gwen Gaston, Little Rock AR 7.65 3/4 Scott Scobell, The Villages FL; Bud Feron, 10 Phillip Becker, Beachwood OH; Dennis McGarry, Stuart FL 90.83 Dartmouth NS; Helen Long, Rockville MD; Alfred Liepold, 11 Lin-Huan Chen - Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Kirksville MO 85.40 Silver Spring MD 12 Yeshayahu Levit - Ronnie Tor, Tel-Aviv Israel 85.08 7.65 3/4 Kathy Coleman - Carolyn Marks - Joy 13 Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH; Richard Katz, N Versailles PA 81.47 McKenzie-Smith, Fort Worth TX; Pamela Gladysz, Ft Worth TX 14 Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; Diana Marquardt, Del Mar CA 81.28 COUNTRYTIME KO X 15 Abraham Pineles, Jackson NJ; Alexander Allen, Annandale NJ 78.16 16 Tables 16 Sally Strul, Delray Beach FL; Ora Lourie, Hypoluxo FL 76.25 12.70 1 Jerry Grogan - Robert Anderson - Berna 17 Jerry Helms - Robert Bitterman, Charlotte NC 76.12 Anderson - Peggy Grogan, Dayton OH 18 Steven Schatzow, Washington DC; Sarah Goodstein, Potomac MD 73.61 9.53 2 Peter Clark - Jess Jurkovic, New York NY; 19 A Koffler - Nancy Koffler, Saint-Laurent QC 70.98 Mimi Lempert, Plano TX; Denise Twitty, Wylie TX 20 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; John Jones, Hacienda Hgts CA 70.30 6.35 3/4 Marguerite Smith - Frances Pullen - Maryl Elliott - Harry Trewhitt, Cleveland TN 21 Judy Kay-Wolff, Las Vegas NV; Jane Segal, Villanova PA 68.87 6.35 3/4 Jeffrey Biggers - Patricia Hunter, Loudon TN; 22 James Bush, Metairie LA; Timothy Joder, Lanesboro MA 67.10 Rolf Nilsson - Yvonne Nilsson, Glen Allen VA 23 Franklin Lowenthal, Pleasanton CA; Roger Clough, Culver City CA 66.64 24/25 David Yang, Chicago IL; Jeff Fang, Arcadia CA 62.72 COUNTRYTIME KO XI 24/25 Doug Herron - Peter Bonfanti, New York NY 62.72 16 Tables 26 Joe Quinn, Krakow Poland; Ira Hessel, San Antonio TX 60.77 11.41 1 Norma Crist - Geoff Maloney - Kathleen Maloney, Marietta GA; Ellen Starr, Canton GA 27 Richard Morgen, Havertown PA; Andy Muenz, Glenolden PA 60.00 8.56 2 Hans Strohmer - Nancy Strohmer, Houston 28 Janet Robertson, Timonium MD; Ron Haack, New York NY 59.84 TX; Robert Clarke - Alma Farley, Richardson TX 29 Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA; Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA 58.57 5.71 3/4 Janice Walker, Lewisburg TN; Patricia Luther, 30 David Birnbaum, Pegram TN; Lee Pennington, Nashville TN 57.68 Franklin TN; Polly Arnold, Raleigh NC; Edith Walker, Nashville 31 Leslie Paryzer, Bronx NY; Stephen Goldstein, Gardena CA 57.09 TN; Sandra Hakooz, Cary NC 5.71 3/4 Patricia Bradshaw - Peg Hardy, Charlotte NC; 32 Arthur Lowen - Dot Blue, Nashville TN 56.12 William Welborn, Waxhaw NC; Margaret Immel, Monroe NC 33 Lori Spaeth, Los Altos CA; Jacqueline Ortiz, Santa Rosa CA 55.65 34 John Herriot, Los Angeles CA; Don Lussky, Elmhurst IL 54.75 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET ONE 35 William Ge - Gary Ge, Vancouver BC 52.46 16 Tables 36 Bette Cohn, Sarasota FL; Susi Ross, Winter Spgs FL 51.09 Rebecca Clough, Culver City CA; Carreen Hinds, Bakersfield 37 Jerry Goldberg, Yonkers NY; Louis Lessinger, Plainview NY 51.01 CA; Judy Pede, Grass Valley CA; Adrienne Green, Los Angeles CA 38 Bill Huepenbecker, Huron OH; Jonathan Holmes, Houston TX 48.35 vs 39 John Griscom, Boca Raton FL; John Lewis, Ft Lauderdale FL 47.76 Roselyn Teukolsky - Saul Teukolsky, Ithaca NY; Susan Yates - 40 Ava Grubman - Elliott Grubman, Brooklyn NY 47.62 Daniel Boye, Victor NY 41 Craig Robinson, Lansdale PA; Rick Rowland, Wilmington DE 46.52 42 Betsey Schneider, San Carlos CA; Donald Blum, Atlanta GA 46.45 G S Jade Barrett - Karen Lee Barrett, Vancouver WA; Anne 43 Victor Melman - Janos Racz, Scarsdale NY 46.24 Dawson, Delhi LA; Richard Helams Jr, West Monroe LA; Vera Petty - Roman Smolski, Warwick Bermuda 44 Barry Gorski - Kathleen Del Corso, Reading PA 45.76 vs 45 Ken Cohen, Philadelphia PA; Neal Satten, Wynnewood PA 45.14 Roni Atkins, Pittsburgh PA; Barbara Clinton, Aurora ON; Sandra 46 Ringo Chung, Mississauga ON; Naveed Ather, Oakville ON 44.89 Fleischman, Bradenton FL; Jan Assini, Aurora OH 47 Sherry Jackson, New York NY; Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY 44.59 48 Mary Oshlag - , Germantown TN 44.53 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET TWO 16 Tables 49 Nels Erickson, Sparks NV; Marjorie Michelin, Los Angeles CA 43.37 Scott Stearns, Elberta AL; Ilene Markell, Memphis TN; David 50 Winston Legge Jr - Jennie Legge, Pensacola FL 40.91 Banh, Annandale VA; Donna Moore, Niceville FL; Jeri Arnold, 51 Harley Bress, Lakewood CO; Paul Linxwiler, Memphis TN 40.57 Ft Walton Bch FL; Mary Vickers, Apex NC 52 Janet Daling - Steve Mansfield, Seattle WA 40.25 vs 53 Denny O’Connor - Allyson Wolfe, Saint Louis MO 40.24 Hannah Moon, Prince Albert SK; Warren Foss, Omaha NE; Jan 54 Sherrill Headrick, River Oaks TX; Donald Stack, Overland Park KS 39.70 Zadroga, Ksiazenice Poland; Witold Turant, Lodz Poland; Hiroki Yokoi, Chibaken 272-01 Japan 55/56 Ranald Davidson, North York ON; Susan Cooper, Thornhill ON 39.20 55/56 Chuck Malcolm - Marti Malcolm, Topeka KS 39.20 Fred Hawa - Judith Chaice, White Plains NY; Mimi Bieber, 57 Petra Hamman - Joan Jackson, Dallas TX 35.54 Armonk NY; Eileen Paley, Scarsdale NY 58 Kenji Miyakuni, Tokyo Japan; Yukiko Tokunaga, Japan 35.41 vs 59 George Bloomer - Judith Bloomer, Pittsboro NC 34.81 Joyce Hampton, Blythewood SC; Lucas Lebioda, Columbia SC; 60 Richard Schmieder - Jyme Schmieder, Boerne TX 32.79 Larry Crevier, Dol-D-Ormeaux QC; Tony Reus, Saint-Laurent QC; Jon Rice - Mike Rice, Winston Salem NC 61 Judith Weisman, Englewood NJ; John Solodar, Palm Beach Gdns FL 31.28 62 Glen Okui, Memphis TN; Brian Cummins, Arlington TN 31.21 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET THREE 63 Beverly Perry, New York NY; Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY 31.18 16 Tables 64 Donald Gladman - Ken Penton, Calgary AB 30.70 Steven Gaynor - Jean Boettcher - Wayne Gergen, Minneapolis 65 David Ruderman, Burtonsville MD; Alfred Steinberg, Potomac MD 30.51 MN; Clifford Lundberg, Elk River MN vs 66 Mark Yaeger, Miami FL; Lee Atkinson, Hollywood FL 30.19 Martha Young, Dallas TX; Mym Young, Atlantic Beach NC; 67 Susan Miller, Boca Raton FL; Jerry Weinstein, Las Vegas NV 29.54 Hazel Schoenberg - Jules Schoenberg, Plano TX 68 Heather Cutting - Gary Macgregor, Portola Valley CA 29.35 69 Len Vishnevsky, San Francisco CA; Richard Meffley, Fresno CA 27.76 Mike Marlin - Sandra Marlin, Versailles KY; Kurt Brescoll - 70 David Moss - Andrew Rosenthal, New York NY 26.53 Janet Brescoll, Mansfield TX 71 Patricia Katz, Pittsburgh PA; Larry Cohen, Las Vegas NV 25.80 vs Carl Gueli - Lydia Betz, Great Neck NY; Donald Sondergeld, 72 Robert Gardner, Glenview IL; Sangarapil Mohan, Oak Brook IL 24.36 Hubbardton VT; Charmaine Powers, Naples FL 73 Robert Hollow, Madoc ON; Martin Morris, Wheeling IL 24.05 74 Marta Peltz, West Hills CA; Gilbert Stinebaugh, Van Nuys CA 23.65 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET FOUR 75 Robert Sartorius, Lake Hiawatha NJ; Rick Roeder, San Diego CA 23.19 16 Tables 76 Kamla Chawla, Longmeadow MA; Jacqueline Sincoff, Saint Louis MO 22.02 Shaun Chooi - Joseph Clark - Brady Allen, Dallas TX; Ian 77 Robin Wilkinson - Chuck Wilkinson, Jackson MS 21.07 Friedland, Mountain View CA vs 78 Jim Dobbyn, Birmingham AL; Douglas McAvoy, Hamilton ON 20.58 Mike Smith - Tina Radding, Charleston SC; Myrna Smith, 79 Rita Ellington, Traverse City MI; Robert Morris, Houston TX 20.17 Frenchtown NJ; Jacqueline Kimball, John’s Island SC; Constance 80 Diane Walker, Gaithersburg MD; Ellen Cherniavsky, Silver Spring MD 19.78 Sackville, Vero Beach FL; Linda Luther, N Charleston SC 81 Patricia Chambers - Robin Chambers, Palo Alto CA 19.07 82 Irina Ladyzhensky - Alexander Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL 17.94 Stephen Babin, Normal IL; Betty Capodice - Eunice Patton - Stephen Hawthorne, Bloomington IL 83 Della Schnell - John Schnell, Fresno CA 17.70 vs 84 William Arlinghaus, Ann Arbor MI; Dave Swarthout, Newberry MI 16.17 Ward Schaumberg, Hockessin DE; Barbara Rhoades, Wilmington 85 Ed Ulman, Portland OR; Jim Looby, Burbank CA 16.00 DE; Gayle Andrews, Stanton CA; Yoon Kyung Kim, Alta Loma 86 Murray Melton, Las Vegas NV; Simon Kantor, Agawam MA 15.87 CA 87 Peter Grover, Aurora OH; Brian Ellis, Beachwood OH 14.96 88 Mark Ginsburg - David Langer, Buffalo Grove IL 14.36 89 Alan Lechner - Elliot Sternlicht, New York NY 13.74 Daily Bulletin Page 13

90 Jackie Jarigese - Ross Rainwater, Vancouver WA 12.99 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET FIVE 91 Sharon Hammer, Huntington Bh CA; Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA 12.45 16 Tables 92 Elaine Said, Nashville TN; Terry Spector, Franklin TN 12.10 Natalie Weintraub, Brigantine NJ; Valerie Cutler, Longport NJ; Marie Crompton, Egg Harbor Tp NJ; Karen Sylvester, Court 93 Richard Roiseman - Steven McMahan, Nashville TN 12.09 House NJ 94 Joseph De Gaetano, Atkinson NH; Paul Nason, Los Angeles CA 11.75 vs 95/96 Richard Riezman - Roger Lord, Saint Louis MO 11.30 Richard Walowit, Hollywood FL; J Phillips, Plantation FL; David 95/96 Victor Markowicz, Boca Raton FL; Shalom Zeligman, Bat-Yam Israel 11.30 Rogers, Wilton Manors FL; Elizabeth Kros, Fort Lauderdale FL 97 Brian Gunnell - John Brady, Jacksonville FL 11.18 98 Charles Kopp, Columbus OH; Gregory Potts, Portsmouth OH 9.53 William Atteberry, Clearwater FL; Leelyn Main, St Petersburg FL; Art McHaffie - Joy McHaffie, Santa Fe NM 99 Jim Bachelder - Jeanne Martin, Columbus OH 9.01 vs 100/101 Stasha Cohen, Glen Ridge NJ; Susan Picus, New York NY 8.09 Neil Timm, Lady Lake FL; David Stentz, The Village FL; 100/101 Jack Goodykoontz - Vicki Goodykoontz, Morgantown WV 8.09 Richard Chase, Ft Mill SC; Lenore Smart, Columbus OH 102 John Boyer, Hastings Hdsn NY; Steven Wheeler, Northvale NJ 7.72 103 Diane Graese, Las Vegas NV; Martin Caley, Montreal QC 4.07 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET SEVEN 16 Tables 104 Jesse Reisman - Cheryl Angel, Livingston NJ 0.00 Thomas Cheng, Halifax NS; Ronnie Burns, Fort Smith AR; George Delp - April Delp, Gainesville GA vs TRUSCOTT/USPC SR SWISS Pat Abell - Patricia Humphress, Campbellsville KY; Judith 42 Tables Bishop - Marge Handley, Elizabethtown KY 100.00 1 Geoffrey Brod, Avon CT; Pat McDevitt, Brookline MA; John Stiefel, Wethersfield CT; Richard DeMartino, Riverside CT 132.81 Erik Holdo, Cumming GA; F Garson II, Alpharetta GA; Bob 75.00 2 Jeffrey Hand, New York NY; David Butler, Keswick VA; Joseph Godefrin, Jones, Acworth GA; Donna Marks, Atlanta GA vs Sarasota FL; Ed Schulte, Tampa FL; Larry Bausher, West Haven CT; Steve Douglas Hirt - Melanie Hirt - James Hunter - Paula Hunter, Becker, Old Greenwich CT 122.36 Nashville TN 56.25 3 Walter Schenker, Pine Brook NJ; Donna Morgen, Havertown PA; Fred King, Falls Church VA; Richard Popper, Wilmington DE 115.60 Doris Holzhauer, Centralia IL; Verdene Twomey, Carbondale IL; 44.44 4 Jane Bachman, Dunwoody GA; Andy O’Grady, Miami FL; Richard Taube, Susan Davis, Marion IL; Karen Coe, Ewing IL vs Marietta GA; Robert Rosen, Delray Beach FL; Jim Stogner, Atlanta GA 113.85 Betty Hancock, Fort Myers FL; David Sabourin, Ottawa ON; 40.00 5 Robert Heitzman Jr, Suffern NY; Jerry Gaer, Scottsdale AZ; Harvey Brody, Lindsay Pearlman, Las Vegas NV; Eleanor Seaman, New York San Francisco CA; Leon Lowe, Fountain Hills AZ 113.59 NY 36.36 6 Gaylor Kasle - Zeke Jabbour, Boca Raton FL; David Siebert - Allan vs Siebert, Little Rock AR; Glenn Eisenstein, New York NY; Lewis Finkel, Martha Thetford - Nancy Davidson, Nashville TN; Polly Hicks - Jupiter FL 107.55 Thomas Seigle, Jefferson City TN 33.33 7 John Malley, Pascoag RI; Daniel Colatosti - Melvin Marcus - Rick Binder, TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET EIGHT Waltham MA 107.04 16 Tables 30.77 8 Gene Freed - William Wickham, Los Angeles CA; Marshall Miles, Redlands John Schnablegger - Michael Ritza, Sault Ste Marie ON; Lynda CA; Leo Bell, Long Beach CA 105.01 Flanger, Gainesville VA; Philip Duterme, Bellaire TX 28.57 9 James Priebe, Mississauga ON; Stephen Mackay, Markham ON; Andy Altay, vs Willowdale ON; Stephen Aarons, Toronto ON 104.07 Kevin Boles, Decatur AL; Wrus Kristiansen, Virginia Beach VA; Diana Hughes - Richard Starr, Atlanta GA 26.67 10 Les Bart - Gloria Silverman Bart, Bradenton FL; Bob Glasson - Joann Glasson, Pennington NJ 102.77 Susan Kreal, Brentwood TN; S Ricciardi, Franklin TN; Patricia 25.00 11 Tom Kniest, University City MO; Alan Popkin, St Louis MO; Colby Vernay, Beason - Helen Hulse, Mount Juliet TN Lacon IL; Barry Schaffer, Frisco TX 99.85 vs 23.53 12 Grace Hunt, Dallas TX; Nancy Passell, Plano TX; Jim Barrow, Lake Charles George Charrier - Marian Charrier, West Chester OH; Mary Clifton, Hamilton OH; Julie Thomas, Middletown OH; Michele LA; Don Caton, Pensacola FL; Thomas Peters, Grapeland TX; John Zilic, Staats, Loveland OH Houston TX 98.52 22.22 13 Marc Leventhal, Franklin TN; Everett Young, Lafayette Hill PA; Steven TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET NINE Love, Laguna Niguel CA; Stephen Serota, Blue Bell PA 98.30 16 Tables 21.05 14 Ellen Kent - Richard Gabriel - Ellen Gabriel, Chicago IL; Robert Kent, Bill Schaffer - Shirley Schaffer, Youngstown OH; Dorothy Marina Dl Rey CA 96.53 Hooper, Madison TN; Pieter Hoonderd - Carolyn Harrell, Hendersonville TN 20.00 15 Charles Davis, Lilburn GA; Bob Autrey, Marietta GA; Mike Cappelletti Sr, vs Alexandria VA; John Morris, Atlanta GA 95.53 Don Dvorak, Jacksonville FL; Emily Myers - Richard Myers, 19.05 16 Robert Cappelli, Bloomfield MI; Michael D Alioto, Birmingham MI; Kenneth Lake Placid FL; Don Metler, South Daytona FL Kranyak, Bay Village OH; Kenneth Eichenbaum, Powell OH 93.26 17.79 17/18 Larry Mori, Clearwater FL; Jim Linhart, Raleigh NC; Rhonda Monro, Beverly Donald Moyer - Katy Moyer, Silver Lake OH; Carol McMackin, Hills MI; Bonnie Bagley, Colorado Spgs CO; Ken Monzingo, San Diego CA 92.54 Allendale NJ; Abby Brawer, Wyckoff NJ vs 17.79 17/18 Martin Robins, Coral Springs FL; Charlene Predmest, Delray Beach FL; Wiley McMinn III, Cedar Park TX; Ellen Meyer - Dianne Ebert - Philip Altus - Muriel Altus, Tampa FL 92.54 Carol Nelson, Austin TX 16.67 19 Joe Gottler, Elberta AL; Don Kern, Bay Minette AL; Clifton Miller Sr, Shreveport LA; Richard Logan, Diamondhead MS 91.78 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET TEN 16.00 20 L Andrew Campbell - Roberta Grubb, Palm Desert CA; Phil Schaefer - Nell 16 Tables Ellen Norden - Susan Feiler, Boynton Beach FL; Beryl Hedrick - Schaefer, Los Angeles CA 91.05 Eileen Hedrick, Alabaster AL 15.38 21 Barbara Haberman, Lake Worth FL; Michael Camp, Fort Lee NJ; Arnold Kohn, vs Monroe NJ; Charles Rosenblatt, Pompano Beach FL 90.77 Ted Baldwin - Margaret Baldwin - Sonni Mauze - Page Jackson, 14.81 22 John Kelsey, Diboll TX; Bill Cook Jr, Madison MS; Barbara Kasle, Boca Saint Louis MO Raton FL; Jeffrey Taylor, Eugene OR 86.53 14.29 23 Hugh Brown Jr, Mc Cormick SC; John Potter, Panama City FL; Robert Charles Morse - Nancy Morse, Mc Kinney TX; Linda Thomas, Dallas TX; Patricia Marchman, Garland TX Fendrick, Marietta GA; Richard Potter, Black Mountain NC 85.79 vs 13.79 24 Flo Newlin - Cal Newlin Jr, Aurora CO; Allen Kane, Pueblo West CO; En Dawn Poinsett - Richard Poinsett, Estero FL; Rita Peterson, Oak Hay, Littleton CO 85.77 Brook IL; Fran Smith, Glen Ellyn IL 13.33 25 Claire Tornay - George Tornay Jr, Palm Beach Gdns FL; Eugene Davidson, Boynton Beach FL; Stephen Shane, White Plains NY 84.26 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET ELEVEN 12.90 26 Detlef Ladewig, Toronto ON; Yatindra Sahae, Carmel Valley CA; Subba 12 Tables Scott Wansbrough - Chuck Brown, Dallas TX; Kimi Lambert - Ravipudi, Downey CA; Yas Takeda, Hacienda Hgts CA 83.54 Paula Warren, New Braunfels TX 12.50 27 John Russell, North Barringto IL; Jerry Premo, Sacramento CA; Kay Beck, vs Carmel IN; Coley McGinnis - Chuck Said, Nashville TN; Linda Hanson, Edward Banta - Katherine Trubey, Spruce Pine NC; B Susan Brentwood TN 83.30 Crutchfield - Richard Ash, Burnsville NC 12.12 28 Jim Kirkham - Corinne Kirkham, San Bernardino CA; Michael Huston, Joplin David Barrow - Glenda Barrow, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR; Charles MO; Bruce Reeve - Robert White, Raleigh NC; Michael Kovacich, Stone Floyd - Sue Floyd, Lenoir City TN Mountain GA 81.78 vs 11.76 29 Gerald Bare, Pacific Plsds CA; Mike Savage, Hill CA; Chester John Buechner - Betty Buechner, Hixson TN; Bert Shramko - Johnson, Chicago IL; James Murphy, Concord NC 81.52 Susan Shramko, Chattanooga TN

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET TWELVE 12 Tables George Pike - Barbara Pike, Blackstock ON; Pamela Elsner, Avon CO; Clairlee Hirsch, The Woodlands TX vs Leonard Ellis, Franklin NC; Jean Orr, Middletown CT; Arnold Hoffmann, Huntersville NC; Jacqueline Key, Charlotte NC

Peggy West, Gallatin TN; Syble Johnson, Hendersonville TN; Margo Mueller, Memphis TN; Linda Williams, Livermore CA vs Patrick Murray - Lainey Murray - Bill Pfeiffer, Morristown TN; Joan Panella, New Market TN Page 14 Daily Bulletin

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY KO BRACKET 13 SPINGOLD KO TEAMS Doug Doub, W Hartford CT; , Jackson Heights 12 Tables 74 Tables NY; Michael Kamil, Holmdel NJ; Martin Fleisher, New York NY Dana Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Shane Blanchard, New York Nick Nickell, New York NY; Bob Hamman - Hemant Lall, Dallas vs NY; Jonathan Ullman, Stanford CA; David Lin, Princeton NJ TX; Jeff Meckstroth, Tampa FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater Bch Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Mark Lair, Canyon TX; Zhao Jie, vs FL; Paul Soloway, Mill Creek WA Tianjin People’s Republic of China; Fu Zhong, Beijing People’s Charles Swanson, Milledgeville GA; John Ford, White Plains vs Republic of China; Fredrik Nystrom, Stockholm 112 Sweden; GA; Tiffany Greene, Marietta GA; Carol Casey, Dallas TX Sylvia Moss - Judi Radin, New York NY; Agustin Madala, , Taby Sweden Buenos Aires Argentina; , London England; Bauke Gwen Lott - Edith Lucky - Jane Waters - Patricia Todd, Muller, Hoorn Netherlands; Simon De Wijs, Doorn 304G Mark Gordon, Purchase NY; Chuck Burger, West Bloomfield MI; Natchitoches LA Netherlands Steve Landen, Ellicott City MD; Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Sarasota vs FL; Mike Passell, Las Vegas NV; , Houston TX Ann Rees - D Dioguardi, Nashville TN; Marguerite Crews, James Cayne, New York NY; , Hollywood FL; vs Richmond VA; Margaret Robinson, Winder GA Alfredo Versace - Lorenzo Lauria - Fulvio Fantoni, Rome Italy; John Onstott, New Orleans LA; Jim Krekorian, New York NY; Claudio Nunes, Roma Italy - Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt; Terje Aa, Heimdal MINI SPINGOLD I KO TEAMS vs Norway; Joergen Molberg, Trondheim Norway 61 Tables Connie Goldberg, Merion Station PA; Bill Eisenberg, Perris CA; Elbert Moore, Crofton KY; Mike Sloan, Jeffersonville IN; Karen Jacek Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Krzysztof Kotorowicz, Bialystok Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX; Nader Hanna, Willowdale ON; Erlanger, Saint Louis MO; John Burgener, St Louis MO Poland; Erik Eide, Copenhagen Denmark; Fredrik Simonsen, Wafik Abdou, Bakersfield CA; Bryan Maksymetz, Port Moody vs Askim Norway BC; Zygmunt Marcinski, Westmount QC; Nagy Kamel, Plano Patrick Williams, Greenbrier TN; Thomas Bandy, Kingsport TN; TX Ned Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR; Denny Penticoff, Mountain Home Lou Ann O’Rourke, Portola Valley CA; Marc Jacobus - Geoff vs AR Hampson, Las Vegas NV; Giorgio Duboin, Torino Italy; Norberto Hailong Ao, Herndon VA; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ; David Bocchi, Barcelona Spain; Eric Greco, Philadelphia PA Chechelashvili, San Diego CA; Jian-Jian Wang, Clarksville MD Jay Cohodes, Sunrise FL; Brenda Montague, Swampscott MA; vs Douglas Ross, Rochester NY; Walter Spiewak, Wake Forest NC; Richard Coren, Hollywood FL; James Rosenbloom - Brian WAGAR WOMENS KO TEAMS Steven Barcus, Altamonte Spg FL Glubok, New York NY; Melih Ozdil, Istanbul Turkey 18 Tables vs Lynn Baker, Austin TX; Karen McCallum, US; , Kelley Hwang, New York NY; Lawrence Harding, Hampstead Rose Meltzer, Los Gatos CA; Kyle Larsen, San Francisco CA; Stony Point NY; Irina Levitina, Hackensack NJ; Lynn Deas, NC; Rich Regan, Lyman SC; James Hawkes, Charleston SC Alan Sontag, Gaithersburg MD; Roger Bates, Mesa AZ; Tor Schenectady NY; Beth Palmer, Silver Spring MD Helness, Oslo Norway; Geir Helgemo, Trondheim Ca Norway vs Marion Gebhardt, Richardson TX; Peggy Duffey, Dallas TX; vs Phyllis Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Tobi Sokolow - Mildred Carolyn Pinto - Darlene Shirey, Fort Worth TX Win Allegaert - - Aaron Silverstein - Judith Breed, Austin TX; Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; vs Bianco - Kevin Bathurst, New York NY; Lapt Chan, Forest Hills Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Daniela von Arnim, Michael Cassel II, Roseville MN; Andy Kaufman, Smyrna DE; NY Hockenh Germany Michael McNamara - Sylwia McNamara, White Plains NY Carolyn Lynch, Scottsdale AZ; Dennis Dawson, Santa Fe NM; Hansa Narasimhan, Los Altos Hills CA; Rozanne Pollack, Howard Einberg, Los Angeles CA; James Glickman, Woodland Fred Gitelman, Las Vegas NV; Brad Moss - Joe Grue, New York Basking Ridge NJ; Jill Levin, Bronx NY; Jill Meyers, Santa Hills CA; Daniel Levin, Aurora IL; James Dressler, Rolling NY; Curtis Cheek, Huntsville AL Monica CA; Debbie Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY; JoAnna Meadows IL; David Sokolow, Austin TX; William Schreiber, Van vs Stansby, Castro Valley CA Nuys CA Mike Cappelletti, Hixson TN; Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; vs vs David Lindop - Robert Lebi - Arno Hobart, Toronto ON; Harry Bep Vriend, Amstelveen Netherlands; Carla Arnolds, Tilburg Saul Agranoff, Newton MA; Stuart Whittle, Waltham MA; Tudor, Miami FL Netherlands; , Diemen Netherlands; Marion Stephanie Hamilton-Diesel, Saugus MA; Ann Borgschulte, Michielsen, Netherlands Lexington MA - Aleksander Dubinin, Moscow Russia; Cezary Balicki, Sholec Poland; Adam Zmudzinski, Katowice 40-479 David Zapatka - Jo Ann Zapatka, Sun Lakes AZ; Kim Corbin, Poland Scottsdale AZ; Robert Carstedt, Wichita KS vs Welcome, new vs Melanie Tucker - John Kranyak - John Hurd, New York NY; Joel Stephen Lucas - Lesley Decker Lucas, Woodbury NY; Jane Wooldridge, Buffalo NY; Sjoert Brink, Rotterdan 3 ACBL members Dillenberg - Alene Friedman, New York NY; Michael Heymann - Netherlands; Bas Drijver, Rotterdam Netherlands Sharon Sheriff Billy Leeper, Fort Worth TX Shirley Stansell Aubrey Strul, Delray Beach FL; Michael Becker - David Gary Westfall, Brampton ON; Roman Klein, Oakville ON; John Berkowitz - Larry Cohen, Boca Raton FL; Chip Martel, Davis Terri Wells Moser, St Agatha ON; Colin Harrington, Cambridge ON CA; Lew Stansby, Castro Valley CA Anne Knestrick vs vs Molly Hunsucker David Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Doug Levene - Mark Jones, Warren Spector, Palm Beach FL; , Thornhill ON; Birmingham AL; Jim Russell, Bradenton FL; Henry Meyer, Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Fred Chang, Flushing NY; Eldad Helen Israelstam Southampton NY; Freerk Polling, Palm Beach Gdns FL Ginossar, Moshav Zofit Israel; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba Israel Ronnie Tor Donna Robers James Gordon, S Burlington VT; Karl Hicks, Dominion NS; Drew Casen, Las Vegas NV; Michael Polowan - Bjorn Fallenius, Michael Betts, Dartmouth NS; Brian Alexander, Fredericton NB New York NY; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Piotr Gawrys, vs Warsaw Poland; Bartosz Chmurski, Warsow Poland Bruce Gardner - Robin Lampley - Dean Stow, Paducah KY; John vs Seng, Champaign IL Peter Schneider, La Canada CA; Grant Baze, San Diego CA; Convention card reminder , Florianska C19 Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Each player is required to have a convention Steven Blomstedt, West Chester PA; Susan Khanna - Deepak Bielsk Poland Khanna, Shillington PA; Rose-Marie Loughnane, Lafayette Hill card filled out legibly and on the table throughout PA Ron Rubin, Miami FL; Russ Ekeblad, Providence RI; Peter a session. Both cards of a partnership must be vs Weichsel, Encinitas CA; Marcin Lesniewski, Zakopane Poland; identical and include the first and last names of Bud Biswas, Lexington MA; Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Jan Jansma, Malden Netherlands; Louk Verhees, Voorhout Susan Winkler, Wake Forest NC; Randy Okubo, Saint Paul MN Netherlands each member of the partnership. vs If a director determines that neither player has MINI SPINGOLD II KO TEAMS Piotr Tuszynski, Warsaw Poland; Apolinary Kowalski, Warsaw a substantially completed card, the partnership 41 Tables 0 Poland; Farid Assemi - James Tritt, Fresno CA; Nick Bykov, Michael Nabrynski - Jennifer Nabrynski, Raleigh NC; Sonja Stockton CA; Ed Wojewoda, Clovis CA may play only the ACBL Yellow Card and may Smith, North Granby CT; David Rock, Westfield MA use only standard carding. vs , Los Angeles CA; , New York NY; Jacek This restriction may be lifted only at the Eric Hendrickson - Matthew Bribitzer-Stull - Jason Bribitzer- Pszczola, Chapel Hill NC; Gary Cohler, Miami FL; Michal beginning of a subsequent round after convention Stull, Minneapolis MN; Richard Lawson, Plymouth MN Kwiecien, Lublin 20-807 Poland vs cards have been properly prepared and approved John D’Errico, Alton NY; Gary DeWitt, Williamson NY; Stewart Tony Kasday, Puyallup WA; Garey Hayden, Tucson AZ; Jon by the director. Cramer, Pittsford NY; Gerry Wildenberg, Rochester NY Baldursson, Hafnarfjordur Iceland; Bjarni Einarsson, Reykjavik Further, the partnership will receive a 1/6 vs Iceland; Sigurbjorn Haraldsson, Reykjvik Iceland; Thorlakur Steve Callaham, Woodstock GA; Fred Tanzer, Land O’Lakes FL; Jonsson, 200 board matchpoint penalty for each board played, Dan Griggs, Snellville GA; David Schulman, Atlanta GA Kopavogur Iceland commencing with the next round and continuing until the restriction is lifted. Robert Todd - Theresa Andino - Eric Tilton - Theo Lichtenstein, Steve Robinson, Arlington VA; Peter Boyd, Silver Spring MD; In IMP team games, penalties shall be at the Tallahassee FL Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; , Bloomington NY; vs Bobby Wolff, Las Vegas NV; Dan Morse, Houston TX discretion of the director. Owen Lien, Hickory NC; Eric Sieg, Oklahoma City OK; Zachary vs If the director determines the partnership has Brescoll, Mansfield TX; David Coberly, Spartanburg SC; Mike Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Kyoko Shimamura, Tokyo 136 at least one substantially completed convention Develin, Berkeley CA; Eric Mayefsky, Stanford CA Japan; Michael Shuster, Havertown PA; Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA card but has not fully complied with ACBL Jane Dickey - Bonnie Fincher - Mike Compton, Little Rock AR; regulations, the director may give warnings or Langdon Jones, N Little Rock AR Christal Henner-Welland - Roy Welland - Chris Willenken, New assign such penalties as he deems to be vs York NY; Antonio Sementa, Parma PR 43100 Italy; Ulf Nilsson, Matt Meckstroth, Fairfax VA; Daniel Goldfein, Lincolnwood IL; Dalby Sweden; Frederic Wrang, appropriate under the circumstances. Sam Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Robert Glickman, Berkeley CA vs The objective of these warnings and penalties , Pebble Beach CA; Boye Brogeland, Norway; is the encouragement of full compliance with Ishmael Delmonte, Double Bay NSW Australia; George ACBL regulations. Spingold Mittelman, Toronto ON; Tadashi Teramoto, Yokohama Japan Continued from page 1 Robert Hollman, Santa Barbara CA; Bruce Ferguson, Boise ID; Ron Smith, San Francisco CA; Billy Cohen, Encinitas CA; Steve final quarter 51-34 to make it to the next round. Garner, Chicago IL; Howard Weinstein, Sarasota FL vs All the other high seeds fared well after Bill Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ; Michael Moss, New York NY; having the first day off as the top 36 seeds were Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA; Gunnar Hallberg, London England given byes. Daily Bulletin Page 15

Dlr: West ♠ 7 Wagar Nashville NABC: Vul: Both ♥ A8 A look back to 1988 ♦ J 4 2 Continued from page 1 ♣ Last Sunday we presented some interesting Q J 9 8 6 4 3 ♠ ♠ deals from the last time the NABC was held in J 10 8 6 5 A Q 9 4 3 2 No. 2 seed Narasimhan (Rozanne Pollack, Jill ♥ ♥ Nashville. Here are some more. K J 4 3 9 7 5 2 Levin, Jill Meyers, Debbie Rosenberg, JoAnna ♦ K ♦ 10 5 Stansby) versus No. 3 Vriend (Carla Arnolds, ♣ ♣ En route to victory 10 7 2 K Meike Wortel, Marion Michielsen). ♠ K The closest match of the day on Tuesday was This deal helped Jeff Katz and Jeff Kallenback ♥ Q 10 6 Vriend versus Betty Ann Kennedy. Vriend led on their way to the North American Rookie Pairs ♦ A Q 9 8 7 6 3 103-89 with a quarter to go and held off a charge title. ♣ A5 by Kennedy, prevailing in the end 115-114. Dlr: West ♠ AK West North East South Baker had an easier time with the Renee Vul: N-S ♥ A8 5 Pass Pass 2♠ 3♦ Mancuso squad, winning 174-122, while Fireman ♦ K J 9 8 3♠ 4♣ Pass 4♦ dispatched the Kathleen Sulgrove squad 111-83. ♣ K 8 5 2 Pass 5♦ Pass 6♦ In the other quarterfinal match, the Kathy ♠ J 10 8 4 2 ♠ Q 9 6 5 3 All Pass Baum squad, trailing 164-62 after three quarters ♥ Q J 3 2 ♥ — withdrew against Narasimhan. ♦ 10 5 4 ♦ A Q 7 6 3 accident. He needed the ♣K to be onside to make his ♣ 7 ♣ 10 6 3 slam. But that would give East the ♣K and the ♠AQ. Krekorian won the opening club lead with the ♠ 7 If he held the ♦K as well, he wouldn’t open a weak ♣A and did some thinking. He decided it would be ♥ K 10 9 7 6 4 two-bid. So Blum had to play for the singleton ♦K. more convenient to play West for long hearts if the ♦ 2 He led the ♦6 to the ♦J and led the ♣Q, suit broke poorly. But if both hearts and diamonds ♣ A Q J 9 4 covered perforce by another singleton king and broke poorly, he would not be well placed if he West North East South taken by the ace. Another club to the jack and a club played too many trumps. So he ruffed a club and led Pass 1♦ 3♠!4♥ ruff set up the suit. Then Blum led his carefully the ♥J, passing it when West played low. When the Pass 4NT Pass 5♦ preserved ♦3 to the ♦4 and cashed the good clubs ♥J lived, Krekorian went after diamonds. Pass 6♥ All Pass to score up his slam. He cashed the ♦A and led a second diamond. It East had a strange hand for a preemptive jump At the other table the contract was only 5♦. The would have done no good to ruff, so Garozzo (West) , but South solved his problem by simply first two tricks were the same, but declarer then took discarded. Krekorian won in dummy and led a third bidding 4♥. North liked his hand, bid Blackwood, the trump finesse, losing to the king. Now he was diamond, ruffing it with the ♥A. Then he took a and put his partner in 6♥ down, losing one spade, one heart and one trump. trump finesse, drew the next-to-last heart, and ran East might have doubled for a diamond lead, his tricks. The only trick for the defense was the but West, with nothing more to go on, led a spade. high trump. Since his teammates went for 500 in 5♣ South wrapped up his contract by winning the spade A red freak doubled, Krekorian and Philip Martin had to get to in dummy and leading a low heart to his ♥K. If Arnold Dana of Framingham MA picked up a and make the slam to win the board. anyone was short in hearts, it should be the red freak in the Swiss Teams. He had no idea how to preempter. If hearts were 2–2, South was going to handle it, so he just blasted. This was the deal: ♠ take all 13 tricks. Dlr: North 9 7 6 How to steal a trick: ♥ When East showed out of trumps, South lead a Vul: None Q 7 5 A drama in two acts ♦ heart back, forcing West to split his honors. Winning AQ ♣ by David Berkowitz the ♥A, declarer pitched his diamond loser on the A Q 10 4 3 ♠ ♠ One of the hallmarks of expert play has been other top spade, conceded a heart trick, and claimed A 10 4 3 K Q J 8 5 2 ♥ ♥ the ability to conjure extra tricks from nowhere. the balance. This deal was worth 12 matchpoints — A 10 6 2 ♦ ♦ Consider this deal from the Men’s Teams. a top — for the Rookie Pairs winners. 10 9 8 4 — Dlr: East ♠ K J 10 8 ♣ K 5 ♣ J 9 8 7 2 ♥ ♠ Vul: Both A K Q J 8 4 It’s a jungle out there — ♦ Q 10 5 ♥ K J 9 8 4 3 Jim Gardner had to work hard to halve this ♣ — ♦ K J 7 6 5 3 2 board from the first final of the Men’s Board-a- ♠ 9 8 7 3 2 ♠ A5 4 ♣ — Match Teams. ♥ — ♥ 6 5 2 West North East South Dlr: South ♠ Q 4 2 ♦ K 6 ♦ A J 9 3 2 1NT 2♠ 6♦! Vul: Both ♥ J 8 5 3 ♣ A K J 6 5 4 ♣ 8 2 All Pass ♦ Q 9 8 ♠ Q All’s well that ends well — Dana landed in a ♣ 5 4 3 ♥ 10 9 7 3 contract that can’t be defeated. What would have ♠ J 8 6 5 ♠ 7 3 ♦ 8 7 4 happened if he had decided on hearts instead? If ♥ 7 ♥ Q 4 2 ♣ Q 10 9 7 3 East had the nerve to double for an unusual lead, ♦ A7 4 3 ♦ K J 10 5 2 West North East South West would have had to choose the right suit to lead ♣ AQ 8 6 ♣ 10 7 2 1♣ Dbl — diamonds. ♠ A K 10 9 1♦ 1♥ 1♠ 4♥ ♥ A K 10 9 6 Dbl All Pass ♦ 6 Take nothing for granted Yes, 4♠ is a possible make, but both tables ♣ K J 9 On this deal, Jim Krekorian had to play v–e–r–y played 4♥ from the South seat. West North East South carefully to bring home his slam. Against the club lead, our declarer ruffed in ♠ 1♥ Dlr: South 7 dummy and tried to steal a spade trick by leading ♥ Dbl 2♥ 3♦ 4♥ Vul: None K 10 9 8 the ♠8. Stansby, who had been there before, rose ♦ All Pass K Q 9 8 4 2 with the ♠A and his low diamond shift quickly ♣ Jimmy Cayne, West, led the ♦A and continued A7 scuttled the contract. ♠ ♠ the suit. Gardner accepted the force, cashed the ♥A, 2 K Q 10 9 3 At the other table, Norman Kay, playing with ♥ ♥ then led the ♠10. When Cayne played low, Gardner Q 7 5 2 4 Edgar Kaplan, also ruffed (high), but did not lead a ♦ ♦ ran the ♠10, then led a spade to the ♠Q, finessed in J 10 6 5 3 spade. Instead he led a heart to his ♥9 and slid the ♣ ♣ trumps, drew the last trump and cashed the winning Q 10 9 5 4 3 2 K J 8 ♣9 on the table. West played low, Kay discarded a ♠ spades. Gardner then threw a diamond on the fourth A J 8 6 5 4 diamond, and thus stole his game, the right way. ♥ spade, and endplayed Cayne by exiting with the AJ 6 3 ♦ ♣K— just another routine game. A7 Right suit, right card ♣ 6 Eugene O’Neal found the defense to defeat 3♥ Slam wins, game loses North South on this deal from the Men’s Board-a-Match 1♠ Don Blum used good solid logic to bring home qualifying. 2♦ 2♥ his diamond slam on this deal from a Swiss teams (See column one on next page) 3♥ 4♦ match. O’Neal, West, led the ♥K, but after a look at the 4NT 5♣ (See next column) dummy, shifted to a diamond — the king! A low 5♦ 5♥ East scored the ♠A on the opening lead and diamond wouldn’t have worked. Declarer ruffed the 6♥ Pass shifted to a heart. It went ♥10, ♥J and ♥A. Blum led diamond continuation with the ♥J. Now declarer was The 4NT bid was Key Card Blackwood. the ♦2 and, without pause for thought, put up the ♦A, fixed — if he drove out the trump ace, O’Neal would Krekorian’s 5♣ showed 0 or 3 key cards. Martin’s dropping the singleton king. His play was no ♦ ♥ ♥ lead a diamond to his partner’s ace and a fourth 5 asked for the Q and 5 said, “No, sorry.” Continued on page 16 Page 16 Daily Bulletin

Nashville NABC ♠ 9 Brigitte now made the key play of a low spade ♥ — toward the ♠K Q 6. West ducked his ace, dummy’s Continued from page 15 ♦ — queen winning. A heart to the ace temporarily set up ♣ 10 4 five tricks for the defense, but then the thirteenth ♠ Dlr: West A K Q 5 4 2 ♠ — ♠ — club crushed West. He had to ditch a heart, after ♥ Vul: Both Q J 5 ♥ J 10 ♥ — which declarer played her second spade, setting up ♦ 5 ♦ — ♦ — the ♠K as her ninth trick. ♣ AJ 5 ♣ 9 ♣ Q 8 7 5 ♠ ♠ J 8 3 10 6 ♠ 10 An unusual reprise ♥ AK 9 ♥ 4 2 ♥ 7 6 Once in a while a player comes by with a story ♦ K 7 6 ♦ A 9 8 4 3 ♦ — about a hand that has already been in the Daily ♣ Q 10 7 2 ♣ 9 8 4 3 ♣ — Bulletin. Most of the time, we listen graciously and ♠ 9 7 ♣ What could East do? If he led the Q, Hamman later forget about it. But sometimes the story is so ♥ 10 9 7 6 3 ♣ could ruff and the 10 would be set up. And if he good, that it bears telling, even if the hand is a ♦ Q J 10 2 led low, Hamman, playing for split honors, would repeat. ♣ K 6 let it ride to his 10 for the same ending. The following deal was shown featuring Jim West North East South Krekorian as he made 6♥. is the 1♣ Dbl 1♦ 1♥ Down under, up and over hero-goat in the new version — and the source of 2♦ 2♠ 3♦ Dbl the story is none other than Weichsel. Pass 3♥ All Pass by Keith Kat Brigitte Rainsford of Australia punished West Dlr: South ♠ 7 Vul: None ♥ K 10 9 8 diamond would allow O’Neal to score his ♥9. That in for his bad lead on this deal from a regional pairs ♦ K Q 9 8 4 2 fact was the line declarer tried and as a result suffered game. ♠ ♣ A7 a one-trick defeat on the deal. Dlr: West K Q 6 ♥ ♠ 2 ♠ K Q 10 9 3 Declarer’s best counter to O’Neal’s attack Vul: None J 8 3 ♦ ♥ Q 7 5 2 ♥ 4 would have been to discard on the second diamond A K 7 3 ♣ ♦ J ♦ 10 6 5 3 and let East score his ace. Now declarer would have 4 3 2 ♠ ♠ ♣ Q 10 9 5 4 3 2 ♣ K J 8 control of the hand and score nine tricks. AJ 10 9 7 4 3 2 ♥ 10 9 4 2 ♥ Q 7 5 ♠ A J 8 6 5 4 ♦ ♦ ♥ A J 6 3 No wonder he’s a champ Q 9 8 5 4 ♣ AJ 6 ♣ Q 7 5 ♦ A7 Bob Hamman found a neat ending on this deal. ♠ 8 5 ♣ 6 ♠ Dlr: West A 9 6 2 ♥ AK 6 West North East South ♥ Vul: None 8 2 ♦ J 10 6 2 1♠ ♦ K 7 5 3 ♣ K 10 9 8 3♣ 3♦ 4♣ Pass ♣ A 10 4 After West opened 1♦, Brigitte, South, got to Pass Dbl Pass 4♠! ♠ ♠ 8 7 J 5 3 3NT in a sequence best left undisclosed. Pass Pass Dbl All Pass ♥ ♥ A Q J 10 5 K 9 West got off to the lead of the ♥10, covered all Weichsel knew his partner, Bobby Levin, didn’t ♦ ♦ 6 4 J 10 9 2 the way around. The ♦J was passed and a low have five hearts because of his double of 4♣. “I ♣ ♣ K 9 3 2 Q 8 7 5 diamond to the ♦K revealed the bad break. A low should have allowed for the possibility that he had ♠ K Q 10 4 club was run to the ♣8 and West’s ♣J. West then four hearts,” said Weichsel. But now he was in a ♥ 7 6 4 3 continued with ace and another club, declarer bad contract, and, as he says, “Bad bids cause good ♦ AQ 8 winning her king. This was the position with South plays.” ♣ J 6 on lead, having lost two tricks: He took the opening club lead with the ♣A and West North East South ♠ K Q 6 led the ♠7. East, whose double had given away a ♠ Pass Pass Pass 1 ♥ 8 3 tremendous amount of information, put up the ♠K ♥ ♥ ♠ 2 3 Pass 4 ♦ K 7 and Weichsel won with the ace. Since he was quite All Pass ♣ — sure that East had five trumps, Weichsel went after ♥ West began with the A and continued the suit ♠ AJ ♠ 10 9 7 4 3 diamonds, cashing the ace and leading to the queen. ♥ ♦ to East’s K. Hamman took the J with the ace and ♥ 9 4 2 ♥ 7 5 He cashed the ♦K and ruffed a diamond, setting up quickly drew three rounds of trumps, ending in ♦ Q 9 ♦ — the suit. ♣ hand. He led the J, and West was forced to cover ♣ — ♣ — He still had the problem of the heart suit, but he — dummy took the trick with the ace. Next came ♠ 8 5 had already determined that South probably had two more rounds of diamonds. At trick 10, Hamman ♥ A6 four. So he took a finesse to the ♥8. When this led dummy’s last diamond, and discarded a club as ♦ 10 6 lived, he was home. He led diamonds, and all East- ♦ East won with the 10. This was the position with ♣ 9 West could take were three trump tricks — plus East on lead: 590.

WERNHER OPEN PAIRS - SECOND QUAL SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS D E EAST-WEST 1 Steven Schatzow, Washington DC; Sarah Goodstein, Potomac MD 61.77% 1 Janet Robertson, Timonium MD; Ron Haack, New York NY 63.77% 2 Phillip Becker, Beachwood OH; Dennis McGarry, Stuart FL 61.15% 2 Ellyn Plato, Hastings Hdsn NY; Helen Raleigh, Suffern NY 61.54% 3 Stasha Cohen, Glen Ridge NJ; Susan Picus, New York NY 56.62% 3 James Bush, Metairie LA; Timothy Joder, Lanesboro MA 56.77% 4 Patricia Chambers - Robin Chambers, Palo Alto CA 56.00% 4 Jim Dobbyn, Birmingham AL; Douglas McAvoy, Hamilton ON 56.62% 5 Beverly Perry, New York NY; Richard Zucker, Dobbs Ferry NY 55.69% 5/6 Alan Lechner - Elliot Sternlicht, New York NY 56.15% 6 Nels Erickson, Sparks NV; Marjorie Michelin, Los Angeles CA 55.00% 5/6 Barry Gorski - Kathleen Del Corso, Reading PA 56.15% 7 Ava Grubman - Elliott Grubman, Brooklyn NY 54.62% 7 Irina Ladyzhensky - Alexander Ladyzhensky, Ellenton FL 55.15% 8 Jesse Reisman - Cheryl Angel, Livingston NJ 54.23% 8 Kamla Chawla, Longmeadow MA; Jacqueline Sincoff, Saint Louis MO 54.31% 9 Robert Hollow, Madoc ON; Martin Morris, Wheeling IL 53.46% 9 Judith Weisman, Englewood NJ; John Solodar, Palm Beach Gdns FL 53.62% 10 Richard Morgen, Havertown PA; Andy Muenz, Glenolden PA 53.23% 10 David Yang, Chicago IL; Jeff Fang, Arcadia CA 53.00% 11 Janet Daling - Steve Mansfield, Seattle WA 52.69% 11 Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA; Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA 52.46% 12 Mary Oshlag - Richard Oshlag, Germantown TN 52.15% 12 Edward Foran, Marietta GA; Leah Stapleton, Oklahoma City OK 51.92% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS F G EAST-WEST 1 Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL; Warren Oberfield, Pittsburgh PA 63.23% 1 Ahmed Sorathia, Chino CA; Mariko Kakimoto, Newport Beach CA 67.92% 2 Sally Strul, Delray Beach FL; Ora Lourie, Hypoluxo FL 61.38% 2 Craig Robinson, Lansdale PA; Rick Rowland, Wilmington DE 61.38% 3 David Ruderman, Burtonsville MD; Alfred Steinberg, Potomac MD 58.69% 3 Bette Cohn, Sarasota FL; Susi Ross, Winter Spgs FL 60.69% 4 Lin-Huan Chen - Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Kirksville MO 56.15% 4 Franklin Lowenthal, Pleasanton CA; Roger Clough, Culver City CA 56.85% 5 Suzy Burger, West Bloomfield MI; Susan Wexler, New York NY 53.23% 5 Cathy Nathan - Marc Nathan, Thousand Oaks CA 56.23% 6 Della Schnell - John Schnell, Fresno CA 53.15% 6 Lee Bukstel, Boca Raton FL; Penelope Millar, Indianapolis IN 54.92% 7 William Ge - Gary Ge, Vancouver BC 53.00% 7 Arthur Lowen - Dot Blue, Nashville TN 53.69% 8 Bill Huepenbecker, Huron OH; Jonathan Holmes, Houston TX 52.38% 8 Steven Cooper - Kitty Cooper, Albuquerque NM 53.31% 9 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; John Jones, Hacienda Hgts CA 52.31% 9 Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; Diana Marquardt, Del Mar CA 53.00% 10 Don Little - Donald Patterson, Steamboat Spr CO 52.15% 10 Harley Bress, Lakewood CO; Paul Linxwiler, Memphis TN 51.85% 11 Lowell Andrews, Huntington Bch CA; Daniel Williams, Denver CO 51.54% 11 Ken Cohen, Philadelphia PA; Neal Satten, Wynnewood PA 50.54% 12 John Herriot, Los Angeles CA; Don Lussky, Elmhurst IL 51.38% 12 Chuck Malcolm - Marti Malcolm, Topeka KS 50.38% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A B I EAST-WEST 1 Judy Kay-Wolff, Las Vegas NV; Jane Segal, Villanova PA 63.74% 1 Daniel Korbel, Waterloo ON; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON 67.61% 2 A Koffler - Nancy Koffler, Saint-Laurent QC 58.22% 2 Joe Quinn, 30-218 Krakow Poland; Ira Hessel, San Antonio TX 62.90% 3 George Wang - Janet Ju, El Monte CA 58.12% 3 Jerry Helms - Robert Bitterman, Charlotte NC 61.44% 4 Robin Wilkinson - Chuck Wilkinson, Jackson MS 57.87% 4 Abraham Pineles, Jackson NJ; Alexander Allen, Annandale NJ 59.94% 5 Betsey Schneider, San Carlos CA; Donald Blum, Atlanta GA 57.29% 5 Martin Hinds, Bakersfield CA; Anne Arndt, Puyallup WA 59.21% 6 Lori Spaeth, Los Altos CA; Jacqueline Ortiz, Santa Rosa CA 57.24% 6 Ed Ulman, Portland OR; Jim Looby, Burbank CA 57.95% 7 Diane Graese, Las Vegas NV; Martin Caley, Montreal QC 56.83% 7 Jo Morse, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Haig Tchamitch, Scottsdale AZ 57.59% 8 Sherry Jackson, New York NY; Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY 56.53% 8/9 Leslie Paryzer, Bronx NY; Stephen Goldstein, Gardena CA 56.83% 9 Winston Legge Jr - Jennie Legge, Pensacola FL 56.28% 8/9 Kenji Miyakuni, Tokyo Japan; Yukiko Tokunaga, 1800002 Japan 56.83% 10 John Griscom, Boca Raton FL; John Lewis, Ft Lauderdale FL 56.07% 10 Sharon Hammer, Huntington Bh CA; Matthew Mallory, San Diego CA 56.53% 11 Sherrill Headrick, River Oaks TX; Donald Stack, Overland Park KS 55.26% 11 Douglas Bullock, Boise ID; Kris Miller, Reston VA 55.62% 12 Linda Smith - Ron Smith, Hixson TN 55.21% 12 S Fuhrmann, Madison WI; Glenna Shannahan, Fitchburg WI 55.26% 13 Heather Cutting - Gary Macgregor, Portola Valley CA 54.96% 13 Susan Miller, Boca Raton FL; Jerry Weinstein, Las Vegas NV 54.86% 14 Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH; Richard Katz, N Versailles PA 54.81% 14 Brian Gunnell - John Brady, Jacksonville FL 54.05% 15 Rita Ellington, Traverse City MI; Robert Morris, Houston TX 54.00% 15 Diane Walker, Gaithersburg MD; Ellen Cherniavsky, Silver Spring MD 53.80% 16 Richard Roiseman - Steven McMahan, Nashville TN 53.85% 16 Victor Melman - Janos Racz, Scarsdale NY 53.06% 17 Bob Gwirtzman, Brooklyn NY; Ira Ewen, New York NY 53.62% 17 Patricia Katz, Pittsburgh PA; Larry Cohen, Las Vegas NV 52.53% 18 David Moss - Andrew Rosenthal, New York NY 52.94% 18/19 Carolyn Sessler, Waltham MA; Anton Tsypkin, Sharon MA 52.28% 19 George Bloomer - Judith Bloomer, Pittsboro NC 52.25% 18/19 William Arlinghaus, Ann Arbor MI; Dave Swarthout, Newberry MI 52.28% Daily Bulletin Page 17

TUESDAY EVENING SIDE GAME NORTH-SOUTH SECTION SS EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Ramon Harris - Gardner Dixon, Nashville TN 65.05% 1 Nancy Boyd, San Ramon CA; Jean Molnar, Chula Vista CA 61.81% 2 Frances Schneider - Bernard Schneider, Riverside CT 60.88% 2 Paul Tobias - Elizabeth Tobias, Austin TX 60.42% 3 Lachman Advani - Judie Belyea, Ottawa ON 56.25% 3 Cetin Okcuoglu, Moorestown NJ; Amal Dasgupta, Wilmington DE 57.41% 4 1 1 George Van Amburg - Helen Van Amburg, Dewitt MI 52.08% 4 1 Gillian Cook, Oceanside CA; Manzoor Khan, Pointe-Claire QC 51.39% 2 Elizabeth Moore - Jane Wininger, Glasgow KY 49.77% 2 1 T Poisson, Belle River ON; Louis Poisson, Tampa FL 50.46% 3 Tom Nute - Shirley Prewitt, Fort Worth TX 49.77% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION TT EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Evelyn Gilliard, East Point GA; Estelle Lavender, Birmingham AL 60.42% 1 1 1 Phyllis Bishop, Loveland OH; Susan Hermans, West Chester OH 58.80% 2 2 1 Jerry Haney - Judith Haney, King George VA 59.26% 2 Judy Elbogen, Mission Viejo CA; Linda Trent, Fullerton CA 58.33% 3 Zerelene Jones, Lafayette LA; Susan Meyers, Mt Kisco NY 59.03% 3 2 Robert Abrams, Atlanta GA; Michael Abrams, Pasadena CA 56.02% 4 Edward Mitchell, Hyannis MA; Bee Hallett, Fort Myers FL 52.55% 4 3 Rees Mitchell, Brentwood TN; Gregory Reichert, Nashville TN 53.01% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UU EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Greta Pineles, Jackson NJ; Margaret Coe, Linwood NJ 57.20% 1 1 Nancy Massey - Cecil Crowson Jr, Morelos Mexico 59.72% 2 Irving Feinglass, Delray Beach FL; Ronnie Ferestien, Waban MA 54.49% 2 2 Lee Stimson - Luanne Russell, Alexander City AL 54.86% 3 Doris Denny, Chapala Mexico; Mary Anderson, Laredo TX 54.02% 3 3 1 Elaine Vona - Mary Miller, Redmond WA 53.56% 4 1 1 Robert Wright - Olga Wright, Calgary AB 51.59% 4 Douglas Parker, Marianna FL; Phillip Thompson, Campbellsville KY 52.92% 2 Robert Porter, Henderson NV; Joseph Collins, Regina SK 51.39%

TUESDAY 1 PM OPEN PAIRS NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS VV WW EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Rona Levine, New York NY; Gloria Tamlyn, Larchmont NY 60.68% 1 Carol Fielder, Jackson MS; Merle Stetser, Honolulu HI 60.46% 2 Shou-Ling Wang, Bethesda MD; Frank Mastrola, Swansea MA 59.15% 2 Adele Verkamp, Phoenix AZ; JoAnne Lowe, Fountain Hls AZ 59.80% 3 2 1 Frazer McCrorey, Highlands NC; Karen Coulter, Columbia SC 56.32% 3 Preston Morrow, Dallas TX; Sandra Stevens, Katy TX 57.30% 4 Bettye Golden, Brentwood TN; Anna Buchanan, Nashville TN 53.27% 4 Ann Brinker Schwall - Stephen Schwall, Houston TX 56.54% 5 Shirley Stanton - Wanda Meyer, Houston TX 53.16% 5 1 Virginia Leavy, West Newton MA; Rachel Hillman, Madison WI 56.43% 6 3 Paul Quayle, Gilbertsville KY; Fran Russell, Paducah KY 53.05% 6 Richard Bender, Springfield MO; Paul Ross, Fair Grove MO 54.79% 7 Bob Carteaux, Fort Wayne IN; Paul White, Edmond OK 52.72% 7 2 Joanne Angell - Laurence Angell, Birmingham AL 53.92% 8 4 Marcia Bryant, Southern Pines NC; Don Morgan, Houston TX 52.40% 8 3 1 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Peter Manzon, Waltham MA 53.38% 9 5 2 Tamah Goad - Rick Goad, Lake Charles LA 52.18% 9 4 Edwin Katten, Cave Creek AZ; Richard A Starbuck, Sun City West AZ 52.40% 5 Wayne O’Connor - Marilyn O’Connor, Dayton OH 50.54% 2 Roger Koeppe II - Thomas Graff, Fayetteville AR 45.53% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS XX YY EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Ernest Stuber Jr, Germantown TN; Madie Brice, Cordova TN 56.43% 1 Jesus Arias - Susan Schnelwar, New York NY 65.14% 2 Gary Zeiger, Phoenix AZ; Patty Holmes, Las Vegas NV 56.21% 2 Mark Brighouse, Towaco NJ; Harvinder Sidhu, Marlton NJ 54.79% 3 1 Steven Goodman - Laurence Mayer, Overland Park KS 55.01% 3/4 1/2 Roger Hallum - Jeanie Bettis, Vancouver WA 53.70% 4 David Kahane - Joanne Wright, Evansville IN 54.90% 3/4 1/2 James Sullivan - Carolyn Sullivan, Richfield OH 53.70% 5 2 Roxana Tom, Campbellton TX; Roxana Tom, San Antonio TX 53.70% 5 3 Richard D’Litzenberger, Leavenworth WA; Guy Bruno, Peoria AZ 53.59% 6 Myrna Murphy, Kentville NS; Allen Reiter, Caesaria Israel 53.49% 6 Lacy Jennings, San Diego CA; Ruth Green, Cleveland TN 53.54% 7 Nancy Zakim, Kentfield CA; Sam Graham, Germantown TN 52.94% 7 Patricia Smith, Franklin TN; Carol Cox, Nashville TN 53.38% 8 3 Danielle Le Blanc - Osvaldo Barreiro, Pasadena CA 52.72% 8 4 Linda Gallaher, Morehead KY; Marvin Kolodzik, Cincinnati OH 52.83% 9 Virginia Munafo - Cindy Sealy, Huntsville AL 52.61% 9 5 Risa Campbell, Brownsville TN; Suzanne Siebert, Little Rock AR 51.85% 4 Keith Overpeck - Thomas Reece, Louisville KY 52.40% 1 Chester Mott - Lois Mott, Linesville PA 50.87% 5 Nathaniel Reid - Barbara Boswell, Cincinnati OH 51.96% 2 Matthew O’Connor, Ridgewood NJ; Jennifer Broekman, Fair Lawn NJ 47.93% 1 Patrick Dutson, Cincinnati OH; Joe Sinkey, Athens GA 48.58% 2 Jane Anne Gawlas - Carol Armstrong, Charlotte NC 44.77%

TUESDAY EVENING 50/100/300 PAIRS - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION JJJ EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Merelyn Hallowell - Alice Luxmore, Keswick ON 63.45% 1 Terrence Ibbs, Miami Beach FL; Jackie Erickson-Schwei, Destrehan LA 62.69% 2 1 1 Ann Brewster, Rochester NY; Olivia Guthrie, Walnut Creek CA 58.33% 2 Richard Coulter, Columbia SC; Roy McCrorey, Highlands NC 58.71% 3 Linda Schanz - Dianne Rogots, Las Vegas NV 57.77% 3 Mary Ann Oakley - Godfrey Oakley Jr, Atlanta GA 57.20% 4 2 Frances Murrell - Betty McCauley, Oklahoma City OK 56.06% 4 Virginia Stewart, Richmond VA; Gwen Knapp, Glencoe IL 55.68% 5 Susan Aronson, West Palm Bch FL; Morris Mitchem Jr, Columbia SC 55.49% 5 Pat Lonergan, Vienna VA; James Biss, Arlington VA 54.17% 6 3 Kevin Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY; Trevor Ames, Springfield MA 51.33% 6 1 Beverly Broomhead, Villa Hills KY; Frances Brothers, Union KY 52.65% 2 Mary Hamlett - Loretta Gibbens, Nashville TN 48.48% 1 Susan Williams, Walland TN; Polly Lanz, Maryville TN 46.21%

TUESDAY SENIOR PAIRS - 1ST OF 2 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION OOO EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Ruth Stober, Great Neck NY; Keith Garber, Las Vegas NV 62.65% 1 Liz Kalb, Bloomfield MI; Ruth Stearns, Glendale WI 60.10% 2 Geraldine Chavez, Cincinnati OH; Georgette King, Miami Beach FL 59.66% 2 Brian Hingerty, Knoxville TN; Julian Heicklen, Teaneck NJ 57.33% 3 1 Evelyn Albert - Jack Albert, Boca Raton FL 58.79% 3 1 John Jensen, Maysville KY; Suanne Blair, Morehead KY 56.32% 4 Harriette Myers, Mequon WI; Joan Stein, Milwaukee WI 54.58% 4 2 June Jorgensen, Jackson CA; William Graber, Markham ON 54.39% 5 2 Kenneth Hardcastle - Gladys Hardcastle, Atlanta GA 50.36% 5 Larry Federico - Idell Adams, Baton Rouge LA 52.10% 6 Genevieve Hewitt - Richard Hewitt, New York NY 50.25% 6 3 1 Gwen Kyle - Cathy Youmans, Knoxville TN 52.04% 3 Jo Anne McLeod, Ridgeland MS; Jan Omley, Brandon MS 49.93% 4/5 John Cagney - Edith Cagney, Frankfort IL 51.63% 4 1 J Davis Jr - Donna Davis, Kingsland TX 49.24% 4/5 Jenny Hulsey, Collierville TN; Rachel Bass, Germantown TN 51.63% 2 John Spitz - D Overly, Loudon TN 48.92% 2 Barbara Stone - Joel Stone, Glencoe IL 48.30% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION PPP EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Annette Lee McHann, Brandon MS; Justina McKee, Fernwood MS 68.43% 1 Joseph Toce, La Crosse WI; Bruce Thiher, Minneapolis MN 69.23% 2 Ann Cady, Roxbury CT; Harold Feldheim, Hamden CT 58.97% 2 Anita Burgis - Maritha Pottenger, San Diego CA 60.90% 3 Arleen Lehman, Boca Raton FL; Janice Feinglass, Delray Beach FL 56.57% 3 Joseph Machotka, Chicago IL; Joan McKeon, Queensland Australia 58.97% 4 Sandra DeMartino, Riverside CT; Phyllis Bausher, West Haven CT 55.93% 4 1 1 James Lawler, Brentwood TN; Lawson Freeman Jr, Nashville TN 54.01% 5 Nada Sundermeyer - Clay Sundermeyer, Bellevue WA 52.72% 5 Ruby Killebrew, Collierville TN; Barbara Johnson, Memphis TN 53.21% 6 Liz Bartholomew, Pennington NJ; Margaret Coe, Linwood NJ 51.92% 6 2 2 Bill Jones - Fran Cockcroft, Little Rock AR 49.84% 1 Pamela Wiegmann - J Wiegmann, Lewisville TX 50.00% 3 Art Kupersmith - Julie Kupersmith, Marion IN 48.08% 2 Peggy Ellis - Jean Ludwig, New York NY 49.20% 3 Lynn Brown, Palm Coast FL; Michael Lattyak, Westchester IL 48.40% 1 John Bliss - Dixie Bliss, Laguna Woods CA 46.63% 2 Kathleen Zipp, Denver CO; Elizabeth Thornton, Englewood CO 41.67%

TUESDAY AFTERNOON FAST PAIRS - SECOND SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION SSS EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Paul Kelley Jr - Rosemary Kelley, Austin TX 61.17% 1 Gary Schwartz, Huntsville AL; Peter Matthews Jr, Roslindale MA 59.66% 2 Richard Anderson, Regina SK; Glenn Smith, Chesterfield MO 55.11% 2 1 Deanna Lewis, Presque Isle MI; Dorothy Demarest, Naples FL 57.39% 3 1 1 Lloyd Routman, Boynton Beach FL; Mark Routman, Cleveland MS 53.03% 3 2 David Vine - William Adams Jr, Hixson TN 57.20% 4 Arne Maki - Gene Maki, Dallas OR 51.33% 4 Thomas Weik, Reading PA; Sandra Gebhardt, Fleetwood PA 55.68% 5 2 Carol Pollock - Doralee Levoff, Delray Beach FL 50.76% 5 Marilyn Mac Donald - Bill Mac Donald, Corpus Christi TX 54.55% 6 , Atlanta GA; Peter Clark, Ottawa ON 50.38% 6 Kirt Robins - Teddy Robins, Garnet Valley PA 53.98% 3 Joseph Meyers - Beverly Pogoda, New York NY 49.81% 3 1 Arthur Beach - John Beach, Columbus OH 52.65% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION TTT EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Janet Wickersham, Sierra Madre CA; Betty Jackson, Seal Beach CA 59.85% 1 1 1 Michael Abrams, Pasadena CA; Robert Abrams, Atlanta GA 62.88% 2 1 1 Nancy Minor - Mary Murray, Savannah GA 58.33% 2 Eli Schneider - Cynthia Schneider, East Brunswick NJ 58.71% 3 2 Janice Trott, Devonshire Bermuda; Jan Fischer, San Diego CA 55.87% 3 2 Gary Brown, San Francisco CA; Mark Kotlarsky, Laurel MD 58.33% 4 Abe Jakob, Ft Lauderdale FL; Helen Shanbrom, Tamarac FL 55.30% 4 William Dubay - Andrew Dubay, Voorheesville NY 54.92% 5 Margery Martin, New Rochelle NY; Carol Willner, Larchmont NY 52.46% 5 3 James Greiner - Rosemary Bruggen, Loudon TN 53.98% 6 Alice Kinningham, Aurora CO; Derald Keetch, Glenwood NM 52.27% 6 Ronnie Ferestien, Waban MA; Irving Feinglass, Delray Beach FL 53.41% 2 Alan Schneider - Sherie Schneider, Beverly Hills CA 45.08%

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY SIDE SERIES - 2ND OF 3 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION SS EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Evelyn Gilliard, East Point GA; Estelle Lavender, Birmingham AL 62.96% 1 1 Geoffrey Cross, Fernandina FL; Marianne Cross, Fernandina Bch FL 63.19% 2 Bea Bahr - Chet Bahr, Rochester MN 58.80% 2 Arnold Federman, Palisades Park NJ; Lenore Silver, New York NY 58.80% 3 John Herrmann, Chattanooga TN; Jean Willis, El Dorado AR 55.56% 3 2 1 Steven Lipson - Serl Zimmerman, Palm Desert CA 58.56% 4/5 2/3 1 Jo Ann Ramsey, Dunedin FL; Rosa Waldrep, Clearwater FL 52.55% 4 3 Marge Chipman, Hendersonville TN; Janice Miller, Carthage TN 56.71% 4/5 2/3 Regina Strauss, Cherry Hill NJ; Richard Stone, Princeton NJ 52.55% 5 4 Fay Teal, Kitchener ON; Dixie Hornby, Albuquerque NM 55.79% 4 Manzoor Khan, Pointe-Claire QC; Gillian Cook, Oceanside CA 52.31% 2 Carol Sigler - Fred Sigler, Lebanon OH 46.76% 2 Simeon Prager - Michael Sherberg, Olivette MO 48.61% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION TT EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Abbie Cole, New York NY; Sharon Jabbour, Boca Raton FL 66.67% 1 Harold Baba, Ajax ON; Frances Ash, Thornhill ON 59.03% 2 1 1 Jay Hitt, Goodlettsville TN; Tim Butterbaugh, Paducah KY 58.10% 2 Rose Burke, Bloomfield Hill MI; Jon Coffee, Northville MI 57.18% 3/4 2/3 Gerry Mirus - Patti English, Cincinnati OH 55.56% 3 1 1 Theresa Schneider, Northbrook IL; Mary Schultze, Union MI 53.47% 3/4 2/3 2 James Rash, Bellefontaine OH; G Jean Lee, Cocoa FL 55.56% 4 2 Susan Shorter, Saint Paul MN; Kerry Brothers, Oxbow ND 51.39% 4 3 Eleanor Nuellen - James Nuellen, Lockport IL 50.00% 3/4 2/3 Jennifer Reid, Gallatin TN; Barbara Potter, Nashville TN 51.16% 3/4 2/3 Fred Mohl, Matteson IL; Elayne Rupert, Parma OH 51.16% Page 18 Daily Bulletin

NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UU EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Elayne Kadis - Kenneth Kadis, Boca Raton FL 60.65% 1 Judy Elbogen, Mission Viejo CA; Dee Adams, Memphis TN 63.89% 2 Arline Susswein - Viktor Anikovich, Los Angeles CA 60.42% 2 1 1 Debbie Wagner, Athen GA; James Smith, Brooklyn Park MN 58.33% 3 1 1 Frances Scales, White’s Creek TN; George Moorman, Nashville TN 55.79% 3 Paul McGough, Langley WA; Joan Brod, Avon CT 56.02% 4/5 2 Joyce Hart - Richard Hart, Piedmont CA 53.01% 4 2 2 Jonathan Bittner, New Haven CT; Alex Lovejoy, Summit NJ 52.31% 4/5 Jacqueline Walker, San Diego CA; Helen Miller, Miller Place NY 53.01% 5 3 Roslyn McMahan, Nashville TN; Ann Williams, Brentwood TN 51.39% 3 2 Tammy Pepper, Thousand Oaks CA; Virginia Dewing, Blue Hill ME 51.16% 4 Barbara Murphy, Needham MA; Alan Korpi, Waltham MA 48.61% 4 Rosalyn Sukenik, Cleveland OH; Brenda Goldberg, Shaker Heights OH 48.61%

TUESDAY STRATIFIED OPEN PRS - FIRST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS VV WW EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Ellen Miller, Highland Park IL; Alfred Killian, Sebastian FL 60.02% 1 Franklin Kasle, Flint MI; Martin Hirschman, Southfield MI 67.21% 2 Harry Nuckols - Mary Poplawski, Vestal NY 56.54% 2 David Wakeman - Rita Wakeman, Irvine CA 63.62% 3 Jesus Arias - Susan Schnelwar, New York NY 55.56% 3 Mark Brighouse, Towaco NJ; Harvinder Sidhu, Marlton NJ 58.39% 4 Bob Carteaux, Fort Wayne IN; Paul White, Edmond OK 54.79% 4 Shirley Stanton - Wanda Meyer, Houston TX 58.17% 5 1 1 Catherine Sallar, Fall River MA; Kerry Hicks, Dominion NS 54.25% 5 1 Rona Levine, New York NY; Gloria Tamlyn, Larchmont NY 56.97% 6 Nancy Wilson - Fred Wilson, Carmel IN 53.59% 6 Judy Fisher, Monte Sereno CA; Bonnie Beardsley, Milpitas CA 55.23% 7 2 2 Matthew O’Connor, Ridgewood NJ; Jennifer Broekman, Fair Lawn NJ 52.72% 7 2 Jane Dickerson, Atlanta GA; Losia McCann, Marietta GA 54.47% 8 Barbara Bates, Westerville OH; Joyce Penn, Columbus OH 52.40% 8 Jon Nance - Jill Nance, Springfield MO 53.59% 9 3 Constance Galanti, Joliet IL; Wynn Kamps, Naperville IL 51.85% 9 Tom Denny, Newark DE; Dolores Brenner, Santa Fe NM 49.89% 4 Gloria Trinkunas, Weston FL; Jo Ann Rauch, Miami FL 50.76% 3 Janice Phillips - Kate Smith, Atlanta GA 49.46% 5 Nancy Frank, Glencoe IL; Arlene Karel, Highland Park IL 50.22% 4 Paul Quayle, Gilbertsville KY; Fran Russell, Paducah KY 48.58% 5 1 Frazer McCrorey, Highlands NC; Karen Coulter, Columbia SC 48.37% 2 Terryl Francis, Glen Carbon IL; Carol Merwin, Roseville CA 44.77% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS XX YY EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1/2 Andrew Tylman, Toronto ON; Martin Hunter, Mississauga ON 64.27% 1 Bobbie Gomer, Willow Grove PA; Don Brock, Brampton ON 62.31% 1/2 Cameron Doner, Richmond BC; Terry Currie, Houston TX 64.27% 2 Richard Bender, Springfield MO; Paul Ross, Fair Grove MO 59.59% 3/4 Myrna Murphy, Kentville NS; Allen Reiter, Caesaria Israel 58.71% 3 David Kahane - Joanne Wright, Evansville IN 58.06% 3/4 1 Roxana Tom, Campbellton TX; Roxana Tom, San Antonio TX 58.71% 4 Ernest Stuber Jr, Germantown TN; Madie Brice, Cordova TN 57.41% 5 2 Howard Herndon, Jr, Nashville TN; Barbara Moomy, Hendersonville TN 54.36% 5 1 C Kay Teal, Richland WA; Celia Lee, Hendersonville TN 56.43% 6 3 1 Patrick Dutson, Cincinnati OH; Joe Sinkey, Athens GA 53.81% 6 2 Keith Overpeck - Thomas Reece, Louisville KY 55.99% 7 Gail Bell, King of Prussia PA; Charles Gray, Philadelphia PA 53.70% 7 Mimi Little - Cordette Wall, Birmingham AL 55.56% 8 4 Danielle Le Blanc - Osvaldo Barreiro, Pasadena CA 53.38% 8 Gary Zeiger, Phoenix AZ; Patty Holmes, Las Vegas NV 55.34% 9 Virginia Munafo - Cindy Sealy, Huntsville AL 52.40% 9 3 Nathaniel Reid - Barbara Boswell, Cincinnati OH 54.58% 5 Steven Goodman - Laurence Mayer, Overland Park KS 50.44% 4 1 Jane Anne Gawlas - Carol Armstrong, Charlotte NC 51.85% 2 Robert Bertoni, Haverhill MA; Peter Manzon, Waltham MA 45.10% 5 Elena Hickman, Cincinnati OH; Laura Owens, Loveland OH 49.56% 2 Donna Frederick - Robert Frederick, The Woodlands TX 47.06%

TUESDAY SENIOR PAIRS - TUES AFTERNOON 2ND OF 2 SESSIONS NORTH-SOUTH SECTION OOO EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Judie Belyea - Lachman Advani, Ottawa ON 58.54% 1 Joseph Toce, La Crosse WI; Bruce Thiher, Minneapolis MN 62.99% 2 Larry Federico - Idell Adams, Baton Rouge LA 58.40% 2 Nada Sundermeyer - Clay Sundermeyer, Bellevue WA 62.81% 3 Brian Hingerty, Knoxville TN; Julian Heicklen, Teaneck NJ 58.16% 3 Ruby Killebrew, Collierville TN; Barbara Johnson, Memphis TN 60.11% 4 Genevieve Hewitt - Richard Hewitt, New York NY 56.65% 4 1 David Cockcroft - Robert Downie Jr, Little Rock AR 57.22% 5 1 Tom Beardsley, Richmond KY; G Mackey, Lexington KY 55.93% 5 2 1 Kathleen Zipp, Denver CO; Elizabeth Thornton, Englewood CO 56.41% 6 2 1 Barbara Stone - Joel Stone, Glencoe IL 55.92% 6 3 Urte Baaij - Hendricus Baaij, Savannah GA 55.93% 3 John Cagney - Edith Cagney, Frankfort IL 47.21% 2 Joan Prezioso, Red Bank NJ; Marilyn Kogan, Avon-By-The-Sea NJ 53.49% 2 Gwen Kyle - Cathy Youmans, Knoxville TN 45.51% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION QQQ EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Elaine Ware, Vernon BC; , Toronto ON 63.37% 1 1 Jenny Hulsey, Collierville TN; Rachel Bass, Germantown TN 63.94% 2 Pat Jackson - Marilyn Roney, Huntsville AL 59.03% 2 Frank Cook, Montgomery AL; James Tucker Jr, Alexander City AL 58.65% 3 1 1 Avinash Lagu - Mary Lagu, Carmel IN 55.21% 3 Ilse Rothman - Edward Rothman, Dartmouth MA 58.33% 4 Joseph Machotka, Chicago IL; Joan McKeon, Queensland Australia 54.92% 4 Geraldine Chavez, Cincinnati OH; Georgette King, Miami Beach FL 58.01% 5 2 Pamela Wiegmann - J Wiegmann, Lewisville TX 53.13% 5 2 Kenneth Hardcastle - Gladys Hardcastle, Atlanta GA 56.09% 6 Giorgio Helmsdorff, Bogota Colombia; Cornelia Yoder, Vestal NY 52.40% 6 Dorothy White - Donald White, Dunedin FL 54.65% 3 2 Rita Johnson, Tampa FL; Trudi Rammelkamp, Jacksonville IL 50.80% 3 Jo Anne McLeod, Ridgeland MS; Jan Omley, Brandon MS 51.28% 4 Evelyn Albert - Jack Albert, Boca Raton FL 50.96% 1 C. Douglas Campbell - Carol Kalbfleisch, Oakville ON 48.56% 2 Marlyn McBroom - Marcia Moffett, Murfreesboro TN 43.27%

TUESDAY AFTERNOON 100/200/300 PAIRS - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION III EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Mary Hamlett - Loretta Gibbens, Nashville TN 63.10% 1 1 Muriel Brathwaite, Temple Terrace FL; Ryan Miller, Tampa FL 59.82% 2 2 2 Gary Fong - Gladys Fong, Saratoga CA 60.42% 2 2 Thomas Robinson - Marie Robinson, Nashville TN 56.85% 3 3 Mary Ann Oakley - Godfrey Oakley Jr, Atlanta GA 58.33% 3 3 1 Earline Cress - Sharyn Slaughter, Brentwood TN 51.79% 4 4 June Brune - Gerald Averbuch, Nashville TN 54.76% 4 4 Peter Boyd-Bowman, Greensboro NC; Joseph Lebeau, Smyrna TN 51.49% 2 Peggy Harbers - Mike Harbers, Franklin TN 47.02% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION JJJ EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Richard Bofferding - Diane Bofferding, Saginaw MI 58.93% 1 1 Pete Partin - James Rabb, Birmingham AL 64.58% 2 2 Don Norsworthy - Joan Norsworthy, Germantown TN 53.57% 2 2 Tom Beard - Sarah Pentecost, Dresden TN 60.12% 3 3 Elle Belt, Munfordville KY; Mary Domalewski, Elizabethtown KY 51.49% 3 3 1 Cathy Irving, Hot Sprgs Vlg AR; Virginia Dethomas, Hot Springs Vil AR 56.55% 4/5 Susan Frazee - Donna Plumer, Memphis TN 51.19% 4 Fran Silodor - Jerry Silodor, Boca Raton FL 53.27% 4/5 2 James Powers, Naples FL; James Carey, Clinton IA 51.19% 2 Candace Kasser, Natick MA; Roberta Pavlic, Wayland MA 44.35%

TUESDAY AFTERNOON 20/50 PAIRS - ONLY SESSION SECTION HHH AB 1 1 Regenia Weakley - David Weakley, Hendersonville TN 60.03% 2 2 Robert Bartlett - Mary Ellen Bartlett, Oak Grove MO 56.35% 3 Lynne Beresford, Fort Washington MD; Jackie Jones, Apopka FL 55.04% 4 Polly Lanz, Maryville TN; Susan Williams, Walland TN 53.18%

WERNHER OPEN PAIRS - FIRST QUALIFYING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS D E EAST-WEST 1 Richard Riezman - Roger Lord, Saint Louis MO 58.31% 1 Doug Herron - Peter Bonfanti, New York NY 63.11% 2 David Yang, Chicago IL; Jeff Fang, Arcadia CA 57.96% 2 Richard Morgen, Havertown PA; Andy Muenz, Glenolden PA 57.27% 3 Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA; Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA 57.80% 3 Kathy Newman, West Bloomfield MI; Beverly Gardner, Farmington Hls MI 55.96% 4 Ellyn Plato, Hastings Hdsn NY; Helen Raleigh, Suffern NY 56.00% 4 Mary Oshlag - Richard Oshlag, Germantown TN 55.74% 5 James Bush, Metairie LA; Timothy Joder, Lanesboro MA 54.92% 5 Joseph De Gaetano, Atkinson NH; Paul Nason, Los Angeles CA 55.62% 6 Gregory Foltz - Dawn Foltz, Fort Collins CO 54.59% 6 Jackie Jarigese - Ross Rainwater, Vancouver WA 55.36% 7 Janet Daling - Steve Mansfield, Seattle WA 54.48% 7 Phillip Becker, Beachwood OH; Dennis McGarry, Stuart FL 54.53% 8 Ava Grubman - Elliott Grubman, Brooklyn NY 53.80% 8 Robert Gardner, Glenview IL; Sangarapil Mohan, Oak Brook IL 53.74% 9 Mark Yaeger, Miami FL; Lee Atkinson, Hollywood FL 53.64% 9 Stephen Schneer, Croton Hdsn NY; Michael Gore, Brooklyn NY 53.65% 10 Robert Sartorius, Lake Hiawatha NJ; Rick Roeder, San Diego CA 53.46% 10 Nels Erickson, Sparks NV; Marjorie Michelin, Los Angeles CA 52.70% 11 Judith Weisman, Englewood NJ; John Solodar, Palm Beach Gdns FL 52.05% 11 Steven Schatzow, Washington DC; Sarah Goodstein, Potomac MD 51.02% 12 Barry Gorski - Kathleen Del Corso, Reading PA 51.95% 12 Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA; Steve Mager, Hermosa Beach CA 50.95% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS F G EAST-WEST 1 Len Vishnevsky, San Francisco CA; Richard Meffley, Fresno CA 62.62% 1 Mark Bartusek, Santa Barbara CA; John Jones, Hacienda Hgts CA 59.92% 2 Blair Seidler, Fair Lawn NJ; Diana Marquardt, Del Mar CA 61.08% 2 Petra Hamman - Joan Jackson, Dallas TX 59.85% 3 Murray Melton, Las Vegas NV; Simon Kantor, Agawam MA 59.15% 3 Lin-Huan Chen - Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Kirksville MO 58.62% 4 Ken Cohen, Philadelphia PA; Neal Satten, Wynnewood PA 57.46% 4/5 Ranald Davidson, North York ON; Susan Cooper, Thornhill ON 58.23% 5 Chuck Malcolm - Marti Malcolm, Topeka KS 56.62% 4/5 John Herriot, Los Angeles CA; Don Lussky, Elmhurst IL 58.23% 6 Arthur Lowen - Dot Blue, Nashville TN 56.15% 6 Richard Schmieder - Jyme Schmieder, Boerne TX 56.62% 7 Paul Benedict, Pikesville MD; Lynn Jones, Timonium MD 55.69% 7 William Ge - Gary Ge, Vancouver BC 56.23% 8 Harley Bress, Lakewood CO; Paul Linxwiler, Memphis TN 55.38% 8 Bill Huepenbecker, Huron OH; Jonathan Holmes, Houston TX 56.15% 9 Franklin Lowenthal, Pleasanton CA; Roger Clough, Culver City CA 54.77% 9 Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hts IL; Warren Oberfield, Pittsburgh PA 55.69% 10 Jim Bachelder - Jeanne Martin, Columbus OH 54.62% 10 Peter Grover, Aurora OH; Brian Ellis, Beachwood OH 55.23% 11 Ahmed Sorathia, Chino CA; Mariko Kakimoto, Newport Beach CA 53.69% 11 Marta Peltz, West Hills CA; Gilbert Stinebaugh, Van Nuys CA 53.62% 12 Cookie Hoberman - Minna Lou Mercer, Omaha NE 53.31% 12/13 Barbara Sartorius, Lake Hiawatha NJ; Sharon Hait, Livingston NJ 52.00% 12/13 Cam Meyer - Norman Hogarth, Bend OR 52.00% NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS A B C EAST-WEST 1 Carolyn Sessler, Waltham MA; Anton Tsypkin, Sharon MA 64.13% 1 Yeshayahu Levit - Ronnie Tor, Tel-Aviv Israel 63.91% 2 Denny O’Connor - Allyson Wolfe, Saint Louis MO 60.31% 2 George Wang - Janet Ju, El Monte CA 62.63% 3 David Birnbaum, Pegram TN; Lee Pennington, Nashville TN 58.61% 3 Linda Smith - Ron Smith, Hixson TN 62.55% 4 Jo Morse, Palm Bch Gdns FL; Haig Tchamitch, Scottsdale AZ 58.50% 4 Jerry Goldberg, Yonkers NY; Louis Lessinger, Plainview NY 61.26% 5 John Boyer, Hastings Hdsn NY; Steven Wheeler, Northvale NJ 58.06% 5 Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati OH; Richard Katz, N Versailles PA 59.30% 6 Martin Hinds, Bakersfield CA; Anne Arndt, Puyallup WA 56.90% 6 Mark Ginsburg - David Langer, Buffalo Grove IL 56.97% 7 Elaine Said, Nashville TN; Terry Spector, Franklin TN 56.31% 7 Glen Okui, Memphis TN; Brian Cummins, Arlington TN 55.05% 8 Ringo Chung, Mississauga ON; Naveed Ather, Oakville ON 56.03% 8 Donald Gladman - Ken Penton, Calgary AB 54.99% 9 Victor Melman - Janos Racz, Scarsdale NY 55.12% 9 Abraham Pineles, Jackson NJ; Alexander Allen, Annandale NJ 53.61% 10 Charles Kopp, Columbus OH; Gregory Potts, Portsmouth OH 54.77% 10 Judy Wirtenberg, East Brunswick NJ; Irwin Klugler, Montclair NJ 53.33% 11 A Koffler - Nancy Koffler, Saint-Laurent QC 54.12% 11 Lori Spaeth, Los Altos CA; Jacqueline Ortiz, Santa Rosa CA 52.53% 12 George Bloomer - Judith Bloomer, Pittsboro NC 54.01% 12 John Griscom, Boca Raton FL; John Lewis, Ft Lauderdale FL 52.37% 13 Shelley Fishman, Merrick NY; Joseph Byrnes, West Hempstead NY 53.34% 13 Jared Fournier - Jeremy Fournier, Knoxville TN 52.31% 14 Leslie Paryzer, Bronx NY; Stephen Goldstein, Gardena CA 53.18% 14 David Moss - Andrew Rosenthal, New York NY 51.93% 15 Daniel Korbel, Waterloo ON; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON 52.41% 15 Gerry Marshall, Calgary AB; Bernie Lambert, Acme AB 51.76% 16 George Pisk, Manchaca TX; Mike Bukala, Waco TX 52.35% 16 Reha Gur, Leonardo NJ; Nan Wang, Eatontown NJ 51.50% 17 Ken McClenahan, Lone Tree CO; Caryn Villalon, Fallbrook CA 52.24% 17 Michael McGuire, Hernando MS; Charles Steinberg, Memphis TN 51.40% 18 Patricia Katz, Pittsburgh PA; Larry Cohen, Las Vegas NV 52.22% 18 Sherry Jackson, New York NY; Kent Mignocchi, Bronx NY 51.38% 19 Dwayne Hoffman, Springfield VA; Larry Lowell Jr, Knoxville TN 51.83% 19 Carolyne Fox, Manvel TX; Edward Groner, Houston TX 51.06%

TUESDAY AM 100/200/300 PAIRS - ONLY SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION III EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 James Wesson Gregory, Carthage MS; Iris Gregory, Starkville MS 59.82% 1 1 1 Diana Maniscalco - Michael Maniscalco, Port Jefferson NY 60.71% 2 2 Dianne Rogots - Linda Schanz, Las Vegas NV 58.63% 2 2 Don Norsworthy - Joan Norsworthy, Germantown TN 58.93% 3 3 2 Jon Ladd - Judith Ladd, Gainesville FL 54.76% 3 3 2 Jennifer Stiles - Carl Stiles, Waynesville OH 54.17% 4 4 Bobbie Button - Margaret Gelinas, Bowling Green KY 52.98% 4 Sally Nathanson, Purchase NY; Carole Tunick, Scarsdale NY 53.87% 5 Lynda Brown Walker, Springboro OH; Jan Sheppe, Dayton OH 52.08% 5 4 Pete Partin - James Rabb, Birmingham AL 52.38% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION HHH EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Gerald Lockhart - Susan Lockhart, Saginaw MI 63.99% 1 Bonnie Hill - Mark Hill, Murfreesboro TN 54.17% 2 2 2 Gordon Parks - Char Parks, Long Grove IL 56.85% 2 James Baumeister - Ann Smith, Marion IL 53.87% 3 3 Norman Sweed - Ronnie Sweed, Potomac MD 56.25% 3/4 1/2 1/2 Earline Cress - Sharyn Slaughter, Brentwood TN 52.98% 4 4 Thomas Frank - Mary Ann Frank, Indianapolis IN 53.87% 3/4 1/2 1/2 Regenia Weakley - David Weakley, Hendersonville TN 52.98% 5 5 Mary Domalewski, Elizabethtown KY; Elle Belt, Munfordville KY 50.89% 5 3 3 Sandra Jones, Brightwaters NY; Lois Mann, Smithtown NY 52.68% 4 Peggy Harbers, Franklin TN; Morris Mitchem Jr, Columbia SC 52.38% Daily Bulletin Page 19

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY MORNING SIDE SERIES - TUESDAY MORNING SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION VV EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Natalie Bassil, Boston MA; Bud Biswas, Lexington MA 69.13% 1 Lacy Jennings, San Diego CA; Ruth Green, Cleveland TN 57.95% 2 Melvin Lechner, Boca Raton FL; Elliot Sternlicht, New York NY 58.52% 2/4 1/2 Kathy Rolfe, Lake Winnebago MO; Kerry Brothers, Oxbow ND 57.58% 3 1 1 Ann Knight - Bettie Vincent, Kingsport TN 56.63% 2/4 Faye Parsons, Saratoga CA; Erin Gove, Los Gatos CA 57.58% 4 2 Robert Bishop III, Holmes Beach FL; Meg Hughes, Bradenton FL 56.25% 2/4 1/2 1 Judith Shore, Germantown TN; Susan Plummer, Collierville TN 57.58% 5 Alex Kornel - Natalie Silverstein, Toronto ON 54.73% 5 3 2 Dr Narain Saxena, Oak Ridge TN; John Thomas, Chattanooga TN 57.20% 6 3 2 Louis Poisson, Tampa FL; T Poisson, Belle River ON 54.55% 6 4 3 Charles Lifer, Huntsville AL; Katherine Christopher, Brownsboro AL 56.06% 7 4 3 Ian Grant, Nokomis FL; Estelle Bogart, Penn Valley PA 53.60% 7 5 David Sabourin, Ottawa ON; Betty Hancock, Fort Myers FL 54.36% 5 4 Stephen Kalstein, Birmingham MI; Michael McDonald, Rochester Hills MI 49.81% 6 4 James Smith, Brooklyn Park MN; Joe Feldman, Toronto ON 54.17% 6 Serl Zimmerman - Steven Lipson, Palm Desert CA 49.24% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION UU EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 1 Kay Jones, The Villages FL; Ruth Zowader, Madison NJ 60.42% 1 Chuck Krueger, Kings Mountain NC; Carol Mahoney, Kokomo IN 62.84% 2 2 2 Brian Snyder, Hamburg PA; Lori Lerner, Narberth PA 60.04% 2 1 1 Edith Lucky - Patricia Todd, Natchitoches LA 58.85% 3 Marta Peltz, West Hills CA; Gilbert Stinebaugh, Van Nuys CA 56.04% 3 Bill Burgess, Kingsport TN; Jerry Umberger, Wytheville VA 58.47% 4 3 Linda Zelnick, Bala Cynwyd PA; Barbara Horowitz, Haverford PA 54.20% 4 2 2 Jane Anne Gawlas - Carol Armstrong, Charlotte NC 57.52% 5 4 Susan Melchner, New York NY; Barbara Seidenberg, White Plains NY 52.39% 5/6 3/4 3/4 Debbie Wagner, Athen GA; Bernie Weiss, New Orleans LA 53.79% 6 5 Linda Logan, Thornhill ON; Carol Netchvolodoff, Washington DC 51.89% 5/6 3/4 3/4 Rolf Nilsson - Yvonne Nilsson, Glen Allen VA 53.79% 7 6 3 Perry Moore - Gail Slater, Louisville KY 51.55% 7 Lynne Cook, Riverview MI; Donald Sondergeld, Hubbardton VT 53.62% 4 Vivian McIntire - Evelyn Culver, Kingsport TN 51.14% 5 Kathy Pollock, Tonawanda NY; Marc Sylvester, Edinboro PA 52.98%

TUESDAY FAST PAIRS - TUESDAY AM - 1ST SESSION NORTH-SOUTH SECTION SSS EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 Eli Schneider - Cynthia Schneider, East Brunswick NJ 60.98% 1 Paul Kelley Jr - Rosemary Kelley, Austin TX 61.17% 2 1 1 Carolyn Kish - Rita Sorgi, San Diego CA 59.28% 2 Joe Harris - Sudip Dosanjh, Albuquerque NM 57.77% 3 2 Eleanor Weiss, Boca Raton FL; Lana Putter, Boynton Beach FL 54.73% 3 1 1 Lloyd Routman, Boynton Beach FL; Mark Routman, Cleveland MS 55.87% 4 3 2 Michael Abrams, Pasadena CA; Robert Abrams, Atlanta GA 54.55% 4 Nicolas Hammond, Atlanta GA; Peter Clark, Ottawa ON 54.92% 5/6 James Greiner - Rosemary Bruggen, Loudon TN 53.03% 5 Tina Gordon - David Daly, Fort Lee NJ 53.98% 5/6 Carole Silverstein - Bruce Silverstein, Lancaster PA 53.03% 6 William Dubay - Andrew Dubay, Voorheesville NY 53.03% 2 Marilyn Kroll, Boca Raton FL; Roz Supera, Chicago IL 49.43% 3 Joseph Meyers - Beverly Pogoda, New York NY 49.05% NORTH-SOUTH SECTION TTT EAST-WEST AB C ABC 1 1 Margery Martin, New Rochelle NY; Carol Willner, Larchmont NY 57.39% 1 Michael Hout - Karen Hout, Plano TX 55.87% 2 2 1 Daniel Bunde, Urbana IL; William Lindemann, Champaign IL 55.49% 2 Gary Schwartz, Huntsville AL; Peter Matthews Jr, Roslindale MA 55.68% 3 Abe Jakob, Ft Lauderdale FL; Helen Shanbrom, Tamarac FL 53.41% 3 1 Carol Braten - Judith Back, White Plains NY 54.17% 4 Janet Wickersham, Sierra Madre CA; Betty Jackson, Seal Beach CA 52.84% 4/5 2 Susan Santisi, Boca Raton FL; Judy Soley, Scarsdale NY 53.03% 5 3 Deanna Lewis, Presque Isle MI; Dorothy Demarest, Naples FL 51.52% 4/5 Kirt Robins - Teddy Robins, Garnet Valley PA 53.03% 6 Thomas Weik, Reading PA; Sandra Gebhardt, Fleetwood PA 50.57% 6 3 1 Nancy Minor - Mary Murray, Savannah GA 52.84%

TOMORROW’S BRIDGE EVENTS Ballrooms are located just off the Renaissance Hotel lobby. Ex Halls are located on level one (the lowest level) of the Convention Center Rooms 204-206 are located on level two of the Convention Center, between the Ballroom and Ex Hall levels. Thursday, July 26, 9 a.m. Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* Other Wednesday-Friday Morning Bracketed Knockout Teams 2nd Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Thursday-Saturday Morning Side Game Series 1st single session Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Thursday, July 26, 10 a.m. 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $14.50 Thursday, July 26, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. Stratified Daylight Open Pairs 1-2 Ballroom Center $15.50 $17.50 Stratified Senior Pairs 1-2 Ballroom Center $15.50 $17.50 National 199er Pairs 1-2 Ballroom East $16.50 —- Thursday, July 26, 1 p.m. Thursday-Friday Side Game Series 1st single session Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Thursday, July 26, 1 & 4:30 p.m. NABC+ Fast Pairs 1-2 Q Ex Hall Center $18 —- 2 qualifying, 2 final sessions Thursday, July 26, 1 & 7:30 p.m. Wagar Women’s Knockout Teams 1-2 F Room 207 $18 —- Spingold Knockout Teams Round 4 Room 206 $18 —- 0-5000 Mini-Spingold Knockout Teams 1-2 QF Room 206 $16.50 —- 0-1500 Mini-Spingold Knockout Teams 1-2 SF Room 206 $16.50 —- All Above Knockouts: Second session at 8 p.m. Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match Teams 1-2 Q Ex Hall Center $18 —- 2 qualifying, 2 final sessions Stratified Open IMP Pairs 1-2 Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Thursday-Friday Bracketed Knockout Teams 1-2 Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Thursday, July 26, 3 p.m. 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $14.50 Thursday, July 26, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday Side Game Series 2nd single session Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Stratified Side Swiss Teams single Ex Hall West $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $14.50 Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Ballroom East $14.50 $16.50 Thursday, July 26, 11:30 p.m. Zip Knockout Teams single Ballroom East $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, strat breaks for all stratified events are: A (2000+), B (750-2000), C (0-750). For strati-flighted events, A/X are 3000+/0-3000 and play in their own game; B (1000-2000), C (500-1000) and D (0-500) play in their own game. *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

Center and the host hotels in the downtown area many fine restaurants are within a relatively easy Shuttle (Sheraton, Best Western, Doubletree, Courtyard by walk from the Convention Center. The service Marriott (4th & Church), Hampton Inn (behind transportation is there in case you find it too steep, A system of Hall of Fame) and too hot, your puppies are just too tired, or you shuttle services is can’t believe you ate the whole thing. If it rains, being provided 2. Dinner service to restaurant areas. be prepared, because not all will be able to ride. throughout the Please note – While these services are What to Look For tournament to assist you in transportation needs. provided as a convenience to help you enjoy your Service can be provided by any of three These shuttles cover the following: visit with us, we are not equipped to move shuttles: 1. Service to or from the Nashville Convention everybody. All of the unattached host hotels and Continued on page 16 Page 20 Daily Bulletin

TODAY’S BRIDGE EVENTS See page 2 for other events Ballrooms are located just off the Renaissance Hotel lobby. Ex Halls are located on level one (the lowest level) of the Convention Center Rooms 204-206 are located on level two of the Convention Center, between the Ballroom and Ex Hall levels. Wednesday, July 25, 9 a.m. Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* Other Wednesday-Friday Morning Bracketed Knockout Teams 1st Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Monday-Wednesday Morning Side Game Series 3rd single session Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Wednesday, July 25, 10 a.m. 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $14.50 Wednesday, July 25, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. Stratified Daylight Swiss Teams 1-2 Room 206 $15.50 $17.50 Stratified Senior Pairs 1-2 Ballroom Center $15.50 $17.50 Wednesday, July 25, 1 p.m. Monday-Wednesday Side Game Series 5th single session Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Wednesday, July 25, 1 & 7:30 p.m. Wagar Women’s Knockout Teams 1-2 SF Room 207 $18 —- Second session at 8 p.m. Spingold Knockout Teams Round 3 Ex Hall Center $18 —- 0-5000 Mini-Spingold Knockout Teams Round 3 Ex Hall Center $16.50 —- 0-1500 Mini-Spingold Knockout Teams 1-2 QFs Ex Hall Center $16.50 —- Wernher Open Pairs 1-2 F Ex Hall Center $18 —- Stratified Open Pairs (2000+, 0-2000) 1-2 Ex Hall Center $15.50 $17.50 Iris Pairs (300-750, 0-300) 1-2 Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Wednesday Compact Knockout Teams 1-4 Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Tuesday-Wednesday Bracketed Knockout Teams 3-4 Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Wednesday, July 25, 3 p.m. 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $14.50 Wednesday, July 25, 7:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday Side Game Series 6th single session Ex Hall West $15.50 $17.50 Stratified Board-a-Match Teams single Ex Hall West $14.50 $16.50 299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $16.50 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single Ballroom East $14.50 $14.50 Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Ballroom East $14.50 $16.50 Wednesday, July 25, 11:30 p.m. Zip Knockout Teams single Ballroom East $12/team/match

Unless otherwise noted, strat breaks for all stratified events are: A (2000+), B (750-2000), C (0-750). For strati-flighted events, A/X are 3000+/0-3000 and play in their own game; B (1000-2000), C (500-1000) and D (0-500) play in their own game. *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

Tomorrow’s schedule is on page 19.

Shuttle Service Request these locations to the van driver and he they stand or stop at the Convention Center. will arrange a time to retrieve you. Important – this parking option is not Continued from page 15 Convention Center is the Hub available on the last Saturday or Sunday of the Important: The Convention Center loading and tournament. 1. Large - Anchor 55 passenger – usually white, unloading point is the Commerce Street entrance. Vanderbilt Bridge Club 2. Medium - White Mini Bus with blue trim This also applies to tours or any other special You can park and ride from the Vanderbilt (yes, this is a used vehicle), transportation. Bridge Club. 3. Small- Black 15 passenger van. LP Field Parking Departure times: 8 a.m. & 11 a.m. Look for signs in the front curb side window If not staying downtown, you can park in Lot Return service: (opposite the driver). Each has a “Bridge Buggy” A / B at the Titans stadium lot at LP Field. This is 1. Black van at dinner break sign as well as another sign to identify the mission an existing service for people who work downtown, 2. Midnight from the Convention Center. (route) it is currently on. and is available for us during the tournament. Look for the Bus! Hotel Service Just check in with the security guard. Cost is Generally, the services are to be provided in a Service begins at 8 each morning, and it will generally free, but if the lot fills, the overflow lot is continuous loop, and there will not be scheduled run continuously through most of the day. There $1. They have an existing shuttle service that costs arrival or departure times. No announcement will will be planned breaks in service for an hour at 10 $1 each way. Look for the bright yellow Park It be made in the hotels. Please: it is important that a.m. and for a half hour at 1 p.m. Service will be bus. you actively look for the bus so that you make more frequent before and after the bridge events. There is a change, however, from previous the connection! The bus will wait only a couple of Hotels served include the Sheraton, Best information published (web site, etc.). They will minutes at each “stop,” and if no patrons are seen, Western, Holiday Inn Express, Hampton Inn (4th not be altering their route during the tournament. the driver will move on to the next location. and Korean War Veterans), Courtyard Inn (4th and The nearest stops to the convention center are 4th Especially on the dinner routes. Be prepared to get Church) and Doubletree. Guests at the Wyndham & Church (Courtyard by Marriott) where you can the driver’s attention. Many of these streets are should walk to the Holiday Inn. transfer to our hotel shuttle service. Or, you can very busy or narrow, and they are not conducive to exit at the next stop, 3rd and Commerce. Both stops any type of long-term stop or blockage of other LAST CALL FOR SERVICE IS 12:45 a.m. are about two blocks away, but 3rd and Commerce traffic. Dinnertime Shuttle Changes is generally uphill. Hotel Service Frequency (note – these are There is no longer a West End Dinner route. The yellow shuttle service runs from 7 a.m. to estimates) The Downtown Dinner and Hotel shuttle loops 6:30 p.m. Return service is from either of the Sheraton: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., have been combined between the hours of 4 and 8 aforementioned stops. The frequency is normally 10 minutes; all other service periods – 20 to 30 p.m. This concentrates more resources to moving every 20 minutes, but every 10 minutes at peak, minutes. All other everyone from the Convention Center to their from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. hotels, 20 to 30 hotels and /or the many downtown area eating After 6:30 p.m. use the Downtown Dinner minutes during establishments. route, and ask the driver to drop you off at LP service periods. In addition, the black van will transport you to Field. After 10 p.m., request service from either the Drivers do either Nashville’s famous Swett’s for great soul driver of either the Minibus or the Passenger Van as appreciate tips! food or to Magic Circle for electric choices.