HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIAFRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016 Allan IT’S A WEDDING! Graves’s words of wisdom

In a final Can-At 2016 seminar last night, Canadian Bridge Hal-of-Famer Alan Graves, with David Bakhshi of London, England, a member of Graves’s team at Can-At, took questions for 30 minutes fom people about hands they’d strugled with yesterday afernoon. Here’s a digest of some of Graves’s aphorisms:

* (Looking at Maureen Donovan’s offering of colour-coded hand records for all games): You can spend a lifetime on one bridge hand.

Picture by Jennifer Henderson, taken in the Halifax Public Gardens * (Looking at the hand record for yesterday Carolyn Wolin and Paul McQuaid, bronze life masters from afternoon’s game): It’s good New Mexico playing in the Can-At 2016 in Halifax, will to see all the hands. Now marry July 1, 6:30 p.m., in the Georgian Ballroom of the Lord Nelson Hotel before the gala dinner, prize giving and dance. we can get this one right. Justice of the Peace Peter Ineson will marry the couple. * Those makeable contracts Ineson is a ruby grand master who says he has married many — that’s what should make bridge players over 20 years but never performed a ceremony double dummy. Doesn’t at a bridge tournament. Tomorrow's Canada Day nuptials will mean you should bid it. be his first. Tournament co-chairs Linda Tuff and Maureen Donovan * (To someone who stopped will be the witnesses. A string quartet will provide music. in 3H when 4 was possible): Everyone is invited. 4H making doesn’t mean Tickets to the gala are still available. that you bid badly if you didn’t bid it. Curtis Cheek: Partnership * (To someone asking about skills analytical skills what to bid with 13 HCP including a six-card spade By Jennifer Henderson suit, KQ10985, after LHO Professional bridge player Curtis Cheek has been paid to opened 1S and RHO bid play with dozens of different partners and competed in 1NT): Did you get them for many world championships in the years since he was laid off 1400? 23 years ago as an aerospace engineer with McDonnell- Douglas. He was 35 years old then and had been playing * There’s always another

CAN-AT DAILY BULLETIN DAILY CAN-AT bridge since he was 17. A professional player named Mike trick somewhere. Cappelletti Jr. asked him to play pro bridge and Cheek, now 58, hasn’t looked back since. Last year he spent 35 weeks on the road. Please see GRAVES, pg. 2 Please see CHEEK, pg. 3 PAGE 1 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIAFRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016 ‘Pancake’ hand turns to gold

By Gary F. Brown * Fourth in a series on Complementary High Cards

I recently was shown a hand where a player made an extraordinary bid with only 3 high card points in her hand and a 4-3-3-3 distribution. Allan Graves (right) and David Bakhshi at a Q&A last night. ♠ Q93 ♥ 873 GRAVES ♦ J1082 (fom pg. 1) ♣ 832 * You weren’t doubled? You must have a reputation ♠ AK1054 as a mighty fine card player. ♥ 95 * (With 33 points): My Mom would get there (to a ♦ AK965 slam). Unfortunately, we’ve got all the thinkers here ♣ 3 tonight. The Auction * Don’t think about what you can make. Think about how you can go plus on the hand. West North East South * Three things you need for slams: trump solidity, pass pass 1♠ source of tricks to get up to 12, and controls so they 2♥ pass 3♣ 3♦ don’t get the first two tricks. 3♥ 4♠! All pass * Ask yourself: What is the floor and what is the 4♠ was a walk in the park with the ♦Q behaving and spades 3-2. ceiling (for partner’s bid)? What’s the least (combined points) and what is the most? The beauty of the hand, is the courage of N in recognizing that her 4-3-3-3 pancake - with a 3 count - was worth a jump to game. * Just go ahead and make a positive noise. Like a bug in a rug, her ♠Q93 and ♦J1082 fit snugly into * Why 6NT rather than a suit? — You might get a partner's hand. Talk about complementary high cards. freak ruff, and you might get a bad trump break. N must have figured, "My partner opened 1♠ and now has freely bid 3♦ over 3♣. My spade and diamond holdings feel like * You need a spade finesse to make 6H. — There’s no shame in missing it (and stopping at 4H) gold." A perfect example of the power of how high cards in support of partner's suit(s) increase the value of your hand. I * 17 points and a five-card heart suit — too good for would like to have N as my partner. 1NT opening. *Note When you do have a bad hand, do as the Expert does: * Don’t open 14-point 1 NT unless you have two pay attention and listen carefully to the auction. You may find - aces. (A very good bridge player told me that many like N - that what initially felt bad is actually pretty good. years ago, and it’s proved good advice.) Reminders * There’s no free lunch in bridge. Bridge is a gambling game. It’s impossible to do it well. The best you can hope for is to get right it right 50% of 1. Secondary values in partner's suits are complementary. the time. If we didn’t like the gamble we’d be playing 2. Do not get excited with shortage in partner's primary chess. suit. 3. The value of a hand is not static - it is dynamic. If you * (As someone once said): The best of us are bad and allow it to be so. the rest are hopeless. 4. On the above hand: ♠Q93 ♥873 ♦J1082 ♣832 - if * Bridge is a risk-reward game. The best mindset to partner had bid hearts and then clubs, your hand would have is shrewd fearlessness. not have improved. Defensively though - you should * Encourage your friends to play and stay alert. encourage your clubs to offer rubber bridge games. 5. Listen to the bidding PAGE 2 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIAFRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016 CHEEK (from pg. 1) “It’s a gift to be able to do for a living what you would do for fun,” says Cheek, originally from Huntsville, Alabama, now from Las Vegas. “It’s still fun for me.” He has won five times at the North American Bridge Championship with several partners. In 2014, he and Huub Bertens represented the USA in the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing. Asked what separates expert players from those who are merely very good, he says, “Analytically you have to be better, to see deeper into the hand. Like a chess player you have to be able to see many moves ahead, from trick one.” That’s one requirement but it’s not the most important one, in Cheek’s experience. Curtis Cheek: “Canadians are just fiendly” “Partnership skills are every bit as friend and, over the last few years, as a Championships in Brazil, he came down important as analytical bridge skills,” he partner in regional tournaments. with a near-fatal case of swine flu. He says, in his soft-spoken drawl. “You can “It’s nice that we started off as says he didn’t realize what was only improve your game ten percent if friends,” says Cheek. “Art Crystal and I happening to him. His heart stopped you study all the books and bear down. were drinking buddies who liked to and he credits his wife Phyllis (to whom But you can improve your partnership share a Jack Daniels after the game. he had already proposed) with literally results by 25-30 percent — easily — just Then Art thought it might be fun to rushing him to hospital and saving his by being a good partner.” play with an expert player at a national life. Cheek lost part of his left foot and So what does “being a good partner” event. He asked me and so I did. I set still suffers from vasculitis for which he mean in Curtis Cheek’s high stakes up Ish (Ishmael Del’Monte, Cheek’s takes pain medication three times a day. bridge world? former partner) to play with Debbie When he is playing tournaments, “It’s really about taking some Benner (Art’s girlfriend) and they hit it Phyllis reminds him to take it. responsibility and showing some off.” Sometimes he doesn’t even remember empathy when something’s gone wrong Cheek earns more than six figures a she came into the room, he’s that and partner is beating himself up. I year, “more money than I would make as “zoned out”. Although Phyllis herself know that myself. Most of my stupid an engineer” as he puts it, declining to doesn’t play, she grew up watching her plays or lapses of concentration — they say more. “I love what I do. Playing step-father Mark Jacobus — another all come from the same place. It bridge and travelling is a pretty great world-renowned expert Cheek says he happens when I am not concentrating job.” played with before he met and fell in on what I am doing but instead thinking The only thing he says annoys or love with his step-daughter. He and about what I did wrong two boards ago. distracts him at the table is “slow play, Phyllis have been married six years, The sooner you can get that out of your either by my partners or my opponents. both for the second time. head — wipe the slate clean — the I’ve learned that’s one thing I have to Cheek describes himself as a low key better off you will be”. make sure I don’t let get to me. Anytime guy who is “big on forgiveness for Not surprisingly, Cheek’s modesty I’m playing poorly, it’s because my myself, as well as my partners.” He and low-key style makes him popular concentration is lapsing because I’m expects to play later this year with both with players on the east coast and much fatigued or I’m distracted.” Michael Seamon (a Florida pro playing sought-after as a partner. This year, he is Another trait that separate the at this tournament) and Huub Bertens, part of a new crew taking on the Allan world’s best bridge players from the rest another world-class pro, originally from Graves team that he played on (and is their ability to focus, to concentrate the Netherlands. won) his last two trips to Halifax. At the only on the play at the table. This year marks Cheek’s third time time of this writing, Team Cheek was “I think that’s typical for a top level playing the Can-At in Halifax. looking for its first victory in a rematch player. You are locked into what’s going “I like Halifax,” he says. “The city is against his old pals after losing to on and you pretty much shut everything fantastic. Especially when it’s getting to Graves’s team in the first round of the else out.” 115-degrees right now in Las Vegas Knockout ‘A’ division. In Cheek’s case, that almost killed where Phyllis and I live. And Canadians Cheek is playing this tournament him. During the 2009 World are just friendly.” with a man he first got to know as a PAGE 3 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIAFRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016 ‘Don’t be lazy: keep thinking,’ Todd tells workshop By Michael Cobden know we’re going to play in a suit contract. The thing about Robert Todd that In the ’70s and ’80s, makes him such a good teacher is that bridge players moved to he doesn’t indulge in cryptic counting points for statements that jump over three or length: one for a decent four steps in the explanation. He sets five-card suit, two for a the context and then takes you along, decent six-card suit, and “The modern approach is to open more aggressively" step by good humored step, always so on. “The five-card mindful of whether you’re “getting it”. suit,” Todd explained, “is going to be fault is that? he asked. — “Partner’s” Thus his 90-minute workshop on valuable whether we’re playing in a suit the audience cheered.) yesterday began with contract or in no-trump.” Shortness Doubling or overcalling a historical review of how we come to remains valuable, but only if we’ve aggressively gets us into the auction count our points through the modern decided that we’re going to play in a early, Todd said, and avoids getting approach to hand evaluation to the suit contract, and generally only if the into trouble later. And modern experts point he wanted us to take away if we shortness is in the hand with the short open shapely hands even more took nothing else away: the need to re- trump. Ruffing in the hand with the aggressively, with 10 to 11 HCP, using evaluate your hand as the auction long trump is not adding tricks. length points. Most unbalanced hands proceeds. Shortness in the short trump side that have seven or fewer losers should The number of points in your hand helps us create winners or take care of be treated as opening bids. is not a static number, he said. It partner’s losers. You only want to add Todd spent time on the losing trick should change as you get more shortness points when you are the count and its simplified version, the information in the course of the supportive hand. And the longer your “rule” of 20 (and 22). (Sitting at the auction about your partner’s hand and trump fit the more you should add for back of the room when Jerry Helms the opponents’ hands. shortage points. Five for a , three said the rule should be only a “Don’t be lazy,” he said. “Keep re- for a singleton, one for a double is suggestion, he silently applauded.) evaluating your points.” more accurate, he explained, when you Todd’s a former mathematician, and “Quick tricks” was how bridge have a 9-card fit than when you have a doesn’t like mathematical formulas for players first evaluated their hands: Ace 5-3 fit and your trumps will be gone bridge. He wrote two hands on the was one, AK was two, Kx was a half, before you can use them to add tricks flip chart: AQ was a trick-and-a-half. by ruffing (and risk being over-ruffed). Conservative bidders opened with 3 With a 5-5 fit, we can draw the trumps A Q x x x and: x x x x x quick tricks; aggressive bidders with in two rounds and then use the A x x x x x x x x x two and a half. That was Culbertson. remaining three trumps in each hand x x A Q Then came Milton Work’s high card to ruff away our losers. That’s why the xA points (4-3-2-1), which he found was name “support points” is appropriate. Each has 12 points and long suits and effective only for balanced hands, and The modern approach is to open two quick tricks. But the first is the losing trick count for unbalanced the bidding more aggressively — and “massively better”. hands, first developed by the French more often. He said he opens all 12- When you have a five-card suit, and used by many experts of the day. point hands, even 4-3-3-3 hands, visualize that your partner has honour- In the 1950s, Goren — not an because not opening makes it more doubleton in the suit: is there a expert bridge player, Todd noted, and difficult later in the auction. He meets reasonable chance that your suit is the first to hire pros to travel around people who are not willing to open 1C going to set up? If it’s x x x x x or J x x and play with him — popularized but are willing to bid 3C later! And x x, opposite A x or Q x, the answer is HCP. Goren added points for (after not being willing to no (though with a suit of J 10 9 8 x shortness (three for a void, two for a open) is dangerous, because your there is a chance). Not all five-card singleton, one for a doubleton), for partner may not have the points you’re suits are equal, he said. both unbalanced and balanced hands. adding to yours when you balance: The problem was that shortness next thing your partner gets into the points are really only valuable if we auction and you’re down 1100. (Whose Please see TODD, pg. 5

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TODD (fom pg. 4)

When thinking about length points, tens, TODAY!!!! Fri, July 1 nines and eights are important. So, if you are opening the bidding ♥ Newcomers Pairs (0-100) 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. based on based on length points, he ♥ Gold Rush Pairs (2 sessions) (0-750) 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. cautioned, you need to have a “very C = 0 – 300 / B = 300 – 750 powerful, robust suit.” ♥ Bracketed Knockout Teams #4 (sessions 3 & 4 of 4) Todd had many searching questions for the audience about evaluating a hand 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. for an opening bid. For example: Which ♥ Open Pairs A/X (2 sessions) 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. is a better fit: 5-3 or 4-4? Most people ♥ Stratified Swiss Teams (2 sessions) 10 a.m. & 3 p.m. answered 4-4. Yes, he said, for a game contract, because you can choose which ♦ Gala Prize Banquet hand is the longer trump hand. The downside, however, is the opponents’ 6:30 p.m. — Wedding Georgian Ballroom distribution. When it’s 4-1, we’re going to 7 p.m. – Cocktails 7:30 Prize-giving, dinner and dance wish we were in a 5-3 fit. We can usually overcome the problem if we have the majority of high cards and we can make our tricks before the opponents get in. If the points are split 20-20 and the trumps split 4-1, we won’t be able to stop the opponents getting in and pretty soon we’re going to be playing in no trumps with 20-20 points. Todd’s emphasis was on always thinking about the value of your hand as things progress, not just your points but your distribution. And where your points are located in relation to partner’s bidding and your opponents’. And whether you’re heading for a Sat., July 2 contract or no trumps (or is a slam in TOMORROW clubs or diamonds possible?). He urged early bridge players in his ♥ Strati-flighted A/X Swiss audience to “do some crazy stuff: say to Teams 10 a.m. & TBA your partner, ‘Today, let’s be super ♥ Strati-flighted B/C Swiss Teams aggressive.’ ” You don’t want to worry about making mistakes, because if you 10 a.m. & TBA don’t make mistakes you won’t learn from Play through — Lunch included them. “If you live in your comfort zone all the time you’re not going to get Saturday players better.” Please note again, no lunch is included. Sandwiches and snacks will be available for purchase. fee is $30 GREAT EATS! La Frasca Cibi & Vini: Spring Garden Road The Bicycle Thief: Bishops Landing Ristorante AMano: Bishops Landing

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Shane Savage of Moncton (lef) and opponent East meets west at CanAt 2016: (lef to right) Michael Ross of Halifax in a knockout event Bennie Vaughan, Surrey, BC. Dave Cashin, Sydney, Tuesday morning. Cape Breton. Cathy Vaughan, Surrey, BC. Gary Shore, Marion Bridge, Cape Breton.

Valentine Kovachev fom Las Vegas (lef) and Gerry Laflamme compete in the Wednesday morning Christal Henner, New York City, Ranald Davidson, Knockout Pairs event. Toronto, Kathie Macnab, Halifax

Fashion forward partners fom Berwick, Nova CAN-AT CANDIDS Scotia, Richard Nickerson (lef) and John Dow, Marg Hanson of Moncton, NB, takes a nap afer a tiring game.

PAGE 6 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIAFRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016 CAN-AT CANDIDS

CanAt 2016 tournament directors (lef to right): Guy Fauteux, Saguenay, Denis Lavoie, Quebec City, and Karl Hicks.

Alan Doane, (lef) of Halifax and Michael Seamon, Boca Raton, Florida playing in an Open Pairs A/X game..

Les Buzzel fom Auburn, Maine, ponders an opening bid. A room ful of bridge players enjoying a game at Can-At 2016

Bil Presse Gail Ashley and (lef) and his Shirley partner Victor Fulerton of Goldberg Ottawa ready for an A/X open pairs game.

PAGE 7 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIAFRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016 YOUR PHOTOS!

Lynne and John Tolson of Halifax picked up a win Michael Covey of Halifax and Judy Bussel of at the Can-At. Bermuda celebrate a victory.

L Carm Bailey. R Maureen OConnel Lef to right: Pam Hickman (lef) and Vicki Traynor of the Ken- Winners Wo bridge club in the valey Bob Edmundson , Rose Baker, Annie WINNERS! Wiliams, Rob Wiliams

Lef to right: Linda Tuff, The Alan Graves team won the Monday-Tuesday Mike Covey, knockout. Lef to right: Graves, of Saint Johnsbury, Laura Watson, Vermont; Reanette Frobouck, of Pittsburgh, Maureen Pennsylvania; Michael Seamon, of Boca Raton, Donovan Florida; and David Bakhshi, of London, England. Also in the team: John Stewart of Halifax.

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Canada Day events in Halifax Friday, July 1

Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Parade 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. The parade will come up Spring Garden Road and pass in front of the Lord Nelson Hotel at approximately 11a.m. Matinee performance, 2:30 p.m. http:// www.nstattoo.ca.

Halifax Seaport Farmers Market: Kitchen Party, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Local food, local artisans, music (Big Fish, Joe Murphy), pig roast, petting zoo, balloon twister, bouncy castle, horse and carriage rides.

Tunes at Noon, Grand Parade, downtown.

Free Concert at the beautiful Public Gardens 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. (across the street from the Lord Nelson)

Rib Fest, Waterfront, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

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