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The QBA Bulletin May - July 2020 2 HE ULLETIN TPublished by the QueenslandQBA Bridge Association B May-July 2020 Volume 46 No www.qldbridge.com.au Email: [email protected] 2 bridge from the many other games (similar but less sophisticated than From the combining luck and skill. Part of iPads), four per table which, rather the answer is teamwork. Complete than connecting through the internet, President bridge players are forever helping make use of a local area network their partners and receiving operating through the club computer. information in return. They have been using Smartbridge to Variety: ‘Bridge presents all the play three small sessions each week challenges that we know of. It is a for the past month. SmartBridge is human game, yet it is an intellectual compatible with the popular scoring Richard game. If I sit down to play, I am likely program ‘Compscore 2’ and so it is a Ward to run into some sort of situation simple matter to produce hard copy that I’ve never seen before.’ Edgar hand records and to post results to ITH almost all bridge clubs Kaplan the club website. This is a work-in- closed and congresses progress and has the potential to W Universality: ‘No matter where I go, cancelled at present it is timely become increasingly user-friendly as I can always make new friends at the for us to plan ahead for the post- program upgrades are implemented. bridge table.’ Martina Navratilova coronavirus era and to envisage Contact [email protected]. what our members would prefer One common thread running au for more information. through all of these is the importance when they return. To do that, a good SmartBridge demonstration session: starting point is to list some of the to many of us of the regular social reasons why people who take up interactions that bridge clubs the game quickly discover that they provide. However, there may be a have a life-long obsession with it. culture shift on the way regarding the use of playing cards, bidding Socialisation: Meeting people with pads and BridgeMates. Many have common interests and spending joined Bridge Base Online and are time enjoyably is the single most playing ABF, club-based or casual frequently mentioned reward from games during the pandemic. But we playing bridge. are all looking forward to face-to-face Mental challenge and exercise: bridge as soon as possible. It has ‘Many games provide fun, but been possible for clubs to embrace bridge grips you. It exercises your online bridge and perhaps there will Charles Page mind. Our mind can rust you know, be some who would like to continue but bridge prevents the rust from online but to do so when actually at forming.’ Omar Sharif the club. Just as muscles will atrophy when not A third possibility, SmartBridge, used regularly, so will brain power has recently been created by Greg deteriorate when not maintained Murray who plays at the Coolum with stimulation. Bridge Club. It requires the use of Teamwork: What distinguishes a set of very basic tablet computers Contents From the President by Richard Ward ............................................................1 Warwick Daily News by Neil Bonnell ............................................................2 Teachers' Corner by Joan Butts .......................................................................4 IBPA Column Service by Tim Bourke .............................................................5 Australian Online Youth Tournament by Andrew Gosney .......................7 Directors' Corner by Jan Peach ..................................................................... 10 25 Years Ago ...................................................................................................... 11 Richard Wallis and Greg Murray The QBA Bulletin May - July 2020 2 The 2020 Australian Online Youth documentation to allow their club Now that the print edition of the Tournament saw the Queensland to re-open within the Covid-19 Daily News has been abandoned in Youth Team (William Han, Ellen Viss- restrictions currently in place. favour of a digital version, it is not cher, Paddy Taylor, Ben Leung, Se- These have all been posted to clear whether the notes will again be bastian Langdon Macmillan, Darren the QBA website. printed when play resumes. Brake and Andrew Gosney [NPC]) • All clubs who have assisted QBA By and large, successive editors finishing at the top of the leader Manager, Kim Ellaway, with have appreciated the value of the board after the 2-round-robin qualify- the development of the 2021 bridge notes to their paper, although ing rounds: QLD 98; SA 92; VIC 78; Calendar – now on the website. from time to time we have had NSW 76; ACT 56. This was an out- • Neville Francis who has stepped to remind them that there is one standing result from a talented group down after decades of service as acceptable way to present bridge of players. The finals comprised 4 x Chair of the Appeals Committee notes, and printing the hands side 12-board matches. SA won the first and a member of the Tournament by side is not one of them. The main set by 28 imps, but QLD regained the Committee. He and Richard writer has been Neil Bonnell, but lead at the halfway mark. Thereafter Wallis have been replaced by when the Bonnells were away from it all went SA’s way and they ended Julie Jeffries and Charles Page. Warwick from 1995-97 John Rose up comfortable winners 162-110. and Neville Francis filled in very • The Barrier Reef Congress Congratulations to all players who ably. Later on John Marley was an committee at Yeppoon which played in good spirits and with a high entertaining guest columnist. level sportsmanship throughout. was faced with cancellation of the event and all that was then Here are some hands from the early The Barrier Reef Congress schedule entailed in refunding thousands days. The first comes from a country is now: 2021 Mackay; 2022 Towns- of dollars of entry fees – congress. ville; 2023 Cairns; 2024 Yeppoon. accomplished promptly and with Bridge with Aunt Agatha The 2021 entry form is on the QBA a minimum of fuss. website. • Thanks to everybody associated Dlr W ♠ 93 Congratulations to Jan Peach, with introducing local Bridge Vul None ♥ Q1082 QBA Director Accreditation, who Base Online tournaments into ♦ Q8763 has been promoted to National clubs, especially Charles Page, ♣ J7 Director Level 1, the highest ranked Paul Brake, Val Roland and all ♠ QJ2 ♠ A1085 director in Queensland. This was ♥ AK73 N ♥ J9 local club organisers. ■ W E in recognition of her outstanding ♦ K954 S ♦ A10 support of our directors including: ♣ 43 ♣ 109852 creating and maintaining the Qld Warwick Daily ♠ K764 Online Proficiency Test; preparing ♥ 654 directors for their club and congress News ♦ J2 exams, then writing, marking and ♣ AKQ6 assessing all applicants; providing workshops across the state and editor of the Australian Bridge W N E S Directors Association Newsletter. 1D P 1S P 1NT All pass Thanks to: Neil Bonnell • Richard Wallis who stepped Still smarting from failing to bid a down as President of the QBA makeable 3NT on the previous 500,000 words later – after serving in this position hand, EW remained conservative on the end of the road? 1984-1985 and then 2017- this one. After North led the two of 2020. He continues to be one of N June 8 1985, the first set of hearts, declarer called for dummy’s Queensland’s top players with Obridge notes appeared in the jack, which held. Given a tempo by a plethora of bridge titles to his Warwick Daily News. It proudly the lead, declarer decided to rely on name. He is also a prolific author announced that at the first official the generosity of the defenders and of bridge articles and congress game, six tables were in play at continued with the club ten. How reports who, over the decades, the Warwick Band Centre. Details many Souths would have played has provided much very welcome of the place-getters were added. small and allowed partner’s jack to copy for the QBA Bulletin. Richard It was not long before the Hand of win and therefore create four tricks has always given generously of the Week feature was added and in the suit? This South was not one his time to bridge in Queensland continued with a stutter or two along of that select band and flew with the and will be missed from the the way for 35 years until Covid-19 queen. In the twinkling of an eyelid Management Committee. struck. The Daily News was then South tabled the king and not even • The committee of the Mackay offered a weekly hand from the the crash of partner’s jack could Bridge Club which has been club’s archives, but this offer was not stop the onrush of the ace, leaving willing to share all of its taken up. dummy’s modest 9-8 as winners on The QBA Bulletin May - July 2020 3 table. The heart switch was then too grand slam bidder scored only one Murphy would win the ace and late. Declarer won with the ace, took more point than the pair defending cash his spade winners. As Wal’s the losing finesse in spades and against 6H. No doubt 7S was a lot fingers closed around the king of claimed nine tricks. South’s admiring more fun to play. diamonds, Dog nipped him sharply glance showed her appreciation of Anklebiting at the Flats on the ankle. A moments’ thought the play, but then she leaned forward showed Wal a better line of play, and murmured, “You do underbid a When played in a Footrot Flats teams so he continued with two top clubs, lot, don’t you?” match in their knockout competition, both North and South following with this board gave Wal and his team a a spade pitched from dummy. Now And a Happy Christmas to you too.
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