Opening receptionThe fun begins on Friday, July 27, after the

evening session on the Marquis Level. The Funk Factory 5 band will rock you and no one will be left on the dock of the bay. You’ll be shouting, “Please

don’t stop the music, I wanna get down

tonight!” We ain’t too proud to beg for food, drinks and dancing. Be part of the fun as we welcome

you to the 2018 Summer NABC.

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Goodwill Message

Welcome to the 2018 Summer North American Bridge Championships in Atlanta. Tournament chairs Joe Sherwood and Judy Fendrick and and their local committees have a great tournament planned for everyone.

Please join us in saying thank you to our hosts.Sandy DeMartino, ChairAileen Osofsky Goodwill Committee

Daily Bulletin

Pre-registration information• Participation in the von Zedtwitz or Bruce Life

Master Pairs is limited to ACBL members who have achieved the rank of Life Master. Players who reside outside North America and who do not meet this criteria, but feel they are otherwise eligible to participate, must receive a waiver prior to the commencement of the contest.

• For waiver information, please see the Director-in-Charge at the selling site at least one hour prior to the commencement of the event. Please note that players who have been waived into previous Life Master pairs do not have to re-apply.

• Pre-registration for the Spingold KO Teams is required before 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 29. See TD Matt Smith in the Atrium Ballroom.

• Pre-registration is required for the Mini-Spingold KO Teams (6000 and 2500) before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 31. Entries may be purchased in the Atrium Ballroom.

Welcome to AtlantaThe home of Southern hospitality!

We are thrilled to host Atlanta’s eighth NABC since 1954, as well as the 2018 Youth NABC. All events will be held in the beautiful Marriott Marquis hotel.

We know you will enjoy the ACBL Welcome Reception on the first Friday night. Our hospitality chair, Becky Butler, has scheduled some great musicians and singers who will provide a wide range of music each night, including oldies, contemporary, blues, folk and country music, as well as songs by Billy Joel, Elton John and the Beatles.

If you decide to take time off from bridge, Atlanta has much to offer. In the downtown and nearby areas, you can visit the World of Coca-Cola, Georgia Aquarium, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, CNN Center, College Football Hall of Fame, Fernbank Science Center and the High Museum of Art. The Atlanta Braves will play the Los Angeles Dodgers

at SunTrust Park July 26–29, and the Miami Marlins July 30–Aug. 1.

Atlanta has some of the best restaurants you will find anywhere. Most of the ones we included in the restaurant guide (available at the Welcome Desk) are within walking distance of the hotel or a

short cab ride. For breakfast and lunch, there are two conveniently located food courts in the SunTrust Plaza and Peachtree Center, which you can walk to through the climate-controlled, handicap-accessible sky bridges from the atrium level of the hotel, or via the street.

We want to thank all of our committee chairs and volunteers for their dedicated, outstanding work.

May you declare many hands at the NABC and have a memorable time in Atlanta.

Joe Sherwood & Judy FendrickNABC Co-Chairs

The Stars Come Out for Hall of Fame Dinner

Perlin wins Online Individual

Alex Perlin of Metuchen NJ won the NABC Online Individual with a three-day average of 69.21%. Rose Hou of Richmond Hill ON placed first in Flights B and C – and fifth overall – with a three-day average of 66.51%. The contest was held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

Perlin placed in the top 10 in the first two sessions with scores of 69.91% and 71.80%, after which he was in second place. His third-day score of 65.92% was good enough to put him in front of Daniel Miles of Toronto, who had been leading, but dropped to third. Yauheni Siutsau of Loveland OH placed second.

Hou was leading Flight C after two days with scores of 62.61% and 66.61%. She had a big third day score of 70.30% to take Flight B as well.

GNTs enter QF roundThe top seeds dominated yesterday’s round of

16 in the Championship Flight of the Grand National Teams, with several matches ending early when squads that were trailing badly withdrew before the fourth quarter.

Josh Donn’s District 17 squad won 186–83 in three quarters against the District 11 team led by Bob Lyon. District 25 (Doug Doub and company) also won in three sets, dispatching the District 10 squad captained by Bryan Howard 106-43. Dan Morse (D16) won in three quarters, 145-70, against Joe Houde’s team from D22. The defending champions from District 21 (Chip Martel) manhandled the D20 team (John Lusky) 112-28. Even more lopsided was the contest between the powerhouse squad from D9 led by Warren Spector in their match against their D4 opponents captained by Jay Apfelbaum: Spector led 126-18 at the half, prompting Apfelbaum’s withdrawal.

The closest match of the round occurred between D12 (Jonathan Fleischman) and D6 (Leo LaSota). Fleischmann led by 40 IMPs after three quarters, but LaSota came roaring back in the final set. Fleischmann barely held on, however, to win the match by a single IMP, 167-166.

Plays continues today in all four flights.

The 2018 Hall of Fame Open inductees: Robert Levin, Eric Rodwell and Ralph Katz.

The ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame opened its doors to a star-studded cast on Thursday night at the institution’s annual induction ceremony. The event was hosted by chief NABC sponsor HCL.

Three members of the blockbuster Nick Nickell

team, Canadian Bridge Hall of Famer Mark Molson and Bridge Base Online – the first non-human to be inducted into the Hall – were honored, along with sportsmanship winner Lew Stansby.

The gathering started off with film titles concocted by emcee David Berkowitz and fellow Hall of Famer, “Hollywood maven” Jill Meyers to introduce the class of 2018 at the bridge community’s annual awards night:

Bobby Levin, “The Natural”Eric Rodwell, “The Piano Player”Ralph Katz, “Cats”Lew Stansby, “Stands By Me”

(appropriate groan)BBO, “AI”Mark Molson, “Strange Brew”“And the winner of the Berkie,”

announced Berkowitz, “is Nick Nickell, ‘All the King’s Men.’”

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Don’t miss these free lectures by some of the best-known players in the game! Talks will be held in the International Hall on the International Level.

Friday, July 279:15 a.m. Jerry Helms The Defensive Mindset6:45 p.m. Robert Todd Problem Opening Bids

Saturday, July 289:15 a.m. Patty Tucker The Match Game

Sunday, July 299:15 a.m. Phillip Alder Top Tip of All Time6:45 p.m. Frank Stewart Logical Thinking

SPECIAL EVENTSMEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS

CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM

All events are at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis.Friday, July 27

8-11 am ABTA Convention (Atrium Level, A601)10 am-Noon Anti-Cheating Commisson. (Lobby Level, L401)1-5 p.m. Best Practices Teacher Workshop. ACBL’s seminar for

people interested in learning how to teach bridge. (Atrium Level, A703)

4:30-6 pm Club and Teacher Reception. This is the ACBL’s “thank you” reception for the teachers and club officials who work so hard to recruit and retain our members. (Atrium Level, A601)

10:30 pm- NABC Opening Reception. (Marquis Foyer)12:30 am

Saturday, July 28JUNIOR DAY

8 am-Noon Best Practices Teacher Workshop. ACBL’s seminar for people interested in learning how to teach bridge. (Atrium Level, A703)

9:30 am-Noon ACBL Educational Foundation meeting. (Lobby Level, L401)

10 am-Noon Laws Commission. (Lobby Level, L405) 10 am-Noon Free Bridge Lesson with Jerry Helms followed by a special

game for newer players. (Atrium Level, A601)Noon-2 pm Bridge-Plus+ Game. A special game for newer (0-20

MP) players. 14 boards, no card fee. (International Level, International Hall)

1-6 pm Learn Bridge in a Day?™ This popular session is designed especially for true beginners, those returning to bridge after long absences and those merely wanting to “test the waters” before committing to formal classes. The concentrated course includes both class instruction and coached play. No pre-registration required. Fee: $20 covers textbook and door prizes. (Atrium Level, A601)

6:30-9 pm Learn Bridge in a Day?™ Teacher Accreditation. Teacher training includes information on organizing and marketing LBIAD as well as maximizing retention rates, writing effective grant requests and the presentation of the seminar. (Atrium Level, A601)

Sunday, July 298 am-Noon Best Practices Teacher Workshop. ACBL’s seminar for

people interested in learning how to teach bridge. (Atrium Level, A703)

8:30-10 am Audrey Grant’s Modern Techniques for Bridge Teachers. Audrey Grant’s hands-on approach and creative use of the table, cards and bid boxes keeps students engaged, excited and focused. She will share these teaching techniques in this breakfast seminar. Fee: $20 covers breakfast and materials. (Atrium Level, A601)

10 am-Noon Free Bridge Lesson with Audrey Grant followed by a special game for newer players. (Atrium Level, A601)

10-11:30 am Board of Governors meeting and ACBL General Membership meeting. All members of the ACBL Board of Governors are invited to attend the Summer NABC meeting. This meeting is also open to the general membership of the ACBL. (Atrium Ballroom)

Noon-2 pm BridgePlus+ Game. A special game for newer (0-20 MP) players. 14 boards, no card fee. (International Level, International Hall)

2-6 pm BP Teacher Assessment. (Atrium Level, A703)1-5 pm Notrump in a Day™ Be one of the first to experience the

new “In A Day” workshop series, Notrump in a Day. This workshop explores basic notrump bidding and the most common responses, from raises to Stayman and Jacoby transfers. If you need help knowing when to use which convention, what your second bid should be or what your partner is telling you, this workshop is for you! $20 at the door. Course includes student workbook, presentation and practice hands. (Atrium Level, A601)

OPENING RECEPTIONFriday, July 27

Rock on over after the evening session to the Marquis level to rock to the tunes of the Funk Factory 5. Music, fun, food and dancing – we got it all! Please join us.

ENTERTAINMENTEntertainment from Saturday, July 28, through Friday, Aug. 3, will begin immediately following the evening session. The performers are happy to take song requests.

Saturday, July 28Craig Gleason will play and sing classic oldies. Craig is a popular Atlanta musician who has performed throughout the United States and Europe.

Sunday, July 29The Stephen Lee Band will provide music for you to dance the night away.

HOSPITALITYSaturday, July 28

10:30 p.m. Marquis Level Peach cobbler, peaches and cream

SundayNoon Atrium, Marquis Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars2 p.m. International Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars

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JUST FOR NEW PLAYERSThinking bridge

By Eddie KantarResponding to 1NT, entry considerations

Unblocking Dlr: South ♠ K 6 3 Vul: E-W ♥ J 10 9 ♦ A J 5 2 ♣ 8 6 4 ♠ Q 10 9 ♠ 8 7 6 5 ♥ Q 7 6 5 2 ♥ A 4 ♦ 10 6 3 ♦ K Q 9 ♣ 7 2 ♣ K 9 5 3 ♠ A J 4 ♥ K 8 3 ♦ 8 7 4 ♣ A Q J 10

West North East South 1NT Pass 2NT All Pass

Opening lead: ♥5.Bidding commentary: The sequence assumes

that 2NT is natural, not a transfer. If 2NT is played as a transfer, responder has to go through Stayman to raise to 2NT. As South, with a balanced 15 HCP, pass 2NT. With any 17-point hand and most 16– point hands, bid 3NT. A 16-point hand divided 4-3-3-3 and lacking intermediates also does best to pass a raise to 2NT. As North, with a 4-3-3-3 hand pattern, you need 9 HCP to raise to 2NT, 8 HCP is not enough.

Defensive commentary: As East, win the ♥A and return the ♥4. Had the opponents gone through Stayman, South denying a four-card major, you would know partner has at least five hearts. Also, both defenders should play South for 15 HCP when he passes 2NT.

Play commentary: As South, plan ahead before playing to the first trick. Your plan should be to try to bring in clubs for four tricks if the finesse works. Even if the finesse works, you may have

to repeat it three times (East might have four or five clubs headed by the king. Three finesses mean three dummy entries. Do you see three? It looks like there are

two, but there are three – if you unblock the ♥K at trick one! You really aren’t costing yourself a trick as the queen is marked in the West hand after the lead of a low heart. Your unblock creates a third dummy entry in hearts. Play the same with ♥Qxx. Dump the queen at trick one to make sure you have a dummy entry.

Defensive commentary #2. As West, win the second heart and play a third, clearing the suit.

Play commentary #2. As South, win the third heart in dummy and take club finesse #1, leading a low to the queen (playing the higher equal for deceptive purposes). After the ♣Q holds, cross to the ♠K and take club finesse #2, this time leading a club to the jack (higher remaining equal). When that holds, cross to the ♦A and take club finessse #3. When the smoke clears, you have eight tricks: four clubs, two spades one heart and one diamond. You play so beautifully.

Welcome, Intermediate/ Newcomer Players, to Atlanta!

Starting Friday, July 27, Intermediate/Newcomer (I/N) games begin at 10 a.m., 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

All I/N events will be held in International Hall 1-3 on the International Level of the Marriott, below the lobby.

The I/N Partnership Desk guarantees you a partner if you sign up one hour prior to game time.

Don’t forget to pick up your welcome gift.Celebrity bridge speakers will give free mini-

lessons at 9:15 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. on most days. On Friday, July 27, Bridge Bulletin columnist Jerry Helms will present “The Defensive Mindset” at 9:15. At 6:45, Robert Todd will present “Problem Opening Bids.” Check the Daily Bulletin each day for speakers.

ACBL members with 0–5 masterpoints can play free in the Newcomer games on Friday, July 27.

Bridge-Plus+Don’t miss these free two-hour lessons (10 a.m.

to noon) by renowned ACBL teachers in Room 601 on the Atrium Level:• Saturday, July 28 Jerry Helms• Sunday, July 29 Audrey Grant

A special game for 0–20 players will be held immediately following these lectures (14 deals, free!).

Learn Bridge in a Day?Yes! Let Patty Tucker show you how on

Saturday, July 28, from 1-6 p.m. in Room 601 on the Atrium Level. Fee: $20.

Notrump in a Day?This workshop from Patty Tucker explores

basic notrump bidding on Sunday, July 29, from 1-5 p.m. in Room 601 on the Atrium Level. Fee: $20.

Entry fee special Players with 0–100 masterpoints who buy a

regular-price entry July 27–29 will receive a half-priced entry for games Aug. 3–5.

Entry FeesPlayers must be ACBL members whose service

fees or dues are current in order to compete in any of the following nationally ranked events: Grand National Teams (Championship Flight), von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs, Spingold Knockout Teams, Wagar Women’s Pairs, Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss Teams, Wernher Open Pairs, Freeman Mixed Board-A-Match Teams and the Roth Open Swiss Teams. The entry fees for these contests are $25 per player per session. For team events, this means $100 per team per session for four-person teams, $125 per team per session for five-person teams, and $150 per team per session for six-person teams

Note: Only ACBL members are eligible to play in NABC+ events. $1.50 per person per session benefits the International Fund.

Players must also be current ACBL members

to play in the Grand National Teams (Flights A, B and C), the 0-6000 and 0-2500 Mini-Spingold Knockouts, the 0-10,000 NABC Pairs, the 0-10,000 Mixed Swiss Teams, the Bruce LM-5000 Pairs, the Young 0-2500 Pairs and the Bean Red Ribbon Pairs. The entry fee is $17 per player per session. For the team events, this means $68 per team per session for teams of four, $85 per team per session for teams of five, and $102 per team per session for teams of six. (The GNT Flights A, B and C have no fee the first two days of the contest.)

Regional championships are $16 per player per session for ACBL members, and $20 for non-members. For multi-session team events of three sessions or more, the entry fee is $64, $80 or $96 for teams of four, five or six, respectively. For team events of one or two sessions, the entry fee is $64.

All other events are $15 per player per session for ACBL members, $19 for nonmembers.

Membership RequiredA valid ACBL player number is required to play

in all events at the NABC. Along with one-year and three-year memberships, 30-day trial memberships are available to new members for $7.99.

Temporary and regular memberships can be purchased from Tournament Operations on the Marquis Level or the Check-Cashing Desk.

You can be a film editorThe ACBL and the ACBL Educational

Foundation are sponsoring an editing party for the movie, The Kid’s Table, on Friday, July 27, 9:30-11:30 a.m., in Room 707 on the Atrium Level. If you wish to attend please email Bhellerb@gmail.com.

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THURSDAY INTERNATIONAL FUND PAIRS 27.5 Tables A B C 12.67 1 Kenneth Bland - Ron Ashbacher, Saint Louis MO 64.62% 9.50 2 Bryan Delfs - Cristal Nell, Seattle WA 64.47% 7.13 3 Bill Cook, Louisville KY; Robert Todd, Tallahassee FL 63.15% 6.50 4 1 Neeta Mone, Livingston NJ; Mukund Thapa, Palo Alto CA 61.33% 4.43 5 Bulent Kaytaz, Istanbul Turkey; Nafiz Zorlu, Izmir Turkey 60.20% 4.88 6 2 Jim Wiser - Charles Swart, Portland OR 60.10% 3.66 7 3 Harold Singleton III, Newtown Square PA; Michael Heins, Champaign IL 60.07% 3.25 8 4 Kenneth Van Cleve, Traverse City MI; Harry Falk, Palm City FL 59.76% 2.22 9 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Ishmael Del’Monte, Las Vegas NV 58.97% 1.68 10 Alberto Cohen, Naucalpah Mexico; Miguel Reygadas, Tlalpan Mexico 58.75% 1.45 11 Justine Cushing - Melih Ozdil, New York NY 58.66% 1.29 12 Janice Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL; Peter Mosheim, Asheville NC 56.90% 2.28 5 Subrata Ghosh, Paramus NJ; Sardarsinh Gohel, Troy MI 56.49% 1.54 6 John Dukellis - James McRae, Colorado Spgs CO 54.12% 1.63 7 Leonid Fastovsky, Chevy Chase MD; Richard Gordon, Port St Lucie FL 53.86% 2.80 1 Pat Emery - Kathy Emery, New York NY 52.85% 2.10 2 Robert Fine - Marsha Goldstein, Atlanta GA 50.98% 1.58 3 William Mitchell - Rita Mitchell, Suwanee GA 48.04% 1.18 4 Jianzhong Yang - Zhan Fei, People’s Republic of China 46.72%

THURSDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS 13.0 Tables A B C 3.45 1 1 Georgia Raby, Hoover AL; Susan Blair, Mountain Brook AL 74.81% 2.59 2 2 1 Susan Byrne, Birmingham AL; Puja Chadha, Mountain Brook AL 65.53% 1.94 3 3 2 Jean Scott, Smyrna GA; Marsha Lee Leban, Marietta GA 62.69% 1.46 4 4 William Tyler III, Fletcher NC; Patrick Barnes, Asheville NC 57.77% 1.42 5 5 3 Meckin Scott - Josefine Scott, Tuscaloosa AL 56.06% 0.82 6 6 Franklin Leiter - Liza Leiter, Marietta GA 54.17% 1.07 4 Cathy Reinoehl, Marietta GA; Arnold Berry, Atlanta GA 53.98% 0.89 5 Robert Morrison, Alexandria VA; Peter Campbell, Springfield VA 51.70%

KICKOFF KO BRACKET 1 6 TablesHoward Parker III, Clements CA; Marjorie Michelin - Ellis Feigenbaum, Laguna Woods CA; Walter Schafer Jr, Fountain Valley CA; Albert Shrive, Naples FL; Thomas Maccormac, Dublin Ireland vsMike Rippey, Orinda CA; Benito Garozzo, Wilmington DE; Leonardo Cima, Roma Italy; Gandogua Alessandro, Rome Italy

Tony Viidik - Joan Viidik, Waterloo ON; Sue Lan Ma, Kirtland Hills OH; Peter Petruzzellis, Scarborough ON vsEric Leong, Oakland CA; Ishmael Del’Monte, Las Vegas NV; Ulf Nilsson, Dalby Sweden; Tadashi Yoshida, Tokyo Japan

KICKOFF KO BRACKET 2 6 TablesCheng Wang, Shenzhen Futian People’s Republic of China; Aiyue Ma, Shenzhen Chad; Brent Xiao, Fremont CA; Richard Jeng, Johns Creek GA vsClaire Gardner, Newport NH; Nora Miller, Leland NC; Paul Holmes, Wadsworth OH; Eric Gettleman, Ellicott City MD

Norman Marks, Oakland CA; Norman Marks II, Jacksonville FL; Charles Kelly, Anniston AL; Leon Galecki, Langston AL vsFred Tanzer, Land O Lakes FL; Dan Griggs, Big Canoe GA; John Rains, III, Tampa FL; Nellie Lim, Temple Terrace FL

KICKOFF KO BRACKET 3 6 TablesJoseph Sackett - Jill Sackett, Winchendon MA; Peggy Jordan, Newnan GA; R Dolores Daniel, Williamson GA vsMarie Covington - Kaye Threatt - Anne McKiernan, Winston Salem NC; Ann Paschold, Lewisville NC

Iris Abelson, Signal Mountain TN; Pat Whitaker - Mary Levine - Bruce Antman, Chattanooga TN vsSheryl Thompson, Metairie LA; Linda Conner - Molly Silvia - Di Lapeyre, New Orleans LA

Masterpoint disclaimerResults reported in the Daily Bulletin are

subject to change because of score adjustments or corrections. The masterpoint awards as shown are, therefore, also subject to change.

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION PAIRS 64.5 Tables A B C 24.22 1 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL 69.38% 18.17 2 1 Mukund Thapa, Palo Alto CA; Christine Denny, Encinitas CA 63.52% 13.62 3 Timothy Flaherty, San Diego CA; Junko Hemus, San Clemente CA 61.92% 10.22 4 James Melville, Springfield IL; Vladislav Isporski, Sofia Bulgaria 61.65% 7.66 5 Pinar Ayaz - Ilker Ayaz, Istanbul Turkey 61.46% 5.75 6 Robert Kent - Ellen Kent, Chicago IL 60.71% 4.31 7 Jack Alhale - Rozi Alhale, New York NY 60.18% 5.78 8/10 2/4 Albert Lauber, Washington DC; Jay Cherlow, Arlington VA 59.46% 5.78 8/10 2/4 Jui Wang, Durham NC; Albert Hsiao, Brookline MA 59.46% 5.78 8/10 2/4 Margaret Peterson, Larkspur CA; Patricia Herrera, Mexico Mexico 59.46% 2.99 11 Charles Fortney, Wheaton IL; Mike Jones, Villa Park IL 59.38% 3.67 12 5 1 Herb Watters, New Glasgow NS; Patricia Scammell, Truro NS 59.31% 3.07 13 6 2 Winton King, Decatur GA; Noah Newman Jr, Marietta GA 59.08% 2.99 14 Paul Darin, San Diego CA; Harriet Smith, Solana Beach CA 58.86% 2.15 15 Mary Vickers, Apex NC; Denyse Le Maire, Polson MT 58.81% 2.09 16 Roger McNay, Beaverton OR; Edward Frymoyer, Half Moon Bay CA 58.50% 2.73 17 7 Mark Hanneman - Sue Hanneman, Plainfield IL 58.49% 1.59 18 Robb Gordon, Prescott AZ; Linda Dunn, Memphis TN 58.31% 1.37 19 Kelley Hwang, New York NY; Morrie Kleinplatz, Windsor ON 58.23% 1.59 20 Judith Argento, Kingston PA; Raymond Depew, Naples FL 57.96% 1.37 21 Jerry Helms, Charlotte NC; Robert Bitterman, Sarasota FL 57.62% 1.21 22 Ghassan Menachi, Fabreville QC; Evette Mashaal, Westmount QC 57.31% 1.41 23 Gayle Covey - Steven Devico, Hendersonville NC 57.20% 1.63 24 8 Evelyn Gilliard, East Point GA; Estelle Lavender, Lithonia GA 57.18% 1.99 9 Allison Freeland, Coral Gables FL; Wayne Bardsley, Mc Lean VA 56.23% 2.06 10 3 Jonathan Yue, San Jose CA; Rory Xiao, Fremont CA 55.67% 1.55 4 Alice Milborn, Fishers IN; Sally Landrum, Noblesville IN 48.69% 1.16 5 Amy Goddard, Hartville OH; Les Muranyi, Bradenton FL 47.47% 0.87 6 Myra Groome, New Orleans LA; Michael Ramella, Northampton MA 46.34%

THURSDAY A/X PAIRS 40.0 Tables / Based on 81 Tables A X 42.07 1 Peter J Boyd-Bowman, Greensboro NC; Bruce Lang, West Palm Beach FL 60.10% 31.55 2 1 Cyrus Hettle, Atlanta GA; Daniel Sonner, Redwood City CA 59.39% 23.66 3 Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA; Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA 58.96% 17.75 4 Fred Schenker, Pittsburgh PA; Dan Roseberry, Dover OH 58.69% 18.93 5 2 Yan Wang, Richmond Hill ON; Edward Xu, North York ON 58.13% 14.20 6 3 R. Arthur Cannamela, Jr, Roswell GA; Baskaran Sankaran, Alpharetta GA 57.95% 10.65 7 4 Michael Sherman, Elmira NY; Bijoy Anand, Jacksonville FL 57.14% 9.35 8 Stephen Goldstein, Anaheim CA; Lynn Leisy, Amelia Island FL 56.35% 8.41 9 5 Jess Jurkovic - Elliot Sternlicht, New York NY 55.79% 7.65 10 6 Bo Han Zhu, Oakville ON; John Dong, Richmond Hill ON 55.75% 7.01 11 7 Sandrea Friedman, Flushing NY; Michael Rosen, New York NY 55.19% 6.47 12 8 Max Aeschbacher, Salt Lake City UT; Ankur Rathi, San Francisco CA 55.18% 6.01 13 Barbara Murphy, Newton MA; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA 54.58% 5.61 14 9 Peter Gelfand, Corralitos CA; Om Chokriwala, Sherman Oaks CA 54.38% 5.26 15 10 Tod Moses - Carol Schaffer, Saint Louis MO 54.31% 4.95 16 Stanford Christie, Kirkland WA; Ray Miller, Seattle WA 54.15% 4.67 17 11 Leah Shao, Harrisonburg VA; Hakan Berk, Potomac MD 53.90% 4.43 18 12 Michael Gladfelter - Mary Jane Gladfelter, Columbus OH 53.78% 4.21 19 13 Sherman Gao, Brea CA; Robert Micone, Tustin CA 53.70% 4.01 20 14 Gerard Geremia, La Verne CA; Joseph Viola III, Altadena CA 53.66% 3.16 15 Steve Callaham, Alpharetta GA; Bob Fisk, Cincinnati OH 53.63%

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Hall of Fame

BBO founders Sheri Winestock and Fred Gitelman (right) with current BBO head and chief programmer Uday Ivatury receive the Blackwood Award, honoring their achievement in designing the groundbreaking website.

The NaturalIndeed, in his presentation of Levin, longtime

partner Steve Weinstein directed his opening remarks to Nickell. “Can we just count this as our team meeting?” he asked. “Three members of the Nickell team being inducted into the Hall of Fame tonight. And of course, Nick, Jeff and Koach (Eric Kokish) are already in.”

Weinstein said it is rare to see exceptional talent coupled with a relentless work ethic. “Add to that a fierce will to win and a refusal to accept defeat, top that off with the ability to use every result – win or lose – as motivation to improve, and you get something truly extraordinary: a legend. Michael Jordan. Wayne Gretsky. Bobby Levin.”

Weinstein illustrated Levin’s strength as a partner with a story about the Vanderbilt final where the pair bid to a grand slam missing the ace of trumps.

“We were both steaming. We took a break after that board, and we’re outside smoking in silence for a minute, just staring daggers at each other.

“And then Bobby says says, ‘I’m a moron, that hand was all my fault.’ I knew he didn’t mean it, but that didn’t matter. It was just what we both needed. We went back in and played eight solid boards and won. That’s Bobby Levin.”

Levin acknowledged his many family members in attendance, with special thanks to his mother Sheila for teaching him bridge “She has always blamed my teammates and partners for my losses and given me 110 percent of the credit for my wins.”

He thanked past partners, and added, “I’ve been so lucky over the years to play with sponsors who were also great friends, culminating with a spot on a team with Nick Nickell. I want to thank him for being one of the truly good guys in the game.”

Levin had plenty of stories to tell about Weinstein. “Nothing,” he said, “compares to my good fortune of landing Steve Weinstein as my partner.”

He noted that Weinstein names Paul Soloway as his favorite bridge player of all time.

“You wanna know who my favorite bridge player of all time is?” he said. “Jill Lev,” with a nod toward his wife. “She has been so instrumental in helping me be the best that I can be.”

Levin has two world championships, two silver medals, 30 North American Championship titles, and five Cavendish Invitational Pair wins.

The Piano PlayerJeff Meckstroth, who presented his “partner in

crime” Rodwell for induction, entered the Hall of Fame last year.

“I think I’m even more excited this year to see my partner and others on the Nickell team inducted.”

Meckstroth said his father emphasized the partnership aspect of the game. “So that’s how I grew up – bridge is a partnership game … bridge is a partnership game …”

Jack Oest played matchmaker between Meckstroth and Rodwell. “From day one I spotted Eric’s enthusiasm, his incredible talent and genius,” Meckstroth said. “I said, I think this is the guy I’ve

been waiting for.”Meckstroth detailed Rodwell’s contributions as

a theoretician before extending his hand: “My friend Eric, welcome to the Hall of Fame.”

Rodwell recognized his many family members in attendance, including his parents, who just celebrated 66 years of marriage.

When he was 14, Rodwell took up the game. He played at the local club in West Lafayette IN where his dad was a biochemistry professor.

“The first good player who would play with me was Sudhakar Kunte,” Rodwell said. From Kunte, Rodwell learned, “playing with someone better that you is a good way to get the wheels moving.”

That someone would, of course, turn out to be Meckstroth, in 1974. “We played in a tournament in Defiance OH, and I was amazed when he bid and made a slam.”

Rodwell, known for bidding development, is credited with the invention of the support double and serious 3NT.

He has amassed 62 NABC wins, seven world titles, four silver medals, one Barry Crane Top 500 race and 2008 Player of the Year.

CatsNickell split duties with George Jacobs in

introducing new Hall of Famer Katz. Calling Katz “the ultimate gentleman,” Nickell said his partner of nine years is a natural coach and teacher.

“He is a great partner and teammate. When Ralph is at the table, he pulls harder for his partner than he does for himself.”

Jacobs called attention to Katz’s formal attire, noting the shoes. “At the first Cavendish we played, I insisted he wear a tuxedo, but back then, he wore black gym shoes.”

Jacobs included Katz’s wife, Martha and son, Sam, in recognizing the enormous contributions the family has made to the game.

“You belong in the Hall of Fame not just because of what you are to bridge, but because of all you’ve done for bridge.”

Ralph learned bridge while visiting his Uncle Lou, and after thanking the Hall of Fame Committee for the nomination, he thanked his uncle for “the road map for the rest of my life.”

At his first tournament, he says he lied about his masterpoint total: “I told them I had 20 masterpoints when I only had 10.” As it turned out, his partner lied, too. It was Ken Kranyak, “who told the partnership desk he had 5 points when he was really almost a Life Master.”

Katz continued to play into college – both bridge and baseball. When “the bridge bug bit,” he wanted to take a semester off to focus on playing. He found his parents surprisingly supportive. They had two conditions: that he go back to school and that he pay for his own tournaments. He completed college with relatively few visits to the ER as a result of baseball injuries, explaining his parents’ ready acceptance of bridge as an alternative.

Expressing gratitude to his family, Katz says that he met his wife, Martha at a tournament and, “as my father would say, we had a merger, and out of the merger came the best dividend ever, Sam.”

Katz has won 23 NABC titles and topped the Player of the Year list in 2001.

Strange BrewThe von Zedtwitz Award is given to given to

players out of the limelight – living or deceased – who had an outstanding tournament record and achieved prominence in the game.

2018 von Zedwitz Award winner Mark Molson, who died in 2006, was remembered by longtime partner Boris Baran. The two, who played together for 30 years, met after a post club-game gathering at the local Chinese restaurant.

Baran recalled a deal from the 1987 Life Master Pairs.

“It was kind of a bad news—good news—bad news story,” Baran said. The pair had a high-spirited auction in which both players cuebid clubs. It being matchpoints, they ended up in 7NT. As it turns out, the cuebids had been based on voids. Quickly, the opening lead was the ♣ A.

“The good news is that the lead was made out of turn,” Baran said. “The bad news is that Mark tabled his hand, thereby condoning the lead.”

Molson was, Baran said, humble, caring, a devoted husband, and he adored his daughter, Jennifer. “It was a shocking and tragic loss. He left us all many fond memories while establishing a firm bridge legacy.”

Molson’s widow, Janice Seamon-Molson, accepted the Hall of Fame trophy and conveyed a loving thank you from Jennifer, who could not be present.

Molson won a silver medal in the Bermuda Bowl and a bronze medal in the Rosenblum Knockout Teams. He had seven Canadian National Team Championships, one Canadian Open Pairs Championship and seven NABC titles.

AIThe ACBL Hall of Fame Blackwood Award

is traditionally given to individuals who have contributed greatly to the game of bridge without necessarily being world class players.

“I don’t think any one thing as changed my life as much as BBO has,” said Berkowitz in introducing BBO presenter Christal Henner.

Christal Henner echoed the sentiments of many during the evening in presenting Bridge Base Online as the Blackwood Hall of Fame honoree. BBO, the creation of Fred Gitleman and Sheri Winestock, makes it possible to play bridge anywhere, anytime … “few have had such an enormous impact.”

In growing BBO, Henner noted that it was hard to separate “Fred, the world-class programmer and Fred, the world-class player. And their first client was world-class investor Warren Buffett.”

Henner described the third partner of the venture, programmer Uday Ivatury as a “tech wizard with a wicked sense of humor as spicy as his food palate.”

Gitelman accepted the Hall of Fame statue on behalf of the phenomenon that is BBO.

“We are the first generation that failed to take up bridge in numbers,” Gitelman said. “We” – indicating Winestock and himself – “we thought we might be able to make a difference. We invoked ‘Field of Dreams’: If you build it, they will come.”

He acknowledged the incredible support that BBO has enjoyed from the world’s expert community of players and the players who play two million hands of bridge a day.

“BBO’s receipt of the Blackwood Award is affirmation that we have made a difference.”

But it is not enough, Gitelman concluded. Younger generations must be reached through their phones, tablets and laptops he said, issuing a call for 19-year programmers to take up the mission.

“If bridge is to survive, technology must play a starring role.”

Stands By MeJoAnna Stansby brought her husband to

the stage to receive the Sidney H. Lazard Jr. Sportsmanship Award.

To illustrate Lew’s integrity, JoAnna offered an example from the 2017 U.S. Bridge Championships. They were defending a doubled partscore which was destined to go down, and nothing much mattered until Lew accidentally dropped the ♦J on the table as

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Janice Seamon-Molson accepts the von Zedtwitz Award on behalf of her late husband Mark Molson (inset).

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THURSDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS 5.0 Tables A B C 2.25 1 1 1 Robert Morrison, Alexandria VA; Peter Campbell, Springfield VA 64.13% 1.69 2 Robert Greenberg - Sue Lass, Naples FL 57.50% 1.60 3 2 Wanda Mikhail, Ocean Springs MS; Buddy Massey, Gulfport MS 54.13% 1.05 4/5 3/4 Shelley Radcliffe - Marsha Spears, Dublin OH 53.38% 1.40 4/5 3/4 2 Dorothy Holding, Suwanee GA; Jean Samples, Alpharetta GA 53.38% 1.05 3 Anissia Narang - Mandeep Narang, Hoover AL 48.70%

THURSDAY B/C PAIRS 22.0 Tables B C 12.00 1 1 Douglas Grant, San Francisco CA; Charles Riffle, Emerald Hills CA 63.24% 9.00 2 Ray Robert - Rick Prouser, Portland OR 60.96% 6.75 3 Marty Lavine, Atlanta GA; John Vega, Naples FL 60.45% 5.18 4 2 Thomas Rush, Houston TX; Wes Peirce, The Woodlands TX 59.65% 4.00 5 Andrew Clements, La Vista NE; Jonathan Cohn, Gillette WY 58.07% 3.43 6 Rick Whitehead, Knoxville TN; Ru Hong Terajewicz, Newton MA 56.92% 3.00 7 Suzanne Millard - John Millard, Kihei HI 56.41% 3.88 8 3 William Carrell, Leesburg FL; Ethan Wood, Dover MA 55.19% 4.00 9 Rick Scott, Marietta GA; John Simms, Woodstock GA 55.07% 2.91 10 4 Lisa Studebaker, Dawsonville GA; Susan Dover, Flowery Branch GA 54.97% 2.59 11 5 Rick Clelland, Boulder CO; Richard Overholt, Tyrone GA 54.73% 1.97 6 Cabot Jaffee - Lyn Shapiro, Maitland FL 51.84% 1.73 7 Jesse Liu, Fremont CA; Ying Liu, Palo Alto CA 51.76%

THURSDAY GOLD RUSH PAIRS 39.0 Tables 7 3 12.86 1 Yinghan Ding, Salt Lake City UT; Xiaobin Sun, Park City UT 65.06% 9.65 2 Burt Grayman, Flat Rock NC; Sherry Sims, Hendersonville NC 60.61% 7.23 3 1 Susan Martin - Margaret Shirer, Metairie LA 60.28% 5.43 4 2 Ken Deutch - Kenneth Eiger, Saint Louis MO 59.38% 4.29 5 Donna Neff, San Francisco CA; Nishat Chishti, Kenosha WI 57.52% 3.67 6 Leila Mattinger, Cupertino CA; Jung Hu, San Jose CA 56.91% 3.22 7 Steve Puschaver, Moreland GA; Jan Puschaver, moreland GA 56.72% 3.67 8 3 Pam Gutt - Jill Marsden, Atlanta GA 56.30% 2.57 9 Rob Russell, Middleton MA; R Michelle Green, Somerville MA 56.26% 2.34 10 Ido Millet - Mary Tseng, Erie PA 56.21% 2.14 11 Peri Namerow, Mahwah NJ; Julie Zinzi, Franklin Lakes NJ 55.78% 2.75 12 4 Peter Ruben - Karen Ruben, Roslyn NY 54.17% 2.18 13 5 Stephen Knight - Fred Everett, Marietta GA 53.22% 1.87 14 6 Susan Stromberg, Homewood IL; Caron Espinosa, Mokena IL 52.75% 1.56 15/16 Bonnie Mayerson - Jeannie Vine, Boca Raton FL 52.65% 1.63 15/16 7 Ronald Ocmond, Marrero LA; Gary Bergeron, New Orleans LA 52.65% 1.76 17 8 Gordon Young - Irene Szabla, Pictou NS 52.18% 1.41 18/19 Bill Jones - Jane Friedman, Anderson SC 52.08% 1.32 18/19 9 Cathy Garrett, Kathleen GA; Robert McTyre, Bonaire GA 52.08% 1.20 20/21 Amy Dutton, Mendota Heights MN; Susan Sanger, St Louis Park MN 51.99% 1.20 20/21 Jerry Bartlett, Lindstrom MN; William Boline, Minneapolis MN 51.99% 1.19 10 Susan Easterlin, Montezuma GA; Deana Haugabook, Oglethorpe GA 51.33%

IMP Strategy (for Swiss teams, knockout teams

and IMP pairs)By Steven Gaynor

In a matchpoint event, we are always looking for that extra trick or playing in a risky major suit or notrump rather than a poorer-scoring, but safer, minor suit. Why? Because it pays off big time when it works.

We may even risk our contract to make a play for an overtrick. On defense we strive not to blow a trick rather than beat a contract.

In IMP scoring, however, the considerations change drastically. Now just making or beating a contract can give us a big score, but extra tricks are chump change. (OK, I know we have all won or lost a match by 1 IMP.)

Winning IMP strategies include:1. Make your contract. Do not worry about

overtricks or undertricks. If you are in the right spot, things will usually work out in your favor.

2. Trust your bidding system. Even at pairs, you will be a winner if you are in the right suit at the right level despite blowing an overtrick once in a while.

3. Stretch to bid a game. If vulnerable, game should be bid even if it is as a low as a 40% chance. If not vulnerable, it should be a 50% prospect.

4. If you bid three vulnerable games that your opponents do not bid and you make only one of them, you break even. If you are in an auction and the decision is now in your hands whether to bid game or not --- if you have to think about it, bid game.

5. Do not double their partial. You better have them down two in your own hand before you chance a double of a bid below game. And ‘down two in your own hand’ means you have a fistful of trump tricks. Do not count on your partner for many of these tricks.

6. Do not go for numbers. Don’t make some wild, preemptive bid just because you have six or seven (or more) cards in one suit. It is not worth it.

7. Your competitive bidding should be more constructive at IMP scoring. Upgrade your overcalls by at least a queen. This means that if you would overcall with 8 points at pairs, overcall with 10 or more at IMPs.

8. Play your safest contract. If in the bidding your find you have a better fit in a minor than a major, play in the minor, especially at a partial. You want to make whatever contract you bid. Plus 110 is only a bit worse than plus 140 and it may not even make any difference sometimes.

9. This also applies to game and slam bidding. If partner opens 1NT and you have a four-card major with at least invitational values, bid Stayman. Plus 620 and plus 630 are the same at IMPs.

10. Do not stretch to bid slams. Bid slams only when they have at least 75% probability of success.

11. Do not stretch to bid slams. Oh, is this a repeat? Well, good. The point needs extra emphasis.

12. You have partners at the other table. Don’t make

a risky bid or play because you think you are down in a match.

13. Once, in a seven-board match, we bid a slam down two vulnerable for minus 200, bid 3NT with a combined 21 high-card points after a bidding misunderstanding --- which my partner played well for down one and minus 100 --- and doubled them in 4*H*, making five for minus 990. We thought we were slaughtered. Wrong. We won IMPs on all three boards and blitzed the other team.

14. Don’t be a hero. Do not make a confusing bid that (1) may be passed when it is forcing or (2) shows extra values that you don’t have. Make the call that shows your strength.

15. “Take out insurance.” In every team game, there will be a hand where both sides can make game. Usually it is a wild hand with lots of distribution, doubles fits and long suits. It is usually right to bid one more (called “taking out insurance”) –

unless you are sure they are going down and you cannot make your bid.

16. On defense, strive at all costs to beat the contract when it means giving up an overtrick. You may take risks that you would never dream of at matchpoints – such as leading the king from K-x, hoping to find your partner with the ace of that suit or the queen and a quick entry in trumps. Sometimes you give up an overtrick, so you lose 1 IMP. If your bold play sets a contract just one time in 10, you are ahead.

17. If it’s hard for you, it’s hard for them. The player sitting in your seat at the other table is holding the same cards you are. This guiding principle will help you on several of the points already listed.

Steven Gaynor is an Emerald Life Master who lives in Minneapolis MN. He is a member of the national Charity and Goodwill committees.

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Handling Weak Two-Bidsby Alan Olschwang

Across1. Big piece6. Diamond cover10. Mother of Ares14. Pine product15. Hydrox alternative16. Final17. 38A begins with a ___ bid

following a 25A19. Boorish20. Bikini blaster21. Bird related to the canary22. When DST used to start25. See 17A28. Promotional phrase31. When two hands come

together32. Xavier of Latin music33. “Awesome!”35. Messenger with a code38. The subject of this puzzle41. “Ash Wednesday” monogram42. “Enough already!”43. First manned mooncraft

44. Hoops grp.45. Squeeze beside46. A response of ___ following

a 17A bid shows a weak hand with only one of the top three honors in the suit originally bid

51. Allowed to52. Exclaimed in delight53. Arrange a blind date for56. “Enough ___!”57. Bids following the response to

a 17A bid ___62. Coastal raptor63. Entry point64. Venetian love65. Checked out66. “Guarding ___” (Cage/

MacLaine movie)67. They’re for war

Down1. Component of old TVs2. Give the ax to3. WWII morale booster4. 1492 caravel5. Aid in finding a station6. The Velvet Fog7. A Leeward Island8. “Automatic for the People”

band9. Weasel word10. Immediately afterward11. A semirural area12. Arm bones13. “FoxTrot” cartoonist Bill18. Word following ghost or boom21. Bobby-soxers often did this22. “Downtown Abbey” neckwear23. Advertises24. Out-of-control elephant26. Blackguard27. Subscriber’s bonus, perhaps29. Yak away30. Acclimated

33. Dieter-friendly34. The bigger picture, briefly35. Brightest star in Orion36. “Cross my heart!”37. Concerning39. Market-focused network40. Touching game44. Tended an outdoor bed45. “¿Como ___ usted?”46. “We’re off ___ the wizard . . .”47. Gray with age48. White wine variety49. Windows openers50. Aptitudes54. Zion National Park’s place55. Western wildcat57. Well-suited58. Where fish come from59. Work on a galley (58D

homophone)60. Vessel measured in cubits61. ___ Invalides (Paris landmark)

Answer on page 18

Friday, July 27, 2018 Daily BulletinPage 8

Defending ChampionsMorehead Grand National Teams

Championship Flight: Lew Stansby, JoAnna Stansby, Chip Martel, Debbie Rosenberg, David Grainger (D21)

Goldman Grand National Teams Flight A: Barry Bragin, Weiling Zhao, Gary Miyashiro, Michael Hess, Susan Smith and Michael Smith (D25)

Sheinwold Grand National Teams Flight B: Jim Liu, Peter Sun, Jun Shi, Quiang Zhang, Ethan Liu, (D21)

MacNab Grand National Teams Flight C: Max Schireson, Cadir Lee, Aravind Alwan, Olivier Chapelle, Michael Hu, Arthur Zhou (D21)

Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss Teams: Bob Glasson, Joann Glasson, Rick Rowland, Martin Rabinowitz

Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams: Alexander Hydes, Sarah Bell, Marusa Basa

Spingold Knockout Teams: John Diamond, Boye Brogeland, Brian Platnick, Espen Lindqvist

Mini-Spingold I (0–6000) KO Teams: Henry Caspar, Chris Cowan, Debbie Feldman, Terry Richardson, John McWhinnie, Doug Barnes

Mini-Spingold II (0–2500) KO Teams: Tsao-Tung Tsai, Luen-Jyh Luo, Edward So, Jack Uppal

Roth Open Swiss Teams: Ai-Tai Lo, Bill Pettis, Beth Palmer, Bill Cole

0–10,000 Mixed Swiss Teams: Stewart Rubenstein, Christina Parker, Susan Smith, Michael Smith

von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs: Joel Wooldridge, John Hurd

Bruce LM–6000 Pairs: Daniel Bertrand, Allan Simon

Young 0–2500 Pairs: Tsao-Tung Tsai, Luen-Jyh Luo

Wernher Open Pairs: Joel Wooldridge, John Hurd

Wagar Women’s Pairs: Julie Smith, Susan Humphries

0–10,000 NABC Pairs: David Gurvich, Michael Lipkin

Bean Red Ribbon Pairs: Steve Overholt, Sudhir Patwardhan

Collegiate Bridge Bowl: Georgia Tech – Arjun Dhir, Santhosh Karnik, Charles Wang, Zhuangdi Xu

Fishbein Trophy: Boye Brogeland, Espen Lindqvist

Electronic device policy The electronic device policy

at NABCs allows players to bring electronic devices such as cell phones into the playing area provided that such devices are turned off. Further, any such equipment must not be visible during the session.

A violation of the policy will result in an automatic disciplinary penalty of one full board (or 12 IMPs at that form of scoring) for the first offense. A second offense will result in disqualification from the event

NABC Results by Email/Text

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With the ACBL Live notification system, you will receive emails and/or text messages after each session with links that go directly to the information you’re looking for. The email/text message will contain your score for the session and a link to your results. (These results will also be available on your MyResults page at MyACBL.) Players will also receive a notification to indicate when the Daily Bulletin for that day is available.

This service is automatic for members unless they have specifically opted out. To receive text messages, go to MyACBL at acbl.org and select Update My Information to enter your email address and/or cell phone number.

Also at MyACBL, visit the Privacy Settings tab to make sure you’ve selected the Subscribe setting for General Email Communication and Cell Phone Text Communication to receive these notifications.

PAIRINGS IN TODAY’S GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS

CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHTJoshua Donn - Roger Lee - Sylvia Shi - Daniel

Korbel, Las Vegas NV vsDouglas Doub, West Hartford CT; Franklin

Merblum, Bloomfield CT; James Streisand, Wayland MA; Walter Lee, Sudbury MA

Dan Morse, Houston TX; Thomas Peters, Grapeland TX; Kenneth Schutze, Austin TX; Venkatrao Koneru - Ira Hessel, San Antonio TX; Nagy Kamel, Plano TX

vsWarren Spector, Palm Beach FL; Michael

Becker - David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Gary Cohler, Delray Beach FL; Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL

Jonathan Fleischmann, Bloomfield MI; Martin Hirschman, Ann Arbor MI; Allan Falk, Okemos MI; Howard Perlman, Franklin MI; Frank Treiber III, Toledo OH; Jordan Kaye, West Bloomfield MI

vsJeffrey Wolfson - Steve Garner - Eldad Ginossar,

Chicago IL; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Hgts IL

Chip Martel, Davis CA; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; JoAnna Stansby - Lew Stansby, Dublin CA; Kevin Rosenberg, Sunnyvale CA; Adam Kaplan, Stanford CA

vsRaluca Dobrescu - Radu Nistor, Woodside

NY; Sandra Rimstedt - Dana Berkowitz - Shane Blanchard - Robert Barrington, New York NY

FLIGHT AGregory Vance, Pacifica CA; Mark McCarthy,

San Francisco CA; Erwin Linzner, Santa Rosa CA; Andrew Hoskins, Burlingame CA

vsKurt Dasher, Petersburg MI; Grant Petersen,

Taylor MI; Michael Kraut, Royal Oak MI; Zachary Wasserman, Farmington Hls MI; Frank Sensoli, St Clair Shores MI; Dennis Carman, Plainwell MI

Mike Rice - Rosalind Lin, Chapel Hill NC; Andre Asbury, Brookhaven GA; Doug Dey, Madison CT; Jon Rice, Garner NC; Jui Wang, Durham NC

vsBurke Snowden, New Haven CT; Larry

Matheny - Neil Petrie - Gregory Herman, Fort Collins CO; Robert Sherman, Lafayette CO

Peter Stein, Hillsborough NJ; Stephen Arshan, Jackson NJ; Donna Dulet, Ocean NJ; Himanshu Joshi, Chester NJ; Richard Ross, Highland Park NJ; Ron Nelken, Clifton NJ

vsEdward Schusler, Lady Lake FL; Albert

Simpson, The Villages FL; James Scott, Wellington FL; David Treitel, Miami FL; Saul Gross, Miami Beach FL; Juan Castillo, Fort Lauderdale FL

Colin Lafferty, Kitchener ON; Doug Andrews, Etobicoke ON; J Melvin Norton, Burlington ON; Keith Heckley, Hamilton ON

vsMarc Warner, Crozier VA; Mark Rosenbloom

- Franklin Price, Glen Allen VA; Robert Pustilnik, Richmond VA

FLIGHT BBob Rasmussen - David Aderente - Wilbur

Argersinger, Ann Arbor MI; Timur Aydin, Bloomfield Hls MI; Ching-Po Wang, Troy MI

vsCharles Young - Alin Olaru - Patrick Moos -

Rich Pestien, Peoria IL

Tanaaz Timblo - Jayendu Patel, Vista CA; Kenny Pan - Alberto Feilhaber, Irvine CA

vsMark Raphaelson, Davenport FL; Cabot Jaffee

Jr, Maitland FL; Lance Marrou, Orlando FL; Ping Chen, Winter Springs FL

Arun Goyal - Rachna Fuerst, West Chester OH; Mike Ma - Vijay Vasudevan, Cincinnati OH

vsLarry Jackson - Lisa Harris - Barbara Johnson

- Lyn Yukon, Memphis TN; Daniel Lustig, Germantown TN

Edward Yosses, Aurora CO; Roger Miller - Paul Perkowski, Highlands Ranch CO; Scott Needham, Boulder CO; Don Little, Broomfield CO

vsScott Spitze - Eli Jolley, Iowa City IA; Harry

Sapienza, Minnetonka MN; Paul Nesvig, Inver Grove MN

FLIGHT C Shen Duan - Meiyan Duan, Andover MA;

Jianqiao Gu, Lexington MA; Cecil T C Chan, Wellesley MA

vsJack Dean - Jeanette Dean - Marsha Doyle -

Robert Burridge, Houston TX

Tengyun Tony Cao, Troy MI; Yu Chen - Henry Zhang, Novi MI; Yanping Zhang, Livonia MI

vsKevin Marnell - Frank Straulemann - Andrew

Nuxoll, Portland OR; Roger Thomas, West Linn OR; Jon Gassaway, Beaverton OR; Dan Edelstein, Vancouver WA

Yunkai Song, El Monte CA; Yueqiang Xue, Los Angeles CA; Sophia Chang, San Gabriel CA; Lucy Zhang, Arcadia CA; Zu Ming Cheng, Pasadena CA

vsMichael Corrigan - Richard Padgett, Reston VA;

Jeffrey Yutzler, Alexandria VA; Jennifer Colmer, Arlington VA; Harry Potter, Herndon VA; James Mosley, Ashburn VA

Jordan Tessarolo - Marc Furnemont - Janice Soutar, Victoria BC; Ryley Breiddal, Vancouver BC

vsLynn Chapman - Charles Schubiger - Girish

Joglekar - Bijoy Telivala, Jacksonville FL

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Saturday, March 10 ♠ 6:00-8:30 p.m. ♠ Check page 2 of Daily Bulletin for location Instructor Accreditation

This program instructs teachers in methods of administering and presenting LBIAD.If you wish to be accredited, you must complete the following two requirements:Serve as a Table Mentor at a LBIAD seminar ♠ Attend a two-hour LBIAD Teacher Training event

Teacher Training includes information on organizing and marketing LBIAD, maximizing retention, writing grant requests and seminar presentation. A light meal will be provided 6-6:30 p.m. To register, or if you have questions, please contact Patty Tucker at patty@whirlwindbridge.com.

Fee: $75 USD (If purchasing a LBIAD license within 30 days of accreditation, $50 USD of the $75 USD fee will be applied to the first-year license fee.)

EntriesA valid ACBL player number is required to play

in all events at the NABC.All North American championships with no

upper masterpoint limit $25 per player per session(For team events, this means $100 per team per

session for four-person teams, $125 per team per session for five-person teams, and $150 per team per session for six-person teams. Only ACBL members current on their dues and service fees are eligible to play in NABC+ events. $1.50 per person per session benefits the International Fund.)

Other North American championships.....$17 per player per session

(For the team events, this means $68 per team per session for teams of four, $85 per team per session for teams of five, and $102 per team per session for teams of six. Only ACBL members current on their dues and service fees are eligible to play in these events.)

Regional championships...............$16 for ACBL members, $20 for inactive members per player per session

(For multi-session team events of three sessions or more, the entry fee is $64, $80 or $96 for teams of four, five or six, respectively. For team events of one or two sessions, the entry fee is $64.)

All other events.............$15 for ACBL members, $19 for inactive members per player per session

The Past Comes AliveDutch players Frank van Wezel and Hans van

de Konijnenberg collect books, magazines and Daily Bulletins about bridge. They especially enjoy reading Daily Bulletins from the pre-Internet era B these periodicals are a treasure trove of wonderful photographs, marvelous sketches, splendid deals and tremendous stories and anecdotes.

Van Wezel and van de Konijnenberg decided that this material should be at the disposal of all bridge players. At the same time, they want to save the history of bridge from oblivion. Therefore they launched a free website: www.bridgedailybulletins.nl

On this site you may find thousands of bulletins, both from the digital era and before. WBF, EBL and ACBL championship bulletins are posted, as well as many from miscellaneous tournaments around the world.

If you have bulletins that they are missing, please contact them. Contact details can be found on the website.

he was pulling the ♦8. The director was summoned to rule on the penalty card.

“If he meant to play the jack, nothing happens,” JoAnna said, “but if he meant to play the 8, the jack becomes a penalty card and the roof falls in.”

“I meant to play the 8,” said Lew honestly.“Score up the doubled contract,” remembered

JoAnna. “The experts at the table were floored.” Then to Lew she said, “I admire you so much. Nice guys don’t finish last – we went on to win the match.”

Stansby accepted the award in with a business-like call to action to the national bridge organizations: “It’s time to acknowledge that bridge is never going to be an Olympic sport. Except for drug testing and decisions of committees of bridge players being overturned by courts, I haven’t seen much progress.”

He also highlighted the ACBL’s relatively new Anti-Cheating Commission, whose job it is to review recorder forms and determine more serious cases, pursuit of which might make a better bridge experience.

“The problem is that they don’t get enough recorder forms.”

He urged players to follow through on their first intuition to file a recorder form rather than any second thoughts they may have about how much trouble it may be.

Stansby, a Hall of Famer, has won seven world championships including three Bermuda Bowl victories, and 37 North American Championships.

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Hall of Fame

Emcee David Berkowitz presents the Sidney H. Lazard Jr. Sportsmanship Award to this year’s recipient, Lew Stansby.

Friday, July 27, 2018 Daily BulletinPage 10

Grand National Teams: Championship and Flight A

2017 GNT Championship flight winners from District 21: David Grainger, Debbie Rosenberg, Chip Martel, JoAnna Stansby, Lew Stansby.

Last year’s GNT Flight A winners came from District 25: Barry Bragin, Weiling Zhao, Gary Miyashiro, Michael Hess, Susan Smith and Michael Smith.

The Grand National Teams is a North American contest with all 25 ACBL districts participating.

In 1985, the event was subdivided into three separate events: Flights A, B and C. Another change came in 2001 when the GNT Championship Flight (for players with more than 5000 masterpoints) was created. Effective 2014, Flight A changed from being capped at 5000 masterpoints to having an upper limit of 6000.

The winners of the Championship Flight are honored by the Morehead Trophy, donated by The New York Times in memory of its longtime bridge editor, Albert H. Morehead. The winners of Flight A are honored by the Goldman Trophy, named in honor of the late Bobby Goldman.

Albert H. MoreheadMorehead

(1909–1966) was born in Flintstone GA and educated at Baylor and Harvard. Ely Culbertson hired him in 1932 because of his outstanding ability as a player and analyst and made him technical editor of The Bridge World in 1933.

He proved so invaluable that in 1934 he was made general manager of all Culbertson enterprises. He was only 25 when he played on the Culbertson team that defeated the British in the second international match for the Schwab Cup.

Morehead was the first bridge editor of The New York Times with a Sunday column from 1935 and a daily column from 1959. He resigned from the Times late in 1963 to devote full time to writing, editing and publishing of the dictionaries, encyclopedias and thesauruses that made him one of the foremost American lexicographers.

During those years, Morehead found time for tremendous service to organized bridge. He was an officer of the United States Bridge Association when that organization amalgamated with the American Bridge League in 1937.

He became a governor of the newly formed ACBL and served as president in 1943 and chairman of the board from 1943 to 1945. He was named ACBL Honorary Member in 1946.

Morehead was a member of the National Laws Commission and was in charge of production of the International Laws of Contract Bridge. He was also the author of the constitution of the World Bridge Federation — the first formal definition of the scope, structure, powers and duties of that organization.

Morehead was named to the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame in 1996.

Bobby GoldmanBobby

Goldman (1938–1999), who became a member of the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, enjoyed a stellar career as a player, author and theorist. His tournament record is impressive. He earned four world titles (the Bermuda Bowl in 1970, 1971 and 1979 and the World Mixed Teams in 1972) and 19 North American championships: the Life Master Men’s Pairs (1964); the Life Master Pairs (1968); the Open BAM Teams (1993); the Men’s Teams (1968, 1989 and 1991); the Spingold Knockout Teams (1969, 1978, 1983, 1986 and 1988); the Reisinger BAM Teams (1970, 1976 and 1980); the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams (1971, 1973, 1978, 1997 and 1998). Goldman also had 13 second-place finishes in NABC events.

At the time of his induction into the Hall of Fame, Goldman was an ACBL Grand Life Master with more than 25,700 masterpoints, and ranked

ninth on the all-time list of masterpoint holders. He was also a WBF World Grand Master.

Goldman authored several books on the game, including Aces Scientific and Winners and Losers at the Bridge Table. His contributions to bidding theory include Super Gerber, Exclusion Blackwood and Goldman after Stayman. He was one of the principal architects of the Aces Scientific System.

Goldman served as ACBL recorder from 1986–1988 and was a longtime member of the Competitions and Conventions Committee. His views on the game helped shape the modern-day Alert procedure, the ACBL convention chart, ethics and the appeals process.

Goldman was honored by the ACBL by being named the 1999 Honorary Member, presented for long and meritorious service to bridge.

Goldman’s early career was distinguished by his association with the now-famous Aces, the professional, Texas-based team created by businessman Ira Corn for the purpose of winning world bridge championships. Goldman was a member of the successful squad until 1974.

Winners and runners-up1973 1. Russell Arnold, James Beery, Jane Jaeger,

Richard Pavlicek, William Seamon, Robert G. Sharp; 2. Byron Economidy, Jerry Levitt, Roger Lord, Norb Kremer, Dave Smith, Ron Smith

1974 1. Larry Cohen, Billy Eisenberg, Eddie Kantar, Richard Katz, Paul Soloway, John Swanson; 2. Chuck Burger, Fred Hamilton, Howard Perlman, Stanley Smith, Jeffrey Starr, Dick Yanko

1975 1. John Fisher, Charles Gabriel, Bob Hamman, Jim Hooker, Charles Weed, Bobby Wolff; 2. Mike Cook, Jim Felts, Doug Hill, Reece Rogers, Ron Smith, Bernie Yomtov

1976 1. Billy Eisenberg, Eddie Kantar, Paul Soloway, John Swanson; 2. Marty Fleisher, Charlie Friedman, Ron Gerard, Halina Jamner, Archie McKellar, Neil Nathanson

1977 1. Bob Hamman, Dan Morse, Curtis Smith, Eddie Wold, Bobby Wolff; 2. Bobby Lipsitz, Steve Parker, Steve Robinson, Kit Woolsey

1978 1. Gerald Caravelli, Charles Peres, William Rosen, Milton Rosenberg, Dan Rotman; 2. Allan Cokin, Bobby Levin, Bud Reinhold, William Seamon, Steve Sion

1979 1. Greg DeFotis, Jerry Goldfein, Arnold Leavitt, Larry Robbins, Claude Vogel; 2. Marty Bergen, Chuck Lamprey, Warren Rosner, Allan Stauber

1980 1. Jack Bitman, Jan Janitschke, Craig Janitschke, Dick Lesko; 2. Russell Arnold, Edith Kemp, William Passell, Cliff Russell, Billy Seamon, Dave Strasberg

1981 1. Ira Chorush, James Jacoby, Mike Passell, George Rosenkranz, Eddie Wold; 2. Mike Becker, Brian Glubok, John Lowenthal, Phillip Martin, Michael Rosenberg, Ron Rubin

1982 1. Ron Von der Porten, Hugh Ross, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, Kyle Larsen, Peter Pender, Jeff Polisner (npc); 2. Steve Landen, Pratap Rajadhyaksha, Jeff Starr, Frank Bell, Chuck Berger

1983 1. Chip Martel, Hugh Ross, Peter Pender, Lew Stansby; 2. Lou Blumn, Richard Freeman, Larry Gould, Randy Joyce, Nick Nickell

1984 1. Kit Woolsey, Ed Manfield, Peter Boyd, Bob Lipsitz, Steve Robinson; 2. Greg De Fotis, Larry Robbins, Jerry Goldfein, Hal Mouser, Jack Oest, Gerry Caravelli

1985 1. Chip Martel, Hugh Ross, Lew Stansby, Peter Pender, Alfred Sheinwold (npc); 2. Steve Robinson, Eddie Manfield, Peter Boyd, Bobby Lipsitz

1986 1. Seymon Deutsch, Bobby Wolff, Bob Hamman, Jim Jacoby; 2. Milt Rosenberg,

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Ralph Katz, Hal Mouser, Greg DeFotis, Larry Robbins, Howard Weinstein

1987 1. Chip Martel, Hugh Ross, Peter Pender, Lew Stansby, Mike Lawrence; 2. Frank Hoadley, Sidney Lazard, John Onstott, Jack LaNoue

1988 1. Steve Robinson, Ed Manfield, Peter Boyd, Robert Lipsitz; 2. Jack Oest, Steve Garner, Jerry Goldfein, Bart Bramley, Gerry Caravelli, Howard Weinstein

1989 1. Steve Sion, Robert Barr, Howard Stengel, Bernie Miller; 2. Tony Kasday, Paul Ivaska, Gaylor Kasle, Garey Hayden, Roger Bates

1990 1. Doug Simpson, Walter Johnson, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, Dennis Clerkin; 2. Kay Larsen, Chris Larsen, Joe Kivel, Robert Rosenblum, Evan Bailey

1991 1. Larry Robbins, Jerry Goldfein, Jack Oest, Peter Nagy, Steve Garner, Howard Weinstein; 2. Marty Bergen, Fred Stewart, Larry Cohen, Steve Weinstein

1992 1. Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd, Robert Lipsitz, Ed Manfield; 2. Michael Becker, Ron Rubin, Richard Pavlicek, William Root, Bobby Levin, Jeff Wolfson

1993 1. Ravindra Murthy, Brad Moss, Lew Stansby, Chip Martel, Hugh Ross, Jeff Ferro; 2. Brian Ellis, Asim Ulke, Florine Walters, Richard Finberg, Jay Apfelbaum, Piyush Vakil

1994 1. Jimmy Cayne, Alan Sontag, Dave Berkowitz, Larry Cohen; 2. Doug Simson, Walter Johnson, Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth

1995 1. Steve Garner, Jack Oest, Larry Robbins, Jerry Goldfein, Gerald Caravelli, Gary Cohler; 2. Billy Cohen, Marc Jacobus, Harold Lilie, Peter Nagy

1996 1. Ralph Buchalter, Hugh Ross, Kyle Larsen, Ron Smith, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby; 2. Chuck Burger, Geoff Hampson, Allan Falk, Perry Johnson

1997 1. (District 9) Jeffrey Wolfson, Robert Levin, Jeff Meckstroth, Neil Silverman, Richard Pavlicek, Michael Seamon; 2. (District 10) Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Curtis Cheek, Steve Beatty, John Onstott

1998 1. (District 22) Ross Grabel, Jon Wittes, Mark Itabashi, Fred Hamilton, Gene Simpson; 2. (District 16) Bobby Goldman, John Sutherlin, Malcolm Brachman, Mike Passell, Eddie Wold

1999 1. (District 9) Joseph Shay, Michael Seamon, Robert Levin, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell; 2. (District 23) Jill Meyers, Ed Davis, Mitch Dunitz, Iftikhar Baqai

2000 1. (District 9) Joseph Shay, Michael Seamon, Robert Levin, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell; 2. (District 21) Rose Meltzer, Peter Weichsel, Ron Smith, Kyle Larsen, Chip Matel, Lew Stansby

Morehead GNT Championship Flight

2001 1. (District 23) Jill Meyers, Ed Davis, Mitch Dunitz, Iftikhar Baqai; 2. (District 21) Rose Meltzer, Peter Weichsel, Hugh Ross, Kyle Larsen, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby

2002 1. (District 9) Russ Ekeblad, Sheila Ekeblad, Jeff Meckstroth, Michael Seamon, Eric Rodwell, Mark Molson; 2. (District 17) Lou Ann O’Rourke, Roger Bates, Garey Hayden, Billy Miller, Marc Jacobus.

2003 1. (District 21) Rose Meltzer, Peter Weichsel, Hugh Ross, Kyle Larsen, Chip Martel, Lew Stansby; 2. (District 9) Larry Griffey, Spike Lay, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, Michael Seamon, Russ Ekeblad

2004 1. (District 9) Jim Mahaffey, Michael Seamon, Gary Cohler, Barnet Shenkin, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell; 2. (District 16) Malcolm Brachman, Bart Bramley, Sidney Lazard, Mike Passell, Eddie Wold

2005 1. (District 12) Howard Perlman, Chuck Burger, Perry Johnson, Michael Zerbini; 2.

(District 9) Jim Mahaffey, Barnet Shenkin, Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, Michael Seamon, Gary Cohler

2006 1. (District 16) Bob Hamman, Petra Hamman, Hemant Lall, Justin Lall, John Sutherlin, Peggy Sutherlin; 2. (District 21) Jan Martel, Chip Martel, JoAnna Stansby, Lew Stansby, Kit Woolsey, Sally Woolsey

2007 1. (District 9) Warren Spector, Michael Becker, Larry Cohen, David Berkowitz, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell; 2. (District 24) Roy Welland, Robert Levin, Glenn Milgrim, Chris Willenken

2008 1. (District 9) Warren Spector, Mike Becker, Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, David Berkowitz, Larry Cohen; 2. (District 25) Frank Merblum, John Stiefel, Lloyd Arvedon, Victor King, Doug Doub, Sheila Gabay

2009 1. (District 21) Rose Meltzer, Kyle Larsen, Sally Woolsey, Kit Woolsey, Jan Martel, Chip Martel; 2. (District 24) John Hurd, Joe Grue, Bob Blanchard, Shane Blanchard, Kevin Bathurst, Brian Glubok

2010 1. (District 11) Walter Johnson, Doug Simson, Dennis Clerkin, Jerry Clerkin; 2. (District 23) Jill Meyers, Mitch Dunitz, Walter Shafer, Ed Davis

2011 1. (District 9) Warren Spector, Gary Cohler, Michael Becker, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, David Berkowitz; 2. (District 6) Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd, Bill Cole, Bill Pettis, Beth Palmer Steve Landen

2012 1. (District 9) Warren Spector, Gary Cohler, David Berkowitz, Mike Becker, Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth; 2. (District 24) Michael Polowan, Brian Glubok, Jaren Lilienstein, John Hurd, Joel Wooldridge, Sam Lev

2013 1. (District 9) Warren Spector, Eric Rodwell, David Berkowitz, Jeff Meckstroth, Michael Becker and Gary Cohler; 2. (District 24) Jared Lilienstein, Joel Wooldridge, John Hurd, Michael Polowan, Brian Glubok, Sam Lev

2014 1. (District 9) Richard Coren, Michael Seamon, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, Richard Coren, Kevin Bathurst, Kevin Dwyer, Jodi Coren (npc); 2. (District 21) Richard Spitalnick, Ed Barlow, Chip Martel, Nick Bykov, Kit Woolsey and Srikanth Kodayam

2015 1. (District 9) Warren Spector, Michael Becker, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, David Berkowitz, Gary Cohler; 2. (District 19) Dick Yarington (npc), Ken Scholes, Bryan Maksymetz, Dan Jacob, Rock Shi Yan.

2016 1. (District 25) Frank Merblum, Doug Doub, Adam Grossack, Zachary Grossack; 2. (District 21) Chip Martel, Kit Woolsey, Debbie Rosenberg, David Grainger, JoAnna Stansby, Lew Stansby

2017 1. (District 21) David Grainger, Debbie Rosenberg, Chip Martel, JoAnna Stansby, Lew Stansby; (District 9) Richard Coren, Kevin Bathurst, Kevin Dwyer, Russell Ekeblad, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell

Goldman Flight A GNT2001 1. (District 20) Merlin Vilhauer, Pam

Stratton, Robert Johnson, Bruce Cuthbertson, Mark Litterman; 2. (District 6) Lyle Poe, Rusty Krauss, David Butler, Raphael Kahn, Barry Falgout, Mark Dahl

2002 1. (District 9) Adrian Dovell, Patricia Dovell, John Moschella, John Brady, Bob Dennard, Brian Gunnell; 2. (District 14) Bob Balderson, Cindy Balderson, Kurt Schaeffer, Carole Miner

2003 1. (District 16) Buddy Hanby, Sally Wheeler, Patricia Griffin, James Griffin; 2. (District 5) Niel Waletzky, Stan Dub, Don Sulgrove, Kathleen Sulgrove

2004 1. (District 6) Sumner Steinfeldt, Marshall

Kuschner, Hal Hindman, Mark Chen; 2. (District 12) Mark Leonard, Thomas Rozinski, Barry Lippitt, Richard Mydloski

2005 1. (District 7) Jonathan Slaney, John Lowell, Jeff Ziemer, Robert Fendrick, Hugh Hughes, Gregory Roberts; 2. (District 24) Valentin Carciu, David Gurvich, Michael Lipkin, Ira Ewen, Sorin Pleacof

2006 1. (District 2) Doug Baxter, Daniel Korbel, David Grainger, Danny Miles, Andy Stark; 2. (District 16) Charles Price, Mark Bumgardner, Stan Kohan, Greg Hinze, Marcus Poe, Tom Edwards

2007 1. (District 12) Michael Alioto, Sheldon Kirsch, Barry Lippitt, Frank Sensoli, Robert Cappelli; 2. (District 24) Valentin Carciu, Michael Lipkin, David Gurvich, Sorin Pleacof, Ljudmila Kamenova

2008 1. (District 24) Valentin Carciu, John Ramos, James Scott, Sorin Pleacof, Kelley Hwang, Harry Apfel; 2. (District 11) Charles Kopp, Sheryl Langner, Shan Au, Greg Potts

2009 1. (District 23) David Kempe, Matt Klimesh, Chien-Yao Tseng, John Ramos; 2. (District 19) Bill O’Brien, Dave Grubbs, John Maki, Kevin Bolan

2010 1. (District 4) Elliot Shalita, Doug Dye, Rick Olanoff, Corey Krantz, Howard Cohen, Andy Kaufman; 2. (District 7) Lance Shull, Audrey Ventura, Jon Rice, Doug Dey

2011 1. (District 14) Kurt Schaeffer, Kerry Holloway, Bjorgvin Kristinsson, Keith Connolly; (District 24) Igor Savchenko, Ljudmila Kamenova, Doug Herron, Bill Begert, Valentin Carciu, Sorin Pleacof

2012 1. (District 23) Viktor Anikovich, Paul Markarian, Howard Einberg, Robert Kent, Fred Zhang, Edward Piken; 2. (District 6) Michael Gill, Noble Shore, Brad Theurer, Barry Bragin

2013 1. (District 22) Soichi Yoshihiro, Bo Liu, Xiao-Yan Gong, Weishu Wu, and Philip Hiestand; 2. (District 16) Anthony Bianchi, Gary King, Robert Whitcher, Mitch Towner

2014 1. (District 21) Crispin Barrere, Mark Moss, Sathya Bettadapura, Robert Thompson; 2. (Disttrict 11) Ryan Schultz, John Hinton, Bob Lyon, Craig Satersmoen

2015 1. (District 6) Stan Schenker, Mark Laken, Barry Falgout, Rusty Krauss, Stephen Drodge, John Miller; 2 (District 3) Dori Byrnes, Sylwia McNamara, Michael McNamara, Ron Nelken, Rob Stayman, John Boyer

2016 1. (District 6) Alexander Prairie, Stephen Drodge, Jian-Jian Wang, Sylvia Shi; 2. (District 19) Amy Gao, William Ge, Ben Takemori, James Wu

2017 1. (District 25) Barry Bragin, Weiling Zhao, Gary Miyashiro, Michael Hess, Susan Smith, Michael Smith; 2. (District 22) Weishu Wu, Sudheer Helekar, Jay Helekar, Xiao-Yan Gong

Appealing a ruling Players in NABC+ events who want to appeal

a director’s ruling initiate the process by speaking with the director who delivered the original ruling. The table director will fill out paperwork regarding the appeal, and the appellants will explain what they believe to be wrong with the initial ruling. From there, the case may be handled by a variety of means. When the appeals reviewer receives the case, the circumstances of that particular case will determine whether the case can be resolved by the original staff (in the case of misapplication of Law or regulation, for instance), a panel of directors, or even a committee-type hearing which could include bridge experts.

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GNT: Flights B and C

Winners of the 2017 Grand National Teams, Flight B from District 21: Quiang Zhang, Ethan Liu, Jim Liu, Peter Sun, Jun Shi.

This District 21 squad won the GNT Flight C last year: (front) Arthur Zhou, Michael Hu; (back) Aravind Alwan, Cadir Lee, Max Schireson, Olivier Chapelle.

Qualifications for teams participating in the Grand National Teams Flights B and C were earned in local-level events earlier this year. Flight B is 0–2500 masterpoints and Flight C is non-Life Masters up to 500 masterpoints.

Flight B winners are honored by the Sheinwold Trophy while the names of Flight C winners are honored by the Mac Nab Trophy.

Alfred SheinwoldAlfred

Sheinwold (1912–1997) was one of the greatest bridge writers in the history of the game. He was inducted into the Bridge Hall of Fame in 1996.

His syndicated bridge column was considered by many to be the best. He had a knack for getting his point across to even the least experienced players. He managed this by making sure that every column had only one main point, marking it easier for his readers to focus.

“You could read a Sheinwold column and know in an instant that nobody else could have written it,” said Frank Stewart, co-author of the column. “He enlightened and entertained players through seven decades and earned millions of fans.”

Sheinwold was an editor of The Bridge World from 1934 to 1963 and editor of The Bridge Bulletin from 1953 to 1958. He was also the author

of perhaps the most successful bridge book ever written, 5 Weeks to Winning Bridge, a book that sold in the millions.

Sheinwold served as chairman of the ACBL Laws Commission from 1964 to 1975, as chairman of the appeals committees at NABCs and as chairman of the ACBL Board of Governors from 1970 to 1973. He was named ACBL Honorary Member of the Year in 1983.

Robin Mac NabRobin Mac

Nab (1915–1985) served as a member of the ACBL Board of Directors from 1956 to 1981. He was ACBL president in 1965. He was a past president of the Western Conference, a member of the ACBL Laws Commission and a member of the executive council of the World Bridge Federation.

Flight B winners and runners-up:1985 1. Irving Goodman, Floyd Dyson, Leo

Takelfman, Tim McPhail, Louis Richardson; 2. Sally Grace, Linda Weinstein, Sharon Meng, Jennifer James, Jerry Poliquin, Robert Buchner

1986 1. Paul McGowan, George Towner, Winston Edwards, Regena Jones (replaced Lizzie Hepburn); 2. Ken Connell, Linda Connell, Carla Eisenhauer, S.K. Carruthers, Claire Jones, Dennis Nelson

1987 1. Dwight Hunt, Ed Horwitz, Ken Kadish, Claude LeFeuvre; 2. Bob Webb, Pat Webb, Kevin Chen, Joseph Blalock

1988 1. Steven Beck, Michael Camp, Win Allegaert, Fred Chang; 2. Jean Molnar, Michael Weber, Down Holmer, Walter Riddle, Joseph Rubin

1989 1. George Runyan, Tim Joder, Iype Koshy, Robert Dupont; 2. Paul Nickerson, William Goldsmith, Denise Goldsmith, Cheryl Porter

1990 1. Judy Hughes, Karen Miller, Robert Seaholm, John Morano, Goutam Chakraborty, Krishnanand Maillacheruver; 2. Jim Adams, John Edmunds, Dan Feldman, Larry Kahn, Usuf Ismail

1991 1. Mary Poplawski, Stanley Poplawski, William Smith, Barrett Raff; 2. Bruce Norman, Fred Gitelman, Sheri Winestock, Geoff Hampson

1992 1. Otto Rothenberg, Richard Baumer, Arthur Haley, Bert Kulic; 2. Nielih Cheng, Peter Kalat, Jeffery Allen, Carlos Munoz, Lp. P. Calahan, Bruce Platt

1993 1. Eric Greco, Philip Greco, Kefu Xu, Harry Zhou, David Better; 2. Jack Jessop, Morrie Kleinplatz, Barry Onslow, Elaine Morrison

1994 1. Larry Crevier, Sylvain Descoteaux, Marc-Andre Fourcaudot, Frederic Pollack; 2. Glen Holman, Eric Sutherland, Darren Wolpert,

Hazel Wolpert1995 1. Larry Crevier, Frederic Pollack, Sylvain

Descoteaux, Marc-Andre Fourcaudot; 2. Darren Wolpert, Hazel Wolpert, Gordon Brown, Sam Yoga

1996 1. David Green, Edward Lee, Chien Huang, Robert Johnson; 2. David Walker, Roberts Moore, Jim Hawkins, Geoffrey Mallette

1997 1. Harold Jordan, Sigridur Kristjansdottir, Andy Kaufman, Greg Burch; 2. Steve Albin, Elaine Pittius, Julia Ehlers, Mike McNamara

1998 1. Robert Latulippe, Rene Pelletier, Jocelyn Bernier, Richard Wildi, Jacques Carel, Herve Chatagnier; 2. Richard Wegman, Kefu Xu, Yi Zhong, Weizhong Bao

1999 1. Henry Caspar, Tom Buttle, Claude King, Ringo Chung, Helen DeWild, Vinay Sarin; 2. Dennis Thompson, Steve Albin, David Liss, Jack Brauner

2000 1. Michael Moffatt, Tai Eng, Insa Fricker, Gilbert Lambert; 2. John Turner, Ralph Russo, Mark de Garcia, David Shipman

2001 1. Gary Moore, Chris Lubesnik, Kevin Bathurst, Lisa Liberati, Randolph Hammock, Ari Greenberg; 2. Michael Alioto, Robert Cappelli, Frank Sensoli, Deborah DeWitt

2002 1. Gary McDole, Fred Dischman, Chad Fisher, Larry Weatherholt; 2. Barry Cohen, Nick Straguzzi, Bill Grosnick, Everett Young

2003 1. (District 6) Hailong Ao, Jian-Jian Wang, Huailin Chen, Yi Zhong; 2. (District 1) Ovidiu Stanica, Rick Soderstrom, Jack Brown, Ron Zambonini

2004 1. (District 21) Sathya Bettadapura, Jim Leuker, Bruce Tuttle, Shelley Lapkoff, Tanakorn Lavanakul; 2. (District 14) Jonathan Cohen, Charles Nauen, Mark Krusemeyer, Patti Stuhlman

2005 1. (District 21) Li-Chung Chen, Chuck Wong, Clark Millikan, Alex Staykov, Samuel Ieong, Tanakorn Lavanakul; 2. (District 8) Jim Hudson, Meyer Abarbanel, Arbha Vongsvivut, Mike Giacaman

2006 1. (District 25) Bernard Schneider, Frances Schneider, Allan Wolf, Russell Friedman; 2. (District 5) Dan Roseberry, John Bacon, John Tscholl, Jim Overcasher

2007 1. (District 21) John Barth, Jiang Chen, Mike Develin, Nongyu Li; 2. (District 25) Robert McCaw, Florin Constantin, Gregory Ingolia, Lewis Gamerman

2008 1. (District 23) Gerard Geremia, Joseph Viola, David Kempe, Matt Klimesh; 2. (District 5) Dian Petrov, Donna Steffan, James Gullo, Michael Ryan

2009 1. (District 11) Lamar Hamilton, Beve Smith, Danny Barnett, John Clark; 2. (District 23) Eric Tan, Frank Shih, Shiu-Ming Huang, Robert Wang

2010 1. (District 14) Eric Hendrickson, Paul Gutterman, Andy Caranicas, Richard Lawson; 2. (District 15) Paul Chan, Lily Chan, Mark De Garcia, Gregory Barnes

2011 1. (District 2) Craig Macintosh, John Cook, Aleksandar Vujic, Andrew Collins, Charles Halasi, David Halasi; 2. (District 21) Eugene

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Hung, Andrew Hoskins, Steve Chen, Sarah Chen

2012 1. (District 5) Fred Yellen, Judith Padgug, John Bacon, Michael Creager; 2. (District 3) Stephen Garreffa, Adam Lally, Dana Rossi, David Katzen

2013 1. (District 11) Joseph Keim, Lori Harner, Donna Moore, William Gottschall, Larry Jones and Douglas Millsap; 2. (District 21) Eugene Hung, Stephen Tu, Helen Han-Yu Chang, Lynn Shannon, Steve Chen, David Weinberg

2014 1. (District 16) Jennifer Breihan, James Breihan, Daniel Jackson, Mike Doyle, Bill McCarty; 2. (District 20) Daniel Neill, Weiming Hu, Dmitriy Myedvyedyev, Atul Khare, Justin Beck, Douglas Bullock

2015 1. (District 11) A.J. Stephani, John Meinking, Bob Fisk, Darin Campo, Ryan Schultz, Pete Whipple; 2. (District 17) Greg Herman, Burke Snowden, Greg Foltz, Dawn Foltz, Mark Robertson, Richard Jacobson

2016 1. (District 23) Om Chokriwala, Zheng Zhang, Jack Chang, Nolan Chang, Fred Upton, Jim Perkins; 2. (District 22) Ian Wilson, Gregory Thorpe, Steve Hirsch, Joseph Mack III

2017 1. (District 21) Quiang Zhang, Ethan Liu, Jim Liu, Peter Sun, Jun Shi; 2. Grant Petersen, Zachary Wasserman, Thomas Thomson, Michael Kraut, Ching-Po Wang, Xingyu Zhang

Flight C winners and runners-up1991 1. Bob Faskingbauer, Kenneth Wolf,

Thomas Dressing, David Marker; 2. Albert Tom, Dennis Erani, Valentin Carciu, David Marker

1992 1. Richard Unger, Charles Morrin, Andrew Ware, Martin Weiverka; 2. J. Michael Hill, Kevin Kadmus, Carol Wisemiller, Marty Lobdale

1993 1. Stephen Arskan, Richard Ross, Feng Liu, Steve Pessin, George Shamy; 2. Sardarsink Gohel, Jack Shartsis, Joyce Bell, Nathan Banker

1994 1. Jianbin Luo, Anil Kaushal, Sundar Atre, Zheng Zhang; 2. Greg Bieber, Art Steinberg, Roman Shapiro, Betsy Wellington

1995 1. Nathaniel Thurston, Bill Chen, David Shao, Andrew Lewis; 2. Jeff Jacob, Judi Hager, David Rosenstein, Yiping Wang

1996 1. Mark Edeburn, Susan Ostrowski, Dan Berlowitz, Joseph Seo; 2. Mark DeGarcia, Marcus Rodhouse, Steven Erickson, Sheng-Hung Wang

1997 1. Tim Barrett, Joe Grue, Joe Barrett, Chengwei Lee, Tom Monikowski; 2. Curtis Ruder, Atul Rai, Dennis Affholter, Jonathan Davidson

1998 1. Jerzy Jelen, Marek Dalecki, Ted Ryll, Romuald Mindak, Wieslaw Kalita, Zbigniew Muszynski; 2. Ed Williams, Kurt Dasher, Thomas Reband, Bill Gliesman

1999 1. Dave Hemmer, Jon Kurasch, Robert Alps, Roger Solomon; 2. Bruce Scott, Tom Allen, Paul Hazzard, Jim Boardman

2000 1. Zbigniew Musznyski, Marian Kowalewski, Pavel Boruta, Robert Boruta,

Michael Omielski, Eugenisz Babiarz; 2. Barry Margolin, Suresh Adina, Leo Zelevinsky, Otis Bricker

2001 1. Mark MacKenzie, Ron Sloan, Deen Hergott, David Gordon; 2. David Ruppert, Michael Pearlman, Dan Moore, Walter Mitnick

2002 1. Stephen Tu, Steve Chen, Shih-Ming Shih, Paul Cornelius, Rajeev Gupta; 2. Rohan Coelho, Todd Zimnoch, Ralph Henderson, Maurice Henderson

2003 1. (District 20) Rohan Coelho, Ralph Henderson, Danny McGurl, David Castles; 2. (District 13) Tadeusz Szych, Jerzy Jelen, Wlodzimierz Lopalewski, Klaudsiusz Warbinski, Mike Potoczak, Lech Brzozowski

2004 1. (District 12) Grigoriy Blekherman, Amy Kiefer, David Harty, Han Peters; 2. (District 24) Ryan Connors, Mark Dean, Daniel Wilderman, Helena McGahagan

2005 1. (District 2) Bob Defreyne, Milt Payne, Paul Beischlag, Reginald Smith; (District 14) Andy Caranicas, Jeremy Martin, Daniel Barrett, Shela Kim

2006 1. (District 19) Kam Tang, Samuel Lai, Tao Feng, Jack Lee; 2. (District 20) Ivan Jen, Veronica Mathis, John Cissel, Daniel Rothwell

2007 1. (District 16) John Heath, Alan Dennis, George Keiller, Don Morgan; 2. (District 19) Long Xie, Roy Li, Kai Zhou, Baixiang Liu

2008 1. (District 8) Thomas Reilly-Pol, Sandy Bigg, Debbie Romero, Jonathan Goldberg;

2. (District 23) Lenard Lakofka, Aaron Craig, Kevin Lane, Alan Flower

2009 1. (District 12) Zach Scherr, Brian Wyman, Benjamin Weiss, Zachary Wasserman, Max Glick; 2. (District 16) Herbert Kalman, Robert Reichek, Brett Elliott, Harry Elliott, Byron Elliott

2010 1. (District 11) David Camillus, Ryan Schultz, Tom Terwilliger, Ambrish Bansal;

2. (District 20) Chris Poulos, Magid Shirzadegan, Anoush Shirzadegan, Brian Breckenridge

2011 1. (District 2) Kaiyu Qian, Qian Ren, Fred Li, Yuan Chen, Hang Zhang, Wensong Zhen; 2. (District 13) Ping Hu, Meiheng Shi, Shengke Wang, Huixin Pan

2012 1. (District 6) Sylvia Shi, Alexander Prairie, David Soukup, Hanan Berk; 2. (District 25) Emily Shen, Vincent Fish, Daniel Jablonski, Reid Barton

2013 1. (District 23) Fred Upton, Yichi Zhang, Om Shokriwala, Nolan Chang, Jack Chang;

2. (District 5) Huei Rong Chern, Sue Lan Ma, Manju Ceylony, Shakeel Ahmad

2014 1. (District 21) Samuel Kuang, Kendrick Chow, Tsao-Tung Tsai, Luen-Jyh Luo;

2. (District 23) Frederick Upton, Nolan Chang, Jack Chang, Eric Chenteh Tang, Nima Badizadegan

2015 1. (District 22) Joe Albert Garcia, Kenny Pan, Winston Chang, Nitin More, Ninad More; 2. (District 6) Adam Gann, Blake Schwartzbach, Terry Klein, Myron Goldstein, Shiang Chen

2016 1. (District 21) Chin Huang, Ming-Xiang Li,

Donghui Lu, Michael Yang, Chun Chang, Frank Xie; 2. (District 22) Winston Chang, Neil Nobuo Ogura, Kenny Pan, Wayne Gorski, Joe Albert Garcia

2017 1. (District 21) Arthur Zhou, Michael Hu, Aravind Alwan, Cadir Lee, Max Schireson, Olivier Chapelle; 2. (District 2) Li Zhang Yang, Ronald Baecker, William Ju, Roy Song, Jake Lin, Tong Chen

MonitoringACBL will be monitoring events at this and

future North American Bridge Championships with both visible and concealed real-time cameras in public spaces. The images will be recorded and available for later inspection and review by ACBL management and tournament officials, among others, including members of the Anti-Cheating Commission. These recordings will also be uploaded to the internet following the NABC.

By general monitoring of the session and participants’ behavior, ACBL has another source of information that may be useful in determining facts and settling issues or disputes arising from some types of ethical and behavioral complaints or actions. Please summon a director if a problem occurs at the table. This procedure is intended to assure everyone that the playing field is level and that misbehavior will not be tolerated.

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Championship FlightDistrict 1 (none)D2 Ray Jotcham, Richard Chan, Edward

Xu, Yan WangD3 Alexander Allen, Brady Richter, Eugene

Saxe, Will Ehlers, Abe PinelesD4 Jay Apfelbaum, Meyer Kotkin, Dan

Boye, Doug Ross, Bob Glasson, Joann Glasson

D5 Bernie Greenspan, Fred Schenker, Dan Roseberry, Brian Ellis, Don Sulgrove, Kathleen Sulgrove

D6 Leo LaSota, David Ruderman, Mark Chen, Brad Theurer

D7 Bob Jones, Varghese George, James Gentry Jr., David Macrae, Patricia Tucker, Kevin Collins

D8 Tom Kniest, Jonathan Weinstein, Ron Ashbacher, Kenneth Bland

D9 Warren Spector, Michael Becker, Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, David Beckowitz, Gary Cohler

D10 Bryan Howard, Jim Foster, Larry Sealy, Jim Munday

D11 Bob Lyon, Peter Whipple, Ryan Schultz, Craig Satersmoen

D12 Jonathan Fleischmann, Martin Hirschman, Jordan Kaye, Howard Perlman, Allan Falk, Frank Treiber III

D13 Jeffrey Wolfson, Steve Garner, Eldad Ginossar, Nikolay Demirev

D14 Cynthia Balderson, Bob Balderson Jr, Paul Meerschaert, Robert Schachter

D15 Robert Adams, Jo Wooley, Ann Aliotta, Joann Court

D16 Dan Morse, Nagy Kamel, Thomas Peters, Ira Hessel, Venkatrao Koneru, Ken Schutze

D17 Joshua Donn, Roger Lee, Daniel Korbel, Sylvia Shi

D18 (none)D19 Ray Miller, Stanford Christie, Henry

Lortz, Michael Christensen, Kenny Scholes, Harry Steiner

D20 John Lusky, S James Elliott, John Ashton, Randy Pickett, Marc Zwerling, Dennis Metcalf

D21 Chip Martel, Lew Stansby, Jo Anna Stansby, Kit Woolsey, Adam Kaplan, Kevin Rosenberg

D22 Joe Houde, Andrew Loh, Cameron Cotton, Greg House

D23 John Ramos, Viktor Anikovich, Roberto Scaramuzzi, Alexander Kolesnik, Mitch Dunitz, Iftikhar Baqai

D24 Raluca Dobrescu, Sandra Rimstedt, Shane Blanchard, Rob Barrington, Dana Berkowitz, Radu Nistor

D25 Douglas Doub, Franklin Merblum, Walter Lee, Jim Streisand, Adam Grossack

Flight ADistrict 1 Yvon Gravel, Danielle Boyer, Carole

Coveney, Michel CoveneyD2 Colin Lafferty, J Melvin Norton, Keith

Heckley, Doug AndrewsD3 Peter Stein, Stephen Arshan, Richard

Ross, Donna Dulet, Ron Nelken, Himanshi Joshi

D4 Peter Kyper, Elaine Clair, Mark Henderson, Jeffrey Billheimer

D5 Phillip Goulding, Alan Leaver, Ronald Franck, Craig Biddle, Michael Creager

D6 Marc Warner, Mark Rosenbloom , Robert Pustilnik, Franklin Price, Joe Wallen

D7 Max Rice, Rosalind Lin, Jui Wang, Andre Asbury, Jon Rice, Doug Dey

D8 Clay Cuthbertson, Mark Zellmer, Debra Romero, Mark Boswell

D9 Edward Schusler, Albert Simpson, David Treitel, James Scott, Juan Castillo, Saul Gross

D10 Visanji Gala, Risa Campbell, Tom Dixon, Joyce McMonagle, Clair Berry

D11 E. Bruce Neikirk, Joseph Rice, Susan Bullard, H. Gordon

D12 Kurt Dasher, Dennis Carmen, Grant Peterson, Michael Kraut, Zachary Wasserman, Frank Sensoli

D13 Bob Marheine, Mark Kinzer, Michael Selchert, Richard Nordeng, Paul Karas, Eric Mane

D14 Bruce Boje, Mark Patton , Vern Swing, Mike Roush

D15 Paul Chan, Lily Chan, Ding-Hwa Hsieh, Lin-Huan Chen

D16 Gerry McKim, John Schwartz, Milton Neher, Daniel Jackson, Mike Doyle, David Pearlman

D17 Burke Snowden, Larry Matheny, Robert Sherman, Varis Carey, Neil Petrie, Gregory Herman

D18 (none)D19 Nicholas Stock, Monica Angus, Jack

Lee, Alex Hong, Brad BartD20 Joel Datloff, Mike Redden, Charlene

Martindale, Craig Jones, David Brower, Linda Wiener

D21 Jessica Lai, Dmitri Shabes, Gregory Vance, Andrew Hoskins, Len Vishnevsky, Erwin Linzner

D22 Fran White, Rick Kerbel, Dorn Bishop, Michael Crawford, Richard Gold, Jim Johnson

D23 Gerald Geremia, Robert Perlsweig, Joseph Viola III, Peter Knee

D24 Sandrea Friedman, Jane Dillenberg, Alene Friedman, Michael Rosen

D25 Michael Smith, Susan Smith, Jeffrey Goldman, Brett Alder, Russell Friedman, Allan Wolf

Flight BDistrict 1 Patricia Scammel, Herb Watters, Irene

Szabla, Gordon YoungD2 Paul Stanbury, Deanne Dennison,

Charles Smith, Gaye VillaD3 Phil Waxberg, George Mann , Martin

Gilbert, Subrata Ghosh, John Hodge, Sue Hodge

D4 J.E. Brill, Larry Plotkin, Peter Schulman, Steve White

D5 Kevin Robertson, Sharon Robertson, Barbara Greenspan, Joann Waletzky

D6 Leah Shao, Will Colmer, Adam Gann, Hakan Berk

D7 Lina Clark, Kathryn Dunn, Barbara McGee, Mike Smith

D8 Charles Young, Patrick Moos, Rich Pestien, Alin Olaru

D9 Mark Raphaelson, Lance Marrou, Cabot Jaffee Jr, Ping Chen

D10 Larry Jackson, Barbara Johnson, Daniel Lustig, Lyn Yukon, Lisa Harris

D11 Arun Goyal, Rachna Fuerst, Mike Ma, Vijay Vasudevan, Stuart Peterson, William Nicolai

D12 Bob Rasmussen, Timur Aydin, David Aderente, Wilbur Argersinger, Ching-Po Wang

D13 Charles Alexander, Donald Joseph, Robert Block, William Anspach, Cory Perkers

D14 Eric Mckee, Elizabeth McKee, Eli Jolley, Scott Spitze, Harry Sapienza, Paul Nesvig

D15 Gregory Barnes, Mark De Garcia, Krishna Saha, Sitaraman Sathiamoorthy

Grand National Teams RostersD16 Thomas Rush, Wes Peirce, Kim

Brinkman, David Ticen, Scott Nason, Jeff Dater

D17 Edward Yosses, Scott Needham, Don Little, Roger Miller

D18 Dieirdre Nickel, Ann Morin , Lee Sporleder, Cindy Zimmerman

D19 Rex Tu, Jack Yuan, Chris Pesce, Chris Jarvis

D20 Rick Prouser, Ray Robert, Charles Swart, Jim Wiser

D21 Yu Chang, Bin Liang, Jiang Chen, Wanwan Ren, Renjun Guo, Jim Liu

D22 Tanaaz Timblo, Jayendu Patel, Kenny Pan, Alberto Feilhaber

D23 Rick Turner, Murat Veysoglu, James Perkins, Alyssa Kennedy, Steve Ramos Jr., Basant Shah

D24 Abbott Feren, Mark Blanchard, Dina Schechter, David Joseph, Charles Bilich, Norman Trabulus

D25 Gloria McDevitt, Brian Weiner Duran, Ivanie Yeo, Lon Sunshine

Flight CDistrict 1 Jean-Pierre Becotte, Yunkiang Dong,

Simon-Pierre Goulet, Julien BosseD2 Cindy He, Max Cheng, Darwin Li,

Jasmine XiongD3 Bruce Esposito, Paula Esposito, Peri

Namerow, Julie ZinziD4 John Ferranti, Tim Sumner, Matt

Sherman, Keith OrdemannD5 Kathleen Claunch, Mary Tseng, David

Szymanowski, Paul ValinskyD6 Michael Corrigan, James Mosley , Harry

Potter, Jeffrey Yutzler, Richard Padgett, Jennifer Colmer

D7 Burt Grayman, William Huff, Pegg Doody, Mark Gensterblum

D8 Kenneth Eiger, Judith Wagner, Ken Deutch, David Stein

D9 Lynn Chapman, Charles Schubiger, Bijoy Telivala, Girish Joglekar

D10 Douglas Riley, Shannon Sloan, Matthew Morgan, Sheryl Riley, Mechel Frost

D11 Kevin Henry, Julian Kurtzman, Joy Singerman, Barry Wauligman

D12 Tengyun Tony Cao, Henry Zhang, Chun Zhou, Yanping Zhang, Yu Chen, Tan Yang

D13 Paul Prez, Susan Stromberg, Caron Espinosa, Nishat Chishti

D14 Alexander Frieden, Sean McNally, Jeffrey Boitnott, Thomas Scruggs

D15 (none)D16 Jack Dean, Jeanette Dean, Robert

Burridge, Marsha DoyleD17 Justin Browning, Daniel Zwonitzer,

Robin Elliott, Gregorg NewcombD18 Nancy Larson, Yinghan Ding, Scott

Rosenbush, Xiaobin SunD19 Jordan Tessarolo, Ryley Breiddal, Marc

Furnemont, Janice SoutarD20 Kevin Marnell, Frank Straulemann,

Roger Thomas, Jon Gassaway, Andrew Nuxoll, Dan Edelstein

D21 Ying Liu, Jianxin Lui, Douglas Schmickrath, Jung Hu, Qing Lu, Lelia Mattinger

D22 Emma Kolesnik, Finn Kolesnik, Alvan Silverberg, Trisha Silverberg, Luke Williams, Jake Williams

D23 Yunkai Song, Zu Ming Cheng, Sophia Chang, Lucy Zhang, Yueqiang Xue, Andy Zhang

D24 Lee Lin, James Keiger, Jing Zhang, Chris Moh

D25 Shen Duan, Meiyan Duan, Cecil Chan, Jianqiao Gu

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Player Memos Player memos allow participants to file incident

reports alleging inappropriate behavior by other contestants. Two player memo stations have been set up outside the playing areas on the Marquis Level and the Atrium Level for your convenience. Players are encouraged to file Player Memos when appropriate.

Player Memos from the Spring 2018 NABC

ACBL National Recorder Robb Gordon reports that his office received 41 player memos at the 2018 Spring NABC in Philadelphia, substantially unchanged from the 39 received during the 2017 Fall NABC in San Diego. Of these, about one-third were conduct-related while the remainder were bridge- related and/or ethics-related. Online reporting was available, and almost half of the filers took advantage of that, with the rest filing paper reports. Online reporting more than doubled compared to San Diego because players are gradually becoming more comfortable reporting using the computers provided outside the playing areas. One of these reports regarding conduct (public accusation of cheating) was referred to the ACBL Disciplinary Committee. Unless confidentiality was requested, Gordon said that every filer and every subject was notified of the receipt and disposition of each report.

Morehead Championship FlightDonn (D17) 27 79 146Lyon (D11) 22 70 85 w/d

Howard (D10) 17 33 43 w/dDoub (D25) 45 86 106

Martel (D21) 36 74 112Lusky (D20) 23 24 28 w/d

Dobrescu (D24) 24 83 123 155Balderson (D14) 31 47 65 111

Fleischmann (D12) 63 85 137 167Lasota (D6) 31 66 97 166

Jones (D7) 38 68 93 133Wolfson (D13) 35 78 131 167

Spector (D9) 61 126Apfelbaum (D4) 17 18 w/d

Houde (D22) 18 51 70 w/dMorse (D16) 52 88 145

Goldman Flight AVance (D21) 36 73 100 132Angus (D19) 36 75 93 123

Dasher (D12) 35 56 90 125Gala (D10) 43 83 91 107

White (D22) 17 46 48 82Warner (D6) 50 62 110 140

McKim (D16) 29 64 86 91Lafferty (D2) 27 36 80 124

Stein (D3) 18 57 91 113Chan (D15) 37 57 71 83

Schuster (D9) 30 75 112 157Marheine (D13) 26 59 94 130

Neikirk (D11) 17 41 84 107Snowden (D17) 47 96 110 160

Boje (D14) 43 78 98 111Rice (D7) 24 83 115 128

Sheinwold Flight BRasmussen (D12) 20 59 82 130Clark (D7) 26 38 83 89

Brill (D4) 16 46 64 92Young (D8) 28 79 119 175

Chang (D21) 29 50 69 85Yosses (D17) 31 46 80 130

Spitze (D14) 28 49 107 115Alexander (D13) 15 33 53 65

Timblo (D22) 32 80 96 146Trabulus (D24) 31 49 95 118

Nickel (D18) 17 35 61 65Raphaelson (D9) 66 123 153 193

Goyal (D11) 16 54 137 178Stansbury (D2) 25 38 44 70

Jackson (D10) 37 44 81 114McDevitt (D25) 14 69 92 107

MacNab Flight CDuan (D25) 38 41 90 116Ferranti (D4) 25 59 66 90

Lin (D24) 42 58 78 90Dean (D6) 44 51 71 121

Song (D23) 21 33 90 135Browning (D17) 50 68 79 115

Corrigan (D6) 34 87 106 133Frieden (D14) 39 45 62 89

He (D2) 36 65 86 105Chapman (D9) 21 54 83 107

Tessarolo (D19) 32 67 85 124Henry (D11) 25 44 78 110

Marnell (D20) 33 59 94 131Kolesnik (D22) 33 62 88 101

Becotte (D1) 8 43 66 109Cao (D12) 55 93 116 141

Scores in the Round of 16 Grand National Teams

INTERNATIONAL FUND SWISS TEAMS 21 Tables A B C 8.27 1 Michael Smith - Susan Smith, Newington CT; Russell Friedman, Wilton CT; Allan Wolf, North Haven CT 73.00 6.20 2 1 Jim Liu, Saratoga CA; Yu Chang, Milpitas CA; Cheng Wang, Shenzhen Futian People’s Republic of China; Aiyue Ma, Shenzhen Chad 54.00 4.65 3 Rob Helle - Ed Hoogenkamp, ; Veri Kiljan, Tilburg 5038Vn ; Luc Tijssen, Tilburg 5022Bv 52.00 3.06 4/5 Don Sulgrove - Kathleen Sulgrove, Twinsburg OH; Bernie Greenspan - Brian Ellis, Beachwood OH 49.00 3.90 4/5 2 1 Sheryl Thompson, Metairie LA; Molly Silvia - Di Lapeyre - Linda Conner, New Orleans LA 49.00 2.56 6/7 3/4 Krishna Saha, Overland Park KS; Mark De Garcia, Columbia MO; Gregory Barnes, Jefferson City MO; Sitaraman Sathiamoorthy, Olathe KS 47.00 2.56 6/7 3/4 Norman Marks, Oakland CA; Norman Marks II, Jacksonville FL; Leon Galecki, Langston AL; Charles Kelly, Anniston AL 47.00 1.65 5 Gail Shaps, Northbrook IL; Jack Bierig, Chicago IL; Sylvia Walford - Cynthia Collins, Tallahassee FL 43.00

Friday, July 27, 2018 Daily BulletinPage 16

Winners of the 2017 von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs: Joel Wooldridge and John Hurd

The von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs is a six-session event with two qualifying, two semifinal and two final sessions. It is restricted to Life Masters. At stake is the von Zedtwitz Gold Cup.

In 1930, Waldemar von Zedtwitz donated the Gold Cup, which was presented to the winners of the Life Master Pairs. The first winners: von Zedtwitz and P. Hal Sims.

Waldemar von Zedtwitz (1896–1984), ACBL president emeritus, was president of the ACBL in 1948 and of its parent organization, the American Bridge League, in 1932. He was named Honorary Member by the ABL in 1931.

When dissension threatened to break up the ACBL in 1948, the contesting factions agreed to von Zedtwitz as president and chairman with carte blanche power. He is credited with saving the ACBL. In 1949, upon the League’s rehabilitation, he immediately returned his carte blanche power to the Board of Directors.

He helped found the World Bridge Federation and played a major role in the formation of the ACBL Charity Foundation.

As a player, von Zedtwitz was noted for his versatility in playing with exponents of different systems. He was one of the first 10 to be named Life Master (he was No. 4) when the category was created in 1936.

Von Zedtwitz won many national auction bridge championships and nearly all the contract bridge championships. He and Barbara Brier won the World Mixed Pairs in 1970 when von Zedtwitz was 74 and legally blind.

Winners and runners-up:1930 1. P. Hal Sims, Waldemar von Zedtwitz;

2. Ely Culbertson, Josephine Culbertson1931 1. David Burnstine, Howard Schenken;

2. Michael Gottlieb, Theodore Lightner1932 1. Michael Gottlieb, Theodore Lightner;

2. David Burnstine, Howard Schenken1933 1. David Burnstine, Howard Schenken;

2. P. Hal Sims, Waldemar von Zedtwitz1934 1. Richard Frey, Howard Schenken;

2. Walter Malowan, Sydney Rusinow1935 1. B. Jay Becker, Theodore Lightner;

2. Louis Haddad, Charles Hall1936 1. David Burnstine, Oswald Jacoby;

2. Robert Appleyard, Isadore Epstine1937 1. S. Garton Churchill, Charles Lochridge;

2. Doris Fuller, Henry Vogel1938 1. Morrie Elis, Sherman Stearns;

2. John Crawford, Charles Solomon

1939 1. Robert Appleyard, Harry Fishbein; 2. Oswald Jacoby, Waldemar von Zedtwitz

1940 1. Harry Fishbein, Morrie Elis; 2. Sam Fry, Myron Fuchs

1941 1. Merwyn Maier, Howard Schenken; 2. John Crawford, Oswald Jacoby

1942 1. Charles Goren, Helen Sobel; 2. Philip Abramsohn, Tobias Stone

1943 1. John Crawford, Howard Schenken; 2. Sidney Silodor, Margaret Wagar

1944 1. Samuel Katz, Peter Leventritt; 2. Ambrose Casner, Ralph Hirschberg

1945 1. Robert Appleyard, M.A. Lightman; 2. Bertram Lebhar, Simon Rossant

1946 1. Sidney Silodor, Charles Solomon; 2. Lee Hazen, Ruth Sherman

1947 1. Allen Harvey, Frank Weisbach; 2. John Crawford, Theodore Lightner

1948 1. S. Garton Churchill, Cecil Head; 2. Erik Coon, Vincent Remey

1949 1. Ruth Gilbert, Leo Roet; 2. Arthur Glatt, Albert Weiss

1950 1. Manuel Sherwin, C.W. Yorke; Edward Marcus, Sam Stayman

1951 1. Richard Kahn, Peter Leventritt; 2. Ned Drucker, Edgar Kaplan

1952 1. William Jackson, William Joseph; 2-3. Arthur Glatt, Albert Weiss; 2-3. John Crawford, Howard Schenken

1953 1. Milton Ellenby, William Rosen; 2. Charles Goren, Helen Sobel

1954 1. David Carter, John Hubbell; 2. Victor Mitchell, Ira Rubin

1955 1. Ben Fain, Paul Hodge; 2. Victor Mitchell, Ira Rubin

1956 1. Alvin Roth, Tobias Stone; 2. John Crawford, Sidney Silodor

1957 1. H. Sanborn Brown, Martin Cohn; 2. Francis Begley, Louis Kelner

1958 1-2. Charles Goren, Helen Sobel; 1-2. Wilson Landley, Louis Levy

1959 1. Ed Rosen, Dan Rotman; 2. Sidney Aronson, Larry Weiss

1960 1. Helen Portugal, Morris Portugal; 2. Curtis Smith, Bobby Wolff

1961 1. Philip Feldesman, Marshall Miles; 2. Paul Kibler, Robert Reynolds

1962 1. Philip Feldesman, Ira Rubin; 2. Edith Kemp, Albert Weiss

1963 1. Lew Mathe, Edward Taylor; 2. Ira Rubin, Curtis Smith

1964 1. B. Jay Becker, Dorothy Hayden; 2. Bruce Elliott, Percy Sheardown

1965 1. Victor Mitchell, Samuel Stayman; 2. Alvin Roth, Tobias Stone

1966 1. Hermine Baron, Meyer Schleifer; 2. Morrie Freier, Robert Reynolds

1967 1. Philip Feldesman, Lew Mathe; 2. Diana Schuld, Frank Schuld

1968 1. Bill Eisenberg, Bobby Goldman; 2. James Jacoby, Bobby Wolff

1969 1. Sami Kehela, Eric Murray; 2. Chuck Burger, Jimmy Cayne

1970 1. Paul Heitner, Michael Moss; 2. Robert Freedman, James Mathis

1971 1. Alvin Roth, Barbara Rappaport; 2. James Jacoby, Minda Brachman

1972 1. Alvin Roth, Barbara Rappaport; 2. Alan Sontag, Peter Weichsel

1973 1. Jack Blair, Paul Swanson; 2. Chuck Burger, Jimmy Cayne

1974 1. Gerald Michaud, Bobby Nail; 2. Walter Walvick, Thomas Weik

1975 1. Roy Fox, Eugene O’Neill; 2. Michael Becker, Ahmed Hussein

1976 1. Robert Lipsitz, Neil Silverman; 2. Garey Hayden, Mike Passell

1977 1. Alan Sontag, Peter Weichsel; 2. Ken Cohen, Robert Lipsitz

1978 1. Mary Jane Farell, Marilyn Johnson; 2. Ron Feldman, David Sacks

1979 1. Ralph Katz, Ken Schutze; 2. Dan Morse, Bobby Nail

1980 1. Bob Hamman, Eric Rodwell; 2. Don Caton, Homer Shoop

1981 1. Fred Stewart, Steve Weinstein; 2. Paul Lavings, Bob Richman

1982 1. Tommy Sanders, Ron Andersen; 2. Robert Lipsitz, Ron Sukoneck

1983 1. Bob Hamman, Eddie Kantar; 2. Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth

1984 1. Mike Lawrence, Peter Weichsel; 2. Alan Sontag, Steve Sion

1985 1. George Steiner, Darryl Pedersen; 2. David Siebert, Allan Siebert

1986 1. Eric Rodwell, Douglas Simson; 2. Tom Kniest, Karen Walker

1987 1. Larry Cohen, David Berkowitz; 2. Steve Robinson, Peter Boyd

1988 1. Marty Bergen, Larry Cohen; 2. Howard Weinstein, John Carruthers

1989 1. Richard Katz, Robert Levin; 2. Howard Weinstein, Ralph Katz

1990 1. Ron Rubin, Michael Becker; 2. John Mohan, Kay Schulle

1991 1. Doug Simson, Eric Rodwell; 2. Steve Sion, Clint Morrell

1992 1. Bob Hamman, Hemant Lall; 2. Hugh Ross, Zia Mahmood

1993 1. Dan Morse, John Sutherlin; 2. Tom Clarke, Alan LeBendig

1994 1. Robert Levin, Jeff Wolfson; 2. Eddie Wold, Steve Sion

1995 1. Joe Kivel, Allan Siebert; 2. William Root, Richard Pavlicek

1996 1. David Berkowitz, Larry Cohen; 2. Tony Forrester, Geir Helgemo

1997 1. Steve Garner, Howard Weinstein; 2. Tony Forrester, Geir Helgemo

1998 1. Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson; 2. Richard Pavlicek, Rich Pavlicek Jr.

1999 1. John Mohan, Sam Lev; 2. Brad Moss, Fred Gitelman

2000 1. Zia Mahmood, Michael Rosenberg; 2. John Mohan, Sam Lev

2001 1. Steve Weinstein, Robert Levin; 2. Gary Cohler, Ralph Katz

2002 1. Tobi Sokolow, Leni Holtz; 2. Lynn Deas, Curtis Cheek

2003 1. Nick Nickell, Richard Freeman; 2. Michael Rosenberg, Ralph Katz

2004 1. Walid Elahmady, Zia Mahmood; 2. Reese Milner, John Mohan

2005 1. Pat McDevitt, Stephen Gladyszak; 2. Walid Elahmady, Zia Mahmood

2006 1. Bart Bramley, Bjorn Fallenius; 2. Martin Fleisher, William Pollack

2007 1. Chip Martel, Zia Mahmood; 2. Howard Weinstein, Renee Mancuso

2008 1. Jan Jansma, Rico Van Prooijen; 2. Geoff Hampson, Eric Greco

2009 1. Michal Kwiecien, Roald Ramer; 2. Nikolay Demirev, Hemant Lall

2010 1. Boye Brogeland, Erik Saelensminde; 2. Norberto Bocchi, Guide Ferraro

2011 1. Per-Olla Cullin, Peter Bertheau; 2. Zia Mahmood, Tarek Sadek

2012 1. Alan Osofsky, Alan Sontag; 2. Zia Mahmood, Martin Fleisher

2013 1. Mark Itabashi, Ross Grabel; 2. Steve Weinstein, Kevin Bathurst

2014 1. Doug Doub, Frank Merblum; 2. Zia Mahmood, Giorgio Duboin

2015 1. Jean Quantin, Cedric Lorenzini; 2. Zia Mahmood, Giorgio Duboin

2016 1. Mike Passell, Chris Compton; 2. Ralph Katz, Steve Garner

2017 1. Joel Wooldridge, John Hurd; 2. Espen Lindqvist, Boye Brogeland

Life Master Pairs begins today

Friday, July 27, 2018 Page 17Daily Bulletin

Daniel Bertrand and Allan Simon won the Bruce LM–6000 Life Master Pairs in 2017.

2017 Young 0–1500 Life Master Pairs winners Luen-Jyh (James) Luo and Tsao-Tung (Kevin) Tsai.

The David Bruce LM-6000 Pairs is open to players who have earned Life Master status and have won up to 6000 masterpoints. The upper limit changed in 2017; it was previously 5000.

The Sally Young 0-2500 Pairs is open to players

who have won up to 2500 masterpoints. Before 2017 the limit for this event was 1500 masterpoints.

The events are named in honor of two of ACBL’s all-time great players, both members of the ACBL Hall of Fame.

David Bruce (1900–1965) was one of the first 10 to be named Life Master; in fact, he was #1. A tremendously successful player in the early ’30s, he was known as a soothing partner but an unsettling opponent. Bruce played with Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken on the first of the outstanding

teams, the Four Horsemen, captained by P. Hal Sims.

In 1933 with Schenken, Jacoby and Dick Frey (joined shortly afterward by Michael Gottlieb), he organized the Four Aces. This team took the leadership in

competition and held it for the next decade.Sally Young (1906–1970) was Life Master #17

and the first woman to earn the rank. Young earned success in open and women’s events. She is the only woman to “three-peat” in the Reisinger. Young and teammates John Crawford, Charles Goren and Charles Solomon won in 1937 and 1938. They added B. Jay Becker to the squad in 1939 and won again.

Young also won the Reisinger in 1947 with teammates Jane Jaeger, Paula Ribner and Kay Rhodes. They remain the only all-women’s team to win a major open team event.

David Bruce LM-5000 PairsPrevious winners:2003 Mark Bartusek, John Jones2004 Henry Meyer, Brian Gunnell2005 David Maidman, Marin Marinov2006 Andy Kaufman, Mike Cassel2007 Karl Hicks, Brian Alexander2008 Steve Johnson, Mark Teaford2009 Carolyne Fox, George Fox2010 Michael McNamara, Sylwia McNamara2011 Howard Engle, Mark Weisman2012 Donald Caplin, Zachary Grossack2013 Randy Thompson, Barry Spector2014 Joe Houde, Ronald Kay2015 Norman Schwartz, Richard Reitman2016 Michael Smith, Susan Smith2017 Daniel Bertrand, Allan Simon

Sally Young 0–1500 PairsPrevious winners:2003 Dick McCluer, Teresa Ozias2004 Robert Frick, Marvin Levine2005 Edward Foran, Nicolas Hammond2006 Dan Swartzman, Rick Schoenfield2007 William Howard, Gregory Reichert2008 Ken Llacera, Mick Friedberg2009 Peter Litchfield, Paul Gutterman2010 William Anspach, Robert Block2011 Andrew Jeng, Richard Jeng2012 Neil Jaffe, Gregory Gorshkov2013 Alan Hierseman, Doug Fjare 2014 Charles Riffle, Douglas Grant2015 Gregory Thorpe, Steve Hirsch2016 Martha Welte, John Welte2017 Tsao-Tung Tsai, Luen-Jyh Luo

Mini-Life Master Pairs Begin Today

Use of the bidding box — Alerts and Announcements

When using bidding boxes, the ACBL requires that players tap the Alert strip and say “Alert” at the same time.

When making an Announcement, use the Announcement word (such as “transfer”) and tap the Alert strip at the same time. A player who Alerts or Announces a bid must make sure his opponents are aware that an Alert or Announcement has been made.

Age requirement for Senior events

You must have been before January 1, 1959, to qualify to play in ACBL Senior events.

Stay in touchIs your email address on file? Is it up to date?

Let ACBL know. Call toll-free, 800–264–2743 (Monday–Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Central Time), or email service@acbl.org.

Playing in an NABC+ pairs game? Buy your entry early!

In an effort to speed up the start of all NABC+ pairs events – which requires additional time for proper seeding – the ACBL asks participants to please buy their entries at least 15 minutes before game time. This is especially true if you expect to be a seeded pair.

Friday, July 27, 2018 Daily BulletinPage 18

Answer to Bridge Crosswords on page 7

Buy your NABC entry onlineDon’t wait in line! Buy your entries in advance for all national-level events

at BridgeWinners.com. Entries must be purchased by 10 a.m. the day of the event EXCEPT for

events that require pre-registration, in which case the ACBL deadline, or the earlier of the two, applies.

A nice feature: You can buy entries in advance and be charged for the total number of sessions played after the event is over.

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Tomorrow’s Bridge Events

Junior DaySaturday, July 28, 9 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session Current members* Inactive membersDave McClintock Saturday-Monday Morning KO Teams 1st Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20Friday-Sunday Morning Side Game Series 2nd single Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20Friday-Saturday Morning Compact KO Teams 3-4 Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20Educational Foundation Bracketed KO Teams 3rd Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20

Saturday, July 28, 10 a.m.299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $15Bridge-Plus+ single A601, Atrium Level Free Free Free lesson, followed by game (14 deals).

Saturday, July 28, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m.Daylight A/B/C Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/1500) 1-2 Salon 1, International Level $16 $20Daylight Gold Rush Pairs (750/500/200) 1-2 Salon 1, International Level $16 $20

Saturday, July 28, Noon & 7 p.m.MOREHEAD GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT 1-2 SF Atrium A, Atrium Level $25 — GOLDMAN GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, FLIGHT A 1-2 SF Atrium A, Atrium Level $17 — SHEINWOLD GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, FLIGHT B 1-2 SF Atrium A, Atrium Level $17 — MacNAB GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, FLIGHT C 1-2 SF Atrium A, Atrium Level $17 —

Saturday, July 28, 1 p.m.Vero Beach Bridge Club Side Game 3rd single Imperial Ballroom, Marquis Level $16 $20 Part of the Friday-Sunday Side Game Series. NOT played at Vero Beach Bridge Club.

Saturday, July 28, 1 & 7:30 p.m.0-10,000 NABC PAIRS 1-2 Q Marquis C, Marquis Level $17 — 2 qualifying, 2 final sessionsVON ZEDTWITZ LIFE MASTER PAIRS 1-2 SF Atrium A, Atrium Level $25 — BRUCE LM-6000 PAIRS 1-2 SF Atrium A, Atrium Level $17 — YOUNG 0-1500 PAIRS 1-2 SF Atrium A, Atrium Level $17 — A/B/C Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/1500) 1-2 Imperial Ballroom, Marquis Level $16 $20Gold Rush Pairs (750/500/200) 1-2 Imperial Ballroom, Marquis Level $16 $20Saturday-Sunday Bracketed KO Teams 1-2 Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20Friday-Saturday Bracketed KO Teams 3-4 Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20

Saturday, July 28, 3 p.m.299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $15

Saturday, July 28, 7:30 p.m.A/X/Y Evening Swiss Teams (unlimited/6000/4000) single Marquis AB, Marquis Level $15 $19B/C/D Evening Swiss Teams (3000/1500/750) single Marquis AB, Marquis Level $15 $19Vero Beach Bridge Club Side Game 4th single Imperial Ballroom, Marquis Level $16 $20 Part of the Friday-Sunday Side Game Series. NOT played at Vero Beach Bridge Club.299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $15Stratified 299er Swiss Teams single Salon 4, International Level $15 $19

Saturday, July 28, 11:30 p.m.Zip Knockout Teams single Salon 4, International Level $16/team/matchJunior Zip Knockout Teams (25 and under) single Salon 4, International Level Free

Unless otherwise noted: Three-flight open events are stratified as A/X (6000+/0–6000), B/C (1500–3000/0–1500) and Gold Rush (300–750/0–300).Two-flight open events are stratified as A/B/C (3000+/1500–3000/0–1500) and Gold Rush (500–750/200–500/0–200) or as A/X/Y (6000+/4000–6000/0–4000) and B/C/D (1500–3000/750–1500/0–750) if there is no Gold Rush.One-flight open events are stratified as A (3000+), B (750–3000) and C (0–750). Stratification is based on averaging the masterpoints of a pair or team. Eligibility for limited events will be based on the point holding of the highest player, so no player with more than 3000 may play in B/C events nor the Bracketed B Teams, no player with more than 750 may play in Gold Rush events, and no player with more than 300 may play in 299er events.BOLD, UPPER CASE = NABC+ events. UPPER CASE = NABC events. *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

**International FundIn NABC+ events, $1.50 (per person, per session) of each entry fee will be allocated to the ACBL International Fund. These funds are used to underwrite part of the expenses of ACBL players who participate in international competition.

Convention card reminderEach player is

required to have a convention card filled out legibly and on the table throughout a session. The convention card must include

the first and last name of each member of the partnership, and the cards must be identical.

If a director determines that neither player has

a substantially completed card, the partnership may play only the Standard American Yellow Card and may use only standard carding. This restriction may be lifted only at the beginning of a subsequent round after convention cards have been properly prepared and approved by the director. Further, the partnership will receive a 1/6-board matchpoint penalty for each board played, commencing with the next round and continuing until the restriction is lifted. In IMP team games, penalties shall be at the

discretion of the director.If the director determines the partnership has at

least one substantially completed convention card but has not fully complied with ACBL regulations, the director may give warnings or assign such penalties as he deems to be appropriate under the circumstances.

The objective of these warnings and penalties is the encouragement of full compliance with ACBL regulations.

Friday, July 27, 2018 Daily BulletinPage 20

Today’s Sponsors

Today’s Bridge Events

Vero Beach Bridge Club Friday-Sunday Side Game SeriesSponsored by Vero Beach Bridge Center

The Vero Beach Bridge Center (VBBC), a member-owned club with 1,100 enthusiastic members, is consistently ranked in the top 10 of the ACBL’s largest clubs in annual table count. We offer many levels of bridge courses, host three sectionals per year and have an active mentoring program.

We are very proud of our annual Celebrity Speaker Series which sponsors seminars by nationally-known bridge experts.

VBBC welcomes all visitors, so visit us at verobridge.com for our clubs schedule and location on the beautiful Treasure Coast of Florida.

0-5 Newcomer Pairs event is free today!Friday, July 27, 9 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session Current members* Inactive membersFriday-Sunday Morning Side Game Series 1st single Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20Friday-Saturday Morning Compact KO Teams 1-2 Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20Educational Foundation Bracketed KO Teams 2nd Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20

Friday, July 27, 10 a.m.299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $190-20 Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $150-5 Newcomer Pairs single Salon 4, International Level Free Free

Friday, July 27, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m.Daylight A/B/C Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/1500) 1-2 Salon 1, International Level $16 $20Daylight Gold Rush Pairs (750/500/200) 1-2 Salon 1, International Level $16 $20

Friday, July 27, Noon & 7 p.m.MOREHEAD GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT 1-2 QF Atrium A, Atrium Level $25 —GOLDMAN GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, FLIGHT A 1-2 QF Atrium A, Atrium Level $17 —SHEINWOLD GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, FLIGHT B 1-2 QF Atrium A, Atrium Level $17 —MacNAB GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS, FLIGHT C 1-2 QF Atrium A, Atrium Level $17 —

Friday, July 27, 1 p.m.Vero Beach Bridge Club Side Game 1st single Marquis C, Marquis Level $16 $20 Part of the Friday-Sunday Side Game Series. NOT played at Vero Beach Bridge Club.

Friday, July 27, 1 & 7:30 p.m.VON ZEDTWITZ LIFE MASTER PAIRS 1-2 Q Atrium B, Atrium Level $25 —BRUCE LM-6000 PAIRS 1-2 Q Imperial Ballroom, Marquis Level $17 — YOUNG 0-1500 PAIRS 1-2 Q Imperial Ballroom, Marquis Level $17 — Pair events listed above: 2 qualifying, 2 semifinal & 2 final sessionsA/B/C Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/1500) 1-2 Marquis C, Marquis Level $16 $20Gold Rush Pairs (750/500/200) 1-2 Marquis C, Marquis Level $16 $20Friday-Saturday Bracketed KO Teams 1-2 Marquis AB, Marquis Level $16 $20

Friday, July 27, 3 p.m.299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $190-20 Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $150-5 Newcomer Pairs single Salon 4, International Level Free Free

Friday, July 27, 7:30 p.m.Evening Swiss Teams single Marquis AB, Marquis Level $15 $19Vero Beach Bridge Club Side Game 2nd single Marquis C, Marquis Level $16 $20 Part of the Friday-Sunday Side Game Series. NOT played at Vero Beach Bridge Club.299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $190-20 Pairs single Salon 4, International Level $15 $150-5 Newcomer Pairs single Salon 4, International Level Free Free

Friday, July 27, 11:30 p.m.Zip Knockout Teams single Salon 4, International Level $16/team/match

Unless otherwise noted: Three-flight open events are stratified as A/X (6000+/0–6000), B/C (1500–3000/0–1500) and Gold Rush (300–750/0–300).Two-flight open events are stratified as A/B/C (3000+/1500–3000/0–1500) and Gold Rush (500–750/200–500/0–200) or as A/X/Y (6000+/4000–6000/0–4000) and B/C/D (1500–3000/750–1500/0–750) if there is no Gold Rush.One-flight open events are stratified as A (3000+), B (750–3000) and C (0–750).Stratification is based on averaging the masterpoints of a pair or team. Eligibility for limited events will be based on the point holding of the highest player, so no player with more than 3000 may play in B/C events nor the Bracketed B Teams, no player with more than 750 may play in Gold Rush events, and no player with more than 300 may play in 299er events.BOLD, UPPER CASE = NABC+ events. UPPER CASE = NABC events. *Members whose dues payment is current and Life Masters whose service fee payment is current.

**International FundIn NABC+ events, $1.50 (per person, per session) of each entry fee will be allocated to the ACBL International Fund. These funds are used to underwrite part of the expenses of ACBL players who participate in international competition.