Saturday, December 2, 2017 Volume 90, Number 9 Daily

Player roundupIf a genie could grant you a game with anyone you wanted for a partner, who you choose? Daily Bulletin

staff wandered through the playing areas Friday asking people this question: If you could play with any person, living or dead, who would you choose, and why? Here are their answers.

Attendance through Friday10,171.5 tables

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Bermuda Bowl winners: Michael Rosenberg, Brad Moss, npc Jan Martel, Martin Fleisher, Chip Martel and Joe Grue. Not pictured: Jacek Pszczola.

Winners of the d’Orsi Trophy (Seniors): Steve Garner, Mike Becker, Jeff Wolfson, Neil Silverman, David Berkowitz, Alan Sontag and Allan Graves.

They won the Transnational Junior Teams and the Board-a-Match Teams for Juniors at the World Championships in Lyon, France: Zach Grossack, Adam Grossack, Adam Kaplan, Anam Tebha, Kevin Rosenberg and Christian Jolly.

U.S. Teams acquitted themselves well at the 43rd World Bridge Championships Lyon, France, coming

home with gold medals in two of the major events – Bermuda Bowl and d’Orsi Senior Trophy – and in the

Transnational Junior Teams. The winners are shown below.

U.S. wins Gold in Lyon

“Eddie Kantar. Because of all his books. I use them a lot.”

Carol HellebrandYorba Linda CA

“Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. Just for the pleasure of playing with someone famous.”

George WelchSan Jose CA

“Omar Sharif. He knew a lot about bridge and was sure good looking.”

Kris St. ClairBrea CA

“My son. I’d prefer to come in second to last with him than win with anyone else.”

Zia MahmoodNew York NY

Ciao, Francesca!You may

not be aware of Francesca Canali as she quietly roams the playing area. She’s a petite little thing, bending behind a big camera and standing on chairs to get overhead shots. She catches players at the table in a smile or a moment of intense study or puzzlement; she captures the happy faces of players who become new Life Masters; she directs the winner’s circle as she chronicles achievements for publication in the Daily Bulletin.

Francesca is ACBL’s official NABC photographer. She also posts photos to the organization’s Facebook and Instagram during the 10-day tournament.

“I especially like candids,” says Francesca in her lyrical Italian-accented English. “I like capturing the expressions of the players when they are laughing

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Canadians win Senior Mixed PairsIn a back-and-forth struggle with the eventual

runners-up, Gerry McCully and Rhonda Foster had a 60.26% game in the second final session of the Senior Mixed Pairs to win the event by less than a board (55 top). With the win, McCully became a Grand Life Master.

The husband and wife qualified for the two final sessions in 13th place, followed by Francisco Bernal, Miami FL, and Sylvie Willard, Paris, France. McCully and Rhonda Foster were ahead by just 3.26

Winners of the Senior Mixed Pairs: Rhonda Foster and Gerry McCully

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Fresh off her win in the Whitehead Women’s Pairs, Justyne Zmuda of Poland notched another win, this time with Daniel Miles of Toronto in the 0–10,000 Fast Pairs. They finished half a board ahead of Radu Nistor of Woodside NY and Joan Brody of Livingston NJ.

“She wins everything,” Miles said of Zmuda. “The Polish ladies have done well.”

Zmuda acknowledged she’s having a very good tournament. Asked if it was her time, she simply said yes.

Daniel Miles and Justyne Zmuda won the 0–10,000 Fast Pairs.

Miles, Zmuda win 10K Fast Pairs


Granovetter sets pace in Swiss

The team captained by Pamela Granovetter carries a 7 VP lead into the semifinal round of the North American Swiss. She is playing with Matt Granovetter, Riki Tulin, Tracey Bauer and Jason Chiu.



Spingold winners poised atop Reisinger

The four-handed John Diamond team leads the pack going into the semifinal day of the Reisinger Board-a-Match. Diamond, playing with Brian

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Saturday, Dec. 29:15 a.m. GS Jade Barrett How Not to Lose

SPECIAL EVENTSMEETINGS / SEMINARS / RECEPTIONS

CELEBRITY SPEAKER PROGRAM

Meetings are at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.TBA Peter Pender Memorial Vugraph. (Room TBA)

HOSPITALITY

Saturday, Dec. 2Cookies

Sunday, Dec. 3Tomato Bisque Soup

Parking discountPlayers not staying at the hotel can pick up

discounted parking tickets at the Information Desk beginning today at the following times: 8:30-10 a.m., noon-1 p.m., 2:30-3 p.m., 6:30-7:30 p.m. The tickets are good for a discount rate of $11.

Intermediate-Newcomer players may pick up validations at the I-N desk 12:15-12:45 p.m. and 6:30-7 p.m.

New: Credit cards accepted for entry feesPurchase your entries for all events at the NABC

via credit card! All major credit cards are accepted wherever entries are sold. Charges will appear from PurplePass. To use this option, the entire pair or team entry must be charged to a single card. Please be patient with directors using this new system. Bridge Bucks also remain available as an alternative to cash.

Free Ride ServiceThe Free

Ride offers free rides throughout the downtown area, approximately a 1.5-mile radius of the Hyatt. This includes the Gaslamp Quarter, Little Italy and East Village. An app can be used to summon a driver, or you can hail them on the street.

Hours are 8 a.m. to midnight Saturday; and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday. To download the app, go to thefreeride.com/san-diego.php.

Watch your valuablesThere have been thefts in the playing areas

during this tournament. Players are cautioned not to leave their valuables unattended, even for short periods of time.

Video support libraryIn addition to calling ACBL with support

questions, you now have video assistance to help with common issues at your club. Have a question about the new 2017 Laws? We’ve got you covered. Need help with a process in ACBLscore? We have videos for that, too. We’re here to help with situations you face every day. Access the videos at acbl.org/videoresources

Bridge Bucks and Check Cashing

Through Saturday, Dec. 2, the hours of operation of the Bridge Bucks and check cashing desk will be 9:30-10 a.m. and noon -1 p.m. The table is located on the second floor outside Harbor Ballroom (near the escalator).

Players may use VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express to purchase Bridge Bucks. There is a $500 limit on check cashing.

Don’t miss this free lecture. Talk will be held in Harbor Ballroom GH, second floor. Speaker and topic are subject to change.

Book saleStop by the tournament

book table today for a sale on used books, selected classics and software. The book vendor is located on the second floor near the Registration Desk area.

Parking shortageCommuters are asked to park carefully and

considerately in the Hyatt parking garage. The garage is running out of room because of cars that are taking up two spaces.

Enjoy late-evening snacks in the Registration Desk area on the second floor.

Goodwill Message

Smile often. A warm smile is the universal language of kindness – don’t estimate its power or that of a kind word or honest compliment.

Sandy DeMartino, ChairAileen Osofsky Goodwill Committee

End of tournament saleCommemorative NABC shirts are on sale! Get

a jump on holiday gift shopping. At noon at the Welcome Desk on the second floor. Polo shirts (XL only) are going for $10; T-shirts in most sizes – $5; Maritha Pottenger’s “Bridge Detective A-Z” – $5; and keychain/flashlights for $1.

Cash or check only.

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JUST FOR NEW PLAYERS

Thinking bridgeBy Eddie Kantar

Dlr: South ♠ 8 6 5 4 Vul: N-S ♥ 9 4 2 ♦ 4 3 2 ♣ 9 3 2 ♠ 7 3 2 ♠ J 10 9 ♥ 10 8 7 ♥ K J 6 3 ♦ K Q 8 6 5 ♦ A 10 9 7 ♣ 6 5 ♣ 8 7 ♠ A K Q ♥ A Q 5 ♦ J ♣ A K Q J 10 4 West North East South 2♣ Pass 2♦ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♦ Pass 5♣ All Pass

Opening lead: ♦K.Bidding commentary: How should one

respond to a 2♣ opening bid with a bust (no ace, no king and no two queens)? One method is to respond 2♥ directly. Another is to start with 2♦, denying a strong suit. If opener bids 2♥ or 2♠, a rebid of 3♣, artificial, shows a bust. If opener bids 3♣, a 3♦ rebid by responder, artificial, shows a bust.

Another possibility is to show high-card points at once by steps. A fourth method is to show controls (ace and kings) by steps. Each method has its plusses and minuses. What’s important is a partnership agreement. Even a bad agreement is better than no agreement. In this case, 2♦ followed by 3♦ over 3♣ was used to show a bust.

Defensive commentary: East plays the ♦10 at trick one, higher equal when encouraging. Given the looks of this dummy, a passive defense (avoid breaking new suits) is in order. As West, continue with a low diamond at trick two as requested.

Play commentary: As South, ruff the second diamond high! If clubs divide 2-2, you can pull trumps then use ♣9 for an entry to dummy – assuming you saved the precious ♣4. After clubs divide 2-2, it can’t cost to play your spades in case the suit breaks 3-3. It’s your lucky day: they do! Now it is easy enough to cross to the ♣9, discard a heart on dummy’s ♠8, and take the heart finesse for an overtrick. Be sure to tell your partner after you make an overtrick that in the future you expect her to bid more aggressively with wonderful hands.

When holding a powerful trump suit facing a bleak dummy and forced to ruff early, consider ruffing high rather than low. That low trump may be your salvation – it may be your only entry to dummy!

Have you discussed? Defensive signals

By Brent ManleyIn this series,

I have stressed how important it is for partners to be on the same page in the bidding. The best way to accomplish that goal is to work on it. That means lots of discussions. My wife and I had an effective partnership for some years by practicing our bidding regularly and keeping a book of our agreements for referral when questions came up.

We also worked on our defensive signals and we became good defenders, taking most of the tricks we were entitled to when we were on defense.

In my years of playing bridge, I have noticed that many new players do not truly give signals on defense. The closest they come is to discard from a suit they want led. If someone pitches the ♥2, I know that player has some high cards in hearts.

I do not recommend this scheme for signaling on defense. You are better off using standard defensive signals indicating “count” and “attitude.”

In case you need clarification on these two concepts, count signals are meant to indicate whether the number of cards held in a suit is an even number or an odd number. Attitude is meant to indicate whether you want that suit led or continued. It can also indicate that you have high cards in the suit in case partner needs help deciding what to discard.

The count signal is vitally important in many cases. This one is common:

Dummy ♠ 6 5 2 ♥ Q 9 7 ♦ K Q J 10 9 ♣ 7 6

You ♠ 9 8 7 ♥ A 10 8 5 ♦ A 6 3 ♣ 6 4 3

South opens 1NT (15-17) and North bids 3NT. Your partner leads the ♣J, which is taken by South with the ace. At trick two, South leads the ♦4. You know this is a key suit for declarer, so you will have to play carefully to keep him from scoring four diamond tricks. Declarer has at least two diamonds (he wouldn’t open 1NT with a singleton), so you are going to have to withhold your ♦A at least once. If you win the first diamond, declarer will have four diamond tricks because you know he has

at least one more. You are counting on partner to provide the information you need to play low the correct number of times. This situation is why it’s important to discuss signaling. With an odd number of diamonds, West should play his lowest diamond. With an even number, he plays high, starting a high-low signal to show two cards in the suit (West cannot have four diamonds because that would leave South with only one).

On this occasion, partner plays the ♦2, which is a singleton or the lowest card of three. If it’s a singleton, declarer will always have four diamond tricks. You must hope partner’s card is from a holding of three.

Declarer plays the king and you play low. Now declarer calls for the ♦Q. What’s your play?

If partner started with three diamonds, declarer has only one left. You must win the ♦A and return a club. Dummy is now dead and declarer will go down. If you had taken the first diamond, South would have made his contract. Declarer’s hand:

♠A K 3 ♥J 3 2 ♦5 4 ♣A K Q 5.

Joseph Schoensee of San Diego has been playing for four years, but it could have been a lot longer. “I found (bridge) when I was a kid, but I couldn’t find anybody to play with me when I was 7, so I didn’t think about it for 20 years.” Now 33, he’s not only playing at his first NABC but also took the class and passed the test to become a club director. “I’m loving it,” he said.


Curiosities

This activity is illegal in local lakes.

This contaminant is a problem for swimmers at Children’s Pool in La Jolla.

You’re getting very sleepy. This practice is banned by public schools in San Diego.

A cluster of little houses in La Jolla were built for the diminutive actors who played these famous movie characters.

Iris Kenna was birdwatching in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park in 1994 when she met an untimely death in this way.

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NORTH AMERICAN SWISS TEAM - QUALIFIERS 62 Tables / Based on 124 Tables Carryover 1 Pamela Granovetter - Matt Granovetter, Cincinnati OH; Riki Tulin, Boca Raton FL; Tracey Bauer, San Rafael CA; Jason Chiu, San Jose CA 87.13 2 Michael Gamble, Shawnigan Lake BC; Bruce Lang, West Palm Beach FL; Corey Krantz, Delray Beach FL; Andrew Russell, St. Catharines ON 79.75 3 Yeshayahu Levit - Orenstein Eitan, Tel-Aviv Israel; Adrian Schwartz, Tel Aviv Israel; Shalom Zeligman, Bat-Yam Israel 79.73 4 Chen Zhao, College Park MD; Jing Liu, Minneapolis MN; Hua Poon - Choon Chou Loo, Singapore 78.83 5 Paul Lewis - Linda Lewis, Las Vegas NV; Mark Itabashi, Murrieta CA; Ross Grabel, Palm Desert CA; Peter Weichsel, Carlsbad CA; Lynn Deas, Schenectady NY 76.78 6 Andrew Chesterton, Winchester MA; Mark Aquino, Jamaica Plain MA; Robert Cappelli, Sanibel FL; Frank Treiber III, Toledo OH 75.77 7 Eric Leong, Oakland CA; Ulf Nilsson, Dalby Sweden; Peter Gill - Adam Stokka, Sydney Australia 75.65 8 Hemant Lall, Dallas TX; Reese Milner, Sarasota FL; Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund Denmark; Roy Welland, New York NY; Frederic Wrang - Johan Sylvan, Stockholm Sweden 74.35 9 Agnes Snellers - Wubbo De Boer, Groenekan Netherlands; Joris van Lankveld, Amsterdam Netherlands; Berend Van Den Bos, Den Haag Netherlands 72.12 10 Justine Cushing - Melih Ozdil, New York NY; Kauko Koistinen, Espoo Finland; Vesa Fagerlund, Tampere Finland; Adam Mesbur, Dublin Ireland 71.09 11 Dan Morse, Houston TX; John Sutherlin, Dallas TX; Russell Ekeblad, Portsmouth RI; Diego Brenner, Barcelona Spain; Mark Feldman, Austin TX; Steve Beatty, Mill Creek WA 70.51 12 Phyllis Fireman, Chestnut Hill MA; Marion Michielsen, Stockholm Sweden; Ola Rimstedt - Mikael Rimstedt, Halmstad Sweden; Per-Ola Cullin, Enskededalen Sweden; Jenny Wolpert, Palm Beach Gardens FL 69.30 13 Barbara Sonsini, Woodside CA; Daniel Korbel - Curtis Cheek, Las Vegas NV; Bauke Muller, Hoorn Netherlands; Simon De Wijs, Doorn Netherlands; Huub Bertens, Bend OR 69.25 14 Stan Tulin, Boca Raton FL; David Bakhshi, London England; Dror Padon - Alon Birman, Tel Aviv Israel; Cornelis Van Prooijen, Nieuw Vennep Netherlands; Louk Verhees Jr., Voorhout Netherlands 68.90 15 Victor Markowicz - Victor Melman, Boca Raton FL; Apolinary Kowalski - Moszozynski Krzyszef, Warsaw Poland; Jacek Romanski, Lublin Poland; Jerzy Russyan, Warsaw Poland 68.70 16 Richard Chan, Markham ON; Jianfeng Luo, North York ON; Bo Liu, Irvine CA; Weidong Pei, Brea CA 68.62 17 Mike Levine, Boca Raton FL; Eddie Wold, Houston TX; Mike Passell, Plano TX; Chris Compton, Dallas TX; David Grainger, Etobicoke ON; Greg Hinze, San Antonio TX 67.63 18 Alan Osofsky, Palm Beach FL; Gary Cohler, Delray Beach FL; Dennis Clerkin - Jerry Clerkin, Bloomington IN 67.1419/20 Judy Rothstein, Livingston NJ; Samuel Baskinger, Totowa NJ; Piotr Olszewski, Hackettstown NJ; John Hogan Jr., Wayne NJ; Susan Fulton, Maplewood NJ 66.5119/20 Carlos Pellegrini, Buenos Aires Argentina; Hansa Narasimhan, Mountain View CA; Guillermo Minutti, Montevideo Uruguay; Maximo Crusizio - Michael Whibley, Argentina 66.51 21 Steve Shirey, Fort Worth TX; Ira Hessel, San Antonio TX; Kenneth Schutze, Austin TX; James Griffin, Sausalito CA 66.46 22 James Fox, Virginia Beach VA; Karen Allison, Las Vegas NV; Sally Woolsey, Kensington CA; Paul McDaniels, Richmond CA; Leigh Gold, Melbourne Australia; Kitty Muntz, East Malvern Australia 65.83 23 Tim Verbeek - Danny Molenaar, Netherlands; Patricia Cayne, Boca Raton FL; Bob Drijver - Bart Nab, Netherlands; Dano De Falco, Rubano Italy 65.74 24 Maciej Klis, Krakow Poland; Stanislaw Pajak, Starachonice Poland; Piotr Kucharski - Janusz Gaisecki, Krakow Poland 65.53 25 Michael Crawford - Dorn Bishop, San Diego CA; David Abelow, La Jolla CA; David Ruderman, Burtonsville MD 65.12 26 Glenn Robbins, New York NY; Dawei Chen, Tokyo Japan; Jiang Gu, Mountain Lakes NJ; Lloyd Arvedon, Woburn MA; John McLaughlin, Melrose MA 65.10 27 Cristal Nell, Seattle WA; Brad Bart, Coquitlam BC; Mitch Towner, Tucson AZ; John Ramos, Los Angeles CA 64.23 28 Fred King, McLean VA; Robert Bell, Silver Spring MD; Mark Ralph, San Francisco CA; Bruce Noda, Corte Madera CA 64.03 29 Martin Harris, Chicago IL; Jacob Morgan, Madison WI; Alex Hudson, Raleigh NC; Jonathan Steinberg, Toronto ON 63.88 30 Tom Van Overbeeke, Utrecht Netherlands; Sylvia Moss, Boca Raton FL; Francois Combescure, Villeurbanne France; Allan Graves, St. Johnsbury VT; Maarten Schollaardt, Netherlands; Jerome Rombaut, Hem France 63.85 31 Marty Seligman, Wynnewood PA; Jay Barron, Tulsa OK; Ishmael DelMonte, Las Vegas NV; Mark Lair, Canyon TX 63.68 32 Lou Ann O’Rourke, Portola Valley CA; Marc Jacobus - Joshua Donn - John Mohan, Las Vegas NV; Wojciech Gawel, Wroclaw Poland; Rafal Jagniewski, Legionowo Poland 63.64 33 Thomas Weik, Reading PA; Lyle Poe Jr., Ellicott City MD; Abe Pineles, Jackson NJ; Alexander Allen, Annandale NJ; Jim Darvey, Rancho Mirage CA; Neil Stern, Indio CA 62.79 34 Barbara Ames, Bethesda MD; Thomas Musso, Charleston SC; Katherine Field, Chapel Hill NC; Rammohan Sarangan, Arlington VA 62.37 35 Michael Mikyska, Los Angeles CA; Billy Cohen - Mitch Dunitz, Sherman Oaks CA; Iftikhar Baqai, Irvine CA 62.16 36 Philip Goulding, Wexford PA; Greg Michaels, Cleveland OH; Bernie Greenspan, Beachwood OH; Barry Goulding, Scottsdale AZ 61.88 37 Erwin Linzner, Santa Rosa CA; Kathleen Bobbitt, Sarasota FL; Nick Wiebe, Oakland CA; David Neuman, San Francisco CA 61.87 38 Joyce Hill, Hobe Sound FL; Kevin Dwyer, Melbourne FL; Shan Huang, Toronto ON; Justin Lall, Charlotte NC; Kevin Bathurst, Palm Beach Gardens FL 61.41 39 Bulent Kaytaz - Tuna Aluf - Mehves Pisak, Istanbul Turkey; Gokhan Yilmaz, Instanbul Turkey 61.27 40 Magnus Olafsson, New York NY; Thomas Turgeon, Memphis TN; Hugh Brown Jr., Greenwood SC; Olin Hubert, Atlanta GA 61.10 41 Harvey Brody, San Francisco CA; Bruce Tuttle - Crispin Barrere, Berkeley CA; Robert Munson, Danville CA 61.08 42 Eric Pan - Evan Zhuang, Burnaby BC; Yanong Han - Miao Jian Hua, Milpitas CA 61.01 43 Tien-Chun Yang, San Jose CA; Sheng Li, New York NY; Pat Galligan, San Mateo CA; Ashraf El Sadi, Union City CA 60.9044/45 GS Jade Barrett, Elk Point SD; Michael Hughes, Jefferson City MO; Thomas Maccormac, Dublin Ireland; James Heneghan, Washington DC; Benedicte Cronier, Paris France 60.81


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and enjoying bridge or thinking very hard during a tough board. I hope that my pictures can go outside the world of bridge and show everybody what an amazing mixture of fun and mental challenge this game is.”

All around the worldShe performs similar functions for other bridge

organizations: Her bridge assignments take her all over the world, working for the World Bridge Federation, the European Bridge Federation and other national bridge organizations and invitational tournaments. From San Diego she flies directly to China for the invitational IMSA Elite Mind Games in Huai’an, China. There she will write the daily bulletins in addition to doing the photography.

She primarily works for the Italian Bridge Federation, where she writes and lays out the bulletins, posts website news, manages the blog and attends championships. “In Italy, we have more championships than in America – at least one a month – but they are much smaller.”

Francesca lives in Padova, Italy, a small town in the northeast part of the country close to Venice, but she isn’t there much. All told, Francesca estimates she spends 36 weeks of the year away from home.

Francesca was introduced to the ACBL by Brent Manley, retired Bridge Bulletin editor and one of the daily bulletin editors who covers bridge events around the world.

“I worked with Francesca at numerous tournaments overseas,” says Brent, “and it was obvious to me right away that she is serious about her work as a photographer. She is small in stature but big in determination.”

Brent says that Francesca is never satisfied until she gets just the right shot. “I’ve never seen a bad photo from Francesca. I convinced the ACBL that calling on Francesca to take photos at NABCs would be in the organization’s best interest. I am happy to say I was proved right – and then some. Francesca is a gem – a valuable member of the team.”

While Francesca is best known throughout the bridge community for her photography, she grew up as the writer in the family. She has interviewed and profiled some of the best players in the game including Thomas Bessis, Benito Garozzo, Dennis Bilde and Michal Klukowski. She plans to interview Brad Moss in China later this month.

“I like writing articles very much,” she says, “but I think that photos are very powerful because they are more immediate. Plus, photography is an international language that does not need to be translated.”

A BBO director when she was 20, Francesca had the chance to be a BBO operator at a World Championships. During the event she took pictures of players to post in a blog for home spectators.

“The blog had so many visitors that I decided to run it after the championship was over,” she says, “and I added bridge-related articles. The president of the Italian Bridge Federation liked the idea and asked me to run a news website for the Federation … provided that I would close my own blog.”

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44/45 Patricia Tucker, Atlanta GA; Kevin Collins, Dunwoody GA; Bernard Yomtov, Cambridge MA; Allen Hawkins Jr., Birmingham AL; Douglas Doub, West Hartford CT 60.81 46 Kevin Choi - Matthew Dyer, Chicago IL; Jacob Vrooman, Mathews VA; Zachary Madden, Bethesda MD 60.80 47 Howard Einberg, Los Angeles CA; James Glickman, Las Vegas NV; John Feo, Kennewick WA; Seth Cohen, Stamford CT 60.72 48 Fredrik Helness, Oslo Norway; Rita Shugart, Pebble Beach CA; Lee De Simone, Paso Robles CA; Marshall Lewis, Bloomington IN; Rodrigo Garcia Da Rosa, Argentina 60.58 49 Jeffrey Goldsmith, Tujunga CA; Leszek Rabiega, Watsonville CA; Farid Assemi - Richard Meffley, Fresno CA; Leo Bell, Carlsbad CA; Edward Wojewoda, Tempe AZ 60.18 50 Mary Ann Berg, Atherton CA; Jason Feldman, San Diego CA; Krzysztof Buras, Warsaw Poland; Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Chapel Hill NC; Marcin Lesniewski, Zakopane Poland; Michal Kwiecien, Lublin Poland 60.17 51 Kevin Castner, Kentfield CA; William Doroshow, Skokie IL; Christophe Grosset - Borislav Popov, Issy-Les-Moulin France; Stefan Skorchev, London Bulgaria 60.07 52 Edward Nagy, Danville CA; Gary Soules, Elk Grove CA; Gene Simpson, San Rafael CA; James Tritt, Anaheim CA 59.99 53 Wilfried Libbrecht, Clichy France; J-f Allix - Thuillez - Flecery, Asnia France 59.64 54 Cheryl Mandala - Yul Inn, Cupertino CA; Richard Reitman, Los Gatos CA; William Harker, Santa Fe NM 59.63 55 Jim Wakefield, Fairfax Station VA; Helene Bauman, Arlington VA; Robin Taylor, Gaithersburg MD; Mickie Kivel, Potomac Falls VA 58.99 56 Mike Rippey, Orinda CA; Piotr Tuczynski, Poznan Poland; Benito Garozzo, Wilmington DE; Bartosz Chmurski, Lomianky Poland; Kamil Nowak, Kielce Poland; Woaciech Strzemecki, Poland 58.97 57 Juan Castillo, Fort Lauderdale FL; Luisana Madueno, Aventura FL; Juan Reyes, Pompano Beach FL; Jorge Barrera, Bogota Colombia 58.82 58 Anders Brogeland - Jomar Undheim, Northern Ireland; Carl Ragnarsson, Swaziland; Leif Bjorn Odden, Drangedal Norway 58.77 59 Jack Waller, Dana Point CA; Paul Gelb, Palm Springs CA; John Emmerson, Federal Way WA; Merle Stetser, Honolulu HI 58.05 60 Veri Kiljan - Luc Tijssen, ; Adam Wildavsky, Dillon CO; Migry Zur Campanile, New York NY 57.51 61 Jason Ji, Kendall Park NJ; Chongmin Zhang, Getzville NY; Tiger King, Plano TX; Ying Peng, Baldwin WI 57.50 62 Paul Street, Delray Beach FL; Nicolas L’Ecuyer, Montreal QC; Thomas Bessis - Jean Quantin, Paris France; Frederic Volcker, Issy Les Moulin France; Cedric Lorenzini, Cachan France 57.13

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THURSDAY ZIP KO 10 Tables 3.73 1 Stephannie Culbertson, New York NY; Wesley May, Menlo Park CA; Aaron Mayerson, Redwood City CA; Doug Couchman, Berkeley CA 2.61 2 Alan Malloy, West Hollywood CA; Laura de Vesine, San Jose CA; Becky Stevens - Michael Christensen, Mercer Island WA 1.49 3/4 L. Allison Rudary - Daniel Lev, New York NY; Samuel Amer, Astoria NY; Yoko Glubok Sobel, Brooklyn NY; Mike Cappelletti, Delray Beach FL 1.49 3/4 Philip McPeek - Matthew Dyer, Chicago IL; Saul Priever, Los Angeles CA; Frank Dinoff, New York NY

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY MORNING KO 1 9 Tables 16.10 1 Eric Pan - Evan Zhuang, Burnaby BC; Jack Lee, Richmond BC; Alex Hong, West Vancouver BC 11.27 2 Jacques Leblanc, Maria QC; Carol Lombardino, Tomball TX; Robert Huber, Minneapolis MN; Won Yang, Clermont FL 7.25 3 Merrily Van Zevern - Linda Harder - Elizabeth Thornton, Aurora CO; June Clayton, Denver CO

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY MORNING KO 2 9 Tables 9.66 1 Edward Benda - Stefanie Woodburn - Paul Stanko, Los Angeles CA; Monique Thomas, Laguna Beach CA; Brian Reynolds - Samantha Macdouglas, Canoga Park CA 6.76 2 Keith Hibbert - Jean-Philipp Weber - Holly Boudreau - Esther Wiebe, Victoria BC 4.35 3 Susan Halfaker - Marianne Kuzma - Susan Van Cott, San Diego CA; Mary Thead, Poway CA

THUSDAY-FRIDAY MORNING COMPACT KO 14 Tables 7.99 1 Arnold Ullevig - James Nichols - Joy Roberts - Lois Beyer, Green Valley AZ 5.59 2 Ann Atcheson, Fairfax VA; George Parkins, Vienna VA; Hal Jones Jr., Lorton VA; Marvin Raines, Fort Washington MD 3.60 3 Linda Tuff, Lower Sackville NS; Bud Feron, Dartmouth NS; Maureen Donovan - Jane Filbee, Halifax NS 2.80 4 Kathy High - Pam Sands - Vicki MacClyment - Dee Alexander, Modesto CA

FRIDAY-SATURDAY MORNING COMPACT KO 1 11 TablesBetsy Mayers, Weaverville NC; Russell Mayers, Tucson AZ; Danielle Tremblay, Outremont QC; Pat Ingoglia, Sacramento CA vsVictoria Bamberger - Larry Bamberger - Kathleen Hennessy, Bonita CA; Kathleen Byrne, San Diego CA

Allan Palansky, Henderson NV; Neal Kleiner, San Pedro CA; David Peim, Torrance CA; David Lodge, Rancho Mirage CA vsMarlene Case, Stony Point NY; Andrea Luckey, Kinnelon NJ; Mary Giannella, Wayne NJ; Barbara Fingerhut, Clifton NJ

FRIDAY-SATURDAY MORNING COMPACT KO 2 15 TablesThuy Tran, San Franciso CA; Tony Greenberg, Malibu CA; Jo Ellen Drisko, Windermere FL; Margaret Getman, St. Paul MN vsPauline Bullert - Cynthia Brogan - Barbara Charlton - Carol Nystrom, Vancouver WA

Deborah Cool, Blaine WA; Harry Satanove - Sid Segal, Vancouver BC; Shael Smith, Richmond BC vsNiraj Jain - Rajeev Jog, San Jose CA; Elenalani Lam, Sunnyvale CA; Aaron Mayerson, Redwood City CA

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SENIOR MIXED PAIRS 56.0 Tables / Based on 114 Tables 80.00 1 Gerry McCully - Rhonda Foster, Sun City West AZ 1815.53 60.00 2 Francisco Bernal, Miami FL; Sylvie Willard, Paris France 1776.18 45.00 3 Daniel Friedman - Linda Friedman, Orinda CA 1749.59 35.56 4 Audrey Rennels, Laguna Woods CA; Norman Schwartz, Carlsbad CA 1740.63 32.00 5 William Pollack - Rozanne Pollack, New York NY 1709.15 29.09 6 Jeff Hand - Gail Greenberg, New York NY 1700.08 26.67 7 Steve Cohen, Las Vegas NV; Marjorie Michelin, Laguna Woods CA 1699.55 24.62 8 Steve Mansfield - Janet Daling, Sun Lakes AZ 1695.91 22.86 9 Louis Sachar - Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX 1693.70 21.33 10 Michael Edwards, Rock Island IL; Cookie Hoberman, Omaha NE 1692.33 20.00 11 Suzi Subeck - Stanton Subeck, Glenview IL 1670.00 18.82 12 Michael Yuen - Angela Fenton, Vancouver BC 1663.86 17.78 13 Stephen Sanborn - Kerri Sanborn, Delray Beach FL 1663.46 16.84 14 Ellie Hanlon, Tequesta FL; Bill Irvine, Quincy MA 1654.03 16.00 15 Karen Turner - Duncan Smith, Victoria BC 1652.68 15.24 16 Janet Becker – R. Jay Becker, Delray Beach FL 1649.57 14.55 17 Robert Perlsweig, Woodland Hills CA; Pam Wittes, Venice CA 1648.52 13.91 18 Ann Borgschulte, San Francisco CA; Stephen Gladyszak, Chelsea MA 1632.65 13.33 19 John Strauch - Bette Strauch, San Diego CA 1623.76 12.80 20 Fran White - Wicker Gamble, Fallbrook CA 1617.90 12.31 21 Kate Hill, Santa Rosa CA; Tom Jacobson, Fairfield CA 1604.66 11.85 22 Neil Silverman, Fort Lauderdale FL; Linda Epstein, Delray Beach FL 1594.45 11.43 23 Steven Cooper - Kitty Cooper, Lakeside CA 1593.36 11.03 24 Stephen Goldstein, Anaheim CA; Bonnie Macbride, Lafayette CA 1590.64 10.67 25 Malle Andrade - Erez Hendelman, New York NY 1581.86 10.32 26 Veronica McMurdie, Sacramento CA; George Whitworth, Coarsegold CA 1580.44 10.00 27 Bob Glasson - Joann Glasson, Pennington NJ 1579.95 9.70 28 Maritha Pottenger - Pat Chapman, San Diego CA 1568.35 9.61 29 Lynn Blumenthal, Santa Rosa CA; David Johnson, Calgary AB 1567.01 13.76 30 Diana Schuld, Glen Head NY; Bruce Horiguchi, Gardena CA 1559.12 8.89 31 Mary Tenenbaum - Alan Tenenbaum, Rockville MD 1557.16 8.65 32 Rick Roeder, La Mesa CA; Lynne Feldman, San Diego CA 1552.34 8.42 33 Mary Ose - Dave Vidaver, Sacramento CA 1552.27 8.21 34 Eugene Kales, Arlington VA; Ellen Cherniavsky, Silver Spring MD 1551.31 8.00 35 Judy Harris, Salmon Arm BC; Peter Herold, Namaimo BC 1549.42 7.80 36 Eddie Rose - Ann Gillespie, Laguna Niguel CA 1544.40 9.47 37 Don Stack, Kansas City KS; Nancy Phillips, Tulsa OK 1543.97 7.44 38 Susan Stubinski - Bruce Wick, Houston TX 1533.79 10.32 39 Patrick Dunn - Polly Dunn, Bellevue WA 1533.23 7.04 40/41 Andrew Vinock, Woodland Hills CA; Marta Monheim, West Hills CA 1532.87 7.04 40/41 Jeffrey Polisner, Walnut Creek CA; Lisa Evans, Danville CA 1532.87 6.81 42 Steve Gross, Westlake Village CA; Ellen Anten, Encino CA 1528.38 6.67 43 Linda Tipton – V. Jay Tipton, Irvine CA 1526.90 6.81 44 Paul Chan - Lily Chan, Columbia MO 1522.55 6.40 45 Wirt Gilliam, San Diego CA; Chris Benson, Leroy IL 1515.82 6.27 46 Arnold Fisher, Clementon NJ; Jane Ball, Doylestown PA 1506.43 8.00 47 Pat McDevitt, Brookline MA; Margie Sullivan, Sagamore Beach MA 1505.33 6.04 48 Robert Moore - Phyllis Yates, San Diego CA 1499.38 11.25 49 Jerry Goldberg - Jane Dillenberg, New York NY 1498.54 5.82 50 Ronald Weissberger - Bella Ionis-Sorren, Fort Lauderdale FL 1491.29

0-10,000 FAST PAIRS 18.0 Tables / Based on 32 Tables 54.40 1 Daniel Miles, Toronto ON; Justyna Zmuda, Skwaina Poland 557.42 40.80 2 Radu Nistor, Woodside NY; Joan Brody, Livingston NJ 548.10 30.60 3 Jim Gaarder, Columbia MD; Jimmy Ritzenberg, Bethesda MD 542.71 24.18 4 Jessica Lai - Grant Vance, Oakland CA 536.69 21.76 5 Russ Jones, Jonesboro AR; Michael McGuire, Hernando MS 535.33 19.78 6 Tatiana Dikhnova - Tatiana Ponomareva, Moscow Russia 531.14 18.13 7 Muriel Altus - Philip Altus, Tampa FL 526.15 16.74 8 Len Vishnevsky - Jo Ginsberg, San Francisco CA 522.47 15.54 9 Mariusz Krasnicki - Andrzej Kozikowski, Lodz Poland 516.08 14.51 10 Ljudmila Kamenova, South Setauket NY; Iulian Rotaru, New York NY 507.67 13.60 11 Steven Smolen - William Zhu, San Francisco CA 499.84 12.80 12 Cenk Tuncok, Amesbury MA; Rhoda Kratenstein, Delray Beach FL 495.34 12.09 13 Cameron Cotton, Chula Vista CA; Greg House, San Diego CA 490.83 11.45 14 Lorraine Cable - Kerry Kappell, Elmhurst NY 490.47 10.88 15 Nathan Glasser, Somerville MA; Randy Okubo, St. Paul MN 487.19 19.22 16 Clay Hamner, Chapel Hill NC; Kevin Wilson, Knoxville TN 486.71



Francesca

Slow PlaySlow play, especially habitual slow play, is a

violation of law and subject to penalty. When a pair has fallen behind, it is incumbent on them to make up the time lost as quickly as possible whether at fault or not. All players are expected to make a concerted effort to catch up when they have fallen behind, regardless of the reason for their lateness.

In the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary, the director should presume that a pair finishing a round late by more than two or three minutes on more than one occasion during a session is responsible for the lateness. There is a strong expectation that the director will penalize such a pair. The size of a penalty will tend to increase for subsequent instances of slow play and for chronic or egregious slow play.

While warnings typically will be given before a penalty is assessed, failure to do so in no way limits the director’s authority to issue a penalty.

Players are expected to be aware, in a general sense, of time used and remaining in a segment in which they are playing regardless of whether a clock is in use or a time announcement has been made. An excuse of “no announcement” or “no

clock immediately visible” will not be considered persuasive.

In consultation with the DIC of the tournament, the TD may require that a particular pair not play in a specified segment, not play against a specified pair or not play together as a pair. The foregoing is expected to be applied only due to egregious circumstances or to unduly repetitious offenders.

An appeal of an action taken by a TD with regard to time may be taken to the Director in Charge of the tournament, and no further. For NABC+ KO events, the TD is charged with the responsibility to ensure that each KO match segment finishes within the allotted time. While a time monitor may be employed, the lack of a monitor in no way limits the TD’s authority to apply one or more of the remedies listed below.

The TD may choose to ignore an occasional minor late finish. The TD may remove one or more boards from a segment. The TD may award no score (when neither team is more at fault), an assigned score (when a result already exists at one table which the TD wishes to preserve) or an artificial score in IMPs. Every effort should be made to remove boards before they can be played at either table, but not having done so does not preclude removing one or more later.

Young loveFrancesca started playing bridge for romantic

reasons. “My mum is a bridge teacher in Italy,” she says.

“I was not much interested in the game and did not want to learn till a handsome boy joined her courses. I immediately fell in love with him.”

The local club organized an “open air” game in the square, and the handsome boy did not have a partner. That was all the motivation Francesca needed. The teenage girl undertook intensive lessons from her mother over two days to get ready to play.

She says that when the day of the tournament came, she felt her head was exploding because there were too many things to remember.

“I was extremely worried because I was sure that I would make mistakes and look stupid. When we sat down at the table in the middle of the square, my hands were trembling, and I did not even remember how to count points. But suddenly a heavy summer storm came and the organization had to dismiss the tournament because of the weather. We found a shelter in a bar and talked all the day long and finally ended up together!”

She says she wishes she could play more, “but I don’t have much time.”

Playing in a 299er game in the San Diego NABC, Francesca and partner Stephanie Threlkeld – who is ACBL’s Education and Communications manager – placed second overall and first in Flight C.

“That was my biggest achievement,” she says with a radiant smile. “We got a beautiful trophy! I love my trophy.”

If you see her camera pointed your way, smile and say, “Ciao, Francesca!”


Senior Mixed Pairs

They were second in the Senior Mixed Pairs: Francisco Bernal and Sylvie Willard.matchpoints. McCully and Foster have homes in Victoria BC and Sun City West AZ.

After the first final session, Bernal and Willard had taken the lead. McCully and Foster were in sixth place.

Over the final 26 boards, the winners rallied for a 60.26% game while Bernal and Willard scored 53.70%. The winners’ final score was 1815.53. Bernal and Willard finished with 1176.18 matchpoints.

McCully and Foster have been playing together for 25 years. She has twice been a member of the winning squad in the Canadian Women’s Teams Championship.

REISINGER B-A-M - QUALIFIERS 20 Tables Carryover 1 John Diamond, Boca Raton FL; Brian Platnick, Evanston IL; Boye Brogeland, Flekkefjord Norway; Espen Lindqvist, Arendal Norway 13.75 2 John McAllister, Charlottesville VA; Peter Fredin, Malmo Sweden; Peter Bertheau, Taby Sweden; Daniel Zagorin, Chicago IL; Jacob Roen, Copenhagen Denmark 13.54 3 Richard Pavlicek, Fort Lauderdale FL; Walter Lee, Sudbury MA; Li-Chung Chen, Cupertino CA; Jim Munday, Southaven MS 13.40 4 Terje Aa, Heimdal Norway; Allan Liugard; Glenn Groetheim, Melhus Norway; Petter Tondel, Tronheim Norway 13.33 5/6 Jacek Pszczola - Josef Blass, Chapel Hill NC; Jacek Kalita, Warsaw Poland; Michal Nowosadzki, Wroclaw Poland; Sjoert Brink - Bas Drijver, Netherlands 12.92 5/6 Nikolay Demirev, Arlington Heights IL; Rose Meltzer, Chapel Hill NC; Vladimir Marashev - Ivan Tsonchev - Rosen Gunev, Sofia Bulgaria; Kalin Karaivanov, Varna Bulgaria 12.927/10 Richard Coren - Michael Becker - Aubrey Strul, Boca Raton FL; Michael Kamil, Oro Valley AZ; Tarek Sadek - Walid Elahmady, Cairo Egypt 12.507/10 Steve Chen, San Jose CA; Sathya Bettadapura, Campbell CA; Kirubakara Moorthy, Chennai India; Uttam Gupta, Bangalore India 12.507/10 Yuxiong Shen - Zijian Shao, Shanghai China; Jack Zhao, Boca Raton FL; Yinghao Liu, Minneapolis MN 12.507/10 Frank Nickell, New York NY; Ralph Katz, Burr Ridge IL; Steve Weinstein, Montclair NJ; Robert Levin, Henderson NV; Jeff Meckstroth, Clearwater Bch FL; Eric Rodwell, Clearwater FL 12.5011/13 George Mittelman, Thornhill ON; Ken Bercuson, Las Vegas NV; Ron Pachtmann, Kfar Saba Israel; Piotr Pawel Zatorski, Gdansk Poland 12.2911/13 Jim Mahaffey, Winter Park FL; Sam Lev, New York NY; Michael Rosenberg, Cupertino CA; Roger Lee, Las Vegas NV; Piotr Gawrys, Warsaw Poland; Michal Klukowski, Dolnoslaskie Poland 12.2911/13 Tom Hanlon, Dublin Ireland; Leslie Amoils, Toronto ON; Venkatrao Koneru, San Antonio TX; James Krekorian, Pensacola FL 12.2914/15 Andrew Rosenthal - Aaron Silverstein - Chris Willenken, New York NY; David Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL; Bob Hamman, Dallas TX; Eldad Ginossar, Chicago IL 12.08 14/15 Richard Schwartz, Aventura FL; David Gold, London Great Britain; Michael Bell, London England; Jerry Stamatov - Diyan Danailov, Sofia Bulgaria 12.08 16 Setton NPC; Romain Tembouret, France; Nicholas Lhuissier, Rueil Malmaison France; Quentin Robert - Godefroy De Tessieres, Paris France; Pierre Franceschetti, Montpellier France 12.0117/18 Connie Goldberg, Gladwyne PA; Antonio Palma, Evora Portugal; Bill Eisenberg, Perris CA; Leonardo Cima, Roma Italy; Andrea Manno, Palermo Italy; Massimiliano Di Franco, Italy 11.8817/18 Wei-Bung Wang, Redmond WA; Chien-Yao Tseng, Cerritos CA; Eric Chenteh Tang, City Industry CA; Cheng-Hung Yeh, Diamond Bar CA 11.88 19 Bart Bramley, Dallas TX; Kit Woolsey, Kensington CA; Oren Kriegel - Ron Smith, Chicago IL 11.80 20 Vinita Gupta, Woodside CA; Billy Miller, Las Vegas NV; Zia Mahmood, New York NY; Jan Jansma, Spijkenisse Netherlands; Fredrik Nystrom - Johan Upmark, Stockholm Sweden 11.46


FRIDAY MORNING SIDE PAIRS 25.5 Tables A B C 7.80 1 Clay Hamner, Chapel Hill NC; Kevin Wilson, Knoxville TN 62.22% 5.85 2 Joyce Neville, White Marsh VA; Tracy Brines, Virginia Beach VA 60.52% 6.72 3 1 Harry Rogers, Wailuku HI; Alan Arakawa, Kahului HI 59.03% 5.04 4 2 Claire Valente - Karen Morton, Walla Walla WA 58.32% 2.94 5 Donald Cline, Ventura CA; Frank Morgan, Allentown PA 58.19% 3.78 6 3 Midori Saito, Indio CA; Jim Cheney, Hilo HI 57.64% 3.28 7 4 1 Victoria Billard, Kansas City MO; Robert Gray, Prince Frederick MD 56.22% 2.30 8 5 Penny Kallaus, Holualoa HI; Robert Liu, Honolulu HI 55.97% 2.10 6 2 Debbie Lundahl, San Carlos CA; Donna Raynor, Los Altos CA 55.57% 1.20 7 Stephanie Singer, Belmont CA; Arthur Mirin, Castro Valley CA 55.56% 1.58 3 Frank Xie, Sunnyvale CA; Ying Liu, Palo Alto CA 54.16% 1.18 4 Toby Burke - Linda Humphreys, San Diego CA 54.03%

FRIDAY MORNING 299ER PAIRS 22.0 Tables A B C 4.80 1 1 1 Debe Nelson, Basalt CO; Deirdre Osofsky, Palm Beach FL 68.75% 3.60 2 Helene Miller - Lynne Anderson, San Diego CA 57.74% 3.08 3 2 2 Jonathan Nowitz, Olympia WA; Juliane Deluccio, Long Beach CA 57.44% 2.31 4 3 3 Aaron Dewell, Coalville UT; Shannon Luck, Sandy UT 57.14% 1.73 5 4 Carol Snyder - John Snyder, Goleta CA 56.55% 1.14 6 Alyse Galvin - Patrick Galvin, Anchorage AK 55.06% 1.30 5 4 Ethan Fingerman - Charles Mann, San Francisco CA 54.76% 0.98 6 5 Kenneth Grissinger, Indio CA; Carol McConnell, Bermuda Dunes CA 54.46% 0.67 6/8 Ronald Bloom, Los Angeles CA; Allen Jones, Ketchum ID 54.17% 0.67 6/8 Elvira Kudia, La Grange Park IL; Susan Judd, Omaha NE 54.17% 1.31 6/8 Cindy McColl, Los Altos Hills CA; Kelly Villareal, Austin TX 54.17%

FRIDAY MORNING 49ER PAIRS 4.0 Tables A B 1.63 1 Robert Davis - Anita Davis, Durango CO 69.08% 1.22 2 Cecily Einck - Jan Prondzinski, Peoria AZ 60.42% 0.92 3 Kathy Crail, Chula Vista CA; Barbara Main, Bonita CA 51.69%

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ZZ Un-TopFirst-time partners Zach Grossack and Zia

Mahmood had their adventures in the Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs, bidding a crazy slam in the opening set that made with the help of an opponent’s revoke. There were some hiccups, but they made it to the final of the event.

On the third and final day, they survived the following deal from the second final session to move up from 27th place after the first final session to 21st overall at the end.

Their opponents were Russ Ekeblad and Diego Brenner. Dlr: West ♠ 9 7 Vul: E-W ♥ A 9 8 7 ♦ 9 7 5 ♣ K J 7 5 ♠ Q 6 5 4 3 ♠ K 10 8 ♥ 4 2 ♥ J 10 3 ♦ A 3 ♦ J 10 8 6 4 ♣ 10 9 6 4 ♣ 3 2 ♠ A J 2 ♥ K Q 6 5 ♦ K Q 2 ♣ A Q 8 West North East South Zia Ekeblad Zach Brenner Pass Pass Pass 1♣ (1) 1♠ Dbl (2) Redbl Pass Pass 2♠ (3) Dbl Redbl (4) All Pass

(1) Precision: strong, artificial (16+)(2) Alerted and explained as 5-7 high-card points(3) Looking for a spade stopper (4) Showing spade stopGrossack could have assured defeat of the

contract by leading the ♦J, but he started with the ♠10. Ekeblad went up with dummy’s ace and played ♠2 to his 9 and Grossack’s king. Ekeblad won the club switch with dummy’s ace and he continued with the ♠J to Zia’s queen. No matter what Zia returned, Ekeblad had four club tricks, two hearts, a diamond and a spade for eight tricks and plus 640 – a cold top. That board helped Ekeblad and Brenner to move up from 28th after the first final session to 15th overall.

Have a question? The volunteers staffing the Information Desk stand ready with answers. Here’s Tournament Chair Ken Monzingo with Information Desk Chairs Debbie and Alan Gailfus.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SIDE SWISS 18 Tables A B C 5.23 1 1 Kenneth Geisler - Arlene Geisler, Clarkston MI; Kathy Twomey, Bloomfield Village MI; Sally Craig, Port Moody BC 68.00 3.92 2 2 1 Gina Otto - Rolland Otto - Kristin St. Clair, Brea CA; Carol Hellebrand, Yorba Linda CA 52.00 2.58 3/4 3/4 Dorothy Mersereau, Calgary AB; Linda Hanson, Capitola CA; Janet Tainty, Santa Cruz CA; Forrest Schneider, Northbrook IL 48.00 2.58 3/4 3/4 2 Bill Christian - Carolyn Berger - Virginia Wofford - Dean Vestre, San Diego CA 48.00 1.45 5/6 5/6 Jan McLennan, Port St. Lucie FL; Diane Palmer - Carolyn Kish - Rita Sorgi, San Diego CA 46.00 1.45 5/6 5/6 Jake Williams - Luke Williams - William Bidermann, San Diego CA; Larry Wagner, Cupertino CA 46.00


THURSDAY-FRIDAY DAYLIGHT KO 1 9 Tables 24.52 1 Kyoko Sengoku - Hiroki Yokoi - Kotomi Asakoshi - Hiroaki Miura, Tokyo Japan 17.16 2 Philip Duterme, Bellaire TX; Richard D’Litzenberger, Leavenworth WA; John Cox, St. Maries ID; Michael Kolacki, Chicago IL 9.81 3/4 Stephen Weiner - Renay Danto Weiner, Scottsdale AZ; Richard Becher, Bloomfield Hills MI; Jack Shartsis, Huntington Woods MI 9.81 3/4 Carole Liss - Peggy Tatro, San Rafael CA; Raymond Sachs, San Diego CA; Penny Berman, Poway CA

THURSDAY-FRIDAY DAYLIGHT KO 2 16 Tables 24.36 1 Randal Gentillon - James Milam - Beth Milam, Idaho Falls ID; Ray Fink, Jackson WY 17.05 2 Judson Jones, Tucson AZ; Sheila Puz, Kitchener ON; Phillip Yorston, Abiquiu NM; Nancy Holt, Oro Valley AZ 9.74 3/4 Peter Manzon, Waltham MA; Rita Callahan - Ariel Shefer, Las Vegas NV; Rick Holcomb, Malden MA 9.74 3/4 Kim Corbin - Donna Johnson - Ken Batko, Scottsdale AZ; David Ochiai, Phoenix AZ

THURSDAY-FRIDAY DAYLIGHT KO 3 16 Tables 18.95 1 Lee Smart, Olive Branch MS; Susan Ray, Germantown TN; Deborah Harrington, Memphis TN; Roseann Buckley, Ventura CA 13.27 2 Martha Woodworth - Julie Halliday, San Diego CA; Victor Woodworth, Newport Beach CA; Ross L. Rossman, El Cajon CA 7.58 3/4 Sam Dodson, Houston TX; Thomas Racciatti, Minneapolis MN; Christine Barkley, Modesto CA; Libby Longstreth, Riverbank CA 7.58 3/4 William Bidermann, San Diego CA; Ines Baucia, Argentina; Kathy Wagner, Cupertino CA; Elaine Brestel, Durham NC

THURSDAY-FRIDAY DAYLIGHT KO 4 16 Tables 14.39 1 Donald Bierman, San Ramon CA; Russ Kirschenbaum - Steven Drucker, Oakland CA; Shailesh Shah, Hayward CA 10.07 2 Raj Patel - Harry Arora - Harvey Goldstein, San Diego CA; Edward Zevely, San Marcos CA 5.76 3/4 Cathy Staver, Encinitas CA; Paula Alexander, Oceanside CA; Sandra Musbach, Carlsbad CA; Mary Lou Kammerer, Del Mar CA 5.76 3/4 Brian Turner, Carlsbad CA; William Etnyre, Wadsworth IL; Ann Stephens - Martha Potter, Seattle WA

FRIDAY DAYLIGHT ABC PAIRS 79.0 Tables / Based on 120 Tables A B C 44.31 1 Kathy Newman - Bert Newman, West Bloomfield MI 65.46% 33.23 2 Carl Michelet, Goleta CA; Charles Clarke, Ventura CA 62.88% 24.92 3 Mark Bennett - Iku Donnelly, Honolulu HI 60.85% 23.25 4 1 Michael Kelley - Martina Kelley, Lake Zurich IL 60.77% 14.77 5 Ronald Huffaker, Alpine CA; Harold Huffaker, Redmond WA 60.22% 12.66 6 James Flesher, Salt Lake City UT; Suzanne St. Thomas, Boise ID 59.40% 17.44 7 2 Joan Clark, Fremont CA; David Sterling, Murrieta CA 59.08% 13.08 8 3 Barbara Tysdahl - Dennis Ryan, Menomonie WI 58.82% 8.86 9 Sharon Goldman, Secaucus NJ; Suleyman Kolata, Istanbul Turkey 58.81% 8.06 10 D. Lionel O’Young, Walnut CA; Kou-Ping Cheng, Saratoga CA 58.31% 7.39 11 Joe Houde, Vista CA; Andrew Loh, Solana Beach CA 58.08% 6.82 12 Cliff Campbell - Roland Laframboise, Thunder Bay ON 57.73% 6.33 13 Roger Doughman - Suzanne Lebendig, San Diego CA 57.69% 12.00 14 4 1 Tom Bishel - John Bishel, Columbus OH 57.42% 6.17 15/16 Betty Starzec, Sugar Land TX; Robert Morris, Houston TX 57.38% 5.38 15/16 Mac Raczkiewicz, Hilton Head SC; Lech Ekert, Bluffton SC 57.38% 4.92 17 Bruce Luttrell - Barbara Luttrell, San Jose CA 57.19% 9.00 18 5 2 William Bartley, San Diego CA; G. Thomas Rush, Houston TX 57.13% 6.64 19 6 Leda Fields, Arroyo Grande CA; Torre Houlgate-West, San Luis Obispo CA 56.88% 4.22 20 Cynthia Goatz - Phillip Goatz, Las Vegas NV 56.53% 5.81 21 7 Edward Rubac, Oklahoma City OK; Stephen Swatek, Platte City MO 56.42% 6.75 22 8 3 James Breeden - Margaret Breeden, Carson City NV 56.23% 3.69 23 Phyllis Rakevich, Yuma AZ; Ronald Woodard, Olympia WA 56.15% 3.54 24 John Kissinger - Susan Kissinger, San Clemente CA 55.94% 3.41 25 Jim Leary - Pat Leary, Livermore CA 55.77% 3.68 26 Rodney Organt - Judy Stanfield, Salt Lake City UT 55.74% 5.06 27 9 4 John Miller, Stillwater MN; Thomas Knier, Burnsville MN 55.67% 6.83 28 Gary Donner, Bluffton SC; Suman Agarwal, Columbus OH 55.62% 4.20 29 Sherman Gao, Santa Ana CA; Robert Micone, Tustin CA 55.54% 6.00 30 Will Ehlers, West Orange NJ; Dori Byrnes, Morris Plains NJ 55.50% 3.13 31 Lester Gottlieb, White Plains NY; Jill Marshall, Port Chester NY 55.46% 4.23 32 10 Katherine Moyer - Thomas Herzog, San Diego CA 55.38% 4.28 33 11 Jerry Astrove, San Diego CA; Robert McConnell, Bermuda Dunes CA 55.31% 3.58 34 12 Paul Irvine - Margaret Irvine, Allentown PA 55.08% 4.00 35 13 5 Bruce Maier, Tampa FL; Patrick Sweeney, Spring Hill FL 55.02% 3.20 36 14 Jay Baudler, San Jose CA; Cordelia Menges, New York NY 54.92% 2.33 37 Nancy Heck - Danny Kleinman, Los Angeles CA 54.73% 3.63 38/39 15/16 Christina Parker, Newton Center MA; Stewart Rubenstein, Newton MA 54.19% 2.83 38/39 15/16 Eusebio Menezes, Cupertino CA; Bill Noyes, Monument Beach MA 54.19% 2.58 40 17 Loring Knoblauch, Chicago IL; John Crouch, Minneapolis MN 54.04% 5.25 18 Regena Edwards, Laurel MD; Linda Dunn, Memphis TN 53.63% 2.33 19 Lawrence Sherman, San Diego CA; John Boackle Jr., Poway CA 53.54% 2.21 20 Lamya Agelidis, La Jolla CA; Christine Denny, Encinitas CA 53.31% 3.68 21 Carol Foster - Gary Waldron, Laguna Beach CA 52.79% 2.02 22 Dawn Campbell, Portland OR; Mark Peterson, Larkspur CA 52.79% 3.43 23 6 Bill McGeary - Sheryl Clough, Clinton WA 52.73% 3.15 24 7 Burton Voorhees - Kinga Voorhees, Victoria BC 52.62% 1.79 25 Jeanette Bentley, Encinitas CA; Cheryl Rodzach, Solana Beach CA 51.81% 3.13 26 8 Gerald Mitchell, Los Altos CA; Audrey Mitchell, Santa Clara CA 51.65% 2.52 9 Jennifer O’Neill, Greenwood Village CO; Phil Debus, Centennial CO 51.30% 2.73 10 Matthew Kidd, San Diego CA; N. (Kaya) Chua, Chula Vista CA 51.27% 2.00 11 Deborah Lackey, Washougal WA; Virginia Sinclair-Brooks, Portland OR 50.42% 1.85 12 Lee Johnson - Fred Dyle, Huntington Beach CA 49.96% 4.20 13 Douglas Bone, Los Altos CA; Jennifer Lin, San Francisco CA 49.81% 2.61 14 Martha Keller - Jeanette Shinsako, San Francisco CA 49.73% 1.50 15 Suzy Ryder - Thomas Ryder, Boise ID 49.65%

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SIDE PAIRS 44.0 Tables A B C 10.24 1 1 Andrea Luckey, Kinnelon NJ; Marlene Case, Stony Point NY 61.39% 7.68 2 Roxana Tom - Roxie Tom, San Antonio TX 60.12% 5.04 3/4 Douglas Jansen, Happy Valley OR; Mona Hubble, Spokane WA 58.00% 5.04 3/4 Tom West - Loie West, Shelby MI 58.00% 3.24 5 Alan Arakawa, Kahului HI; Harry Rogers, Wailuku HI 57.89% 2.92 6 Raymond Depew, Naples FL; Judith Argento, Kingston PA 57.84% 4.55 7 2 Susan Jones - Mark Hartzell, Arcadia CA 57.34% 2.04 8 David Kennedy, San Bernardino CA; Corliss Serber, Yucaipa CA 57.31% 1.55 9 Glenn Ponto - Melinda Ponto, Coquitlam BC 57.14% 1.55 10 David Caprera, Denver CO; Louis-Amaury Beauchet, Sherwood OR 57.11% 3.41 3 Kitty Muntz, East Malvern Australia; Leigh Gold, Melbourne Australia 55.87% 2.56 4 Justin Beck, Sherwood OR; Charles Riffle, Emerald Hills CA 55.16% 1.92 5 Donna Raynor, Los Altos CA; Debbie Lundahl, San Carlos CA 54.81% 1.81 6 Dalia Hernandez, Long Beach CA; Yuzhang Liu, Beijing China 54.45% 1.26 7 Michel Tuszewski, Riverside CA; Philip Savage III, San Bernardino CA 54.07%

FRIDAY AFTERNOON 299ER PAIRS 14.5 Tables A B C 3.75 1 1 1 Sonja Mooradian - Art Mooradian, Fort Myers FL 66.20% 2.81 2 2 2 Cindy McColl, Los Altos Hills CA; Kelly Villareal, Austin TX 61.56% 2.11 3 3 3 Ronald Bloom, Los Angeles CA; Allen Jones, Ketchum ID 61.11% 1.58 4 4 Bryan Barrett - Liz Barrett, Annapolis MD 60.84% 1.19 5 5 4 Jackie Thomas, Dublin CA; Marian Renvall, Walnut Creek CA 60.21% 0.89 6 6 Carol Snyder - John Snyder, Goleta CA 57.28% 0.80 5 Elizabeth Smith - Betty Dugan, Davis CA 54.77%


Grand ideasBy Phillip Alder

Playing in a pairs game, with your side vulnerable, you hold:♠J ♥A K Q 9 2 ♦9 2 ♣A K J 10 5.

The bidding begins: West North East South You Partner Pass 1NT (1) Pass 2♦ (2) Pass 2♥ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♥ Pass ?

(1) 15-17(2) Transfer to heartsHow would you continue?Suppose you drive it to 7♥ in this fashion:

West North East South You Partner Pass 1NT (1) Pass 2♦ (2) Pass 2♥ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♥ Pass 4NT Pass 5♥ Pass 7♥ All Pass

This deal was played by me and Frani Ridder. I was North. We were using regular Blackwood.

Put yourself in Ridder’s place. How would you play to make 13 tricks? Dlr: East ♠ J Vul: N-S ♥ A K Q 9 2 ♦ 9 2 ♣ A K J 10 5

♠ A Q 9 4 ♥ J 10 5 ♦ A Q 3 ♣ Q 9 6

West led a trump from three low. My partner drew trumps and ran the clubs, coming down to this position: ♠ J ♥ Q 9 ♦ 9 2 ♣ —

♠ A Q 9 ♥ — ♦ A Q ♣ —

West has parted with three spades and one diamond, East with two diamonds. How would you continue? Ridder led the ♠J to her ace and ruffed the ♠9 in dummy. Then she might have cashed her last trump, but that risked down two if West had both kings. Instead, she took the diamond finesse to land the grand slam and give us 59.5 matchpoints out of 64. The full deal: ♠ J ♥ A K Q 9 2 ♦ 9 2 ♣ A K J 10 5 ♠ K 10 8 6 5 3 ♠ 7 2 ♥ 7 6 3 ♥ 8 4 ♦ 6 5 4 ♦ K J 10 8 7 ♣ 3 ♣ 8 7 4 2 ♠ A Q 9 4 ♥ J 10 5 ♦ A Q 3 ♣ Q 9 6

FRIDAY AFTERNOON 49ER PAIRS 3.0 Tables A B 1.52 1 1 Laura Mirsky - Saul Mirsky, West Des Moines IA 61.36% 1.00 2/3 2/3 Geri Raichel, Fort Collins CO; Adam Raichel, La Jolla CA 56.82% 1.00 2/3 2/3 Jimmy Stevens, La Mesa CA; Phillip Robzyk, San Diego CA 56.82%

FRIDAY AFTERNOON GOLD RUSH PAIRS 68.0 Tables 7 5 2 19.38 1 1 1 Mark Spiro, Encinitas CA; Ben Moraine, Carlsbad CA 63.69% 14.54 2 2 Joseph Hollis, Charlevoix MI; Nancy Colbert, Harbor Springs MI 61.46% 10.90 3 3 Gary Mankin - Howard Neckel, San Francisco CA 60.71% 8.18 4 James Alstad, Rancho Palo Verdes CA; Roberta Gotfried, Palos Verdes Estates CA 60.57% 6.96 5 4 Tracy Selmon, Branford CT; Howard Cohen, Orange CT 60.42% 5.54 6 5 Margaret Bennett, Orange CA; Sunila Kulkarni, Ladera Ranch CA 60.12% 4.85 7 6 Julie Greenberg, San Diego CA; Janet Dunlap, Cardiff CA 59.97% 4.31 8 7 Michael Kole, Del Mar CA; Barry Anderson, Encinitas CA 59.82% 4.15 9/10 8 2 Andrew Ries - Shelley Basson, San Diego CA 59.67% 3.70 9/10 Josh Rosenbluth, Oxnard CA; Jack Rudy, Camp Hill PA 59.67% 3.23 11 B. Lantz, Salt Lake City UT; Richard Dunie, Oro Valley AZ 59.38% 3.30 12 9 3 David Merenbach - Lisa Merenbach, Belmont CA 59.08% 3.00 13 10 4 Helen Prowse - Kathryn MacIsaac, Halifax NS 58.63% 3.28 14 11 Randi Berkson - Monica Quinlan, Tucson AZ 58.48% 2.42 15 Michael Salscheider, Rochester MN; D. Larry Frink, Sun Lakes AZ 57.89% 2.45 16/17 12/13 Stephen Queen, Newport Beach CA; Larry Shannon, Yorba Linda CA 57.29% 2.45 16/17 12/13 5 Michael Olson - Alice Olson, Reno NV 57.29% 2.04 18 Jeannene Levitre - Greg Foss, Reno NV 57.14% 2.32 19 14 Dana Taylor, Laguna Hills CA; Ed Kurinsky, Laguna Woods CA 56.40% 1.94 20/22 15/17 Leslie Brucker, Los Angeles CA; Ramey Farah, La Jolla CA 56.25% 2.30 20/22 15/17 6 Geraldine Richard - Tom Richard, Sun City Center FL 56.25% 2.14 20/22 15/17 Ralph Lipe - Lynda Lipe, Bellevue WA 56.25% 1.70 23/24 18/19 Andy McKaig - Pamela Caravan, Calgary AB 55.95% 2.60 23/24 18/19 Jules Borack - Robert Mann, San Diego CA 55.95% 1.65 25 20 Joyce Field, Torrance CA; Nancy Karnes, Hermosa Beach CA 55.80% 2.49 26 21 Darrick Chee, Orange CA; Nancy Alvarado, Yucaipa CA 55.65% 1.86 27/28 22/23 Kenneth Agress, Anaheim CA; Sharon Ray, Newport Beach CA 55.36% 1.75 27/28 22/23 Jerome Smith - Melanie Smith, Long Beach CA 55.36% 1.58 29 24 7 Robert Kahn - Christine Kahn, Pleasanton CA 55.21% 1.46 30 25 Jim Wolf - John Heieck, Tucson AZ 54.91% 1.97 31 26 Carolyn Delino, Laguna Beach CA; Juniel Worthington, Laguna Woods CA 54.76% 1.18 32 27 Samuel Smith - Dwight Stafford, Oklahoma City OK 54.61% 1.23 33/34 Cindy Ferguson - Caenie Pyrcz, Calgary AB 54.46% 1.23 33/34 28 8 George Klein, North York ON; Salim Bhimji, Brea CA 54.46% 1.31 29 Rolf Houtkooper - Elizabeth Hamilton, Las Vegas NV 54.02%

FRIDAY EVENING SIDE SWISS 22 Tables A B C 8.53 1 1 Weiling Zhao, Brookfield CT; Jim Liu - Kou-Ping Cheng, Saratoga CA; D. Lionel O’Young, Walnut CA 62.00 6.40 2 2 Mary Alice Seville - Eileen Milligan, Corvallis OR; Michael Green, Yamhill OR; Randy Naef, McMinnville OR 59.00 4.20 3/4 Massimo Vassallo - Barbara Dessi - Cristiana Morgantini, Rome Italy; Bernardo Biondo, Rome Italy 55.00 4.20 3/4 3 Margie Cole - Leonardo Fruscoloni - Raluca Dobrescu, New York NY; Pierre Franceschetti, Montpellier France 55.00 2.70 5 Sharon Horton, Lakeland FL; Gen Geiger - Terry McHenry, Sarasota FL; Rahn Smith, Brandon FL 49.00 2.16 6 4 Merrily Van Zevern - Linda Harder - Elizabeth Thornton, Aurora CO; June Clayton, Denver CO 48.00 1.62 5 Gloria Darke, Atherton CA; Patty Michael - Alfred Lee, San Mateo CA; Stan Chow, San Francisco CA 45.00 1.82 1 Mary Ann Bond - Mary Staahl - Barbara Johnson, Fargo ND; Nancy Gaunt, Evansville IN 40.00

MonitoringAt this and future North American

Championships, ACBL will be monitoring NABC+ events with visible, real-time cameras. The images will be recorded and available for later inspection and review by officials.

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 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.


Second in the 0–10,000 Fast Pairs: Radu Nistor and Joan Brody.

FRIDAY A/X PAIRS 38.0 Tables / Based on 107 Tables A X 42.82 1 Marusa Basa, London Great Britain; Victor King, Hartford CT 62.73% 32.12 2 1 Nancy Frank, Glencoe IL; Joseph Viola III, Altadena CA 61.38% 24.09 3 JoAnne Lowe - Leon Lowe, Fountain Hills AZ 59.69% 19.27 4 2 Michael Heymann, Fort Worth TX; Toni Bales, Pickerington OH 57.77% 14.27 5 William Schreiber, Valley Glen CA; Adrienne Green, Los Angeles CA 56.63% 12.23 6 Craig Allen, Glen Ellyn IL; Michael Huston, Joplin MO 56.55% 14.45 7 3 Vandana Vidwans, Fremont CA; Rajeev Gupta, Oakland CA 56.39% 9.52 8 William Arlinghaus, Ann Arbor MI; Brian Ellis, Beachwood OH 55.72% 8.56 9 James Weeks, Palm Desert CA; Jean Barry, Livermore CA 55.38% 7.79 10 Nancy Popkin - Alan Popkin, St. Louis MO 54.81% 6.87 11/12 Gregory Chaffee, La Jolla CA; Mac Busby, San Diego CA 54.29% 10.84 11/12 4 Virgil Massey, Driftwood TX; Charlene Sands, Pflugerville TX 54.29% 6.12 13 Roger Pennell - Hachy Pennell, Aurora CO 53.87% 8.56 14 5 Michael Rosen, New York NY; Sandrea Friedman, Flushing NY 53.48% 7.34 15 6 Mark Krusemeyer, Northfield MN; Edward Frymoyer, Half Moon Bay CA 53.33% 6.42 16 7 Paul Foster, Oceanside CA; Sara Rothmuller, Occidental CA 53.20% 5.71 17 8 Ahmed Soliman, Astoria NY; Nancy Katz, Carolina PR 52.83% 4.51 18 Victoria Muir - William Muir, Kansas City MO 52.78% 4.28 19 Hjordis Eythorsdottir - Bill Begert, New York NY 52.52% 4.91 9/10 Donald Berman, Laurel MD; Hank Meyer, Greenbelt MD 52.23% 4.91 9/10 Allan Sorensen - Paul Sorensen, Berwyn AB 52.23% 4.28 11 Frances Corney - Bryan Maksymetz, Vancouver BC 51.98% 3.95 12 Virginia Kellermeyer, Reno NV; Carrie Touslee, Roseville CA 51.92% 3.67 13 Thomas Jennings, McLean VA; Phillip Tseng, Arlington VA 51.87%

FRIDAY B/C PAIRS 29.0 Tables B C 14.63 1 1 Faye Gilraine - Gary Gilraine, Vancouver BC 60.94% 10.97 2 Michael Mezin, San Diego CA; Elaine Chan, La Jolla CA 58.77% 8.23 3 2 Stephen Pickett, Vancouver BC; Shelley Burns, North Vancouver BC 58.40% 6.17 4 3 Ivy Steinberg - Allan Quaile, Stouffville ON 56.09% 4.88 5 4 Martyn Cooper, Katy TX; Beth Todd, New Orleans LA 55.94% 4.18 6 Phillip Frankel - Leslie Reynolds, McKinleyville CA 55.26% 3.66 7 5 Frank Xie, Sunnyvale CA; Ying Liu, Palo Alto CA 55.25% 3.25 8 Ken Imboden, San Jose CA; Tsao-Tung Tsai, Cupertino CA 55.19% 2.93 9 Millie Garrison, Riverside CA; Liliane Kirchhoff, La Mesa CA 55.03% 2.66 10 6 Susan Rechter, St. Louis MO; Gale McMullin, Vero Beach FL 54.48% 2.63 11 William Kutscher, Broomfield CO; Donna Givner, Golden CO 54.44% 2.25 12 7 Michael Goldman, Rockville MD; William Mendez Jr., Alexandria VA 54.38% 2.09 13 Norman Gautier - Joyce Gautier, The Woodlands TX 54.05% 1.95 14 Alan Kudisch - Jeanne Hanrahan, East Norwich NY 53.91% 2.73 15 8 Aaron Mayerson, Redwood City CA; Elenalani Lam, Sunnyvale CA 53.86% 1.62 9 John Weinberg - Sarah Weinberg, Mercer Island WA 53.25%

FRIDAY EVENING SIDE PAIRS 20.0 Tables A B C 6.50 1 1 1 Jake Williams - Luke Williams, San Diego CA 66.34% 4.88 2 Raymond Depew, Naples FL; Judith Argento, Kingston PA 64.60% 4.07 3 2 Michael Hartnett - Nancy Ferguson, Greenbrae CA 59.48% 3.05 4 3 Shmuel Greenberg, Israel; Monica Quinlan, Tucson AZ 58.61% 2.29 5 4 Tom Moore - Dorothy Moore, Keller TX 56.86% 1.71 6 5 Calista Graham - Curtis Bare, Charlottesville VA 56.43% 2.45 7 6 2 Lois Beyer - Joy Roberts, Green Valley AZ 55.56% 1.58 3 Tom Bishel - John Bishel, Columbus OH 51.20% 1.18 4 Frank Paynter, Grove City OH; Arjun Singh, Lakewood CO 50.76%

After a slow start in the first qualifying session, the pair was consistent through the last three sessions, scoring 58.96%, 58.25% and 57.52%.

“It was my first fast pairs, but it was really fun for me,” Zmuda said. “I’m not a fast player.”

Miles prefers the faster pace. “There’s less waiting around, and it’s nice to have the evening off,” he said.

The pair is hoping to make it back to the winner’s circle one more time in the Mixed Swiss.


10K Fast Pairs


Open Swiss

Michael Gamble, Bruce Lang, Corey Krantz and Andrew Russell follow in second, and on their heels, the Israeli squad of Yeshayahu Levit, Orenstein Eitan, Adrian Schwartz and Shalom Zeligman.

The North American Swiss Teams drew 124 teams; 62 will play on the second day of the three-day event.


Reisinger

Platnick, Boye Brogeland and Espen Lindqvist, won the Spingold at the Summer NABC in Toronto.

Sitting in second is the John McAllister squad: Peter Fredin, Peter Bertheau, Daniel Zagorin and Jacob Roen.

Missing from the list of qualifiers are some big names: the Jimmy Cayne team, the Lavazza team and the Fleisher squad all failed to make the cut. 20 teams will be trimmed to 10 for final play on Sunday.


The NABC+ Mixed Swiss Teams, which made its debut in 2015, starts today. The event, which qualifies winners for Grand Life Master, pays platinum points for overall placements. It’s a two-day affair consisting of two qualifying sessions and two final sessions.

2015 Kerri Sanborn, Steve Sanborn, Sylvia Shi, Steve Robinson

2016 Vinita Gupta, Billy Miller, Sandra Rimstedt, Zia Mahmood, Fredrik Nystrom, Anam Tebha

Winners of the 2016 NABC+ Mixed Swiss: Billy Miller, Anam Tebha, Vinita Gupta, Sandra Rimstedt, Fredrik Nystrom and Zia Mahmood.

NABC+ Mixed Swiss starts today

Delicious lossI enjoyed the article in the Daily Bulletin “When

It’s Good For The Game To Lose.” A few years ago, I teamed up with Martin Henneberger and a pair of Thai gentlemen in the Swiss Teams event at the annual Bangkok tourney.

“Hamburger” and I had already won the Swiss Pairs event, but on the last hand of the team event yours truly screwed up an XYZ auction to land us second, a pip of a victory point out of the win.

The winners turned out to be a foursome of young college kids from here in Thailand (where I am currently hanging my hat). They were so thrilled and “over the moon” with their win that none of us minded eating the loss. We felt almost as thrilled for them as they did!

Mike Dorn WissThailand

An unsung heroI would like to give thanks to a woman who I

know works tirelessly for the bridge community: Marjorie Michelin.

She is not a listed volunteer nor does she receive any benefits for her efforts. Those in the know know her as the secret partnership desk. She has an uncanny way of matching partners of equal strength. She does this even at tournaments where she isn’t in attendance. Even at the last minute, you can see her running around to put together a team or partnership; some pairs have developed into lasting partnerships as well as friendships.

When her husband fell ill, she kept on doing what she does. Her phone never stops ringing, and she also helps players out finding rides, roommates and more. At the parties, she dances with everyone and makes everyone happy with her infectious smile.

She is a great teacher/mentor and all-around “Grand Life Master of Goodwill.” We are all fortunate to have her amongst us and I am particularly pleased to call her my friend.

Paul GelbPalm Springs CA

FRIDAY GOLD RUSH PAIRS 5.0 Tables 7 3 3.94 1 Rebecca Turnbull, Springfield OR; Ray Barber, Lafayette CA 59.31% 2.96 2 Toby McEvoy - Christopher Hahn, Henderson NV 56.51% 2.22 3 Pamela Williams, Albuquerque NM; Nanette Hittmeier, Olympia WA 53.33% 1.66 4 Fred Douglis, Basking Ridge NJ; Mark Rindner, Anchorage AK 52.08%

FRIDAY EVENING 299ER PAIRS 6.0 Tables A B C 2.40 1 1 1 Patrick Chen, San Diego CA; Stefan Mrozewski, Sudbury ON 62.08% 1.80 2 2 Ronald Rybak, Worthington OH; Debe Nelson, Basalt CO 61.25% 1.35 3 3 Clare Smith, Walnut Creek CA; Jeanette Bartz, Clayton CA 56.25% 1.40 4 4 2 Danning Lu - Andrew Rowberg, Santa Barbara CA 54.58% 1.05 3 Lynn Sager, South Pasadena CA; Joan Riback, Altadena CA 48.75%

No slam, partner?By Barry Rigal

The late Rixi Markus penned a volume titled, “Bid Boldly, Play Safe.” Marty Fleisher, fresh off his world title in Lyon, has announced the first volume of his projected autobiographical trilogy will be tentatively titled, “Bid boldly, play like a lunatic.” This deal, from the first semifinal session of the Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs, will be on the title cover. Fleisher was playing with Chip Martel. Dlr: East ♠ A 10 9 7 5 3 Vul: N-S ♥ — ♦ K 7 4 ♣ 8 7 6 5 ♠ K ♠ 6 4 ♥ J 4 ♥ A K Q 10 9 7 6 ♦ Q 10 8 6 3 ♦ 9 2 ♣ Q 10 9 4 2 ♣ K J ♠ Q J 8 2 ♥ 8 5 3 2 ♦ A J 5 ♣ A 3 West North East South Fleisher Martel 1♥ Dbl 1NT (1) 4♠ 5♥ Pass Pass 5♠ All Pass

(1) ClubsHaving bid spades five levels higher than I

managed with his cards, Fleisher had to justify his approach after a top heart lead. He ruffed and decided East had the singleton ♠K, so he laid down the ace. Right result, wrong idea, but it’s results that count. Now Fleisher crossed to the ♣A to ruff a heart and then played a low club from hand to East’s king. Fleisher won East’s diamond shift with the ace, ruffed a third heart, ruffed a club, ruffed a heart then drew the last trump. This was the position as Fleisher played the ♠Q:

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.

♠ — ♥ — ♦ K 7 ♣ 8 ♠ — ♠ — ♥ — ♥ K Q ♦ Q 10 ♦ 2 ♣ Q ♣ — ♠ Q ♥ — ♦ J 5 ♣ —

West could not keep his guard in both minors and Fleisher had 12 tricks. Martel consoled the opponents: “You were lucky he didn’t bid the slam.”

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How come no one else found the play?

By Barry RigalAfter the first final session of the Mitchell Board-

a-Match Teams, Steve Sanborn was full of praise for his wife’s play in 4♠ doubled . . . but nobody else recognized the deal. Steve and Kerri played against Dennis Bilde and Giorgio Duboin. Dlr: West ♠ 3 Vul: N-S ♥ 8 7 2 ♦ 6 5 2 ♣ A K J 7 5 2 ♠ Q 10 9 8 6 4 2 ♠ K 7 5 ♥ A 4 ♥ J 10 6 ♦ A Q 7 ♦ J 8 3 ♣ 3 ♣ Q 10 9 8 ♠ A J ♥ K Q 9 5 3 ♦ K 10 9 4 ♣ 6 4 West North East South Kerri Bilde Steve Duboin 1♠ 2♣ 2♠ Dbl 4♠ Pass Pass Dbl All Pass

The late John Lowenthal (everyone’s No. 1 choice for “mad scientist on opening lead”) might have led a red suit at trick one. Bilde led a top club and shifted to a diamond: 3, 9, queen.

Kerri played the ♠10 to the king and ace, won the spade return and peeled off the trumps. This was the position as the penultimate trump hit the baize: ♠ — ♥ 8 7 ♦ 6 5 ♣ K J ♠ 4 2 ♠ — ♥ A 4 ♥ J 10 6 ♦ A 7 ♦ J 8 ♣ — ♣ Q ♠ — ♥ K Q 9 ♦ K 10 ♣ 6

Duboin had to discard a heart and then a club on the last spade. Sanborn then played the ♥A and another heart and Duboin was endplayed to concede the last two tricks in diamonds. Plus 590 was good for a win on the board.

So how come no one else knew the deal? It was board 28 in a 14-table section, but other sections had 13 tables so the board was not played there.

“Alfred Sheinwold. I think his book ‘Five Weeks to Winning Bridge’ is the best ever.”

Randy NaefMcMinnville OR

“Sylvia Shi. Because she’s of Chinese descent and so am I and she’s a very smart player.”

Barbara TangBethesda MD

“Belladonna. I love the way he plays. I read the books. Also Lew Stansby.”

Vandana VidwansFremont CA

“Barry Crane. He’s probably the best matchpoint player of all time.”

George KupplerBrookings OR

“Joe Grue. He was my mentor for 22 years. He taught me not only how to play bridge but how to be at the bridge table.”

Ruth StoberFloral Park NY

“Bruce Ferguson. I like the way he enjoys the game. And my mother. She died just as I was starting to play.”

Matt SmithTournament director

“Michael Rosenberg. I won a club date with him in a raffle, so this is a wish that will come true. Also my father, who I played with for 40 years to great enjoyment.”

John Hoffman

“Barry Crane. He’s the only guy I didn’t play with. I have a picture of him kibitzing me on my business card.”

Ron SmithChicago IL

“Judi Hager. My old partner who passed away about 15 years ago. That was my first high-level partnership.”

Jeff JacobTournament director

“Bob Hamman. He’s always been an idol of mine.”

Virgil MasseyDriftwood TX

“Agustin Madala. He’s maybe the fastest, strongest active player now.”

Bernardo BiondoRome Italy

“Jeff Meckstroth. He’s very good and I’ve never played with him.”

Agustin MadalaBuenos AiresArgentina

“I’m not sure. There’s too many – any of the top women players.”

Emma KolesnikVentura CA

“Benito Garozzo. He’s a bridge legend.”

Rajeev GuptaOakland CA

“Bill Gates. Because he’s probably really smart.”

Gina OttoBrea CA

“Omar Sharif. That good-looking man!”

Carol JohnsScottsdale AZ

“Terrence Reese. I’ve gotten a lot out of his books.”

Leila SinkLos Gatos CA

“My father. Because I never got to play with him. I learned after he died.”

Harvey BushGreen Valley AZ

“Charles Goren. He was Mr. Bridge when I was in my prime.”

Merrel OlesenLa Jolla CA

“Myself. I’d like to get insight into what it’s like to play with me.”

Janice Seamon-MolsonHollywood FL

If you could play with any person, living or dead, who would you choose, and why?continued from page 1Roundup

FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO 1 9 TablesRichard Morris - Katherine Morris, Beaverton OR; Jacques Leblanc, Maria QC; Robert Huber, Minneapolis MN vsKathy Bergman, Goodyear AZ; Sudhakar Divakaruni, Scottsdale AZ; Jeanette Roberts, Delta CO; Michael Thorpe, Montrose CO

Yukiko Tokunaga - Emi Sakata, Japan; Hiroyuki Hagihira, Meguro-Ku Tokyo Japan; Kenji Miyakuni, Tokyo Japan vsChris Champion - Wendy Turk - Richard Olson - Mary Olson, Colorado Springs CO

FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO 2 10 TablesPhyllis Landry, Orleans ON; Patti McCabe - Margaret Taylor, Ottawa ON; Margaret Cann, Sydney NS vsJay Friedenson, Morrisville VT; Jody Couch, Fullerton CA; Michael Borushok, Davie FL; Marlys Haraden, Anaheim CA

Catharine Gilmour, Bonita Springs FL; Barbara Olsen, Marana AZ; Josee Hammill - Jill Foran, Toronto ON vsMarjorie O’Malley - Charles O’Malley III, San Diego CA; Mordecai Schwartz - Kathy Fisher, Bryn Mawr PA

FRIDAY-SATURDAY KO 3 9 TablesDeborah Machlin, Los Altos CA; Rita Rubenfeld, Portola Valley CA; Anne Dudman - Colin Hemsley, San Jose CA vsMichael Lynch - Berton Solomon, Edwards CO; Eric Schneider, Boca Raton FL; Bill Multack, Miami Beach FL

George Welch - Andy Scott - Karen Rice, San Jose CA; Shirley Foreman, Santa Clara CA vsHarvey Lesser, Murrieta CA; Ted Witt, Ketchum ID; Benay Cooper, Boca Raton FL; Jory Segal, San Jose CA


Puzzle madness welcomes new addictsIt’s coming! The

excitement is palpable. No, it’s not the arrival of Santa Claus nor the dropping of the ball in Times Square. It is Six Degrees of Madness – formerly known as Puzzleup – an annual rite of January that hardcore puzzle-solvers eagerly anticipate (and during which non-participating spouses go into hibernation). Entrants include editors from Games magazine and several of the top crossword solvers in the country. It should come as no surprise that this elite circle of masochists includes a number of bridge players.

Six Degrees of Madness is the creation of Alan Levine, a bridge player who lives in Massapequa NY. A retired language arts teacher, he has been hosting and continually developing the contest for 34 years.

“Originally, Puzzleup was seven mini-contests,” says Alan, “each unrelated, but with an emphasis on wordplay. I wasn’t totally satisfied with the product. I wanted something more challenging and unique.”

Alan calls himself a sports, movies and theater fanatic interested in word oddities and recreational linguistics. “The questions have gotten harder because in the Internet age, it’s difficult to construct a contest that’s not readily solvable by straightforward Google searches.”

Jan Martel is a big fan. “Puzzleup should come with a notice: ‘WARNING! This puzzle is totally addicting. Do not expect to do anything else for the next few weeks.’”

Chip, Jan’s husband, doesn’t engage in the madness. “He has learned not to try to talk to me the first week and a half of January. It’s great fun. Chip claims that I’m completely unavailable for anything

but the puzzle from January 1 until my team gets all the answers.”

JoAnna Stansby is the culprit who sucked Jan into the madness “I started when JoAnna invited me to join the team she worked with,” says Jan, “which at that time was Barry Rigal and Steve Picus. Later we added Dale Johannessen. Our team is the California Dreamers.”

Bart Bramley and his wife, Judy, puzzle-up together. Actually, they’re part of a team – the Chicago Six. Bart’s teammates are Larry and Adrienne Cohen, Howie Weinstein and Cheri Bjerkan (who originally brought Puzzleup to her friends’ attention).

Bart describes Madness as a work of genius. “It combines trivia (in all of the standard categories) with devilish wordplay. Alan’s depth of knowledge, especially in movies, Broadway plays, sports and popular music, is encyclopedic. Each year when we complete it (and we always do, a badge of honor for us) we heave a big sigh of relief, followed by a bigger sigh of disappointment that we will have to wait another year to do it again.”

Bart says that the nature of the challenge has evolved gradually. “We have always used reference works (almanac, dictionary, atlas, movie and TV compendiums) as basic tools, and at the beginning we would visit the library sometimes. Later, as the Internet and search engines became more powerful, computers became our main tool. Still, I miss the days when we would all gather at Cheri’s house in early January armed with our heavy books, and brainstorm into the wee hours until we had cracked enough questions to gain a foothold into that year’s contest.”

Alan says there were 114 contestants last year. “It takes me at least two weeks to finish plowing through the answer sets.” He welcomes all newcomers. “I would prefer a deluge to a drizzle.”

The 2018 puzzle will go out Jan. 1 and puzzle-solvers have six weeks to submit answers. If you’re a rookie, your entry is free. Otherwise, it’s $20 (which goes into the prize pool) to enter. If you’re interested, email Alan at [email protected].

Listen to the biddingBy Phillip Alder

With only the opponents vulnerable, you pick up:♠K 10 9 5 3 2 ♥K Q 10 9 2 ♦3 ♣10. West North East South 1♦ Pass 1♠ 2♣ 3♦ 4♣ ?

What would you do now? Here is the full deal: Dlr: North ♠ Q Vul: E-W ♥ A 7 4 ♦ A K Q J 10 8 7 ♣ 7 5 ♠ A J 8 7 4 ♠ 6 ♥ J 8 ♥ 6 5 3 ♦ 6 ♦ 9 5 4 2 ♣ A K J 9 8 ♣ Q 6 4 3 2 ♠ K 10 9 5 3 2 ♥ K Q 10 9 2 ♦ 3 ♣ 10

I have rotated this deal to make South the declarer.

It must be right to bid 4♥. Given the vulnerability, partner surely has at most two clubs and therefore some cards in the majors.

West leads the ♣A: 5, 2 (standard count), 10. West cashes the ♠A: queen, 6, 5. West continues with the ♠4. How would you proceed from there?

Against me, West tried to cash the ♣K at trick two, so I took 12 tricks for 58 out of 64 matchpoints. If West had found the devilish defense of the ♠A and another spade, to win 11 tricks I would have had to ruff with dummy’s ♥7 (or ♥A and then guess West for ♥J-x). I am glad I was not tested.

Need to join or renew? Due to laws preventing ACBL staff from

manually recording credit card data, we ask that you renew or reinstate your membership online at acbl.org/join, or call 800-264-2743.

Alan Levine


Tomorrow’s Bridge EventsSunday, December 3, 10 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* OtherA/X Swiss Teams (unlimited/6000) 1-2 TBA $16 $20B/C Swiss Teams (3000/1500) 1-2 TBA $16 $20Gold Rush Swiss Teams (750/300) 1-2 TBA $16 $20 All 10 a.m. Swiss team games: Two-session playthrough with half-hour break.Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 5th single session TBA $16 $20299er Swiss Teams single TBA $15 $19299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single TBA $15 $19 0-20, 0-5 Pairs single TBA $15 $15

Sunday, December 3, 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.Fast Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/750) 1-2 Harbor G, second level $16 $20

Sunday, December 3, 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.Saturday-Sunday Knockout Teams 3-4 TBA $16 $20

Sunday, December 3, 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.REISINGER BOARD-A-MATCH TEAMS 1-2 F Grand Hall D, lobby level $25 —KEOHANE NORTH AMERICAN SWISS TEAMS 1-2 F TBA $25 —NABC+ MIXED SWISS TEAMS 1-2 F Coronado, 4th level Harbor Tower $25 —

Sunday, December 3, 2 p.m.Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 6th single session TBA $16 $20299er Swiss Teams single TBA $15 $19299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single TBA $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single TBA $15 $15

Unless otherwise noted, strata breaks for all stratified events are: A (3000+), B (750-3000), C (0-750). Three-flight events are divided A/X (6000+/0-6000); B/C (1500-3000, 0-1500); Gold Rush (750-300; 0-300). Two-flight events are divided A/X/Y (6000+/4000-6000/0-4000); B/C/D (1500-3000/750-1500/ 0-750) if no Gold Rush OR A/B/C (3000+/1500-3000/0-1500) and Gold Rush (500-750/200-500/0-200). In B flights, no single player may be over 3000. In Gold Rush events, no single player may be over 750. 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.

See you at the Spring NABCin Philadelphia, March 8–18

EntriesAll 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 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 are eligible to play in these events.)

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

Life Master NewsElaine Brestel

made Gold Life Master (as well as Bronze Life Master) on Friday playing in the Thursday-Friday Knockouts. The Durham NC resident was playing with Kathy Wagner of Cupertino CA; their teammates were Ines Baucia from Buenos Aires, Argentina and Bill Bidderman of San Diego. Elaine was in town to visit with family in addition to attending the tournament. Teammate Bill is her brother-in-law.

Terry Ahern, of Santa Clara, entered the Thursday Gold Rush Pairs needing about 2.5 gold points to become a Life Master. Playing with Jennifer Duval, also of Santa Clara, Ahern earned 4.35 gold points, more than enough for her gold card.

ACBL Club Support Line855-275-7629

Single stop for game administration, club services and marketing supportNeed help with rulings and scoring?ACBL TDs available on evenings and weekends!


Today’s Bridge EventsSaturday, December 2, 9 a.m.

Event Session Sold Entry/player/session ACBL members* OtherFriday-Saturday Morning Compact Knockout Teams 3-4 Seaport E, second level $16 $20Morning Swiss Teams single Seaport E, second level $15 $19 Thursday-Saturday Morning Side Game Series 3rd single session Seaport E, second level $16 $20

Saturday, December 2, 10 a.m.299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Harbor G, second level $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Harbor G, second level $15 $15

Saturday, December 2, 10 a.m. & 3 p.m.Daylight A/B/C Open Pairs (unlimited/3000/1500) 1-2 Harbor A, second level $16 $20Daylight Gold Rush 750/500/200 Pairs 1-2 Harbor D, second level $16 $20 Gold points for 750.

Saturday, December 2, Noon & 7 p.m.REISINGER BOARD-A-MATCH TEAMS 1-2 SF Grand Hall D, lobby level $25 —

Saturday, December 2, 1 p.m.Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 3rd single session Seaport A, second level $16 $20

Saturday, December 2, 1 & 7:30 p.m.KEOHANE NORTH AMERICAN SWISS TEAMS 1-2 SF Grand Hall B, lobby level $25 —NABC+ MIXED SWISS TEAMS 1-2 Q Coronado, 4th level Harbor Tower $25 — 2 qualifying, 2 final sessionsOpen Pairs (unlimited/3000/750) 1-2 Seaport B, second level $16 $20Saturday-Sunday Knockout Teams 1-2 Seaport E, second level $16 $20 Continues Sunday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.Saturday Compact Knockout Teams 1-4 Seaport E, second level $16 $20Friday-Saturday Knockout Teams 3-4 Seaport E, second level $16 $20

Saturday, December 2, 3 p.m.299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Harbor G, second level $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Harbor G, second level $15 $15

Saturday, December 2, 7:30 p.m.A/X/Y Evening Swiss Teams single Seaport E, second level $15 $19B/C/D Evening Swiss Teams single Seaport E, second level $15 $19Friday-Sunday Side Game Series 4th single session Seaport A, second level $16 $20299er, 199er, 99er & 49er Pairs single Harbor G, second level $15 $190-20, 0-5 Pairs single Harbor G, second level $15 $15

Unless otherwise noted, strata breaks for all stratified events are: A (3000+), B (750-3000), C (0-750). Three-flight events are divided A/X (6000+/0-6000); B/C (1500-3000, 0-1500); Gold Rush (750-300; 0-300). Two-flight events are divided A/X/Y (6000+/4000-6000/0-4000); B/C/D (1500-3000/750-1500/ 0-750) if no Gold Rush OR A/B/C (3000+/1500-3000/0-1500) and Gold Rush (500-750/200-500/0-200). In B flights, no single player may be over 3000. In Gold Rush events, no single player may be over 750. 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.

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