SPECIAL GAMES
Unit game Pot Luck:
Saturday July 28, Noon, SJBC
EasyBridge Returns:
Sunday August 4, 1PM
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Prez Sez 1
EasyBridge
Returns 1
June
Results 2
Top Ten 3
Masthead 3
Idioter’s
Corner 3
Promotions 4
Game Times 4
If you didn't eat
enough at our Member Appreciation Unit game at Fung Lum, our next Unit game is
on July 28th at Noon, and will be Pot Luck. So please use the signup sheet at
the club & please bring your favorite dish! If you missed
our Unit dinner, you missed a great meal with 180 people eating! After
that we had a FORTY-SEVEN-table Unit game! And who was it that said you
don't get enough points at these Unit Games? Well, they should talk to
Fang Wu and T. C. Yang who came in 1st overall in both A & B with a
blistering 67.57% game, and were awarded 7.79 points for their efforts!
Eric Yang and Peter Kao were First overall in Flight C, and in our under 50
game Fia and Ben Bosklopper were first with a 69%… watch out TC & Fang!
A special thanks to Ray
Yuenger, Phyllis Vierra, Art Fonda, Richard Jacobs, & Alex Tampilang for
setting up the tables prior to the event, before I could get there. Also,
thanks to all that helped take down the tables & re-stack the chairs. Your help
and cooperation make all our lives easier.
Your votes have been
tabulated (thanks to all that voted and all that ran) for the new Board, and
they are: Art Fonda, George Pledger, Gigi Spinazze, Phyllis Vierra, Lynn Yokel
and yours truly. We hope to bring you another great year with many challenging
and fun events, and thank you all for your support. The Board thought I should
follow in footsteps of one of our past Presidents: Franklin D.(must be D for
Dan) Roosevelt, and they made me Prez again, so it looks like you'll be reading
my columns for another two years.
EASY BRIDGE starts again
Sunday, August 4th at 1:00 PM. Thank you Faye Parsons! Please tell all
your non-Bridge-playing friends, coworkers, neighbors, kids, grandkids, and
anyone else who can put fog on a mirror about it. New players are what make our
Unit so successful!
Badges: Look for an order
sheet at the club. The more people that order them, the cheaper they
get. It would be really cool to see everyone wearing one at our fall
Sectional, or at the Labor Day Regional (if we can get them that fast).
Carole Deitz has volunteered
to be our new Unit Recorder. So what's a Recorder? That was my question
too! She will be available to record irregular or unusual activity that
might occur at a game. Such activities might be Psychs, impoliteness, rudeness,
and anything else that someone might do to push your buttons. (Making a
contract doesn't count, usually.) Anyway, forms will be available through
Carole soon. A much clearer explanation is available on the ACBL website.
Mentor Program: Coming back soon to our Unit.
We will be posting info at the Club on the bulletin boards soon. New players,
please don't be afraid to ask some of our seasoned people to play. We enjoy
passing one some of the tips we learned along the way. And do what we say, not
what we do! When you see someone with lots of master points, don't get
worried! Those points are merely proof of a good attendance record, and
consistent predictable bidding and card play (that sometimes illusive thing we
all attempt to achieve)!
The Friday night game is reopening, look for
flyers at the club with details.
That's it for this month, so I'll see ya at the
tables!
EasyBridge Returns
by
Faye Parsons with Mich Ravera
Faye Parson’s games are undergoing changes.
The Sunday late afternoon game will admit players with up to 499 master points.
The Thursday evening game will begin admitting players with up to 999 master
points. Once the free lessons are completed, the Sunday early afternoon game
will be a 49er game. All of these changes go into effect basically right after
Labor Day.
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When: Sundays
beginning August 4
1:00-3:30
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For More Information: Call
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408-378-4719
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Age 9-90
More Results
Thursday
7:00 PM SJBC
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6/6
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Alexander Tampilang - Mike
Sullivan A
Judy Kaplan - Kat Wesolowska
A/B/C
Matt Moore - Frederick Lam
B/C
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6/13
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Carl
Rudd - Katharine Fanning A/B Tie & C
Phyllis
Reinhardt - Mich Ravera A/B Tie
Kat
Wesolowska - Judy Kaplan C
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6/20
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Herb Jubin - Matt Moore A/B
Leon W. Lee - Gary Kao A
Andre Dermant - Fred Kurzweil B
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6/27
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Judy Kaplan -
Kat Wesolowska A/B/C
Doris Jones -
Mike Carney A
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Friday
11:00 AM SJBC
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6/7
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Raja Smadi - Malcolm Stewart
Jewel Schimke - Sally McLane
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6/14
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Dan
Hoffman - Mack Johansen
Douglas
Hong - Tania Moalem N
Helen
& Jim Tseng H
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6/21
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Hiram Shen - Peter Kao 71.43%
Leon W. Lee - Karel Wong 65.48%
Joan Bates - Janice Scott
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6/28
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Awtar & Birendar Singh
Yen Shen - Norman Wang
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Friday
7:30 PM SJBC
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6/7
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Gary Porter - Wayne Stuart A
Stuart Goodgold - Mike Roney
B
Kou-Ping Cheng - Daren Kuo A
Michael Migdol - Tom Snouse
B
Derek & Teddi Fiero C
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6/14
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Leila
Sink - Gary Porter A
Tania
Moalem - Susan Cook B
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6/21
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Terry Hause - Edward Barlow A 67.00%
TC Hung - CC
Ke B/C
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6/28
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Tony Staw - Tania Moalem A/B
Tom Snouse - Vibeke Gilbreath C
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Saturday 12:45 PM SJBC
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6/1
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C.H. Wang - S.Y Wang
David Gambelin - Ted Ujifusa
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6/8
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Irv & Marion Wentzien
Robert Freitas - Lu Weakland
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6/15
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Leon
W. Lee - Eric Yang
David
Gambelin - Ted Ujifusa N
Julie
Joyce - Judy Moak H
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6/22
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Alexander Tampilang - Tom Huang
Bill Traver - Dan Oneal N
Bernard & Mildred Brown H
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6/29
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Eric Yang - Peter Kao 71.43%
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Top Ten
Games
1. 72.62% Y.E. Chen - Norman
Wang 6/18 AM
2.
71.43% Eric Yang - Peter Kao 6/29 PM Tie
Hiram Shen - Peter Kao 6/21 AM Tie
4.
69.16% Ben & Fia Bosklopper 6/30 PM C Memb
5.
69.00% Gary Yang - David Chang
6/12 AM
6.
68.52% Frank Warzek - Olive Tangney 6/20 AM
7.
68.14% Pam Woods - Rekha Nirula 6/23 PM
8.
67.57% Tien-Chun Yang - Fang Wu 6/30 PM Memb
9.
67.00% Terry Hause - Edward Barlow 6/21 Eve Tie
Eric Yang - Leon W. Lee 6/24 Eve Tie
Idioter’s Corner
In compiling this month’s game results
I couldn’t help but notice two pairs who, despite scoring in excess of 65%, didn’t
even win their sections. Melinda Foos and Dan Turkus in Bill Traver’s Monday
Morning game on June 17 were edged out by just the narrowest of all possible
margins and Leon Lee and Karel Wong in Al Becker’s Friday Morning game on June
21 were defeated by almost one whole board! I have exercised my editor’s
discretion in including their names in the results list. These people deserve
both our congratulations and sympathy. I was hoping for both pairs to make the
top ten, but June, it seems, was a month of high percentage games with three
games over 70%. My congratulations go to all of the winners, and also to the
almost-winners.
While I am exercising my editorial
discretion, I would like to comment upon one of the changes made to the alert
procedures this past March. Some people seem to dislike the requirement to
announce the range for an opening 1NT bid. To the contrary, I rather like it. What I discovered
when the requirement first became effective was that a number of people were
simply not announcing their “Good 14 to 17” openers as had been previously
required. I am sure that these people rationalized that their range was really
within the 15-to-18 range not requiring an announcement. The change has brought
these people out of the shadows.
I see at least two other benefits of
this announcement requirement. The first is that pairs who play different
defenses depending upon the opponents’ opening 1NT strength don’t have to go to the opponents’ convention card every time
that they sit down to play a two board round wherein a 1NT opening bid may never even come up. In North America, we aren’t
required to read and understand the opponents’ convention cards before we sit
down to play. Without the announcement requirement (and other alerts), we may
be required to do just that!
The second (and I am certain
unintended) benefit is that people have been encouraged to think for themselves
about what a good opening no trump range should be. Since the announcement
requirement went into effect, I have met many more beginning and intermediate
partners who are willing to try weak or intermediate no trump openers because
“We have to announce them anyway.”
Like so many other regulations, some
people think that it should apply only to those who do something different from
what they do. In explaining the difference between an alert and announcement to
me Lynn Yokel said it about as well as I have heard it said, “Announcements are
to avoid slowing down the game to give an explanation of something that so many
people play.” Announcement of opening 1NT strength fulfills that requirement exactly. ‘Nuf Said.
The
Di-Rek’Tor
The Di-Rek’Tor is published monthly by Unit 507 of the American
Contract Bridge League, Campbell Community Center, One West Campbell Avenue,
Building J-68, Campbell, CA 95008. Opinions in articles are those of the
authors and not necessarily those of the Unit Board.
Unit 507 Board Officers
President
Dan Turkus
Vice President
Ray Yuenger
Secretary
Marshall Yancey
Treasurer
Neal Webb
Sgt. at Arms
Art Fonda
Membership
George Pledger
Ethics
Bill Langlois
Unit Recorder
Carole Dietz
Forum columnist
Ray Yuenger
Tournament Coordinator
Phylis Vierra
The Di-Rek'Tor Editor
Michael Angelo Ravera
Education/NAOP
Lynn Yokel
D21
Representative
Jeff Hack
Rose
Meltzer-Johnson
New Player
Representive
Sherry Waki
