SPECIAL GAMES
Tue 1/21 10:30 AM
4th annual
Charlie Dorn Championship Swiss Teams
Sat 1/25 7:00 PM
Special Unit Game
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Prez Sez 1
Conscience
Court 1
December
Results 2
Top Ten 3
Masthead 3
Idioter’s
Corner 3
Promotions 4
Game Times 4
Prez Sez by Dan Turkus
Happy New Year!!
I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday Season. Do you remember the movie 2001, a Space Odyssey? I'm still trying to come to grips with the fact we are two years past that already!
By the way, many people have left sweaters and jackets at the club. The leftovers are on their own set of hooks with a yellow sticky note above asking if you own any of them. If you do, you have until January 31 to claim it. Whatever is left over after that date is going to Charity, or should we auction them off?
If you didn't get a Badge when Sherry Waki was selling them last year, and you are kicking yourself for not taking advantage of the great price Sherry got for us, well we ordered so many that the Badge maker said he would continue the low price if we order 10 or more. So, do you want a Badge? Contact Sherry at (408) 244-8662.
Our next Unit game is going to be on Saturday, the 25th of January. It is going to be on the same day as the International Fund Game, but different hands with hand records, and much bigger point awards. You should have received a post card, but if not get a partner and win some extra points. Start time is 7:00 PM.
Save Sunday, March 30th. We are going to have our Mini McKinney / Ace of Clubs awards game. This game rates to be one of the best of the year for competition. We all know that the Holiday Party wins the best food award of the year, or did you miss our great feed?
Did you hear? San Jose 5, Palo Alto 0. OK, that's the last time that I will languish in our team's victories! Does it make you feel as good to read it as it does for me to write it? Yee ha!
Sorry I don't have any results from Reno and Monterey, but I have heard we were well represented at both Regionals, and won more than our share of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Overalls.
Our book exchange is still doing well, and several of the old, old already reads will be leaving, hopefully to make room for more reading enjoyment.
Our next Board meeting is February the 5th at 5:30 PM. Feel free to stop by to express yourself, or have a slice of Pizza.
See ya at the tables, Dan
Conscience Court by
Bill Langlois
If enforcing the rules governing an opponent’s minor irregularity gives your side a big advantage, is it sportsmanlike to waive the penalty? Not at matchpoints. Your opponents’ counterparts at other tables didn’t make the error, so don’t give away their points. An exception should be made for a new player at a club game, but otherwise the matchpoint rule for sportsmanship is, quite simply, “no prisoners.”
Teams games are another matter, but the matchpoint rule applies in the special case of a Swiss event when you’re playing a stronger team and it’s not the last round. Next round, some other contending team will play either you or them, and THEY WANT YOU. This came up in a world championship. In the Swiss qualifying round, the underdog Panamanians were playing a very strong Italian team, when one of the Italian players passed his partner’s cue bid. The Panamanian player doubled to let them get back to a normal contract. The Italians viewed this as an act of true sportsmanship, but other teams in the event expressed dissent.
A frequent situation: your opponent makes an insufficient bid and, when it’s pointed out, tries to make it sufficient in the same suit. Not so fast! You have the option of condoning the insufficient bid. With this in mind, let’s try an offbeat bidding quiz:
At matchpoints, with everyone vulnerable, partner opens 1♥ and RHO undercalls 1♦. What do you do with each of the following hands? Make the assumption that, if you refuse to condone the irregularity, RHO will correct to 2♦. It’s true that he has other options, but those put your side in a much more favorable position.
1. ♠983 ♥A42 ♦73 ♣97652
2.
♠K43 ♥AJ6 ♦73 ♣98752
3.
♠KJ843 ♥53 ♦932 ♣K64
4.
♠KQ73 ♥43 ♦72 ♣Q9753
5.
♠K52 ♥J2 ♦J76 ♣K8642
6.
♠Q53 ♥5 ♦9864 ♣97542
7.
♠A2 ♥J ♦KQ987 ♣K6542
Answers on Page 3
Sunday 1:00 PM, San Jose
Bridge Center (SJBC)
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12/15 |
Malcolm Stewart - Chet Blair 66.67% Faye Parsons - Geetha Vaidy |
Sunday
5:20 PM SJBC
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12/8 |
Frank Napolitan - Ursula Gueldner A Leon W. Lee - Peter Kao A Ben & Fia Bosklopper B/C Rekha Nirula - Phyllis Reinhardt B |
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12/15 Party |
Faye Parsons - N Hatfield A 66.91% Robert Ritz - Franklin Lowenthal A 66.86% Steve Chen - Tien-Chun Yang A/B Ben & Fia Bosklopper C Tania Moalem - Dana Brown A Mike Cailean - Corinn Carter B Eric Yang - Leon W. Lee B/C Bert Goldstein - Ken Hazen C Elaine Elkin - Cathy Stahler B |
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12/22 |
Joan & Robert Rouse A Frank Napolitan - Ursula Gueldner A Ben Bosklopper - Fia Bosklopper B/C Vicky Xu - Nathalie Guiragossian B/C |
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12/29 |
Shih-Wei Lu - Gary Kao A/B/C
66.88% Peter Kao - Leon W. Lee A
66.67% Ben & Fia Bosklopper B/C |
Monday
11:00 AM SJBC
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12/2 |
Anne Struthers - Elaine Erickson A Ted Ujifusa - David Gambelin B Tania Moalem - Mostafa Hafezi A Margaret James - Carol Stein C Billee Giansiracusa - Lucille Groshong B Maureen Ellenberg - Ruth Sporer C |
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12/9 |
Ginger Herrick - Trina Bowman A George Humphrey - Susan Cook A/B Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C |
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12/16 |
Prue Saunders - Tania Moalem A 65.15% Trina Bowman - Faye Parsons A Susan Cook - George Humphrey B Maxine Lubow - Ray Lubow B/C Bill Sherman - Joan Sherman C |
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12/23 |
Jeffrey Hu - Kou-Ping Cheng
A Art Fonda - Dan Turkus B Steve Bosma - Kenneth
Kenfield A |
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12/30 |
Tania Moalem - Dana Brown A
65.25% David Gambelin - Bob Steiger
A/B Maxine & Ray Lubow B/C |
Monday
7:30 PM SJBC
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12/2 |
Hiram Shen - Mike Sullivan Joseph Poppo - Ron Laffen |
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12/9 |
Ron Laffen - Joseph Poppo 66.13% Consorcia Ravelo - Marilyn Bliss |
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12/16 |
Dan Rappaport - Matt Moore Ching Ravelo - Alexander Tampilang |
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12/23 |
Stan Batiste - Rekha Nirula
A/B Dan Rappaport - Matt Moore
A/B |
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12/30 |
Leon W. Lee - Eric Yang |
Tuesday
10:30 AM SJBC
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12/3 |
Janice Scott - Joan Bates A/B/C Sidney Safir - Malcolm Stewart A/B/C |
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12/10 |
Prue Saunders - Mostafa Hafezi A 67.62% Norman Wang - Jim Tseng A/B/C Tania Moalem - Dana Brown B |
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12/17 |
David Gambelin - Ted Ujifusa A/B Tina Pearson - Dana Brown A Ruth Sporer - Maureen Ellenberg B/C |
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12/24 |
Missy Coy - Bill Yetter A/B Edwin Seputis - Teresa
Seputis C |
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12/31 |
Barbara Harkleroad - Mostafa
Hafezi A Billee Giansiracusa - Jean
Power B |
Tuesday
7:30 PM SJBC
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12/3 |
Rollin Cutts - Paul Chang A/B Stephen Tu - Gary Porter A Joan & Robert Rouse B/C Eric Yang - Leon W. Lee C |
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12/10 |
Robert Madalena - John Schoenbrun A 65.91% Will Watson - Pavel Vyssotski A Stephen Tu - Michael Migdol B Rita Tingley - Candy Wentworth B |
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12/17 |
Tien-Chun Yang - Michael Fleisher A/B Tania Moalem - Mostafa Hafezi A Ruth Sporer - Maureen Ellenberg B/C |
Wednesday
10:30 AM SJBC
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12/4 |
Malcolm Stewart - Dolores Clinch A Yen Shen - William Charlwood B |
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12/11 |
Gary Yang - Timothy White A Ted Ujifusa - David Gambelin B/C |
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12/18 |
David Gambelin - Ted Ujifusa A/B David Chang - Gary Yang A |
Wednesday
7:00 PM SJBC
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12/4 |
Larry Wagner - Bill Langlois A 65.18% John Wachsman - Steve Conaway A/B/C |
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12/11 |
Bill Langlois - W Riester Jr A Richard Jacobs - Tom Coleman B/C Z Kadah - Walid Baroudi A/B/C |
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12/18 |
Dana Brown - Srinivasan Ravindran
A/B 66.51% Jack Verson - Marshall Yancey A 65.06% Boris Ginzburg - Eugene Vodkin C Michael Migdol - Stephen Tu B |
Wednesday
7:30 PM Oakwood
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12/4 |
Molly Kaufman – Peggy Chen A/B Abby Aldecoa – Larry Miller A Dan Oneal – Marilyn Campbell B |
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12/18 |
Joan & Robert Rouse A/B/C Helen Mitchell – David Gambelin A Phyllis Reinhardt – Cathy Stahler B/C |
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