If you missed the Unit dinner, you missed a great snack (I’d call it a feast — Ed.) at Fung Lum restaurant. We started with three appetizers, followed by hot and sour soup, and then seven more courses. I noticed leftovers at every table! I’m glad everyone had a good time.
The winners will be announced in our next issue, as I understand the results are riding around with Gary Porter, who was kind enough to direct for us. (They are now posted at the club. Ed.) Great job, Gary, and next time we have a game of this size we will get you an assistant!
Thanks to all the people behind the scenes who called several restaurants and caterers getting prices, making arrangements, and especially Lynn Yokel for renting the room and pushing so hard for going out to dinner instead of having a giant barbecue. Also, thanks to Ray Yuenger, Neal Webb, Will Watson, Art Fonda, (Phyllis Vierra, Alex Tampilang, Richard and Sandee Jacobs, and Dan Turkus —Ed.) for helping to set up, and thanks to all who helped take down the tables
EasyBridge! 3 is being launched by Faye Parsons on Sunday nights. Please pick up a flyer at the club, or give Faye a call.
The elections were held, and all the incumbents were reelected. So far no one has called for a recount! Did you hear that, Al Gore?
In our next Board meeting we will be scheduling more Unit games. (Can we beat 33 tables?) If you would like to input your point of view on the type of Unit game you would like to participate in, please feel free to come to our next Board meeting or talk to one of us on the Board. The next meeting will be at 5:30 P.M., Wednesday, July 11, 2001.
See you at the table.
Sunday 5 p.m. San Jose Bridge Center (SJBC)
5/6 Mike Ravera - Joy Walters
Jan Sullivan - Wilfred Tang
5/20 Joy Walters - William Strangio
Ed Sutton - Martha Sutton
5/27 Veronica Dostal - Loretta Carter
Bill Barnes - Mike Sullivan (tie)
Dick Pitzer - Ellie Hall-Pitzer (tie)
Monday 11 a.m. SJBC
5/7 Steve Bosma - Kenneth Kenfield (A)
Dan Turkus - Art Fonda (A/B)
Maxine Lubow - Ray Lubow (B/C)
Paul Amato - Andrew Wulfhorst (C)
5/14 Robert Jonesi - Bill Yetter (A) 65.51%
Florence Switzer - Alan Becker (A)
Victor Rivkin - Wesley Woo (B/C)
Charles Sharples - Charlotte Sharples (B/C)
5/21 Billee Giansiracusa - Lucille Groshong (A/B)
David Chang - Donald Chang (A/B/C)
Maxine Lubow - Ray Lubow (C)
5/28 Charlie Dorn - Frances Dickman (A)
Paul Amato - Jim Wulfhorst (A/B/C)
Billee Giansiracusa - Madie Horton (B) (tie)
Joyce Sogg - Gabriele Pani (C) (tie)
Monday 7:30 p.m. SJBC
5/7 Bob Elliott - Bruce Bajema 72.68%
Richard Jacobs - Hiram Shen
5/14 Joseph Poppo - Mike Sullivan
5/21 Bruce Bajema - Bob Elliott
Tuesday 10:30 a.m. SJBC
5/8 N Hatfield - Frances Dickman (A)
Jean Power - Glenda Ciochon (A)
Keith McMahan - Terri Richards (B)
Tania Moalem - Jack Clinch (B)
5/15 Bill Langlois - Rose Meltzer (A)
Anne Boboricken - Judy Fisher (A)
Richard Sarsfield - Harry Cuzner (B/C)
5/22 Diane Shannon - Bill Langlois (A)
Norma Black - Steve Bosma (A)
Beverly Wright - Donna Lenihan (B)
Y.E. Chen - Normam Wang (B)
5/29 Dan Turkus - George Pledger (A/B)
Tuesday 7:30 p.m. SJBC
5/1 Judy Fisher - Gary Porter (A)
Robert Ritz - Mike Cailean (A)
Melinda Foos - Shih-Ming Shih (B/C)
Kenneth Yip - Andy Andrews (B/C)
5/8 Judy Fisher - Gary Porter (A)
Frances Dickman - Diane Shannon (A)
Gigi Spinazze - Shih-Ming Shih (B)
5/15 Shih-Ming Shih - Edward Barlow (A) 65.28%
Cindy Gilbert - John Oswalt (B)
Rollin Cutts - Paul Chang (A/B)
5/22 Leila Sink - Nancy Boyd (A)
Robert Ritz - Mike Cailean (A)
Victor Rivkin - Kah Toa Yeung (B)
Bernard Bertonis - Neal Webb (B)
5/29 Gary Porter - Vandana Vidwans (A)
Robert Ritz - Mike Cailean (A)
Tony Staw - Shih-Ming Shih (B)
Michael Heymann - Fred Chasalow (B)
Wednesday 10:30 a.m. SJBC
5/2 Barbara Marleau - Sally McLane 68.06%
5/9 Robert Friend - Tania Moalem
5/16 Andrew Wulfhorst - Jim Wulfhorst
5/23 Dolores Clinch - Barbara Barlow
5/30 Timothy White - Jack Clinch
Wednesday 2:30 p.m. SJBC
5/9 Marjorie Amelia Loebel - Fia Bosklopper (tie)
Beverly Nelson - Gail Meikle (tie)
5/16 Ron Laffen - Phyllis Reinhardt
Wednesday 7:00 p.m. SJBC
5/2 Bruce Luttrell - Paul Chang (A)
Barbara Harkleroad - Gigi Spinazze (A)
Stuart Goodgold - Ron Zucker (B)
Lynn Yokel - Daniel Kroll (B)
R Schwarer - H Lyle Supp (C)
5/9 Gene Simpson - William Bidermann (A)
Shih-Ming Shih - Stuart Goodgold (A)
George Humphrey - Dan Turkus (B)
5/16 Panette Talia - Roger Newlander (A)
Ronald Siegrist - Henri Farhi (A)
Paul Chang - Edward Lee (B)
Dana Brown - Srinivasan Ravindran (B)
Victor Rivkin - Michael Abrams (C)
5/23 Floyd McWilliams - Richard Reitman (A) 68.75%
Don Nemiro - Quin Yang (A)
Steve Chen - Edward Lee (B)
Tania Moalem - Don Morin (B)
5/30 Carole Dietz - Harriel Shea (A)
William Bidermann - Don Morin (A/B/C)
Paul Chang - Shih-Ming Shih (B)
Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Oakwood
5/2 Elaine Elkin - Ted Finlayson (A/B)
Don Hayden - Florence Golden (A) (tie)
Mostafa Hafezi - William Aherns (A) (tie)
5/9 Ashok Vittal - Ayan Banerjee (A/B/C)
Mostafa Hafezi - William Aherns (A)
Gary Ratts - H. Zoellner (B/C)
5/16 Susan Zimmerman - George Humphrey (A/B)
Tina Pearson - Glenda Ciochon (A)
Ann Carlson - Fred Carlson (B/C)
5/23 Don Hayden - Mae Miron (A/B)
Donald Perry - Hiram Shen (A/B/C)
Lorraine Rodich - Laura Walters (C)
5/30 Florence Yoshikawa - Tad Yoshikawa (A/B)
Helen Mitchell - David Gambelin (A)
Anne Dudman - Val Abid (C)
Thursday 10:30 a.m. SJBC
5/3 Alan Becker - Susan Furchtenicht
Jyme Schmieder - Frances Dickman
5/10 Frances Dickman - Diane Shannon (A)
Anne Boboricken - David Chang (A)
Y.E. Chen - Gary Yang (B)
5/17 Judy Fisher - Barbara Harkleroad
Dolores Clinch - Jack Clinch
5/24 David Chang - N Hatfield (tie)
Bill Langlois - Kit Humphrey (tie)
5/31 Carole Dietz - Tina Pearson
Thursday 7:30 p.m. SJBC
5/3 Jan Sullivan - Mike Sullivan (A) 66.98%
Bill Barnes - Norma Epler (A/B)
5/10 Richard Jacobs - Malcolm Stewart (A) 65.51%
Phyllis Vierra - Hiram Shen (A)
Shih-Wei Lu - Joy Walters (B/C)
5/17 William Strangio - Mike Sullivan (A)
Frank Napolitan - Ursula Gueldner (A)
Charles Reinthaler - Terry Jackson (B)
Adam Meyerson - Theodore Hwa (B)
5/24 Tony Jackson - William Strangio (A)
Joan Rouse - Robert Rouse (A)
Dave Lomay - Jim Blum (B)
Charles Reinthaler - Joseph Poppo (B)
5/31 Richard Jacobs - Hiram Shen (A)
Vinod Thukral - Rita Kohli (A/B/C)
Julie Joyce - Judy Moak (B)
Friday 11 a.m. SJBC
5/4 Ron Laffen - L. W. Lee 65.75%
Albert Lyew - Eileen Edwards
5/11 Melinda Foos - Katherine Maxfield 69.35%
Fred Berkey - Kwee Kuntjara
5/18 Lynn Brown - Graham Burrows
Helen Tseng - Jim Tseng (tie)
Fred Berkey - L. W. Lee (tie)
Eileen Edwards - Gabriele Pani (tie)
5/25 Ray Crist - Hiram Shen
Friday 7:30 p.m. SJBC
5/4 Michael Sclafani - Joel Singer (A/B)
Rupert Brauch - Floyd McWilliams (A)
Melinda Foos - George Pledger (C)
Paul Cornelius - Kurt Siedenburg (B/C)
5/11 Marcia Dean - Robert Dean (A)
Barbara Barlow - Edward Barlow (A)
5/18 Robert Ritz - Mike Cailean
5/25 Robert Ritz - Mike Cailean (A)
Hamid Navid - Shantanu Chakraborty (A/B/C)
John Postas - Mischel Postas (B/C)
Saturday 12:45 p.m. SJBC
5/5 Florence Golden - Doris Oelberg
Joan Simpson - Mike Braun
5/12 Lynn Brown - Larry Brown
Florence Yoshikawa - Tad Yoshikawa
5/19 Jeffrey Hack - Paul Chestnut 70%
Florence Yoshikawa - Tad Yoshikawa 66.25%
5/26 Hiram Shen - Mike Sullivan 71.43%
Jewel Schimke - Malcolm Stewart
STAC Games
5/12 Gary Soules - Jan Soules (A)
Don Nemiro - Frances Dickman (A)
Hiram Shen - Richard Jacobs (B/C)
Shih-Ming Shih - Vandana Vidwans (B)
Jo Ellen Praklet - Olga Alexander (C)
5/13 Leila Sink - Nancy Boyd (A) tie)
Lynn Yokel - Annette Powers (B) (tie)
Joyce Sogg - Gabriele Pani (A/B/C)
During the auction, you can spend much of your time studying the bidding tableau, and maybe planning your next action. This is one of the many advantages of bid boxes. If someone is taking a long time, review the auction for yourself. You might even get a surprise, and save some grief. ("Hey, my partner’s one-spade bid was an overcall, not an opening bid.")
During the play, use another player’s huddle to review what’s transpired, and to construct the unseen hands. This is easier if you look at dummy’s cards instead of someone’s face. If it’s an opponent who’s deliberating, it’s perfectly proper to think about what the problem might be.
In two circumstances, looking intently at another player is an infraction that transcends etiquette.
Some amateur psychologists engage in the process of "staring down the opponents" to help locate the queen of trumps. This is reprehensible.
The other circumstance is best appreciated from the other side. Are
you ever contemplating your bid only to realize that partner has been looking
at you for several seconds? Your reaction is probably "Whoops, did I forget
an agreement?" Yes you did, and partner has just illegally reminded you
of it. A good idea was recently proposed in a letter to the ACBL Bulletin:
never look at partner during the auction.