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In This Issue
Tournament news and I/N events
Tournament director's corner
Table Tips
Club News and Jerry Craige by Rick Foley
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Upcoming Events
Jan 8-10
Feb 8-14
Feb 19-21
Feb 26-28
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Feedback
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 Happy December!. I wish everyone happy holidays, a happy and healthy new year and enjoyable bridge in 2016.
I still need a photographer(s) for tournaments. Please contact me if you are able to help out with this effort or forward me photos that you would like me to include. Be sure to identify the people photographed.
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Tournament News and I/N Events
Beginning Jan, 2016 Howard Kahlenberg ([email protected])
will be the tournament chairman. Welcome Howard!
Thank you Meyer Kotkin for your 4+ years service in that position. Meyer will come out of retirement briefly to chair the 2016 Valley Forge regional.
Jordan and Gough Trophies
Each year Unit 141 gives an award to the player from Unit 141 who accumulates the
most masterpoints in all of the six sectionals put on by the Unit for the calendar year.
The award is presented in two categories and the players must be a resident in the Unit
at the time they play in a sectional.
Jordan Trophy
The Jordan Trophy is presented to the player in the Unit who
accumulates the most masterpoints in the unit sectionals while a resident in the unit.
#1- Martin Rabinowitz-
139.51 MP
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#2/3 tie- Kenneth Chatzinoff
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Raymond Raskin -
123.69 MP
Gough Trophy
The Gough Trophy is presented to the non-life master with who
started the year with under 500 masterpoints
while a resident in the unit.
#1/2 tie
- William Goldstein & Joan Goldstein- 20.04 MP, #3-Scott Brown 14.96 MP
The top three winners in each category will receive:
First place 10 free plays at any Unit 141 Sectional during the following year.
Second place 6 free plays at any Unit 141 Sectional during the following yesr.
Third place 3 free plays at ant Unit 141 Sectional during the following year.
2015 Final MP Standings:
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Click here
for a link to the flyer for the Dave Treadwell tournament at Foulkstone plaza Dec 27-31
Click here for.the next sectional at Bala Jan 8-10
Message from Bruce Lang re: I/N events
We are working on a calendar for 2016 and will update shortly.
Reminder that there is a sectional in Wilmington at the end of the year
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Tournament
Director's Corner
by Rui Marques
All those claims (Part II)...
When a claim is agreed, the board is scored normally. Most problems related to claims occur when the claim is not agreed (contested). The TD must adjudicate a result as equitably as possible, but resolving any doubtful points against the claimer. All the possibilities on Law 70 about the way that the TD should decide on a contested claim are fundamentally centered around the concept that the claimer is bound to "normal" lines of play (including inferior or careless, but not irrational plays). In this context, irrational is for example revoking, or throwing winners away like candies. But it is not irrational to forget about a winner in defence, or miscounting a hand. It is assumed that declarer would see the cards as they would be played and take into account what he would see if he had not claimed. When the claim is just worded wrongly, but essentially correct, the TD should allow it. For example, when declarer has five discards in dummy but says that he discards four (of his five) club losers from his hand, he is usually not stating that he will masochistically keep a losing club in his hand. He probably misspoke and meant to discard the five losers. The TD must be aware and use his common sense to distinguish between poor wording and poor claiming. Law 70C, dealing with the cases where one trump is out and declarer forgot to mention it, could probably be left out of the Laws. The situation is covered by the "inferior or careless" standard upon which other poor claims are judged. If there is one trump out, and claimer made no statement about that trump, and it is at all likely that at the time of his claim he was unaware that a trump remained in an opponent's hand, and a trick could be lost to that trump by any normal play, then the claimer loses that trick. Note that when adjudicating a claim the TD is not allowed to assign any weights to possible outcomes. If after an incomplete claim you might take 9 or 10 tricks with equal probability, 9 will be assigned...
Do Not Claim Until You Know For Sure
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Table Tips: Bridge Table Etiquette
At duplicate bridge, it is polite to greet each pair of opponents you face. You are not expected to exchange handshakes and huge grins, but bridge after all is a game and salutations are appropriate. At the end of a round, it is also common for either pair to say "thanks" or "good luck." Only at extremely high-level competitions would you not expect many pleasantries.
During the play of the hand, whether it is regular or tournament bridge, talk is usually kept to a minimum. Declarer can call for cards from dummy, and she, along with the defenders, may claim (to win a surefire, specific number of tricks) at any time. Aside from that, players normally do not chat until the hand is finished. Dummy especially should never say anything to assist declarer. The only thing dummy is allowed to do in tournament bridge is to ask partner if she is void when she fails to follow suit. Dummy is NOT allowed to make or suggest a claim.
When a hand is over, you can compliment any player who did something particularly well, either in the bidding or the play. If you are praising partner, be sure not to overdo it because this may be perceived as gloating (particularly if the opposition made a mistake). It is also considered proper manners to refrain from criticizing partner for some wrong action he took. Squabbling after a hand makes the game less fun for everyone at the table. It also delays the play of the next deal.
"Bridge is for fun. You should play the game for no other reason. You should not play bridge to make money, to show how smart you are, to show how stupid your partner is, to prove that you are the greatest teacher since Socrates, to show off the latest fad in bidding or to prove any of the several hundred other things that bridge players are so often trying to prove."
Charles Goren
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News from Around the Unit
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ocated in Warminster, the club is owned by Dorothy Ehling and offers games every day of the week. Games start at noon Mondays through Saturday and at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.
There are also games on Monday at 7:30 pm and Thursdays at 7 pm. The club has joined the Common Game and provides hand records after each game.
Barbara Patterson writes that Ami Bridge is celebrating 6 months in its new home in Langhorne! Come by and see our bright, beautiful, clean facility and stay to play in the extremely friendly, easy going atmosphere. We have three Non-Life Master Games --Tues, Wed and Thurs. at 12 noon. We also have two Open games -- Monday at noon and Thursday evening at 6:30. We're conveniently located only one minute South of the Route 1 Maple Avenue Exit. For more info check out our website: www.bridgewebs.com/newtown.
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nga Cooper from reports:
The game held on Wednesdays at the Moorestown Community House has temporarily
been moved to Cherry Hill at the Barclay Shopping Center until further notice. The Community House had a fire
Linda DiLuco from
Philadelphian Duplicate Bridge Club reports:
The Philadelphian has a weekly duplicate bridge game on Thursday evenings at 7:00. Space is limited so reservations are encouraged at
[email protected]
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Bridgemates and hand records for all games. $8 card fee.
We will not be having games on Christmas Eve or New Years Eve which fall on Thursday evenings this year.
Tom O'Brien from the
Bridge Center of Delaware County (BCDC) in Drexel Hill.reports:
The Bridge Center of Delaware County BCDC) will offer evening beginner bridge classes, taught by Peg Woolard, starting on Thursday January 7th from 7-9 PM at BCDC. Please call the club (610 449-4350) or Peg (610 544-6987) for further information..
Our website is
www.delcobridge.com.
Wendy Dechadarevian from Raffles Bridge Club wants us to know:
Due to the huge success of the last 0- 300 masterpoint game, we are scheduling another one on Friday, December 11 at NOON. Reservations are a must, 215-879-9923 or
http://bridgewebs.com/rafflesforbridge/.
Friday, January 22, 2016 0 - 300 masterpoint swiss team game.
Saturday, January 23, 2016 Open swiss team game
Mini lesson and supervised play on Wednesday mornings, 9:30 - 11:30.
Special note from Rick Foley: Jerry Craige
MY PARTNER, MY FRIEND
Lt. Col. Fitzgerald F. Craige, Esq. (USAF, Ret'd)
9-16-40 - 11-17-15
I met Jerry Craige at the Haddon Heights DBC late in 1975. I decided early on that his somewhat unusual approach to bidding was attractive to me and shortly thereafter we began our forty year partnership.
Along the way we won a few impressive events, but more than those victories I will forever cherish a bond between two serious players who never really learned how to bid but managed to survive some serious arguments and inflict considerable damage on our opponents.
Jerry loved our game and gave freely of his time to help it grow. He served as Unit 141 and District 4 President, was a unit board member for over thirty-five years and served as Partnership Chairman for our sectional and regional events. Along the way he accumulated about three-thousand masterpoints.
At the table he was creative. Shortly after forming our partnership, we scrapped most conventions and began playing a natural system. The late Dave Treadwell once described our approach as follows: "Jerry and Rick have a huge advantage over their opponents. They know they don't know what they're doing."
In the last year or so Jerry had limited his bridge to games at the Shore Bridge Club. Carol and I would join Jerry and Carole on one Sunday a month for the Swiss Teams. Despite his failing health, his game remained strong.
Jerry is survived by his wife Carole, his son, Douglas and daughter-in-law Amy, his daughter Christina and son-in-law Jeffrey Van Duyne, and his granddaughters Abigail Craige and Miranda Van Duyne.
Most of the friends I have in this life I have met as a bridge player. One of the dearest of them is gone and I shall miss him very much.
I enourage all unit 141 clubs to send news when you have any to Lori Lerner at
[email protected]
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