2004-04 - Home of Calgary Duplicate Bridge Association
2004-04 - Home of Calgary Duplicate Bridge Association
2004-04 - Home of Calgary Duplicate Bridge Association
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NATIONAL BRIDGE WEEK<br />
St.Catherine's Ont. June 19-26<br />
See www.cbf.ca for full details. Contact Claire Jones at with any further questions you may have.<br />
NORTH AMERICAN OPEN PAIRS<br />
Club qualifying will be held June-August. Dates will be posted at the Martinique and at the Aurora. The Unit final<br />
particulars are unknown at this time. The District 18 Final will be held Sept. 18 in Billings, Montana. Top 3<br />
finishers in each flight qualify for the Spring Nationals in Pittsburgh, top 2 receive subsidies to attend.<br />
GRAND NATIONAL TEAMS<br />
DISTRICT FINAL<br />
This will be held commencing friday May 14 at 7:30 p.m. through May 16. The site is the Best Western (Village<br />
Park Inn) in Motel Village at Crowchild Trail and 16th Avenue N.W. This event is in <strong>Calgary</strong> for the first time<br />
after a number <strong>of</strong> years in Great Falls, Montana.<br />
Worldwide <strong>Bridge</strong> Contest @ The Martinique<br />
Friday Evening, June 4, <strong>20<strong>04</strong></strong><br />
Saturday Afternoon, June 5, <strong>20<strong>04</strong></strong><br />
The Worldwide <strong>Bridge</strong> Contest allows matchpointing across the world. The Friday and Saturday games will be<br />
separate events and will feature worldwide across-the-field scoring. ACBL will award masterpoint at sectional open<br />
pair rating, ½ Red and ½ Black. The WBF will award prizes based on the world matchpointing. The two top District<br />
winners by percentage receive bonus awards. Analyses by expert Eric Kokish.<br />
Current telephone directories are available from the Martinique and Aurora<br />
In addition to Joy's Wednesday afternoon game at Varsity Community Centre there is a Newcomer 0-20 game.<br />
If you happen to change e-mails, please let us know so that you can continue to receive our bridge news<br />
Someone has reported problems accessing the Unit site by following http://www.calgarybridge.com/. They found that<br />
by adding index.htm at the end it resolved the problem http://www.calgarybridge.com/index.htm. Hotmail users<br />
should check their "Trash Can" folder or "Junk Email" folder. Apparently your Unit newsletters could be getting<br />
diverted into it.<br />
I would like to create a list <strong>of</strong> people's nicknames when they play bridge on the net. I find it really frustrating<br />
especially on <strong>Bridge</strong> Base when I know that a lot <strong>of</strong> Edmonton players are online but have no idea who they<br />
are. I have e-mailed Edmonton about making a list. If you want to be included send me your name and nicknames for<br />
all places that you play online. Maybe some new partnerships can develop.<br />
Answers to Rick’s Quiz<br />
(1) Cover the second honor. If declarer is missing 10 and your partner has it, it will be promoted.<br />
(2) Cover the first time. You may promote a card in your partner’s hand.<br />
(3) Do not cover. If the declarer has KJ10 and you do not cover he may go up with the Ace and finesse the other<br />
way. Now you will get your Queen.<br />
(4) Definitely cover. If you do not cover, declarer will get 3 tricks.<br />
(5) Do not cover the first time. If your partner has the King, declarer will lose another trick to your Nine.<br />
Better <strong>Bridge</strong> by Frank Ayer
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