User:P64/Bridge

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subpages


 * /Championship; /Championships
 * /Morehead; /Truscott
 * /Sandbox; /work

1935 Encyclopedia of Bridge
 * The Encyclopaedia of Bridge 1935 Copyright The Bridge World, Inc., Edited by Ely Culbertson and Albert Morehead, Lloyd Smith, Clifford Bender, William Huske, Alfred Sheinwold.
 * Note: Neither Bender nor Smith are listed as one of the 45 Principal Contributors
 * peter hasenson Bridge Winners 2011-11-08

Daily Bulletin WBG series [non-youth] (notes on skimming numbers 1 to 9)
 * 1st WMSG
 * 1,2 Systems

Players are reminded that HUM and Brown Sticker Conventions are not permitted at any stage of the Championships.
 * 1,5 "Men's Individual Session I" by Phillip Alder (note title Men's)
 * 1,6 Turkey Seniors late withdrawal
 * 1,7-10 "Man & Machines" by Mark Horton "Mark Horton examines the five Mind Sports being contested here in Beijing, with a look at some of the stars in each and the development of computer playing engines in each of them."
 * No man has ever become a superstar at both Bridge &

Chess, but Irina Levitina was twice a finalist in the Women’s World Chess Championship and has won four World Bridge Championships. [10]
 * 1,11 "SCHEME FOR THE WOMEN’S TEAMS TOURNAMENT (3 groups)" (no rematches in round of 16)
 * 3,1 USA defending Seniors champion (2004) with no returning players
 * 5,15 "The US program Rybka won the 16th World Computer

Chess Championship, a full point ahead of its nearest rival, the British program Hiarcs. Third, a point behind, was the Israeli program"
 * ... Michael Bamberger, a Senior Writer with Sports Illustrated,

contributed an article on the Buffett Cup in the issue published on 19 September. The observations made included the fact that the average age of the European team (37) was less than the age of the American’s youngest player.
 * 6,5 "Programme correction

In the World Youth Teams Championship history in the programme of the 2008 championships, the silver medal team is correctly noted as Latvia, but the list of players is in error. The second-place team from 2006 was Jutijs Balasous, Janis Bethers, Peteris Bethers, Adrians Imsa and Martins Lounes, with Aivar Tihane as non-playing captain."
 * 7,1 "There was little drama in the final stages of the round robin qualifying,

although France had reason to regret going for 800 on the final board of the final match against China Macau. France still won, but the 5-IMP loss on the last board dropped them into tie with Romania, and the French lost out on the tie-breaker."
 * 7,4 "World Transnational Mixed Teams Championship"

...Players eliminated from the Open, Women's or Senior Teams may form new Mixed teams and will receive free entry provided no players who have not participated in these events are added. In the event that a team is made up from players who have not participated in the three main events, with players from these events added to the team, the charges will be as follows:
 * 7,5 Round-robin standings, all nine groups, readable!
 * 7,13-15 "The World Individual Masters" by Phillip Alder (day after rounds 2-3 of 3)

The individuals were divided into two three-session events. The 24 women played 23 three-board rounds, and the 36 men played 35 two-board rounds, using different deals.
 * Midskog won by 2.6 matchpoints; Helness by 38 or just over two boards!
 * 7,16

"Tonight we are celebrating together the 50th anniversary of the World Bridge Federation, and what better place for this very special occasion than the World Bridge Games included here in Beijing as part of the 1st World Mind Sport Games. You may have seen on the screen the slideshow displaying some of the pictures and history of the WBF, and thanks to the generosity of our President Emeritus, Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, we will soon be giving you a book detailing the history of the WBF — we had hoped to have it tonight, but we will deliver it personally as soon as possible. It is thanks to the cooperation between the Chinese authorities, the Organising Committee and our federations that we have achieved a new record here, especially with the presence of 110 Youth Teams, who represent the future of our wonderful sport of bridge. We have representatives from 95 of the 130 WBF Member countries — indeed quite an accomplishment. [quoting about one-third of the address]
 * ... the first edition of what we

hope will become an officially recognised Olympic event, just as we are currently under the patronage of GAISF.
 * 8,18-20 Round-robin Butler standings (leaders Sementa, Duboin, Arnim, Auken, Lasut, Manoppo)

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Josh Donn -09-06 >> The issues of vulnerability and form of scoring are too intertwined to consider separately. I will consider IMPs and matchpoints individually, and look at vulnerability as it pertains to that form of scoring. <<

Josh Donn -09-13 >> upgrade downgrade Jx Axxxx <<

Josh Donn -09-20 >>

WPCB

Glossary of contract bridge terms

Daily Bulletin: Youth series. Bulletins (directory). 1st World Mind Sports Games. 3–18 October 2008. World Bridge Federation. Retrieved 2011-11-dd.

cite web for Daily Bulletin? Probably no, this needs a template dedicated to citations of the Daily Bulletin


 * WMSG leftovers
 * which nations were recent world or EBL champions? which had no history of success (at world level, etc)?
 * which players were recent world or EBL champions?
 * record the data on field sizes and numbers of qualifiers, new entries

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list of subpages
 * SUBPAGES (18) 2011-09-28, after World bridge zones
 * Subproject Championships (and organizations)
 * /Championships —toward subproject MOS
 * /Championship
 * /work


 * /Cavendish —regarding Cavendish Invitational


 * /World Masters Individual Championships


 * /World bridge zones
 * /European Bridge League —regarding European Bridge League, partly
 * with much more work in progress (sprawling) including styles experimentation
 * ? /European Youth Team Championships
 * with styles experimentation


 * /Far East Bridge Championships —including some BFAME champ's
 * /South America


 * Other
 * /Grand Masters —WPCB coverage of people
 * /Play by play
 * /point-count
 * /Suits —regarding Suit combinations


 * /Steve Weinstein
 * /Truscott —links to Truscott columns, some annotated
 * much more content below should go to "Truscott"
 * /Vugraph —regarding Vugraph
 * /Walsh

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see also Duplicate bridge
 * Neapolitan Club (Camponeschi et al)
 * Bridge Topics (van Cleef & Rodwell)
 * Bridge Winners (Wolpert, Weinstein, et al)
 * WBF
 * EBU
 * ACBL

(glossary) Glossary of contract bridge terms —case sensitive!

WBF
 * List of bridge competitions and awards
 * Bridge and the Olympic Games (out of date)
 * EOC Bridge Tournament, 2000
 * University Bridge program overview. WBF.
 * University Bridge in the World (non-WBF)
 * Youth Bridge. WBF Youth Committee.


 * Youth Bridge program overview. WBF.
 * Senior Bridge program overview. WBF.

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SOMEDAY: look at ACBL HOF citations

ref group=NB The American Contract Bridge League comprises the US, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. Before about 1980 there was a "North America" team in the Bermuda Bowl. /ref

For the two-year cycle including 2011 and 2012 world championships for national teams, he sponsors the 'Fleisher' team comprising himself and Mike Kamil, Bobby Levin–Steve Weinstein, and Chip Martel–Lew Stansby. They will enter the 2011 Bermuda Bowl as USBF champions. For the following cycle Nick Nickell ('Nickell') has signed Levin–Weinstein and Fleisher will add Michael Rosenberg–Chris Willenken.
 * Martin Fleisher

Fleisher–Mike Kamil (USA1) Chip Martel–Lew Stansby (USA1) Rosenberg-Willenken

For the two-year cycle beginning summer 2012, which includes the 2013 Bermuda Bowl, Rosenberg and Chris Willenken will play for Marty Fleisher's professional team, replacing Bobby Levin–Steve Weinstein. There Rosenberg–Willenken will join Fleisher–Mike Kamil and Chip Martel–Lew Stansby.
 * Michael Rosenberg

Levin–Weinstein are one-third of a team that will represent the US in the 2011 Bermuda Bowl (October). Beginning 2012 they will play for Nick Nickell, whose professional teams have won four of the eight biennial Bermuda Bowls since 1995.
 * Bobby Levin
 * Levin–Weinstein will replace Bob Hamman and Zia Mahmood.

Nick Nickell–Richard Katz Levin–Weinstein (USA1) Jeff Meckstroth–Eric Rodwell

Beginning 2012/2013, Nickell has replaced Hamman–Mahmood with Bobby Levin–Steve Weinstein and Hamman has signed to play with Bart Bramley.
 * Bob Hamman

Bart Bramley–Hamman John Hurd–Joel Wooldridge (USA2) Bob Blanchard–Shane Blanchard


 * Zia Mahmood

/work --such as existing Championships articles /Championship --work on new pages for championship events /Cavendish, reading notes for Cavendish Invitational /Steve Weinstein /European Bridge League
 * Category: Bridge world competitions
 * World Masters Individual Championship | Individual
 * World Simultaneous Pairs

/Suits /Truscott, chiefly annotated links to his columns /Walsh

older material
(Next search Truscott for 'Roudinesco' and 'Crowhurst'.)

The NYT archive permits search of articles by author Alan Truscott, purportedly 6532 of them. http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/t/alan_truscott/index.html?match=any&query=roudinesco&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search

done:
 * 2 hits for 'Crowhurst'
 * 8 hits for 'Roudinesco'

20 hits for 'suit combination' http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/t/alan_truscott/index.html?match=any&query=%22suit+combination%22&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search

16 hits for 'Rusinow' http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/t/alan_truscott/index.html?offset=10&s=newest&query=RUSINOW&field=body&match=any

Obituaries
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/nyregion/05truscott.html Alan Truscott by Michael Pollak, d yesterday cancer

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/07truscott.html?fta=y Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 2006-07-07 by Phillip Alder, d Tue Parkinson's disease

off 5 keycards

 * Truscott, Alan. "Missing 4 Aces and Trump King, Declarer Still Made a Slam". New York Times 21 Feb 2005. Retrieved 2010-04-02. &mdash; irresistible slam missing five keycards

largest penalty
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/27/nyregion/bridge-by-alan-truscott.html?pagewanted=1 1989-06-27 "Bridge; Experimental bids can have their pitfalls. (When the dummy appeared, South burst into laughter.)"

North deals, NS vulnerable. West leads K into the poor declarer after misunderstandings about transfer preemptive opening bids and conventional 4 responses. 3S* -- 4C* Dbl; Rdb passed. (South responded 4C to accept the transfer. North redoubled to show a good diamond suit.)

At the table minus 5800 against merely plus 920 was "off the charts".

Journalist leads

 * Truscott, Alan. "Bridge; overlooked option". New York Times 16 Dec 1984. Retrieved 2010-04-02. &mdash; journalist leads introduced two decades ago (attitude and third/low with survey data)

Truscott 1995-07-17
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/17/nyregion/bridge-135695.html?pagewanted=1

South deals, both vulnerable. West leads A into the opening bidder following 1H 3S; 4D 6C; 6H. (Dummy responded with a standard splinter raise in her singleton and then jumped in her void "showing absolute control of that suit".

East must tap dummy by continuing clubs after winning the diamond ace; the bad trump split then controls the diamond suit (the difference is six diamond tricks or none!). Truscott sympathizes, "it would have been much easier playing Rusinow: The club king would have been led, guaranteeing the ace. As it happens, the traditional ambiguous king-lead would have worked, but only because East has the club queen and is not in doubt."

That may be a poor example hand for discussion of Rusinow leads in the abstract, but a daily bridge columnist merely slips technical points of play into the coverage of deals that are interesting on other grounds too.

The irony is, Charles Goren and Omar Sharif made an exception of defense against slam contracts when they recapped the case for and against standard king from Ace-King. (Toledo Blade 1979-06-15, retrieved from BridgeGuys.) "There is one circumstance where it is usually right to lead the ace from ace-king regardless of which method you use. That is when you are defending against a slam contract. You want to give declarer as little information about the hand as possible. If you decide that you can't cash a second trick in the suit and elect to shift, declarer will be in the dark as to the location of the king [if you never lead it from ace-king]."

P.S. Goren-Sharif close with the half-recommendation, "Perhaps the best of all worlds is the structure of leads suggested by the late Sydney Rusinow. [specified] But that's another story."

Truscott doesn't pull any punches. "Theoretically best, and favored by many modern experts, is the method developed by Sydney Rusinow six decades ago."

Truscott 1981-02-15
BridgeGuys reprint another one, citing both Mike Lawrence and Alan Truscott. West leads the ambiguous king of partner's void and partner must guess whether to trump it or discard a side suit. http://www.bridgeguys.com/Books/LawrenceMichael/TrueBridgeHumor.pdf

South deals, both vulnerable. The diamond opening bidder West leads K into the passed spade advancer following -- 1D X 1H; 2S 3D 3S --; 4S -- -- X.

Truscott 1996-06-22
"Bridge; What do experts worry about at trick one? The location of the club four, that's what." NYT 19960622 http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/22/arts/bridge-033049.html?pagewanted=1

Roudinesco's book is available. He declared the deal at the European championship in April.

West deals, NS vulnerable. West leads K into the notrump opener following -- -- -- 1N; Dbl Rdb -- --; 2D -- -- 2H; -- 4H passed.

"Roudinesco points out situations in which circumstances will modify the plan of play." --such as this auction which placed a long diamond suit at left

The bad club break 4:K1075 is just enough to give East one trick on power: cover the Q862 in succession and the five wins the fourth round. Holding AJ94 against 5:K1073 (rotate the three small spots) declarer would be just strong enough to pick up the club suit on power.

Truscott 2002-01-17
"A Smooth Defensive Move Helped This Slam Succeed" Jean-Marc Roudinesco died last month. The column features a hand he declared in 1969. The suit combinations, not featured explicitly as such, were 6:KJ3 and A105:J64.

West leads 4 through dummy's suit following 1H 2C; 3D 3S; 3N 4N; 5H 6H.

Truscott 1982-12-05
BRIDGE; THE SUBLETIES OF SIMPLE SUIT COMBINATIONS featuring the heart suit combination in more ways than one! http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/05/arts/bridge-the-subleties-of-simple-suit-combinations.html

South deals, none vulnerable. West leads 10 into the 1N opener and 6H declarer following 1N 2D*; 2H 3D; 3S X -- --; 4C 4D; 4H 5H; 6H. West later wows the crowd by producing Q.

Truscott 1986-10-02
Bridge; Study of Suit Combinations Is Still Making Discoveries twenty-five years after Crowhurst. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/02/nyregion/bridge-study-of-suit-combinations-is-still-making-discoveries.html

To hold trump losers to three?

North deals, both vulnerable. West leads Q into the spade responder following 1D 1S; 2H 2S; 3N 4S.

South should duck two trumps, thereby winning the fourth round with a quack rather than losing all four spade tricks.

Truscott concludes, "If South plays correctly and makes his game, West is left to discover that he would have done better by leading a club."

That's true. Note that the defense cannot prevail if West holds A10 or K10 and prevails with A9, K8, and so on only if East plays a middle spade on the first round, a crocodile coup at trick two.

Truscott 1987-06-24
Truscott, Alan. "BRIDGE; The Expert Can Go Astray In Suit Combination Habits" 1987-06-24

South deals, EW vulnerable. West leads 2 through the spade responder following 1H 1S; 2H 3H; 4H

Truscott claims
 * a complete guess if side suits irrelevant
 * 4-3 or 3-4 but no comment on clubs

Truscott 1990-07-04
Truscott, Alan. "Bridge; Matched small tripletons may look uninteresting but they can be illuminating." 1990-07-04

West leads K into the passed responder, guided by a double, following -- -- -- 1D; 1N 2S; 3D 3H (Dbl); 3N

Truscott says that 3N and 4S both depend on 4-3 breaks, one in hearts and one in spades. Late in a close Vanderbilt semifinal the results were 3N+3 and 5D-1.

Truscott 1992-05-21
Truscott, Alan. "Bridge; The Eastern Regional Championships return to a familiar Manhattan home after 14 years". --but featuring a recent deal played locally 1992-05-21

West leads 2 into the opening bidder, fourth best, evidently no better than JT72, following 1N 3N

With two diamonds rather than three, there is higher probability West would hold a better suit to lead.

Truscott 1993-05-05
Truscott, Alan. "Bridge; When the 'right' way to play the suit is the wrong way to play the hand". 1993-05-05

North deals, EW vulnerable. Spade overcaller West leads Q following 1D -- 1H 1S; 4D 4N; 5H

The auction suggested that West not East must be short in hearts, if any.