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Fall 2016 Volume 59, Issue 3 Peter Wright, Editor

IN THIS ISSUE Woodbridge Holiday Sectional flyer ..................... 2

Article: The Bridge Connection ............................. 3

Kudus for August Sectional ................................... 3

Article: Holiday Sectional Update ......................... 4

Kohn’s Korner ......................................................... 5

Article: The Power of Passing ................................ 5

Youth Bridge .......................................................... 6

Article: Gambolin Man .......................................... 7

Masterpoint Races

Mini-McKenney .............................................. 8

Ace of Clubs .................................................... 8

Player of the Year ........................................... 9

Remembrances ...................................................... 9

Article: Revokes and More .................................. 10

Kudus for Barbara Clark .................................... 11

Big Games ...................................................... 12, 13

Club news.............................................................. 14

Milestones ............................................................. 15

THE DECLARER NJBL web site www.njbl.net

Editor Peter Wright

[email protected]

Contributors Barbara Clark

Arnold Kohn

Brett Kunin

Ed Sable

Rosalie Slutsky

Reporting / proofing Brett Kunin

Technical Advisor Jay Korobow

Web Master Susan Slusky

[email protected]

The Declarer is published online four times per year

by the New Jersey Bridge League (Unit 140, District

3 of the ACBL).

NEWS FLASH Congratulations to

MICHAEL AND JACKIE HEWLETT who posted a whopping

79.88% score at the last

regional tournament in

Danbury, Connecticut.

Their coup occurred Friday,

October 21, at the first session

of the Golden Pairs game.

Their overall score for the

day was 71.00%, which

enabled them to claim first-

overall standing. Well done!!

http://www.njbl.net/

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Fall 2016 THE DECLARER Page 2


THE BRIDGE CONNECTION by Rosalie Slutsky

amed teacher and author Eddie Kantar has

written, “Do not open the bidding with any hand

that you would be ashamed to put down as dummy.”

Yet so many people are taking chances with sub-

standard openers or overcalls. Remember his words

when tempted to bid! You’ll never regret it.

Another one of his gems is “Bridge is a game of fits

and misfits. You can take that statement any way you

like.”

You have heard me say often, “The best bid in bridge

is PASS” (remember the story of the little black

book?) and “Count tricks when pre-empting, not

points.” How many tricks can you really take? Many

times you will come to excellent contracts that way!

Speaking of counting, when

you are playing in a suit

contract, count your losers.

Then try to figure a way to

eliminate some or all of the

losers. With careful planning

you can often make your

contract! In the next hand,

you have two potential

losers, the ♦K and the ♣K.

♠ AKJ4

Dlr: East ♥ A83

Vul: none ♦ AJ108

♣ 107

♠ 1053 ♠ 972

♥ Q102 ♥ J7654

♦ 652 ♦ K974

♣ K642 ♣ 5

♠ Q86

♥ K9

♦ Q3

♣ AQJ983

West North East South

Pass 1NT Pass 3♣

Pass 6♣ All Pass

Plan your strategy. As long as East doesn’t hit on a

Diamond lead, you don’t have to lose the ♦K because

you can discard your

losing Diamond on

dummy’s long Spade! The

bidding may be different,

depending on the style

you use, but you should

ultimately end up in a 6♣

contract.

WANTED: NOMINEES FOR UNIT 140 BOARD

WE NEED YOU! If you, or someone you know, might be interested in working on the Unit 140 Board to help to promote

local bridge, please contact one of our friendly nominating committee members Susan Fulton, Arnie

Kohn, Ron Kraft, Joe Lebretore, Richard Ross, Ruth Steckelman or Dennis Thompson when you

see them in the clubs. You may also contact Rich at [email protected] with any questions or

concerns you might have.

F


KUDUS FOR AUGUST SECTIONAL

[The following letter was originally sent to the ACBL,

which published an abridged version in the November

issue of the Bulletin. - Ed.]

From: Don Davidson

To: [email protected]

Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 8:57:04 AM

Subject: Summer Sectional

During a brutal heat wave weekend in NJ, Unit 140 had

the annual summer sectional at the Hungarian-American

Citizens Club in Woodbridge.

There was plenty of water, and the AC was pumping at

full throttle (not quite as cool as desired, but let me tell

you it was almost 100 degrees outside!).

It was advertised there would be guaranteed

partnerships, and the committee made good on this

promise. If there was absolutely no partner available,

one of the committee members would volunteer to

play. What other tournament offers that?!

The pair games were divided into 3 sections:

299ers

Open players in the middle range

And the super open games for those who like

the shark tank

Don’t worry about getting hunger pains, because you

were fed better than a guest at your friend’s home.

Snacks included humus and chips, fresh veggies, and

dip. On Friday and Saturday, pizza slices were sold at a

nominal amount of $1/slice. What a bargain for lunch.

Sunday was for the 7 match team games, and phone calls

were made to help me find teammates. My new partner

was a perfect match for our simple 2 over 1 convention

cards. Our teammates were new to each other, and made

the most of the 49 hands expected to play that day.

The hosts provided a huge spread of food on Sunday an

hour before starting time with assorted fresh bagels, egg,

chicken, and tuna salad, and even a tasty white fish

spread, and cream cheese. There were also pastries for

the sweet tooth.

There was more of this buffet for our lunch break with

also salads for those watching calories.

Wait there’s more! There were pastries, and cookies and

chocolates, and cakes all afternoon.

There was so much extra food, the hosts announced at

the end of the day to please take home the many

leftovers.

Personally I would like to thank:

Tournament Chair: Brett Kunin

Partnership Chair: George Browne

Director in Charge: Marilyn Wells

HOLIDAY SECTIONAL UPDATE

by Brett Kunin, Tournament Chair

I am pleased to announce that with the “shift” in time by

the ACBL for the Fall NABC, our unit will be

“resuming” our normal time slot for our Holiday

Sectional in December, which this year will be the

second weekend, December 9-11.

In addition, beginning with that sectional tournament,

our unit, like many other units and districts in the

Northeast, will begin “averaging” Masterpoints (MPs) in

each stratification for all pair games. Therefore, although

the upper limits of the stratification still apply – e.g., in

Flight “B” no one with more than 3000 master points

can play in that strat – the points will be averaged. For

example, in the B/C/D event on Saturday afternoon, with

stratifications of 3000/2000/1000, if one person has 1900

points and is playing with a person who has 50 MPs, the

two would be considered a “D” pair for the purpose of

stratification. There is no need for “averaging” on

Sunday, since it is already a bracketed Swiss event.

Our “PoG” (Partner of Guaranty) program, which

guarantees a partner in all pairs games, implemented by

our Partnership Chair, George Browne, has been an

unmitigated success, and we guarantee partners for both

the 299’er and open events in both sessions on Friday

and Saturday, provided George has one week’s advance

notice. Therefore, even if you don’t have a partner for

Friday and/or Saturday, please contact George, who will

also try to accomodate late cancellations and requests.

(George’s e-mail address and telephone number are on

the sectional flyer found on page 2 of this issue.)

Accordingly, we hope that many of you will make plans

and ask your friends and partners to attend our Holiday

Sectional.


KOHN ‘S KORNER #3

by Arnold Kohn

Preemption: Part I

he English word preemption means “to arrive

before.” One adopts the exact connotation in bridge

auctions. Hands that occur with suits that have seven

cards or longer and have no defensive value should be

opened with a preemptive bid; a bid usually starting at

the three level to keep the opponents from communicating

at a lower level. The level that one should preempt at is

determined by the vulnerability situation and the number

of cards and trick expectancy in their suit. I use a very

simple solution. Should the vulnerability be in my favor

(white vs. red), I bid at a level three tricks more than the

tricks I expect to make. At equal (both red or both white)

vulnerability, two tricks more and at unfavorable (red vs.

white) only one trick. With the following hand:

♠ AKQJxxx

♥ xx

♦ xx

♣ xx

I suggest

4♠ with favorable vulnerability

3♠ with equal vulnerability

PASS with unfavorable vulnerability.

One should never bid to incur a larger minus score then

the opponent’s expected game contract will score. In the

above hand, with an Ace or King in one of the other

suits, I suggest an opening bid of 1 Spade.

THE POWER OF PASSING

by Ed Sable

’ve been told from time to time that PASS is often the best

bid in our arsenal. Much as I was tempted to make a

different bid on this deal, I used it and enjoyed the results.

Playing Matchpoint non-vul, my partner had passed and my

vulnerable right hand opponent opened 1♦. I was holding

♠ A108

♥ AJ2

♦ KQ74

♣ Q104

and was, of course, tempted to overcall 1NT. But I like to give

myself chances for great rather than OK boards, so I decided

to pass. Even if 1♦ gets passed out, I like my MP chances.

The bidding then continued as follows:


Pass 1♦ Pass

1♥ 1♠! Dbl(1)

Pass

2♥ Pass Pass (1) Support Double

After East’s support double, I just passed again and East

naturally bid 2♥ passed back to me. I thought – what are our

chances for game? Even with my 16 points, I have 7 losers, so

I just bid a tame 2♠. Then the good news:


Pass 1♦ Pass

1♥ 1♠! Dbl(1)

Pass

2♥ Pass Pass 2♠!

3♥ 3♠! Dbl All Pass

West bid 3♥. As I’m thinking -- what will I do when it gets

passed back to me – my partner bids 3♠! Oh my goodness,

maybe we do have game! Well, low and behold, righty

doubles 3♠! That’s certainly the best way for me to get to

game!

The full deal was:

♠ KJ9732

♥ 105

♦ 108632

♣ –

♠ Q5 ♠ 64

♥ Q8764 ♥ K93

♦ – ♦ AJ95

♣ KJ8753 ♣ A962

South

♠ A108

♥ AJ2

♦ KQ74

♣ Q104

You can see that 3♠ makes 5 for a top board.

So what would have happened if I overcalled 1NT? We’ll

never know. Could be a spade or heart partial or maybe 4♠ or

even 4♠ doubled – all not as good as this result!

The bottom line is that PASS can be a good investment with

great returns.

T

I


YOUTH BRIDGE

by Barbara Clark

On Saturday, July 16, at the Crowne Plaza

Hotel in Fairfield, NJ, 38 students from our

region participated enthusiastically in the

District 3 Regional Tournament as they

were preparing for the 2016 Youth NABC

to take place in Washington, DC on July

28-30.

1st place: Kyle Lui and Justin Wang

2nd: Salbrina Teal and Jahiem Watson 3rd Winners – Reid Busse and Kurt Hu

4th Justin Dapaah and Momo Sacko 5th: Prince Antwi and MunachImso Iherobiem

The largest contingency at the Washington, DC nationals came from Beijing, China, with 40 kids.

New Jersey was well represented by the following participants, all subsidized by District 3:

From Orange: Sayeed Bennet, Momo Sacko, Giovani Peterkin, Ibrahima Sacko, A’rina Black, Martha Johnson-Jackson,

Iyahna Barrett, Justin Dapaah, Chidumebi Iherobiem, Edwin Thomas, Prince Antwi, Munachiso Iherobiem, Marquis

Douglas, Robert Dixon Jackson, Anahyah Muldrow and Reginald Smith

From East Brunswick: Leon Wang From Morganville: Justin Wang, Eric Lou, Kyle Lui

From Marlboro: Eric Chai From Tenafly: Maia Walzer

From Westfield: Reid Busse


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GAMBOLIN MAN

by Peter Wright

e Warned: I’m onna soapbox for one a my favrit

bids.

I open a Gambolin 3NT with any 7-card suit

(don’t never do it with no 8) headed by AKQ n nuthin

but side suit pips. Now, I know alla them A-players

out there wooden dream a doin that holdin a major

suit. Well, Their Pomposities kin arch them eyebrows

allaway to the ceilin, far as I care. I’m lookin at 7

winners inna suit, I’m gonna gambol, baby!.

I’ve trained alla my Pods that, when I do that, they

durst not be void in my suit, cuz if they is, a bushel a

trix is gonna end up withrin onna vine, on accounta I

won’t be able to reach my han, see?

Now, Their Pomposities have been brung up to bleeve

they should roll out Gambolin 3NT only with a long

minor, never never with a long major. Rong, rong,

rong. I think that Google Guy, or mebbe that Wiki

Dame, done snuck sech notions into their brainpans.

My Gambolin 3NT openin promises 7 very dee-lishus

trix all ripe for pickin. If – I say IF – Pod has (1) at

least a singleton in my suit, an (2) kin stop a coupla

suits cold, an (3) has a reasonable shot at stoppin the

third suit, why, then Pod should pass 3NT n gloat.

Lackin any one a them assets, Pod should take out to

4 Clubs, which I’ll pass or correct to whatever suit I

happen to be partial to at that particlar moment.

Spose y’all open 3 Hots. Pod dunno if y’all’s Hots is

Type A: (Ausgezeichnet!!) ♥ AKQ5432

Type B: (Bleaahhh) ♥ KJ98762

What’s Pod gonna do, frownin n calculatin, seein

♠ A1032

♥ 6

♦ A432

♣ QJ32

Why, Pod’ll pass, a course. Y’all go down in 3 Hots

most a the time, cept when you hold a Type A han.

But now looky here, spose, holdin that Type A han,

you gambol with 3NT. Pod, with the same han as

above, knows you got Hots cold. He kin pass 3NT

seereenly, knowin your side can take at least 9 trix or

mebbe 10 in 3NT, outscorin every other pair

languishin in 3 or even 4 Hots.

But enuff a all that sposin rot. Feast them peepers

now on a REAL LIFE han (yeah!) where y’all hold

♠ 752

♥ 832

♦ 2

♣ AK9763

Say Pod opens 3 Spades and nasty RHO overcalls 4

Diamonds. Are y’all gonna feel all comfy-like biddin

4 Spades, knowin that, 9 times out a 10, Pod will

have one of them Type B hans? An if y’all do bid 4

Spades, whatta y’all do if the opposition ups the ante

to 5? Pass? Double? Bid on? Oh, the agony!

But now, lissen up, Pod don’t open no 3 Spades! Pod

is a gamboler n starts off the biddin with a far more

spectaclar 3NT. Momentary like, y’all wonder what

Pod’s suit is; it could be anythin cept Clubs. Then

silly RHO comes to the rescue with that pesky 4

Diamond overcall, but it ain’t pesky no more. Y’all

can bet the farm that Pod’s suit ain’t Diamonds! So

that means Pod has AKQxxxx in one of the majors.

But which one? Hah! It don’t matter none. Whichever

one it be, y’all got at least three trix (2 Clubs n a

Diamond ruff) to add to Pod’s seven. So, y’all just

guffaw (inwardly, a course) and bid 4 Hots, all

innocent-like. After carefully consultin the ceilin, Pod

can either letter ride or correct 4 Hots to 4 Spades.

Now hold on a minute, Your Pomposities. No letters,

please. Don’t rain on my parade! I know Pod might

lose 3 trix inna other major suit plus a Diamond fore

he can get started, but that’s just dadblamed negative

thinkin. Good Pods don’t hold no 3 losin cards inna

other major when they gambol. An even if they do,

Their Pomposities won’t lead no other major; they’ll

lead a trump to cut down on dummy’s ruffs! Then

y’all’s han kin add at least 3 trix to Pod’s 7 dee-lishus

trumps. 4 Spades reached n made!

Y’all gambol nice, now.

B


MASTERPOINT RACES Standings by Range as of November 1, 2016

Mini-McKenney medallions are awarded to the players in each Unit, one per ranking level, who earn the most

total master points during the previous year. Except for online MPs earned, all points of any color and source

are counted. Ace of Clubs certificates are awarded to the players in each Unit, one per ranking level, who earn

the most master points in club games during the calendar year. Only black points are counted; points earned

in STaCs and other special games paying "pigmented" points don't count. The awards are not mutually

exclusive; it's possible to win either or both in the same year. The level you compete in is the one within

which you started the year.

Masterpoint range

0 – 5

5 – 20

20 – 50

50 – 100

100 – 200

200 – 300

300 – 500

500 – 1000

1000 – 1500

1500 – 2500

2500 – 3500

3500 – 5,000

5000 – 7500

7500 – 10,000

10,000+

MINI-MCKENNEY

Bobby Willig Princeton 42.05 Shangsan Qian East Brunswick 20.97

Zhengxiang Gu Piscataway 20.97

Lewis Lefkowitz Edison 46.01

Justine Robertson Rumson 34.78 Lorraine Novinski Mendham 31.53

Marc Weil Ocean 50.25

Ginny Mason Princeton 45.28

Joanne Moynihan Monroe Twp 40.16 Arvind Sharma Princeton 81.29

Ira Tarnow West Orange 75.23

Pramod Khanna East Windsor 60.40

Teresa Chek Bedminster 172.94 Chandu Mehta Morris Plains 111.14

Joseph Messina Waretown 76.64

Chung-Zong Wan Somerset 135.35

Thomas Hunter Milburn 84.10 Rochelle Schack West Orange 66.12

Michael Lo Bedminster 176.50

Foster Osborne Summit 130.55

Elayne Pollet East Hanover 108.77 Zhuo Wang Jersey City 161.79

Colin Kelley Cedar Knolls 139.98

David Sutton West Orange 115.20

Neeta Mone Livingston 300.40 Wendy Lee East Hanover 178.89

Chorng-Hour Yang Parsippanyh 170.86

Nat Zucker Monroe Twp 193.36

Stephen Cooper Belle Mead 177.02 Frank Hymus Bridgewater 141.94

Sam Borenstein West Orange 327.05

Joan Brody Livingston 258.59

David DuBois Westfield 239.36 Dori Byrnes Morris Plains 554.40

Richard Ross Highland Park 319.12

Donna Dulet Ocean 308.52

Dennis Thompson Lake Hiawatha 460.72 Judy Rothstein Livingston 347.13

Alex Perlin Metuchen 292.77

William Ehlers Madison 529.42

Jiang Gu Mountain Lakes 422.80 Alexander Allen Annandale 350.71

William Esberg Long Branch 214.94

Lester Sokolower Verona 186.52

Barbara Tepper Verona 103.63

ACE OF CLUBS

Bobby Willig Princeton 34.30 Sherry Kovacs Livingston 17.69

Susan Harden Summit 16.81

Justine Robertson Rumson 27.73

Cooki Gulkin West Caldwell 26.61 Lorraine Novinski Hendham 24.04

Marc Weil Ocean 44.31

Ginny Mason Princeton 37.08

Joanne Moynihan Monroe Twp 31.62 Ira Tarnow West Orange 45.11

Maureen Leach Brick 32.50

Jerry Seasonwein Monroe 30.78

Regina Weiss W Long Branch 49.19 Chandu Mehta Morris Plains 48.62

Lois Gerber Long Branch 46.21

Chung-Zong Wan Somerset 79.31

John Schmidt Princeton 44.48 Richard Perlman Skillman 42.97

Foster Osborne Summit 76.19

Jeremy Glaser North Caldwell 67.24

David Mayer Wayside 66.15 Colin Kelley Cedar Knolls 108.32

Barbara Codispoti Mount Arlington 79.97

Rita Whitney Kendall Park 67.39

Summer Freedman Short Hills 130.75 Chorng-Hour Yang Parsippany 127.04

Larry Youell South Orange 114.37

Frank Hymus Bridgewater 127.60

Elyse Menashe Deal 108.72 Ross Pomeroy Hillsboro 101.77

Robin Shamah Oakhurst 121.06

Adeline Some Livingston 117.24

Dave DuBois Westfield 102.35 E. Freeman Bunn Chatham 167.61

Donna Dulet Ocean 137.78

Lee Schwartz Morris Plains 130.16

Judy Rothstein Livingston 264.74 Marla Chaikin Little Silver 206.58

Jeannine Mancini Verona 173.99

Cheryl Angel Livingston 123.73

Jesse Reisman Livingston 117.97 Cynthia Schneider East Brunswick 112.71

Lester Sokolower Verona 159.42

William Esberg Long Branch 146.52

Barbara Tepper Verona 87.27


PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE Standings by Range as of November 1, 2016

0 – 50

50 – 100

100 – 200

200 – 300

300 – 1000

1000 – 2500

2500+

MEN Lewis Lefkowitz Edison 13.64

John Gimblette Lakewood 8.31

Zhengxiang Gu Mountain Lakes 5.82

Zuguang Tian Kendall Park 11.28

Alan Helfman Westfield 7.97

Pramod Khanna Easts Windsor 5.60

Chandu Mehta Morris Plains 19.95

Wayne Kuan Kendall Park 11.28

Joseph Wright Westfield 9.39

Sen-Yuan Wu Lawrenceville 5.82

Kirshan Arora Somerset 5.77

Richard Marcus Somerset 5.77

Michael Fried Edison 19.42

Zhuo Wang Jersey City 18.90

Robert Brolin Plainsboro 17.36

Leonard Myers Elizabeth 27.84

Stanley Weiss Livingston 22.10

Ke Zhao Edison 17.72

Jiang Gu Mountain Lakes 80.89

Dennis Thompson Lake Hiawatha 55.07

Richard Ross Highland Park 48.57

WOMEN Niobe Schabert Holmdel 4.85

Lois Ann Kleiner Elizabeth 3.82

Judy Waller Springfield 3.82

Jean Lyons S Plainfield 5.17

Ann Nelson Mantoloking 4.85

Paula Seidman Montville 2.86

Teresa Chek Bedminster 6.89

Flo Lippman Springfield 3.50

Merle Barnett Monroe Twp 2.06

Beverly Ross Monroe Twp 4.81

Linda Pitone Dayton 2.39

Kathy Arshan Jackson 2.38

Susan Atteridge Livingston 6.07

Carol Arnold Basking Ridge 6.02

Marlene Levitt West Orange 5.74

Ruth Yeselson Highland Park 11.38

Wendy Lee East Hanover 8.59

Arline Fulton Neptune 8.54

Donna Dulet West Deal 23.07

Dori Byrnes Morris Plains 21.34

Bonnie Britton Staten Isl, NY 17.07

REMEMBRANCES

The Board of Directors of the New Jersey Bridge League offer their condolences to the families and friends of the

following members of ACBL Unit 140. They will be missed at our bridge tables. We would like to remember all

who support and participate in this great game. Please notify Amy Durschlag at [email protected] of any deaths

within our membership. Please indicate, when known, dates of passing and club(s) attended.

Karl Buckman d. August 13, 2016

Frequent player at Toms River CC

Seymour Orchowitz d. July 13, 2016

Frequent player at Monroe Township

Al Stoloff d. August 26, 2016

Frequent player at Essex Bridge Center

Roseanne Goodstein d. August 30, 2016

Frequent player at Monroe Township

Adrienne Rothblatt d. September 10, 2016

Frequent player at Mountain Lakes CC

Fern Strauss d. September 6, 2016

Frequent player at Essex Bridge Center



REVOKES AND MORE

by Rui Marques [The following article was contributed to the ACBL

Unit 141 newsletter and is reprinted here by

permission. The author, Rui Marques, holds the

credentials of a national and International

Tournament Director. He moved to Philadelphia from

Portugal in 2015. – Ed.]

Tournament Director (TD) is often called about

situations that, being complex by themselves, can

be easily solved by returning to the basic concepts that a

TD needs to know and understand. One

example of such a situation: On a five-

card ending, playing 3NT, dummy has

♠ AQ2

♣ Q9

The top Spades are high. Declarer calls

for the ♠Ace, discarding a losing Club

(East and West following), and then

says: "Queen. Oh, I have a spade".

Director!

To correctly handle this call, the TD will have to

understand at least three basic concepts:

1. When is a card played from dummy?

2. When declarer designates a card in an

incomplete or erroneous way, what is the card

effectively played, if any?

3. When is a revoke established?

It is clear that declarer called attention to his own

revoke. If the revoke is not established yet, it can be

corrected. If it is established, it can´t (Law 62A). A

revoke is established when (Law 63) "the offender or

his partner leads or plays to the following trick (any

such play, legal or illegal, establishes the revoke)". In

this case, declarer is the offender. If his partner (dummy)

played to the next trick before attention to the revoke

was called, the revoke became established.

Did dummy play to the next trick? Part of Law 45B

reads like this: "Declarer plays a card from dummy by

naming the card . . ." Declarer named the Queen, before

stating that he revoked. He did not say "Spade Queen" or

"Club Queen," just "Queen." Now we go to Law 46B

that, for the purpose of this case, reads as,

"Unless a different intention from

declarer is incontrovertible, if declarer

designates a rank but not a suit, in

leading, declarer is deemed to have

continued the suit in which dummy

won the preceding trick provided there

is a card of the designated rank in that

suit." So, unless it is incontrovertible that

declarer wanted the ♣Queen, the ♠Queen

is played. Therefore, revoke established.

Declarer can´t substitute the Club that he discarded on

the ♠Ace, must follow suit to the ♠Queen, and (Law

64A1) declarer transfers one trick to the defenders

(declarer is the offender, and it was dummy that won the

revoke trick, so only one trick transfer). It is important to

note that for the purposes of this Law, dummy and

declarer are different "players."

At the table, TD without a good understanding of the

several basic laws that need to be applied in sequence,

will have a hard time getting the solution completely

right. There is no need to know the laws by heart, but

understanding them well is crucial.

A


BARBARA CLARK

TIRELESS PROMOTER OF YOUTH BRIDGE

[This article – minus the photo –

appeared in the July 31 Daily Bulletin

at the Washington D.C. NABC. – Ed.]

One of the most energetic supporters

of the Youth NABC and bridge in

general, especially for young people,

is Barbara Clark of Orange NJ. She is

education liaison for ACBL Unit 140

and she has tapped into numerous

sources for donations to her program,

including the estate of a wealthy man.

Clark, former director of special

services in the Orange school system,

started the school bridge program in

Orange in 2003. It is now operating in

two schools, Oakwood Avenue

Community School and the Park

Avenue School. When school

administrators took a favorable view

of bridge teaching, Clark found a

teacher on the staff who is a player.

They developed a lesson plan. They

soon found that the students took to

bridge with enthusiasm. “We realized

that the kids really like bridge,” Clark

says. Some of the students like bridge

so much that they come back to Park

Avenue for bridge even after they

finish the elementary grades and go

off to high school, where there are no

bridge classes.

The young bridge players of Orange

NJ experienced their first Youth

NABC in Atlanta in 2013. Clark paid

for nine players to attend the

tournament. Some of the players

experienced their first airplane rides.

Others were away from home for the

first time.

This year, Orange NJ sent 18 young

players to the Youth NABC. Back

home, some of them have started

teaching bridge to other students. “We

are thinking about starting a bridge

academy,” Clark says.

The principal of the Park Avenue

School recently took the Learn Bridge

In A Day? course and is looking for

ways to expand the bridge program at

the school. The Orange players don’t

have to wait a year to play in a

tournament. Thanks to Clark, District

3 youth coordinator, the students

regularly attend sectionals and

regionals in the district. Clark helps

organize fundraisers and knows she

can depend on a large group of friends

for donations. She has also

approached Bridge Base Online for

support.

Denise Harlem, a teacher at Park

Avenue, says the thriving bridge

program just keeps growing.

“Success,” she says, “breeds success.”

To see bridge kids in action, check out these links!

http://www.sikids.com/si-kids/2016/08/15/connecting-kids-through-bridge

(Sports Illustrated site)

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/11/orange_schoolkids_prove_bridge_is_for_the_young_to.html

(NJ.com site)

Another Tip of the Hat In case you missed it first time through,

Robert Hartman, CEO of the ACBL, devoted his entire column

in the November 2016 issue of the Bridge Bulletin to Barbara Clark, her teaching colleagues, and the kids who may become stars of the future.

http://www.sikids.com/si-kids/2016/08/15/connecting-kids-through-bridge

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/11/orange_schoolkids_prove_bridge_is_for_the_young_to.html


BIG GAMES: JULY–AUGUST–SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER (must have at least 5 tables to qualify)

OPEN GAMES

80.63% David Long / Wanda Fitzpatrick Jersey

80.26% Harold Schachter / Volkert Veeder Toms River

75.35% Donna Dulet / Abe Pineles Jersey

74.72% Robert Warendorf / Pamela Harding Bay Head

74.54% Susan Schwartz / Ed Hill Shrine

74.33% Sandy Manshel / Brett Kunin Shrine

74.07% Mark Savedoff / Harold Schachter Atlantic

74.07% Steve Swiss / Carla Van Den Heuvel Shadowfax

74.07% Teri Betesh / Edward Levy Jersey

74.07% Carla Van Den Heuvel / Steve Swiss Shadowfax

73.72% Sharon Hait / Lester Sokolower Essex

73.53% David Forbes / Andrew Getzler Essex

73.26% James White / John Dellosso Scotch Plains

73.14% Nat Zucker / Martin Singer Grand Slam

72.75% Harold Schachter / Mark Savedoff Toms River

72.62% Donna Dulet / Abe Pineles Jersey

72.50% Daniel Heyman / Herb Shulman Jersey

72.05% Alexander Allen / Richard Ross BCCNJ

71.96% Judy Rothstein / Jacek Leznicki Essex

71.96% Larry Youell / Sandy Manshel Shrine

71.86% Esther Dushey / Vivian Kraiem Deal

71.68% Lee Petersen / Arnie Fox Jersey

71.67% Anthony Cafaro / Harold Schachter Toms River

71.63% Michael Zagajewski / Ruth Yeselson Monroe Twp

71.50% Harris Bobroff / Volkert Veeder Dover Dames

71.25% Garrett Sayia / William Ingram Bay Head

71.21% Jim McCarroll / Arnold Kohn BCCNJ

71.12% Bruce Rothenberg / Charles Levitan BCCNJ

71.11% Paul Fried / Michael Rosen Monroe Twp

70.83% Dennis Thompson / Steve Albin Grand Slam

70.63% Richard Ross / Alexander Allen PBC

70.54% Burrell Humphreys / Dave DuBois Essex

70.25% Adeline Some / Brett Kunin Shrine

70.24% Josephine Cafaro / Anthony Cafaro Atlantic

70.24% Himanshu Joshi / Dennis Thompson Essex

70.14% William Esberg / Richard Ross Jersey

70.13% Larry Youell / Sandy Manshel Shrine

70.11% Tracy Kelleher / Patricia Pritchard Queen of Hearts

70.08% William Esberg / Muffie Gur Jersey

70.03% Mani Gupta / Susan Braun Shrine

70.02% Marty Eisenberg / Daniel Heyman Jersey

70.00% Jackie Goodrich / Alan Zbik Atlantic

70.00% Muffie Gurn / Bharat Shah Jersey

70.00% Ed Hill / Susan Schwartz Scotch Plains


BIG GAMES: JULY–AUGUST–SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER (must have at least 5 tables to qualify)

LIMITED and INVITATIONAL GAMES

80.40% Ginny Macdonald / Margaret Riker Rumson Nov

79.88% Beverly Jeck / Dolores Cranley Essex

78.58% Christine Hetzler / Justine Robertson Rumson

77.98% Bill Morgan / Nancy Belli Essex

76.79% Gwen Coleman / Richard Huzar Essex

76.00% Diana Keator / Justine Robertson Rumson

75.83% Lenore Levine / Larry Ehrlich Edgewood CC

75.77% David Upton / Laurie Erickson Essex

75.19% Lisa Toffey / Lisa Celona Essex

75.00% Sheila Stuart / Liz Hosny Present Day

75.00% Howard Wolfish / Harry S. Katz Essex

75.00% Laine Maurer / Jody Giedraitis Essex

73.75% Ta-Kuan Chiang / Yi-Ling Chiang PBC

73.67% Davida Schachter / Harold Schachter Four Seasons

73.50% Susan Abbot / Heather DeLaszlo Rumson

73.33% Alan Scher / Stephanie Scher Essex

73.23% Arlene Kollin / George Schneider Essex

73.22% Donald Devine / Carl Gardiner Rumson

73.14% Barbara Romann / Phyllis Kessler Essex

73.12% Ellen Gendel / Carol Mendelson Essex

73.12% Cooki Gulkin / Leslie Zucker Essex

72.94% Molly Ellsworth / Carol Ann Krueger BCCNJ

72.94% Maureen Lima / Richard Perlman BCCNJ

72.92% Edith Koenig / Ted O'Keefe Four Seasons

72.57% Marcia Michaels / Paula Seidman Essex

72.50% Carole Summers / Jay Eisenberg Essex

72.50% Barbara Berger / Marc Berger Essex

72.22% Beverly Lipp / Leon Lipp Essex

71.93% Sherry Exon / Marianne Farmer Essex

71.83% Lynn Goildberg / George Schneider Essex

71.67% Edith Koenig / Ted O'Keefe Four Seasons

71.67% Paul Pritchard / Corky Lawrence Rumson Nov

71.63% Karen Miller / Richard Miller Essex

71.36% Lenore Paddock / Bonnie Conroy Essex

71.28% Jerry Glaser / Karen Glaser Essex

71.13% Molly Ellsworth / Carol Ann Krueger BCCNJ

71.10% Laurie Smith / Susanne Manelski Rumson

71.10% Martha Chamberlain / Bev Lawrence Rumson Nov

71.10% Jeff Fass / Marvin Wertheimer Essex

70.85% Howard Wolfish / Harry S. Katz Essex

70.83% Alan Scher / Stephanie Scher Essex

70.83% Anthony Cafaro / Harold Schachter Four Seasons

70.83% Mira Sheerin / Bruce Wallman PBC

70.83% Penny Levine / Beth Casola Essex

70.83% Marcia Michaels / Fran Ferrari Shrine

70.83% Carol Franklin / Hildegarde Bucking Essex

70.63% Laureen Alcock / Tom Alcock Shadowfax

70.63% Nancy Robins / Patricia Taylor Present Day

70.63% Grace Johnson / Diane Radwill Essex

70.58% Richard Levendusky / Dolores Smith Four Seasons

70.58% Elliot Sommer / Mark Pesner Essex

70.56% Daniel Hoberman / Conrad Kirby Essex

70.56% Bill Monheimer / Lynn Goldberg Essex

70.54% Gary Cukrow / Rose Cukrow Essex

70.54% Maureen Lima / Richard Perlman Hillsboro

70.54% Susan Harden / Lorraine Novinski Essex

70.45% Larry Kalmanson / Sherry Kovacs Essex

70.38% Debbie Schneider / Lorraine Stein Essex

70.28% Eleanor Wiener / Steven Feldhamer Essex

70.24% Phil Hoch / Richard Bindelglass Essex

70.24% Barry Edelman / Joan Edelman Shrine

70.24% Alan Gotliffe / Cathy Gotliffe Essex

70.23% Rita Ziegler / Ruth Oransky Montclair Glf

70.05% Christine Hetzler / Justine Robertson Rumson


SHADOWFAX BRIDGE CLUB TEAM GAME CHAMPIONSHIP

At BLACK OAK GOLF CLUB 169 Bartley Road, Long Valley, NJ 07853

November 19th 10:00am OPEN game

Cost of admission is $24 and includes bridge fees and your luncheon selection plus beverages, soup and cookies.

Pre-registration required. Contact Judy Buell at 973-584-3753 or

[email protected] to arrange for a partner or a team.

SHRINE CENTER BRIDGE CLUB

** NEW Monday evening Stratified Pair game at 6:30pm - $8.00 entry

** Free Friday lecture at 12:00 noon

** Wednesday evening Stratified Pair game $8.00 entry

** Supervised play Friday mornings at 9:30am.

If you want to learn how to play Bridge, not just play AT Bridge, call us for private lessons from the best instructors in the area.

** Charity week every month- no extra fee, extra points ** Check our calendar for dates and all special events

New Improved Swiss Teams

Come and try our new format of Swiss.

Players are “handicapped” and given extra IMPs

to compete on a more level playing field.



MILESTONES Changes in Rank: July – August – September – October

Diamond Life Master Lee Schwartz Morris Plains

Sapphire Life Master Rochelle Djmal Neptune

Stephen Garreffa Randolph

Joyce Menezes Jersey City

Gold Life Master Mimi Trenchard Roseland

Ruby Life Master Anthony Iannino Kinnelon

Dorothy Koernig Summit Jacek Leznicki Verona

Silver Life Master Robert Brolin Plainsboro

Norma Cohen Oakhurst

R Jones Randolph

Mark Savedoff Lakewood

Barbara Stein Morristown

David Sutton West Orange Rita Whitney Kendall Park

Bronze Life Master Eileen Becker West Orange

Susan Craig Montclair

Jeanne Forti Jackson

Carol Kaufman Scotch Plains

Betty Kleinberg Flanders

Michael Lo Bedminster

K Mattran Cedar Grove Life Master Molly Ball Morristown

Eileen Becker West Orange

Michael Hewlett Bridgewater

Vaishali Jategaonkar Kinnelon

Carol Kaufman Scotch Plains

Lou Lazzaro Manahawkin

Advanced NABC Master Richard Bindelglass Martinsville Teresa Chek Bedminster

Jeremy Glaser North Caldwell

Pat Guadagno W Long Branch

Philip Hoch Elizabeth

NABC Master Marjorie Becker Verona

Philip Berman Livingston

Cheryl Britton Monmouth Bch

Christina Burkholder Montclair Ervin Burkholder Montclair

Fran Grossman Cranbury

Prem Gupta Monroe Twp

Bernice Haimson Parsippany

Phyllis Kearse Millburn

Ming Li Summit

Dennis Mondelli Barnegat

Charles Reilly Bridgewater Wendy Sands Monmouth Bch

Enid Smith-Helck Madison

Nick Trobovic Wall Township

Regional Master Paul Adler Morganville

Peggy Barnett West Orange

Sue Beck Livingston

Laura Breslin Ewing Susan Bressler Morganville

B Carton Rumson

Regional Master (continued) Howard Chen Westfield

Edward Fisher Manalapan

Liz Hagen Princeton

Grace Johnson Chatham

Maureen Leach Brick Diane Radwill Chatham

John Schmidt Princeton

Renee Waas Mountain Lakes

Eleanor Weisenberg Monroe Twp

Sectional Master Janet Berger Livingston

Joseph Borowsky Somerset

Carolyn Butler Point Pleasant Gloria Buxbaum Madison

Les Cadigan Long Branch

Lois Chiappa Denville

Doris Crudup Point Pleasant

Jonathan Eskridge Morristown

Debbie Faigen Lawrenceville

Beth Furman West Orange

Francis Gupta Princeton Martha Haviland Bridgewater

Minesh Kinkhabwala East Brunswick

Lewis Lefkowitz Edison

Robin Lenorth Eatontown

Lona Leschander Harvey Cedars

Jim Liotta Oceanport

Glenn Mangold Basking Ridge

Joseph Masino Summit Ginny Mason Princeton

Jacqueline McGinnis Manchester

Wendy Miller Morristown

Natasha Orman Nutley

Cynthia Gail Prell North Caldwell

Arthur Sabsevitz Monroe Twp

Eileen Salka Monroe Twp Don Summa Rumson

Mel Traum Manchester

Judy Waller Springfield

Ira Walter West Orange

Catherine Wellington Summit

Ronald Whitney Bloomfield

Club Master Ram Agarwal Basking Ridge

Meredyth Armitage Little Silver J Putnam Brodsky Shrewsbury

Norman Constant Basking Ridge

Susan Covert Westfield

Esther Eisenberg Holmdel

Elizabeth Ellwood Red Bank

Carl Gardiner Red Bank

Stephanie Gerstein West Orange

Sharon Gilman Ocean Michael Glogoff Princeton

Lynn Goldberg Short Hills

Cindy Goldstein Livingston

Joan Gotti Little Silver

Lynne Graham West Orange

Francis Gupta Princeton

Susan Harden Summit

Robert Hill Nutley Daniel Hoberman Montclair

Carrie Keating Rumson

Iris Kirkpatrick Rumson

Club Master (continued) Jane Klatsky Rumson

Steven Klatsky Rumson

Sherry Kovacs Livingston

Judy Lilien Clinton

Eileen Marshall Belle Mead

Joyce Michaelson Montclair

Linda Mitchell Shrewsbury Kris Murphy Rumson

Jay Nadelson Millburn

Judi Ostberg Summit

Carol Pedersen Manchester

Leanne Rettig Livingston

Janet Schoener Maplewood

Jared Schuller Hillsborough

Ken Stensler Lakewood Marlene Todaro Hampton

Janet Tribus Morristown

Arthur Villarosa Spring Lake

Patricia Waterbury Bay Head

Patty Whittemore Rumson

Bobby Willig Princeton

Linda Woodbury West Orange

Leslie Zucker Springfield

Junior Master Aubin Z Ames Cedar Grove

Lissa Anderson Mendham

Susan Anderson Bloomfield

Marjorie Attalienti Jackson

Barbara Berger Livingston

Terry Bullen-Smith Lawrenceville

Joan Crowther Cedar Grove Heather de Laszlo Rumson

Catherine Desjardins Maplewood

Sacka Duffy Rumson

Jeff Fass Livingston

Jay Fisher Florham Park

Joel Fisher Fanwood

Nancy Fitch Holmdel

Chantal Frantzen Princeton Robert Frantzen Princeton

Diane Frohling West Orange

Francis Gupta Princeton

Kurt Hu Westfield

Roy Knapp Rockaway

Robert Levitt Livingston

Lauren Liu Cranbury

Kyle Lui Morganville Maureen Mclaughlin Princeton

Paul Meglathery Ocean Grove

Gloria Mizhir Spring Lake

Anahyah Muldrow Orange

Olga Netto Summit

Bernadine Redden Little Silver

Laurie Ruben Berkeley Hts

Donald Slaght Normandy Bch Reginald Smith Orange

Joan Stevenson Manalapan

Rhonda Vrba Morristown

Justin Wang Morganville

Bobby Willig Princeton

Elizabeth Wolfe Princeton

Jane Zerrer Tinton Falls Mary Zimmermann Summit

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