UNIT 206 CHIT CHAT Volume 6 Issue 7 Monthly Publication of ACBL Unit 206 July 2015 Email: [email protected]Becoming a Bridge Expert By Frank Stewart According to the foreword to this book, Stew- art decided that he was a better teacher than professional bridge player, and, thus, in 1984 he stopped playing and began full-time writing on bridge-related topics. This book is based on the factors that Stewart has observed will make a winning player. These factors are: (1) a solid foundation, (2) partnership trust, (3) discipline, (4) focus, and (5) judgment. The book is divided into four sections, and within each section are fifteen tips that begin with a problem and are illustrated with deals. Tip ti- tles give a clue as to the approach the author takes to make this book enjoyable as well as informative, e.g., “If it’s a misfit, quit,” “’Eight ever, nine never?’ Don’t believe it!”, and “Count, count, count!”. The parting words from the author in his Foreword? “May all your finesses be winners!” LIBRARY CORNER BRIDGE TIP FOR JULY With two five-card suits: open the higher ranking suit, respond in the higher ranking suit, and overcall in the higher ranking suit. Do not worry about which suit is stronger. You hold: S. x H. J10xxx D. AKQxx C. Ax Open 1H, not 1D. Respond 1H to an opening bid of 1C and overcall 1H if the opening bid to your right is 1C. Eddie Kantar www.kantarbridge.com BRIDGE ETIQUETTE Leading face down is not only good etiquette it is a rule of bridge. It allows your partner an opportunity to ask questions without affecting your lead and prevents you from leading out of turn. Remember, once you put your card down it is a played card even if face down unless it is not your lead! KITCHEN CHATS WITH DAN Hi again. It has been six months since this year began. It has truly been a pleasure for me to serve you as President thus far. Many thanks to all the members of your Unit 206 Board, Myra Reneau the Unit and Chaanooga Manager, the Boards at Cleveland and Fairyland, Teresa Moore who acts as manager for them, our wonderful Directors, all of you who have helped with Tournaments, special events, and all who connue to offer new ideas and help in implementaon. Finally, thank you for playing and helping make Unit 206 a “fun place to come and compete”. As for expressing my appreciaon, I must menon the wonderful turnout and support shown by both Cleveland and Chaanooga for the Longest Day. Teresa Moore did a great job pung on the Sunday event in Cleveland. She also brought an amazing cake to Chaanooga for our Monday Longest Day. Nancy Mapel did an outstanding job coordinang the food for the breakfast and lunch on Monday. Aſter experiencing issues with his grill, David Vine did a great job cooking for the dinner between the aſternoon and evening games. Actually, David’s wife Fran deserves most of the credit for pung together their new grill in the sun and heat in order for David to be able to grill. Really, great thanks to you Fran. However the real credit goes to all of you who parcipated through your play and contribuons. As Myra has
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UNIT 206 CHIT CHAT Volume 6 Issue 7 Monthly Publication of ACBL Unit 206 July 2015
Whether you use Blackwood or RKC (Roman Key Card), when you bid 4NT asking for aces (or keycards) and then bid 5NT ask-
ing for kings, YOU MUST HAVE ALL THE KEYCARDS AND THE QUEEN OF TRUMPS! Bidding 5NT asks partner to bid 7 with a
hand like this:
Axxx
xx
AKQJxx
x
Your agreed suit is spades. Your partner has bid 4N, then bids 5N (asking for kings). He has promised that between the
two of you, you hold all the aces, and the king and queen of spades. You should bid 7 since you can count 13 tricks. On
the other hand, if your hand is
Axxx
Kx
AJxxxx
x
When your partner bids 5N, you would simply show your partner specific kings by bidding them up the line. In this case,
you bid 6H, showing the king of hearts and denying the king of clubs or the king of diamonds. If you have no kings, you
would bid 6S. Partner will then decide where to place the final contract. Happy Slam Bidding!
Ron and Linda
Auction Basics
To paraphrase well-known player John Solodar, “Bridge is too hard; no one should play it." Reading this the other day was rather com-forting, as I am still, after 45 years of playing it, trying to limit my mistakes. Fortunately, there are a lot of partnership understandings that can be nailed down; eliminating a host of needless mishaps. Say you're sitting across the bridge table from a rather inexperienced partner you've never played with before. Endeavoring to think along the same lines, and to try to fend off upcoming disasters, you might have the following conversation: Opening bids: Open all 12 point hands. In 3rd seat, okay to open light (say, 9 points) if you have a suit you want led on defense. Because we will probably BE on defense. Okay to bid a good 4-card major only in 3rd seat. If I open in third seat, and you have 11 points, don't jump to show it. Bid naturally. If I open one of a major (for instance), don't bid two of a new suit unless you have at least 10 points. If you have only 2 of my major suit, and 6 to 10 points, bid 1NT. If I open one of a minor, and you have no 4 card major, but 4 or more cards in my suit, okay to bid 2 of it (or one NT) with only 6 points. In any event, it's important to not skip over a 4-card major to respond 1NT; it's too easy to miss a 4 - 4 major suit fit with partner. If I open one of a suit, and you have 10 or 11 points and 3 or more of my suit, bid 3 of it, ("limit raise") if no intervening bid by the oppo-nents. If they bid, you can cue bid their suit to show this type of holding- or better; otherwise, if you bid raise to 3 over their bid, you have a weak hand, less than 10 points. Watch the vulnerability at all times. Remember, on game-going hands, we are striving for 3NT (if we have the opponents' bid suit stopped) or 4 of a major; much less often a minor suit game. If I open 1NT, invite with 8 or 9 points, and with 10 to 15, see that we get to game. If more than that, slam is a definite possibility. There's much more to discuss with a new partner, (or even an old partner) which is why the ACBL Convention Card covers all bases.
JUNE HIGH GAMES
Chattanooga
Open
Cheryl Whitfield/Janie Hunt 75.00%
NLM
Elliot Gillispie/Jack Gillispie 66.93%
99er
John Zelle/Mary Zelle 66.67%
OMAR SHARIF OBITUARY
4/10/1932 - 7/10/2015 Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor who also was an expert at contract bridge, has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 83. Sharif, who died of a heart attack in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, became an international star in Da-vid Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia," for which he re-ceived an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor, and "Doctor Zhivago."
He also appeared in the films "Funny Girl," "Che!" and "The Pink Panther Strikes Again." Other film credits include "MacKenna's Gold," which starred Gregory Peck and Telly Savalas, and "Mayerling," in which the dashing actor was paired with Catherine Deneuve. In his later years, Sharif became one of the world's best-known contract bridge players. He also co-wrote a syndicated column about the card game with the bridge expert Charles Goren. He also authored several books on bridge and licensed his name to a contract bridge computer game. By 2006, however, Sharif had stopped playing the game. In an interview with Reel Talk Mov-ie Reviews, Sharif said: "I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more ex-cept for my work. I had too many passions, bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a differ-ent life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time." He is survived by a son and two grandsons.
It seems only fitting that in this issue when we are totaling out our
contributions to the Alzheimer’s Foundation following the Longest
Day Marathon, that the obituary of Omar Sharif be included. The
former world known bridge player announced in May that he had
Alzheimer's disease.
While he had not played duplicate bridge in a number of years, Sha-
rif did leave a legacy in the contract bridge world. Many younger
players may not recognize his name or face but those of us over
about 35 probably do. I know I have read many of his bridge col-
umns and played the contract bridge game.
I am sure that many will share a thought of sympathy for his family
at this time.
The Chattanooga Bridge Club held three games on Monday June 22 for
the Alzheimer’s Longest Day Marathon. At last count the club had raised
$2867.77 for Alzheimer’s research! This is a tremendous amount and de-
serves thanks to our members, friends and family that contributed.
Our high game winners were
9:30 am Larry Reneau/Myra Reneau 68.15%
1:30 pm Cal Brassfield/John Friedl 69.13%
NLM Marty Hershey/Mary Pierce 61.11%
Some of our NLM’s group...the brave
ones!
And of course we have to include the breakfast crowd that started the whole day off...look at all
of those smiling faces!
This is a big portion of the 1:30 crowd. Myra even managed to drag me into the picture...I am the black cap on
the back left!
Challenges have been a very integral part of my life. One of the biggest ones was raising my children from three and five as a single parent. I was twenty six at the time. From that challenge I really did learn all about life. I enjoyed it immensely and to this day remain grateful for the many experi-ences from which I drew more knowledge than I even gained throughout my former schooling years. When my daughter and son graduated in their formal education, both moved to London, England to follow their respective profes-sions. I found myself in my mid forties wondering what was next for me in life. After a great deal of thought I concluded I was way too young and adventurous to wait around for duty phone calls from my children, so I decided to come to Ameri-ca. I had a sister who lived in Hinsdale which is a suburb of Chicago. I had the opportunity to work at the British Consulate in downtown Chicago. My sister persuaded me to live with her which meant I really had the best of both worlds. I lived in the suburbs but enjoyed the city in which to work and enjoy the many happenings downtown. I loved Chicago. My term at the Consulate was very exciting. I was involved in many things there and got to learn a lot more about the United States from a viewpoint of a foreign office housed in this country. I was given the opportunity of being presented to Prince Charles during one of his official visits to America during which he played Polo at the Butler Estate. I found him most charming and I felt particularly delighted when he recognized I was the only Scot employed at the Consulate at that time. Amazing how it took me living and working in America to meet our British future King!!!! I later moved to Chattanooga where I met my husband. That put paid to my former plans where I thought I would perhaps apply for a job in other Consulates throughout the world. I come from a very adventurous family and thought I could perhaps share some of their experiences by being able to work at Consulates in the countries they either had worked in or were still living in. I had two brothers in South Africa, a brother who had run a Tea Plantation in India, another an engineer in the Middle East and, of course, my sister in the United States. I decided to settle in America and was most fortunate to find a job in Travel here in Chattanoo-ga. I was with Tennessee Valley Travel Agency for twenty plus some years and ultimately be-came President of the company. As a result I was given the privilege to travel the world exten-sively and visited all the countries and many more I had wanted to see. My husband was able to travel with me to many of those countries which was a huge plus. I became a United States Citizen. To do this it did not necessitate my giving up my British Citi-zenship, I am a dual National, so that is a privilege I enjoy. As my retirement approached I did wonder how I was going to fill a huge gap in my life. My children and grandchildren lived in London so I could arrange to see them more often. I had al-
INTRODUCING MARY RHODEN
ways made a point of visiting them twice every year but now I could increase that. You know what, though? They were into their own lives and really the children had school. I really needed to work on things to do here. One day I had two very dear friends to my home for lunch. One of them asked me what I was going to do in my retirement. Frankly I really did not have an answer. Of course I had given it some thought but up to that time had not been able to come up with many, if any, answers. "Mary", said one of my friends, "why don't you learn to play Bridge?" Coming from a strict Scot-tish Presbyterian background, cards were not a welcome scene in our home. I had never played cards. My friends assured me I could learn the game and what's more thoroughly enjoy it. I
would make new friends and I would get really involved before long. It would be yet another challenge!!!!!! In my total ignorance I gave it some thought. I was told I could take some lessons and that would get me started. Of course I had no clue there was Party Bridge and Duplicate Bridge or that there was some considerable difference be-tween the two systems. Long story short. I took some lessons, I em-barked on learning Duplicate Bridge and found myself in the throws of one of the biggest chal-lenges of my life.
I was helped by several very nice, patient people. I lived through my humiliation and being hum-bled more than I cared to remember as I tried to learn the rules etc. I understand and accept I will not ever be a really good player but I have met some of the nicest people ever and the chal-lenge is still being faced. I have come a long way, not long enough you understand, but I am pre-pared to continue learning and enjoying the fun experienced and enjoyed with new friends. I have embarked on other hobbies since my retirement and find myself leading a very full life. So full, in fact, I wonder how I ever had time to work!!!!! I am involved with a Hospice company volunteering to sit with patients . I have difficulty finding the words to describe what this means to me so will merely tell you how privileged I feel to have the opportunity to be included in this work. I have not been able to talk my husband Grady into taking up bridge but my powers of persuasion have not exactly been exhausted yet!!!!!!!! Grady has not retired from his Engineering Company quite yet but is seriously working on it. So who knows?!!!!!
The Cleveland Club raised $459 for the Alzheimer’s Foundation in their Longest Day
Challenge. For an event of only 8 tables on a Sunday afternoon, this is an impressive
amount! Kudos to the Cleveland Club on a job well done.
Congratulations to the high game of the day Teresa Moore and Barbara Jones with a
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