December Bridge Letter
2008
Who can believe that Christmas is really upon us !!
I really love this time of year and our spare bedroom is full of prettily wrapped presents, the only problem I have with Christmas shopping is knowing when to stop.
Firstly this month big congratulations to England on their magnificent performance in the 1st world Sports games.
Beijing.
The women’s team won the gold medal.(Heather Dhondy, Nicola Smith, Catherine Draper, Sally Brock, Anne Rosen and Nevena Senior. Martin Jones was the Captain and Sandra Penfold was the coach.)
While the women were securing the gold the under-21s were taking the silver.(Ed Jones, Michael Byrne[captain, Tom Paske, Alan Shillitoe[coach], Dan McIntosh, Ben Paske, Rob Myers and Alan Hickman).
Yet another silver medal appeared when the Open Teams matches were over.( Simon Cope [coach], Justin Hackett, David Gold, Nick Sandqvist, Tom Townsend, Jason Hackett, Artur Malinovski and Phil King[captain] ).
Please note that the dates of the EBU and Mercian Congress are 4th to 9th of February and are taking place at the Mare Nostrum Resort, Tenerife.
www.mare-nostrum.otbeach.com
There is a freephone number
Mercian Travel
0800 036 8372.
Mastering Bridge.
A new website from the Master Point Press group.
www.masteringbridge.com
An instructional site for teachers and students to meet.
What’s On Around the world.
Dec 8-12:.
ASEAN Bridge Club Championships
Bandung, Indonesia
Dec 13-14
UBS Teams 2008.
Uppsala, Sweden.
Dec 19-21
Junior Channel Trophy
Belgium
Australian Bridge Magazine Online Bidding Forum.
Five problems are posed every two months and visitors are invited to submit their answers with comments. The most interesting comments are presented with the answers. These are the same five problems that we run in the magazine. This allows us to also show the scores from the expert panel in the magazine.
www.australianbridge.com,
Paul Marston
Publisher and editor
Negative free bid
a nonforcing suit bid by responder over an intervening overcall.
Negative inference
a deduction made from the absence of an occurrence.
Negative response
a bid denying certain values.
Negative slam double
in a competitive auction, the double of a slam to deny defensive tricks.
New suit
a suit not previously bid.
-ninth
within or heading a nine-card holding. [Usage: jack-ninth = nine cards headed by the jack = Jxxxxxxxx.]
No bid
an improper form of "pass."
No call
an improper form of "pass" and a misnomer as well, for each player must call at his or her turn, even if that call is a pass.
Nonforcing
allowing partner to pass under the partnership understanding.
Notrump
the highest-ranking strain in the bidding, in which the play proceeds with no trump suit.
Notrump distribution
balanced distribution.
Novice
inexperienced player.
Nuisance bid
action aimed at disrupting the opponents' auction.
News seems to be very scarce at this time of year so Season’s
best to all !!
Pattie Dupree |
