President’sReport
OvertheEasterweekendweentertainedmany
of Brisbane’s best bridge players at our major
bridge congress, the BBC Easter Pairs and
Teams.
Onceagainitwasahugelysuccessfulcoupleof
dayswithsomenotableperformancesbysome
ofourclubmembers.Resultswillappearlaterin
this newsletter but I would like to congratulate
all members who played and a special “welldone!”toallourwinnersandrunners-up.
Thelogisticsoforganizingtheseeventsarehuge
and require enormous efforts from members. I
want to thank Chris Larter for coordinating the
entire event, and to Chris and Arne for setting
uppriortoplay.
Janette Hiatt is fast becoming a legend for her
brilliance in organizing the catering at these
events, and once again our visitors
congratulated me on our Club’s ability to
provide brilliant catering in the context of a
happyplayingenvironment.
Janette wishes to join me in giving enormous
thanks to those selfless members who worked
so hard in the kitchens and preparing the food
over the two days. Chris and Archie brilliantly
barbecued,Arneranthebarandinthekitchen
KathrynBroome,KerryPope,MurielBaker,Julie
Clark, Jan Waters, Hazel Lahey, Arne Jonsberg,
Chris Larter, Archie Smith, Debbie Stokes, Sue
Stone, Trish Alldridge, Anne Bartholdt, Leo
Stellmach,LynnKelly,ColleenStanleyensureda
constantsupplyoffoodanddrinksandkeptthe
playingareasfreeofdirtycupsandglasses.
Margaret Rylands, Colleen Stanley, Marie
Buckleywereourwonderfulrissolemakers.
The many boxes of boards required were dealt
byChrisLarterandJulieJeffries(whoremained
calm and patient when she encountered
problemswiththedealingmachine,andrefused
anyformofreimbursementforherwork).
Our terrific caddies were Alan McKenna, David
O’Gorman and Pam Singley (David was running
upanddownstairs,loadedwithboxesofboards
-Iwonderifthisispartofhisfitnessprogram!)
Chris Snook and Julie Jeffries were our
wonderful directors – thankyou for a smoothly
runcongress.
John and Lynn Kelly arrived early each day to
greet all players and collect money, and John
hadthethanklesstaskofbalancingthebooks.
Thankyou to those who donated the delicious
foodwhichkepteveryonegoingduringtheday,
and those who stayed behind each day to help
cleanandpackup.
AhugethankyoutoKerryPopeforvolunteering
many hours of hard work to strip back, clean
and re-surface the upstairs kitchen floor in
readinessforthecongress.
Wereceivedcomplimentsontheappearanceof
ourclubwithitsnewpaintandupstairsblinds.
To all who worked so hard to make the
weekendasuccess-Thankyou!
Elaine
Chris’sAdministrator’sCorner
EasterCongressResults
BelowarenotableresultsfromBBCmembersat
ourrecentEasterCongress.
Pairs:
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1stCGrade–JanetPriceandpartner
Teams
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1st B Grade – Arne Jonsberg / Elaine
Jonsberg/ChrisLarter/JohnLahey
1stCGrade–JanetPriceandteam
2ndCGrade–NanetteHinsch/PeterBurke/
PatBurke/BillTolstrup
ANZACDay
BBCwillopenonANZACwithourusualTuesday
sessionsat9.30amand7.15pm.
TheserviceattheCenotaphwillbeat7.30am.
Thursday 9.30am Session - Under 50
MasterpointswithSupervisedPlay
This session started this week with four
tables. All players who qualify are welcome to
come and enjoy this relaxed session. You may
comewithoutapartner.
RedPointSessions
NextredpointsessionsareFriday5&12May
Toqualifyfortheoverall,youneedtoplayboth
weekswiththesamepartner.Memberspaythe
usual$7orcouponandvisitorspay$9.
BridgeforBrainResearchChallenge
We will again be joining other clubs from
around Australia in participating in the Bridge
forBrainResearchChallenge(1-7May).Money
raised goes to NeuRA (Neuroscience Research
Australia).NeuRA’sgoalistoprevent,treatand
cure brain and nervous system diseases,
disordersandinjuriesthroughmedicalresearch.
TheBridgeforBrainResearchsessionatBBCwill
be the Saturday 1pm Duplicate session on 6
May.Tablefeeswillbe$10perplayerwith$8
goingtoBrainResearchand$2toBBC.
Beforethebridge,therewillbeaBBQstartingat
12noonwithprofitsgoingtoBrainResearch.A
burgerwillcost$5andasausageonbreadwill
cost$2.
Please note: If you regularly play at another
club,rememberyoucanonlyplayinoneBridge
for Brain Research session during the week as
everyone throughout Australia plays the same
hands.
BBC Graded Butler Pairs Congress (Sunday 28
May)
Even though we are just recovering from the
EasterCongress,ournextcongressiscomingup
onSunday28May.ItisGradedButlerPairsand
theentryformisnowavailable.
What is Butler scoring? Butler scoring uses
IMP’s, which is how Teams are scored, instead
of Matchpoints which we play at our usual
sessions.Theaimistomakeyourcontract.
MasterpointPromotions
Congratulations to the following members who
havereceivedamasterpointpromotion.
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FaridaMcLennan–GoldLife
JohnLahey–Life
SheilaWills–**National
GrahamBaker–National
RhondaWieckhorst–National
PatriciaLye–*State
MaureenGibney–*State
JoanJacobi–Regional
MerleBaudino–Local
MarieBuckley–Local
MichelleHarris–Local
BernadetteDwyer–Club
AnneDuncanson–Graduate
GrahamWilson–Graduate
NewMembers
MembershipStatus
The Committee welcomes the following new
members and wishes them a long and happy
associationwithBBC.
Our current membership status at BBC is the
following…
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PeterJokic
CatherineMiller
CherylWeeks
Totalmembershipis304
245 of our members have nominated
BBCastheir‘homeclub’
BridgeHand
Opening leads can be one of the most difficult
and frustrating aspects of Bridge. Text books
offer lists of desirable opening leads, but the
flawhereisthatlistscannotsitatthetableand
listentothebidding.Westinthefollowingdeal
knew these lists by heart and started with the
top heart in his sequence, against the South
contractof4S.
Dlr:SouthVul:N/S
♠10843
♥A9742
♦A1073
♣None
♠76 ♠AKQ
♥KQ103 ♥J865
♦J94
♦Q86
♣K1086
♣974
♠J952
♥None
♦K52
♣AQJ532
South West North East
1C
Pass IH
Pass
1S
Pass 4S(?) AllPass
OpeningLead:HeartKing
South took full advantage of the thoughtless
lead.HethrewadiamondontheAceofHearts,
ruffed a heart, cashed the Ace of Clubs and
ruffedaclub.Nextcameaheartruff,aclubruff
andanotherheartruff.Souththentookthetop
diamonds and ruffed a diamond for his tenth
trick.EastwaslefttogazeforlornlyattheAKQ
oftrumps.
West had Hearts and Clubs under control and
nobody had bid Diamonds, so the clear
implication to West is that trumps most likely
will be the prime source of tricks for South.
Westshouldthereforeleadatrumpandpunish
Northforhisoverbid.OnatrumpleadandEast
cashinghisthreetoptrumps,Southwouldhave
toplaywithcaretomakejusteighttricks.
Postscript to the above: The following hand
occurredinthelastmatchoftheteamseventat
BBC on Monday, and the opening lead to the
common contract of 3NT by East, dictated
whetherEastwouldmake7or13tricks.
♠Q107532
♥643
♦Q6
♣109
♠J6 ♠94
♥105
♥AK7
♦AKJ1097 ♦852
♣J54
♣AKQ73
♠AK8
♥QJ982
♦43
♣862
AlmostallSouthsleadeitherthe4thhighest
heartorthe♥Q.Therationalehereissimple,
establishhearttrickswiththehelpofyourtwo
spadeentries.HoweverthetwotopHeart
honoursplusthe11minorsuittricksgave
declarer13tricks,andwhendeclarerclaimed
earlyatourtable,Elainefacedher♠AKandImy
♠Q10,andIquicklywhingedabouthernot
openingwiththe♠Kjusttohavealookat
dummy.HoweverintheASection,ofthe83NT
contracts,allbutonegotaheartleadandmade
13tricks,andintheothertwosections7pairs
played3NTandallgotaheartleadfor13tricks.
Soclearlytheheartleadwasprobably
technicallycorrectbutabitdisappointingto
give4overtricks,ratherthandefeatingthe
contractbytwotricks.
ButasIsaidatthebeginning,openingleadscan
bebothdifficultandfrustrating.
Arne
HeardattheBridgeTable
Neverreproachpartnerifthereistheslightestthingforwhichyoucanreproachyourself.
Ontheotherhand,donotreproachyourselfifyouthinkitwouldgiveundueencouragementtoyour
partner’sbaserinstincts.
Thesupplyofpoorpartnersgreatlyexceedstheirdemand.
A20pointhandre-evaluatestozerowhentheopponentstakethesettingtrick.
It’saneasyhandtomake.Youjusthavetoguesswhereeverythingis.
Ineed10moremasterpointsforLifeMaster,15ofwhichneedtobegold.
Twohearts,makingsix.Aplusisaplus.
Bridgewouldbealotbettergameifonlyyoudidn’tneedapartner.
LittleKnownHistoricalFacts(thatyouneedtoknow.Orperhapsnot!)
ThepenaltyforadulteryinAncientGreeceinvolvedhammeringaradishintotheadulterer’sbottom
withamallet.(IsuggestthispunishmentisintroducedtoBBCforanyonerevokingtwiceinthesame
hand.)
Victorianguidebooksadvisedwomentoputpinsintheirmouthstoavoidbeingkissedinthedarkwhen
trainswentthroughtunnels.
Inthe19thandearly20thcenturieshavingallyourteethremovedandreplacedwithfalseoneswasa
commonandpopular21stbirthdaypresent.
PeopleinVictorianBritainwhocouldn’taffordachimneysweep,commonlydroppedlivegeesedown
theirchimneysinstead.
Thescrewdriverwasinvented100yearsbeforethescrew.Itwasoriginallyusedtoextractnails.
Awards
TheStakhanoviteAwardforindustry,toilandlabourgoestoKerryPopeforherHerculeaneffortson
renovatingtheupstairskitchenfloor.
ThesecondStakhanoviteAwardofthemonth,foreffortaboveandbeyondthecallofduty,goestoJulie
ClarkwhohavingcompletedherSaturdaymorningbridgelessonthenmannedthebarricadesunassisted
foranhour,ensuringallmembershadaparkingspace.
AndFinally….AFewwordsOnWisdom
“Noonecanmakeyoufeelinferiorwithoutyourconsent.”
“Thefooldoththinkheiswise,butthewisemanknowshimselftobeafool.”
―WilliamShakespeare,AsYouLikeIt
“Wheneveryoufindyourselfonthesideofthemajority,itistimetoreform(orpauseandreflect).”
―MarkTwain
“Itisthemarkofaneducatedmindtobeabletoentertainathoughtwithoutacceptingit.”
―Aristotle
“Thinkbeforeyouspeak.Readbeforeyouthink.”
“Bythreemethodswemaylearnwisdom:First,byreflection,whichisnoblest;Second,byimitation,
whichiseasiest;andThird,byexperience,whichisthebitterest.”
―Confucius
Endgame
PleasesendallmaterialforfuturenewsletterstotheEditor,ArneJonsberg,viaemailat
[email protected],orcontactArnebyphoneat3342-0105.Currentandpastnewsletters
availableforviewinganddownloadonBBC’sweb-site:www.bbc.bridgeaustralia.org