The May edition of the online Bridge News is now available here or by clicking on the Bridge News icon at the right.
The open and B flights of district 23 GNT qualifying are completed.
Open Flight winners are: Jill Meyers, Roger Lee, Mitch Dunitz, Billy Cohen and Ed Davis
Flight B winners are: Xingping Kang, Matt Chiwo Leung, Jeff Lang, Ernest Wong, and Eric Chenteh Tang
The District seeks a new webmaster for this site. Please email the current webmaster if you're interested.
Rand's District Director report for May is now available here.
The list of the top 50 ACBL clubs in the country includes several from our district: Long Beach at #16, Beverly Hills at #23 and Arcadia Bridge Center at #49.
Update: Altshuler-Shore and Upton-Woelfer both finished in 4th place in NAP flight B and flight C respectively. Congratulations to all D23 NAP competitors. Bruce Altshuler and Bob Shore lead the NAP flight B competition heading into the finals at St. Louis. They scored a 67% game and followed it up with a 63% game to lead by 2.5 boards over 2nd place and 5.5 board over 3rd place. D23's other flight B participants also qualifed: Ramos-Petrie and Turner-Kennedy. Upton and Woelfer also qualified for the flight C finals.
The D23 STaC is underway. Click here for the results and hand records page
Woodland Hills RegionalThe Woodland Hills Regional has begun
Sunday's 2-session event winners include:
- Steve Gross, Ellen Anten, Rhonda Foster - Gerry McCully won the Sunday AX Swiss.
- Steve Welton - Helena McGahagan - Jeffrey Rawlings - David Roe won the Sunday BCD Swiss.
- Amr Elghamry and Paul Nason won the Fast Pairs
Saturday's 2-session event winners include:
- Jill Meyers and Ed Davis won the open pairs.
- Chris Larsen, Mitch Dunitz, Roger Lee, Joseph Kivel, Wafik Abdou won Bracket I of the Friday-Saturday KO.
- Michael Marcucci, Karen Byrd - Nancy Heck, and Gitta Earll won Bracket II of the Friday-Saturday KO.
- Gerald Bare, Robert Perlsweig, Pam Wittes, Peter Benjamin won Bracket I of the Saturday CKO.
- John Clark, Freddie Straus, Avinash Bahadur, Mary Reyna won Bracket II of the Saturday CKO.
- Phil Kaiser, Ronald Morris - Deborah Steffen - Susan Challen won Bracket III of the Saturday CKO.
- Gary Ansok, William Pearman, Dennis Hollingworth - Krystyna Hollingworth won Bracket IV of the Saturday CKO.
Friday's 2-session event winners include:
- Jeffrey Goldsmith and Mark Bartusek won the open pairs.
- Mary Heiney and Gillian Jeffrey won the Gold Rush pairs.
- Bruce Ferguson - John Grantham - Rebecca Rogers - Mac Busby won the Swiss Teams.
- Allan Palansky, Gilbert Stinebaugh - Claude Le Feuvre, Sara Wilson won the Thursday-Friday Morning Swiss.
Thursday's 2-session event winners include:
- Jim Johnsen and Lamya Agelidis won the open pairs.
- Bruce Ferguson - John Grantham - Rebecca Rogers - Mac Busby won the Swiss Teams.
- Gerry McCully - Rhonda Foster - Steve Gross - Ellen Anten won the Wed-Thur KO.
Wednesday's 2-session event winners include:
- Mark Itabashi and Chris Larsen won the open pairs.
- Mary Ose and Gary Ansok won the Gold Rush Pairs.
- Robert Micone - Billy Miller - Huub Bertens - Leo Bell won Bracket I of the Tue-Wed KO.
- Noel Purkin - Tammy Purkin - Leila Greenfield - Michael Klemens won Bracket II of the Tue-Wed KO.
Tuesday's 2-session event winners include:
- Neil Kleiner and David Peim won the open pairs.
- Jim Brunet and Kenneth Okel won the Gold Rush Pairs.
Monday event winners include:
- Joyce Lelah and Farideh Sigari won the afternoon charity pairs
- Dana Brenner and H David Law won the afternoon charity 299er pairs
- Gregory Vernon and Jack Waller won the evening charity pairs
- Keith Miller and Lee Hausner won the evening charity 299er pairs
Birger "Bill" Holmquist passed away on February 1st. In addition to being an Emerald life master, Bill was a player on the 1952 Finnish Olympic basketball team.
The district is sad to announce that Marshall Miles passed away.
The 2013 ALACBU Scholarship is now available.
The dates, location and conditions of contest for this year's GNT are set. Barrington Bridge club will host both events. April 27-28 is the open and B flight competitions. May 18-19 is the flights A and C competition.
The NAP Finals were held at Beverly Hills on Sunday 1/20/2013. Note: a score correction for flight A has been reported resulting in a 3-way tie for first. Also note (in response to emails received) that the list of qualifiers at the club level and semifinal posted on this website are unofficial and incorrect. The District NAP Coordinator makes all decisions regarding eligibility.
Corrected recaps are available for both the morning session and afternoon session. Rick Turner has graciously provided integrated record/recap results for the morning session and afternoon session
The qualifiers for the national event in St. Louis are:
- Flight A
- Steve Gross and Ellen Anten
- John Jones and Leo Bell
- Victor Anikovich and Ed Piken
- Flight B
- Bob Shore and Bruce Altshuler
- Rick Turner and Alyssa Kennedy
- Om Chokriwala and John Langer
- Flight C
- Frederick Upton and Stephen Woelfer
- Robert Novell and Robert Verhoef
- Albert Stock and Marguerite Pinkers
Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to Mike Marcucci for staging a wonderful event. Reminder to the winners: if you know you're not going to St. Louis, please let Mike Marcucci know.
Reese Milner won the Keohane North American Swiss Teams at the San Francisco NABC. The Daily Bulletin has more details.
The Long Beach Sectional is complete. Sankar Reddy won the most masterpoints: 12.75.
Mike Marcucci has prepared a list of qualifiersfor the NAP Finals in January at Beverly Hills Bridge club.
The Torrance Regional is over. Ken Gee and Jerry Stamatov won the most masterpoints: 126.26. Click here for a complete list of masterpoint winners.
Sunday results
A summary of Saturday's results is available in the Daily Bulletin.
Saturday results
- Saturday Open Pairs
- Saturday Gold Rush Pairs
- Saturday Morning Side Game
- Saturday Afternoon Side Game
- Saturday Evening Side Game
- Saturday Aft 299er
- Saturday Aft 49er
- Saturday Evening Swiss
- Friday Saturday CKO
A summary of Friday's results is available in the Daily Bulletin.
Friday results
- Friday Open Pairs
- Friday Morning Side Game
- Friday Afternoon Side Game
- Friday Evening Side Game
- Friday Aft 299er
- Friday Evening Swiss
- Thursday-Friday KO
Thursday results
- Thursday Open Pairs
- Thursday Gold Rush Pairs
- Thursday Morning Side Game
- Thursday Morning Swiss
- Thursday Afternoon Side Game
- Thursday Evening Side Game
- Thursday Aft 299er
- Thursday Evening Swiss
- Wednesday-Thursday KO
Wednesday results
- Wednesday Open Pairs
- Wednesday Morning Side Game
- Wednesday Afternoon Side Game
- Wednesday Evening Side Game
- Wednesday Aft 299er
- Wednesday Evening 299er
- Wednesday Evening Swiss
- Tuesday-Wednesday KO
Tuesday results
- Tuesday Open Pairs
- Tuesday Gold Rush Pairs
- Tuesday Morning Side Game
- Tuesday Afternoon Side Game
- Tuesday Evening Side Game
- Tuesday Aft 299er
- Tuesday Evening Swiss
Monday results
The second NAP Semifinal is complete. Flight C results are now available. Thanks to Mike Marcucci who did a great job organizing and improving this event.
Reminder: The finals - for those who qualified - will be held in Beverly Hills in January
The first NAP Semifinal is complete. Thanks to Mike Marcucci who did a great job organizing and improving this event.
Results for the October STaC are reported as they are received.
The ACBL has established a Grass Roots fund. The idea is that sectionals can run special games to support district winners of the NAP or GNT competition. Rand Pinksy has written up more detailed information for those interested.
The West LA Fall Sectional is complete. Paul Markarian and Mark Leonard won the most masterpoints: 16.75.
The North American Pairs is a great event available to all levels of players. Mike Marcucci has prepared an excellent primer onthe NAP.
The Glendale - Verdugo Sectional is complete. Jeff Goldsmith won the most masterpoints: 20.41.
The Pasadena - San Gabriel Sectional is complete. John Jones and Jeff Goldsmith won the most masterpoints: 20.86.
Results for the July STaC are reported as they are received.
The Club Qualifying Schedule for the North American Pairs is now available.
District 23's flight A team has won the GNT flight A competition in Philadelphia. Congratulations to Howard Einberg, Edward Piken, Victor Anikovich, Robert Kent, Fred Zhang and Paul Markarian
Bridge Week is complete
Jill Meyers, Mitch Dunitz, Ed Davis, Roger Lee and Chris Larsen won the Marshall Miles Swiss
Marshall Miles, Nolan Chang, Leo Bell, John Jones, Erli Zhou and Lei Jin won the Sunday Swiss
Mark Itabashi and Marilyn Kivel won the Saturday Open Pairs
William Inglis and John Stokdyk won the Saturday Gold Rush Pairs
Zachary Vedro, R Harold Knowles II, Judy Harris, Brian Dixon won the Uncle Sam KO - Bracket I
Jane Pace, Susan Emminger, Sanford Jones and Penny Barbieri won the Uncle Sam KO - Bracket II
Ellen Anten, Steve Gross, Robert Bass and John Mohan won the Saturday Compact KO - Bracket I
Eric Chenteh Tang, Chien-Yao Tseng, Sankar Reddy and John Petrie won the Saturday Compact KO - Bracket II
Robert Fieselman, Elaine Godin, Ronald Srenco and Neal Kleiner won the Saturday Compact KO - Bracket III
Bruce Horiguchi, Aaron Jones, Gary King and Steve Mager won the Friday Board-a-Match
Anne Brenner, David Caprera, Jeffrey Goldsmith and David Grainger won the Thursday-Friday Knockout
Aram Bedros and Paul Smith won the Friday Open Pairs
Arthur Watkins and Ruth Watkins won the Friday Gold Rush Pairs
William Schreiber and Michael Mikyska won the Thursday Open Pairs
Mitch Dunitz, Roger Lee, David Grainger and Jeffrey Goldsmith won the Tuesday CKO - bracket I
Mark Robertson, Richard Jacobson, Joy Rieckers and Marian Wilson won the Tuesday CKO - bracket II
Nick Martino and Mike Savage won the Wednesday Fast Pairs
Mark Itabashi and Steven Love won the Mark Schreiber AB Pairs - open flight
GS Jade Barrett and Blair Seidler won the Calcutta
Lee Johnson and Fred Dyle won the Mark Schreiber pairs - 750 flight
The Torrance - South Bay Sectional is complete. The Tiptons and the Cloughs won the most masterpoints: 17.33.
The San Fernando Valley sectional is complete. Joe Viola won the most masterpoints: 11.69.
The West LA STaC sectional is complete. Aram Bedros won the most masterpoints: 17.03.
The District 23 competition in the A and C flights was held April 28-29.
- The flight A winners were: Robert Kent, Viktor Anikovich, Roberto Scaramuzzi, Fred Zhang, Howard Einberg and Paul Markarian
- The flight C winners were: Frederick Upton, Samuel Thieme, Stephen Woelfer and Nathaniel Marks
Full results of the swiss and knockouts for this competition are available here
Thank you to Howard Einberg, our District 23 GNT coordinator, for running a successful competition
Results for the March STaC are reported as they are received.
The District 23 competition in the Open and B flights was held March 3-4.
- The Open flight winners were: Jill Meyers, Ed Davis, Mitch Dunitz and Roger Lee
- The B flight winners were: Ryan Wessels, Bob Shore, Bruce Altshuler and Kevin Lane
Full results of the swiss and knockouts for this competition are available here
Ryan Wessels became a Life Master by virtue of his victory in flight B. Congratulations, Ryan
Thank you to Howard Einberg, our District 23 GNT coordinator, for running a successful competition
The Marina del Rey Regional is complete.
- Sunday
- Saturday
- Friday
- Thursday
- Wednesday results
- Tuesday results
The district 23 finals for the NAP are now complete.
Flight A results are available with the top 3 finishers:
- Brandon Sheumaker and Gary King
- Guy Green and Viktor Anikovich
- Roger Clough and Rebecca Clough
Flight B results are available with the top 3 finishers:
- Thomas Shudic and Elaine Moore
- Frank Shih and Carol Frank
- Zheng Zhang - Hsi-Chun Liu
Flight C results are available with the top 3 finishers:
- Frederick Upton - Stephen Woelfer
- Tai Wang - Sandra Rucker
- Bruce Weiner - Rafael Gishri
Congratulations to Roger Lee who won the Blue Ribbon Pairs at the Seattle NABC, with partner Joshua Donn
Congratulations also to Jill Meyers who was part of the winning women's Board-Match team.
Mike Marcucci has provided a list of the players eligible for the District 23 finals of the North American Pairs.
Preliminary results are available for the Fall STaC.
The second North American Pairs (NAP) semifinal for District 23 is complete. The tournament was run in two sections the A strat and a a BC strat.
The Marina del Rey Regional has begun.
Winners of 2-session events from Saturday:
- Howard Einberg and Fred Zhang won the Open Pairs
- Diane Elliott and Alain Fleurot won the Gold Rush Pairs
- Joseph Viola III, Gary King, Brandon Sheumaker, and Bob Johnson won the Anchor Compact KO Bracket 1
- David Lodge - Nance Lodge, Mark Robertson - Richard Jacobson won the Anchor Compact KO Bracket 1
- Pamela Cole - Kiyo Nagaishi, James Kirby - Sheri Kirby won the Anchor Compact KO Bracket 3
Winners of 2+-session events from Friday:
- Roger Clough - Rebecca Clough, Ellen Anten, Encino CA; Steve Gross won the 2nd Evening Bracket 1
- Subba Ravipudi, Yas Takeda, Bruce Horiguchi, Sankar Reddy, Mark Tang, and William Ng won the Fiji KO Bracket 1
- Colin Gordon - Nelly Gordon, Mimi David - Gerald David won the Fiji KO Bracket 2
- Roger Clough - Rebecca Clough, V Jay Tipton - Linda Tipton won the Privateer CKO Bracket 1
- Steven Little - Joan Little - Carol Sherman - Robert Sherman won the Privateer CKO Bracket 2
- Weishu Wu and Fred Zhang won the Open Pairs
- George Farley and John Kiang won the Gold Rush Pairs
Winners of 2-session events from Thursday:
- Torre Houlgate-West and Linda Leinicke won the Open Pairs
- David Jones and William Smith won the Gold Rush Pairs
Winners of 2-session events from Wednesday:
- Fred Zhang - Roberto Scaramuzzi - Howard Einberg, and Jon Wright won the Admiralty Way Compact KO
- Hamish Bennett, Steven Love, Mark Itabashi, and Greg House won the Compact KO - Bracket 1
- Diane Audeon - Ruth Shayne - Eleanor Levine - Clay Levine won the Compact KO - Bracket 2
- Arlene Spatz, Peggi Spring, Sally Fenton, and Judy Percer won the Compact KO - Bracket 3
- Robert Carroll - Sandra Carroll won the Open Pairs
Winners of 2-session events from Tuesday:
- Mitch Dunitz and Chris Larsen won the Open Pairs
The Antelope Valley/Santa Clarita sectional is complete. Wafik Abdou and Mitch Dunitz won the most masterpoints: 8.75.
The finals of the Grand National Teams competition starts today in Toronto. The GNT is a grass-roots event where each district sends 4 local teams of varying skill level to compete against the other districts. The format is a swiss qualifier (held today) from which 16 teams qualify for the knockout phase.
The four teams from District 23 are:
- Open flight: Mitch Dunitz, Roger Lee, Ed Davis, Jill Meyers and John Swanson
- Flight A (<5000 MPs): Howard Einberg, Edward Piken , Robert Kent, Viktor Anikovich, Roberto Scaramuzzi and Alan Myerson
- Flight B (<2000 MPs): Bruce Altshuler, Bud Bates, Zalman Perelman and Ryan Wessels
- Flight C (non life master): Nolan Chang, Jack Chang, Xingping Kang, Richard Gliksman, Stephen Massman
Jill Meyers, Ed Davis, and Mitch Dunitz won the GNT Open flight in 2001 along with Iftikhar Baqai and John Mohan.
Tentative final results are available for the Summer STaC.
The Torrance-South Bay sectional is complete. Mike Savage won the most masterpoints: 17.96. Click here for a complete list of masterpoint winners. Update: The Saturday afternoon results were left off the origional report.
Bridge Week has ended with an excellent turnout of about 1500 tables.
Winners of 2-session events from Sunday:
- Jeff Fang - Mike Savage - David Chechelashvili - William Wickham won the Marshall Miles Swiss
- Sean Lui - Roderic Kerr - Earl Van Der Vord - Mark Tang tied for a win in the Sunday Swiss with Michael Galante - Judy Elbogen - Lucy Tredennick - Steve Mager
- Christopher Young - Craig Huston won the Fast Pairs
Winners of 2-session events from Saturday:
- Jackie Hess - Wayne Otsuki won the Open Pairs Pairs
- Jeff Fang - Mike Savage - David Chechelashvili - William Wickham led the Marshall Miles Swiss field after the qualifying stage
Winners of 2-session events from Friday:
- Stephen Goldstein - Gary Brown won the Calcutta
- Rai Osborne - Philip Hiestand won the IMP Pairs
- Linda Tipton - V Jay Tipton, Samuel Wang, Suzette Wynn - Steve Scott won Bracket I of the Lazy Days KO
- Diana Black, Jerry Schreider - Al Martinez, Jay Boylan won Bracket II of the Lazy Days KO
- John Campbell, J Steffes, Alan Schneider - Sherie Schneider won Bracket III of the Lazy Days KO
- Michael Horn, Georgiana Bierman, Tai Wang, Robert Riechmann won Bracket IV of the Lazy Days KO
Winners of 2-session events from Thursday:
- Rebecca Clough - Roger Clough, William Hall - Ron Westwood tied for a win in the Board-a-Match with Gene Simpson, Jackie Evans, Robert Kent - Ellen Kent
- Linda Lewis - Pam Wittes won the AX Pairs
- Larry Gordon - Edwin Gruber won the BCD Pairs
Winners of 2-session events from Wednesday:
- Roger Lee and Mitch Dunitz won the 4-session Mary Jane Farell Open Pairs
- Belinda Ledgerwood - Cheryl Haines - Lisa Evans - Teresa Boyd won the afternoon-evening swiss
- Ellen Anten, Steve Gross, John Mohan, Peter Benjamin won Bracket I of the Colorado KO
- Eric Tan, Kim Wang, Nick Gao, Chi-Chong Yu, William Chu won Bracket II of the Colorado KO
- Claude Le Feuvre, Herbert Van Brink, Candy Smith, Allen Smith won Bracket III of the Colorado KO
- Jeffrey Hecht, Tom Snooks - Alan Dirkin, Richard Mackaig won Bracket IV of the Colorado KO
- Aram Bedros - Paul Smith won the Open Pairs
- Bradley Ward - Roshen Hadulla - David Gasper - Marlene Warren-Gasper won Bracket I of the Compact KO
- Henry Crowder - Masae Kato - Hank Sheehan - Steven Dagel won Bracket II of the Compact KO
- Russell Buker - George MacDonald - Thomas Jones - Barbara Jones won Bracket III of the Compact KO
- Michael Brooks - Laura Brooks - Pat Lee - Herbert Lee won Bracket IV of the Compact KO
Winners of 2-session events from Tuesday:
- Mark Itabashi - Steven Love won the Tuesday Open Pairs
Winners of 2-session events from Monday:
- Robert Carroll - Sandra Carroll won the Open Pairs
- Ellen Anten - Steve Gross - John Mohan - Jim Munday won Bracket I of the Compact KO
- Brandon Sheumaker - Stephen Skinner - Robert Lavery - Aaron Jones won Bracket II of the Compact KO
- Mark Hartzell - Amr Elghamry - Jonathan Harvey - Arleen Harvey won Bracket III of the Compact KO
- Tom Snooks - Nancy Chino - Violet Sugi - Marcia Holland won Bracket IV of the Compact KO
- Karen McKittrick - Mike McKittrick won the Mark Schreiber Memorial 299er Pairs
