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"[...] Whist has long been noted for its influence upon what is termed the calculating power; and men of the highest order of intellect have been known to take an apparently unaccountable delight in it, [...]" Edgar Allan Poe in The Murders in the Rue Morgue

• Swiss Team Results
• GNT

April 18--Charity Swiss Team Results

The Unit's first online Swiss teams was a great success.  Twenty-Six teams played and the event went off without any issues.  Barbara Greenspan chaired the Swiss teams and was able to get everything to work perfectly. Thanks, Barbara.

Stan Dub(Shaker Heights), a brand new Unit board member, captained the winning team. Besides Stan, the team was Michael Drozhinskiy(Solon) and Philip and Muriel Altus(Tampa, FL).

You can see all the results HERE.

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District Grand National Team Qualifier

The Grand National Teams is designed so that players at all levels can compete for a national championship through District qualification tournaments and then at an NABC.

Our District Grand National Team(GNT) qualification tournament will be conducted on Bridge Base Online this year. There are four brackets based on masterpoints.

The brackets are Championship Flight (unlimited MP), Flight A (0-6000MP), Flight B (0-2500)Flight C (0-500 NLM Only). Masterpoint Limits are absolute - not average.

Flights A & C play May 1, and 2 and the championship Flight and Flight B play May 15 and 16.

Pre-registration is mandatory. The registration deadline for Flights C & A is Wednesday, April 28th at 5 pm, and the deadline is Wednesday, May 12th at 5 pm for Flight B and the Championship Flight.

More important information is in the FLYER and on the District's GNT page.

Let's have a great representation from our Unit and win all four brackets!

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Once partner shows a 5-card major, if you have 4-card support + a singleton, bid game. "Competitive Bidding Principles", Booklet 19 by Marty Bergen

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