Nashville 2007 NABC

Nashville 7/23/07

We took a 6-man team to the 0-5000 Spingold KO with high hopes. We played 3/4 sessions and always drew their top pair who were a little obnoxious, #4 seed. We lost by 6 imps. Ultra did well, no missed slams.

Then we played the NABC Open Pairs. 52 Pairs Qualified to the finals we were #52, but our section had more than 50% Qualifiers, so someone with a lower score than us were an at-large qualifier in our place.

The good news: we got to play with friends from Knoxville and won 20 Gold Points, but missed getting a Blue Ribbon Qualification for Dwayne. I have 16 blue and 7 red.

Larry

Favorite Strong Club System

After Dwayne and I combined ideas to from a new partnership earlier this year, we discovered that some of our ideas were similar to Sabine Auken's system as described in her book: "I Love This Game." We call our version The ULTRA CLUB. We maintain the 'living document' on Google's "Docs & Spreadsheets" web pages.

The Precision Club was not a new idea by C. C. Wei, a similar system was described in Margery Burns' book "The Nottingham System of Contract Bridge," 1954, 1959, 1969. I played this version at the Nottingham Bridge Club in England, in 1999. In 1963 a private publication in Memphis, TN, USA was the TRI-S System combining Schenken's ideas (similar to the Vanderbilt Club Convention) with Sheinwold's (and Kaplan's) weak NT and 5-card majors. I don't remember the other S to complete the Tri-S System.

Larry