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BRIDGE NEWS ITEMS FROM
AR0UND THE WORLD
October 2001
Press Conference with
the WBF, Oct 25. Spain "off the hook". Drug
testing continues. And it's 8 open, 8 women, and 4 junior teams
for the Slat Lake City Olympics. Click
Here...
International Bridge Press Awards
Daminai and Robson honored. Click
Here ...
Canada - e-bridge loses Content Editors. In
Volume 38 Oct 25 2001 of the E-Bridge E-Zine, we find the following
message from Canadians Eric Kokish and Beverly Kraft. "Au
revoir, We are sad to announce that our contract with e-bridge
has come to an end. We will miss our many new friends. Our deepest
thanks to all our contributors for the excellent material that
they have provided. You made our job fun and easy. Anyone wishing
to submit articles for publication, please contact Zeus."
Eric and Bev were responsible for most of the content found on
the e-bridge site including interviews, biographies, and a massive
amount of instructional material all of which can still be found
on the e-bridge pages.
Cyprus - Hungary
wins The North Cyprus International Tournament organised by Great
Bridge Festivals. The event offered a prize fund of $10,000 USD.
Mark
Horton reports from onsite ... click here
Online - What happened to the e-bridge
newspages? Click
here
Switzerland - World-class player and computer
pioneer Pietro Bernasconi dies "after a short but terrible
illness that he bore with immense courage". Message
from WBF Secretariat here...
ACBL encourages clubs to hold Charity Club
Championships in support of Disaster Relief Funds ... click
here
Canada - the Canadians are talking about
separating from the ACBL on their bridgetalk.com FORUM. Click
Here for Bridge Canada Chez Nous
September 2001
Is Indonesia Safe? - US Government issues
a Travel Advisory to its citizens warning against travel to Indonesia.
Views
and opinions from Bridge Newsgroup here
ACBL.ORG Back online after NIMDA attack -
Known as "nimda" (which is the login id "admin" spelled backwards),
the virus is spread through email attacking web servers that run
on Windows NT Server and relatives thereof. Click
here for more reference. Stop the
spread of email viruses [article] - click
here
ACBL Forum- The bridge world posts messages
of comfort and support after the events of September 11,
the ACBL web forum (click here)
McGIB alpha about to be released. The
Mac version of the well reviewed GIB is scheduled to be released
in alpha over the next couple of days.
Click Here for more
Venice
- The 35th International Bridge Festival at the Casino in Lido
di Venezia offers L. 108 million in prize winnings. Click
Here for official site Italian and
English
USA
- The Dutch online bridge club, Stepbridge, launched their English
speaking service, StepbridgeUSA, September 1st. Newspage
here. This and other online bridge clubs can be found listed
on our PLAY ONLINE page.
England
- In "the Bridge Wedding of the Year" Justin Hackett, 31, the
English international, married Barbara Stawowy of the German Ladies
bridge team in the presence of bridge stars from around the world.
click
here for article on ecatsbridge.by Patrick Jourdain.
Portugal - Figueira's Casino,
located at Figueira da Foz, near Coimbra, in Portugal, is organizing
its 9th Festival, 24-25 (teams) and 26-28 (pairs) October 2001.
Prizes are interesting (first place about 3500 Euros) and the
location is very nice. Click
Here for website.
 Argentina
- Everyone's talking about the 14 year old Agustin Madala of Argentina,
a member of the Argentine team that won the South American Championship
in Cochabamba Bolivia recently making him the youngest Zonal champion
in the history of world bridge. Madala will represent Argentina
in the Bermuda Bowl in Bali Indonesia this October and will be
the youngest player ever to compete in this event!
Australia - Jessel Rothfield
won the Australian Autumn National Open Teams 2001 at age 83 but
believe it or not this is not a world record for a national teams
event. Boris Schapiro won the Gold Cup, the British teams championship,
at age 89.
OLD NEWS
Rich bridge player is furious after Royal
York ejection Hotel's version differs
- National
Post Online, August 1, 2001
The Curious Case of Jeremy Claptrap Did
an undercover 90 year old political refugee from New Zealand steal
GIB and disguise it as Hoogli to enter the World Championships?
. Click Here
FLASH Ginsberg
Speaks Cick Here
John Blubaugh Blames Pig Accident For Shuffle
That Caused 'Cheat' Cries The Wall Street Journal prints
lengthy article about the Blubaugh incident. Click
Here for story
The Australian Bridge
Federation Newsletter Opinion
by David Lusk re the Blubaugh-ACBL case.
England's Andrew Robson Injured Falling
off Cliff - read
story here.
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