The ACBL's FALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Sunday Nov 18 - Tuesday, Nov 27.
Players from across the North American continent, and many more from around the world, are gathering for the Fall North American Bridge Championships.

Welland Wins Reisinger - An extremely close Reisinger final, complicated by an appeal involving the two highest-scoring teams in the event, saw the squad of Roy Welland, Bjorn Fallenius, Howard Weinstein, Steve Garner, Brad Moss and Fred Gitelman finish in the winners' circle. The final official score for the Welland team was 31.65. This was the first NABC win for captain Welland, whose best previous finish was second in the Spingold Knockouts in Anaheim (2000). Finishing second was the team of George Jacobs, Ralph Katz, Alfredo Versace, Norberto Bocchi, Giorgio Duboin and Lorenzo Lauria who finished with 31.19. The Jacobs squad was the high scorer at the end of play, but an appeal filed earlier in the second final session held the official result in limbo until the appeal could be ruled upon. The appellant in the case was the Welland team, the defendant Jacobs. The Welland team won the appeal, moving them into first while Jacobs dropped to second. In third was the winning Bermuda Bowl USA 2 team led by Rose Meltzer (Kyle Larsen, Peter Weichsel, Alan Sontag, Lew Stansby and Chip Martel) with 31.00. This team was coached in France by Reisinger winner Fred Gitelman. Rita Shugart's squad (Andrew Robson, Tony Forrester and Boye Brogeland) was fourth with 30.85.

Cohen wins NA Swiss - The team of Richard Coren, Billy Eisenberg, Larry Cohen and Drew Casen put on a show of strength in the finals of the North American Swiss Teams, securing victory in the event with one round left to play. Coren finished with a score of 140.91 VPs. In second was the team captained by Lenny Ernst. Ernst, playing with Richard Halperin, Colin Revill, Paul Erb and George Pisk, posted a final tally of 124.89. Ernst and Coren were neck-and-neck in the two-session final of the event until their meeting in the fourth round, which Coren won decisively. Coren pulled away from the rest of the field after the match, and Ernst kept good form by not allowing the defeat to sidetrack them in the remainder of the final. In third with 123.68 was the squad of David Siebert, John Onstott, Harvey Brody and Doug Dang.

Turks Top Blue Ribbon Pairs A pair of players from Turkey have become the first players from that country to win a North American championship. Salvador Assael and Nafiz Zorlu topped the field in the six-session Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs. The duo posted a final score of 2105.71 to narrowly edge Steve Landen of Rochester Hills MN and Pratap Rajadhyaksha of Powell OH, who finished with 2100.06. .Click here for story

The squad captained by Mike Levine was down 16 IMPs going into the final quarter of the Senior Knockouts against the team led by Hamish Bennett, but won the last set 44Ð16 to win the event. Levine, playing with teammates Zeke Jabbour, Randy Pettit, Allan Siebert, P.O. Sundelin and Arnie Fisher, defeated the Bennett squad by a final score of 153Ð141. Playing with Bennett were Gene Simpson, Billy Eisenberg, Jim Robison, Chris Larsen and Joe Kivel.Click here for story

Goodwill honors Max and Mary
Max Hardy, known for many years as the Fastest Pencil in the West because of his exceptional scoring ability, and his wife Mary were honored yesterday by the Goodwill Committee for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the game over the years. Click Here

Meltzer does it again!
The Open Board-a-Match Teams was decided by the narrowest of margins - .01 - as the reigning Bermuda Bowl champions captained by Rose Meltzer held on to claim victory in the two-day event. It was one of the closest finishes ever in an NABC event with the top four teams finished less than one board apart. The squad of Hjordis Eythorsdottir, Valerie Westheimer, Rozanne Pollack and Carol Simon outscored a powerful field to claim victory in the four-session WomenÕs Board-a-Match Teams. Click Here for Story

Breed, Quinn triumph again in LM Women's
Mildred Breed and Shawn Quinn have won their third consecutive Life Master Women's Pairs title, using a powerful finish in the second final session to win the event by two boards. Click Here for more

The Polish pair of Piotr Gawrys and Jacek Pszczola posted a strong second final session in the Life Master Open Pairs to claim victory in the two-day event. It was the first NABC victory for both players, although they each have an impressive list of tournament victo-ries from international play. Click Here for more PHOTOS: Daily Bulletin Tuesday, Nov 20

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Deals from the 2001 Fall Nationals (Reisinger and other events) can be found on Matt Ginsberg's University of Oregon web site as part of http://www.cirl.uoregon.edu/ginsberg/deals/dpat01.exe and also available as .zip files at http://www.cirl.uoregon.edu/ginsberg/zip/vegas.zip and http://www.cirl.uoregon.edu/ginsberg/zip/2001.zip As usual, the .exe file is a self-extracting archive that contains deals in PBN format; the zip files contain equivalent information. Anyone who wants to is welcome to use the data for whatever purposes they wish.

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