Bridge Winners Profile for Sabine Auken
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- Member Since
- July 22, 2010
- Last Seen
- 34 minutes ago
- Member Type
- Bridge Player
- about me
World Champion and author of I Love This Game
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- ACBL Ranking
- Bronze Life Master
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- Who Will Direct the Directors?
- Yo have a really good point, Roland. However, in this case the partnership did have the systemic agreement, that 1♠ can be bid with a 3-card holding and the agreement was noted on the convention card. So it was not a case of "just bridge".
- Who Will Direct the Directors?
- Thank you, Kit. Your line of reasoning is immaculate!
- Some interesting and difficult boards in Germany
- Hi Luc. Very nice write-up. Always nice to read what has happened at other tables on hands one has played oneself. On board 1 you have the vulnerability wrong (possibly because you switched around NS and EW). So your side was not vulnerable, whereas the other side was. That makes ...
- Public statement from bridgegod.com and myself
- The homepage of the Spanish Bridge Federation classifies the Barcelona tournament as a national event http://aebridge.com/aebdynamic/resultadosNacionales.asp. I saved a screenshot just in case that entry somehow gets miraculously altered at a later stage.
- English-German translations
- overcaller = Zwischenreizer advancer = Partner des Zwischenreizers Just when you thought everything in German is combined into a single word. :)
- ACBL Nationals Start times
- @Bob as much as you like playing against juniors, it may not be enough to gain you admission to Junior events. @Peg I was being half serious, half joking. Actually I feel very strongly that the top competitive events (in this case ACBL+ events) should take place at times, when ...
- ACBL Nationals Start times
- How about this idea instead: Junior events start at 1 and 7:30. Everything else starts at 10(11) and 3(4). Some scientific evidence to support the proposal: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/08/brain-function-morning_n_5661856.html
- ACBL Nationals Start times
- "Christina, I'm sure a little bit of what I'm saying has to do with what I'm used to." Hey Bob, you just admitted to being affected by status quo bias! :)
- ACBL Nationals Start times
- @Bob I found your comment interesting. There was a period of about 10 years in my life, where I tried very hard to combine having two children, a very demanding job in the financial sector and high level competitive bridge. I did not attend any American Nationals at that time ...
- ACBL Nationals Start times
- Since we are still at the world championships in France: à chacun son goût. As pointed out by others the playing schedule issue has been discussed several times before and the outcome seems to be the same every single time: people have different tastes and preferences. Seeing that is the ...
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