Results and Winners Bidders Challenge 2023-12
The Top Bidders for Set 2023-12 This was another tough set, with the most popula...
The Top Bidders for Set 2022-01
A brand new annual competition starts here, so this month’s top scorers are also the frontrunners in the early stages of that contest. This month’s winner, with a score of 76/80 on what turned out to be a difficult set, is:
Douglas Schmickrath (BBO: P0STM0RTEM) from Los Altos Hills CA, USA
Douglas learned bridge about 25 years ago by studying books before ever making it to a club game. Having always been a math guy with a penchant for puzzle solving, he still takes lessons regularly including from yours truly (MarcSmith) and Steve Conrad (ConradSR). He has historically played 2/1, although he has become quite fond of Oliver Clarke Precision (OCP), which he found through his involvement with the BBO Intermediate/Advanced Club (IAC). He recommends them all!
Also on the January 'Roll of Honour':
With a score of 75/80:
Paul Dubois (BBO: pootsca) from El Cajon CA, USA
Paul saw fellow math students at Berkeley in 1962 flunk out by playing bridge all day, so he avoided it until he retired as a computational scientist in 2005. He now writes books for intermediate players that he offers for free at www.pfdubois.com.
And, in joint third place, with a score of 73/80:
Radu Popescu (BBO: Radu120) from Bucharestn Romania and
Borislav Dobroykov (BBO: b_dobroyko) from Drogheda, County Meath, Ireland.
Congratulations to everyone who made it onto this month’s honors’ board with a score of at least 60/80:
| Score | Player |
|---|---|
| 72/80: | Alexander Cook (BBO: spade7) from Sydney NSW, Australia and |
| | Peter Law (bbo: petelaw) from Broadstairs, Kent, England |
| 71/80: | David Williams (BBO: dave251164) from Wales and |
| | James Sampson (BBO: jtsamp1) from Lake Worth TX, USA |
| 70/80: | Luwen Koh (BBO: XReborned) from Singapore, |
| | Patrick Shields (BBO: patr1cks) from Cheltenham, England, |
| | Nalita Chintong (BBO: 0_Moriarty) from Bangkok, Thailand and |
| | Manuel Vasques de Oliveira (BBO: m oliveira) from Livramento, Estoril, Portugal |
| 69/80: | Zhengming Gao (BBO: ty001) from Beijing, China, |
| | Brian Wyman (BBO: wyman ) from Las Vegas NV, USA, |
| | Capri Bucci (BBO: atp13) from Rome, Italy, now Amsterdam, The Netherlands, |
| | John Rayner (BBO: rayndear) from Toronto ONT, Canada and |
| | Jukka Moilanen (BBO: jukmoi) from Helsinki, Finland |
| 68/80: | Rolf Schreuder (BBO: dommedummy) from Amstelveen, The Netherlands, |
| | Phillip Shoemaker (BBO: phils71) from Fairfield ??, USA |
| | Peter Wilson (BBO: chinapete) from Methven, New Zealand and |
| | Allan J Roderiques (BBO: arod48) Leesburg ??, USA |
| 67/80: | Hans Baas (BBO: myxxin) from Zwolle, The Netherlands, |
| | Onno Eskes (bbo: Onno) from Leiden, The Netherlands, |
| | Babs Giesbrecht (BBO: bABsG) from Qualicum Beach BC, Canada, |
| | Harold Baba (BBO: ichiban2) from Markham ONT, Canada, |
| | Mark Clennett (BBO: MarkBur) from Burlington ONT, Canada, |
| | Chris Wiggins (BBO: cwiggins) from Bloomfield Township MI, U.S.A, |
| | Alex Dialynas (BBO: adial) from Heraklio, Greece, |
| | Dean Eidler (BBO: dean) from Dunedin, New Zealand and |
| | Anne-Sybil Bragadir (BBO: asb10) from Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 66/80: | Dorin Costin (bbo: tudicool) from Vancouver BC, Canada, |
| | Francois Duffour (BBO: toutmo) from Paris, France, |
| | Mesut Tekin (BBO: kurnazz) from Turkey, |
| | Laura Mancici (BBO: 801dna) from Paris, France and |
| | Yotam Peikin (BBO: yotam_pk) from Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 65/80: | Qi Zheng (BBO: DannyZheng) from New York NY, USA, |
| | Enrique G. de Oteyza (BBO: ego1946) from Spain, |
| | Jeffrey Ehrlich (BBO: jhfe) from Plainview NY, USA, |
| | Paul Gipson (BBO: paulg) from Duns, Scotland, |
| | Josh Sinnett (BBO: oshoj) from Bellingham WA, USA, |
| | Va Ena (BBO: fachiru) from Bloomfield MI, USA, |
| | Brad Theurer (BBO: batmanbrad) from Gaithersburg MD, USA and |
| | Guy Cambournac (BBO: cambour) from Casablanca, Morocco |
| 64/80: | Benjamin Bomber (BBO: soccertoo) from Portland OR, USA, |
| | Langis Sirois (BBO: langiss) from Ottawa ONT, Canada, |
| | Maqbool Mahmood (BBO: MontyMMM) from Karachi, Pakistan, |
| | Bert Toar Polii (BBO: Bert_Polii) from Indonesia, |
| | Thibault Wolf (BBO: thwolf) from Issy les Moulineaux, France, |
| | Aditi Jhaveri (BBO: ads127) from Mumbai, India, |
| | Kevin Wu (BBO: kevinwu777) from Taipei, Taiwan, |
| | Rishabh Singh (BBO: rishabh) from San Jose CA, USA and |
| | Moeen Mahmood (BBO: mmahmood) from London, England |
| 63/80: | Richard Lawson (BBO: Sterman) from Plymouth MN, USA, |
| | Paul Sontag (BBO: pgs58) from Mayne Island BC, Canada, |
| | Yurong (BBO: yurong6) from China, |
| | Dincer Cagci (BBO: dincer54) from Sakarya-Adapazari, Turkey, |
| | Bruce Greenspan (BBO: ziatoo) from Estero FL, USA, |
| | Kepecs Gabor (BBO: gabor51954) from Budapest, Hungary, |
| | Dag Osvald Loe (BBO: loe58) from Kirkenes, Norway, |
| | Gang Zhao (BBO: david_zhao) from Phoenix AZ, USA, |
| | Evgenii Kupriianov (bbo: neglinka) from Moscow, Russia and |
| | Muriel Flood (bbo: murabel1) from Saint John North NB, Canada |
| 62/80 | Bill Papa (BBO: sofos) from Upland CA, USA, |
| | Randy Howard (BBO: howardrl1) from Baldwin Park CA, USA, |
| | Steven DeVico (bbo: sdevico) from Hendersonville NC, USA, |
| | Brahmaiah Jarugumilli (BBO: jbjim) from Oklahoma City OK, USA, |
| | Walter Morgan (BBO: walt215) from Warwick, England, |
| | Jarek Langer (BBO: jarek444) from Austin TX, USA, |
| | Juliano Barbosa (BBO: JBarbosa) from Seixal, Portugal, |
| | Gail Patricia Humphrey (BBO: glass58) from Verdun QU, Canada, |
| | Kenneth Flicker (BBO: kenflicker) from Palmetto Bay FL, USA, |
| | Rewinski Matthew (BBO: mrew) from Hampton Bays NY, USA, |
| | Orhan Casur (BBO: orhan_aga) Istanbul, Turkey, |
| | Alexandre Danilevsky (BBO: danilevsky) from St. Petersburg, Russia, |
| | Alison Talbot (BBO: eetype) from Melbourne VIC, Australia and |
| | Harry Gellis (BBO:harrgellis) from Midlothian VA, USA |
| 61/80 | Milko Slavov (BBO: milko_sl) from Varna, Bulgaria, |
| | Shahar Zack (BBO: shaharz) from Kiryat Motzkin, Israel, |
| | Johanne Powell (BBO: jopow) from Wexford, Ireland, |
| | Kathrine Loh (BBO: nicnat) from Walnut Creek CA, USA, |
| | Levent Dinçel (BBO: twixxx) from Istanbul, Turkey, |
| | Thanassis Akylas (BBO: aakylas) from Greece, |
| | David W Pegasus (BBO: Lemondrop6) from Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, |
| | Dariusz Zmuda (BBO: felek36) from Kotowice, Poland, |
| | Prashanth K (BBO: prashanthk) from Hyderabad, India and |
| | Arun Ravi Suri (BBO: Mitthu)_from Sutton, England |
| 60/80 | Eugene Wichems (BBO: Bushman) from Halls Head WA, Australia, |
| | Gudmundur Marino Skulason (BBO: gummisk) from Reykjavik, Iceland, |
| | Michel Leduc (BBO: JLM53) from Montreal QU, Canada, |
| | Daniel Klein (BBO: drdnmnk) from Victoria BC, Canada, |
| | K.Santhalakshmi (BBO: santhi48) from India, |
| | John R Mayne (BBO: JRMayne) from Modesto CA, USA, |
| | Venkat Bengaluru (BBO: benky ) from Karnataka, India, |
| | Philip Glover (BBO: PhilipG51) from Young NSW, Australia, |
| | Merril Jay Hirsh (BBO: mjbridge) from Washington, USA, |
| | Thierry Granet (BBO: Tit64121) from Montardon, France, |
| | Sardar Aamir (BBO: Kashmir_01) from Pakistan and |
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