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: pottsca) 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 Bucharest, 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:
| 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 | |
| John Rudd (BBO: Johnrudd2) from Ashton-under-Lyne, England |