A few weeks ago, Open Team Trials were held in the Chicago 'burbs to select a team to represent the United States. The 2nd Mind Games will be held in Lille, France in August.
The Nickell team won the Open competition. Now, Women and Seniors trials are being held concurrently in the same spot. The Women's final, between the Sprung and Moss team, is starting just now. The Senior semi-matches are also being played.
As is his wont, Mike Cassel has been kibitzing - and - writing up the more interesting hands for us! Our thanks to Mike for another excellent hand to present, along with lots of info about the Team Trials. The trials continue through Wednesday - so - be sure to watch some on BridgeBase Online if you have a chance!
Mike Passell said he did play the H9 and then the H8: http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/losing-12-imps-in-the-senior-team-trials-defensive-signals/
The game files were obviously wrong: http://usbf.org/docs/vugraphs/USSBC2012/html/USSBC2012_SF_1_s1.htm#bd5
The technology exists and I think the time has come for optical character recognition software and a downward pointing table camera to view the play of the cards, so that we are not operator dependent on tracking the bidding and play on vugraph. http://www.bridgecardreader.com/
Henry Bethe said it wasn't that astounding to have so many imps scored in one segment.
Posted by: Mike Cassel | June 05, 2012 at 08:19 AM