District 14

Master Solvers!

Many avenues are available for excelling in the bridge world. One can be a fine player, excellent bridge teacher, coach, volunteer, writer - and - intuitive, successful bidder.

Two of District 14's players, Rich Newell and Toby White, do well at a number of these activities. And now - they've nabbed the last!  Due to previous performance, Rich and Toby are going to team up to be partnership bidders in The Bridge World's highly elite "Master Solvers Club"! 

We are terrifically proud of Rich and Toby's successes at the bridge table - and now, this coup! Look for the guys appearing in "the" bridge magazine for expert's experts in 2018!

Rich explains all below.

New Life Master!

 

For many bridge players, achieving the rank of Life Master is THE goal!  When Ross Melby recently earned this rank, he responded to congratulations from our District 14 Director, Sharon Anderson, as you see below.

Sharon,

Thank you for your acknowlegement of attaining Life Master.  I did not start playing bridge until I retired.  Like many others, I read a lot of books and articles on Bridge. 

I got most of my Gold points at the Fargo and Gopher regionals.  I was close to getting it for a couple years playing in the Arizona Senior Regional a couple of times.  Coming back home from Arizona, I needed 1.39 gold, so I went to the Gopher regional in May, 2017 and got some red and 1.27 gold, leaving me .12 gold points short of getting my Life Master.  I then went to the Fargo Regional, but got skunked.  

Our Bismarck Duplicate Bridge club held a club appreciation game on October 19, 2017.  It was a team game and when the dust settled, our team won and was awarded .12 gold per person.  Just exactly what I needed. How cool was that.  In addition, it is the first time that someone made Life Master in the Bismarck location. 

Many thanks to my team mates for helping me attain Life Master. To others that are working toward Life Master or any other goal, just keep on persisting towards your goal.

Rod Melby,

Bismarck, ND