A week of accumulation. On Monday, I’d collected 8.61 points at the Airport Bridge Club, including .13 of a gold point, thanks to those 5% gold Swiss teams games. After the last hand was played on Friday, that little pile of candy corn* (metaphor explaining the income gap, Saturday Edition morning news, Google “NPR candy corn”) had grown to 13.40 points with .15 of a gold point. Not earth-shaking or empire-building, to be sure, but slow and steady.
Best effort of the week was Wednesday’s game with Celine Murray, who admonished me on one of my screw-ups by noting that she wanted to have a really good game that day. Despite that hand, we did – a 55.99% result that was second in the A strat and first in B in our direction, good for half of my week’s haul – 2.62 points.
There were plenty of unplanned outcomes as well, especially when it came to being unattached for the afternoon Swiss team games. Tuesday brought the unexpected delight of sitting opposite John Ziemer, an excellent player who seems to be a wizard of the negative double. Despite that, we only won one of our three Swiss team rounds. And on Thursday, I was paired with Sharon Chang for the Swiss, getting drubbed in the first two rounds and salvaging the third, thanks in part to a hand that Sharon fretted over but which in the end made her very happy (see Blog 456).
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