Monday: Art Matthies
and I salvage a shred of pride with a 50.46% and a sliver of a master point – 0.69.
Two top boards – a double on an opponent's ill-advised 4 Diamond bid, down three; and a nicely executed 3 Club contract by Art. Two bottoms – a
down-three sacrifice by me that goes down four instead and a 3 No Trump
contract by the opponents which we can't figure out how to crack.
Tuesday: Not much luck with
Usha Khurana. 47.10%. Mistakes by both of us. At least we're not last.
Wednesday: June
Feuerstein and I have our usual loopy good time and manage to finish second
East-West in a low-percentage six-table game. Our 53.75% is worth 1.27 points.
Thursday: No partner so
club manager Bill Finkelstein offers me on Wednesday to the first available
player who speaks up. That would be Eva Schmidt, a nonagenarian marvel and
Holocaust survivor. We come in fourth North-South with 51.94% and
earn 0.69 of a point.
Friday: Canadian partner
unavailable, so no trip to St. Catharines. Myra Razik accepts Bill
Finkelstein's general offer this time and we have a 50.84% game, third in B
East-West, 0.75 of a point.
Saturday: Will my
end-of-the-week date with the current August master point leader, Denise
Slattery, depress her or lift me up? The latter. One of my best games of the
year, in fact.
When the results are posted, we're tied with Alan Greer and
Nancy Wolstoncroft at the top with 65%. Then Shirley Cassety finds an incorrect
score. Not the first time she gets a correction that bumps me back.
Alan and
Nancy stay at 65%, Denise and I drop to 64.17%, second overall, but still first
in the B strat for 2.25 points. For the week: 5.65 points. For the month so far: 6.98.
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