Helen Panza chuckled Thursday
at the Airport Bridge Club when I told her about my New Year's Resolution to
score above 40% on all my bridge games in 2018. So that got me wondering – just
how many times did I fail to reach this ridiculously low goal in the year that just ended? Is this really an empty
promise to myself?
To find the answer, I'll
go to my 2017 datebook, where I kept a record of all my scores.
And I discover that I
crashed below 40% in my first venture of new year on Jan. 2, bringing home a
39.83% game with Tish Schiffman, with whom it's generally hard to get a good
score. It happened again on Feb. 6 with Nadine Stein, this time 37.50%. And on
Feb. 23 with Marietta Kalman, 39.78%. (This particular Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018,
Marietta and I had a respectable 50.93% game and earned 0.77 of a master
point.)
And so it continued. In
all, I had 20 games below 40% in 2017. Here are the rest:
Feb. 25 with Denise
Slattery, 39.58%.
Feb. 27 with Denise
Slattery, 36.93%.
March 7 with Joyce
Greenspan, 37.96%.
April 8 with Denise
Slattery, 38.19%.
April 19 with June
Feuerstein, 38%.
May 29 with Burt
Freiman, 39.96%.
May 30 with Ruth
Wurster, 37.15%.
June 28 with June
Feuerstein, 39.14%.
Sept. 14 with Marietta
Kalman, 39.42%.
Sept. 20 with Usha
Khurana, 35.65%.
Sept. 30 with Denise
Slattery, 35%.
Oct. 24 with Barbara
Sadkin, 35.42%.
Oct. 31 with Eva
Schmidt, 35.80%.
Nov. 9 (a.m.) in the
Niagara Falls, Ont., Regional with June Feuerstein, 39.74%.
Nov. 27 with Marilyn
Sultz, 38.49%.
Dec. 6 (p.m. STaC game)
with June Feuerstein, 39.90%.
Dec. 26 with Carolyn
Siracuse, the worst one of all, 34.42%.
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