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Sunday, April, 23, 2006:
The Bob Hamman Coming to Chicago !!!

Click here for detail flyer in PDF rormat

Calling ALL Chicago & South-East Wisconsin areas BRIDGE PLAYERS!

Win a free entry for your team to go to the Grande Finale of the Bob Hamman Challenge on Sunday, April 23!; This will be a Swiss team game with a free presentation by Bob Hamman.; Bob as well as other experts will be playing, and 5,000* +; in Prize Money will be awarded to the winners!

Just play at a local club that sponsors a Bob Hamman pre-Challenge event!
There is one on Thursday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Deerfield Bridge Club - a Swiss Team Championship Game with extra masterpoints.
Chicago area players go to www.bridgeinchicago.com and look for description of the special games, where it say "win free BHC entry".

To register for this tournament go to Tournaments page or call 847-541-7560 for more information.
And register as soon as possible at the above website - game sizes are limited!

P.S. CLUB DIRECTORS - would you like to run a special event to send a team to the Grande Finale of the Bob Hamman Challenge? We will reimburse registered players for extra entry cost club may charge to run such event - call 847-778-5259 or send e-mail to bridge@AoiGames.com for details.

   T 8 7
 Q 9 8
 J 8 7 5 4
 8 7		  
 K J 6 5
 4 3 2
 9 2
 K J T 9		  A Q 9 4 3 2   
 7
 T 6 3
 5 4 3
   -
 A K  J T 6 5
 A K Q
 A Q 6 2 		 

 

Serge Bondar, the organizer of BHC, said that idea of "self-determination" of ones playing level came from reading book by Erwin Brecher, sub-titled "a bridge book with difference", the following diagram is printed on a cover, with the note  - South makes 6 Hearts against best defense. West leads 2.
You are in a south seat looking at all four hands.

If you find a correct solution for less than a minute, go a head and play in World Experts category;
If it took about 5 minutes to get it right, you can identify yourself with Club Experts category;
If you read an answer... and still are nor sure why is that a correct solution, then you have NO PROBLEMs at all - you're a beginner. Pay just $10 to get in, and you still have a 50% chance to finish "in the money" at very prestigious event.

Click here for solution:

Answer on 6 slam: Win the opening trump lead in a dummy. At trick 2, lead a spade and discard any of your good diamonds. We are sure that discard of A will really impressed everybody at the table.