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Individual Game (No Partners!!) Sunday, August 15

Tom McCrackin will be moving to Albuquerque New Mexico next month. He has been suggesting that we run an individual (for the last 11 years!!), just for the pure sociability of it all and the Club has decided "What the heck!" and is going to do a potluck at 12:30 and the Individual at 1. The game will be ACBL sanctioned and Tom Ciacio will be directing. (Special note: Call "Director!" not "Tom!")

As virtually none of you has ever played in an individual, even though it used to be a regularly contested event in the Nationals, the essential point to understand is that each player will be playing 1 or 2 boards with each of 26 or 13 DIFFERENT partners. The movement is like a Howell movement on steroids and is designed to drive directors crazy. For those of you interested in details, check out Rainbow Movement for Individual Duplicate Games

As the whole point of the game is to serve as a "mixer", with a wide range of player experience and systemic preference, everyone should be prepared to sit down and play the ACBL Standard Yellow Card. With the Yellow Card you only have 5 choices you can make and they all involve defensive carding (leads & signals). If you happen to sit down with a regular partner, for the sake of opponents who might be much less experienced, stick with the Yellow Card agreements, please.

So, come give Tom (both of them) your best shots, verbally and bridge-wise, and have a good time!

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