Richmond Bridge Association, Unit 109
Serving Central Virginia

Welcome to the Official Site for the Richmond Bridge Association, Unit 109, part of District 6 of the American Contract Bridge League! Here you will find information on duplicate bridge in central Virginia.

Unit 109 includes the cities of Colonial Heights, Emporia, Fredericksburg, Hopewell, Petersburg, and Richmond and the counties of Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Essex, Fauquier, Goochland, Greensville, Hanover, Henrico, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Middlesex, New Kent, Northumberland, Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince George, Rappahannock, Richmond, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Sussex, and Westmoreland.

Click here to see the clubs and games in Unit 109.

 

Life Master Party: April 30

New life masters were celebrated on Friday, April 30.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictured above are Sandy Henshaw, Susan Wagner, Winne Fratkin and Pat Barnett. Joan Shirrefs could not attend.

May Meeting 2012

The May Meeting was held on May 9, 2012. A new slate of officers were voted in and will take office on June 1:

President – Ed Kinlaw
Vice-President – Harry Gellis
Secretary – Becky Duty
Treasurer – Paul Anderson
At-Large – Pat McDermott
At-Large – David Prior
At-Large – Steve Chaplin
At-Large – Randall Holden

Four additional board members will be chosen by the president.

The following awards were presented:

The Ace of Club Winners for the most master points in the past year in club games by MP categories were: Ann Harris (0-5), Schiela Weir (5-20), Keith Burke (20-50), Hussein Maarouf (50-100), Richard Wallace (100-200), Susan Wagner(200-300), Resa Becher (300-500), Ruth Bellet (500-1000), Rebecca Duty (1000-2500), Felix Maddox (2500-5000), Mary O'Neil (5000-7500), and Dale Dermer (7500-10,000)

The Mini-McKenney winners for the most master points in the past year in all games by MP categories were: Ann Harris (0-5), Margaret Macon (5-20), Mary Raab (20-50), Hussein Maarouf (50-100), Pat Barnett (100-200), Winifred Fratkin (200-300), Resa Becher (300-500), Louis Einwick (500-1000), Paul McGowan (1000-2500), Richard Deyerle (2500-5000), Mark Dahl (5000-7500), and Harry Gellis (7500-10,000).

The highest point winners in the monthly Wednesday Unit games were:
Flight C Nitin Shah
Flight B Jackie Shuman
Flight A Mike Fine

The winner of The Sheila Kleiman Congeniality Award was Sue Sims.

See photos from May meeting.

Condolences

Some have asked me to post addresses here for two of our friends who have lost a parent. Peggy Ward's mother died recently, and Ed Kinlaw's father passed away on May 4.

Charles R. and Peggy B. Ward
337 Easton Rd
Presque Isle, ME 04769-5277

Ed Kinlaw
13307 Farm Crest Court
Midlothian, VA 23112-7228
Information on Ed's father's funeral

Mark Dahl reaches semi-finals of Vanderbilt

The Vanderbilt (Spring Nationals), Spingold (Summer Nationals), and Reisinger (Fall Nationals) are thought of as the 3 toughest and most grueling events in the bridge world. All of the best teams in the world come to try to win one of our 3 Majors.

We are proud to announce that Mark Dahl's team got all the way to the semi-finals of the Vanderbilt, a 7 day event just held in Memphis. They lost to the Amoils team, the eventual winners, in the semi finals.

Mark said, "I am elated, deflated, proud, sad, grumpy, happy and exhausted, all in one."

Summer RBA Sectional

Richmond, VA, June 22-24
More information

NLM Spring Sectional

Richmond, VA, April 14-15
Sat Morn NLM Strat Pairs | Sat Aft NLM Strat Pairs | Sun NLM Strat Swiss Teams | Results

Fredericksburg Sectional

Fredericksburg, VA, March 16-18, 2012
Results

VuBridge

Check out the new VuBridge page on our site. Here you will see links to the hands used for the lessons on Sundays.

All MABC Sectionals and Regionals

• All Upcoming MABC Sectionals
• All MABC Sectional Results
• All Upcoming MABC Regionals
• All MABC Regional Results

In Newsweek: Why Stephen Breyer and Other Power Players Love Bridge

Thanks for sending this, Barry, Will, and Harry. Read the article online.

Unit 109's Newest Life Masters

March	March-Bronze	April-Bronze
Pat Barnett (Glen Allen) Sandi Henshaw (Sandston) Joan Shirrefs (Richmond)	James Buford (Fredericksburg) Virginia Stewart (Richmond)	John Wisk (Midlothian)

See All District 6's latest Change of Rank.