By Mary Ewing / Special to The Herald
Everett’s American Contract Bridge Leauge District 19 club Unit 437 decided to start a Sunday afternoon sanctioned duplicate bridge game. This game began Jan. 13 at Chateau Pacific retirement home, 3333 148th St. SW, Lynnwood.
With the exception of those spaces marked “reserved” there is ample free parking available at this venue. Free coffee and light snacks are provided. Show up by 12:45 p.m. with your $6 fee, take the elevator to the Chateau’s second floor Town Square game room and enjoy Sunday afternoon duplicate. The game schedule can be seen online at www.everettbridge.org. There will be no games on Easter or Labor Day.
The Chateau Pacific staff is committed to providing individualized independent living, assisted living, and memory care for each resident. When I happen to have a free Sunday, I will arrive before noon to check this place out. The online photos (living quarters, gardens, indoor pool), the amenities, with a duplicate game too, is enticing. Who knows? As my health declines and my Camano Island home becomes too hard to manage, I will definitely look to move to place like Chateau Pacific.
The way rubber bridge’s vulnerability penalties were incorporated into duplicate was the main subject of my previous column. When I first played duplicate, I quickly noted what I consider duplicate’s advantages over rubber bridge. I hate shuffling and dealing cards. Before the game begins, four 13 card hands are dealt and placed in the North, East, South and West pockets of each board. The board’s number, written on a small piece of paper called a “traveler,” is put in North’s pocket. These two tasks take place only once a game.
After a board is played, North writes East/West’s number on the traveler along with its North/South versus East/West score. Then the four hands are returned to the board pockets from whence they came. Scores on this traveler, along with earlier scores reported on the board when it was at a different table, can be viewed by any player at the current table. After all of the a table’s current boards have been played and scored, they’re moved to the table behind North, and the table’s current East/West pair moves to the table behind South.
These last two paragraphs begin to describe the “Mitchell” duplicate bridge movement. It generates a game with all the North/South pairs ranked against each other and the same ranking is applied to all the East/West pairs. North/South sits at the same table the entire game. East/West pairs move in the same direction from table to table. Each table’s boards are passed from table to table in the direction opposite East/West’s.
Call George (425-4227936) or Mamta (425-7911106) for information about the local bridge games.
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