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I recently played in the Victoria Regional, where Doug and Sandra Fraser won the first 4 two session open pairs. Doug then dumped his wife and played with Mike Hargreaves (Mikeh) and won the final open pairs. Amazing feat.

Ron Borg - a top player in the Pacific Northwest and Canada for many years http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theprovince/obituary.aspx?n=ronald-peter-borg&pid=169899814

I hope they don't assign these trigger happy cops to guard a school somewhere.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-gun-appreciation-day-five-injured-at-three-different-gun-shows-20130119,0,2727285.story

I have accumulated 3600 points or so playing off and on from 1969 until 1992 (pretty well retired since then). I must admit that it feels strange that Leo Lasota was able to accumulate that many points in one year playing with mainly robots. Looking at myhands for some of these robot tournaments, he plays something that is nothing like bridge as I know it, but obviously it is highly effective. I think this is the crux of the problem. Old line players like myself are seeing their hard earned matchpoints (aka bragging rights) being eroded by first matchpoint inflation and now online points explosion, and this is the group that most of the board of directors fall into. To me and a lot of my peers bridge is a game played with real people not some artificial intelligence bots. and we make up the vast majority of the ACBL membership. I have not yet tried and have no interest in robot duplicate but maybe I should. Perhaps Fred and BBO should give the Board of Directors some free plays to try out these tourneys. Probably this is the wave of the future but I am not sure if its time has arrived quite yet.

Back in the 70's the Bellingham Sectional was mandatory for many Vancouver players. They offered a free gin fizz breakfast on Sunday morning. It often made for an interesting Sunday Swiss.

The small island I live on is scheduled for smart meter installations this summer. This is a very controversial topic it seems. Many islanders have signs forbidding installation and some have even gone so far as to install collars on their analog meters to prevent the swap. Some islanders are discussing picketing the ferry to keep the installation trucks off the island. I have been trying to educate myself on smart meters and have only been able to find articles by the power company or articles by what appears to me to be serious nutbars. Does anyone have some links to some balanced information about these smart meters? Derek Ward, Hornby Island B.C.

Autoplay at trick 13 would negate any chance for an undo of trick 12 after a misclick. (Not that that would necessarily be a bad thing after some of the undo's I have seen)

Congrats Mike. Does Canada still have a playoff with Mexico? One of the Vugraph commentators said that Mexico had joined the CACF for international competition like Bermuda did a few years back.

Mike Hargreaves (Mikeh) playing on the Raynor team is in the semi finals of the CNTC's. Good luck Mike.