2008 World Championship Bulletins & Results

2008 WMSG Daily Bulletins

Each day the WBF will publish a Daily Bulletin, available in PDF format and also as a web page (the "internet" bulletin is somewhat different from the printed one you get by downloading the PDF). To make it easier for you to find the Daily Bulletins, we've linked to the internet and PDF versions here. The PDF version comes in two separate sections - one for the Youth Games and one for the WMSG (World Mind Sports Games) . The links will take you to blank pages until the bulletins are published. You can also access the bulletins by going to the WBF Bulletin page and clicking on the link there.

    Bulletin #     Internet Version         WMSG PDF        Youth PDF
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WMSG Results

The WMSG results will be posted on the WBF website, hopefully in real time. Here are the links for the results from the different events:

For the Open, Women's, Senior & Transnational results, click here

To folllow the Round Robin Results for US teams click below (all teams are doing well):

Open series  -  Women's Series - Senior Series

For the  Youth results (U-28, U-26 & U-21), click here

To get the results of matches that are being played, click in the "running scores" box above the list of matches; at the moment, that works only for the Youth events, not for the Open, Women's & Seniors, but we expect it to be added to those events soon.

BBO Vugraph

There will be extensive BBO Vugraph coverage of the WMSG. The schedule is here, with times adjusted for your time zone. Go to the BBO TV page to watch in a browser window or log onto BBO and go to the Vugraph theatre. 

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NICKELL & PASSELL Elected to ACBL Hall of Fame

 

  
  

Nick Nickell and Mike Passell will be inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame at the Summer 2008 ACBL meeting, having been elected by the Hall of Fame Electors this year. Congratulations to them both.

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2009 USBF Board Elected

There have been no petition candidates for election to the USBF Board of Directors, so the two candidates nominated by the nominating committee will fill the two vacant spots on the USBF Board without the necessity for an election. The 2009 Board of Directors of the USBF will be:

Steve Beatty, term expires January 2011
Joan Gerard, term expires January, 2010
Bob Hamman, term expires January, 2010
George Jacobs, term expires January 2011
Sylvia Moss, term expires January 2012
Mike Passell, term expires January 2012
Bill Pollack, term expires January, 2010

Federation officers will be elected at the first Board meeting of 2009.

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JOINT STATEMENT BY THE USBF BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE 2007 VENICE CUP-WINNING TEAM

The United States Bridge Federation (USBF) and the US Venice Cup world championship bridge team are pleased to mutually announce that we have resolved all issues relating to events that occurred at the closing ceremony of the 2007 World Bridge Championship in Shanghai. We all believe that it is in the best interests of bridge to put this behind us so that we can focus on playing the game we love.

The USBF Board has dismissed all charges against the members of the Venice Cup team.
 
The members of the USA1 Venice Cup Championship team recognize that it is a legitimate request of the USBF, when sending teams to represent the United States, that all participants refrain from using the stage for the Medal Ceremonies as a platform for anything other than receiving their medals.
 
For the future the USBF will make certain that the Guidelines are clearer as to what is expected.

We all look forward to resuming our mutual enjoyment of bridge and to working together to promote the game.

Steve Beatty
Joan Gerard
Gail Greenberg
Bob Hamman
Jill Levin
Irina Levitina
Jan Martel
Rose Meltzer
Jill Meyers
Hansa Narasimhan
Lou Ann O'Rourke
Bill Pollack
Debbie Rosenberg
JoAnna Stansby

November 20, 2007 

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  1. Open Letter from USBF Board of Directors - Nov. 16, 2007
  2. Shanghai Incident
  3. Notice of 2009 USBF Board Election
  4. Notice of 2011 USBF Board Election