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Cavendish Invitational; Talk: Cavendish Invitational; Steve Weinstein

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Loews hotel 1991-96 except 1992 (Young Men's Philanthropic League, also in Manhattan, where many Cavendish continued to play bridge after the C Club closed)

1995 teams, Honors Club (two sites)

Notes

Other notes

John Roberts is former winner, what else?

Schaffer-Vernay is three-time WBP winner

Women in the winners circle?

Invitational: none?, 2nd at least three early
Individual: none
Teams: at least O'Rourke 2008, 2011 (5/6 of team is repeat)
WBP: at least 2000(1) and 2010(both)

http://cavendish.bridgewinners.com/register CIPairs and JRTeams by invitation only but register for consideration

http://cavendish.bridgewinners.com/results/JRT3.htm JRTeams 2011 eight team round-robin plus two Swiss (nine rounds, 3 days))

http://cavendish.bridgewinners.com/2011-session-information WBP Pairs 2011 sixteen pair round-robin (15 rounds, 3 days) with auction

http://cavendish.bridgewinners.com/auctions-awards CIP AUCTION 2011 with two auctions, players and owners

http://cavendish.bridgewinners.com/overview CIP players pool (entry fees), owners pool (auction: silent continued by open for $15K and above) JRTeams "John Roberts Teams event, named after World Bridge Productions co-founder John Roberts, who passed away in 2002" pool from entry fees

http://cavendish.bridgewinners.com/open-play-events first-come first served WBP Pairs minimum bid $1000

http://cavendish.bridgewinners.com/archived-daily-bulletins archived daily bulletins 2001 and 2003-10

Harry Tudor won twice on the final deal, 1995 and 1997(1997)

Sontag-Weichsel missed winning their third largely by a 322/644 IMP swing on one deal facing the eventual winners(1981)

Hosted by the Cavendish Club 1976(1976), "now firmly established ..."

Men have won all; Wei-Radin second 1981(1981) North Americans won the first thirteen; Fallenius-Lindquist first 1988(1988)

678 IMP margin 1982 (Al Rand second in handicap version!)

Bergen-Cohen scored -900; +2343 = +1453 to win 1984

Canadians won 1985 hosted by the Cavendish at its new premises 105 E 73 St

Granovetter-Rosenberg won with merely +931 1986 In the featured hand Rosenberg inferred xx rather than Jx from an opening pass.

1987 36 pairs 1988 36 1989 "Ain Ostavel and Hillar Sula of Estonia, who are the first players from the Soviet Union to compete outside Europe" lost to Bergen-Cohen thanks to the latter's holding trump Ace against a grand slam on board 117 of 120 (leading by 267, lose by 16); +75/-75 in the small slam; +212/-212 for the grand 1990 2766/+636 IMPS 1993 2117/+690 IMPs 1997 60 pairs 1998 --first available daily bulletin-- $262,500 and $26,656 prizes for owners and players 1999 MSN Gaming Zone : Levin-Weinstein +902, 9 IMP margin but 20-pair final 2000 WBP : 50 pairs 2002 WBP : Levin/Weinstein +2058 in fifth of five sessions

60 pairs $1070,500; max $39K min $10K
32 WBP pairs $43200; max 2700 min 1000

1995 teams beat Zia et al by 1 IMP

1990 Jill Blanchard second by 2 IMP, John Roberts third

Data

directed (and initially scored by hand) Brian Moran 1975-d199904

year number $tot $max
2011  36  $623,    48K (silent, min $12500/open >$15000)
2010  50   853,500 62K

http://cavendish.bridgewinners.com/images/stories/pdfbin/2010/FRIBULL2010.pdf

2009 - all Bulletins not found 2011-05-11
2001,03-08 - ditto
1999  64 $1227,000 56K (min $10K bid for 26 of 64); 23 WBP pairs

http://www.bridgehands.com/Tournaments/Cavendish/FRIBULL05071999.pdf (MSN Gaming Zone; auction for teams too, max $32500) total includes about $260K for teams(?)

1997  60 $1288,500 64K (min 6500)

http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20020601162457/www.bridgeplaza.com/tournaments/cavendish/cav97/players/index.html

1997  28 teams $182800

http://classic-web.archive.org/web/19980126020454/http://www.bridgeplaza.com/tournaments/cavendish/cav97/teams/index.html

1996   40 pairs $800K prize pool              18 teams max 8200 cheapest 1500
1979 $300,000
1975  $50,000

http://classic-web.archive.org/web/19980110115931/beverlybridgeclub.com/cavinfo.html (home page 1997) "experimented with different formats and rules designed to increase the size of the pool while keeping the quality of the field."

Individual

all four years Truscott's column follows two days after the CIP column, perhaps Mon and Wed of Mother's Day week(?)

1978 pay 40 pairs

1979 pay (abstract: "Whether a club event can be a world championship, even an unofficial one, is highly debatable. The World Bridge Federation says no, but the Cavendish Club in Manhattan, which organized a "world individual championship" earlier this week, is of the contrary opinion.")

1980 pay

1981 Mon-Tue following CIP; three-session 36 pairs