Chicago Contract Bridge Association

• DuPage Expo Center, 4050 East Main St., St. Charles, IL - Location Map
• Download and print your own tournament information and schedule - (305.27 KB)

• Darien Sportsplex, 451 Plainfield Road, Darien, IL - Location Map
• Download and print your own tournament information and schedule - (227.18 KB)
• No entry fee's at this tournament - Come explore our hospitality!!

The following results have been posted:

• May 18 - Stratified 299er Pairs - Sec D - (Hand Record PDF)
• May 18 - Stratified 299er Pairs - Sec D - (Hand Record PDF)
• May 18 - Stratified 49er Pairs - Sec A - (Hand Record PDF)
• May 18 - Stratified 49er Pairs - Sec A - (Hand Record PDF)
• May 18 - Stratified 299er Pairs - Sec D - (Hand Record PDF)
• May 18 - Stratified 299er Pairs - Sec D - (Hand Record PDF)

A new CCBA website will be launched shortly (probably Jun 1st).

If you'd like to take a sneak peek at it, and help report errors to the webmaster, you're more than welcome to sign-up and have a look.

New features:

1. It's alot quicker!
2. There's a tournament calendar on the left so you can see upcoming tournaments more easily.
3. Your last 5 games will show up on the left panel for you to quickly find your results (and if you won master points!)
4. It does require you to register for access to the membership information as well as your 'last games' to be visible. Otherwise, I don't know who you are to present the games to you!
5. Tournament results will be more easily accessible.
6. For those hard of seeing, this site scales larger much more easily.
7. It's easier for the club owners to publish results.
8. Today's and Yesterday's results can be easily found on the left panel. But this won't happen until clubowners get more proficient and start publishing results on the new web as well.

A couple of things to note!

1. This is not the official site for the CCBA yet, and as such, most clubowners will be publishing their results onto the official web.
2. The clubowners will be learning as well, please be patient.
3. If you are a club owner, register to the website, and in the profile (upper right corner under "Hello, ..."), and mark yourself as a club owner.
4. Just before the new site goes official, I will be moving over all the results posted, but without the hand records. They will be lost in the ether!!

The new website can be found at http://newccba.bridgeinchicago.com.

Let me know what you think with a message to the webmaster!

OFFICIAL RECAPS for the District STAC (May 6 to 12) can be found on Unit 222's website : unit222.com. Full results from three states can be found.

On the CCBA website, I can only bring you what happened in Chicago. For the full story, visit Unit 222's site!

The Reluctant Redoubler will be operating on Wednesday Nights at Temple Judeah Mitzpah.

Same game time, 7:00pm, and same warm hospitality.

Don't let evening bridge die in Chicagoland! Please come out and welcome director Mark Dimburg to the northern suburbs.

Club information can be found under his Wednesday night entry "At the Clubs".

The CCBA has opted to throw another FREE I/N Sectional, May 18th and 19th at the Darien Sportsplex.

In appreciation for your love of the game … and ours … we want you to experience firsthand just how great tournament life really is.

See the schedule!

Plan to play!!

Make a date with your friends or call Mike Cochran at 847-846-8025 for information. You can e-mail Mike at cochram1@yahoo.com

Hope to see you there!!

This is a DISTRICT STAC event, the official results will be posted by the Director in Charge as soon as possible.

The official results can be found at the ACBL Website.

For ESTIMATED, INFORMAL and NOT ACCURATE results, you should be able to go to our web to look at some STAC results.

This web program looks at all the results that have been posted by the club owners, and does its best to determine the players names, and percentages, and then sorts them by percentage game.

Things that make it unofficial, is that all club owners don't necessarily report their results on the CCBA web.

Another issue is that the web doesn't really distinguish clubs that choose to run sections IN the STAC and other sections OUT of the STAC AND the fact that this is a District 13 Event, these results are REALLY unofficial.

When available, the official results can be found on the ACBL website.

Tuesday Nights May-September!

Starting May 7th, The Birchwood Club will host an ACBL sanctioned game every other Tuesday night at 7pm. Located in Highland Park, just east of 41 off Park Avenue, the game will be directed by CCBA's own Tom Dressing.

$10 entry fee, which includes dessert and coffee. Enjoy duplicate bridge in a relaxed country club setting and win master points!

The club will meet roughly every two weeks through September.

Check out our flyer for information, or look for us in the "At the Clubs" section on the website.

STAC week the first week of the club's operation. $12 for the first night only, due to STAC fee's, and then back to the $10 entry fee for the rest of the season!

Many people have serious, and even life threatening allergic reactions to scented lotions, perfumes, colognes and other scents. The CCBA seeks your cooperation to avoid these situations by coming to our tournaments "scent-free".

Please help us by abiding to our new policy. Thank you for your consideration.

The May/June 2013 Kibitzer is now available for your enjoyment.

This Kibitzer highlights the Annual Meeting with articles and photographs of the award winners. Also, look for the column from the new CCBA president, and for the columns by experts giving tips on how to improve your play. Included, as well, are flyers of the various tournaments in the area that you will want to attend. And, as usual, the Kibitzer puts all the Special Games at your fingertips.

The Kibitzer contains interesting articles and discussions on bridge in the Chicago area. It will also have flyers for various tournaments in the area you might be interested in attending.

Editor: DeMaris Johnson