August 2018 - 50

BIDDING BASICS QUIZ
On each hand below, what is your
response after Pass-Pass-1♠-Pass; ?
1. ♠K J 2 ♥2 ♦Q 7 6 5 4 3 ♣J 4 3
2. ♠Q 2 ♥K Q J 9 5 ♦Q 10 7 6 ♣3 2
3. ♠6 ♥A 10 8 7 ♦K J 7 6 ♣J 10 7 6
4. ♠K Q 2 ♥3 ♦J 10 8 7 6 ♣A 6 5 4
On each hand below, what is your
response after Pass-Pass-Pass-1♦;
Pass-?
5. ♠K Q 3 ♥K J 10 ♦7 6 5 ♣Q 10 9 8
6. ♠K J 7 6 5 ♥A Q 2 ♦2 ♣10 6 5 3
7. ♠5 4 ♥K 2 ♦K J 10 8 7 ♣Q 10 8 7
8. ♠J 10 8 7 ♥2 ♦A Q 7 6 5 ♣K 10 6
ANSWERS
1. 2♠: 6-10 HCP and support.
2. 2♥: 10-12 HCP, at least a decent
five-card suit, not forcing.
3. 1NT: 6-10 HCP, not necessarily balanced.
4. 3♠: invitational (but 2♣ if using
Drury).
5. 2NT: 11-12 HCP, natural, invitational.
6. 1♠: 6-12 HCP. Don't jump to show
a maximum passed hand.
7. 3♦: limit raise.
8. 1♠: 6-12 HCP, four or more spades.

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50 Bridge Bulletin August 2018

Ivar Stakgold 1925-2018
Five-time NABC champion Ivar Stakgold died on May 29 in
La Jolla CA of heart failure at age 92.
Stakgold and partner Leonard Harmon helped develop the
Kaplan-Sheinwold system which was adopted by many players. In 1958, he won the Vanderbilt KO Teams, the Silodor Open
Pairs and the Reisinger BAM Teams. In 1962, he added the Spingold KO Teams to his collection, and in 1969, Stakgold won the
Freeman Mixed BAM Teams playing with wife Alice Calvert Cox.
Alice Stakgold died in 1994.
In world-level play, Stakgold won a silver medal at the 1959 Bermuda Bowl representing the United States. He also represented the U.S. in the 1960 Olympiad.
In addition to being a bridge champion, Stakgold was a distinguished mathematician, author and educator. Born in Oslo, Norway, Stakgold moved to Brussels, Belgium,
with his Russian-Jewish parents, Rose and Henri Stakgold, when he was 4. The family
left Belgium in early 1940 on the eve of the German invasion and escaped via France
and Spain to the Dominican Republic. While awaiting his United States immigration
visas, he took bridge lessons. After entry to the United States, Stakgold attended the
Horace Mann School and Cornell University. He received his doctorate in applied
mathematics from Harvard University in 1949. Stakgold taught at Harvard until 1956,
when he joined the Office of Naval Research in Washington DC, where he served as
head of the mathematics and logistical branches. Later posts included a joint appointment in Engineering Science and Mathematics at Northwestern University and chair
of the Mathematics Department at the University of Delaware.
Stakgold held visiting professorships around the world. He was president of SIAM,
the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics; chair of the Conference Board of
Mathematical Sciences; and director of the Washington office of the American Mathematical Society.
His two-volume "Boundary Value Problems of Mathematical Physics" and "Green's
Functions" are influential texts in their field.
In recent years, Stakgold was adjunct professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego where he worked with his colleague Michael J. Holstas, on a third edition of "Green's Functions," which was published in 2011.
Stakgold is survived by his daughter Alissa Stakgold of Los Angeles, two step-children, William Cox and Gail Cox Gagarin; his fiancee Lainie Lesser-Mark; his nieces
Renee Packer of La Jolla and Irene Kraas of Santa Fe, and his nephew, David Wolfe of
Raanana, Israel.
Thanks to the San Diego Union Tribune.

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