Category Archives: Sport

Two Week-Ends of Bridge

Last week-end I played in the Raleigh sectional at the Jaycee Center (pictured) with a pick-up partner, Louise Watson, and this week-end I played in a Durham tournament for non-life masters with my mom. Louise has only been playing bridge … Continue reading

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Toss in the Moss 2005

For the second week-end in a row, I played in an Ultimate tournament, but this was the first in about two years that I actually traveled to. Our (former) masters team, THOR, decided to try “one last tournament”. We added … Continue reading

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Masters Hat Tournament

With a heat index of 109° this must have been the worst week-end of the year to hold a masters tournament, but that’s where I was from 10:30 to 5:30 on Saturday. Fortunately, we were blessed with an afternoon shower … Continue reading

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High-Low at Durham Sectional

Mom and I played every session of the recent Durham bridge sectional. Friday and Saturday we had an amazing run of finishing first overall for all four sessions. Well, “overall” for the 0-200 players, that is. That included a 70+% … Continue reading

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Soccer Highlight

I’m playing organized soccer for the first time in my life in a recreational (no score keeping) lunchtime league, and I finally scored a goal. And it was a header even. One of the few skilled players on our team … Continue reading

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Predictable Randomness

One GNU Chess source file I didn’t port to Java was the random number generator, and that turned out to be a problem for processing the binary opening book files. The board position hash codes are 64-bit numbers created by … Continue reading

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Final Round of Chess Tourney

Is there any glory in winning the B division? That’s what it came down to in my final round game. I needed a win against Kevin to claim the “title” outright and a draw to tie for it. It looked … Continue reading

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