Join us for a game to celebrate the memory of David Moss! The GNYBA, Honors, and David’s family are hosting the game at Honors.
David was a great supporter of bridge in New York City and he’ll be missed. According to David’s short Bridge Winners bio, “Began playing bridge when I was 9. My father was impatient because he needed a 4th to join my two older brothers and spare my mother the pain of playing with us. I have been playing in NYC since 1995. I was GNYBA Unit President and a member of the ACBL board.”
It is an individual game; you will switch partners every few hands. We are going with an individual game rather than a traditional pairs game to allow for maximal swapping of David stories. You do not need to come with a partner and won’t stay with one if you do bring one.
You are welcome regardless of your bridge skill; fee is $10
This game is about community and celebrating David more than about competition. We want everyone who wants to be there to be there. We will have bagels and bridge and conversation.
Looking forward to trying out the new experimental Brackted Pairs format today and hope to see many of you there. Also, tomorrow begins the first ever two-day Swiss held during our GNYBA Winter Regional (at least first ever in the recent few decades). Exciting times when every day is slightly different.
Our favorite ACBL Live tournament reporting is having some tech issues today. For now the directors are sending results from our the Winter 2025 Regional to us here at the GNYBA website team to post. Stay tuned.
Friday Dec 26: Open / GoldRush Pairs, Bracketed Teams Sat Dec 27: Bracketed Pairs and Bracketed Teams Sun Dec 28: Two-Day Swiss Qualifying Rounds, Open / Gold Rush Pairs Mon Dec 29: Two-Day Swiss Final Round + Pairs and Teams All Days Start at 10am
Here are the results from Flight B. One significant innovation was start time: by starting at 10am, the morning finished at 1pm with the director having discretion over the afternoon starting time. In this case, the District strongly favored a short lunch break with everyone starting back up at 2pm. The entire day wrapped up just after 5pm.
Prelim Results D24 NAP-B Representatives:
Michael Schwartz and Janie Woo ($1400 travel award) Sam Bellows and Wendy Nickerson ($600 travel award) Richard Kassar and Shlomit Rind (3rd place) Lee Lin and Vladimir Kolbun (4th place)
Alternates:
Yuchen Xu and Leon Yu Michael Krevor and Charles Bilich Barbara Ullman and Samuel Kopel Laszlo Seress and John Moscow
The GNYBA invites all active members in Unit 155 to attend the annual membership meeting. As usual, for purposes of obtaining an easy quorum and also recognizing few people would come any other time, we will hold the meeting during our December regional.
Specifically, the meeting will begin at Saturday, December 27th at 2:50pm at the New York Marriott Marquis – 1535 Broadway, on the 7thfloor in the main playing room. We expect the meeting will be shorter than 10 minutes, but many unit officers and board members will be present if anyone has questions to ask afterward and prior to the beginning of the next session.
The primary agenda of the meeting is to confirm the board and officer slate for 2026. While the nominating committee will propose most board positions and officer posts, any active member in ACBL Unit 155 is eligible to join the board. According to the bylaws, there are a few vacant seats before we reach our maximum of 30 board members.
If you are interested in joining the board, you may obtain 50 signatures from active unit members and submit the petition to our secretary or president. A potentially easier path is to simply talk to your favorite board member and have them circulate your name.
Congratulations to the pairs qualifying to represent New York City and Long Island in the championship flight of the North American Open Pairs national finals this coming February 25th, 2026 in St. Louis, MO.
Main changes are clarifying what was previouly posted to gnyba.org/nap. Here is the latest summary once again:
2025-2026 NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS
District 24 Final
110 East 55th St, 6th Fl, New York, NY 10022
10:00am 1st session + TBD 2nd session
Championship Flight: Oct 5th
Flight B – Oct 26th
Flights A & C – Nov 2nd
District 24 (New York City and Long Island) will hold a tournament to determine who will represent the district at the ACBL Spring NABC in St. Louis in February and March 2026. To see which flights you have qualified for and to help you look for a partner go to “NAP Current Qualifiers” on www.gnyba.org/nap
The top 3 pairs in the Open Flight and Flight A and top 4 in Flights B & C qualify to the national finals.
The cost to play is $120 per pair which covers the full day. Cash required.
All Flights: 110 East 55th St., 6th Floor, New York NY (Honors Bridge Club)
New this year: There are now four flights in NAP, including an open flight on October 5th and a new 0-6000 Flight A on October 26th. Flight B and C also have new MP limits.
*Pairs that qualify but choose not to compete in the NAP National Finals during the St. Louis 2026 NABCs will receive the Masterpoint awards but not the travel subsidy.
Players must be members of Units 155 or 242 (New York City or Long Island) as of June 1 of 2025. Eligible players may compete in the district finals for multiple flights, but may only represent the district at the national finals in one flight.
New start time this year: the first session will begin at 10am. The 2nd session will begin after a brief lunch break per director instructions (around 2:15 – 2:30pm).
For questions or to help find a partner contact Bill Dinner at bdinner@yahoo.com or the GNYBA NAP Committee at gnt@gnyba.org More information at gnyba.org/nap
Save the date for this year’s GNT Opening Rounds. As usual, surviving teams will schedule their own KOs, but we HIGHLY recommend the Flight A and C teams try to use Saturday, Feb 21st as a KO date, as we will already have the club rented with a director present to handle any and all matters.
Championship (Open) Flight – Unlimited Masterpoints Opening Weekend – Saturday, Feb 21 + Sunday, Feb 22
NOABC Victories
Katherine Todd (0-5000 Teams Champion)
Zia Mahmood
(Open KO semifinals)
Joe Grue
(Open Pairs 4th)
Team Liebhaber
(0-1500 Teams semifinals)
GNYBA League Nov 2020
Season One Results Team New England
Better Than Ok On A Good Day
Team Sam
