La squadra di Paul Fireman (con John Kranyak, Vince Demuy, Gavin Wolpert, John Hurd, Joel Wooldridge) ha vinto il Roth Swiss Open Teams a Las Vegas.
Al secondo posto arriva il team composto da: Tom Breed, Chris Compton, David Grainger, Jeff Roman, Darren Wolpert, Daniel Korbel; al terzo posto si classifica la squadra composta da: Andrew Gromov, Aleksander Dubinin, Krzysztof Buras, Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Yuriy Khoklov,Evgeny Rudakov.
Il torneo è uno degli eventi principali del national estivo (Summer NABC) e si è disputato quest’anno il 26 e 27 luglio 2014 a Las Vegas. Prende il nome dal grande giocatore americano Alvin Roth (1914-2007).
Formato. Nel primo giorno si giocano due sessioni di qualificazione, le squadre promosse giocano successivamente le due sessioni di finale con mani preparate.
Classifica finale:
1 Paul Fireman – Gavin Wolpert – John Kranyak – Vincent Demuy – Joel Wooldridge – John Hurd
2 Tom Breed – Chris Compton – David Grainger – Jeff Roman – Darren Wolpert – Daniel Korbel
3 Andrew Gromov – Aleksander Dubinin – Krzysztof Buras – Grzegorz Narkiewicz – Yuriy Khoklov – Evgeny Rudakov
4 Ze Jun Zhuang – Hoajun Shi – Chuan Cheng Ju – Zheng Jun Shi
5 Aubrey Strul – Michael Becker – Tarek Sadek – Walid Elahmady – Rosen Gunev – Ivan Nanev
6 Bob Hamman – Brian Glubok – Howard Weinstein – Roger Lee – Frederic Wrang
7 Rose Meltzer – John Mohan – Peter Boyd – Steve Robinson – Steve Garner – Ron Smith
8 Hemant Lall – Wojciech Gawel – Rafal Jagniewski – Petra Hamman – Michal Nowosadzki – Jacek Kalita
9 Kaare Gjaldbaek – Gregers Bjarnarson – Anders Hagen – Martin Schaltz
10 Mary Ann Berg – Mark Lair – Valentin Kovachev – Vladislav Isporski – Huub Bertens – Ton Bakkeren
11 Paul Street – Ira Chorush – Marc Bompis – Jean Quantin – Ishmael Delmonte – Curtis Cheek
12 Martin Fleisher – Chip Martel – Roy Welland – Sabine Auken – Chris Willenken – Michael Rosenberg
13 Marcin Mazurkiewicz – Krzysztof Jassem – Piotr Gawrys – Michal Klukowski
14 Jeff Meckstroth – Eric Rodwell – Ralph Katz – Geoff Hampson – Robert Levin – Steve Weinstein
15 Marius Agica – Owen Lien – Adam Kaplan – Zachary Brescoll – Matt Granovetter – Pamela Granovetter
16 Daniel Zagorin – Kevin Bathurst – Sjoert Brink – Bas Drijver
17 Steve Beatty – Ed Schulte – Jerry Helms – Olin Hubert
18 Bo Liu – Steven Love – Alberto Feilhaber – Weidong Pei
19 Michel Bessis – Michael Askgaard – Larry Mori – Venkatrao Koneru – Philippe Cronier – Kasper Konow
20 Wenfei Wang – Ran Jingrong – Hongli Wang – Lu Yan – Yu Zhang – Shao Hong Wu
21 Bernard Payen – Philippe Soulet – Christophe Oursel – Thierry De Sainte-Marie – Erick Mauberquez
22 Stan Tulin – Gary Cohler – Michael Kamil – Billy Cohen – Alon Birman – Dror Padon
23 Carolyn Lynch – Mike Passell – Adam Zmudzinski – Bart Bramley – Lew Stansby – Cezary Balicki
24 Steve Shirey – Robert Lebi – Martin Kirr – Ira Hessel
25 Sam Dinkin – Michael Shuster – Zachary Grossack – Adam Grossack
26 Ji Chen – Patrick Huang – Fu Zhong – Jie Li – Bauke Muller – Simon De Wijs
27 Lawrence Lau – Brett Adler – Jill Marshall – Michael Lipkin – John Ramos
28 Robert McCaw – Lewis Gamerman – Sheila Gabay – Lloyd Arvedon
29 Lynn Deas – Sylvia Moss – Janice Seamon-Molson – Kerri Sanborn – Beth Palmer
30/31 Jun Wei – Shu Guang Bi – Kuu Zhang – Xiao Bing Wu – Min Rong Zhu
30/31 Drew Casen – John Onstott – Howard Parker III – James Bush – Bruce Ferguson
32 Martin Harris – Jacob Morgan – Douglas Doub – Adam Wildavsky
33 Christina Madsen – Christal Henner – Migry Zur Campanile – Veronique Bessis
34 Joao Paulo Campos – Joshua Donn – Joaquin Pacareu – Miguel Villas-Boas
35 Alexander Kolesnik – Jim Munday – Richard Oshlag – Jeffrey Goldsmith
36 James Cayne – Michael Seamon – Lorenzo Lauria – Alfredo Versace – Thomas Bessis – Cedric Lorenrini
37 Melih Ozdil – Leonardo Cima – Valerio Giubilo – Lewis Finkel
38 Jeff Schuett – David Yang – Dick Bruno – Robert Gardner – Jeffrey Miller – Brad Carmichael
39 William Schreiber – Michael Schreiber – John Jones – Mark Bartusek
40 Han Peters – Shane Blanchard – Paul Gipson – Alex Gipson – Ari Greenberg – Li-Chung Chen
41 Hansa Narasimhan – Sumit Mukherjee – Bhabesh Saha – Debabrata Majumder – Pritish Kushari – Keyzad Anklesaria
42 Kit Woolsey – Fred Stewart – Nikolay Demirev – Eldad Ginossar
43 Connie Goldberg – Bill Eisenberg – Maija Romanovska – Karlis Rubins – Eugene Saxe – Wafik Abdou
44 Les Bart – Gloria Bart – Mark Dahl – Peter Friedland
45 Andrew Rosenthal – Aaron Silverstein – Fredrik Nystrom – Bjorn Fallenius – Peter Fredin – Johan Upmark
46 Kitty Cooper – Steven Cooper – Anne Brenner – David Caprera
47 Mark Gordon – Pratap Rajadhyaksha – Alan Sontag – Michal Kwiecien – David Berkowitz – Jacek Pszczola
48/49 Haitao Liu – Xiao Feng Zhang – Yu Wei Wu – Lidang Dong
48/49 Bobby Wolff – Dan Morse – Greg Hinze – David Lindop – Nader Hanna – Nagy Kamel
50 Marilyn Eber – Garey Hayden – Jan Janitschke – Bonnie Smith
I Campionati americani estivi (Summer NABC – North American Bridge Championships) si sono svolti a Las Vegas (Nevada) da 17 al 27 luglio 2014.
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