http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/arts/a-player-worth-remembering.html 2014-11-16 23:57:10 A Player Worth Remembering The New York City bridge community lost one of its most popular members, Kathy Anday-Fallenius, on Nov. 9. === The New York City bridge community lost one of its most popular members, Kathy Anday-Fallenius, on Nov. 9. She and her husband, the Swede and former European champion Bjorn Fallenius, have owned and run the Cavendish Club in Manhattan for the last 20 years or so. For many years, she was the editor of the Greater New York Bridge Association’s magazine Post-Mortem and a longtime board member. Away from bridge, she was multitalented. She spoke seven languages fluently and had a successful business career. She was a vice president of Lehman Brothers’ international division, ran Merrill Lynch’s international department for a few years in Brussels and Paris, then had a similar job in New York with Peat Marwick (now part of the consulting and accounting firm KPMG). Anday-Fallenius had an unusual bridge record in that the At the other table, three no-trump was made with an overtrick for plus 430. So here, East-West needed to hold declarer to nine tricks to win the point on the board. Anday (West) made the understandable but unfortunate opening lead of the diamond six. South won with his eight and played four rounds of clubs. East threw two spades and South two hearts and one spade. What did Anday do after taking this trick? It looked normal to shift to the spade jack, but East had discouraged in that suit. Instead, she found the only lead to hold declarer to nine tricks: the heart four. South took East’s nine with his ace, played a diamond to dummy’s queen and cashed the last two clubs, throwing a heart and a diamond from his hand while East and West shed spades. Fallenius (East) took the next trick with his spade ace and led a low heart to his partner’s queen. West exited with a diamond to dummy’s ace, and East won the last trick with his heart king. The defenders took one spade, two hearts and one club. An informal gathering to commemorate Anday-Fallenius’s life will be held at