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Fast Open Pairs
The Fast Open Pairs national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Fast Open Pairs is a four session MP pairs event, two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. Each set of two sessions is played on one day. The event typically starts on the second Thursday of the NABC. The event is open. Players are required to play each two board round in eleven minutes. Typically, there is only a small (30–45 minutes) break between the two sessions. History The NABC+ Fast Open Pairs is a matchpoint event where tables are permitted 11 minutes to finish their two-board rounds, rather than the standard 15 minutes. The event consists of two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. It was first contested in 2000 in Anaheim, California. Winners In the first 16 renditions to 2015, the pair Doug Doub– Adam Wildavsky had one win and two seconds. Geoff Hampson Geoff Hampson (born 1968) is a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Contract Bridge League
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and sustain the game of bridge and serve the bridge-related interests of our Members."'' Its major activities are: * sanctioning games at local bridge clubs and regional events * certifying bridge teachers and club directors * conducting the North American Bridge Championships (NABC) * providing education materials and services * administering the ACBL masterpoints system for tracking player performance * providing oversight for ethical behavior and play *Besides representing the interests of its members with the World Bridge Federation, , it had more than 165,000 members. History The ACBL was created in 1937 by the merger of the American Bridge League and the United States Bridge Association in 1937. At that time, its bridge tournaments were open only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North American Bridge Championships
North American Bridge Championships (NABC) are three annual bridge tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). The "Spring", "Summer", and "Fall" NABCs are usually scheduled in March, July, and November for about eleven days. They comprise both championship and side contests of different kinds (e.g. matchpoint pairs and knockout teams, one-day and two-day) in many classes of competition (e.g. open/women/senior or defined by masterpoints®). Host cities in the United States and Canada are selected several years in advance. Competitions and awards Open team competitions - the premier events ;Vanderbilt Cup Awarded to the National Knock-out Team championship winners at the spring North American Bridge Championship (NABC)s. It was donated in 1928 by Harold S. Vanderbilt, who won in 1932 and 1940. The event was contested annually in New York as a separate championship until 1958, when it was incorporated into Spring NABCs. ; Spingold Trophy Awarded to the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Doub
Douglas D. Doub (born May 28, 1955) is an American bridge player. He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut (2014). Doub and Frank Merblum have two firsts and two seconds in the annual grass-roots North American Pairs championship (Flight A), spanning from 2001 to 2014. They have won the New England (District 25) stage eight times. Doub won a World Bridge Federation (WBF) bronze medal in the 2003 Bermuda Bowl playing with Adam Wildavsky on a team that was the surprise winner in the United States Bridge Championships - Open Teams earlier that year. They became the "USA2" team, USA1 having been determined in the 2002 USBC. (Beginning 1991 the biennial world teams championships fields include two U.S. teams called "USA1" and "USA2".) From the 22-team round-robin they advanced to the 8-team knockout by a one-point margin, beat Poland and lost to USA1 in two-day quarterfinal and semifinal matches, and beat Norway in the bronze medal playoff. As one of three pairs on the 2009 open team le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Wildavsky
Adam Wildavsky (born March 24, 1960) is an American bridge player from Jackson Heights, New York. Wildavsky began playing bridge while in high school in Oakland, California and continued while he earned a degree in computer science from MIT. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 2008 ** Fast Open Pairs (1) 2008 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (2) 1992, 1997 ** Reisinger (1) 2002 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 1996 ** Fast Open Pairs (2) 2004, 2006 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 2011 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (1) 2010 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams The Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams national bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championships, North American Bridge Championship (NABC). It is an open four session board-a-match event ... (2) 2009, 2011 References External links * 1960 births American contract b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Hampson
Geoff Hampson (born 1968) is a Canadian professional bridge player. Hampson is from Toronto and the son of Sharon Hampson (née Trostin) of ''Sharon, Lois & Bram'' and American folk singer Joe Hampson. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 2005 * Herman Trophy (1) 2003 * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 2003 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (17) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1998 ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 2006 ** Fast Open Pairs (2) 2007, 2011 ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1994 ** Silodor Open Pairs (2) 1997, 2014 ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) 2003 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 2002 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2010 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (1) 2012 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 1992 ** Reisinger (1) 2003 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (1) 2007 ** Spingold (2) 2005, 2010 **Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2018 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 2008 ** Wernher Open Pairs (2) 1992, 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Willenken
Chris Willenken (born October 30, 1975) is an American bridge player. Born in New York City, Willenken graduated from Collegiate School in 1993 and Williams College in 1997. While at Williams, Willenken competed in the American Parliamentary Debate Association; he and Amanda Amert earned Team of The Year honors as the most successful partnership of the 1996-1997 season. Willenken is an American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master and a World Bridge Federation Life Master. In 2011, he won the gold medal at the inaugural Sport Accord World Mind Games Individual Championship. In World Bridge Federation competition, Willenken reached the finals of the 2018 and 2021 World Mixed Team Championships. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Fast Open Pairs (2) 2000, 2005 ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) 2001 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2004 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2008 ** Vanderbilt Knockout Teams (1) 2022 * SportAccord World Mind Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Wooldridge
Joel Powhatan Wooldridge (born July 19, 1979) is an American multi national champion and world junior champion in contract bridge as well as an expert foosball player. In 1990, Wooldridge broke Sam Hirschman's previous record for the youngest to achieve Life Master status with the American Contract Bridge League surpassing the mark of 11 years, 9 months and 5 days with a new record of 11 years, 4 months and 13 days. Sam's brother Dan broke Joel's record four years later. Wooldridge lives in New York City. Bridge accomplishments Awards * ACBL King of Bridge 1997 * WBF Youth Award 2003 * ACBL Player of the Year 2011 Wins * World Junior Teams Championship (3) 2001, 2002, 2005 *North American Bridge Championships (10) **Lebhar IMP Pairs (2) 1997, 2013 ** Fast Open Pairs (1) 2003 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2009 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (2) 2009, 2014 ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 2011 ** Norman Kay Platinum Pairs (1) 2011 ** Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 2017 ** Wernher O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Levin
Robert J. (Bobby) Levin (born November 19, 1957) is an American professional bridge player, from Aventura, Florida. He was the youngest winner of the Bermuda Bowl world championship for national teams from 1981 until 2015, when 19-year old Michal Klukowski of Poland succeeded him. Levin is also a five-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs, the world's leading contest for cash prizes, with his regular partner Steve Weinstein. As of June 2013, Levin ranks number 20 among Open World Grand Masters and his wife Jill ranks number 21 among Women World Grand Masters. Retrieved 2013-06-13. Levin–Weinstein were one-third of USA1 in the 2011 Bermuda Bowl, where they finished fourth. Beginning mid-2012 they joined Nick Nickell's team. The professional teams hired by Nickell had won four of the preceding nine biennial Bermuda Bowls, from 1995. Career Levin was born in Southampton, Long Island, New York. As a 13-year-old, he won the first tournament event he ever entered – the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldad Ginossar
Eldad Ginossar (born 14 June 1981) is a professional bridge player from Israel. Ginossar won the European Open Teams Championship in Antalya, Turkey in June 2007 with his partner Ron Pachtman, and with the French father-son combination of Michel and Thomas Bessis as teammates. Ginossar won both the Israeli Open Pairs Championship and the Israeli IMP pairs championship in 2007, completing an unprecedented series of victories in a single year. His greatest achievement so far in the world championship play is a 3rd-place finish in the Rosenblum Cup in 2006. He manages a bridge club in Kfar Saba Kfar Saba ( he, כְּפַר סָבָא), officially Kefar Sava, is a city in the Sharon region, of the Central District of Israel. In 2019 it had a population of 110,456, making it the 16th-largest city in Israel. The population of Kfar Saba i ..., Israel. References External links * Israeli contract bridge players Living people 1981 births {{Israel-sport-bio-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Diamond (bridge)
John Diamond (born 1966) is an American bridge player. Diamond won a world championship in 2010 and has won 6 North American Bridge Championships, and is often partnered with his longtime friend and fellow bridge player Brian Platnick. Diamond is from Daytona Beach, Florida. He graduated from Duke University and University of Maryland. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Rosenblum Cup (1) 2010 * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Fast Open Pairs (1) 2011 ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 2014 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 2012 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2010 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (1) 2012 ** Spingold (2) 2010, 2017 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (4) ** Fast Open Pairs (1) 2008 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs The Nail Life Master Open Pairs is a North American bridge championship held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The championship is a Matchpoints pairs event restricted to players with a .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Platnick
Brian Platnick is an American bridge player. Biography Platnick was born and raised in Bluefield, West Virginia, in Mercer County, West Virginia. He was taught bridge by his mother and played in tournaments with his brother as his partner throughout his school years. In 1988, he graduated from Virginia Tech with a Master's degree in engineering. After a brief but successful professional bridge career, he temporarily retired from bridge and attended the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary. His full-time career is options trading. He currently lives in Evanston, Illinois with his wife and two sons and continues to play bridge professionally while working as an options trader. Career Platnick, along with his longtime bridge partner John Diamond, were mentored by noted Dallas Aces captain and former president of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Bobby Wolff. He won his first major tournament victory, the World Junior Teams Championship, in 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Kaplan
Peggy Kaplan is an American bridge player. Kaplan lives in Minnesota. Kaplan was one of the contributing editors to the 7th edition of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2011 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2005 ** Fast Open Pairs (1) 2009 ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 2004 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams The Machlin Women's Swiss Teams North American bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Machlin Women's Swiss Teams is a four-session Swiss Teams event with tw ... (1) 2007 Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaplan, Peggy American contract bridge players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
