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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 two qualifying and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the second Saturday of the NABC. The event is only open to female players. The event was dropped from the ACBL calendar effective 2018 and replaced with a two-day pairs event. History The Machlin Women's Swiss Teams competition is a two-day event with two qualifying sessions, followed by two final sessions. Scoring is by International Match Points (IMPs) converted to Victory Points In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them. A rule is an instruction on how to play, a ludeme is an element of play like the L-sha ... (VPs). The event began in 1982 and was o ... [...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] |
Tobi Deutsch
Tobi Sokolow (born July 15, 1942) is an American bridge player. She won major tournaments as Tobi Deutsch as well. As of 2016, she ranked 10th among women in the world by masterpoints and 11th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2015-12-30. Sokolow learned bridge in her thirties, unusually late for a top player.(Moss Team) Participant blurbs, United States Bridge Federation. She has won five world titles and 20 North American Bridge Championship ...
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Judy Bramley
Judy Bramley (died 2022 ) was an American bridge player. She won three National titles playing as Judy Wadas. Judy was married to Bart Bramley. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (2) 1997, 2000 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1996 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1988 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2000 ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs The Rockwell Mixed Pairs is a national bridge championship held regularly at the Spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Rockwell Trophy, donated by Helen Rockwell in 1946, is presented to the w ... (1) 1981 Notes External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Bramley, Judy American contract bridge players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Meyers
Jill J. Meyers (born February 13, 1950) is an American Contract bridge, bridge player from Santa Monica, California. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 7th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 1st by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-10. Meyers was born in New York City and earned a B.A. from Tulane University. She and her sister Nina moved to Los Angeles in 1972 and started to play duplicate bridge there, where Ed Davis was her first teacher (they still have a partnership). From 1979 she studied law at University of West Los Angeles and she passed the State Bar of California, California bar in 1983, after which she played bridge more seriously. She is married to Sid Brownstein and is a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Palmer
Mary "Beth" Palmer (August 14, 1952 – October 2, 2019) was an American bridge player from Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was an attorney. At the time of her death, she was 11th in the World Bridge Federation women's rankings by PPs (which do not age off) and 15th by MPs."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2019-10-02 At the in Beijing, December 2011, Palmer and won the "Pairs Women" gold medal. Not a world championship meet, the SportAccord WMG invited 24 women from Great Britain, France, China, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Deas
Lynn Davis Deas (June 16, 1952 – May 10, 2020) was a professional American bridge player. At the time of her death, she was second in the World Bridge Federation (WBF) All time Women Ranking by Placement Points, which do not decay over time. Deas was a native of Newport News, Virginia, near Norfolk, where she was a student at Eastern Virginia Medical School when she suffered a bad automobile accident in 1980. Already an avid bridge player, she played "all the time" when broken bones and blurry vision forced her to take one-year leave from school, and subsequently decided to drop out in favor of the card game as a career. Deas won 27 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) titles and nine world championships, including three in the Venice Cup. At one time Deas ranked first among Women World Grand Masters. At one time she was on the road as a professional player for 30 weeks a year. She was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 1997 and reduced her travel. In January 2012, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Chambers
Juanita Chambers (1956–2016) was a professional United States, American Contract bridge, bridge player from Schenectady, New York. She was world champion three times. Born Juanita Tah in Ponca City, Oklahoma, to an Apache father. She married Neil Chambers in 1983. She also competed as Juanita Skelton. Chambers died on July 29, 2016, in Dallas at age 60. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1992 Wins * Venice Cup (1) 1987 * World Mixed Pairs Championship (1) 1990 * World Team Olympiad, World Olympiad Women's Teams Championship (1) 1996 * North American Bridge Championships (18) ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 1990 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (4) 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (2) 1991, 1993 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (3) 1984, 1989, 1992 ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1979 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (6) 1985, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001 ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1995 Runners-up * North American Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Woolsey
Sally Woolsey is an American bridge player. Woolsey has a silver medal in the 1994 Women's World Championship and three North American championships. She is married to Kit Woolsey, who is a many-time national and world bridge champion. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Grand National Teams (1) 2009 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1990 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 1994 Runners-up * World Women Knockout Teams Championship (McConnell Cup) (1) 1994 * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2010 ** Grand National Teams (1) 2006 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (2) 1986, 1996 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams The Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC) and is a four session board-a-match event, two qualifying sessions and two final sess ... (1) 1992 ** Chic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Picus
Susan Jean Picus (27 August 1948 – 17 November 2021) was an American bridge player from New York City. A graduate of NYU and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she had worked as a software engineering manager and director at Bell Laboratories, Unix System Laboratories, Novell, and Bear Stearns. She was married to Barry Rigal, a bridge player, writer and commentator. Bridge accomplishments Picus won four international events as a player and placed second in another; she captained the gold medal women's team in the 1997 and 2013 Venice Cup. She finished first or second in every one of the eight US women trials in which she played from 1991 to 2003, bar 1996. She won her first two US titles before becoming a Life Master. Wins * Venice Cup (3) 1991, 1993, 2003 * McConnell Cup (1) 1994 * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 2009 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (3) 1986, 2002, 2005 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1972, 1991 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Martel (bridge)
Janet Friedman Martel (born February 26, 1943) is an American bridge player from Davis, California. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, she is a retired attorney and a past president of the United States Bridge Federation (USBF). She is married to Chip Martel, a world champion player. She was previously married to Lew Stansby another world champion player. Her parents Milton and Rose Friedman were both free market economists. Martel has won seven national championships, or national-rated events at North American Bridge Championships meets. Playing under the name Jan Stansby with Pat Leary in 1974, she won the Whitehead Women's Pairs, the premier ACBL annual championship for women pairs. She was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award, 2012 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Greenberg
Gail Harte Greenberg (born 1938) is a professional American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Gail Shane, Gail Moss, and Gail Moss Greenberg. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she was one of 73 Women World Grand Masters, ranked about 40th by placing points that do not decay over time. has tempered her partner's exuberance with some sharp reproofs. Bridge accomplishments Awards and honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, von Zedtwitz Award 2013"Induction by Year" . ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-10. Wins * (2) 1976, 1978[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoda Walsh
Rhoda Walsh (born 1933) is an American bridge player from Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate from Loyola Law School and is an attorney. Walsh is a World Bridge Federation (WBF) Master and a North American (ACBL) Grand Life Master. In competition, she earned a bronze medal with the 1968 USA women in the quadrennial World Team Olympiad. That year she also won three major women's North American Bridge Championships—the Wagar Women's Knockout Teams and both tournaments, the Whitehead and Smith playing with two different partners. Walsh is a two-time winner of the annual Whitehead Women's Pairs, inaugurated 1930, playing with Hermine Baron in 1968 and with Kerri Davis in 1972. She is a three-time winner of the annual Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (est. 1961), playing with Dorothy Talmage in 1968, Amalya Kearse in 1972, and Sabine Zenkel in 1989. Five major championships for women pairs, with five partners. She won the major pairs championship for seniors, Leventritt S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
