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The Mott-Smith Trophy, named for writer and cryptographer Geoffrey Mott-Smith, is awarded to the player with the best overall individual performance in the Spring Nationals, the spring event of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). History The Mott-Smith Trophy was donated in 1961 by friends of Geoffrey Mott-Smith and was made retroactive to include all the winners from 1958.''Official Encyclopedia of Bridge'' (1988), p. 288. Namesake Geoffrey Arthur Mott-Smith (1902–1960) was the second son of Harold Mead Mott-Smith (1872-1978) and Jennie Ormsby Yates (1874-1941) and a grandson of John Mott-Smith. He became co-chairman of the ACBL Laws Commission, editor of the ACBL ''Bridge Bulletin'' 1935–36, a contributor to ''The Bridge World'', a writer and cryptographer. During World War II, Mott-Smith served as chief instructor for the OSS in the training of cryptographers and cryptanalysts. He wrote or co-wrote more than 29 books on ga ...
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John Mott-Smith
John Mott-Smith (November 25, 1824 – August 10, 1895) was the first dentist to set up a permanent practice in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was also a politician, newspaper editor, and diplomat. Life John Mott-Smith was born in New York City on November 13, 1824. His father was also named John Mott Smith (1795–1832), generally spelled without the hyphen, and mother was Amanda Day. His father had trained as a physician, but became a Methodist minister instead, and was Principal of Wesleyan Seminary in New York in 1820. In 1826 the family moved to White Plains, New York with the school, and then in 1832 to Middletown, Connecticut where his father became a professor of classical languages at the new Wesleyan University. His father died in 1832 and was one of the first burials in the university cemetery. Subsequently, having attended Wesleyan, the young Mott-Smith borrowed a book from a friend who was attending dental school and passed the exams to set up a practice in Albany, New Yo ...
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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 ...
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John Sutherlin
John C. Sutherlin (born November 7, 1936, died May 12, 2018 ) was an American bridge player from Dallas, Texas. He won the North American Bridge Championships 12 times and received both the Fishbein Trophy and the Mott-Smith Trophy. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1993 * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1990 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (12) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1993 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 1995 ** Grand National Teams (1) 2006 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 1990 ** Truscott Senior Swiss Teams (1) 2013 ** Vanderbilt (2) 1990, 1993 ** Senior Knockout Teams (2) 1994, 2003 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1983 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1976 ** Spingold (1) 1981 Runners-up * World Mixed Pairs (1) 1982 * North American Bridge Championships ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (2) 1962, 1994 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1999 ** Grand National Teams (1) 1998 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 1991 ** Truscott Senior Swiss Tea ...
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Petra Hamman
Petra Hamman (born 1946) is an American bridge player. She was born in Germany but is now from Dallas, Texas. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1999 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) 2007 ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 2011, 2013 ** Grand National Teams (1) 2006 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1999 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1989, 1998, 2000 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 2003, 2005 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1999 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1992 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Wagar Women's Knockout Teams is a knock-out team event. The event is restric ... (1) 2000 Notes Living people American contract bridge players 1946 births Date of birt ...
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Bart Bramley
Bart Bramley (born 1948) is an American bridge player. Bramley is from Chicago, Illinois. Bramley has lived in Dallas, Texas since 2003. Bramley's wife Judy Bramley was also a Bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Awards * ACBL Player of the Year (1) 1997 * Herman Trophy (1) 1997 * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1997 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (15) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 2006 ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1984 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (2) 2002, 2009 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (2) 1987, 1995 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (3) 1984, 1990, 1997 ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (1) 2013 ** Vanderbilt (1) 1989 ** Senior Knockout Teams (1) 2013 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 2008 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1980 ** Reisinger (1) 1997 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (13) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1981 ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) 1997 ** Grand National Teams (2) 1988, 2004 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (2) 1991, 1994 ** Vande ...
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Chip Martel
Charles U. "Chip" Martel (born 1953) is an American computer scientist and bridge player. Martel was Inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2014. He is married to Jan Martel, also in the ACBL Hall of Fame. Academic life Martel received a B.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1980. He helped establish the computer science department at UC Davis, received tenure there in 1985–86, and retired in 2013. At UC Davis he is Charles U. Martel, Professor Emeritus. His academic interests involved designing and analyzing algorithms. Bridge accomplishments Awards and honors * Herman Trophy (1) 1981 * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1994 * Fishbein Trophy (1) 2000 * ACBL Hall of Fame, 2014"Induction by Year"
. ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-10.


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Michael Seamon
Michael Seamon (January 15, 1960 – 2017) was an American professional bridge player from Miami Beach, Florida. Born to bridge players Rita and William Seamon, Michael was the youngest of three children. His sister, Janice Seamon-Molson, is also a nationally ranked bridge player. On September 3, 1992, his son Kevin William Seamon was born. Seamon died suddenly in 2017 of natural causes. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1993 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (16) ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1999 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 2003 ** Grand National Teams (6) 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2014 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (3) 1992, 1993, 2005 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2011 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1994 ** Reisinger (3) 2007, 2010, 2011 ** Spingold (1) 2015 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 1989 ** Grand National Teams (2) 2003, 2005 ** Vanderbilt (2) 1997, 1998 ** Reisinger (1) 1996 ** ...
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Zia Mahmood
Mir Zia Mahmood (born 7 January 1946) is a Pakistani-American professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. As of April 2011 he was the 10th-ranked World Grand Master. Biography Zia was born in Karachi, British India, now Pakistan. Zia was educated in England from the age of six to twenty-one. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant of the Institute of England and Wales and spent three years running a family business in Pakistan. He also spent eighteen months in Abu Dhabi developing business interests. Mahmood is married to Lady Emma, his wife since February 2001. She is the daughter of Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery. They have two sons: Zain and Rafi. Bridge Mahmood achieved international bridge fame, almost overnight, during one fortnight in 1981 when he led Pakistan to a second-place finish in the Bermuda Bowl tournament. The Bermuda Bowl is the most important open world championship, and that was the ...
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Eddie Wold
Edward M. "Eddie" Wold (born 1951) is an American professional bridge player from Houston, Texas. Wold is a graduate of Rice University. Wold is an accomplished teacher and plays regularly at Houston's Westside Bridge Academy, particularly in that club's Saturday afternoon "common game," where over a thousand pairs from all over the country play identical boards (the same cards). Bridge accomplishments Awards * Herman Trophy (1) 1990 * Mott-Smith Trophy (3) 1989, 1998, 2005 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (15) ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 2005 ** Grand National Teams (2) 1977, 1981 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 1991 ** Vanderbilt (2) 1979, 1982 ** Senior Knockout Teams (1) 2010 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 2008 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (2) 1984, 1987 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1990 ** Reisinger (2) 1985, 2003 ** Spingold (2) 1977, 1984 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1994 ...
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Peter Boyd
Peter Boyd (born 1950) is a world champion American bridge player. He has won one world championship, finished second in another, and won 17 North American bridge championships. Boyd was born in Washington, DC and still lives there. He graduated from Harvard. He is a retired computer programmer. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1987 Wins * Rosenblum Cup (1) 1986 * North American Bridge Championships (17) ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 2001 ** North American Pairs (3) 1985, 2016, 2017 ** Grand National Teams (3) 1984, 1988, 1992 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (2) 1986, 2012 ** Vanderbilt (3) 1987, 1991, 1997 ** Senior Knockout Teams (1) 2012 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 2013 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (2) 1989, 1994 ** Reisinger (1) 1986 Runners-up * d'Orsi Senior Bowl (1) 2011 * North American Bridge Championships ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1987 ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 2004 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1982 ** Nail Life Mas ...
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Steve Robinson (bridge)
Steve W. Robinson (born January 4, 1941) is an American bridge player from Arlington, Virginia. Robinson has won three world championships and 24 North American Bridge Championships. He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2003. Robinson is the author of a book, ''Washington Standard''. Robinson is a graduate of University of Maryland and lives in Washington, D.C.. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 2003"Induction by Year"
''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-12-16.


Awards

* Herman Trophy (1) 1972 * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1987


Wins

* Senior Bowl (bridge), d'Orsi Senior Bowl (1) 2003
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Lew Stansby
Lew Stansby (born 1940) is an American bridge player from Dublin, California. Lew, a former commodities trader lives with wife and fellow national champion JoAnna Stansby. Since his first national win in the Reisinger in 1965, he has won over 35 national championships and seven world championships, accumulating a win in every decade since 1965. Stansby was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2001. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 2001"Induction by Year"
''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-12-17.


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* (1) 2000 * Herman ...
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