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Richard Oshlag
Richard Oshlag is an American bridge player. He is a national champion. His wife, Mary Oshlag, was also a national champion. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (4) ** Truscott Senior Swiss Teams (1) 2011 ** Fast Open Pairs (2) 2017, 2018 ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 2019 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (4) ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1989 ** North American Pairs (2) 2013, 2015 ** 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 s ... (1) 2019 The Chicago Mixed Board-A-Match is now known as the Freeman Mixed Board-A-Match. Notes American contract bridge players Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{bridge-game-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contract Bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games, particularly among seniors. The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the governing body for international competitive bridge, with numerous other bodies governing it at the regional level. The game consists of a number of , each progressing through four phases. The cards are dealt to the players; then the players ''call'' (or ''bid'') in an auction seeking to take the , specifying how many tricks the partnership receiving the contract (the declaring side) needs to take to receive points for the deal. During the auction, partners use their bids to also exchange information about their hands, including o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Oshlag
Mary Oshlag (1942–2021) was an American bridge player. Mary was a national champion. Her husband, Richard Oshlag, is also a national champion. Mary was the inventor of "Eight is Enough", an event that encourages stronger players to play with weaker players. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Truscott Senior Swiss Teams (1) 2011 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (2) ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1989 ** 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) 1999 * Australian Bridge Championships (1) ** Australian Women Open Teams (1) 1997 The Chicago Mixed Board-A-Match is now known as the Freeman Mixed Board-A-Match. Notes 1942 births 2021 deaths American contract bridge players [...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] |
Truscott Senior Swiss Teams
The Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss Teams North American bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss Teams is a four session Swiss teams, two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the first Monday of the NABC. The event is open to players 55 or older. History The Truscott/USPC Senior Swiss Teams is an event for four to six players in which participants must be 55 or older to compete. There is a one-day (two sessions) qualifying and a second day (also two sessions) final. Scoring is by International Match Points (IMPs) converted to Victory Points. Scores from the two qualifying sessions are converted to a carryover and added to the teams' total in the final two sessions. The trophy for the contest, named in memory of ACBL Hall of Fame member and former bridge editor of ''The New York Times'' Alan Truscott, was put into play in 2006 by the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Silodor Open Pairs
The Silodor Open Pairs national bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Silodor Open Pairs is a four session matchpoint (MP) pairs event with two qualifying and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the first Friday of the NABC. The event is open. History The Silodor Open Pairs is a four-session event consisting of two qualifying and two final sessions. The winners' names are engraved on the Silodor Trophy, presented in memory of Sidney Silodor, winner of the Bermuda Bowl, the McKenney Trophy and more than 30 North American championships. Silodor, a member of the team that won the first Bermuda Bowl World Championship in 1950, won the Vanderbilt eight times, the Reisinger six times, the Spingold, the Open Pairs and the Master Mixed Teams three times each and the Mixed Pairs five times --- a record. Silodor was an original member of the ACBL Hall of Fame, elected in the Sixties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match
The Mixed Board-a-Match Teams is a bridge competition held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). From 2010 the event is officially the Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams, as it is contested for the Richard Freeman Memorial Trophy, named for Richard Freeman (1933–2009). This is the fourth trophy in play, following Lebhar, Barclay, and Chicago. The event is a board-a-match team event. The event typically last 2–3 days with each day being a round consisting of two sessions of 26 boards. The event is open. History The Mixed Teams championship is one of the oldest ACBL events, first played in 1929. It is a four-session event with two qualifying and two final sessions. At one time it was restricted to players with at least 100 masterpoints (thus the name to 1995, "Master Mixed Teams") but now is an open event. It was originally known as the Master Mixed Teams. In 1996, the name changed to the present designation. From 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North American Pairs
The North American Pairs (NAP) is a set of annual North American championships for contested over two days at the spring American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championships (NABC). The events are restricted to pairs that have qualified through local, regional and district levels within their ACBL Districts. Three fields or "Flights" compete on the same schedule: : Flight A, open to all players, is formally the Baldwin North American Pairs. : Flight B, restricted to players with 0 to 2500 masterpoints, is formally the Golder North American Pairs. : Flight C, restricted to players who have not yet become Life Masters and have fewer than 500 masterpoints, is formally the President's Cup North American Pairs. Each competition is a four-session matchpoint pairs tournament with two qualifying sessions on the first day and two final sessions on the second. History Flight A Play for the Baldwin North American Pairs (Flight A) begins each summer at the local le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Contract Bridge Players
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
