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World Mixed Pairs Championship
The World Mixed Pairs Championship is a bridge championship for mixed-gender pairs held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships. Results World meets commonly run for 15 days on a schedule whose details vary. In 2006 the Mixed Pairs played Saturday to Monday, the first three days of the meet, with no other events underway. There were three qualifier and three final sessions with a consolation event ("Plate") during the last two sessions. Contemporary coverage lists 481 pairs in the qualifying stage; 182 in the final stage; 238 and 232 pairs in the two-session Plate on the third day, or almost 80% of the non-qualifiers. 12th World Bridge Championships, 2006. WBF. The 2010 champions |
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] |
Carol Sanders
Carol Melton Sanders (July 30, 1932 – August 28, 2012) was an American Contract bridge, bridge player from Nashville, Tennessee. She was married to Thomas K. Sanders, also a bridge player. She won four world championships, all in partnership with Betty Ann Kennedy of Louisiana. Sanders and Kennedy were known as the Belles or Southern Belles. They compiled 10 NABC wins and 8 runners-up together. Both Carol and Tom Sanders were inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2002. Sanders was the only child of Beulah and Clarence Melton. She died in Nashville in 2012, less than a year after the death of her husband. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame, 2002"Induction by Year" . ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16. Wins * North American Bridge Championships (16) ** Whitehead Wome ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Glubok
Brian Glubok (born 1959) is a professional American bridge player. Glubok is from New York City and graduated from Amherst College. Glubok finished second in the World Mixed Pairs Championship in Philadelphia in 2010. Glubok has won 5 North American Bridge Championships. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (3) 1996, 1997, 1999 ** Reisinger (1) 1990 ** Spingold (1) 1987 Runners-up * World Mixed Pairs Championship (1) 2010 * North American Bridge Championships ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1990 ** Grand National Teams (4) 1981, 2009, 2012, 2013 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2007 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (2) 1994, 2003 ** Reisinger (1) 2008 ** Spingold The Spingold national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Spingold is a knock-out team event that attracts the top contract bridge players in the world. T ... (4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Awards * (1) 2000 * Herman ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JoAnna Stansby
JoAnna Stansby is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (7) ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 1998 ** North American Pairs (1) 2002 ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2010 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 2005 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2004 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 2001, 2008 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 1999 ** North American Pairs (1) 1997 ** Grand National Teams (1) 2006 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 2004, 2007 ** 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 ... (2) 1996, 2006 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2004 References External links * American contract bridge pl ... [...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] |
Jill Levin
Jillian Shane "Jill" Levin (born October 13, 1961) is an American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Jillian Blanchard as well as Jill Levin. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 6th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 10th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-10. Levin has won 3 world championships and 12 NABC-rated events. Levin is an attorney and has graduated from the |
Matt Granovetter
Matthew "Matt" Granovetter (born 1950) is an American bridge player and writer. Granovetter is from Jersey City, New Jersey, and graduated from Hunter College. He subsequently moved to Netanya, Israel. After spending 1993 to 2005 in Israel, he returned with his wife Pamela to the US. They now live in Cincinnati. In competition, Granovetter and Karen McCallum won the 11th quadrennial World Mixed Pairs Championship in 2006, finishing first in a field of 487. In competition at the world level, Granovetter played on second-place teams in the 1974 Mixed Teams and the 2008 Seniors Teams. The latter, third in a quadrennial series played for the Senior International Cup, was a nonmedal event at the inaugural World Mind Sports Games. Granovetter played with Russ Ekeblad on a US team that won its 5-day preliminary round-robin field of 16 teams, with Japan second. After winning three long knockout matches each, over five more days, Japan defeated the US by merely 202 s to 200 in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Zenkel
Sabine Auken ( Zenkel, born 4 January 1965) is a German bridge player. She has also played as Sabine Zenkel. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 24th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 4th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-08. She was born in , Bavaria. As of 2007 she resides in Charlottenlund, Denmark. She and Jens Auken, a Danish bridge player, have two children, Jens Christian (b. 1995) and Maximilian (b. 1999). Maximillian has had success playing basketball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Weichsel
Peter M. Weichsel (born 1943) is an American professional bridge player from Encinitas, California. College and war years Early Weichsel started playing bridge at home with his family, but did not get hooked until 1963 when he was a student at Queens College, New York. He dropped out of college and became a Life Master in 1964. His bridge career was interrupted by the Vietnam War. He served two years duty in the Navy as a winch driver aboard the , responsible for moving large bombs out of the hold. After discharge, he lived in San Francisco in a fleabag hotel and became an "active member" of the counterculture. He felt this was a transforming experience and to the present describes himself as a reformed hippie. The Precision Team and Hall of Fame Weichsel returned to New York and bridge playing in the mid-1960s. His appearance, with puka shells around his neck, "really long" straight hair, beads and bell bottoms, caused "the ultra-straight bridge community" to give him "tons ... [...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] |
Bob Hamman
Robert David "Bob" Hamman (born August 6, 1938 in Pasadena, California) is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time. He is from Dallas, Texas. Hamman and Bobby Wolff played as partners for nearly three decades on teams that challenged for major trophies in North America and often for world championships. Representing the United States (from about 1980, previously North America) they won eight world championships for national teams, the 1988 World Team Olympiad and seven Bermuda Bowls spanning 1970 to 1995. For the last they were members of Nick Nickell's professional team, where Hamman remained a fixture through the current two-year cycle and won three more Bermuda Bowls in partnership with Paul Soloway and Zia Mahmood. Beginning 2012/2013, Nickell has replaced Bobby Hamman and Zia Mahmood with Bobby Levin–Steve Weinstein. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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