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World Women Pairs Championship
The World Women Pairs Championship is a bridge championship held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships. It is restricted to women pairs only. Results World meets commonly run for 15 days on a schedule whose details vary. In 2006 the Women Pairs played Saturday to Friday, the 8th to 14th days of the meet, with five qualifying sessions, five semifinal sessions, and four final sessions. At the start of qualifying, sixteen teams remained in the knockout stage of the marquee teams competition for women, for the McConnell Cup. During qualifying sessions for the pairs, the McConnell teams were reduced from sixteen to four, and players from the twelve "knocked out" teams were eligible to enter pairs competition at the semifinal stage. There were 109 pairs in the qualifier, 63 in the semifinal, and 36 in the final. [...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] |
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] |
Sabine Auken
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 , Denmark. She and Jens Auken, a Danish bridge player, have two children, Jens Christian (b. 1995) and Maximilian (b. 1999). Maximillian h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Von Arnim
Daniela von Arnim (born 10 July 1964 in Munich) is a German bridge player. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 35th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 13th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-10. (Her longtime partner played Open and Mixed events with in 2014, rather than enter Women events.) Arnim, or Von Arnim, is a 2-time world champion winning the |
Shawn Quinn
Shawn Quinn is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (18) ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (5) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (5) 1997, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2010 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (4) 1996, 1997, 2006, 2012 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 2005 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1998, 2000, 2002 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 1999 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (2) 2004, 2012 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 2000, 2009, 2011 ** 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) 1997, 2003 References External links * American contract bridge players Living ... [...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] |
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