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player, teacher and writer.

Bridge career

Miles learned to play bridge largely from columns in the back issues of daily newspapers at a local public library. Miles' crowning achievement was winning the World Senior Teams Olympiad in

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in 2004."Age No Barrier to New Champion". Daily Bulletin of the 12th World Bridge Olympiad, issue #10
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at BridgeToday.com. Retrieved 2014-12-04. He won various other tournaments and titles throughout his bridge career, including the

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and the Life Master Pairs in 1961, as well as the

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in that same year and the next. He won the

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in 1962 and 1965 and placed second in the Men's Pairs twice as well as in the Vanderbilt and

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. Miles was an

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(ACBL) Grand Life Master with more than 17,500

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and was elected into its Hall of Fame in 2005. Miles wrote "many articles for ''

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'', ''American Bridge Digest'', ''Bridge Today'', ACBL ''Bridge Bulletin'' and was a contributing editor to ''

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''." He wrote several books including the classic ''All 52 Cards''. (1963)

Personal

Born in

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,"Miles, Marshall"
ACBL ''Hall of Fame''. Retrieved 2020-12-27. Miles graduated from Claremont College and the

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. Miles earned a law degree in 1954 and practiced in Southern California from 1955 until his retirement in 1997. Miles was a teacher on The Bridge Forum, an online bridge site on which students from all over the world can learn from experts.Bridge Forum International
A resident of

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, Miles died of complications from a

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at Redlands Community Hospital, according to his family, on February 5, 2013, at the age of 86.

Bridge accomplishments

Honors

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, Blackwood Award 2005"Induction by Year"
''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-22.

Awards

1961 *

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1962

Wins

* Senior International Cup (1) 2004 *

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(5) **

(2) 1961, 1962 **

(2) 1962, 1965 ** Life Master Pairs (1) 1961

Runners-up

(5) ** Vanderbilt (1) 1961 ** Senior Swiss Teams (1) 2003 **

(1) 1962 ** Men's Pairs (2) 1962, 1972 * United States Bridge Championships (1) ** Senior Team Trials (1) 2004

Publications

* * UK Edition: * * * * ''Reisinger Challenge'' (Los Alamitos, CA: C&T Bridge Supplies, 1997) * * ''Inferences at Bridge'' (Master Point, 2002) * ''Modern Constructive Bidding'' (Master Point, 2005) * ''My System: The Unbalanced Diamond'' (Master Point, 2007) * ''It's Your Call'' (Master Point, 2009) * ''More Accurate Bidding'' (2011)

References

External links

* * * (including 1 "from old catalog") {{DEFAULTSORT:Miles, Marshall 1926 births 2013 deaths American contract bridge players Contract bridge writers Claremont McKenna College alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni People from Redlands, California People from Loma Linda, California 20th-century American lawyers