The Jacoby Open Swiss Teams national bridge championship is held at the spring
American Contract Bridge League
The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and susta ...
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North American Bridge Championship (NABC).
The Jacoby Open Swiss Teams is a four session
Swiss Teams
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the othe ...
event with two qualifying and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the second Saturday of the NABC. The event is open.
History
The Jacoby Open Swiss Teams is a four-session event --- consisting of two qualifying sessions and two final sessions—with the Jacoby Trophy going to the winners.
The event began in 1982 and was then named the North American Men's Swiss Teams. In 1990, it was changed to become the Open Swiss with the Jacoby Trophy awarded to the winners.
The trophy is named for
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and Jim Jacoby --- one of the premier father-son pairs in ACBL history, the first father-son to win a national championship together and the first father-son to be elected to the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame.
The senior Jacoby,
Oswald Jacoby, (1902–1984) won his first major title --- the National Team Championship of the American Whist League --- in 1929 and his last major title --- the
Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams --- in 1983.
In between, he won the McKenney Trophy (now the Barry Crane Top 500) four times. He was the first player to win 1,000
masterpoints in a single year and the first player to earn 10,000 masterpoints.
Jacoby won seven
Spingolds, seven
Vanderbilts
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, two
Reisinger
The Reisinger national bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC).
The Reisinger is a board-a-match event.
History
The event is contested for the Reisinger Trophy ( ...
s and more than a dozen other major titles. He was named to the ACBL Bridge Hall of Fame in 1965.
He and son Jim are the co-authors of Jacoby Transfer Bids, Jacoby 2NT and other bidding ideas. Together, they won the Reisinger in 1955 --- when Jim was 22 --- and the Vanderbilt in 1965.
Jim Jacoby (1933–1991), elected to the Hall of Fame in 1997, won the
Bermuda Bowl in 1970 and 1971, the
World Mixed Teams in 1972 and the
World Team Olympiad
The World Team Olympiad was a contract bridge meet organized by the World Bridge Federation every four years from 1960 to 2004. Its main events were world championships for national teams, always including one open and one restricted to women ("O ...
in 1988. He won more than 14 NABC titles and captured the Barry Crane Top 500 in 1988 --- the same year he won the Olympiad title.
He is one of only three players to win the masterpoint title and a world championship in the same year ---
Charles Goren
Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as " ...
won the Bermuda Bowl and the McKenney in 1950 while
Barry Crane
Barry Crane (born Barry Cohen; November 10, 1927 – July 5, 1985State of California (CA Death Index)Family Tree Legends Retrieved May 20, 2009.) was a prolific television producer and director, and a bridge player who "won more titles than anyon ...
won the
World Mixed Pairs
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 ...
and the McKenney in 1978.
Winners
Sources
List of previous winners, Page 11
2009 winners, Page 1
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External links
ACBL official website
North American Bridge Championships