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Smith Life Master Women's Pairs
The Smith Life Master Women's Pairs North American bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC). The Smith Life Master Women's Pairs is a four session MP pairs event, two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the first Friday of the NABC. The event is restricted to female players that have achieved a Life Master rating. History The event was introduced in 1961. The event is named after Helen Sobel Smith who won 35 North American trophies. She is generally recognized as the best female player of all time. The parallel Life Master Men's Pairs was opened to women in 1990. No pair of women has won that event, but a few women have won the revised competition as part of a mixed pair, and the 1987 Women's winner Jill Meyers has won it twice. Winners Only one pair has defended its championship—on three occasions, as Mildred Breed and Shawn Quinn Shawn Quinn is an Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 sustain the game of bridge and serve the bridge-related interests of our Members."'' Its major activities are: * sanctioning games at local bridge clubs and regional events * certifying bridge teachers and club directors * conducting the North American Bridge Championships (NABC) * providing education materials and services * administering the ACBL masterpoints system for tracking player performance * providing oversight for ethical behavior and play *Besides representing the interests of its members with the World Bridge Federation, , it had more than 165,000 members. History The ACBL was created in 1937 by the merger of the American Bridge League and the United States Bridge Association in 1937. At that time, its bridge tournaments were open o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Sachs
Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits islands, Australia * Sue, Fukuoka, a town in Japan ** Sue Station (Fukuoka), a railway station * Sue Lake, a lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States Other uses * Suing (to sue), a type of lawsuit * Sue (name), a feminine given name (and list of people with the name) * Sué, a god of the Andean Muisca civilization * Sue (dinosaur), a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' specimen * ''Sue Lost in Manhattan'' or ''Sue'', a 1998 film * Subsurface Utility Engineering * Sue ware, ancient Japanese pottery * ARC (file format) or .sue * Door County Cherryland Airport's IATA code * Mary Sue or Sue, an idealized fictional character * Yoshiko Tanaka or Sue (1956–2011), Japanese actress People with the surname * Carolyn Sue, Australian physician-scient ... [...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] |
Renee Mancuso
Renee Mancuso is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 1990 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (3) 1997, 2002, 2004 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (1) 2005 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1994 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 2007 ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) 2002 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1988 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (3) 1988, 1992, 2005 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (1) 2009 ** 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, 2004 References External links * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Meyers
Jill J. Meyers (born February 13, 1950) is an American 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 |
Kerri Shuman
Sharon Lou "Kerri" Sanborn (born July 29, 1946) is an American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Kerri Davis and Kerri Shuman as well. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Sanborn ranked 25th among 73 living Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 7th by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-10. 
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Judi Radin
Judi Radin, née Friedenberg (born 1950), is a professional American bridge player from New York City. She played also as Judi Solodar. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Radin ranked 33rd among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 21st by placing points that do not decay over time."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2014-11-09. Radin is a graduate of Columbia University. In North American competition, Radin was second in the 1974 Reisinger champions (open board-a-match), a title few women have won. She played then as "J. Solodar" and for many years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathie Wei
Katherine Wei-Sender (born 4 October 1930), born Yang Xiaoyan (), is a Chinese American contract bridge player. She won major tournaments primarily as Kathie Wei. Biography Born in Beijing in 1930, she went to the United States in 1949. She was a graduate of the Shanghai University School of Nursing, and worked as a medical facility administrator until 1972. After retirement, she became interested in bridge. She won the world Women's Pairs in 1978, the Women's Olympiad Teams in 1984 and the Venice Cup in 1987 and 2003. In 1987 Wei-Sender was elected an ACBL Honorary Member, and the Ambassador of Bridge for the World Bridge Federation. . World Bridge Federation. She is from Nashville, Tennessee and New York City. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Deas
Lynn Davis Deas (June 16, 1952 – May 10, 2020) was a professional American bridge player. At the time of her death, she was second in the World Bridge Federation (WBF) All time Women Ranking by Placement Points, which do not decay over time. Deas was a native of Newport News, Virginia, near Norfolk, where she was a student at Eastern Virginia Medical School when she suffered a bad automobile accident in 1980. Already an avid bridge player, she played "all the time" when broken bones and blurry vision forced her to take one-year leave from school, and subsequently decided to drop out in favor of the card game as a career. Deas won 27 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) titles and nine world championships, including three in the Venice Cup. At one time Deas ranked first among Women World Grand Masters. At one time she was on the road as a professional player for 30 weeks a year. She was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 1997 and reduced her travel. In January 2012, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Palmer
Mary "Beth" Palmer (August 14, 1952 – October 2, 2019) was an American bridge player from Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was an attorney. At the time of her death, she was 11th in the World Bridge Federation women's rankings by PPs (which do not age off) and 15th by MPs."Women World Grand Masters" . WBF. Retrieved 2019-10-02 At the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing, December 2011, Palmer and won the "Pairs Women" gold medal. Not a world championship meet, the SportAccord WMG invited 24 women from Great Britain, France, China, and the U.S. to compete in three sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Utegaard
Helen Utegaard is an American bridge player from Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in Beijing. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1988 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1974 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1988 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (5) 1971, 1973, 1981, 1984, 1988 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1992 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1975, 1988 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1975 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (1) 1987 ** 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) 1992 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1991 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1980 References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalya Kearse
Amalya Lyle Kearse (born June 11, 1937)Goldstein, Tom. "Amalya Lyle Kearse; Woman in the News", ''The New York Times'', June 25, 1979. is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a world-class bridge player. Education and legal career Kearse was born in Vauxhall, New Jersey. Her parents were physician Myra Lyle Smith Kearse of Lynchburg, Virginia, and postmaster Robert Freeman Kearse; her maternal grandparents were schoolteachers Clara Roberta Alexander Smith and Theodore Parker Smith. She attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. A philosophy major and 1959 graduate of Wellesley College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, she was the only black woman in her law school class at the University of Michigan Law School. She was an editor of the law review and graduated with a Juris Doctor ''cum laude'' in 1962. She entered private practice in New York City and rose to become a partner in the respected Wall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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