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ACBL Bridge Beat #83: Goldwater’s Rule
Many bridge players have heard Goldwater’s Rule – the suggestion by National TD Harry Goldwater that an opening lead out...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #82: The Vaniva Problem
This, one of the most famous of all double dummy problems, was composed by Sidney Lenz in 1928 in a...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #81: Sidney Lenz
Sidney Lenz, who wore the mantle of “the grand old man of bridge” from 1932 until he died at the...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #80: Match of the Century, Part 2
The “Match of the Century” By Harold Franklin Reprinted from The Bulletin March 1972 After 69 deals the Blue Team...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #79: Match of the Century, Part 1
The “Match of the Century” By Harold Franklin Reprinted from The Bulletin March 1972 In December 1971, a 140-board match...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #78: 1970 Bermuda Bowl
1970 was hardly a vintage year for the world championships. After threatening to do so in several previous years, the...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #77: The Aces
In 1968, Dallas TX financier Ira Corn Jr., had a vision. It had been more than 14 years since the...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #76: Team Trials Pt. 2
After the 1969 International Team was selected, the Pair-Team trials were discontinued in order to allow selection of an entire...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #75: 1968 Trials Wrap-up
Day three saw the lead change hands again. Feldesman-Morse rally with a crushing 70-14 defeat over Eisenberg-Goldman, Rubin-Westheimer edge Rapée-Lazard...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #74: 1968 Finals Day Two
On the second day, the standings took on a new complexion as Eisenberg-Goldman crushed Hamman-Kantar 70 ½ - 13 ½...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #73: Trials Finals 1968 Day 1
Hamman-Kantar started the finals with a 29 point lead over second-place Rapée-Lazard. The spread between first and 10th was a...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #72: Pairs Trials 1968
Sixteen pairs (Edgar Kaplan – Norman Kay, B. Jay Becker – Dorothy Hayden, George Rapée – Sidney Lazard, Bob Hamman...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #71: Team Trials
Many methods have been tried for selection of the North American team for Bermuda Bowl contests or of the United...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #70: L.A. Office Closes
Reprinted from The Bulletin October 1968: The Los Angeles office of the ACBL, at 11010 Santa Monica Blvd., will be...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #69: Buenos Aires Affair
In 1965, the international bridge world was rocked by a widely publicized charge that Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro, representing...
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ACBL Bridge Beat #68: Scientists v Traditionalists Deals
In Sports Illustrated, Charles Goren commented: Both teams were frequently hampered by their own bidding methods and occasionally this happened...
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