Arthur G. Robinson (born 1936) was an American bridge player from Villanova, Pennsylvania. [1] During the 1960s he played on three North America or USA open teams that were runners-up to Italy (the Blue Team) in world championships. Robert Jordan was his regular partner on all three occasions. [2]
Robinson's first "national"-level victory in the American Contract Bridge League may have been his greatest. He was one of "four young bridge experts led by [Jordan]" who won the annual Vanderbilt Cup in 1961, when it was contested in a 64-team double-elimination tournament. Their teammates were Charlie Coon, manager of the Boston Chess Club, and Eric Murray, a Toronto lawyer. [3] Jordan–Robinson went on to qualify for the 6-man North America team in the 1963 Bermuda Bowl where they finished second to Italy's Blue Team—as Coon–Murray had qualified in 1962 with the same result.
David L. Berkowitz is an American professional contract bridge player. He is from Old Tappan, New Jersey.
Richard A. Freeman was a world champion American bridge player holding the title of World Grand Master, the highest title of the World Bridge Federation. He won the Bermuda Bowl world team championship and won many national championships. Freeman was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2001. At the time of his death he held 17,880 masterpoints.
Sidney Silodor was an American bridge player. Silodor was a World Champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1950. Silodor is currently 6th on the all-time list of North American Bridge Championships wins with 34. Silodor was a lawyer from Havertown, Pennsylvania.
Geoff Hampson is a Canadian professional bridge player. Hampson is from Toronto and the son of Sharon Hampson of Sharon, Lois & Bram and American folk singer Joe Hampson.
Edward M. "Eddie" Wold is an American professional bridge player from Houston, Texas. Wold is a graduate of Rice University. Wold is an accomplished teacher and plays regularly at Houston's Westside Bridge Academy, particularly in that club's Saturday afternoon "common game," where over a thousand pairs from all over the country play identical boards.
Michael Passell is a professional American bridge player from Dallas, Texas.
Charles Julius Solomon was an American bridge player, administrator, writer, and sponsor. He was Inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2000.
Eric Alan Greco is an American bridge player. He is from Annandale, Virginia.
Mike Becker was born in 1943 and is an American bridge player and official. Becker is from Boca Raton, Florida. He is a son of B. Jay Becker.
Lewis Lawrence Mathe was an American world champion bridge player and administrator from Canoga Park, California.
Tobias Stone was an American bridge player and writer from New York City.
Philip Efraim Feldesman was an American bridge player.
Ronald Eugene Andersen was an American bridge player. He won 11 "national"-rated events at North American Bridge Championships, thrice-annual 10-day meets organized by the American Contract Bridge League, where he became known best as a superior live commentator in the vugraph room.
Edward Adam Manfield was a professional American bridge player. He was a member of the U.S. team that won the Rosenblum Cup at the 1986 World Bridge Championships, after taking silver in 1982.
Richard Lincoln Frey was an American contract bridge player, writer, editor and commentator. From New York City, he died of cancer there in 1988.
Robert Francis Jordan was an American bridge player. During the 1960s he played on three North America or USA open teams that were runners-up to Italy in world championships. Arthur Robinson was his regular partner was on all three occasions.
Louis Edward Bluhm was an American bridge player. He played bridge professionally and was an expert at both poker and gin rummy, according to the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL).
Thomas Koonce Sanders, Sr. was an American bridge player from Nashville, Tennessee. He was married to Carol Sanders, a women's teams world champion player.
Lew Stansby was an American bridge player from Dublin, California. At the time of his death Lew, a former commodities trader, lived with wife and fellow national champion JoAnna Stansby. Since his first national win in the Reisinger in 1965, he won over 35 national championships and seven world championships, with a win in every decade since 1965. Lew's most successful partnership was with Chip Martel, whom he played with from 1977-2012 and with whom he won his world championships in the Bermuda Bowl, Rosenblum Teams, and World Open Pairs.
Charles Coon was an American bridge player. He finished second in two world championships and won six North American Bridge Championships (NABC).
