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BridgeFeed is ACBL’s bridge blog with articles for all levels of players, breaking news and announcements, quizzes and more!
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ACBL Staff
June 18, 2012
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 Staff
June 15, 2012
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 Staff
June 13, 2012
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 Staff
June 11, 2012
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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ACBL Staff
June 8, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #67: Scientists v. Traditionalists
The Scientists (Al Roth, Tobias Stone, Robert Jordan, Arthur Robinson, Sam Stayman and Victor Mitchell) faced off against the Traditionalists...
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ACBL Staff
June 6, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #66: Youngest Life Masters
The first person to be recognized in the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge as the youngest Life Master was John R....
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ACBL Staff
June 4, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #65: Race to Life Master
To become a Life Master is the dream of all serious bridge players. Some never make it in their lifetime....
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ACBL Staff
June 1, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #64: Honeywell H-800
A Honeywell H-800 computer, one of the highest speed giant electronic brains in operation, dealt all the hands that were...
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ACBL Staff
May 30, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #63: 1962 Hand of the Year
By Al Sobel ♠ 10 7 3 ♥ K 8 ♦ A K Q J ♣ A K Q 5...
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ACBL Staff
May 29, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #62: Olympiad Open Series Finals
Both Great Britain and Italy had gone through the qualifying rounds without defeat and as the luck of the draw...
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ACBL Staff
May 25, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #61: 1960 Olympiad Qualifying Rounds
At the outset, the teams were divided into three sections of ten, ten and nine, from each of which the...
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ACBL Staff
May 23, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #60: The First Olympiad
Twenty-nine teams from twenty-five countries entered the first World Bridge Olympiad. Fourteen of those countries also sent women’s teams to...
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ACBL Staff
May 21, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #59: 1958 Spring NABC Wrap-up
The 48 teams that entered the Vanderbilt were seeded by masterpoints into three brackets. Thursday morning a storm knocked out...
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ACBL Staff
May 17, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #58: 1958 Spring NABC Cont.
The tournament began on Saturday afternoon, March 15, 1958 with 43 teams in the Commercial and Industrial Team Championship. The...
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ACBL Staff
May 15, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #57: The First Spring NABC
Three players greeted the new Spring NABC by winning their first national championships – twice. Phyllis Novak, of Shreveport, Leonard...
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ACBL Staff
May 11, 2012
ACBL Bridge Beat #56: Intercity Defense
By Richard Frey The spectators applauded when Schenken and Rapee conducted a beautiful defense on the following deal: ♠ Q...
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