Marc Smith is a British bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 player, columnist

Columnist

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 and book author

Author

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. Marc Smith represented Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 as a junior, winning the 1985 European Union Junior Teams Championship. He has a host of wins in national events, and reached the final of the World Mixed Pairs Championship

World Mixed Pairs Championship

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....

 playing with his wife, Charlotte. His book, co-authored with Barbara Seagram

Barbara Seagram

Barbara Seagram is a Canadian bridge teacher, author and administrator. In addition to being recognized for her professional bridge teaching business and as co-author of seventeen bridge books, she is most widely known for co-writing 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, which received the...

, 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, won the American Bridge Teachers' Association 1999 Shirley Silverman Award for Best Student Book.

Magazine, Periodical and Internet Columns

• Bridge (Britain)
• Bridge Plus (Britain)http://www.bridge-plus.co.uk/
• The OKbridge Spectator, http://www.okbridge.com/
• ACBL Bridge Bulletin (USA)http://www.acbl.org/

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