Silodor Open Pairs
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The Silodor Open Pairs national bridge championship is held at the spring American Contract Bridge League
American Contract Bridge League
The American Contract Bridge League is the largest contract bridge organization in North America. It promotes the game of bridge in the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, and Canada, and is a member of the World Bridge Federation...

 (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship
North American Bridge Championships
North American Bridge Championships are three annual bridge conventions sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League . The "Spring", "Summer", and "Fall" NABCs are usually scheduled in March, July, and November for about eleven days. They comprise both championship and side contests of...

 (NABC).

The Silodor Open Pairs is a four session matchpoint (MP) pairs event with two qualifying and two final sessions. The event typically starts on the first Friday of the NABC. The event is open.

History

The Silodor Open Pairs is a four-session event consisting of two qualifying and two final sessions. The winners' names are engraved on the Silodor Trophy, presented in memory of Sidney Silodor, winner of the Bermuda Bowl, the McKenney Trophy and more than 30 North American championships.

Silodor, a member of the team that won the first Bermuda Bowl
Bermuda Bowl
The Bermuda Bowl is a trophy awarded to the winners of the Open series in the World Team Championship in contract bridge and is named for the site of the inaugural tournament held in 1950...

 World Championship in 1950, won the Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Trophy
The trophy is awarded for the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams national bridge championship held at the spring American Contract Bridge League North American Bridge Championship ....

 eight times, the Reisinger
Reisinger
The Reisinger national bridge championship is held at the fall American Contract Bridge League North American Bridge Championship .The Reisinger is a board-a-match event.-History:...

 six times, the Spingold
Spingold
The Spingold national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League North American Bridge Championship ....

, the Open Pairs and the Master Mixed Teams three times each and the Mixed Pairs five times --- a record.

Silodor was an original member of the ACBL Hall of Fame, elected in the Sixties when the institution was the province of its creator, The Bridge World
The Bridge World
The Bridge World , the oldest continuously published magazine about contract bridge, was founded in 1929 by Ely Culbertson. It has since been regarded as the game's principal journal, publicizing technical advances in bidding and the play of the cards, discussions of ethical issues, bridge politics...

magazine.

The trophy was presented in 1963 in memory of Silodor and made retroactive to include winners of the event, which began in 1958.

Winners

Winners of Open Pairs (1958–1991)
Year Winners Runners-up
 1958 
Leonard Harmon, Ivar Stakgold
Alvin Roth
Alvin Roth
Alvin L. Roth was an American bridge player, considered one of the greatest of all time. He wrote several books on the game, and invented various bridge conventions that have become commonplace, including five-card majors, negative doubles, forcing notrump, and the unusual notrump.-Biography:Roth...

, Tobias Stone
1959
Lew Mathe, Edward Taylor
Harry Fishbein, Charles Solomon
1960
Robert Jordan, Alvin Roth
Alvin Roth
Alvin L. Roth was an American bridge player, considered one of the greatest of all time. He wrote several books on the game, and invented various bridge conventions that have become commonplace, including five-card majors, negative doubles, forcing notrump, and the unusual notrump.-Biography:Roth...


Carol Sanders, Tommy Sanders
1961
Mark Hodges, Hampton Hume
Jack Denny, John Simon
1962
Robert Jordan, Arthur Robinson
Mike Michaels, Mike Shuman
1963
Norman Kay, Sidney Silodor
Daniel Rotman, Ivar Stakgold
1964
Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, Oswald Jacoby
Oswald Jacoby
Oswald Jacoby was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time. He also excelled at, and wrote about, other games including backgammon, gin rummy, and poker.Born in Brooklyn, he was taught to play whist at the age of six and played his...


Ivan Erdos, Lew Mathe
1965
John Biddle, James Wisemiller
Ivan Erdos, Tobias Stone
1966
Edgar Kaplan
Edgar Kaplan
Edgar Kaplan was an American bridge player and one of the principal contributors to the game. His career spanned six decades and covered every aspect of bridge. He was a teacher, author, editor, administrator, champion player, theorist, expert Vugraph commentator, coach/captain and authority on...

, Norman Kay
Alvin Roth
Alvin Roth
Alvin L. Roth was an American bridge player, considered one of the greatest of all time. He wrote several books on the game, and invented various bridge conventions that have become commonplace, including five-card majors, negative doubles, forcing notrump, and the unusual notrump.-Biography:Roth...

, Bill Root
1967
Harvey Cohen, Maury Genud
Philip Feldesman, Lew Mathe
1968
Ronald Blau, Richard Spero
  Harry Fishbein, Charles Solomon  
1969
  Richard Freedman, James Mathis  
David Sachs, Sue Sachs
1970
Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, John Fisher
Gerald Michaud, Bobby Nail
> colspan=2| 1/2. Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, John Fisher
1/2. Joan Remey, Vincent Remey
> colspan=2| 1/2. Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, John Fisher
1/2. Matt Granovetter, Merle Tom
1973
Michael Hoffman, Jack Rhatigan
Charlie Peres, Daniel Rotman
1974
Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, John Fisher
Ron Andersen, Hugh MacLean
1975
Garey Hayden, Daniel Hyland
Don Piafsky, Dave Saltsman
1976
Terry Hause, Ernest Ivey
Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, John Fisher
1977
Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, Peter Rank
John Ashton, Troy Horton
1978
Bobby Levin
Bobby Levin
Robert J. Levin is an American professional bridge player. He is best known as the youngest winner of the world championship for national teams, namely the 1981 Bermuda Bowl, and as five-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational with his regular partner Steve Weinstein...

, Mike Passell
Marty Arndt, Thomas Peters
1979
Jeff Meckstroth
Jeff Meckstroth
Jeffrey John Meckstroth is a multiple world champion in contract bridge, winning the Bermuda Bowl representing the U.S. five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called triple crown of bridge: the Bermuda Bowl, the World Open Pairs and the World Team Olympiad...

, Eric Rodwell
Eric Rodwell
Eric Victor Rodwell is an American professional bridge player. He has won the Bermuda Bowl representing the U.S. five times and is one of ten players who have won the so-called triple crown of bridge: the Bermuda Bowl, the World Open Pairs and the World Team Olympiad...


Larry N. Cohen, Dan Zirker
1980
Paul Lewis, Michael Schreiber
Jim Robison, Stelios Touchtidis
1981
Dan Gerstman, Marc Nathan
Ed Manfield, Kit Woolsey
Kit Woolsey
Kit Woolsey is an American bridge and backgammon player. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1964. He earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965....

1982
Gerald Caravelli, Craig Janitschke
Dan Gerstman, Marc Nathan
1983
Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, Mike Passell
Dave Berkowitz, Dan Gerstman
1984
Lou Bluhm, Bart Bramley
Barry Crane
Barry Crane
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player....

, Gerald Caravelli
1985
Jim Robison, Joey Silver
John Roberts, Dave Berkowitz
1986
Lew Stansby, Ralph Katz
Ralph Katz
Ralph Katz is an American bridge player.Domestically, he has won 20 North American Bridge Championships and twice the Open Team Trials. Internationally, he has many top finishes, highlighted by a win in the 2009 Bermuda Bowl...


Robb Gordon, John Rengstorff
1987
Ed Manfield, Kit Woolsey
Kit Woolsey
Kit Woolsey is an American bridge and backgammon player. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1964. He earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965....


Lyle Poe, Steve Carton
1988
Ron Rubin, Michael Becker
Bob Hamman
Bob Hamman
Robert David Hamman is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time....

, Paul Lewis
1989
Kit Woolsey
Kit Woolsey
Kit Woolsey is an American bridge and backgammon player. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1964. He earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965....

, Ed Manfield
Ed Nagy, Jeff Polisner
1990
Don Campbell, Barry Harper
Randy Joyce, Glenn Lublin
1991
Larry Mori, Henry Bethe
Zia Mahmood
Zia Mahmood
Zia Mahmood is a Pakistani professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. He has a knack for bringing out the best in his partners and is regarded as one of the greatest players of the game...

, Fred Chang

Winners of Open Pairs I (1992–)
Year Winners Runners-ip
 1992 
Bernie Miller, Mike Lucas
Geoff Hampson, Mark Molson
1993
Russ Ekeblad, Peter Weichsel
Richard Schwartz, Drew Casen
Drew Casen
Drew Ara Casen is an Armenian-American professional bridge player.He is a native of Forest Hills and was raised in the Lenox Hills neighborhood of Farmingdale which abuts Bethpage State Park golf course, site of the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open...

1994
Lloyd Arvedon, Allan Falk
Zia Mahmood
Zia Mahmood
Zia Mahmood is a Pakistani professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. He has a knack for bringing out the best in his partners and is regarded as one of the greatest players of the game...

, Michael Rosenberg
Michael Rosenberg
Michael Rosenberg is one of the top bridge players in the United States. He moved to Scotland as a child and returned to New York in 1990 where he lives with his wife Debbie, also a top player....

1995
Evan Bailey, John Strauch
Seymon Deutsch, Tony Forrester
Tony Forrester
Anthony R. Forrester is an English bridge player and writer. He is a British and English international and a World International Master. Forrester is the bridge columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph....

1996
Ralph Katz
Ralph Katz
Ralph Katz is an American bridge player.Domestically, he has won 20 North American Bridge Championships and twice the Open Team Trials. Internationally, he has many top finishes, highlighted by a win in the 2009 Bermuda Bowl...

, Howard Weinstein
Ed Manfield, Kit Woolsey
Kit Woolsey
Kit Woolsey is an American bridge and backgammon player. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1964. He earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965....

1997
Eric Greco, Geoff Hampson
Tony Forrester
Tony Forrester
Anthony R. Forrester is an English bridge player and writer. He is a British and English international and a World International Master. Forrester is the bridge columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph....

, Geir Helgemo
Geir Helgemo
Geir Helgemo is a Norwegian professional bridge player. As of April 2011 he ranks number 11 among Open World Grand Masters....

1998
Tony Forrester
Tony Forrester
Anthony R. Forrester is an English bridge player and writer. He is a British and English international and a World International Master. Forrester is the bridge columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph....

, Geir Helgemo
Geir Helgemo
Geir Helgemo is a Norwegian professional bridge player. As of April 2011 he ranks number 11 among Open World Grand Masters....


Mike Becker, Mike Kamil
1999
Mike Passell, Michael Seamon
Bob Hamman
Bob Hamman
Robert David Hamman is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time....

, Petra Hamman
2000
Mike Cappelletti Jr., Larry Hicks
Walter Johnson, Doug Simson
2001
Jim Tritt, Richard Meffley
Henry Bethe, Varis Carey
2002
Jörgen Molberg, Boerre Lund
David Berkowitz, Larry N. Cohen
2003
Ralph Katz
Ralph Katz
Ralph Katz is an American bridge player.Domestically, he has won 20 North American Bridge Championships and twice the Open Team Trials. Internationally, he has many top finishes, highlighted by a win in the 2009 Bermuda Bowl...

, Michael Rosenberg
Michael Rosenberg
Michael Rosenberg is one of the top bridge players in the United States. He moved to Scotland as a child and returned to New York in 1990 where he lives with his wife Debbie, also a top player....


Marty Fleisher
Martin Fleisher
Martin Fleisher is an American bridge player, employee benefits attorney, manager of investments in life insurance policies and investment advisor....

, Mike Kamil
2004
  David Berkowitz, Larry N. Cohen  
Roger Lord, Jacqueline Sincoff
2005
Bob Morris, Eddie Wold
George Jacobs, Alfredo Versace
2006
David Berkowitz, Larry N. Cohen
Fred Chang, Zia Mahmood
Zia Mahmood
Zia Mahmood is a Pakistani professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. He has a knack for bringing out the best in his partners and is regarded as one of the greatest players of the game...

2007
Giorgio Duboin
Giorgio Duboin
Giorgio Duboin is an Italian professional bridge player. He has won four world teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010...

, Roy Welland
Roy Welland
Roy Welland is the owner of New York restaurant Lotus of Siam NY, wine connoisseur, and world class bridge player...


Richard Freeman
Richard Freeman (bridge)
Richard Freeman was a world champion American bridge player holding the title of World Grand Master. He won the Bermuda Bowl world team championship and won many national championships. Freeman was inducted into the American Contract Bridge League's Hall of Fame in 2001...

, Zia Mahmood
Zia Mahmood
Zia Mahmood is a Pakistani professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. He has a knack for bringing out the best in his partners and is regarded as one of the greatest players of the game...

2008
Robert Lebi, Dan Jacob
  Ralph Buchalter, Migry Zur Campanile  
2009
David Berkowitz, Larry N. Cohen
Xiaodong Shi, David Yang
2010
Nicolas L Ecuyer, Steve Landen
Joe Kivel, Chris Larsen
2011
Gavin Wolpert, Joel Wooldridge
Jill Levin, Jill Meyers



Sources

List of previous winners, Page 8
2009 winners, Page 1
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