Meyer Schleifer

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Meyer Schleifer (1908–1994)[1] was an American bridge player from Los Angeles, California.[2]

Schleifer was born in Brooklyn, New York City, where he was a strong chess player as a teenager. He contracted tuberculosis as a law student at Columbia University, whence he quit school and moved to Denver for his health. He moved to Los Angeles a few years later, and won two Southern California Chess Championships before he switched to bridge. For most of his life, he earned a living at the bridge table, primarily by playing rubber bridge for money stakes at clubs.[1] According to Eddie Kantar, who judged him "America's greatest bridge player" in 1972, Schleifer did have many clients at duplicate bridge, or tournament play, and could have become rich if he had not been a heavy loser betting on the horse races.[1]

Schleifer was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2000.[3]

Bridge accomplishments

Honors

  • ACBL Hall of Fame, 2000[3]

Wins

Runners-up

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Schleifer, Meyer". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-23.
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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Induction by Year". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
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Further reading

  • "Is this man America's greatest bridge player?", Eddie Kantar, Popular Bridge, December 1972.

External links

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