Jeff Rubens

Jeff Rubens

Jeff Rubens (born 1941) is the editor of bridge magazine "The Bridge World". He has authored several bridge books, amongst which "Secrets of Winning Bridge". Rubens graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1957, [cite web |url=http://65.104.11.121/Math1957S.html |title=Stuyvesant Math Team, Spring 1957 |accessdate=2007-10-31] has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University, a graduate degree from Brandeis University, and is a retired mathematics professor of Pace University in New York.

Honors

* ACBL Hall of Fame (Blackwood Award) 2004

Awards

* Precision Award (Best Article or Series on a System or Convention) 1977, 1979, 1982

Wins

* North American Bridge Championships (3)
** Spingold (1) 1972
** Men's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1965
** Men's Pairs (1) 1965
* United States Bridge Championships (1)
** Open Team Trials (1) 1972

ee also

* Useful space principle
* Rubens advances
* Hand evaluation by visualisation
* The Bridge World

References

External links

* [http://www.acbl.org/about/hall-of-fame/biography.php?id=63 ACBL Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.worldbridge.org/people/person.asp?qryid=15493 World Bridge Federation profile]


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