Marshall Lauren MilesState of California (CA Birth Index). At Family Tree Legends. Retrieved 2009-07-02. (December 16, 1926 – February 5, 2013) was an American bridge player, teacher and writer.
Bridge career Miles learned to play bridge largely from columns in the back issues of daily newspapers at a local public library.
Miles' crowning achievement was winning the World Senior Teams Olympiad in Istanbul in 2004."Age No Barrier to New Champion". Daily Bulletin of the 12th World Bridge Olympiad, issue #10. Reprint at BridgeToday.com. Retrieved 2014-12-04. He won various other tournaments and titles throughout his bridge career, including the Fishbein Trophy and the Life Master Pairs in 1961, as well as the Spingold in that same year and the next. He won the Reisinger in 1962 and 1965 and placed second in the Men's Pairs twice as well as in the Vanderbilt and Fall National Open Pairs. Miles was an American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master with more than 17,500 masterpointsACBL Grand Life Masters. and was elected into its Hall of Fame in 2005.
Miles wrote "many articles for The Bridge World, American Bridge Digest, Bridge Today, ACBL Bridge Bulletin and was a contributing editor to The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge." He wrote several books including the classic All 52 Cards. (1963)
Personal
Born in Loma Linda, California,"Miles, Marshall" . ACBL Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-12-27. Miles graduated from Claremont College and the University of California, Los Angeles. Miles earned a law degree in 1954 and practiced in Southern California from 1955 until his retirement in 1997.State Bar of CA :: Marshall L Miles. Miles was a teacher on The Bridge Forum, an online bridge site on which students from all over the world can learn from experts.Bridge Forum International.
A resident of Redlands, California, Miles died of complications from a heart attack at Redlands Community Hospital, according to his family, on February 5, 2013, at the age of 86.
Bridge accomplishments
Honors ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award 2005"Induction by Year" . Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
Awards Fishbein Trophy 1961 Herman Trophy 1962
Wins Senior International Cup (1) 2004 North American Bridge Championships (5) Spingold (2) 1961, 1962 Reisinger (2) 1962, 1965 Life Master Pairs (1) 1961
Runners-up North American Bridge Championships (5) Vanderbilt (1) 1961 Senior Swiss Teams (1) 2003 Fall National Open Pairs (1) 1962 Men's Pairs (2) 1962, 1972 United States Bridge Championships (1) Senior Team Trials (1) 2004
Publications
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Reisinger Challenge (Los Alamitos, CA: C&T Bridge Supplies, 1997)
Inferences at Bridge (Master Point, 2002) Modern Constructive Bidding (Master Point, 2005) My System: The Unbalanced Diamond (Master Point, 2007) It's Your Call (Master Point, 2009) More Accurate Bidding (2011)
References
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(including 1 "from old catalog")