Eddie Kantar

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Edwin Bruce (Eddie) Kantar (born November 9, 1932) is an American bridge player, winner of two open world championships for national teams (Bermuda Bowls), and prolific writer of bridge books and columns. Kantar is from Santa Monica, California.[1]

Contents Biography Kantar was born in Minneapolis. He learned the game at 11 and started teaching it at the age of 17, first to his friends and later at the University of Minnesota, which he attended.[2]

Beside the 1977 and 1979 Bermuda Bowls, Kantar has won 15 North American Bridge Championships (NABCs) and is World Bridge Federation (WBF) and American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master.

Kantar started writing about bridge with an article on notrump bidding in the December 1954 of The Bridge World.[3] He has written more than 35 bridge books and he is a regular contributor to the ACBL Bridge Bulletin (with two monthly columns), The Bridge World, and Bridge Today. In a survey of bridge writers and players taken in 1994, Complete Defensive Play was among the top 20 of all-time favorite bridge books.[4] Six of his books have won the American Bridge Teachers' Association (ABTA) award for Best Book of the Year.[5]

Kantar writes at home in California and lectures on bridge cruises. He also teaches occasionally in the Los Angeles area as well as lectures several times a year in various resort areas in the U.S. and Canada. When not writing about bridge, Eddie can be found at Venice Beach playing paddle tennis, a sport in which he has also garnered several trophies. Eddie is the only person ever to have played in a World Bridge Championship and a World Table Tennis Championship.[6][7]

Bridge accomplishments Honors ACBL Hall of Fame, 1996[8] Awards Precision Award (Best Article or Series on a System or Convention) 1981 Wins Bermuda Bowl (2) 1977, 1979 North American Bridge Championships (15) Marcus Cup (1) 1960 Vanderbilt (3) 1964, 1978, 1988 Spingold (4) 1961, 1962, 1973, 1978 Chicago (now Reisinger) (2) 1962, 1965 Reisinger (2) 1976, 1980 Grand National Teams (2) 1974, 1976 North American Men's Swiss Teams (1) 1987 Life Master Pairs (1) 1983 United States Bridge Championships (3) Open Team Trials (3) 1974, 1977, 1979 Other notable wins: Pan American Invitational Open Teams (1) 1977 Maccabiah Games (1) 1981 Runners-up Bermuda Bowl (1) 1975 North American Bridge Championships (15) Vanderbilt (7) 1961, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1983, 1989 Spingold (1) 1991 Reisinger (3) 1968, 1983, 1992 Men's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1970 Fall National Open Pairs (1) 1962 Men's Pairs (2) 1962, 1967 United States Bridge Championships (1) Open Team Trials (1) 1973