{{short description|American bridge player, teacher, writer, and official}} '''Robert "Bobby", "Bob" Goldman''' (November 10, 1938{{cn|date=December 2014}} – May 16, 1999)<ref name=truscott/> was an American bridge player, teacher and writer. He won three Bermuda Bowls (1970, 1971, 1979), Olympiad Mixed Teams 1972, and 20 North American Bridge Championships. He authored books on bridge, most notably ''Aces Scientific'' and ''Winners and Losers at the Bridge Table'', and conventions including Kickback, Exclusion Blackwood and Super Gerber (Redwood).<ref name=ACBLhof/> He was from Highland Village, Texas.<ref name=OEB>{{OEB|5|632}}</ref>

Goldman first played duplicate bridge in 1957 while studying at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He began teaching six months later and taught "a modest number of classes" until he joined the Dallas Aces team in 1968.<ref name=orlando/> His early partners with the Aces were Michael Lawrence and Billy Eisenberg; the team won Bermuda Bowls in 1970 and 1971.<!--perhaps cover Aces Scientific here--> About that time he began "teaching heavily—15 department classes a week" and some private lessons.<ref name=orlando/> His favorite partner was Paul Soloway, with whom he played more than two decades.<ref name=truscott/> Goldman was an American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master with more than 25,000 masterpoints and a World Bridge Federation (WBF) World Grand Master.<ref name=ACBLhof/> He was active in ACBL administration, participating in its <!--chairman at time of his death?-->Competition and Conventions Committee, Committee for an Open and Improved ACBL, and Women's Forum.<ref name=orlando/> On the former committee he contributed to shaping the ACBL alert procedure, convention card, ethics and appeals process, and smoking ban.<ref name=ACBLhof/>

Goldman died of a heart attack in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 60.<ref name=truscott/>

==Works== <!--source is WorldCat library records which include also ''The Goldman brothers Civil War letters'' (1994?), subject Lincoln County, GA--History --likely a different Bobby Goldman --> ;Books * ''Aces Scientific'' (Inglewood, CA: Max Hardy, 1978) <!--also Dallas, 1978; also typescript photocopy, 197? --> * ''Winners and Losers at the Bridge Table'', illustrated by Mary Grace (Hardy, 1979)

;Pamphlets * ''Doubles'' (Louisville, KY: Devyn Press, 1981), Championship Bridge no. 23 * ''Slam Bidding is Fun'' (Goldman, 198?) – "The 500 hands were randomly dealt by computer."; created and programmed by Bobby Goldman {{OCLC|20032999}}

==Bridge accomplishments==

===Honors=== * ACBL Hall of Fame, 1999<ref name=HOFby>[http://www.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/induction-by-year "Induction by Year"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205191454/http://www.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/induction-by-year/ |date=2014-12-05 }}. ''Hall of Fame''. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-12-16.</ref> * ACBL Honorary Member of the Year 1999

===Wins=== * Bermuda Bowl (3) 1970, 1971, 1979 * Olympiad Mixed Teams (1) 1972 * North American Bridge Championships (20) ** Vanderbilt (5) 1971, 1973, 1978, 1997, 1998 ** Spingold (5) 1969, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988 ** Reisinger (3) 1970, 1976, 1980 ** Open Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1993 ** Men's Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1968 ** North American Swiss Teams (1) 1998 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 1991 ** North American Men's Swiss Teams (1) 1989 ** Life Master Pairs (1) 1968 ** Life Master Men's Pairs (1) 1964 * United States Bridge Championships (6) ** Open Team Trials (6) 1969, 1971, 1973, 1979 (Jan), 1984, 1995 * Other notable wins: ** Cavendish Invitational Teams (1) 1994 ** Pan American Invitational Open Teams (1) 1977 ** Pan American Invitational Open Pairs (1) 1977

===Runners-up=== * Bermuda Bowl (2) 1973, 1974 * World Open Team Olympiad (1) 1972 * North American Bridge Championships (17) ** Vanderbilt (3) 1966, 1970, 1976 ** Spingold (4) 1970, 1990, 1994, 1996 ** Reisinger (5) 1968, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994 ** Grand National Teams (1) 1998 ** Open Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1995 ** Men's Board-a-Match Teams (2) 1969, 1984 ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1968 * United States Bridge Championships (2) ** Open Team Trials (1) 1973 ** Open Pair Trials (1) 1968 * Other notable 2nd places: ** Forbo-Krommenie International Teams (2) 1993, 1998 ** Sunday Times Invitational Pairs (1) 1990

==References== {{reflist |25em |refs= <ref name=ACBLhof>{{cite web |title=Goldman, Robert (Bobby) |work=Hall of Fame |publisher=ACBL.org |url=http://web5.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/goldman-robert-bobby |accessdate=2014-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308030637/http://web5.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/goldman-robert-bobby/ |archive-date=2016-03-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name=orlando> {{cite news |author=Orlando NABC staff |title=Bobby Goldman named Honorary Member for 1999 |newspaper=Daily Bulletin |volume=72 |number=2 |pages=1,&nbsp;6 |date=November 21, 1998 |publisher=ACBL |url=http://web2.acbl.org/nabcbulletins/1998fall/db2.pdf |accessdate=2014-05-22 }}</ref> <ref name=truscott> {{cite news | first=Alan | last=Truscott |authorlink=Alan Truscott |title=BRIDGE; A Great Champion Is Dead; One Deceit Was a Classic |date=May 20, 1999 |newspaper=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/20/arts/bridge-a-great-champion-is-dead-one-deceit-was-a-classic.html |accessdate=2014-05-22 }} Quote: "died in Dallas on Sunday".</ref> }}

==External links== * {{ACBLhof|goldman-robert-bobby}} – with video interview * {{WBFpeople}} * {{LCAuth|n80091761|Bobby Goldman|1|}}

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