Alan M. Sontag (born May 2, 1946) is an American professional bridge player. He won six world championships, including two Bermuda Bowl wins. Sontag is also known for his book The Bridge Bum , a book "on everybody's list of the top ten bridge books ever written."
7-1079: Sontag is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Sontag (born 1946), American bridge player and author Andrzej Sontag (born 1952), Polish triple jumper Brett Sontag (born 1970), American racecar driver Eduardo Daniel Sontag (born 1951), American/Argentine mathematician Frank Sontag (born 1955), American talk radio show host Frederick Sontag (1924–2009) American author and educator George Contant Sontag (1864–unknown), American outlaw Henriette Sontag (1806–1854), German operatic soprano John Sontag (1861–1893, American outlaw Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and activist Tiga Sontag (born 1974), Canadian DJ/producer Tony Sontag (1956–2018), English darts player See also [ edit ] Sontag, Mississippi , community in north west Lawrence County, Mississippi All pages with titles containing Sontag Sonntag (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
14-601: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alan Sontag Besides the two Bermuda Bowls, his other victories are the Rosenblum Cup , Transnational Open Teams , Senior Bowl , numerous North American Bridge Championships , and two wins in the London Sunday Times and Cavendish Invitational Pairs . In 1973, he and Steve Altman became the first American players to win the Sunday Times Pairs, at
21-625: The World Bridge Federation (WBF) until 1976. A similar event for women, the McConnell Cup , which takes place alongside the Rosenblum Cup was added in 1994. The full name of this championship is World Open Knockout Teams . The knockout format pertains only to the late stages, however, evidently a six-round knockout with 64 teams in recent renditions. It appears that the field has been divided into sixteen groups for round-robin play, with
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35-614: The final in 2001, in Paris , where team captain Rose Meltzer became the first woman to win the Bermuda Bowl. Meltzer teams including Sontag won the odd-years Senior Bowl in 2005 and 2007 and the open Rosenblum Cup in 2006. (During this time Weichsel and Kyle Larsen have been Meltzer's partners in international competition.) Sontag was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2007. Sontag
42-547: The time the premier invitational tournament in the world. Two years later, Sontag returned to London and won the tournament again, this time with Peter Weichsel , with whom he formed one of the strongest partnerships in the world from the 1970s until 2005. The two were partners in the 1983 Bermuda Bowl tournament in Stockholm , when the United States defeated Italy in one of its most exciting final matches. Sontag returned to
49-702: Was born in New York City. He and his wife, Robin, live in Gaithersburg, Maryland , with their son Robert. Widely regarded as one of the fastest players in the world, he is known by his nickname Sonty. Rosenblum Cup Rosenblum Cup is an Open Teams event held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships . The event was added to the world championships in New Orleans in 1978 to commemorate Julius Rosenblum, who served as president of
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