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CURRICULUM
VITAE
Phillip D. Alder
P.O. Box 1383
Hobe Sound, FL
33475-1383
Representative Bridge
2005: Bridge columnist
for The New York
Times. (Standing in
for Alan Truscott.)
1995: Ran a training week
for Australia's junior
players in Canberra
Non-playing captain and
coach of USA II in the
World Women's Team
Championship for the
Venice Cup.
1994: Non-playing captain
and coach of the bronze
medal winning USA team in
the McConnell Cup. The
United States in the
Rosenblum Cup and Open
Pairs at the World
Championships.
1991 until now:
Syndicated columnist for Newspaper
Enterprise Association.
1989: Coach of Egyptian
World Championship team.
1987 and 1988: Coach of
Pakistani World
Championship team.
1986: The United States
in the Open Pairs at the
World Championships.
1980: England in the
Camrose Trophy (full
international series
between England, Northern
Ireland, Scotland and
Wales).
1979: Helped to run the
European Bridge League's
Junior Camp in Ghent,
Belgium.
1976: Great Britain in
the Junior (under-25)
Common Market
Championships.
1974: Great Britain in
the Open Pairs at the
Common Market
Championships.
1972: Great Britain in
the Junior (under-27)
European Championship.
1972 and 1971: England in
the Junior Camrose
(under-27 Home Countries
international
championship).
Awards and Honors
Life Master in both
England and the United
States. (I believe, the
second-youngest at the
time in England.)
British National
victories: Junior
(under-27) Pairs
Championship and
Anglo-American Junior
Pairs Championship
(1971); Junior Team
Championship (1972); Two
Stars Pairs (1973);
Crockford's Cup (1984).
I have won several other
titles, including the
prestigious Von Zedtwitz
Double Knockout (five
times, 1986-87 and
1995-97) in New York.
Journalism: Bols
Brilliancy Prize (1979);
Royal Viking Line Player
of the Year (1986);
International Bridge
Press Association
Precision Award for the
Defensive Play of the
Year (1992); American
Bridge Teachers'
Association Special
Citation (1999).
Publications
Since 1991, syndicated
columnist with Newspaper
Enterprise Association,
appearing six times a
week in about 400 papers
— including the
China Daily!
Contract bridge
contributor to the
Encyclop‘dia
Britannica Yearbook.
Author of You Can Play
Bridge (1983).
Published in conjunction
with the Join us for
Bridge TV series. This
was the only bridge book
ever taken by The Book
Club in England.
Author, publisher and
type-setter of Get
Smarter at Bridge
(1994).
Co-author of the 1986,
'87 and '88 World
Championship books.
Revised (with Alan
Truscott) the classic Morehead
on Bidding, published
in April 1990 under the
title On Bidding
by Simon & Schuster.
Worked on the expanded
Casino Games section in
the revised Hoyle's Complete
Book of Games
(published in February
1991 by Doubleday).
Co-author of Bid to
Win, Play for Pleasure
(1990), Godfrey's
Bridge Challenge
(1996) and Godfrey's
Stairway to the Stars
(1998) with Dr. George
Rosenkranz.
Type-setter and editor of
How to Play a Bridge
Hand and How to
Defend a Bridge Hand
by Bill Root (published
by Crown).
Ghost author of several
books.
A contributor of articles
to, inter alia, Bridge
(in Italy), the American
Contract Bridge League
Bulletin, The Bridge
World, Australian Bridge,
New Zealand Bridge,
Bridge d'Italia, Bridge i
Norge, France's Le
Bridgeur, England's
International Popular
Bridge Monthly, South
African Bridge Bulletin,
Montreal's M‚nage de
Bridge, the International
Bridge Press
Association's Bulletin,
and Diversion (a medical
publication).
Have been or am on the
bidding panels of
Australian Bridge, Bridge
(published in Italy),
Bridge i Norge, Bridge
(published in England;
formerly called Bridge
Magazine and Bridge
International), Deutsches
Bridge Verbandsblatt, The
Bridge World (published
in New York), Bridge
World (published in
Turkey), International
Popular Bridge Monthly
(published in England),
New Zealand Bridge, and a
couple of panels run in
non-bridge magazines by
the Italian world
champion Pietro Forquet.
Classes
Have run many bridge
classes and holidays,
most of the latter
lasting a weekend, but
two for one week (Majorca
and Malta) and one for
two weeks (Switzerland).
From Spring 1987 to Fall
1988, I taught classes in
Mamaroneck, NY,
Scarsdale, NY, and White
Plains, NY; from Fall
1988 to Spring 1990, in
Fall 1991 and Winter and
Spring 1992 at the
Harvard Club, NYC; from
Fall 1989 to Spring 1990
at the Brooklyn Heights
Casino, Brooklyn Heights,
NY; since Fall 1990 at
the Cornell Club, NYC;
since Fall 1991 at the
New Canaan Country Club;
since Summer 2000 at
Round Hill, Greenwich,
Conn., and Piping Rock,
Locust Valley, NY; and
since Fall 1994 at some
country clubs in Florida:
Everglades Club, John's
Island, Jupiter Island,
Loblolly, Lost Tree,
Loxahatchee, Orchid
Island, Palm Beach Bath
& Tennis, and Riomar.
2004 and 2005: Ran a
four-day bridge seminar
at the Wianno Club,
Osterville, Mass.
2005: Ran a four-day
bridge seminar at the
Rolling Rock Club,
Ligonier, Penn.
Editorial Experience
1980-1992: Editor of
Daily Bulletins at many
World, European and Zone
4 (Middle East, Africa
and Asia) Championships.
1987, 1995 and 1997-??:
Editorial work for The
Bridge World. At
present, the Associate
Editor.
1985-1986: Published the
monthly Goren Bridge
Letter and edited the
daily syndicated Goren
newspaper columns.
Ghostwriter and freelance
editor of numerous bridge
articles and books.
1980-1985: Editor of Bridge
Magazine (title
changed to Bridge
International in
1984; to Bridge in
1990; and back to Bridge
Magazine in 1992).
1979-1980: Assistant
editor of Bridge
Magazine.
1981-1984: Bridge editor
and adviser for the
Associated Book
Publishers/Methuen London
Ltd.
1975-1979: Major
contributor to Bridge
Magazine.
1974-1975: Assistant
editor of Popular
Bridge Monthly (later
International Popular
Bridge Monthly; now
defunct).
Miscellaneous
Interviewed by Radio
Wales after winning the
Welsh Under-15 Chess
Championship.
Interviewed live for 30
minutes by the local TV
station in Miles City,
Montana.
Took part in the
pre-production for a TV
bridge pilot for the
British Broadcasting
Corporation that was
later canceled.
Have acted as a Vu-Graph
commentator on many
occasions at
international, European
and World Bridge
Championships (the latest
being in 1989 in Perth,
Western Australia).
Member of American
Contract Bridge League,
Greater New York Bridge
Association (the
Secretary during 1989),
English Bridge Union,
British Bridge League,
the American Bridge
Teachers' Association
(scoring 97 percent in
the entrance exam.) and
the International Bridge
Press Association.
I was a high-school
teacher of chemistry,
computer science (and,
for a short while,
mathematics) for seven
years. I taught all
levels from approximately
sixth grade up to college
entrance exam. level:
thirteenth grade.
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