Marshall Miles

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. [http://www.bridgetoday.com/news/news_miles.php 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.{{OEB|6}} Miles was an American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master with more than 17,500 masterpoints[http://web2.acbl.org/as400/mpraces/mpAwards/lifetime/grandlms.htm ACBL 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)

Born in Loma Linda, California,[https://www.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/members/#M "Miles, Marshall"]. ACBL Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-12-27. Miles graduated from Claremont College and the University of California, Los Angeles.{{OEB|5|693}} Miles earned a law degree in 1954 and practiced in Southern California from 1955 until his retirement in 1997.[http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=26321 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.[http://www.bridge-forum.com/homepage.htm Bridge Forum International]. {{full citation needed|date=December 2014}}

A resident of Redlands, California,{{cite web|url=http://www.acbl.org/news_archive.php?id=825 |title=News Archive: Marshall Miles 1926–2013 |publisher=ACBL |access-date=2013-02-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521223906/http://www.acbl.org/news_archive.php?id=825 |archive-date=21 May 2013 }} 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.{{cite news |title=PASSINGS: Marshall Miles|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-me-passings-20130218,0,74835.story|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=February 18, 2013|access-date=2013-02-18}}

• ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award 2005[http://www.acbl.org/about-acbl/hall-of-fame/induction-by-year "Induction by Year"]. Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-22.

• Fishbein Trophy 1961
• Herman Trophy 1962

• Senior International Cup (1) 2004
• North American Bridge Championships (5)
• Spingold (2) 1961, 1962
• Reisinger (2) 1962, 1965
• Life Master Pairs (1) 1961

• 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

• {{cite book |last= Miles |first= Marshall |author-mask= 1 |title= How to Win at Duplicate Bridge |edition= 1st|publisher= Collier Books |year= 1957 }} {{cite book |last= Miles |first= Marshall |author-mask= 1 |title= How to Win at Duplicate Bridge |edition= 3rd|publisher= Exposition Press |location= New York |year= 1959}}
• {{cite book |last= Miles |first= Marshall |author-mask= 1 |title= All 52 Cards: how to reconstruct the concealed hands at the bridge table |publisher= Exposition Press |year= 1963 }} UK Edition: {{cite book |last= Miles |first= Marshall|author-mask= 1 |title= Card reading at Contract: how to reconstruct the concealed hands at the bridge table|publisher= Nicholas Kaye |location= London |year= 1964 |oclc= 30242705}}
• {{cite book |last= Miles |first= Marshall|author-mask= 1 |title= Marshall Miles Teaches Logical Bridge: a novel approach to championship principles of bidding and playing your hand|edition= 1st |publisher= Exposition Press |location= New York|year= 1967 |lccn= 67-24265 }}
• {{cite book |last= Miles|first= Marshall |author-mask= 1 |title= Bridge from the Top - Vol. I |publisher= Pando Publications |location= Roswell, GA|year= 1987}} {{cite book |last= Miles|first= Marshall |author-mask= 1 |title= Bridge from the Top - Vol. II |publisher= Pando Publications |location= Roswell, GA|year= 1989}}
• {{cite book |last= Miles |first= Marshall |author-mask= 1 |title= Stronger Competitive Bidding |publisher= Lawrence & Leong Publishing |location= Oakland, CA|year= 1992|lccn= 92-070047 |isbn= 1-877908-03-7 }}
• Reisinger Challenge (Los Alamitos, CA: C&T Bridge Supplies, 1997) {{OCLC|63171913}}
• {{cite book |last = Miles |first= Marshall |author-link= Marshall Miles |author-mask= 1 |title= Competitive Bidding in the 21st Century|publisher= Master Point Press |location= Toronto |year= 2000|isbn= 1-894154-13-4}}
• 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)

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[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/crosswords/bridge/21card.html "When the Defense Is Hopeless, Sowing Confusion May Be Best"]. Philip Alder. The New York Times. July 21, 2005. Retrieved 2014-12-04.

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