Fast Open Pairs

The Fast Open Pairs national bridge championship is held at the summer American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) North American Bridge Championship (NABC).

The Fast Open Pairs is a four session MP pairs event, two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. Each set of two sessions is played on one day. The event typically starts on the second Thursday of the NABC. The event is open. Players are required to play each two round board in eleven minutes. Typically, there is only a small (30–45 minutes) break between the two sessions.

History

The NABC+ Fast Open Pairs is a matchpoint event where tables are permitted 11 minutes to finish their two-board rounds, rather than the standard 15 minutes.^[1] The event consists of two qualifying sessions and two final sessions. It was first contested in 2000 in Anaheim, California.

Winners

In the first 16 renditions to 2015, the pair Doug Doub–Adam Wildavsky had one win and two seconds. Geoff Hampson and Chris Willenken both had two wins with different partners.

Fast Open Pairs, 2000 to present
Year	Winners	Runners-up
2000	Aaron Silverstein, Chris Willenken	Linda Lewis, Paul Lewis
2001	Jim Robison, Mark Itabashi	Robert Bell, Earl Glickstein
2002	Alan Kleist, Leo LaSota	Ron Smith, Chris Willenken
2003	John Hurd, Joel Wooldridge	Ed Schulte, Joseph Godefrin
2004	Peter Weiden, Rick Zucker	Doug Doub, Adam Wildavsky
2005	Ralph Buchalter, Chris Willenken	Jiang Gu, Xiaodong Shi
2006	Robert Lebi, Nicolas L'Ecuyer	Doug Doub, Adam Wildavsky
2007	Geoff Hampson, Bobby Levin	Eldad Ginossar, Ron Pachtmann
2008	Doug Doub, Adam Wildavsky	John Diamond, Brian Platnick
2009	Dick Bruno, Peggy Kaplan	Bob Etter, John Hodges
2010	Dan Jacob, Nagy Kamel	Steve Shirey, Allan Stauber
2011^[1]	John Diamond, Geoff Hampson	Lew Gamerman, Robert McCaw
2012	Tom Kniest, Ed Schulte	Thomas Bessis, Ishmael Del'Monte
2013	Jim Munday, Larry Sealy	Krzysztof Jassem, Marcin Mazurkiewicz
2014	Adam Grossack, Zachary Grossack	Krzysztof Jassem, Marcin Mazurkiewicz
2015	Igor Savchenko, Irina Kislitsyna	Robert Lebi, Jeff Roman

References

1 2 BRIDGE: In a Match of Quick Decisions, Deciding to Falsecard Early" (2011-08-07). Phillip Alder. The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-09-26.

Other sources

List of previous winners, Page 18 Daily Bulletin (PDF), 80–7 (7), July 24, 2008

2008 winners, Page 1 Daily Bulletin (PDF), 80–9 (9), July 26, 2008

External links

NABC Winners: Fast Open Pairs – official database view, all years

Contract bridge articles

Overview

General

Bidding

General	Balanced hand Balancing (bridge) Bidding box Bidding system Board (bridge) Bridge convention Brown sticker Convention card Cue bid Five-card majors Forcing bid Forcing pass Game try Hand evaluation Honor point count Inverted minors Law of total tricks Losing-Trick Count Major suit Minor suit Optimum contract and par contract Overcall Preempt Prepared opening bid Principle of fast arrival Psychic bid Quantitative no trump bids Reverse (bridge) Sacrifice (bridge) Shooting (bridge) Single suiter Strong pass Takeout double Three suiter Two suiter Useful space principle Void (cards) Weak two bid Zar Points

Systems	List of bidding systems 2/1 game forcing Acol Bidding system Blue Club Boring Club Bridge Base Basic Bridge World Standard Canapé (bridge) Carrot Club EHAA Fantunes Highly unusual method Kaplan–Sheinwold Little Major Moscito OKbridge 2/1 Polish Club Precision Club Roman Club Romex system Säffle Spade Standard American Strong club system

Conventions	List of bidding conventions

Card play

General	List of play techniques Avoidance play Beer card Caddy Card reading Duck Endplay Entry Grosvenor gambit Hold up Percentage play Pin (bridge) Principle of restricted choice Probabilities Revoke Ruff Shooting Smother play Tempo Trump promotion Uppercut Vacant Places

Declarer play	Basic: Finesse Safety play Coups: Alcatraz coup Bath coup Belladonna coup Coup Coup en passant Crocodile coup Deschapelles coup Devil's coup Loser on loser Merrimac coup Morton's fork coup Scissors coup Trump coup Vienna coup Squeezes: Backwash squeeze Cannibal squeeze Clash squeeze Compound squeeze Criss-cross squeeze Double squeeze Entry squeeze Entry-shifting squeeze Guard squeeze Knockout squeeze Non-simultaneous double squeeze Progressive squeeze Pseudo-squeeze Saturated squeeze Simple squeeze Simultaneous double squeeze Single-suit squeeze Squeeze play Stepping-stone squeeze Strip squeeze Triple squeeze Trump squeeze Vice squeeze Winkle squeeze Suit combinations: Suit combination Suit combination – J missing Suit combination – 10 missing Suit combinations – K10 missing

Defender play	Forcing defense Journalist leads Opening lead Rule of 10-12 Rule of 11 Rusinow leads Signal Smith signal

People and organizations

General	ACBL Youngest Life Master List of contract bridge people List of nationality transfers in sport

Players by country	Australia Austria Brazil Britain Bulgaria Canada China Denmark Netherlands Egypt Fiction France Germany Hungary India Ireland Israel Italy Jewish players Mexico Monaco New Zealand Norway Pakistan Poland Russia Sweden Swirzerlad Taiwan United States

Other lists	Alphabetical list of contract bridge people with Wikipedia (english) articles List of bridge administrators List of bridge writers

Teams	Blue Team Dallas Aces Four Aces

Clubs	Bridge Club Brașov Cavendish Club Crockford's Galatasaray Bridge Team Melville Bridge Club Portland Club (London) Savoy Club Young Chelsea Bridge Club

Governing bodies	American Bridge Association American Contract Bridge League Austrian Bridge Federation Brazilian Bridge Federation British Bridge League Canadian Bridge Federation Dutch Bridge Federation English Bridge Union European Bridge League Hungarian Bridge Federation International Mind Sports Association List of bridge governing bodies Norwegian Bridge Federation World Bridge Federation United States Bridge Federation

Championships

General	List of bridge competitions and awards

World	Bermuda Bowl Bridge at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games Bridge at the 2012 World Mind Sports Games Cavendish Invitational Computer Olympiad McConnell Cup Rosenblum Cup Senior Bowl (bridge) Triple crown of bridge Venice Cup World Bridge Championships World IMP Pairs Championship World Junior Pairs Championship World Junior Teams Championship World Mind Sports Games World Mixed Pairs Championship World Mixed Teams Championship World Open Pairs Championship World Senior Pairs Championship World Senior Teams Championship World Team Olympiad World Transnational Open Teams Championship World Women Pairs Championship

National and Zonal	Buffett Cup Camrose Trophy Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships European Universities Bridge Championships Gold Cup (bridge) North American bridge Championships: ACBL King or Queen of Bridge Blue Ribbon Pairs Bruce LM-5000 Pairs Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match Fall National Open Pairs Fast Open Pairs Fishbein Trophy Goren Trophy Grand National Teams Hilliard Mixed Pairs Jacoby Open Swiss Teams Keohane North American Swiss Teams Lebhar IMP Pairs Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs Machlin Women's Swiss Teams Manfield Non-Life Master Pairs Marcus Cup Master Individual Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs Mini-Spingold Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams Mott-Smith Trophy Nail Life Master Open Pairs National 199er Pairs National 49er Pairs National 99er Pairs Non-Life Master Swiss Teams Norman Kay Platinum Pairs North American Bridge Championships North American Pairs Red Ribbon Pairs Reisinger Rockwell Mixed Pairs Roth Open Swiss Teams Senior Knockout Teams Silodor Open Pairs Smith Life Master Women's Pairs Spingold Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams Truscott Senior Swiss Teams Vanderbilt Trophy Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs Wagar Women's Knockout Teams Wernher Open Pairs Whitehead Women's Pairs Young LM-1500 Pairs

Publications and resources

Books	List of contract bridge books 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know Bridge Squeezes Complete The Cardturner Design for Bidding Contract Bridge for Beginners Edwin Kantar bibliography Master Point Press Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand Terence Reese bibliography The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge Tickets to the Devil

Magazines	List of bridge magazines Bridge d'Italia Bridge Magazine The Bridge World

External links	Bridge Base Basic Bridge Base Inc. OK bridge 2/1

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