Sidney Silodor
Sidney Silodor was an American bridge player. Silodor was a World Champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1950. Silodor is currently 6th on the all-time list of North American Bridge Championships wins with 34. Silodor was a lawyer from Havertown, Pennsylvania.
Silodor was named to its hall of fame by The Bridge World in 1966, which brought the number of members to nine, and was made a founding member of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.
Silodor was born in Newark, New Jersey to Charles and Pauline Silodor, Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. He was married to Elizabeth Collins. He died of brain cancer at Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital in 1963.
Bridge accomplishments
Honors
- ACBL Hall of Fame, 1966
Awards
- Mott-Smith Trophy 1963
Wins
- Bermuda Bowl 1950
- North American Bridge Championships
- * Master Individual 1951
- * von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs 1946
- * Rockwell Mixed Pairs 1951, 1955, 1956
- * Silodor Open Pairs 1963
- * Hilliard Mixed Pairs 1940, 1944
- * Fall National Open Pairs 1941, 1946
- * Vanderbilt 1944, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960
- * Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams 1952, 1956, 1961
- * Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match 1941, 1943, 1944, 1954
- * Reisinger 1942, 1943, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1961
- * Spingold 1943, 1951, 1957
Runners-up
- Bermuda Bowl 1958, 1961
- North American Bridge Championships
- * von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs 1943, 1956
- * Wernher Open Pairs 1941, 1950, 1958
- * Vanderbilt 1953
- * Spingold 1936
- * Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams 1946, 1959, 1963
- * Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match 1946, 1952, 1960, 1962
- * Reisinger 1944, 1948, 1951
- * Spingold 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1961
Books
Silodor is sometimes credited with two books, "Silodor Says" and "According to Silodor".Silodor Says: the grand slam of bridge literature, 240 pp., Contract bridge: According to Silodor and Tierney, Silodor and John A. Tierney, 442 pp., Complete Book of Duplicate Bridge, Norman Kay, Fred Karpin, and Silodor, 496 pp.,Articles
- Lead
- Underleading an ace