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Schenken was an ACBL board member for many years. In 1943 he took over the Four Aces syndicated bridge column and in 1957 merged it with the column by Frey. They wrote it jointly until 1970 when
Schenken became the sole author once more; meanwhile it became the longest continuously published national
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Beside his brilliant play, Schenken was renowned for his unbreakable calm at the table. As declarer, it was impossible to tell whether he was in a comfortable contract or an impossible one (and his commanding dummy play often made an impossible one). He was a formidably difficult opponent but a
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was first held in 1950 and
Schenken was on the winning USA team. He also took part in the successful defenses of the trophy in 1951 and 1953, but subsequently played on the US or North America team only on four occasions during the early 1960s. That was during the reign of the Italian
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Schenken and nine others were named Life
Masters by the American Bridge League in 1936. The ACBL was established by mergers of competing organizations, completed late in 1937, and it continued the ABL Life Master title and
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in 1929, named nine members of its bridge hall of fame including
Culbertson from 1964 to 1966, but it never named another. Almost thirty years later, the ACBL established its hall of fame with the
142:; one is a memoir.) He is credited with the discovery and introduction to the tournament world of several play techniques and examples of deceptive play which are now considered standard.
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Schenken was a nominal co-author of publications by the Four Aces, or Four Aces Bridge Studio in some catalog records. There were at least two books with mainstream editions.
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remarkably easy partner. On the Four Aces, for example, he was the only one who played with every other member of the team.
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Schenken's "Big Club": A revolutionary, highly competitive, and accurate way to bid for every bridge player
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Schenken was playing with the
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player, writer, and long-time syndicated bridge columnist. He was from New York City. He won three
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ten times; the LM Pairs and
Vanderbilt records that still stand today.
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number 3, dating from 1936. He was named to the bridge hall of fame by
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