Education
Rubens attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was captain of the math team in 1957, the year he graduated.
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Rubens attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was captain of the math team in 1957, the year he graduated.
He is best known for long association with The Bridge World monthly magazine, as co-editor under Edgar Kaplan from 1967 and as editor and publisher since Kaplan"s death in 1997. Rubens is from Brooklyn, New New York He has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a graduate degree from Brandeis University.
Rubens is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science at Pace University in New New York
Becker was 69, then the oldest participant in a Bermuda Bowl tournament, and famously conservative. According to Charles Goren"s report, Becker is an ultraconservative who has often refused to play even so widely accepted a convention as Stayman.
Rubens, a math teacher, employs advanced ideas on everything from opening bids to opening leads. Expert selectors would have been hard-pressed to put together a less likely partnership.
Yet from their base of operations in the closed room this pair kept sending through perfect results on hand after hand, a performance that even the vaunted Blue Team would have found difficult to top.
Certainly their opponents in the Trials could not begin to match lieutenant At Guarujá, Brazil, they finished fourth of five teams in the 1973 Bermuda Bowl. Rubens and Paul Heitner established the short-lived Bridge Journal in the mid-1960s.
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The Bridge World monthly was established by Ely and Josephine Culbertson in 1929. Edgar Kaplan acquired it from McCall Corporation in 1966 and served as publisher and editor from the January 1967 issue until his death in September 1997.
Some time in 1967 he brought Rubens on board as co-editors They made the editorial column a monthly and prominent feature.
Honors Wins.
ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award 2004 Precision Award (Best Article or Series on a System or Convention) 1977, 1979, 1982 North American Bridge Championships (3) Spingold (1) 1972 Men"s Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1965 Men"s Pairs (1) 1965 United States Bridge Championships (1) Open Team Trials (1) 1972.
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