Education
Drexel University.
Drexel University.
He authored books on bridge, most notably Aces Scientific and Winners and Losers at the Bridge Table, and conventions including Kickback, Exclusion Blackwood and Super Gerber (Redwood). He was from Highland Village, Texas. Goldman first played duplicate bridge in 1957 while studying at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
He began teaching six months later and taught "a modest number of classes" until he joined the Dallas Aces team in 1968.
About that time he began "teaching heavily—15 department classes a week" and some private lessons. Goldman was an American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Grand Life Master with more than 25,000 masterpoints and a World Bridge Federation (WBF) World Grand Master.
He was active in ACBL administration, participating in its Competition and Conventions Committee, Committee for an Open and Improved ACBL, and Women"s Forum. On the former committee he contributed to shaping the ACBL alert procedure, convention card, ethics and appeals process, and smoking ban.
Goldman died of a heart attack in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 60.
Honors ACBL Hall of Fame, 1999 Wins Runners-up Bermuda Bowl (2) 1973, 1974 World Open Team Olympiad (1) 1972 North American Bridge Championships (17) Vanderbilt (3) 1966, 1970, 1976 Spingold (4) 1970, 1990, 1994, 1996 Reisinger (5) 1968, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994 Grand National Teams (1) 1998 Open Board-a-Match Teams (1) 1995 Men"s Board-a-Match Teams (2) 1969, 1984 Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1968 United States Bridge Championships (2) Open Team Trials (1) 1973 Open Pair Trials (1) 1968 Other notable 2nd places: Forbo-Krommenie International Teams (2) 1993, 1998 Sunday Times Invitational Pairs (1) 1990.
ACBL Honorary Member of the Year 1999.