Silverman / Wolfson

[pclayton]

Just finished Barnet Shenkin's "Playing Bridge with the Legends" and he gives a recap of the 2000 Olympiad and BB. Playing for Nickell was a pair named Wolfson and Silverman.

 

I was a little out of touch in the bridge world around this time. Who are these guys, and how come I don't hear about them now? Did something happen to them?

[JanM]

Not the Olympiad, just the 2000 Bermuda Bowl, played in Bermuda in January of 2000 because that was 50 years after the first BB. Jeff Wolfson and Neil Silverman played on USA2, which lost to Nickell in the semi-finals. The rest of their team was Martel-Stansby and Zia-Rosenberg, and for a really exciting match, look at their Quarterfinal match against Poland - Chip & Lew finished before Zia & Michael, who were on Vugraph. They were trailing by something like 15 with 3 or 4 boards to go and when I asked them out in the hall if they had any chance, they asked me which boards were still to be played - I told them and they said "yes" and we went back into the Vugraph theatre to watch them win :(.

[pclayton]

Thanks Jan.

 

My main question is, "where did they go".

[JanM]

Sorry, I realized I had left that out after I posted and just never got around to correcting it. Jeff Wolfson decided to take some time off from bridge while his children were young. He's been saying that he'll be back "soon" for the last year or so :). I don't know why Neil Silverman stopped playing actively. Maybe someone from the Washington, DC area might know.