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Edgar Kaplan was born on 18 April, 1925 in United States, is an American bridge player. Discover Edgar Kaplan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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1925

Edgar Kaplan (April 18, 1925 – September 7, 1997) was an American bridge player and one of the principal contributors to the game.

His career spanned six decades and covered every aspect of bridge.

He was a teacher, author, editor, administrator, champion player, theorist, expert Vugraph commentator, coach/captain and authority on the laws of the game.

1950

As an author, during the 1950s and 1960s, Kaplan contributed a variety of influential articles to The Bridge World (TBW).

Their topics focused largely on tournament play and on the proprieties of the game.

The section of the laws of bridge titled Proprieties describes the kinds of behavior that are encouraged, and those that are deprecated.

In particular, communication between partners should occur only through their bids and plays, and not by the manner in which the bids and plays are made.

Kaplan wrote extensively on these issues.

Kaplan also developed a new style of reporting on bridge tournaments.

Prior to Kaplan's work, reports focused on the brilliancies of the players involved.

If the players' mistakes were discussed at all, the report either declined to identify the perpetrator, or stressed how unusual it was for such a revered player to make any error, let alone an unwise play or call.

This policy of comrades, which expected name players to protect one another in their writings, did little to enhance bridge journalism.

Kaplan's reports changed that.

While they never descended to the mean-spirited, they named names and described blunders – including Kaplan's.

1957

In 1957, Kaplan won the McKenney Trophy (now called the Barry Crane Top 500) for most masterpoints won during the year.

1966

After acquiring TBW in 1966, Kaplan continued to write for the magazine, contributing (primarily) editorials and tournament reports.

Despite his accomplishments in other areas, he is remembered particularly for the careful prose style he brought to TBW, his gift for the bon mot, the tone he set.

As a publisher, Kaplan bought TBW from McCall Corporation in 1966 and was its editor and publisher from 1967 through 1997.

1967

He was the editor and publisher of The Bridge World magazine for more than 30 years (1967–1997).

With Alfred Sheinwold he developed the Kaplan–Sheinwold bidding system.

He was from New York City.

As a player, Kaplan won 25 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) and was a Grand Life Master; at his death, he had accumulated 13,974 ACBL masterpoints.

He was twice runner-up in the world championships: the Bermuda Bowl (1967) and the World Team Olympiad (1968).

Both final session losses were to the Italian Blue Team.

"His partnership with Norman Kay was one of the strongest and longest-lasting expert pairings ever."

1970

As a theorist, Kaplan developed the Kaplan–Sheinwold bidding system, which heavily influenced Standard American bidding (apart from Standard's use of the strong no trump) from the 1970s on: for example, much of the Precision bidding system as originally formulated was based directly on Kaplan–Sheinwold.

As Jeff Rubens noted in his remembrance of Kaplan, “The foundation of Kaplan-Sheinwold is more a blending of ostensibly eclectic elements into a coherent whole than a sparkling new concept, but Edgar combined the ingredients cleverly and added some finishing touches of his own.”

As an administrator, in his capacity as the chairman of the protest committee of the Greater New York Bridge Association (GNYBA), Kaplan was able to steer between extreme views of the Proprieties.

An older group of players tended to regard the Proprieties as pious nonsense, believing that it was unrealistic to demand that players bid and play in tempo: problems arise that require time to consider.

A younger group demanded that violations of the proprieties be made part of a player's record.

(Such violations can include, for example, fumbling with a doubleton on defense: a singleton would be played promptly, with no trace of indecision.)

Kaplan's own view, adopted by the GNYBA and subsequently by the American Contract Bridge League’s National Laws Commission, was that if a player takes an action that could have been influenced by unauthorized information, that action constitutes an offense, but not an offense that should necessarily be regarded as cheating.

Instead, the incident should be handled as a procedural matter – much as accidentally exposing a card is treated as a technical violation, not as an attempt to cheat.

In this way, bridge is able to apply sanctions such as score adjustment when a player allows himself to be inadvertently and subconsciously influenced by, say, his partner's hesitation.

It isn't necessary to go to the extreme of accusing the player of deliberate cheating.

(Such accusations are reserved for intentional efforts to secretly communicate unauthorized information. These communications include actions such as signaling with sniffs, tapping a partner's shoes, even spreading the fingers differently according to the holding. Each of these, and others, has been attempted in national and international competition. A player found guilty of deliberate cheating is not given merely a score adjustment but is removed from the contest, from future contests, or from organized bridge entirely, depending on the severity of the offense.)

For years Kaplan served on (and chaired) regional, national and international bridge organizations in a largely successful effort to publicize the nature of ethical bridge play and to bring it to the bridge table.

He chaired the ACBL's National Laws Commission for many years and was an ACBL delegate to the World Bridge Federation, often chairing its Appeals Committee.

Kaplan also served at national and international events as chief commentator, describing for the audience the bidding and play that was displayed on the Vu-Graph.

Kaplan's observations were the more illuminating for his extensive knowledge of bidding systems employed by contestants, and the more entertaining for the witty commentary into which he wove the play-by-play.