Sidney Silodor

Sidney Silodor (1906–1963) was an American bridge player. Silodor is a World Champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1950. Silodor is currently 6th on the all-time list of North American Bridge Championships wins with 34. Silodor was a lawyer from Havertown, Pennsylvania.
Silodor was named to its hall of fame by The Bridge World in 1966, which brought the number of members to nine, and was made a founding member of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.

Honors

• ACBL Hall of Fame, 1966

Awards

• Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1963

Wins

• Bermuda Bowl (1) 1950
• North American Bridge Championships (34)
  • Master Individual (1) 1951
  • von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1946
  • Rockwell Mixed Pairs (3) 1951, 1955, 1956
  • Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1963
  • Hilliard Mixed Pairs (2) 1940, 1944
  • Fall National Open Pairs (2) 1941, 1946
  • Vanderbilt (8) 1944, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960
  • Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1952, 1956, 1961
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1941, 1943, 1944, 1954
  • Reisinger (6) 1942, 1943, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1961
  • Spingold (3) 1943, 1951, 1957

Runners-up

• Bermuda Bowl (2) 1958, 1961
• North American Bridge Championships
  • von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (2) 1943, 1956
  • Wernher Open Pairs (3) 1941, 1950, 1958
  • Vanderbilt (1) 1953
  • Spingold (1) 1936
  • Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (3) 1946, 1959, 1963
  • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (4) 1946, 1952, 1960, 1962
  • Reisinger (3) 1944, 1948, 1951
  • Spingold (5) 1947, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1961

• "Induction by Year". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
• "List of Previous Winners". American Contract Bridge League. 
• ^ "von Zedtwitz LM Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-06-18. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• "Rockwell Mixed Pairs Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-25. p. 8. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• "Silodor Open Pairs Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-27. p. 11. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• "Mixed Pairs Previous Winners". American Contract Bridge League. 
• "Open Pairs Previous Winners". American Contract Bridge League. 
• ^ "Vanderbilt Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-03-24. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• ^ "Mitchell BAM Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-01. p. 8. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• ^ "Mixed BAM Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-24. p. 14. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• ^ "Reisinger Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2013-12-06. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• ^ "Spingold Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 12. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• "Wernher Open Pairs Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-22. p. 4. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 
• "List of Previous Winners" (PDF). American Contract Bridge League. 2014-07-21. p. 12. Retrieved 2014-10-17. 

Silodor is sometimes credited with two books, "Silodor Says" and "According to Silodor".

• Silodor Says: the grand slam of bridge literature (New York: Pageant Press, 1952), 240 pp., OCLC 2556615
• Contract bridge: According to Silodor and Tierney, Silodor and John A. Tierney (Chestnut Hill, MA: Stanley–Allan Co., 1961), 442 pp., OCLC 5691240
• Complete Book of Duplicate Bridge, Norman Kay, Fred Karpin, and Silodor (G. P. Putnam, 1965), 496 pp., LCCN 65-22224

• Lead
• Underleading an ace

• New York Times - Lead with 24 trick difference
• New York Times - Underleading an ace