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    "Rixi" Markus MBE (27 June 1910 – 4 April 1992) was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the...
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  • Rixi may refer to: Rixi Markus (1910–1992), Austrian/British bridge player Edoardo Rixi (born 1974), Italian politician The Day the Sun Died (pinyin:...
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    Marcus (name) (redirect from Márkus)
    Ludwik Kazimierz Wladyslaw Markus, Polish-born French painter and engraver Louise Markus, Australian politician Rixi Markus, Austrian and later British...
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  • female partnership in the game's history. Following her long-time partner Rixi Markus, she was the second woman to attain the rank of WBF World Grand Master...
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  • Romanian writer. Salgueiro Maia, 47, Portuguese Army officer, cancer. Rixi Markus, 81, Austrian-British contract bridge player. Samuel Reshevsky, 80, Polish-American...
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  • (1898–1982) was Britain's leading female bridge player until the arrival of Rixi Markus. Rhodes was from London. Born Doris Mary Adams, she married Sir John...
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    Ukrainian-German writer Viorel Lucaci - rugby player Mihai Macovei - rugby player Rixi Markus - bridge player Vlad Nistor - rugby player Daniel Plai - rugby player...
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  • protégé (Erika) Rixi Scharfstein, a member of those 1935 to 1937 champions, would win many European and world titles as Rixi Markus representing Great...
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  • national/zonal details. "Rixi Markus". WBF.   Austria and Great Britain won Ladies and Women world team championships with Rixi Markus and she enjoys the greatest...
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  • Eddie Kantar Hugh Kelsey Ron Klinger Harry Lampert Michael Lawrence Rixi Markus Jeff Meckstroth Marshall Miles Victor Mollo Hubert Phillips Julian Pottage...
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  • Harrison-Gray Ewart Kempson Kenneth Konstam Richard Lederer Iain Macleod Rixi Markus J. C. H. Marx Adam Meredith Terence Reese Boris Schapiro Jim Sharples...
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  • Kempson José Le Dentu A. Littman-Lemaitre Paul Lukacs Arthur Marks Mrs. Rixi Markus Philip Merry Marshall L. Miles Victor Mollo Florence Osborn George Partos...
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  • 2014, Great Britain two, Netherlands one, China one. Fritzi Gordon and Rixi Markus of Great Britain (native Austrians) are the only two-time champion pair;...
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  • City, USA 15 1. Great Britain Dimmie Fleming, Fritzi Gordon, Jane Juan, Rixi Markus, Mary Moss, Dorothy Shanahan 2. USA Agnes Gordon, Muriel Kaplan, Alicia...
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  • 1970 Stockholm, Sweden 224 1. Barbara Brier Waldemar von Zedtwitz 2. Rixi Markus Georges Catzeflis 3. Rima Sinder Michael Hochzeit 1974 Las Palmas, Spain...
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    winner: 1982. The other contestants included Omar Sharif, Zia Mahmood and Rixi Markus. Hoffman, Martin (1982). Hoffman on Pairs Play. Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-11750-3...
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  • year.[citation needed] Another 1938 refugee from Austria to England, Rixi Markus (born Erika Scharfstein) was a member of both the 1937 champions and...
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  • tournament player he won World Mixed Teams in 1962 with Boris Schapiro, Rixi Markus and Fritzi Gordon. He won the European Championship twice out of five...
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  • World Pairs Olympiad 1.  Great Britain Nico Gardener, Fritzi Gordon, Rixi Markus, Boris Schapiro 2. Netherlands Herman Filarski, Dicky Hoogenkamp, A....
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  • met Rixi Markus, and thereafter they played together once or twice a year. In 1992 they won the St. Moritz Teams just two months before Markus's death...
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  • winner and one of its women players, Rixi Scharfstein, completed a unique triple crown in the 1960s. Now Rixi Markus of Great Britain, she won the inaugural...
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  • London and later became a British subject. That same year, at least Rixi Scharfstein (Markus) from the Ladies emigrated to Britain; from the Open team at least...
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  • Bridge Series, 144p., ISBN 978-0-575-04504-0, ISBN 978-0-575-05024-2 Markus, Rixi Better Bridge for Club Players 1989: Victor Gollancz (London) in association...
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