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 Richard Pavlicek è nato nel 1945  e vive a Fort Lauderdale in Florida dove esercita la sua attività di valente insegnante, giocatore e scrittore di bridge.

 I suoi hobbies principali sono la programmazione dei computer, il biliardo e suonare l'organo.

 Richard ha imparato a giocare a Bridge quando aveva 18 anno mentre faceva il servizio militare in Germania.

 Richard è un World International Master ed un ACBL Grand Life Master ed ha cumulato molte vittorie nei Campionati Nord Americani tra le quali ricordiamo: 4 Reisingers (1982, 83, 84, 90), 3 Vanderbilts (1983,86,95), lo Jacoby del 1992 e i Grand National Teams nel 1973 e nel 1997.

 Richard giocava abitualmente con Bill Root dal 1976 e con lui ha scritto a 4 mani un testo di grande successo: "Modern Bridge Conventions".

 Assieme a Richard, giocava spesso la moglie Mabel, sposata nel 1969 e che è stata per lunghi anni anche sua partner nell'insegnamento. Fu lei che  guidò il loro figlio Richard jr.  nei primi passi sulla strada del bridge, quando aveva solo 10 anni.

Oggi Rich Pavlicek jr, che è nato nel 1967 e che ha vinto un bronzo ai Mondiali Juniores del 1993, vive a San Diego in California  con Lisa e con il figlio Seth e in passato ha formato una coppia di ottimo livello agonistico con il padre. Insieme hanno vinto diversi tornei regionali americani e nel 2004 il loro primo NABC.

Dalla scuola dei Pavlicek sono usciti migliaia di bridgisti e diversi campioni, ma, purtroppo, Richard ha dovuto abbandonare l'insegnamento nel 2006 per assistere Mabel che tristemente colpita dal terribile morbo di Alzheimer si è spenta nel settembre del 2015.

Richard Pavlicek (born 1945) is an American bridge player, author and columnist.

Pavlicek began to play bridge in 1964 at the age of 18 while stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany, with the U.S. Army.

Upon returning to Florida in 1966 he started to play in bridge tournaments in his spare time.

Since then he has won over 400 events and accumulated more than 16,000 masterpoints.

He is a Grand Life Master of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and World International Master.

Pavlicek has won 11 North American Bridge Championships, including a record-setting three straight wins in the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams, 1982–84.

In 1990, his team mounted a come-from-behind finish to win it again. He won the prestigious Vanderbilt Trophy in 1983, 1986 and most recently in 1995 playing with a team that was arranged the day before the event. He won the Grand National Team Championship in 1973 (its inaugural year) and again in 1997 — an interesting sidelight is that in 1973 one of Pavlicek's teammates was Billy Seamon, and in 1997 he played with Billy’s son, Michael.

His most recent national win was in 2004 when he and his son, Rich, became the first father-son combination to win the Life Master Open Pairs.

Richard Pavlicek is the author of a variety of bridge textbooks and lesson material. He is co-author of Modern Bridge Conventions, published in 1981 and still a popular best-seller in the bridge marketplace, with William S. Root.

Pavlicek is also a bridge columnist and composer of bridge puzzles, double-dummy problems and other novelties, which have appeared in a variety of publications.

Since 1987, he has written the analysis booklet for the continent-wide “Instant Matchpoint” games of the American Contract Bridge League.

Since 2000, Pavlicek has conducted monthly bidding polls and play contests through his website, with thousands of regular participants from over 90 countries.

Together with Richard, often played his wife Mabel, who was married in 1969 and who was also his teaching partner for many years. It was she who led their son Richard jr. in the first steps on the bridge road, when he was only 10 years old.

Today Rich Pavlicek jr, who was born in 1967 and who won a bronze medal at the 1993 World Junior Championships, lives in San Diego, California with Lisa and with his son Seth and in the past has formed a pair of very good competitive level with his father. Together they won several regional American tournaments and in 2004 their first NABC.

Together, as the Pavlicek School of Bridge, they have taught thousands of students in South Florida, some of whom won national titles.

In 2006, Richard retired from teaching to be with his wife, who suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in September 2015.

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