System Information

Fleisher-Martel System Summary Form, ACBL Convention Card, 2019 WBF Card
Grue-Moss System Summary Form, ACBL CC [Precision], ACBL CC [2/1], 2017 WBF Card
Meckstroth-Zia System Summary Form, ACBL Convention Card, 2022 WBF Card

About the Players

Marty Fleisher

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Born in the Big Apple, Marty learned to play bridge at the age of eight by observing his parents and uncle. His biggest bridge thrill was either winning the 2017 Bermuda Bowl, the 2010 Team Trials, the 2011 Vanderbilt, the 2013 Platinum Pairs or the 2016 Spingold. However, he considers his "greatest achievement" a toss up between his marriage to his wife of twenty-eight years and getting to the finals of the Grand Nationals in 1976 (at age 17 still the youngest player to reach a National Championship final). But there was a famine of over twenty-eight years until he won the Swiss Teams at the 2004 Fall Nationals. It is interesting to note it may have been the longest stretch between 1st and 2nd for anyone. Indeed, it took Marty's teammates in the National Swiss (Gavin Wolpert and Vince Demuy) only one National to transcend from bridesmaid to bride! Marty enjoys few leisure moments for hobbies other than bridge as his professional commitments as a manager of life insurance investments and attorney are very time-consuming.

Chip Martel

Chip is a retired Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. A World Grand Master, Chip has won seven world championships and placed second three times.
He has won 30 North American championships and has won the U.S. Bridge Championships 5 times, most of these in partnership with Lew Stansby. Chip also has an outstanding record with other partners, including wife Jan. Chip was elected to the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2014.
Chip is chair of the ACBL Laws Commission.

Joe Grue

Joe Grue, who grew up in Minnesota and now lives in New York City, is a professional bridge player, who has had great success with many different partners. He won Junior World Championships with John Kranyak in 2001, 2005 and 2006. He won the Reisinger, North American Swiss and Vanderbilt with Curtis Cheek. Since then he & Brad Moss have won the Spingold, Vanderbilt, Bermuda Bowl and two USBCs, as well as finishing second in the World Open Pairs.

Joe won the Blue Ribbon Pairs in 2015, 2016 and 2018 and finished second in 2017.

He won the 2018 Barry Crane top 500, winning a record total of 3676 masterpoints.

Brad Moss

Michael Brad Moss was born in 1971 in New York City. It should come as no surprise to find that he took to bridge like a duck to water - his parents are Mike Moss and Gail Greenberg.
Brad was named the ACBL King of Bridge at the age of 18. Two years later, he became the youngest player ever to win the New York Player of the Year title. Also in 1991, he was a member of the USA team that just missed out on a medal at the World Junior Teams in Ann Arbor, Michigan, finishing fourth, and won his first National title - the Master Mixed Teams. In 1993, he added to his tally by winning the Grand National Teams and the Life Masters Open Pairs.

His successful partnership with Fred Gitelman included wins in the 1998 NABC Board-a-Match Teams, a third in the 1998 Cavendish Invitational Pairs, first in the 2005 & 2010 Spingolds, the 2010 Roth Open Swiss, the 2012 Jacoby Open Swiss, the Bronze medal in the 2005 Bermuda Bowl and gold in the 2010 Rosenblum teams.

With Joe Grue he finished second in the 2013 Spingold (tied at the end of regulation play) and won the 2016 Spingold and 2017 Bermuda Bowl.

Jeff Meckstroth

Zia Mahmood

2023 Open USBC Fleisher Team (Fleisher-Martel, Grue-Moss, Meckstroth-Zia)