Jim Jacoby; Bridge Grandmaster, Columnist

Jim Jacoby, 58, an internationally known bridge grandmaster. The son of Oswald Jacoby, a world-renowned bridge champion who became one of the great tournament figures of this century, Jim Jacoby was 22 when he won his first national title in 1955, and he went on to win 15 more. Eight years later, he represented the United States in the World Team Championship in Italy. Jacoby won his third world title, the World Mixed Teams, in 1972 and his fourth, the Olympiad Teams, in Venice, Italy, in 1988. In 1968, he became a charter member of the Aces, a Dallas-based professional team that brought U.S. bridge play to a new level. He was one of the first U.S. players to become a grandmaster in the World Bridge Federation rankings. Like his father, he wrote a syndicated column. The Jacobys developed two significant contributions to bidding theories: the Jacoby Transfer Bid and the Jacoby Two No-Trump Response. In Dallas on Friday of cancer.