Eric O. Kokish (May 19, 1947 – June 10, 2023) was a Canadian professional bridge player, writer, and coach from Montreal.
Kokish was the coach of Nick Nickell's professional team for many years.
[4] Kokish was inducted into the Canadian Bridge Federation's Hall of Fame.
[5] In major teams-of-four competition, he was a five-time winner of the Canadian National Teams Championship (Flight A), all during the time from 1980 to 1999 when the winner routinely represented Canada in that year's or next year's world championship tournament, or in a preliminary Tri-Country Playoff with Mexico and Bermuda.
[6] Eric loved to work with younger people and trained the young pair (U16) of Darwin Li (Canada) and Anshul Bhatt (India) who went on to win multiple Gold medals at the World Youth Bridge Championships in Italy in 2022.