• A game developed in England
• Four player, trick-taking game, the roots of modern bridge
• The trump suit is chosen at random
• Still popular today

• Writer best known for his works on the rules and techniques of card games
• Publishes first bestseller devoted to Whist: A Short Treatise

• English begin playing Whist in a duplicate method comparing results with other players
• Eliminates most of the element of luck

• Boards invented to hold the card hands separately so players can replay identical cards
• Originally called the Kalamazoo tray

• British civil servants introduce Auction Bridge in India
• Introduces bidding for the privilege of calling the trump suit or, importantly, no trump

• Scottish, emigrates to the US and becomes a card editor for the New York Sun
• Adapted Auction Bridge by writing the Full Code of the Official Laws
• Considered the dean of living Bridge authorities of that time

• American multi-millionaire and 3-time America’s Cup Winner
• While on a cruise changes course of bridge, suggests only tricks bid and made count toward game, with extra tricks counted as bonuses
• These revised rules turn Auction Bridge into Contract Bridge

• Creates a boom in popularity
• Transforms bridge from a friendly social activity into a national cultural movement
• Presents the bridge table as a place of intimacy, competitiveness and flirtation
• Women relish the chance to compete as equals with men and escape the confines of society

• Inventor of famous conventions: Jacoby Transfer and Jacoby 2NT
• Born in Brooklyn and playing Whist at age of 6
• At an early age he multiplies 4 digit numbers in his head
• Drops out of university to become an actuary and passes the exam of the Society of Actuaries at 21, youngest ever
• Partners with Sidney Lenz partner in the famous Culbertson-Lenz match

• Creates the famous asking-for-aces convention
• At the age of 65 an executive secretary of American Contract Bridge League

• Agatha Christie publishes a Poirot novel based on Bridge...
• A mysterious Mr. Shaitana arranges a game of bridge between four sleuths and four individuals each with murder in their past
• During the game Shaitana is killed and the intrigue starts

• Born in 1906 in the USA
• Strove to create acceptance of his convention by the bridge community

• Jack Marx and George Rapée create the most famous convention in bridge
• Why the name Stayman though?
• Sam Stayman was the first to publish it and the name stuck!

• Leading American bridge personality inspired by Culbertson to choose bridge as his career
• Became a world champion at the Bermuda Bowl in 1950
• Writes several successful books dedicated to bridge
• Develops his point count system and opening four-card suits

• Falls in love with bridge at the age of 21, after discovering a book lying around on a movie shoot
• Forms Omar Sharif Bridge Circus, a traveling tour of bridge players including experts to promote the game
• He’s known as one of the most famous and charismatic celebrities who ever played, promoted and wrote about Bridge

• French player and author of several bridge books
• Develops the famous Roudi convention

• Creates the Michaels Cue bid convention
• American and known as Charles Goren’s playing partner...

• Invents the Cappelletti convention
• American lawyer most widely known as a bridge player and poker authority
• Author of “100 Bridge Problems: Using Poker Tactics in Contract Bridge”

• Convention often wrongly attributed to Keneth Lebensold
• Real creator: George A.W Boehm, an editor and mathematician
• An expert bridge player and a Director of the Greater New York Bridge Association
• For the lack of anything better the convention is called Lebensohl

• Wins Wimbledon for the first time
• Well known bridge player, wherever I go in the world I can always make friends at the bridge table

• Billionaire investor and philanthropist
• “You know, if I´m playing bridge and a naked woman walks by, I don´t ever see her”

• The Radiohead front man starts his day with daily bridge columns in his native England...
• For those who know his music “No Surprises” there

• Learns to play from his parents
• Plays often with his partner Warren Buffet
• Striving to bring bridge to a younger generation
• "Bridge is the king of all card games"

New Era Begins