The International Bridge Press Association Handbook 2016 The addresses (and photos) in this Handbook are for the IBPA members personal, non commersial, use only 6IBPA Handbook 2015 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS President’s foreword........................................................................................................................................... 3 Fifty Years of IBPA............................................................................................................................................ 4 IBPA Officials .................................................................................................................................................... 7 Former IBPA Officers........................................................................................................................................ 8 The IBPA Bulletin............................................................................................................................................ 10 Advertising ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 Copyright ........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Annual AWARDS............................................................................................................................................. 12 The Bridge Personality of the Year............................................................................................................ 18 The Best Played Hand of the Year............................................................................................................. 37 The Best Defence of the Year...................................................................................................................... 73 The Best Bid Hand of the Year................................................................................................................... 97 The Best Article or Series on a System or Convention........................................................................... 122 The Best Play by a Junior......................................................................................................................... 162 The Sportsman of the Year....................................................................................................................... 179 The Master Point Press Book of the Year ............................................................................................... 184 The Alan Truscott Memorial For Special Achievement ........................................................................ 196 The Best Play of the Year by a Woman................................................................................................... 203 The BOLS Brilliancy Prize ....................................................................................................................... 205 The BOLS Bridge Tips Competition........................................................................................................ 217 The John Simon Sportsmanship Award.................................................................................................. 242 The ROYAL VIKING LINE Player of the Year .................................................................................... 243 The EPSON Award ................................................................................................................................... 244 IBPA Job Descriptions ................................................................................................................................... 248 Address list of IBPA members........................................................................................................................ 253 IBPA Handbook 2016 © 2008-16 Sven-Olov Flodqvist, IBPA, Jannersten Forlag, and the respective author/photographer of each and all reproduced articles/photos. Printed and published by courtesy of Jannersten Forlag AB 2 IBPA Handbook 2016 PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD given assistance by our President Emeritus, Tommy Sandsmark, and Peter Hasenson of GBRland has supplied many extra photos. A number of members have done proofreading, and each member has been invited to proofread their own personal details on the Internet file. If some reader can supply any of the missing data it is not too late to update the Internet version, so please assist in this way if you can. IBPA’s last Handbook was produced six years ago. The More than forty members attended our dinner at the motivation for this latest effort came as IBPA was to 2008 European Championships in Pau to celebrate fifty celebrate fifty years since its foundation at the Euro- years. These included Jaime Ortiz-Patino, a founding pean Championships in Oslo as the European Bridge member, and Per, who had been present at the inaugu- ration as a boy. Press Association. But the key to the book’s appear- At the World Championships following our founda- ance was the offer of Tjolpe Flodqvist of Sweden to act tion the name was amended from European to Interna- as Editor, for which all members should be most grate- tional. And at the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Bei- ful. jing later this year we plan to give our wider member- The initial target was to have this version on the ship a chance to celebrate similarly. Internet only, but thanks to generous offers from Jan- nersten Forlag to print the Handbook, and Generali to Patrick Jourdain cover the cost of postage to members we are able to IBPA President, August 2008 offer a printed version as well. Jannersten’s father, Eric, was the founding Secretary, and Per and his wife Britt has done much of the historical research that was needed to complete the book. Flodqvist has also been IBPA Handbook 2016 3 FIFTY YEARS OF IBPA IBPA was not built on law, but on an insight: Competitors The bridge press was, however, quick to try modern are better off if they cooperate. techniques. At the 1958 European Championships some of the deals from the GBRland - Egypt match was broad- 50s casted in Norwegian radio. (Yes, Egypt counted as Europe We have no details of the founding of the European Bridge in those days.) Press Association. There is no Charter, no Constitution, no After a year (in 1959) it was realized that also fellow- minutes of the occasion. All we know is that the organiza- ships like ours need kind of organization. The members did tion was founded in the Press Room at the European not go so far as to write a Constitution, but they agreed on Championships in Oslo sometime during the period 18- some “articles of the Association” (reported in Bulletin no. 30th August 1958. 1). The key points were: Bridge championships in the fifties were very different from today’s venues. Daylight and fresh air were banned; • That there should be Primary Membership open for curtains were drawn and windows closed. At the end of the “regular bridge journalists” and Temporary Membership day the smoke was so thick that it was difficult to see from open for reporters from “bona fide Newspapers and Maga- one end of the room to the other. zines”. When play finished (usually after midnight) the hunt for • That the subscription should be 2.000 ♠Italian Lire results and interesting hands started. If a good hand was per annum. found, it was scribbled down in cryptic form with x:es for • That the Secretary should send out a monthly bulletin the less important cards. “of bridge news, compiled from reports from all centres”. With such an obvious need for a better organized ex- change of information among the bridge reporters it is strange that they did not combine forces earlier. 4 IBPA Handbook 2016 They forgot to elect a Treasurer, so it was never formally Another reason for the somewhat colder atmosphere decided that the Secretary should take care of the funds. was that some of the American players got increasingly The first Bulletin lists 18 fully paid members in numerical frustrated that the best team in the world did not win. (but most probably not chronological) order: Stone once jumped to his feet and cried out for the di- rector. He complained that one of the Italians had told him, Guy Ramsey, UK WITHOUT BEING ASKED that his partner's 1♣ opening William B Herseth, Norway was conventional. When the TD tried to explain that the Rixi Markus, UK Italian player only meant to be kind, Stone cut in: I KNOW Herman Filarski, Holland he is kind, and I know his kind. Ewart Kempson, UK The cold war reached its peak at the World Champion- Josef Vanden Borre, Belgium ships in S:t Vincent 1966 when each table was placed in a Svend Carstensen, Denmark locked room with no spectators. It did not help. The Blue Jack Kelly, Ireland Team won anyway. Jens Boeck, Denmark IBPA’s first publications, Bridge Johs. Hulgaard, Denmark Writers Choice 1964 and 1968, con- K W Konstam, UK tained many interesting articles, but Ambjörg Amundsen, Norway was not the hoped for commercial O Kaalund-Jörgensen, Denmark success. The AGM in 1969 decided Eric Jannersten, Sweden to “not go ahead with the 1972 Tore Sandgren, Sweden edition ” (Bulletin no. 79). Henri Dalati, Libanon Jean Besse, Switzerland Apart from that backlash IBPA was successful. At the Terence Reese, UK end of the decade the membership was well over 200. Johannes Hulgaard is extraordinary. His first appearance 70s on the Danish national team was at the European