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Barbara Seagram (born 1949 in Barbados, West Indies) is a Canadian Registered Nurse and contract bridge writer, teacher, and administrator. She is co-author of thirty-eight published bridge books, including co-writing with Marc Smith 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, which received the American Bridge Teachers' Association (ABTA) Book of the Year award in 1999. [1]
Acol is named after the Acol Bridge Club in London NW6, where it originated in the early 1930s. [2] The club was founded on Acol Road, [2] named after Acol, Kent. [3] According to Terence Reese, the system's main devisers were Maurice Harrison-Gray, Jack Marx and S. J. "Skid" Simon. [4]
Benjamin was born in Glasgow and discovered bridge at Glasgow University, studying medicine.In 1939 he married Judy, who duly became his favourite bridge partner. During World War II Benjamin was drafted into the Ambulance (Home Defence) Service, and quickly showed what he was made of: he paid another ambulance man to take over his night shift, and made a small fortune by playing poker ...
As a small boy, when his mother "issued the standard warning about not talking to strange men, my father remarked that it was the strange men who should be warned against trying to talk to me". [ 1 ] Reese's mother Anne ran a hotel near Guildford , and with it a bridge club, so Reese played in the earliest duplicate matches, circa 1930.
Ben Cohen (1907–1971) was an author, publisher, and distributor of contract bridge books and stationery supplies. He pioneered duplicate bridge in the UK in the early 1930s [1] and helped develop the Acol bidding system in the mid-1930s. [1]
All other responses are positive; in Acol these require 8 or more points or an Ace-King, i.e. 1½ quick tricks. Raise partner's suit with 3-card support. Bid a new suit with some values and 5+ cards in the new suit; Bid 3NT with good values and a balanced hand. Some Acol players allow a strong two bid (not 2 ♣) to be passed. This means they ...
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