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George’s copy of The Bridge World arrived in the mail the other day. I’ve always steered clear of the serious bridge player’s magazine because it seemed too far over my head, but now that I’ve been feeling all bridge player-y lately I decide to give it another try, see if I’m ready for something more sophisticated.
October 2008: Larryco. Seriously. The magazine opens with an interesting letter from a reader responding to an earlier piece by Larry Cohen. Mental note: find that earlier story and check it out, can’t get it online. Next page is Larry’s brief writeup of the 2008 USBC. I assume this isn’t the first article they’ve run about last year’s dramatic Open team trials; amending my mental note to check that as well.
I skip a story about a Moysian Fit and a criss-cross squeeze to read Billy Pollack’s story about playing Larry and David’s system with David Berkowitz at the Cavendish and eventually I find myself at page 18 in the magazine. There’s a brief Larryco lull, but he’s back on page 25 in a Letter to the Editor. After that it’s all technical bridge stuff — no Larry anywhere — until the Master Solvers’ Club kicks off on page 43; he’s sprinkled liberally throughout the Master Solvers pages, showing up for the last time this month on page 64. Kudos to Rozanne Pollack, incidentally, for being the only woman on the list of expert participants.
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