Pierre Albarran
Encyclopedia
Pierre Albarran was a French
auction
and contract bridge
player and theorist, and tennis
player. It has been reported that he was born in the West Indies, and also in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France; he died in Paris
.
At the bridge table Albarran won the European Teams Championship in 1935 and in the same year represented France in the first World Championship for national teams in New York City
; he subsequently represented France over 30 times in international bridge competitions while winning 19 national titles. His contributions to bidding system
s include the canapé
approach and Roman two suiters (a later name for the convention
).
On the tennis court, he played for France in two Davis Cup
tournaments and won the bronze medal in doubles with Max Décugis
at the 1920 Summer Olympics
in Antwerp.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
auction
Auction bridge
The card game auction bridge, the third step in the evolution of the general game of bridge, was developed from straight bridge in 1904. The precursor to contract bridge, its predecessors were whist and bridge whist....
and contract bridge
Contract bridge
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...
player and theorist, and tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
player. It has been reported that he was born in the West Indies, and also in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France; he died in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
At the bridge table Albarran won the European Teams Championship in 1935 and in the same year represented France in the first World Championship for national teams in New York City
New York City
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; he subsequently represented France over 30 times in international bridge competitions while winning 19 national titles. His contributions to bidding system
Bidding system
A bidding system in contract bridge is the set of agreements and understandings assigned to calls and sequences of calls used by a partnership, and includes a full description of the meaning of each treatment and convention...
s include the canapé
Canapé (bridge)
Canapé is a bridge bidding system where the second suit bid is always longer than the first. The name Canapé refers to a small bite presented before a big meal....
approach and Roman two suiters (a later name for the convention
Bridge convention
A bridge convention is a system of calls made during the auction phase of a contract bridge game which conveys a coded meaning about the players' card holdings...
).
On the tennis court, he played for France in two Davis Cup
Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
tournaments and won the bronze medal in doubles with Max Décugis
Max Décugis
Maxime "Max" Omer Decugis was a male tennis player from France who holds the French Championships/French Open record of winning the tournament eight times and his three Olympic medals at the 1900 Summer Olympics and the 1920 Summer Olympics...
at the 1920 Summer Olympics
1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium....
in Antwerp.
Publications
- Bridge, Nouvelle methode de nomination. Les jeux bicolores. Le Canapé, 1946
- Cent donnes extraordinaires: Bridge, 1953, co-author José Le Dentu
- Comment Gagner Au Bridge, 1959, with Pierre JaïsPierre JaïsPierre Jaïs was a famous French bridge player. A World Bridge Federation Grand Master, he was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Turin 1960, Bermuda Bowl in Paris 1956, and World Open Pairs Championship in Cannes 1962. He is one of only 10 players who collected the Triple Crown of Bridge...
- L'Encyclopédie du bridge moderne, vol 1. 1957 and vol. 2 1968
- Le Bridge pour Tous, 1949, co-author Robert de Nexon, Publisher: A. Fayard, Paris, LC: 49052576
- Le Nouveau Bridge Pour Tous, 1958, co-authors Robert de Nexon and José Le Dentu
- Notre Methode de Bridge, 1936, co-author Robert de Nexon
- Nouveau Memento de Bridge en 100 Lecons: Encheres Naturelles, 1976, co-author José Le Dentu, Publisher: A. Fayard, Paris, ISBN 2-213-00396-3, LC: 77576798
See also
- L'aristocratie du bridge, Pierre Jaïs, José Le Dentu, Alan Truscott, Paris, 1973, (editions Ballard)
- Pierre Albarran's profile at Sports Reference.com