Easley Blackwood (bridge player)

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Easley Rutland Blackwood (born June 25, 1903 in Birmingham (Alabama) , † March 27, 1992 ) was an American bridge player and author , best known for the Blackwood Convention he developed .

biography

Blackwood was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but lived in Indianapolis for most of his life . First he worked as an employee of an insurance company, from which he was transferred to Indianapolis in 1930 and ran a branch there for 30 years. Although already very active before, after he retired in 1964, he occupied himself almost exclusively with the card game bridge , opened a bridge club, taught and wrote several books on the subject. From 1967 to 1971 he was executive director of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and was inducted posthumously into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.

His son Easley Blackwood Jr is a well-known musicologist and musician.

Publications

  • Bridge Humanics: How to Play People as well as the Cards (Indianapolis: Droke House, 1949); UK Title, 1951, The Human Element in Bridge [same subtitle]
  • Blackwood on Bidding: Dynamic Point Count ( Bobbs-Merrill , 1956)
  • Blackwood on Slams ( Prentice-Hall , 1970); later title: Bidding Slams with Blackwood
  • Spite & Malice: The Complete Rules and Strategy (Cornerstone Library, 1970)
  • Contract Bridge Complete by Ernest W. Rovere (Simon & Schuster Fireside Books , 1975)
  • How You Can Play Winning Bridge, with Blackwood (Los Angeles: Pinnacle Books , 1977)
  • Play of the Hand with Blackwood (Los Angeles: Corwin Books, 1978)
  • Winning Bridge with Blackwood , Blackwood and Derek Rimington (London: Robert Hale, 1983) - revised British edition of How You Can Play ... , 1977
  • The Complete Book of Opening Leads (Devyn, 1983)
  • Card Play Fundamentals , Blackwood and Keith Hanson (Devyn, 1987)

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blackwood at the ACBL
  2. ↑ "Record by year"
personal data
SURNAME Blackwood, Easley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blackwood, Easley Sr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bridge player and official
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, Alabama
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1992