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skills & talents for chess & backgammon

Posted By: Jake Jacobs
Date: Thursday, 24 February 2011, at 4:34 a.m.

In Response To: skills & talents for chess & backgammon (Stick)

"I'm quite certain within' 2 years I could easily be a world class bridge player."

Good on ya, mate! Back in 1983 my roommate decided to make me his project. I knew how to play bridge - like a complete donkey! I had learned from "party bridge players," weak ones, and wasn't up to their level. Timmy and I worked on bidding twelve hours a day for two months, and by that point he and I could bid together fairly well in a non-competitive auction. He sent away for his bridge library, and over the next two years I read between 150-200 bridge books, and around 400 magazines. That was cover to cover, working every problem. It whacked my reading speed for years! I didn't actually start playing competitive bridge until January, 1984. I walked into The Bridge Club on Las Vegas Boulevard, and asked if they provided partners. Soon I was playing as many as fourteen sessions a week, and won Rookie of the Year honors for the State of Nevada. At that point I was considering becoming a bridge professional, and estimated that playing with the same intensity I could be world class in three more years.

As you said: It depends upon your definition of "world class."

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