Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!shaprkg From: shaprkg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Bob Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: TP Error Message-ID: <1652@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 11:10:19 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1652 Posted: Thu Jan 10 11:10:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 05:21:57 EST References: <431@hoxna.UUCP> Reply-To: shaprkg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Bob Shapiro) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 16 Summary: In article <431@hoxna.UUCP> kfl@hoxna.UUCP (Kenton Lee) writes: >xxx >Here's another TP Genus error. I don't know if it was mentioned >here before. The question was something like "who invented the >point count system for contract bridge?". The answer given is the >obvious one: Charles Goren. Goren did not invent the system, >however, he standardized it, taught it, and published the best >descriptions of it. In his book "Bridge is My Game", he denies >having invented the system. I believe the point count was invented by Bryant McCampbell in 1915 and publicized by Milton Work. Normally , however, most experts give Milton Work as the originator of the point count. (From The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge)