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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
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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)