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Larry Cohen writes about his 20 year bridge partnership with David Berkowitz:
http://www.larryco.c...es/marriage.pdf
It contrasts with a previous discussion in these forums about "What makes bridge partnerships break up?"
http://forums.bridge...showtopic=28705
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the odd couple Cohen & Berkowitz
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Posted 2008-December-27, 06:26
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"Of course wishes everybody to win and play as good as possible, but it is a hobby and a game, not war." 42 (BBO Forums)
"If a man speaks in the forest and there are no women around to hear is he still wrong?" anon
"Politics: an inadequate substitute for bridge." John Maynard Keynes
"This is how Europe works, it dithers, it delays, it makes cowardly small steps towards the truth and at some point that which it has admonished as impossible it embraces as inevitable." Athens University economist Yanis Varoufakis
"Krypt3ia @ Craig, dude, don't even get me started on you. You have posted so far two articles that I and others have found patently clueless. So please, step away from the keyboard before you hurt yourself." Comment on infosecisland.com
"Doing is the real hard part" Emma Coats (formerly from Pixar)
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde
"Assessment, far more than religion, has become the opiate of the people" Patricia Broadfoot, Uni of Gloucestershire, UK
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Posted 2008-December-27, 08:57
Thanks for the link.
This article appeared in the September 06 issue of The Bridge World, with typos such as 'This puts “active ethics” to the text' fixed (since BW editing is close to perfect). Thus the article predates Cohen's decision to retire from top level bridge, disband his partnership with Berkowitz, and leave Berkowitz alone at the altar of January's Master Solvers' Club (note how BW editors still keep that quote after Solvers). It seems to me that Cohen is following Bergen's path, moving out of top level bridge and into more teaching, but I don't know much of the details. As to Berkowitz, he is one of the top US world class players, and I will be interested to see what partnership he forms in the future, and whether it is a big club partnership.
This article appeared in the September 06 issue of The Bridge World, with typos such as 'This puts “active ethics” to the text' fixed (since BW editing is close to perfect). Thus the article predates Cohen's decision to retire from top level bridge, disband his partnership with Berkowitz, and leave Berkowitz alone at the altar of January's Master Solvers' Club (note how BW editors still keep that quote after Solvers). It seems to me that Cohen is following Bergen's path, moving out of top level bridge and into more teaching, but I don't know much of the details. As to Berkowitz, he is one of the top US world class players, and I will be interested to see what partnership he forms in the future, and whether it is a big club partnership.
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Posted 2008-December-27, 09:09
I believe Berkowitz will be playing with Alan Sontag.
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