Walter Avarelli (3 June 1912 – 1987)[1] was an Italian bridge player, a member of the famous Blue Team, with whom he won nine Bermuda Bowls and three World Team Olympiads from 1956 to 1972.
Avarelli was born in Rome and became a judge there.[1] He first took up rudimentary bridge during World War II when more than thirty years old.[2] Along with interests in tennis, riding and motor racing, he was especially noted for "his addiction to gastronomy".[2]
Avarelli was the longtime partner of Giorgio Belladonna using the Roman Club bidding system. They improved the system together and presented it in a book that was published in at least two Italian editions, 1958 and 1969.
Bridge accomplishments
edit- World championships
Avarelli won 12 world championships, all as one of six players on the Italy open team-of-four.
- Bermuda Bowl (9) 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969
- World Team Olympiad (3) 1964, 1968, 1972
Runners-up: none. He joined the Italy team after its second-place finish in the 1951 Bermuda Bowl and retired before its double second-place finish in 1976.
- European championships
- European Open Teams (4) 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
References
edit- ^ a b "Walter Avarelli" (in Italian). Biografie. Infobridge: Bridge for all the world (infobridge.it). Retrieved 2015-02-13. With English-language notes, said to be "powered by Google Translate".
- ^ a b Mollo, Victor (1968). The Bridge Immortals. New York: Hart Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 19–21.
Further reading
edit- Belladonna, Giorgio and Giorgio Manca (1955), Il sistema Manca: Fiori romano [The Manca system: Roman Club], OCLC 468328163.
- Belladonna, Giorgio (1958), Il Nuovo Fiori Romano.
- Belladonna, Giorgio (1977), Il Nuovissimo Fiori Romano.
- Belladonna, Giorgio and Benito Garozzo (1986), Il Moderno Fiori Romano.
