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...book about bridge, the man who invented the trick gave it a name. It's called the Fishhead Coup, and those who understand it say the move is the bridge equivalent of a royal flush. To pull it off takes unusual cunning. To invent it, a person would need an even rarer combination of intelligence and guile...
That silence was unusual for someone who, friends say, loves to to talk. But little about William Devil Cole is as it seems. Like the Fishhead Coup, Cole's life seems to rest on an assumption--that the good cards one shows will distract others from the less flattering truths one holds closer to the heart...
Having attained the rank of life master--a designation held by about a quarter of the American Contract Bridge League's 180,000 members--be won an important intercollegiate bridge title in 1990 (graduate students are eligible for intercollegiate competitions). In 1991, Cole published a 144-page books Fishheads, in which he described, among other things, the Fishhead Coup...
...that context, nearly all of Cole's actions make sense, Waxenberg and others say. The Fishhead Coup, after all, was a piece of technical genius that satisfies the mind but is almost impossible to employ in a real game...
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