Word: sobel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER spending several hours kibitzing while Bridge Expert Charles Goren and Partner Helen Sobel played against another expert partnership, TIME Contributing Editor William Bowen and Correspondent Jack Olsen sat down to get their story firsthand. On the first deal, everybody passed. On the second, Sobel bid and made two spades. "Well.'' said Olsen, "we can always say that after spending a whole bridge evening with Goren and Sobel, we were only 60 points behind." For the results of that evening and countless other hours of digging by a task force of staffers who have now lost their amateur...
During their 19 years as professional partners, Charlie Goren, 57, and Helen Sobel, 48, have copped just about every top bridge trophy at one time or another. Back in 1942 they took the Life Masters cup, but it has eluded them ever since. Last week, despite a brisk start, they lagged in ninth place at the end of the third round (each round consists of 26 deals). On the fourth and final round, they encountered this deal (North-South vulnerable...
...EAST (Sobel...
Coming after Goren's pass, Mrs. Sobel's five-club bid was bold, though it might possibly have been made (finesse South's king of clubs, discard West's losing dia mond on the jack of hearts). The payoff decision was Goren's final pass. At most other tables, West doubled the five-spade bid - naturally enough, since West held 15 of the deck's 40 high-card points (according to the Goren system of counting four for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack). But Goren...
...tournaments, a pair's score on each deal depends on how the partnership fares in comparison with rival pairs playing identical hands at the other tables. On this particular deal, because Goren refrained from doubling, Goren-Sobel gained an extra eleven match points. Those eleven were decisive; Goren-Sobel took the gold cup by the final tooth-skin margin of six points. Said Goren, summing up the triumph: "We played precision bridge-being neither reckless nor timid...