Pierre Jaïs (13 October 1913 – 24 June 1988) was a
French bridge
A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...
player and writer from Paris.
[ He and his regular partner ]Roger Trézel
Roger Trézel (11 May 1918 – 3 November 1986)Brasil, Cartões de Imigração, 1900-1965'. Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. was a French bridge player and writer. He and his long-time regular partner Pierre Jaïs were the first two of ten player ...
were on the France team that won the inaugural World Team Olympiad
The World Team Olympiad was a contract bridge meet organized by the World Bridge Federation every four years from 1960 to 2004. Its main events were world championships for national Glossary of contract bridge terms#teams, teams, always including o ...
in Turin
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, 1960, and they won the inaugural World Open Pairs Championship
The World Open Pairs Championship is a contract bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking game, trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two Team game, competin ...
in Cannes
Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...
two years later (both competitions are quadrennial). As they had won the 1956 Bermuda Bowl
The Bermuda Bowl is a biennial contract bridge world championship for national . It is contested every odd-numbered year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Venice Cup (women), the d'Orsi Senior Bowl and the Wu ...
on a French team representing Europe, they were the first to win the so-called Triple Crown of Bridge.[
Jaïs and Trézel also won the ''Sunday Times'' Invitational Pairs tournament in 1963. On Trézel's death in 1986, the ''New York Times'' bridge editor ]Alan Truscott
Alan Fraser Truscott (16 April 1925 – 4 September 2005) was a British-American bridge player, writer, and editor. He wrote the daily bridge column for ''The New York Times'' for 41 years, from 1964 to 2005, and served as Executive Editor for th ...
—a champion British player as a young man during the 1950s—called theirs "one of the greatest partnerships in the history of the game".[
They used a canapé system, generally bidding the second-longest suit first, and their becoming one of the world's strongest pairs "demonstrated the effectiveness" of the style.][
Jaïs, of Paris, was a physician.][
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Works
Jaïs wrote in French. At least one of his numerous publications has been published in English-language adaptation.
* ''Comment gagner au bridge: La partie libre'', Pierre Albarran
Pierre Albarran (18 May 1893 – 24 February 1960) was a French people, French auction bridge, auction and contract bridge player and theorist, and a tennis player. It has been reported that he was born in the West Indies, and also in Chaville ...
and Jaïs (Paris: R. Juilliard, 1959)
* ''How to Win at Rubber Bridge'' (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1961), 191 pp. – " lbarran and JaïsAdapted for English readers by Terence Reese
John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a Great Britain, British Contract bridge, bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class pare ...
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1913 births
1988 deaths
French contract bridge players
Contract bridge writers
Physicians from Paris
20th-century French physicians