Oswald Jacoby

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Biographie
Naissance
Décès
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DallasVoir et modifier les données sur Wikidata
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Enfant
James Jacoby (en)Voir et modifier les données sur Wikidata
Parentèle
Susan Jacoby (nièce)
Harold Jacoby (en) (oncle)Voir et modifier les données sur Wikidata
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Oswald Jacoby est un expert américain de bridge, auteur de livres sur le bridge, le poker et le backgammon, né le ( à New York et mort le à Dallas au Texas.

Biographie et carrière

Mathématicien de formation à l'Université Columbia, Jacoby s'engagea pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans la marine comme cryptanalyste pour casser les codes ennemis[1].

Jacoby jouait à de nombreux jeux : outre le bridge, le poker et le backgammon, il pratiquait la canasta, le whist, les échecs, le pinocle (un jeu de carte américain), le craps et le gin rami[1].

Sa spécialité était le bridge. Il est principalement connu comme l'auteur des conventions d'enchères texas (appelée « transfert Jacoby » dans le système d'enchère américain SAYC) et le 2SA Jacoby (appelée Jacoby 2NT en anglais) fitté avec 13-14 H dans le SAYC[1].

Il fut champion du monde de backgammon en 1972[2]

L'écrivaine et journaliste Susan Jacoby est sa nièce.

Publications

bridge
  • Famous hands of the Culbertson-Lenz match, 1932
  • Watson on the play of the hand at contract bridge, 1934
  • The four aces system of contract bridge, 1935
  • Five-suit bridge, 1938
  • Laws of Oklahoma, 1946
  • How to figure the odds, 1947
  • What's new in bridge, 1954
  • Hear how to play winning bridge, 1960
  • Win at bridge with Oswald Jacoby : America's winningest bridge champion, 1963
  • The complete book of duplicate bridge, 1965
  • Win at bridge with Jacoby & son, 1966
  • Win at bridge with Jacoby modern, 1973
  • Jacoby transfer bids, 1981
  • Major suit raises, 1981
  • Improve Your Bridge With Oswald Jacoby: 125 Bridge Hands from the Master, 1983, (ISBN 0-07-032238-4)
poker et gin rami
  • Poker, 1940
  • Oswald Jacoby on Gin Rummy, etc., 1947
  • Oswald Jacoby on Oklahoma, the wild, wild rummy game, 1948
  • Oswald Jacoby on Poker ... Revised edition, 1948
  • Winning poker, 1949
  • Oswald Jacoby on Poker, 1981, (ISBN 9780385175906)
  • How to Win at Gin Rummy, 1978
jeux de cartes divers et backgammon
  • Oswald Jacoby's Complete Canasta, 1950
  • How to win at canasta, 1951
  • The fireside book of cards, 1957
  • Oswald Jacoby on Gambling, 1963,
  • Jacoby on card games, 1986
  • The Backgammon Book (avec John R. Crawford), 1970, (ISBN 0670-14409-6)
  • The book of card game rules and strategies, 1989
problèmes et jeux mathématiques
  • Mathematics for pleasure, 1962
  • New Recreations with Magic Squares (avec William H. Benson), 1976
  • Magic cubes : new recreations, 1981
  • Intriguing Mathematical Problems (avec William H. Benson), 1996

Notes et références

  1. ↑ a b et c The Gamester Who Went All In.
  2. ↑ Backgammon Hall of Fame.

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