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Jun 07, 1923 Rome, Lazio, Italy Died on 12 May 1995 (aged 71)
Italian bridge player and writer
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About Giorgio Belladonna
- Giorgio Belladonna (7 June 1923 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time.
- He won 16 world championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli from 1956 to 1969 and later with Benito Garozzo.
- A leading theoretician, he was the principal inventor of the Roman Club bidding system, from 1956, and with Benito Garozzo after 1969 created Super Precision, a complex strong club based method.
- He was known as much for his mercurial temperament as for the brilliance of his card play; see, for example, Belladonna coup. Belladonna died of lung cancer, according to his daughter, on 12 May 1995 in Rome.
- He was survived by his wife Maria Antoinetta, one daughter, one son, and two grandchildren.Alan Truscott described him as "a cheerful extrovert" and "normally unflappable at the table".
- He had been "a potential soccer star, but World War II interrupted that career path".
- He worked in the Social Security Administration until 1970.
