Re: Origin and history of Barbu

Certainly Barbu was played at the ACOL BRIDGE CLUB in the late 70s early 80s
after the regular Bridge Duplicates - my wife recalls a person by the name
of Ehab [? spelling ] introducing the game and that Chris Dixon compiled a
computer scoring program for it.

Hope this helps

John
"Andy Bowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Can anyone tell me anything about where the game Barbu originated, and how
> old it is?
>
> Also, amongst the many versions of the game there seem to be two distinct
> groups:
> - What I think is the older form, where the contracts are played in a
> pretermined order.
> - The game played (so far as I know) mainly by Bridge players, where the
> dealer chooses the contract, and has to select each of the contracts once.
>
> Assuming that the second form was derived from the first, can anyone tell
me
> when this took place, and who was involved?  I think the game became
popular
> amongst Bridge players in the 1960s or 1970s.  I'm interested in whether a
> group of Bridge players took the older game and added an auction to it, or
> if the game had already been adapted in this way before it reached the
> Bridge world.
>
> Finally, can anyone tell me who first introduced Barbu to Bridge players?
> (I realise that this question might be more usefully posted in
> rec.games.bridge, so I'll probably try there too.)
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy Bowles
>
>