For sheer artistry, its hard to beat this hand played by Jean Besse, of Switzerland, in a European bridge championship. Photo: Sergio Apoteker, Eddie Kaplan, Jean Besse, Leda Pain, 24th World Team Championships Rio de Janeiro 1979
This story began when a magazine editor named Ray Cave collared me on a trip to New York and said, "Hey, there's a $20,000 rubber-bridge tournament in Las Vegas. Let's you and me enter."