22 Facts About Terence Reese

John Terence Reese was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields.

Terence Reese was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, and was educated at Bradfield College and New College, Oxford, where he studied classics and attained a double first, graduating in 1935.

Phillips acknowledges that although the book is published jointly under their names, "Terence Reese is the real author of the book", receiving only assistance in planning contents and editing from Phillips.

From that point on, Terence Reese's profession was that of a champion contract bridge player and prolific writer on the game.

Terence Reese joined the ARP a few months before the war, and was never inducted into the armed forces.

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Terence Reese ended up working in the factory of Pedro Juan, which manufactured black-out curtains.

Terence Reese had some hobbies; even those he pursued with typical commitment.

Terence Reese played various other games for money, especially canasta, poker and backgammon, and wrote books on them.

Terence Reese was World Par champion in 1961 and placed second in both the inaugural World Team Olympiad, 1960, and the inaugural World Open Pairs, 1962.

Terence Reese represented Britain in the 1965 Bermuda Bowl and in five other European Championships.

Terence Reese won the Gold Cup, the premier British domestic competition, on eight occasions.

Terence Reese last participated in international bridge at the 1976 World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo, where Great Britain placed third.

Terence Reese was Britain's non-playing captain in the 1981 European Team Championships in Birmingham, England, placing second.

Concept for "the Little Major was born" in late 1962, while Terence Reese was en route to a tournament in the Canary Islands with Boris Schapiro.

In May 2005, the English journalist David Rex-Taylor, a bridge player and publisher, claimed that Terence Reese had made a confession to him forty years earlier, one that was not to be revealed until 2005 and after he and Schapiro were dead.

Terence Reese had a successful career as a bridge author and journalist, a career that lasted throughout his life.

Terence Reese was one of the most influential and acerbic of bridge writers, with a large output, including several books which remain in print as classics of bridge play.

Terence Reese was the long-time bridge correspondent of The Lady, The Observer, the London Evening News and the Evening Standard.

Terence Reese was a frequent contributor to The Bridge World magazine which gave the following response to criticism of their continuing to publish articles by him after the Buenos Aires affair:.

Terence Reese had the distinction of creating several new genres of bridge book.

Later, Terence Reese made use of the growing library of hands from international competitions to create interesting quiz-type books, where the discussion was usually on the verso of the page which presented the problem.

Terence Reese wrote books on poker, casino gambling, canasta and backgammon.