Pierre Jaïs (13 October 1913 – 24 June 1988) was a

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player and writer from Paris. He and his regular partner

Roger Trézel Roger Trézel (11 May 1918 – 3 November 1986)Brasil, Cartões de Imigração, 1900-1965'. Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. was a French bridge player and writer. He and his long-time regular partner Pierre Jaïs were the first two of ten players ...

were on the France team that won the inaugural

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, 1960, and they won the inaugural

World Open Pairs Championship The World Open Pairs Championship is a contract bridge competition initiated in 1962 and held as part of the World Bridge Series Championships every four years. Open to all pairs without any quota restrictions on nationality, the championship is wi ...

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two years later (both competitions are quadrennial). As they had won the 1956 Bermuda Bowl on a French team representing Europe, they were the first to win the so-called

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. Jaïs and Trézel also won the ''Sunday Times'' Invitational Pairs tournament in 1963. On Trézel's death in 1986, the ''New York Times'' bridge editor

Alan Truscott Alan Fraser Truscott (16 April 1925 – 4 September 2005) was a British-American bridge player, writer, and editor. He wrote the daily bridge column for ''The New York Times'' for 41 years, from 1964 to 2005, and served as Executive Editor for th ...

—a champion British player as a young man during the 1950s—called theirs "one of the greatest partnerships in the history of the game". They used a canapé system, generally bidding the second-longest suit first, and their becoming one of the world's strongest pairs "demonstrated the effectiveness" of the style. Jaïs, of Paris, was a physician. He died in 1988 at age 75.

Works

Jaïs wrote in French. At least one of his numerous publications has been published in English-language adaptation. * ''Comment gagner au bridge: La partie libre'',

Pierre Albarran Pierre Albarran (18 May 1893 – 24 February 1960) was a French auction and contract bridge player and theorist, and a tennis player. It has been reported that he was born in the West Indies, and also in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He d ...

and Jaïs (Paris: R. Juilliard, 1959) * ''How to Win at Rubber Bridge'' (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1961), 191 pp. – " lbarran and JaïsAdapted for English readers by

Terence Reese John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, and was educated at Bradfiel ...

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* * * (including 5 "from old catalog"), perhaps all French language {{DEFAULTSORT:Jais, Pierre 1913 births 1988 deaths French contract bridge players Contract bridge writers Physicians from Paris 20th-century French physicians