Walter Avarelli (3 June 1912 – 1987) was an

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player, a member of the famous Blue Team, with whom he won nine

Bermuda Bowl The Bermuda Bowl is a biennial contract bridge world championship for national . It is contested every odd-numbered year under the auspices of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), alongside the Venice Cup (women), the d'Orsi Senior Bowl and the Wuh ...

s and three

World Team Olympiad The World Team Olympiad was a contract bridge meet organized by the World Bridge Federation every four years from 1960 to 2004. Its main events were world championships for national teams, always including one open and one restricted to women ("Op ...

s from 1956 to 1972. Avarelli was born in

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and became a judge there. He first took up rudimentary bridge during World War II when more than thirty years old. Along with interests in tennis, riding and motor racing, he was especially noted for "his addiction to

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". Avarelli was the longtime partner of

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. ...

using the

Roman Club Roman Club ( it, Fiori Romano) is an artificial bridge bidding system devised in the 1950s by Giorgio Belladonna and Walter Avarelli of Italy's Blue Team. They used it to win twelve WBF World Teams Championships, three Olympiads and numerous Eu ...

bidding system. They improved the system together and presented it in a book that was published in at least two Italian editions, 1958 and 1969. * ''Il sistema fiori romano'', Giorgio Belladonna and Walter Avarelli (1958), 163 pp.; 3rd edition (Bridge d'oggi, 1969), 181 pp., * ''The Roman Club System of Distributional Bidding'', Giorgio Belladonna and Walter Avarelli (Simon & Schuster, 1959; Cassell, 1960)

Bridge accomplishments

;World championships Avarelli won 12 world championships, all as one of six players on the Italy open . *

(9) 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969 *

(3) 1964, 1968, 1972 Runners-up: none. He joined the Italy team after its second-place finish in the 1951 Bermuda Bowl and retired before its double second-place finish in 1976. ;European championships * European Open Teams (4) 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Avarelli, Walter 1912 births 1987 deaths Italian contract bridge players Bermuda Bowl players 20th-century Italian judges Sportspeople from Rome Date of death missing

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