Source:
ACBL Dictionary
A
retired jewelry store owner,
considered by many experts as the
worlds best player during his
world championship years.
Until
1976 he was never on a losing
team in international
competition. Garozzo and Pietro
Forquet formed one of the great
partnerships of the world through
1972.
From
1972 to 1976 he paired with
Giorgio Belladonna in what many
considered to be the best
partnership in the world during
those years. A WBF Grand Master,
he ranked second in lifetime
rantings behind Belladonna as of
1993. He was a member of the
Lancia Team that toured the
United States in 1975.
Co-creator(with
Belladonna) of Precision
and Super Precision Bidding,
The Blue
Club and The
Italian Blue Team Bridge
book.
For
his record please consult WBF.
Source:
La Gazetta dello Sport(Machine
translated into english)
The
original italian text
Born in Alexandria
of Egypt. From the ' 87 it lives
in the United States and from the
' 94 é city American. Thought
E', for its genius, its fantasy
and for turns out obtained to
you, one of the greatest players
than all the times, if not
largest in absolute. Of the sign
of the Vergine, divorced, it has
two sons: Fulvio of 43 years and
Silvia of 42. Its companion of
life gives beyond trent' years is
Lea Dupont. The sports love all
and, in youth, it has some
practices several to you (from
soccer to the basket, from the
pallavolo to tennis and the ping
pong) but, with its sorrow,
without large happening.
Today dedication to
the golf and is amused to play to
the horses, a hobby that it
cultivates more for the
preparation that involves, than
for the taste to bet.
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Its
incredible bridgistica
career
It has won
in nearly 50 years of
activity:
10 It samples you of the
World
the 3 Olympic Games
 5
It samples To You
European
 1
MEC to Open Braces
1
MEC to Mixed Squares
12 Italian Absolutes to
Squares
1
Mixed Squares
1
Open Braces
3
Italy Goblets
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They are in many
those that if they mean some and
that they allegate that the six
largest one than all...
Probably it they
have been, now is a po' various.
Unfortunately, when it is aged
gets lost in speed, insomma, the
shining blows that spiazzano the
adversaries do not succeed to you
more like once. It was only this,
would go well also; the fact is
that she becomes also little
patient and than forehead to a
mistake of the companion, today
me goes often the blood to the
head. Fortunately that
compensation with an always
greater experience and one
technical that with the years, if
it continues to possession wants
to apply to you and to study, it
cannot that to improve.
Six, between
the other, between first to to
have felt the requirement to
elaborate conventional systems
licitati to you...
When in the ' 61
I entered to make part of the
Blue Team, I still played the
bridge with the so-called chip
ax. I remind that, in fact, fui forced from
Chiaradia to an incredible one
full immersion in order to
succeed to learn, to the eve of
my first championship of the
world, the "Flowers
Neapolitan", that I would
have had to play with my new
companion Piero Forquet. The
successive passage was the
invention of the "Blue
Flowers Team" and from that
moment my search in
licitativo field has been
continuous and uninterrupted.
In national you have
had like companions two great
players: Piero Forquet and George
Belladonna, two bridgisti from
the different characteristics a
lot...
... Piero very
played to regulate, did not take
risks, but paper never did not
mistake neanche one; George,
instead, was the much fantasioso
one: it was in a position to
carrying points, but every a lot
lost them also.
E' be difficult for
you to adapt various partners to
you therefore?
For me, never it
has not been a problem. Always
they have been and they are a
enough interchanging player and
in fact the directory of the
companions had in the course of
my long career is indeed
infinite.
Bridge how much and
as he has changed your life?
A lot,
tantissimo, to such point to
identify itself with my same
life. My trentennale affective
relationship with Lea and my
definitive transfer in America
even are from being connected to
the bridge.
For being of the
champions in the bridge he is
sufficient to win?
They said of yes,
but in order to win he is not
sufficient to be brilliant and
volenterosi. If you do not have a
good companion or if a six simply
presuntuoso, defect that you door
to rock to you on the bay ones
and to interrupt every shape of
increase, you do not win
absolutely nothing and,
consequently, you cannot become a
champion.
How it judges the
atmosphere of the bridge?
As all the other
atmospheres are of the bond and
the bad one. The important is to
succeed to attend who you is well
and to ignore who does not appeal
to to you. Perhaps, respect to
other working situations sport or
is more envies and presunzione.
The Blue Team
yesterday and today in that what
differs mainly?
Task that the
diversity is not as well as in
the level of the single members,
optimal then like today, how much
in the competition that hour is
the much most pitiless one. The
opposing squares who can aspire
to tito them international
important are very many,
decidedly more than those that a
time could impensierirci.
In synthesis, the
greater diversity I think is just
in the possibility to obtain the
same number of successes.
Which
characteristics must possess your
ideal partner?
It must play
better than me and not make the
partacce when he is he to mistake
They exist?
Like not.
Forquet, as an example, was
indeed the maximum, but also
Belladonna was not from less...
if not what it broke off more I
was just I. But with passing of
the years decidedly they are
improved.
You know very well
is the Italian bridgistica truth,
is that American. Which thing of
tasks?
The Americans
live the bridge in more
professional way. As an example,
they play with the sponsor and
they do not say a word, when the
companion mistakes does not make
a fold, never do not put in
public square the own errors,
introduce themselves to the
always super table punctual. In
this we have still much to learn.
Various, under the closely
technical aspect, me he seems
that, at least from the
licitativo point of view, Italian
we are advanced.
The future of bridge
é the Internet?
This sport, via
computer, cannot be competitive,
because it is lend too much to
being manipulated, but represents
the ideal instrument undoubtedly
in order to amuse itself and to
pass the time. I see, moreover,
particularly adapted for who has
difficulty to exit of house (task
to the old ones, to the sick
persons) and for who it has
necessity to train itself, but,
because of the distances,
difficultly can be confronted
with the just similar one. In
America this technique is a lot
used also to highest level.
You had to
rinascere, what you would not
rifare?
Sure rigiocherei
to bridge... then, for the rest,
I do not have particular
regretted, if not that one not
successful being, because of the
war and of insufficient economic
means, to attend the university
and to become therefore engineer
like my father and my brother,
Which are the values
in which more creeds?
The friendship
and the love for the sons.
There é someone to
which you must say thanks?
In the first
place to the Padreterno in order
to have given me the possibility
to still arrive to 75 years with
the working head; then to
Chiaradia and Forquet that have
given me my first great
possibility...
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