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Alan Truscott was born on 16 April, 1925 in United States, is a Bridge player and writer. Discover Alan Truscott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Date of death 4 September, 2005
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1925

Alan Fraser Truscott (16 April 1925 – 4 September 2005) was a British-American bridge player, writer, and editor.

1947

From 1947, he studied at the University of Oxford, which he represented at both chess and bridge.

1951

With Oxford partner Robert d'Unienville, he was on the British team (along with Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro) that won a bronze medal at the 1951 European Bridge League championships, age only 26.

1958

He represented Britain in the same event twice more, finishing second with partner Maurice Harrison-Gray in 1958 (again along with Reese–Schapiro) and first with partner Tony Priday in 1961.

1961

He was in charge of organising the 1961 rendition hosted by Torquay in Devonshire, England.

The 1961 European Teams was his only international championship outside the British Isles.

According to Maureen Hiron, bridge columnist for The Independent of London, in New York City "he fell in love with one of the scorers, in particular, and America in general, and decided to cross the Atlantic."

Richard L. Frey, the American Contract Bridge League publications director, recruited Truscott to help edit the ACBL's membership magazine and its Official Encyclopedia of Bridge, whose first edition was underway.

1962

As European champions that British team finished third in the 1962 Bermuda Bowl held in New York City.

1964

He wrote the daily bridge column for The New York Times for 41 years, from 1964 to 2005, and served as Executive Editor for the first six editions of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge from 1964 to 2002.

Truscott was born in Brixton, south London, and showed early prowess at chess.

He attended Whitgift School in Croydon and served in the Royal Navy for three years around the end of World War II.

Truscott moved to New York City, then the ACBL headquarters, and succeeded Albert Morehead as bridge editor of The New York Times 1 January 1964.

Frey, Truscott, and the editorial board led by Morehead completed the first edition of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge in 1964.

Truscott would be the executive editor of the encyclopedia until his death.

Alan Truscott had three children, Frances, Fraser and Philip, with his first wife, Gloria Gilling.

1965

As New York Times correspondent, Truscott covered the 1965 contract bridge world championship Bermuda Bowl in Buenos Aires and became a chief witness in a cheating scandal where Terence Reese and Boris Schapiro, representing Europe, were accused of using their fingers to pass information about their cards.

The initial accusers were the American partnership of B. Jay Becker and Dorothy Hayden; the two confided their suspicions to Truscott, a close friend of Hayden's (and later her husband), and to John Gerber, then captain of the USA team.

After an investigation, Reese and Schapiro were judged guilty by the World Bridge Federation authorities at the tournament in Buenos Aires.

The British Bridge League (BBL) convened its own inquiry, and next year judged them not guilty by the "reasonable doubt" standard.

Both Truscott and Reese published books on the affair, The Great Bridge Scandal and The Story of an Accusation.

1971

That marriage was dissolved 1971 and in 1972 he married the American bridge expert and internationalist Dorothy Hayden, born Johnson, a former math teacher and actuary, who had four children from two previous marriages.

Alan Truscott wrote thirteen bridge books, including two with his wife, Dorothy, and one with Phillip Alder.

He died of cancer at their vacation home in New Russia, New York, near Lake Champlain.

His widow died the following year.

1994

Truscott wrote a bridge column for The New York Times daily until March 1994, and then three times a week until April 2005, when he retired due to poor health, for a total of some 12,750 columns.