Benito Garozzo
I first met Benito in Israel at the first Israeli Bridge festival in 1966. I was 15 and he was a many time World Champion. I asked him a play question I think it was how to play A10x opposite K9xx. He reached over to the bar for paper and wrote out every combination then told me definitively.
I was totally submerged in bridge as a youngster and took the view then that Garozzo and Belladonna were the best two bridge players of all time. It is now 44 years later and they still would be on all lists as two of the best ever players.
In 1970 I went...
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