Table Corner
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Chicago, an August Friday in 2015, 11 pm. In the ballroom of a lakeside hotel, the bridge tables are still cut in half by wooden screens, with the trays resting underneath.
At 10:10 pm the quarterfinal of the national team tournament ended, with a $200,000 prize from the sponsor. The team of Dutchman Maurits Kuyper lost by 1 IMPIMP International Match Points: the scoring unit used in team bridge matches., after an appeal on board 23 was rejected in four minutes.
Kuyper swears the winning pair cheated all day. The federation froze the prize and called the police: if there was fraud, someone stole this victory.
Three people spent the day around table 1. One of them knows what the board said before the first card.
Chicago ballroom turned bridge tournament, with felt tables split by screens.
Suspects
Conrad WhitlockTournament director who ruled on the board 23 appeal, 66
Odalys FerrerVugraphvugraph Live broadcast of a bridge match, card by card, on a big screen or online so spectators can follow the play. operator at the main table, 38
Rafael QuirogaArgentine professional player on the winning team, 33
The real case
The Fisher and Schwartz cheating scandal in bridge
Chicago, United States, 2015
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