George Duke wrote on Sun, Sep 2, 2007 08:23 PM UTC:
Except Contract Bridge has an inventor, Harold S. Vanderbilt in 1925,
railroad heir while on a cruise. That would be the same time within couple of years most of the talking about Capablanca Chess took place. Then they silenced any dissent in Chess, and broader games like the new Contract, then Duplicate Bridge may have been factors as distraction for intelligentsia, but especially establishment of FIDE itself during the same 1920's entrenched the orthodoxy and scotched Capa's ideas.
