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Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991)〔 was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as "Mr. Bridge"〔 – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s. Culbertson, Goren, and Harold Vanderbilt were the three people named when ''The Bridge World'' inaugurated a bridge "hall of fame" in 1964 and they were made founding members of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995.〔〔 According to ''New York Times'' bridge columnist Alan Truscott, more than 10 million copies of Goren's books were sold. Among them, ''Point-Count Bidding'' (1949) "pushed the great mass of bridge players into abandoning Ely Culbertson's clumsy and inaccurate honor-trick method of valuation."〔 ==Early years== Goren was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,〔 to Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned a law degree at McGill University in Montreal. While he was attending McGill, a girlfriend (or "a young hostess")〔 laughed at his ineptness at the game of bridge, motivating him to immerse himself in a study of existing bridge materials.〔Goren and Olsen (1965), p. 10.〕 (The young hostess laughed in 1922. The game was auction bridge, "which became contract bridge later in the decade".)〔 When he graduated, he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and he practiced law for 13 years in Philadelphia.〔 The growing fame of Ely Culbertson, however, prompted Goren to abandon his original career choice to pursue bridge competitions, where he attracted the attention of Milton Work. Work hired Goren to help with his bridge articles and columns, and eventually Goren began ghostwriting Work's material. Work was one of numerous strong bridge players based in Philadelphia around the 1920s. He became an extraordinarily successful lecturer and writer on the game and perhaps the first who came to be called its "Grand Old Man". From 1923, the same year Goren graduated from law school, he had popularized the 4–3–2–1 point count system for evaluating balanced hands (now sometimes called the Work count, Work point count, or Work points). His chief assistant Olive Peterson and young Goren established a partnership as players.〔 Work was the greatest authority on auction bridge, which was generally replaced by contract bridge during the late 1920s. Goren "became Mr. Work's technical assistant at the end of the decade".〔 As a player Goren's "breakthrough" was the 1937 Board-a-Match Teams championship (now Reisinger) won with three other Philadelphia players: John Crawford, Charles Solomon, and Sally Young.〔 His breakthrough as a writer may have been when Culbertson moved a newspaper bridge column from one syndicate to another. The ''Chicago Tribune'' and the ''Daily News'' of New York picked up Goren.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Goren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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