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Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mountifort Beasley DSO (1875 – 14 December 1949), known as 'Pops', was a British Army officer and a leading contract bridge personality in the early days of the game. ==Life== Born in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, India, he was educated at Bedford School, and entered the Royal Military Academy (Woolwich) on leaving school. Beasley was gazetted to the Royal Artillery in 1896. He served in India, Burma and China, and took part in the Relief of Peking after the Boxer Rebellion. He served in WWI on the staff of the Anzac Corps. He was thrice mentioned in despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). After the war he served in Germany on the Disarmament Commission. He was an interpreter in French, German and Hindustani.〔Phillips, Hubert. 1934. (of Beasley ). ''British Bridge World''. Reprinted in Hasenson 2004, p169-70.〕 Pops had played all forms of bridge from the days of bridge–whist and auction bridge. He wrote his first book on this game in 1906, ''London Bridge'', which "started the bridge craze in all the fashionable clubs of that day" (). Like many of the early contract bridge players, he had been an expert auction bridge player in the 1920s. In domestic bridge he was a leading organiser. He had been a member of Almacks club since 1901, and later was a co-founder and Chairman of two leading London card clubs – Crockford's (in St James's Street) and the Hamilton Club (in Hamilton Place). He was also a leading player in the 1930s, winning the Gold Cup in 1933, and playing in several international events. He was an author and bridge columnist, and the originator of a bidding system named after him.〔 Beasley, H.M. 1935. ''The Beasley System of Contract Bridge''. Associated Newspapers Ltd, London.〕 :"Pops was a brilliant player and a great psychologist. In his time he won most of the major tournaments and he captained England on numerous occasions". –Ewart Kempson〔Kempson, Ewart. 1949. "Colonel Henry Mountifort Beasley DSO". Obituary. Reprinted in Hasenson 2004, p169.〕 In bidding, Beasley adopted many of Culbertson's ideas, but was displeased with the strong twos and their negative response of two no trumps. As a result, so he claimed, he was the inventor (in 1936) of the artificial strong two clubs opening bid with its negative response two diamonds.〔Beasley, H.M. 1948. "Recollections of a pioneer bridge player". ''Contract Bridge Journal''. Reprinted in Hasenson 2004.〕 For many years all the British bidding systems used this method of dealing with strong hands: Acol (both standard and Benjaminised), CAB, Two Clubs and Baron systems all used it. However, it is fair to mention that others have also claimed authorship of this fruitful idea. 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「Henry Beasley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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