and why not a bridge game?
and why not?Turk are great bridge players!Bridge game has a Levantine origin and earlier dating of the game was presented by Bob van de Velde of The Netherlands in IBPA Bulletin #222. Sources for this evidence are Daily Telegraph (England, November 1932), La revue du bridge (France, December 1932) and Bridge (The Netherlands, February 1933). The primary source, Daily Telegraph, carried an article by a Mr. O. H. van Millingen who lived in Constantinople in 1879 or 1880 and remembered a very interesting game called Britch, a game that became very popular in all clubs and dethroned the game of whist. He included a letter, dated January 7, 1922, of his friend Edouard Graziani who at that time worked for the Italian Embassy as a translator and was one of the best bridge players of the Cercle d¹Orient. In August 1873 Graziani played the game of bridge for the first time at the home of Mr....
