Walter Avarelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Avarelli

Italian bridge player

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1912

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1987

Profession: judge, politician, magistrate, bridge player

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Walter Avarelli (3 June 1912 – 1987) was an Italian bridge player, a member of the famous Blue Team, with whom he won nine Bermuda Bowls and three World Team Olympiads from 1956 to 1972. Avarelli was born in Rome and became a judge there.
He first took up rudimentary bridge during World War II when more than thirty years old.
Along with interests in tennis, riding and motor racing, he was especially noted for "his addiction to gastronomy".Avarelli was the longtime partner of Giorgio Belladonna using the Roman Club bidding system.
They improved the system together and presented it in a book that was published in at least two Italian editions, 1958 and 1969. Il sistema fiori romano, Giorgio Belladonna and Walter Avarelli (1958), 163 pp.; 3rd edition (Bridge d'oggi, 1969), 181 pp., OCLC 220620707 The Roman Club System of Distributional Bidding, Giorgio Belladonna and Walter Avarelli (Simon & Schuster, 1959; Cassell, 1960)