{"id":5814,"date":"2018-12-04T15:18:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/?page_id=5814"},"modified":"2018-12-04T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:19:12","slug":"israel-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/people\/distinctions\/stars-of-the-past\/israel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #00974a;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel-300x218.png 300w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel-768x559.png 768w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel-1024x745.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel-324x235.png 324w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel-696x506.png 696w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel-1068x777.png 1068w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel-577x420.png 577w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Israel.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #00974a;\">Paul Lukacs<br \/>\n(1915 &#8211; 1982)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5821 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Paul-Lukacs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"271\" \/>Paul Lukacs<\/strong> was born in Hungary in 1915 and died in Tel Aviv in 1982.<br \/>\nAt the beginning of the 1930\u2019s the Austrian bridge team dominated the world bridge scene and their main rival was the Hungarian team, of which the seventeen-year-old Paul Lukacs was a member.<br \/>\nWith the rise of the Nazis most of the Hungarian and Austrian players moved to other countries. Among them was Paul Lukacs who moved to Israel in 1939. He was a top mathematician with outstanding analytical abilities which he used in his mastery of Bridge. He was a regular contributor to the US publication \u201cThe Bridge World\u201d and wrote books on Bridge problems. The book, Spotlight on Bridge Play, which he authored together with Robert Darvas, is still a must for bridge experts.<br \/>\nIn Israel, Paul had no one to play with, so he played against himself and developed the single dummy bridge problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe great master of this genre was Paul Lukacs. For about a quarter of a century he created problems of great subtlety which were published in The Bridge World magazine and in books.\u201d (New York Times).<br \/>\nVictor Mollo called him \u201cthe best bridge player ever away from the table.\u201d (Wikipedia)<br \/>\nHe helped develop bridge in Israel and although he represented Israel on the National team, he decided to concentrate on the teaching and training of young promising players in Israel, many of whom he partnered and who later represented Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, partnered by Dr Antol Krakovsky, took part in the 1961 World Par Bridge Championships. The world\u2019s top players took part in this Championship which was held simultaneously in many places in the world. A par contest involves finding the best solution for the play of a hand in the time available, and the players\u2019 results are compared with a par (optimal) score rather than with each other. Paul achieved a result of 100% and the pair finished second, behind the legendary Terence Reese playing with Claude Rodrigue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Lukacs (1915 &#8211; 1982) Paul Lukacs was born in Hungary in 1915 and died in Tel Aviv in 1982. At the beginning of the 1930\u2019s the Austrian bridge team dominated the world bridge scene and their main rival was the Hungarian team, of which the seventeen-year-old Paul Lukacs was a member. With the rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":4839,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5814","page","type-page","status-publish"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5823,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5814\/revisions\/5823"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}