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to communicate the relative strength of their hand. As of May 2016, the EBL is still "studying the suspicions against
Balicki-Ć»mudziĆski and report on this is expected soon". On May 30, 2016, the EBL announced that "EBL President Yves Aubry has taken the decision to refer this case to the EBL
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in southern Norway. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a butcher. He learned to play bridge from his grandparents at the age of 8, and started playing regularly in the local club when he was 12. His mother committed suicide when Boye was eleven, and the tragedy had a "decisive
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published an article on Bridge
Winners demonstrating a sound statistical proof of Mevius's findings. The accused pair refused to issue a public statement, but Monaco withdrew from the upcoming Bermuda Bowl World Championship. Fantoni/Nunes were subsequently suspended by the
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visually separating the partners. Brogeland and his teammates Richie
Schwartz (American entrepreneur and the team sponsor), Allan Graves, and Espen Lindqvist agreed to relinquish all their NABC titles won with Schwartz and Fisher.
143:, were widely rumoured to use illegal methods to exchange information about their hands, which gave them unfair advantage over the opponents. With Schwartz and Fisher as teammates Brogeland had won July 2014
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events in May 2016 by its
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Disciplinary Commission as the pair is suspected of committing infractions of the laws of Bridge".
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