A descendant of Tristram's son Stephen Coffin, he was a 1928 graduate of Harvard and 1931 winner of The Bridge World international problem solving contest.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} He was also co-founder of the American Bridge Teachers Association (ABTA).{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}
Coffin wrote more than 200 books that included bridge, poker, cribbage and other card games. At the bridge table he was known for his exceptional endplay technique (eliminations, squeezes and coups) resulting in his nickname "Endplays" Coffin, after his classic books of the same title.[1]
He also wrote about fungi, on which he was an authority.
Coffin died of congestive heart failure at age 90, survived by his daughter Harriette Johnson of Shelburne Falls, MA, and two grandchildren.
Selected works
|last = Coffin
|first = George
|authorlink =
|title = Endplays in Bridge
|publisher = Various publishers
|series =
|year = 1932, 1932, 1938, 1950, 1957, 1975, 1981
|doi =
|isbn = 0-486-24230-7}} – recognized as a major contribution to the technical development of the game[2]
|last = Coffin
|first = George
|authorlink =
|title = Bridge Play from A to Z
|publisher = Faber and Faber, London
|series =
|year = 1954, 1955, 1961, 1975
|doi =
|isbn = 0-486-23891-1}}
|last = Coffin
|first = George
|authorlink =
|title = Sure Tricks
|publisher = Faber
|series =
|year = 1952
|doi =
|isbn = }} – greatly revised edition (1973), revised (1975) entitled Bridge Perfect Plays and Match Points Ways[3]
|last = Coffin
|first = George
|authorlink =
|title = Double Dummy Bridge
|publisher =
|series =
|year = 1967
|doi =
|isbn = }}
|last = Coffin
|first = George
|authorlink =
|title = Bridge Play Four Classics
|publisher = Duckworth
|series =
|year = 1975
|doi =
|isbn = }} – consolidates the latest versions of the preceding four books into oneReferences
1. ^{{cite book |last = Coffin |first = George |authorlink = |title = Bridge Play Four Classics |publisher = Duckworth and Company Limited |series = |year = 1975 |doi = |isbn = }}, p257.
2. ^{{OEB|6|Bibliography}}
3. ^Coffin 1975, p. 144.
External links
- George Coffin's Collection by Hugh Darwen (2004)
- {{LCAuth|n82072816|George Sturgis Coffin|17|}}
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