Norberto Bocchi

Norberto Bocchi (born September 29, 1961 in Parma, Italy) is an Italian bridge player. Bocchi has won four World teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010. For many years his regular partner was Giorgio Duboin. After missing one European and World championship cycle (2008–2009), he returned to the Italian national team in 2010, now playing with Agustín Madala, and Italy returned to the victor stand.(2010 Open Teams, final standings)

In July 2010, Bocchi is the World Bridge Federation 13th-ranked player and the European Bridge League fourth-ranked player.

He currently lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Wins

Bermuda Bowl (1) 2005
World Open Team Olympiad (2) 2000, 2004
Rosenblum Cup (1) 2002
North American Bridge Championships (8)
- Vanderbilt (1) 2004
- Spingold (2) 2001, 2002
- Reisinger (1) 2000
- Open Board-a-Match Teams (2) 2002, 2003
- Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2001
- Open Swiss Teams (1) 2007
European Championships (8)
- Open Teams (7) 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010
- EBL Champions Cup (1) 2002
Italian Championships (22)
- Open Teams (9) 1986, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004
- Open Cup (7) 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1997, 1998, 2000
- Open Pairs (1) 1987
- Mixed Teams (3) 1985, 1988, 1991
- Junior Teams (2) 1984, 1985
Other notable wins:
- Forbo-Krommenie Nations Cup (2) 1997, 2002
- Forbo-Krommenie International Teams (3) 1997, 2001, 2002
- White House International Top Teams (2) 2006, 2008
- Politiken World Pairs (1) 2000
- Generali World Masters Individual (1) 2004

Runner-ups

Bermuda Bowl (1) 2003
North American Bridge Championships (5)
- Vanderbilt (1) 2007
- Reisinger (2) 1999, 2001
- Open Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2001
- Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2006
European Championships (3)
- Open Pairs (1) 1999
- Mixed Teams (1) 1992
- Junior Teams (1) 1984
Italian Championships (12)
- Open Teams (7) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2007
- Open Cup (1) 1996
- Mixed Teams (4) 1986, 1995, 1996, 2006
Other notable 2nd places:
- Buffett Cup (1) 2006
- IOC Grand Prix (1) 2000
- Forbo-Krommenie Nations Cup (2) 2000, 2001
- White House International Top Teams (1) 2004

External links

"Norberto Bocchi". European Bridge League database.
Norberto Bocchi international record at the World Bridge Federation

Index of contract bridge articles

Bidding

Introduction	Bidding system • Bridge convention • Hand evaluation

Bridge systems	List of bidding systems • 2/1 game forcing • Acol • Bidding system • Blue Club • Boring Club • Bridge Base Basic • Bridge World Standard • Canapé (bridge) • Carrot Club • EHAA • Fantunes • Highly unusual method • Kaplan-Sheinwold • Little Major • Moscito • OK bridge 2/1 • Polish Club • Precision Club • Roman Club • Romex system • Säffle Spade • Standard American • Strong club system • Transfer Walsh •

Bridge conventions	Asptro • Astro convention • Baron convention • Bergen raises • Blackout convention • Blackwood convention • Brozel • Byzantine Blackwood convention • Cappelletti • Carrot 1NT • Carrot 4NT • Comfy Canapé • Copenhagen convention (bridge) • CRASH convention • DONT • Drury convention • Ekren convention • Fishbein convention • Fit showing jump bid • Flannery • Forcing notrump • Fourth suit forcing • Gardener 1NT • Gerber convention • Ghestem • Grand slam force • Hello convention • Jacoby 2NT • Jacoby transfer • Kamikaze 1NT • Landy • Last Train • Leaping Michaels • Lebensohl • Lightner double • Lionel convention • Meckwell convention • Meyerson convention • Michaels cuebid • Mini-Roman 2 Diamond • Mohan convention • Muiderberg convention • Multi 2 diamonds • Namyats • Negative double • Negative free bid • New minor forcing • Norman four notrump • Ogust convention • Pass-or-correct bid • Raptor convention • Relay bid • Rosenkranz double • Rosenkranz redouble • Rubens advances • Rubensohl • San Francisco convention • Serious 3NT • Slam-seeking conventions • Snapdragon double • Splinter bid • Stayman convention • Strong two bid • Strong two clubs • Suction convention • Unusual notrump • Unusual vs. unusual • Walsh convention • Woolsey convention

See also	List of defenses to 1NT • Balanced hand • Balancing (bridge) • Bidding box • Board (bridge) • Brown sticker • Cue bid • Five-card majors • Forcing bid • Forcing pass • Gambling 3NT • Game try • Honor point count • Inverted minors • Law of total tricks • Losing-Trick Count • Overcall • Preempt • Principle of fast arrival • Psychic bid • Quantitative no trump bids • Reverse (bridge) • Sacrifice (bridge) • Shooting (bridge) • Strong pass • Support double • Takeout double • Three suiter • Useful space principle • Weak two bid • Zar Points

Card play

Introduction	List of play techniques (bridge) • Card reading (bridge) • Duck (bridge) • Endplay • Entry (cards) • Finesse • Hold up (bridge) • Ruff (cards) • Safety play •

Declarer play	Coups: Alcatraz coup • Bath coup • Belladonna coup • Coup (bridge) • Coup en passant • Crocodile coup • Deschapelles coup • Devil's coup • Merrimac coup • Morton's fork coup • Scissors coup • Trump coup • Vienna coup • Squeezes: Backwash squeeze • Cannibal squeeze • Clash squeeze • Compound squeeze • Criss-cross squeeze • Double squeeze • Entry squeeze • Entry-shifting squeeze • Guard squeeze • Knockout squeeze • Non-simultaneous double squeeze • Progressive squeeze • Pseudo-squeeze • Saturated squeeze • Simple squeeze • Simultaneous double squeeze • Single-suit squeeze • Squeeze play (bridge) • Stepping-stone squeeze • Strip squeeze • Triple squeeze • Trump squeeze • Vice squeeze • Winkle squeeze • Suit combinations Suit combination • Suit combination – J missing • Suit combination – 10 missing • Suit combinations – K10 missing

Defender play	Journalist leads • Opening lead • Rule of 10-12 • Rule of 11 • Rusinow leads •

See also	Avoidance play • Beer card • Forcing defense • Grosvenor gambit • Loser on loser • Percentage play • Pin (bridge) • Principle of restricted choice • Shooting (bridge) • Signal (bridge) • Smother play • Tempo (bridge) • Trump promotion • Uppercut (bridge) • Vacant Places •

People

Administrators,
players and
writers

List of bridge people •

A • Terje Aa • Pierre Albarran • Martin Andresen • Walter Avarelli • B • Cezary Balicki • Hermine Baron • Henry Beasley • Giorgio Belladonna • Richard Belton • Albert Benjamin • Marty A. Bergen • David Berkowitz (bridge) • Huub Bertens • David Bird • Easley Blackwood, Sr. • Blue Team (bridge) • Norberto Bocchi • Janet de Botton • Tim Bourke • Marcelo Branco • Tomas Brenning • Raymond Brock • Jane Bronstein • John Brown • David Bruce (bridge) • Michelle Brunner • Walter Buller (bridge) • Wesley Burrowes • C • Orlando Campos • Mike Cappelletti • Drew Casen • James Cayne • Gabriel Chagas • Paul Chemla • George Coffin • Larry Cohen (bridge) • Ben Cohen (bridge) • Barry Crane • John R. Crawford • Ely Culbertson • D • Massimo D'Alelio • Dallas Aces • Hugh Darwen • Mike Develin • Leslie Dodds • Giorgio Duboin • Michel Duguet • E • Billy Eisenberg • Bob Etter • F • Fulvio Fantoni • Martin Fleisher • Jeremy Flint • Pietro Forquet • Tony Forrester • Robert Frederick Foster • Richard Freeman (bridge) • G • Nico Gardener • Benito Garozzo • Piotr Gawryś • Pierre Ghestem • Eldad Ginossar • Fred Gitelman • Ramesh Gokhale • Bobby Goldman • Phil Gordon • Fritzi Gordon • Charles Goren • Audrey Grant • Alan Greenberg • Susanna Gross • Glenn Grøtheim • Ace Gutowsky • H • Bob Hamman • Nicolas Hammond • Maurice Harrison-Gray • Geir Helgemo • Walter Herbert (conductor) • Marc Hodler • Mark Horton (bridge) • Carl Hudecek • Roy Hughes (bridge) • I • J • Oswald Jacoby • Pierre Jaïs • K • Charles Kalme • Edwin Kantar • Edgar Kaplan • Ralph Katz • George S. Kaufman • Norman Kay (bridge) • Amalya Lyle Kearse • Sami Kehela • Hugh Kelsey • Ron Klinger • Martin de Knijff • Putte Kock • Kenneth Konstam • Janusz Korwin-Mikke • Michał Kwiecień • L • Harry Lampert • Michael Lawrence (bridge) • Peter Lee (chess player) • Linda Lee (bridge) • James Lemon • Bobby Levin • Irina Levitina • Clyde E. Love • Paul Lukacs • M • Iain Macleod • Zia Mahmood • Ronald Mansbridge • Rixi Markus • Jack Marx (bridge) • Jeff Meckstroth • Adam Meredith • Marshall Miles • Victor Mollo • Albert Hodges Morehead • Bauke Muller • Eric Murray (bridge) • N • Claudio Nunes • O • Jack Olsen • Aileen Osofsky • Géza Ottlik • P • Camillo Pabis Ticci • Richard Pavlicek • Jordanis Pavlides Leonard Pennario • Carl'Alberto Perroux • Hubert Phillips • Gary M. Pomerantz • Julian Pottage • R Prabhakar • Tony Priday • Tommy Prothro • Jacek Pszczoła • Q • R • Terence Reese • Doris Rhodes • Andrew Robson • Eric Rodwell • Bill Root (bridge) • Eunice Rosen • William Rosen • Michael Rosenberg • George Rosenkranz • Alvin Roth • Jeff Rubens • Ron Rubin (bridge) • S • Boris Schapiro • Howard Schenken • Peter Schneider (film executive) • A. J. Sefi • Martin Seligman • Omar Sharif • Alfred Sheinwold • Shen Chun-shan • Jaggy Shivdasani • S. J. Simon • P. Hal Sims • Helen Sobel Smith • Nicola Smith • Marc Smith (bridge) • Tobi Sokolow • Paul Soloway • Alan Sontag • Nathan B. Spingold • Samuel Stayman • Paul Stern • Ralph Swimer • Peter Swinnerton-Dyer • T • Roger Trézel • Dorothy Hayden Truscott • Alan Truscott • Harold Stirling Vanderbilt • U • V • Bep Vriend • W • Louis H. Watson • C. C. Wei • Roy Welland • Berry Westra • Charles Wigoder • Bobby Wolff • Kit Woolsey • Milton Work • X • Y • Z • Richard Zeckhauser • Jack Zhao • Adam Żmudziński

Championships

Introduction	List of bridge competitions and awards

World	Bermuda Bowl • Bridge at the 1st World Mind Sports Games • Cavendish Invitational • McConnell Cup • Rosenblum Cup • Senior Bowl (bridge) • Triple crown of bridge • Venice Cup • World Bridge Championships • World IMP Pairs Championship • World Junior Pairs Championship • World Junior Teams Championship • World Mind Sports Games • World Mixed Pairs Championship • World Mixed Teams Championship • World Open Pairs Championship • World Senior Pairs Championship • World Senior Teams Championship • World Team Olympiad • World Transnational Open Teams Championship • World Women Pairs Championship

National and Zonal	Buffett Cup • Camrose Trophy • Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships • Gold Cup (bridge) • North American bridge Championships: Blue Ribbon Pairs • Bruce LM-5000 Pairs • Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match • Fall National Open Pairs • Fast Open Pairs • Fishbein Trophy • Goren Trophy • Grand National Teams • Hilliard Mixed Pairs • Jacoby Open Swiss Teams • Keohane North American Swiss Teams • Lebhar IMP Pairs • Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs • Machlin Women's Swiss Teams • Manfield Non-Life Master Pairs • Master Individual • Mini-Blue Ribbon Pairs • Mini-Spingold • Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams • Mott-Smith Trophy • Nail Life Master Open Pairs • National 199er Pairs • National 49er Pairs • National 99er Pairs • Non-Life Master Swiss Teams • Norman Kay Platinum Pairs • North American Bridge Championships • North American Pairs • Red Ribbon Pairs • Reisinger • Rockwell Mixed Pairs • Roth Open Swiss Teams • Senior Knockout Teams • Silodor Open Pairs • Smith Life Master Women's Pairs • Spingold • Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams • Truscott Senior Swiss Teams • Vanderbilt Trophy • Von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs • Wagar Women's Knockout Teams • Wernher Open Pairs • Whitehead Women's Pairs • Young LM-1500 Pairs •

Organizations

Clubs	Bridge Club Braşov • Galatasaray Bridge Team • Melville Bridge Club • Portland Club (London) • Young Chelsea Bridge Club •

Governing bodies	American Bridge Association • American Contract Bridge League • Canadian Bridge Federation • English Bridge Union • European Bridge League • World Bridge Federation •

Resources

Books	List of bridge books • 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know • Bridge Squeezes Complete • Contract Bridge for Beginners • Edwin Kantar bibliography • Master Point Press • Planning the Play of a Bridge Hand • Terence Reese bibliography • The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge • Tickets to the Devil •

Magazines	List of bridge magazines • Bridge d'Italia • The Bridge World •

External links	Bridge Base Basic • Bridge Base Inc. • OK bridge 2/1 •

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Name	Bocchi, Norberto
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Date of birth	September 29, 1961
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