Avarelli was born in
Rome and became a judge there.[1] He first took up rudimentary bridge during World War II when more than thirty years old.[2] Along with interests in tennis, riding and motor racing, he was especially noted for "his addiction to
gastronomy".[2]
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.,
OCLC220620707
The Roman Club System of Distributional Bidding, Giorgio Belladonna and Walter Avarelli (Simon & Schuster, 1959; Cassell, 1960)
Bridge accomplishments
World championships
Avarelli won 12 world championships, all as one of six players on the Italy open
team-of-four.
Runners-up: none. He joined the Italy team after its second-place finish in the 1951 Bermuda Bowl and retired before its double second-place finish in 1976.
European championships
European Open Teams (4) 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
References
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ab"Walter Avarelli"(in Italian). Biografie. Infobridge: Bridge for all the world (infobridge.it). Retrieved 2015-02-13. With English-language notes, said to be "powered by
Google Translate".
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abMollo, Victor (1968). The Bridge Immortals. New York: Hart Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 19–21.
Further reading
Belladonna, Giorgio and Giorgio Manca (1955), Il sistema Manca: Fiori romano [The Manca system: Roman Club],
OCLC468328163.
Belladonna, Giorgio (1958), Il Nuovo Fiori Romano.
Belladonna, Giorgio (1977), Il Nuovissimo Fiori Romano.
Belladonna, Giorgio and Benito Garozzo (1986), Il Moderno Fiori Romano.