Fulvio Fantoni

Fulvio Fantoni (born 9 November 1963)[1] is an Italian international bridge player. He is a six-time world champion, a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), and the WBF first-ranked player as of December 2011.[2] He is one of 10 players who have won the Triple Crown of Bridge.

Fantoni was born in Grosseto.[citation needed] November 1963, Fantoni says that he has lived "practically since I was born" in Ostia, in the coastal district of Rome. His regular partner for many years is Claudio Nunes, the second-ranked World Grand Master (April 2011). Nunes also lives in Ostia and they see each other socially.[3]

They play "Fantunes", for their surnames, an innovative bidding system characterised by natural but forcing one-level opening bids in all four suits. The pair was implicated in a cheating scandal in 2015 resulting in sanctions against them, only some of which were negated by appeals.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference SAWMG2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Open Classification Archived 27 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, World Bridge Federation. Confirmed 2010-11-07.
  3. ^ Fulvio Fantoni: Claudio Nunes is much stronger than I am!, Interview by Laura Camponeschi, neapolitan club online bridge magazine, 8 Nov 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-26.