Pierre Ghestem (14 February 1922, Lille – 9 March 2000, Lille) was a French bridge and checkers player. In 1947 he became the world champion in checkers...

convention was devised by the French bridge and checkers player Pierre Ghestem. When playing Ghestem, after an opposing one-level opening, the three overcalls...

Stanislas Bizot, Marius Fabre, Ben Springer, Maurice Raichenbach, Pierre Ghestem, and Piet Roozenburg. In 1956, the hegemony of the French and the Dutch...

Draughts Champion Olga Levina Oscar Verpoest [fr; nl] Patricia Breen Pierre Ghestem Piet Roozenburg Raivo Rist [et] Rashid Nezhmetdinov Reinier Cornelis...

football player. Jim Egan, 79, Canadian LGBT rights activist, lung cancer. Pierre Ghestem, 78, French bridge and checkers player. Peter Hauser, 65, British football...

Lamorisse, filmmaker, producer and writer (died 1970) 14 February – Pierre Ghestem, bridge and checkers player (died 2000) 21 February – Colette Brosset...

of 5,420 points. France made it two in a row for Europe. Bacherich and Ghestem were veterans from 1954. Italy's Blue Team won its first of ten consecutive...

(match) Maurice Raichenbach  France 1945 (match) Pierre Ghestem  France 1947 (match) Pierre Ghestem  France 1948 Piet Roozenburg  Netherlands 1951 (match)...

actress, and singer (b. 1963) 11 April – Pierre Ghestem, bridge and checkers player (b. 1922) 20 May – Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist (b. 1922) 6 June – Frédéric...

Gérard Buquet – tuba Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Alain Neveux – pianos Marie-Claire Jamet – harp Charles-André Unale, Jacques Ghestem, Maryvonne Le Dizès –...