Fulvio Fantoni is an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 international bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 player. He is a six-time world champion, a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation

World Bridge Federation

The World Bridge Federation is the world governing body of contract bridge. The WBF is responsible for world championship competition, most of which is conducted at a few multi-event meets on a four-year cycle...

 (WBF), and the WBF first-ranked player as of April 2011. He is one of 10 players globally who collected the Triple Crown of Bridge

Triple crown of bridge

As of 2008, only ten players have collected The Triple Crown of Contract Bridge, that is won all of the three most important tournaments in bridge, the Bermuda Bowl, the World Team Olympiad and the World Open Pairs Championship...

.

Fantoni's regular partner is Claudio Nunes

Claudio Nunes

Claudio Nunes is an Italian bridge international. He is a five-time world champion, a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation , and the WBF second-ranked player as of April 2011...

, the second-ranked World Grand Master (April 2011). They play "Fantunes

Fantunes

In the game of contract bridge Fantunes is a natural bidding system that was invented and is played by Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes of Italy, players ranked first and second World Grand Masters respectively according to the World Bridge Federation, as of June 2011.The Fantunes system differs...

", for their surnames, an innovative bidding system characterised by natural but forcing

Forcing bid

In the card game contract bridge, a forcing bid is any bid that obliges the partner to bid over an intermediate opposing pass. Owing to the partnership's bidding system or a bridge convention, partner must "keep the bidding open", i.e...

 one-level opening bids in all four suits.

November 2010, Fantoni says that he has lived "practically since I was born" in Ostia, in the coastal district of Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

. Nunes now lives there too and they see each other socially.

Emigration to Monaco

From 2011 Fantoni and Nunes are full-time members of a team led and paid by the Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 "real estate tycoon" Pierre Zimmermann, under contract expiring 2016. The team finished third in the 2010 world championship, not yet full-time, and it will compete in the European open championship this spring. From 2012 all six members will be citizens of Monaco

Monaco

Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...

 and the team will be a prohibitive favorite to represent Monaco internationally.

Major bridge tournament wins

• Bermuda Bowl
  Bermuda Bowl
  The Bermuda Bowl is a trophy awarded to the winners of the Open series in the World Team Championship in contract bridge and is named for the site of the inaugural tournament held in 1950...
  
  : 2005
• World Team Olympiad
  World Team Olympiad
  The World Team Olympiad was a contract bridge meet organized by the World Bridge Federation every four years from 1960 to 2004. Its main events were world championships for national teams, always including one open and one restricted to women...
  
  : 2004
• World Mind Sports Games
  World Mind Sports Games
  The first World Mind Sports Games were held in Beijing, China from October 3 to 18, 2008, about two months after the Olympic Games. They were sponsored and organised by the International Mind Sports Association with the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of...
  
  : Open Teams 2008 — successor to the quadrennial Olympiad
• World Transnational Open Teams Championship: 2007
• World Open Pairs
  World Open Pairs Championship
  The World Open Pairs Championship is one of the competitions held as part of the World Bridge Series Championships. This Pairs competition was initiated in 1962 and is held every four years. It is open to pairs from all over the world, without any quota restrictions being applied. In its present...
  
  : 2002
• World Mixed Pairs
  World Mixed Pairs Championship
  The World Mixed Pairs Championship is a bridge championship for mixed-gender pairs held every four years as part of the World Bridge Championships.-Results:World meets commonly run for 15 days on a schedule whose details vary....
  
  : 2010
• European Teams Championships: 2004, 2006
• European Champions' Cup for Open Teams: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009

External links

• World Bridge Federation profile