Editing Charles Goren (section)

==Bridge contributions==
After Milton Work died in 1934, Goren began his own bridge writing career and published the first of his many books on playing bridge, ''Winning Bridge Made Easy'', in 1936.<ref name=truscott4/>  Drawing on his experience with Work's system, Goren quickly became popular as an instructor and lecturer.

Goren's books have sold millions of copies (especially ''Winning Bridge Made Easy'' and ''Contract Bridge Complete''); by 1958 his daily bridge column was appearing in 194 American newspapers. He also had a monthly column in ''[[McCall's]]'' and a weekly column in ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''.

His television program, ''Championship Bridge with Charles Goren'', was broadcast from 1959 to 1964 on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC network]]. It featured numerous appearances by top players and segments with celebrity guests such as [[Chico Marx]], [[Alfred Drake]], and [[Forest Evashevski]], among others.<ref>{{Citation |title=Championship Bridge Ep.1 | date=9 January 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyk-N6CTJBU |language=en |access-date=2022-08-31}}</ref>

Goren's longest partnership was with [[Helen Sobel Smith|Helen Sobel]], but he also famously partnered actor [[Omar Sharif]]. Sharif also wrote introductions to or co-authored several of Goren's bridge books, and was also co-author of Goren's newspaper column, eventually taking it over in collaboration with Tannah Hirsch.

===Point count system===

As he continued writing, Goren began to develop his point count system, based on the [[Milton Work]] point count, as an improvement over the existing system of counting "honor tricks". Goren, with assistance, formulated a method of combining the Work count, which was based entirely on high cards, and various distributional features. This may well have improved the bidding of intermediate players and beginners almost immediately.

===Four-card suits===

Goren also worked to continue the practice of  opening four-card suits, with an occasional three-card club suit when the only four-card suit was a weak {{gcb|majorsuit|major}}. In this, he was following the practice established by [[Ely Culbertson]] in the early 1930s. Later on, he continued this practice, resisting the well-known ''five-card majors'' approach that has become a major feature of modern [[Standard American]] bidding.

Opening a four-card suit can improve the chances of the partnership identifying a four-four trump fit, and the four-card approach is still used by experts today, notably by most [[Acol]] players. It is claimed that the drawback of the four-card approach is that the [[Law of Total Tricks]] is more difficult to apply in cases where it is used. However, the five-card majors approach became popular before the Law of Total Tricks was propounded.

===Other contributions===

In addition to his pioneering work in bringing simple and effective bridge to everyday players, Goren also worked to popularize the [[Precision Club|Precision]] bidding method, which is one of many so-called big club or [[strong club system]]s (which use an opening bid of one club to indicate a strong hand).

[[Tribune Media|Tribune Content Agency]] distributes the daily column Goren Bridge, written by Bob Jones, using the Goren method.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribunecontentagency.com/premium-content/entertainment/card-games/goren-bridge/|title=Goren Bridge by Bob Jones|access-date=May 5, 2016}}</ref>