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Richard Fey comments on several themes in the Foreword to the third edition:
We have seen rapid and radical developments in bidding systems; explosions of new cheating scandals and employment of devices to prevent them; the creation of techniques for warning opponents about bids that have unusual meanings...
...the newly uncovered evidence that bridge was known and played before the earliest previous accreditation (to Russia) of its origin and its name.
The third edition is organized into the same four parts as the second. There are again over 2,500 biographies but newer and stricter criteria were applied and many previous entries have been superseded by new ones; successes in competitions remain in the appropriate event listings.
Read more about this topic: The Official Encyclopedia Of Bridge, Third Edition