The Suhas Vaidya Memorial event concluded late last night with a bang. We are overwhelmed with the love and affection shown not only for Suhas, but also for BridgeFromHome as you guys stoically bore the late start to the second session of the IMP pairs. On behalf of the team, I would like to tender […]
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The Suhas Vaidya Memorial event gets under way tomorrow. We would just like to present a few more memories of the player shared by Kaustubh Bendre (with a little addition). I remember the first time I played with Suhas. It was the Hirabaug pairs and I was absolutely terrified. He was a top player with
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The primary objective of writing this post is to express deep and undying gratitude to all the participants and other friends who somehow could not make it yesterday. We had 66 pairs celebrating the festival with their partners and this writer felt that they regarded BridgeFromHome as one of their Valentine’s as well. What started
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Introduction In team events conducted by BridgeFromHome, the room is organized such that all members of a team sit at a table assigned to them. The tables are sorted in alphabetical order. This is a manual on how to login easily for your ready reference. Please book mark this page for ready reference. Would recommend
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen To quote my favorite writer Alfred Sheinwold, “Every bid tells a story and every card gives a clue” – how true! Quite often, the challenges to a declarer are posed by the defenders. Occasionally, your CHO (aka partner) may also do the same 😇 On Sunday evening I got
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Introduction In large pairs events conducted by BridgeFromHome, we try to provide each player with a personalized login so that it is easy for people to find an appropriate seat opposite partner without having to go the scramble of searching for a place and making sure partner comes there. However, we find that a few
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This is a small account of the journey of my partner, Mridul Das, and myself as we played through the Upasana Jajoo pairs event which we miraculously happened to win. Sukrit really pushed me to write this; nagging me with the ease of a grandmother so, in case you think I am boasting, please do
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Hema Deora is a familiar face to all of us. Apart from having won a bronze medal in the mixed teams in the Asian Games held in Jakarta, 2018, she has won several open titles over the last years and narrowly missed winning several more. She has recently been writing about her work during Covid
The 63rd Winter National Bridge Tournament starts on Saturday with this iconic event. The annual IMP Pairs, hitherto called the Niranjan IMP Pairs will now be named the Murli Deora Memorial IMP Pairs. As a personality, he is so huge that it is impossible to do justice to him in a few small paragraphs. However,
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And, for the last day of 2021, a few thoughts and observations (all my own work)……. Like this is the first time in my memory that we are going into a new year with a sense of foreboding….. while last year, we were well in the grip of Covid, the sense around a year ago
