The Kr. Murli Manohar National Masters started yesterday. The field saw a participation of 29 teams, which is the largest number seen in this event for a few years. Clearly, the ability to play from a place of comfort, as well reduced expenses of travel and stay, has increased the level of participation in the […]
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Quarter Final Standings The top two finishers of the Swiss League, Rampage and Parting Gift, stamped their dominance over their selected opponents, Bangur Cement and Poddar Housing to lead by 45+ imps at the half way stage. Aristos found themselves needing some rearguard action as Dhampur Sugar Mills established a 27 imp lead over them.
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, We have often heard the old adage of not leaping to conclusions. But tell me, how often have we rued not having thought again? What is actually better: going with your instincts? or stopping to consider and be considerate of others? The hand below illustrates some of the thoughts
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Hema Deora It’s been a year and eight months the killer pandemic engulfed the entire world in no time. In order to save our lives, but not our livelihood the government announced a total lockdown. Suddenly toiling hard to survive, petrified poor daily workers having no shelters began to migrate to reach their little
Raju Tolani and Ajay Khare played strong and steady bridge to emerge clear winners of the UNN Rao Memorial Gold tournament. They finished comfortably ahead of second placed Pinaki Khan and A Bhattacharjee. The latter finished very narrowly ahead of 3rd placed Swarnendu Banerjee and Rana Roy, who had a very indifferent final session. The
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The second session of the finals of the UNN Rao Memorial Bridge Tournament was played yesterday. Gold Section Tapan Kumar Roy and Sailen Das won the session with 39 IMPs. The cumulative result of yesterday’s performance can be seen here. It may be noted that the detailed results reflects the standing at the end of
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The finals of the UNN Rao Memorial Bridge Tournament got under way today. 32 Pairs contested in the the Gold Section while 85 pairs contested in the Silver Section. Gold Section Swapan Some and Sankar Narayan Ghose were the winners of yesterday’s session with 60.64 Imps, way ahead of Ajay Khare and Raju Tolani in
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The Dev Diwali Mixed Pairs Swiss Tournament saw a total of 33 participants battle over 9 rounds of Swiss Pairs. To be honest, the organizers were hoping for more participants, but the numbers seem to have been subdued. Kista and Bharati, as has been their wont, stamped their authority over the mixed pairs genre winning
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, ” Water finds its own level – under and over the Bridge! ” When it rains, it pours. And when it pours it floods, under and over the Bridge! For a change, there was a different fight amongst Cauvery, Godavari, Krishna – all of which confluenced with Adyar &
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The final set of the UNN Rao Memorial Bridge Tournament saw a total of 120 participants. Sandeep and Marianne Karmarkar brought the participants home today of Animesh Majumder and Arup Hudait. Pinaki Khan and A Bhattachajee were in thirds place. The results of yesterday’s game can be seen here. The combined results can be seen
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