Coonoor is a beautiful hill station located about 2 hours away from Coimbatore Airport. Probably, a better way to describe its location is that you will arrive here half an hour before you reach Ooty from the Airport. Far less known than the latter, the serenity of this place has to be experienced to be […]
The last leg of the semi finals was played this morning. While Navjoti couldn’t even dent the lead they had conceded, Hemant Jalan’s IV pulled even further away from their opponents. Bangur Cements had an eminently forgettable session with a couple of horrendous errors which didn’t help their case any. We present below a few
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Two Semi Finals… One a fairly ding dong battle. The other almost a bridge lesson. That has been the story of today’s matches. But, before we take you to a quick recap of the day’s events, let us take a look at some photographs from the venue. We have actually managed to click some of
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Is ‘Logic’ the panacea for bridge woes? Even after knowing the logic, you do illogical things and that is Bridge! Those of you who were students in the class of “Logic” ( I was one) would have learnt about illicit Majors and Minors. But does it help on the
If anybody had predicted that Shree Cement would have been the team to have got eliminated at the end of yesterday, I would recommend they start a ‘clairvoyant’ business and rake in money predicting the future! Indeed, to quote Koushik Mukherji “What a contrasting day for twin teams Bangur Cements and Shree Cements. Shows what
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The senior Selection trials got under way earlier today. At the end of day 1, Shree Cement was on top of the leader board. The overall standings can be seen on the left. Team Navjoti was penalized for psyching an artificial strong bid which is in violation of system policy. While the leader looks far
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, “Bridge is a three-legged race with two heads! ” Sometimes you wish you are an Octopus, with just one head and multi-pronged (do you call them arms or legs?). In one sense you have to be like an octopus on the Bridge table waiting for either gullible prey, or
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, As bridge players, we often ask ourselves “What is it with this game? Is it a pain or pleasure?” To that, the only answer is “Can there be pleasure without pain?” Like Emily Bronte wrote almost 200 years ago in her book, “Wuthering Heights ” , love is pain
The next couple of months mark the festive season in India along with the Senior Selection Trials coming up this weekend. While we refrained from conducting an event this weekend to give the seniors their due, we do have a host of events chalked up over the coming several weeks. One of them, the UNN
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, ” Silence can be Golden – in Bridge too! ” To speak or not to speak – is an enigma in this game 🙃 More often your silence is equal to a thousand words! Some players think thoughtlessly (oxymoron intended) that they have enrolled and must speak at the
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