Sukrit Vijayakar The competition for the Murli Deora and Girdharilal Agrawal Trophies started in earnest yesterday with 50 pairs contesting 9 rounds of tough, competitive bridge. The European pair of Karlis Rubins and Jelena Alfajeva took the lead early in the event and easily disposed off all challengers. They ended up almost one complete match […]
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Priya Balasubramanian The BCBA Annual Tournament kicked off yesterday. An impressive total of 116 pairs / trios participated in yesterday’s game which was meant to draw out 50 pairs to compete for the Murli Deora and Girdharilal Agrawal Trophies. At the head of the field were Pranab Bardhan and Badal Das along with Ramesh Kumar.
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Sukrit Vijayakar Let me start off by wishing all those who celebrate the festival, a very happy Dusshera (Vijayadashmi / Bijoya), a festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil. May all good forces conquer the pandemic and its side effects and may we return to live events sooner rather than later. Tomorrow, the
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Priyanka Gulati I work with business leaders in India advising and helping them think, strategize and execute on various areas. Recently I have started learning bridge and realised that the game is a great lesson on leadership. Here are a few of my learnings. Who is a good bridge player? As my coach explained
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Sukrit Vijayakar This post is primarily a thank you to all you players who gave the event such a phenomenal response especially as it was coming on the back of the biggest online event in Bridge. We had 61 teams participating in the teams event. Our host, Mr. Puneet Gangal, agreed to increase the number
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Sukrit Vijayakar This post is being made due to three reasons all of which are equally important. First of all, we have a host of excellent women players in the country. One of them, Hema Deora, just one a reasonably big tournament yesterday fighting off a determined challenge from over 60 teams. Another, of
V N Ramamoorthy It has been scientifically established that playing bridge keeps your brain active and healthy. But the side effect seems to be a lot of heartburn! 🙃 Because you don’t know how to deal with the deals you lost. You are happy to brag about that one deal out of one score when
A Quiver Full Of Arrows – yet, a bag full of sorrows! Read More »
Priya Balasubramanian She eagerly opened the Journalist Times. Her subscription to the Journalist Times on Sundays was one of the few luxuries she allowed herself. Her flat reeked of her relative poverty in masterpoints. The extra supplement in the Journalist Times promised an even heavier main section. The headline screamed, “Terrorist Trumped,” effectively drowning out
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, The title of the blog is from Alice in Wonderland. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” This sentence applies quite aptly to some of the explanations for bids
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, “Ahimsa – is a bad word in Bridge 🙃!” That one day in every year, when we remember the Mahatma is jut around the corner! You nonchalantly resort to all criminal things all through the year and suddenly you become a lover of peace for one day 😢 Well
