V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Wysiwyg is management jargon for “What you see is what you get”. Nowhere is it less true than on the bridge table. The corridors of bridge educators are ringing with the phrase “Mistrust the obvious! ” How often have you heard this conversation on the table “Why don’t you […]
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The Future Masters Swiss League is all set to head for a fascinating finish. Avengers Assemble (Soham Sarkar, Bijit Datta, Saila Ranjan Das, Shouvik Das, Biswadip Roy and Mithun Mukherjee) currently lead the field from Mavericks (Subodh Maskara Amit Dabriwala, Jesal Dabriwala, Subrata Guha and Tapan Bhattacharya). However, with three rounds to go, anybody from
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The Future Masters event started yesterday with 20 teams participating. While we actually expected more of you to participate, we suppose that with 14 teams participating in the National Masters (and we shall discuss this topic next week), the overall bridge playing turnout is not bad. Gladiators currently lead the field from Avengers Assemble. However,
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Subodh Maskara has, in a gesture of great generosity, created a tournament for those of us who have yet to scale the heights of bridge excellence in the country. This means that, instead of cheering the usual suspects like Formidables, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Texan Aces, etc…. you have a chance to attain glory for yourselves.
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V N Ramamoorthy This year, Diwali, pre-Diwali and post Diwali were all comparatively quieter. A similar trend is noticeable in Bridge too, a trend that is encouraging. There was a time when there was no Bridge without noise – from players, kibitzers, organizers and even Directors ( poor guys, had to shout above the din
V N Ramamoorthy “Fireworks for Diwali – Cardworks for Bridge! ” Recently at Coonoor, many friends asked “What happened to your blogs? Why this long hiatus?” So I was reassured that the audience are still with me and assured them there will be a Diwali special! Unlike Diwali, which you celebrate once a year, the
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The text book stuff we read while cutting our teeth learning the ABCs, featured in this deal from the finals of the recently concluded HCL Championships, featuring Formidables, arguably India’s top dog team pitted against the sugar candy men of Dhampur Sugar Mills. The hand below had many interesting facets A Case For The Defense
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The bridge fraternity of India lost another 3 regulars yesterday in the form of Mr. Ningaiah, Mr. Jagapathi and Mr. Paresh Gupta. While the first two are not known to me (entirely my loss, I am sure), Paresh and I had interacted extremely pleasurably on several occasions. I have attempted to put together a small
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Priyanka Gulati Knowing how to lose is the art of winning, knowing how to deal with negativity is the art of positivity. I have always argued with my mother (who is a great believer of happiness and positivity) that per me not hearing negative news or thoughts is not positivity. Rather, knowing how to deal
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Hello Everyone! My name is Sutanu Behuria and I have the privilege of being elected as the President of BFI. I would like to thank all of you for your support and pledge to do my best for the benefit of the bridge fraternity. We have had an introductory meeting of the Executive Committee and some issues
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