The Winners! In the elections for the new executive committee of the BFI held yesterday, the following were the results (while the source is not official, it is extremely reliable). President Prasad Kenny: 20 Sutanu Behuria: 23 Secretary Debashis Ray: 17 C M Kulkarni: 26 Treasurer Suman Sengupta: 6 K.P.Mathur: 22 Hemant Pandey: 13 T. […]
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The Winners! Swiss Teams Setu (Prasanta Bera – Priyotosh Sarkar – Saurendranath Chakrabarti – Sujit Bhattacharyya – Swapan Some) finished their bridge building (Setu is actually a bridge) in style conquering yet another stalwart team from India, namely Dhampur Sugar Mills (Anindya Bhattacharya – Ashok Kumar Goel – Kaustabh – Kaustubh Bendre – Sagnik Roy
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The Home Stretch! Swiss Teams Setu (Prasanta Bera – Priyotosh Sarkar – Saurendranath Chakrabarti – Sujit Bhattacharyya – Swapan Some) continued their giant killing streak taming Tornatae (Bhabesh Saha – Gopinath Manna – Monica Jajoo – NRK Moorthy – Prasad Keni – Uttam Gupta) by a margin of close to 30 imps. In the other
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The Final Countdown! Swiss Teams The quarter finals saw some tremendous bridge being played. At the top table, Tornatae (Bhabesh Saha – Gopinath Manna – Monica Jajoo – NRK Moorthy – Prasad Keni – Uttam Gupta) had to stave off a determined fight from Kohinoor (Binod Shaw – Biswadip Roy – Jibak Tewary – Mithun
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Making The Cut! At the end of the Swiss League Tornatae (Bhabesh Saha – Gopinath Manna – Monica Jajoo – NRK Moorthy – Prasad Keni – Uttam Gupta) finished on top, ahead of Bindiya Chamkegi (Bindiya Naidoo – Karthik Srinivasan – Koushik Mukherjee – Priya Ranjan Sinha – R.Venkatesh – Sanjay Sondhi – Soumalya Ghosh
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The Plot Thickens! Swiss League After four rounds at the end of day 2, we have Setu (Prasanta Bera – Priyotosh Sarkar – Saurendranath Chakrabarti – Sujit Bhattacharyya – Swapan Some ) leading the event by over 7 VPs from Texan Aces (Ajay Khare- Anil Padhye – Gopal Venkatesh – Prakash Hegde – Rajeev Gulavani
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Thank you for your response! BridgeFromHome had been wanting to conduct a memorial event to Kushari for more than 15 months now. While it has been 15 months since his passing away, we never wavered in our search for some sponsors to conduct such an event. And once we found them, we did our best
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An event with a difference! BridgeFromHome rarely comments on events conducted by the BFI except in a peripheral manner. Yet, once our attention was drawn to the Kabra All India National Women Pairs Championships, we could not help but want to highlight a few of the features of this event which make it different from
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, “Me too” in Bridge has become viral! Do you play bridge for enjoyment, the adrenaline it pumps up, comradeship, to kill the ennui or for qinning? Hard to answer that, right? But the best answer could be for all those factors and more! Bridge, is not a sport (
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Does your mind prefer Bridge Or Chess? Well, it is akin to the age-old teaser : which comes first, egg or chicken? It is as difficult as that ( except perhaps for the proverbial Sardar who simply said “Arre Paji, whichever you order first, comes first! “😇) Mind you,
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