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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Priyanka Gulati Some of you may have already seen some of the thoughts that I have penned down. Since I have always been encouraged to do so by all my well wishers, here is another set of thoughts that flowed through my head as I played my first National Championships. I had an absolute roller-coaster
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Team Jai Jawan Jai Kisan are UP State Bridge Champions! The 50th UP State Bridge Championship was held at MB Club, Lucknow from June 17 – 19, 2022. The Championships had a teams event along with an IMP pairs event. Participation was open to players from UP and neighboring states Swiss Teams A total of
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Kista and Usha Kabra lift Smt. Laxmi Mujumdar Memorial title R. Krishnan (Kista) gave yet another example of why he is one of the best players in the country in the recently concluded Laxmi Mujumdar Memorial tournament yesterday. Teaming up with Usha Kabra just days before the event was to start (and recovering from a
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