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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Balkrishna Parsrampuria Memorial 52 pairs gathered to participate in the event we conducted in his memory. It was touching to see the homage that our bridge community paid to the maestro who is, even now, being sorely missed. BridgeFromHome, on its part, disbursed almost all the money received by way of entry fees, retaining just
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Balkrishna Parsrampuria Mumbai, Maharashtra and India lost one of their beloved bridge brethren when Mr. Parsrampuria left for his heavenly abode yesterday. It would not be wrong to say that the entire bridge fraternity in Mumbai is grieving his loss. His jovial face and colorful language never failed to bring a smile to the lips
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, In Bridge matrimony, match-making is a tougher task than one can imagine, believe you me 😂. What is best? Male – Male, Male – Female, Female – Female, Old – Young or Young – Young? It is like choosing a wierd soup from the Chinese menu 😢. There are
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SV Ramana Rao and N R Naidu win the event S V Ramana Rao and N R Naidu led the field almost from the very beginning to comfortably win yesterday’s one day IMP pairs event. They won with a score of 83.63 IMPs, far ahead of the second placed Somesh Bhattacharya and D. Mukherjee who,
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