The Holi Hai Event – Team Burzen Champions! The Holi Hai event saw extremely limited participation with only 14 teams participating. However, that did not make the qualification and knock outs any less exciting. The dark horse of the event was clearly the eventual runners up Team Snapdragon. In the last round of the Swiss […]
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The Championship In the recently concluded Rajasthan State Bridge Championship 2022 on Sunday the 13th of March 2022 played in Jai Club ,Jaipur Team Rajputana won the coveted BB MATHUR TROPHY for Teams. The winning Rajputana team consisted of Puneet Gangal, S K Sharma, K P Mathur, N K Sharma, Anand Toshniwal and Som Mittal
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Priya Balasubramanian The Angst After(?) Covid Corona, in its wake, has overturned lives and caused mayhem. In all this, the bright silver lining has been the ability to play online bridge. As we come close to saying goodbye to Corona, social engagements have been added to the mix of what was previously only work and
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Sukrit Vijayakar After the last couple of posts featuring some beautiful thoughts and poetry, I have to confess to a desire to sound as beautiful. The title of this post is just an exotic way of saying Upcoming Events. So here goes (19-20 Mar) BridgeFromHome would love to have the bridge fraternity celebrate
Friendly Foe Players near and yonder, Is Bridge akin to a war game, they oft ponder? With an arsenal of strategies, the next move in their minds brew, Players then play offensive or defensive, to tame their opponent shrew! Both armies pitched in battles figuratively, they scratch and claw at each other, Though sometimes
Stray Thoughts I have to confess, kudos to BFI selection trials committee for organizing the trial tournament very efficiently and very punctually with God’s patience. After the grueling tournaments for five days, stray thoughts wandered in my mind. I surely and strongly began to realize that this mind sport can be mind blowing! And
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Introduction From the time we started online bridge seriously till now, we have had a few intrepid players playing in our events from the US and Canada. A number of players from the US expressed an interest in participating these events along with their Indian brethren. Now, along with one of its patrons and benefactors,
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Introduction This tournament has been instituted by one of our regular patrons, not only of BridgeFromHome in particular, but also of bridge in general, in memory of his father. Today’s event is the first of four events to be held, one every quarter, to celebrate bridge and his memory. The general format of the tournament
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Dr. Mukund Jagannathan For the first time, I actually watched with keen interest, the progress of various pairs for the right and privilege to represent India. I had some idea of the format, but needed to speak with some educated gentry for clarifications. I was also informed that it was a significant change from last
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Hi friends! Technically, the line “But were afraid to ask” is the second part of a title like this. In this post, we are going to try and explain to you the detailed methodology that the BFI has worked out to select the best 3 pairs possible to represent the country. We would like to
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