Last fortnight we saw a deal where declarer, almost magically, made a seemingly impossible 6♥ contract. Incredible as that deal was, it didn’t get the team anything because some extraordinary play occurred in the closed room as well, albeit in a 6♠ contract from the other direction. Read what happened and marvel at the beauty […]
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The last week saw the conducting of the 8th World Youth Team Championships and Wroclaw, Poland. Unfortunately, the performance of our team was way below expectation, finishing just 5th in the teams and just one pair qualifying for the pairs finals in the form of Sagnik Roy and Soumadeep Ghosh. That the pair didn’t do
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Today’s deal is from an IMPs match. What seemed an easy contract, suddenly became difficult when declarer came to know the foul split in spades after the opening lead. Yet he found a brilliant solution. See if the solution occurred to you. The bidding is as explained above. After South signed off with
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We had posed you, dear viewers a lead problem yesterday. Did you think about what you may like to lead? If you are able to visualize partner’s likely hand from the bidding or make an educated guess, you can come up with some stunning leads. In short, you have to be imaginative. So,
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The main reason for writing this report is to express an overwhelming sense of gratitude for the phenomenal response all of you bridge lovers displayed towards celebrating Raj Jayaram’s birth anniversary. All of his friends and I were extremely moved by this response with 141 pairs playing this evening. We present below a message from
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This is a small video to describe the goings on that the MBA Summer League conducted at Kensington Club, Nashik on 22-23 June 2024. While the video is still experimental (errors in editing and such like stuff may please be forgiven), we hope you enjoy our coverage of the events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCjlkXu9Gc As is normal,
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Today’s hand is from an eight-deal Chicago event with total point scoring. We are not presenting this as a problem. Rather just as something to be seen and enjoyed. Both from the revealing bidding and from the line of play adopted by the declarer, the defenders were more than convinced that he was trying for
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On the 19th of June, we received an announcement that Soumadeep Ghosh has been appointed the new Master Point Secretary of the Bridge Federation of India I am, in particular, very chuffed about his appointment. While Ranjuda has performed yeoman service to the country in this regard, it is time the baton passed over to
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The Summer Nationals have just concluded. Honestly, it feels like it got over before it started! As is my wont, I am sharing a few thoughts on the event. These thoughts are all my own, some of them nice, others critical. The criticism is aimed to be as objective as possible with the only aim
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This is another one of those ‘Look before you leap’ series with the title of the post giving you an additional clue about what needs to be done. Today’s deal is from an IMP pairs tournament. You are in the reasonable contract of 4♥. See if you can make the contract after the lead of
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