The 6th day of the 65th Winter Bridge Nationals saw Prasun Mukhopadhyay and Abhijit Chakraborty leading 26 pairs into the finals of the Shree Cement MP Pairs. It also crown Vinay Mohan Lal and KS Samant the champion of the Shree Cement Match Point Pairs Silver finals. Read about all this and more as BridgeFromHome […]
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The 5th day of the 65th Winter Bridge Nationals saw Indian Railways A winning the Ashok Ruia Gold Cup. Amarnath Banerjee and RP Tripathi won the 1st Elimination of the Shree Cement Match Point Pairs. Read about all this and more as BridgeFromHome continues to bring you coverage of the event. Ashok Ruia Gold
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Yesterday, the electoral college of the Bridge Federation of India met and voted to decide its Executive Committee for the next two years. While most of the office bearers appear to have been elected in what was a clean sweep led by a ‘panel’ of like minded people, there appears to have been a huge
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The 4th day of the 65th Winter Bridge Nationals crowned Borivali Sports Club as the winner of the Ashok Ruia Silver Cup. Shambhu Ghosh and Biswajit Poddar won the IMP pairs event and Mavericks and Indian Railways A entered the finals of the Ashok Ruia Gold Cup. Along with this, we also had the elections
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On the 3rd day of the 65th Winter Bridge Nationals, the Gold teams played the quarter finals while the Silver teams played the semi finals. The IMP Pairs eliminations were also completed. Read about all this and more as BridgeFromHome continues to bring you coverage of the event. But first, a look at the participants
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On the 2nd day of the 65th Winter Bridge Nationals, both Gold and Silver Swiss Leagues completed. In the Silver sections, the quarter finals were completed while the non-qualifiers played a Swiss pairs event. Read about all this and more as BridgeFromHome continues to bring you coverage of the event. Ashok Ruia Gold
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The 65th Winter Nationals got underway yesterday. BridgeFromHome will attempt to cover the same for you, dear readers, to the extent it can. Please bear in mind that this is a one man effort done remotely and excuse all errors and omissions. The Venue A lot of us (yours truly included), were bemoaning the
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Declarer play in trump contracts is all about taking care of the losers in hand. The presence of shortage in dummy can help you to ruff the losers there. Sometimes, you will be able to discard your losers on dummy’s winners. However, there are more techniques which the upcoming player can easily add to his
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, “Does the past influence the present to decide the future?” Sigh!!😓 The past, the present and the future. It almost sounds like the movie of yester years – the good, the bad and the ugly? It is here again – the election and / or selection. In politics, as
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I recently had the privilege of playing the Holkar IMPs pairs in Indore with my father, Dr Krishnakumar Vahalia, who had turned ninety-three just ten days earlier. At this age, my father displayed remarkable stamina, playing all four days of the event and performing very well throughout. (If, at that age, we can play bridge
