On 11th September, 2021, we were suddenly reminded about a recently lost friend, Sanjay Damle. Sanjay won the national masters pairs with Arun Bapat at Kakinada in 1989. He would have doubtlessly won more laurels, but he was destined for higher things
While most champion bridge players concentrate on individual achievement, Sanjay concentrated on organizational matters. His team, United Bridge Association (UBA) soon started winning major events. Through UBA, Sanjay concentrated on spreading bridge among youngsters and many of today's stalwarts learnt the tricks of the trade under Sanjay’s tutelage.
Sanjay soon realized that Bridge tournaments cannot be conducted efficiently and fairly in absence of fair and erudite Tournament Directors. Sanjay stopped taking part in tournaments as a player and took up the mantle of Tournament Director.
His bridge skills, coupled with deep knowledge of bridge rules and his innate sense of fairness made him a strict but popular tournament director. These skills were so great that, once upon a time, all arguments among budding bridge players would end with “Sanjay said so.”. His meticulous attention to the tiniest detail and firm handling of awkward situations was also very impressive.
Bridge player par excellence , devoted organizer, popular tournament director, excellent coach . That was Sanjay Damle.
Aniruddha Sanzgiri
The Thane District Bridge Association (TDBA) would like to invite all players to participate in a tournament in his memory. The event shall consist of a Swiss Teams Event starting Friday, October 29. An appropriate number of teams will qualify for the super league to be played on Sunday.
On Sunday, October 31, there will be an Open Pairs Tournament which shall be played over 2 sessions of 20 boards each.
Minimum Prizes of Rs. 50,000 on offer
BFI Federation Masterpoints will also be awarded to the winners
The event will be played on RealBridge.
- Teams of up to 8 people are permitted
- Availability of Video and Audio is Mandatory for all players. Failure to be visible and audible will render a team ineligible for prizes and may attract penalties.
- Withdrawals mid way through the tournament will affect the whole event and therefore not allowed.
- Entry Fee : Rs. 2,500 per team
- Start Time: Friday 6.30 pm
Prizes*
* Prizes will depend on the number of entries
Schedule
| Sr. | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 | Player 7 | Player 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MUSKETEERS | MOLOY MONDAL | PINAKI KHAN | ANIMESH MAJUMDAR | SAURAV SIL | RAJKUMAR CHOWDHURY | Aniruddha Bhattacharya | Joy Narayan Roy | |
| 2 | Aquarius | Milind Bhadbhade | Nitin Shah | Ashok Vaidya | Shirish Karkarey | Pramod Joshi | C P Deshpande | Shrirang Joshi | |
| 3 | VENAD EXPRESS | Sanker N | Rajagopalan | Subhash Nair | Elangovan | Pradeep Deshpande | Dr Atul Dasputre | Ramesh Begada | |
| 4 | NUTS & BOLTS | A K GUHA | A K SINHA | SANDEEP NARANG | R C AGARWAL | TANMAY BHATTACHARYA | SUNIL MAHAJAN | S Majumdar | |
| 5 | Cacophonic | Prakash Easwaran | Suraj Sonti | Mohan A | Ravi Mani | TT Chari | Lakshmi Chari | ||
| 6 | SLAMMERS | Richa Shriram | Ranjan Bhattacharya | Pijush Kanti Baroi | Indranil Chakraborty | Mithun Mukherjee | Tanmoy Majumdar | ||
| 7 | MG Sports | Pullak Garga | CP Agarwal | Sarika Mittal | S Krishnamoorthi | Dev M Bhatnagar | Ashok Sinha | Girish Kumar | Ambrish Wadera |
| 8 | Trifecta | Pradeep Kulkarni | K Shyamsundar | Sowmik Das | Kajal Das | Manas Mukherjee | Mrinal Mukherjee | Stanley Nazareth | Sukrit Vijayakar |
| 9 | Texan Aces | Gopal Venkatesh | Anil Padhye | Ajay Khare | Raju Tolani | Rajendra Bhiwandkar | Subhash Dhakras | Anal Shah | |
| 10 | Mavericks | Amit Dabriwala | Subodh Maskara | Pritam Das | Rajen Ray | Sumanta Roy | Samar kumar Maity | ||
| 11 | Lovely Hands | Anbu | Aparna Sain | Vinay Sharma | Indrajit Singh | Finton Lewis | |||
| 12 | Sahyadri | Sampath Shrinivasan | Rajendra Gokhale | Arun Bahulkar | Uday Maitra | Venkatesh R | Ajoy Sonak | Sundar Sekhar | Vijay Ramachandran |
| 13 | BAGANBARI | Soumitra Basu | Kamalesh Gupta | Vikram Jain | Sukanta Das | Bhaskar Sarkar | Sanjib Basak | Swapan Sardar | Sumit Saha |
| 14 | Mohota | Anurag Mohota | Basant Mohota | Pradeep Anand Singh | Kunwar Vijayanand Singh | Siddharth Behuria | Arun Puranik | S Chhajed | Jesal Dabriwala |
| 15 | Hyderabad Blue | R P Narain | D Sudhanand | A Prabhat Kumar | R Gossain | Ajay Despande | Dr. V. Mohan Rao | ||
| 16 | Malani | Dr malani | Bhabesh saha | Shambhu nath ghosh | Sukamal das | Subroto saha | Binod shaw | Sanjt day | |
| 17 | Dr SSMC | AMIYARANJAN DAS | DIBYENDU SHEE | Swapan Kumar Ghosh | GAUTAM DAS | SHYAMA PRASAD CHATTERJEE | SOHOM SARKAR | SAYANTAN KONAR | |
| 18 | Dr Sanghi | R L Sanghi | S M Moin | Sunil kr sinha | P manna | Pradeep ghosh | Prasun kumar Mukhopadhyay | ||
| 19 | Aristos | Dr. Mukund Jagannathan | Kaustabh Nandi | Sayantan Kushari | Soumya Das | Kaustubh Bendre | Sagnik Roy | ||
| 20 | TARUN | M Tharuniah | D Chandrasekhar | MS Srinivas | BSN Murthy | KSRVS Chalam | GVN Sivakumar | ||
| 21 | AAA | R A AGARWAL | AVIJIT SARKAR | Dr RAJUL DALAL | DEVEN DOSHI | GAUTAM BISWAS | Shrikant Tembe | Rajmohan N | Dr. K Srinivas |
| 22 | NCR Blue | Prakash Bhandari | Sanat Saha | Sujit bhattacharjee | SK Bandyeopadhya | Aloke Sadhu | Hasibul Hassan | ||
| 23 | YA POKAJU VAM | Yogesh V. Abhyankar | Hanif Khwaja | Madhav Kshirsagar | Satish Limaye | Ranga Khadloya | Dr Vishwas Jeurkar | ||
| 24 | SNAP | NARENDRA CHITLANGIA | SANJAY BAGARIA | NAVNEET SWAIKA | Md. SAHJAHAN | SASWATA BHATTACHARYA | PRANAY MAJUMDAR | ANIRBAN MITRA | R Shaw |
| 25 | BK Sigulda | Karlis Rubins | Jelena Alfejeva | Janis Neimanis | Sergejs Birins | Maris Matisons | |||
| 26 | AMANORA | J .K. bhosle | SUDHIR CHAUDHRI | AMOL DESHMUKH | PARAG JOSHI | RAVINDRAN | ANDREY PURUSHOTTAM | SATISH DIWANJEE | AJIT CHAKRADEO |
| 27 | Borivali Sports Club | Ronald Miranda | Shriram Khanolkar | Debraj Chowdhury | Tilakraj Chowdhury | Tirtharaj Chowdhury | Asvin Ganger | Kausar Hasan Syed | |
| 28 | MONICA JAJOO | monica | sumit | laltu | coolvijay | mjr | sabya | bishnu | joy |
| 29 | bedis | T BEDI | R SREEKRISHNAN | TV RAMNI | S BHAVNANI | G MANNA | S DATTA | ||
| 30 | UBA (Sanjay) | B G DAXINDAS | JANAK SHAH | RAJEEV GULAWANI | ARUN BAPAT | ABHAY TODANKAR | AMOD RELE | A K Pendse (NPC) | |
| 31 | Dilip Atha's IV | Rana Chakrabarty | Tapas Mukherjee | Dilip Atha | Sisir Banerjee | Rajesh Jain | Bikas Dutta | S Sadhukha | |
| 32 | Samadhan | Ravi Raman | Jenish shah | Meenal Thakur | Rajesh Somani | Ananat Somani | Sandeep Karmarkar | Marianne Karmarkar | |
| 33 | OUT OF THE BLUE | Arnab Ghosh | Babhrubahan Bose | H.K.Singh | Shantanu Rastogi | Indranath Chatterjee | Siddhartha Ghosh | ||
| 34 | SETU | Bidyut Bhattacharya | Suresh Ranjan Bhattacharya | Saurendranath Chakrabarti | Priyotosh Sarkar | Asis Tosh | Prasanta Bera | Parthasarathi Mukherjee | |
| 35 | Rampage | Ayan | Srini | Animesh | Maneesh | Arvind | Uttam | Rajeev Khandelwal | Himani Khandelwal |
| 36 | Savage and Average | Abhijit Chakraborty | Samir Basak | Swarnendu Banerji | Rana Roy | Hema Deora | Biswajit Podder | Subhash Gupta | |
| 37 | Hum Saath | Tarun Singhal | Arvind Jain | Abdi Nafar | Subir Majumdar | Sadhana Gupta | Sourendra Coomer Dutt | Asit Baran Chakraborty |
This is an Open Category tournament i.e. all players are eligible to play this event.
The event will be held in two sessions of 18 boards each starting at 10:30 am and 3:30 pm respectively
Scoring will be Match Points.
The event shall be played on RealBridge.
Entry Fee : Rs. 500 per pair
Trios are not allowed.
Prizes will be decided depending on the number of entries
* Video and Audio Mandatory to be eligible for prizes
| Sr. | Player 1 Name | Player 2 Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MD SAHJAHAN | MRINAL DE |
| 2 | Paban | Rajesh Jain |
| 3 | Richa Shriram | Animesh |
| 4 | sowmik das | kajol das |
| 5 | K V Gopala Krishna | M Tharunaiah |
| 6 | sowmik das | manas mukherjee |
| 7 | Shrikant Tembey | Chetan Shah |
| 8 | Rito | Tapes roy |
| 9 | Koushik Mukherjee | R. Sreekrishnan |
| 10 | Moti Thadani | Sheelu Thadani |
| 11 | Tapan Mitra | Gollakota Satyanarayana |
| 12 | Pullak Garga | CP Agarwal |
| 13 | Madhav Kshirsagar | Satish Limaye |
| 14 | LAKSHMI CHARI | T.T.Chari |
| 15 | Tirtharaj Chowdhury | Debraj Chowdhury |
| 16 | T S Giridharan | Anantha Natarajan |
| 17 | Shriram khanolkar | Ronald Miranda |
| 18 | Amit Dabriwala | Subodh Maskara |
| 19 | Sanat Saha | Sujit bhattacharjee |
| 20 | B G Daxindas | R Sridharan |
| 21 | GVN Siva Kumar | K S R V Chalam |
| 22 | Mithun Mukherjee | Tanmoy Majumdar |
| 23 | Pijush Kanti Baroi | Indranil Chakraborty |
| 24 | Devi Muthu Bhatnagar | Ashok Sinha |
| 25 | AMIT KUMAR BOSE | Soumitra Bose |
| 26 | A.K.Srivastava | G.K. Johri |
| 27 | Pradeep Deshpande | Kumar Venkataraman |
| 28 | TVRAMANI | SUBHASBHAVNANI |
| 29 | Vidhya patel | Kalpana Gurjar |
| 30 | Anurag Mohota | Basant Mohota |
| 31 | Namit Sharma | Paresh Gupta |
| 32 | J .K. bhosle | SUDHIR CHAUDHRI |
| 33 | Ritu | Soumadeep ghosh |
| 34 | Reena Venkataraman | Vandana Toolsidass |
| 35 | Apu Ghosh | Kashinath Raychaudhury |
| 36 | S K Hasan | Asvin |
| 37 | Jaydeep Bhattacharjee | Hemanta kr Sharma |
| 38 | Sumit Bhaumik | Badal Das |
| 39 | Veena Bobb | Subir Majumder |
| 40 | M.K. Halder | S. R. Dutta |
| 41 | Rajesh Jain | Sisir Banerjee |
| 42 | Rana Chakrabarty | Tapash Mukherjee |
| 43 | Deepak Kumar Tewari | J B Sengupta |
| 44 | Jesal Dabriwala | Arun Puranik |
| 45 | Prakash Bhandari | Hasibul Hassan |
| 46 | Rahul Khambete | Rajendra Sirohia |
| 47 | Ambrish Wadera | Sheena Arora |
| 48 | Anbu | Vinay sharma |
| 49 | pankaj doshi | amod rele |
| 50 | Sanjoy Raha | Chandan Chowdhury |
| 51 | Gopika Tandan | Arun Jain |
| 52 | Nilesh Mitra | R Chandramohan |
| 53 | P Manna | P ghosh |
| 54 | Prasoon mukhopadhyay | S k sinha |
| 55 | Dr R l sanghi | S M Moin |
| 56 | Prakash Easwaran | Suraj Sonti |
| 57 | pradeepanand singh | Siddharth behura |
| 58 | GAUTAM BISWAS | AVIJIT SARKAR |
| 59 | Suresh Kumar | Rakesh Ranjan |
| 60 | S k garg | V k rattan |
| 61 | Prakash Gupta | Kalyan Kr Roy |
| 62 | Yogesh V. Abhyankar | Hanif Khwaja |
| 63 | Satish Diwanji | Vasanti Shah |
| 64 | Anirban Sasmal | Anup Duttaroy |
| 65 | Godwin Jeyaseelan | Venky Venkataramani |
| 66 | Bhola nath ghosh | Sanjib Ganguly |
| 67 | Swetadri Saha | Krishnadas Chakroborty |
| 68 | Janak Shah | Abhay Todankar |
| 69 | Gideon Tan | Loo Choon Chou |
| 70 | Puneet Gangal | Satyabrata Mukherjee |
| 71 | bishnu | sabya |
| 72 | laltu | joy |
| 73 | monica | sumit |
| 74 | Santanu Das | Rabindra Nath Das |
| 75 | Prashanth Sriram | Tejas Nitin Lad |
| 76 | Dipak Poddar | Jitendra Solani |
| 77 | Ajit Chakradeo | Nitin Shah |
| 78 | Rajesh Somani | Anant Somani |
| 79 | Ravi Raman | Jenish Shah |
| 80 | Arnab Ghosh | Babhrubahan Bose |
| 81 | Indranath Chatterjee | Siddhartha Ghosh |
| 82 | H. K. Singh | Shantanu Rastogi |
| 83 | ARNAB KUMAR GHOSH | NIMAI CHANDRA GHOSH |
| 84 | Shriram Karve | Manisha Jamenis |
| 85 | Hema Deora | Rana Roy |
