At the outset, we wish to thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts for the response to this event held in memory of J M Shah. This is the third edition of the event. With your blessings, we hope it forms an integral part of the Bridge Calendar of India.
This edition saw 39 teams participate in the event with two foreign teams in the mix. After two days, Team Sahyadri (Sampath Shrinivasan, R. Gokhale, Arun Bahulkar, R. Venkatesh, Peiyush Jain) leads ahead of Team Moderates (Sailaranjan Ghosh, Shankar Narayan Ghosh, Shankar Acharyya, Pranay Majumdar, Saswata Bhattacharya). We are always pleased to see non regular names hit the top of the leaderboard, though it must be said that Team Sahyadri has won the recently concluded Suhas Vaidya Memorial event.
Having said the above, it is still extremely early days with over 5 rounds to go. The full result of the Swiss League is available here here. We wish all the teams the very best of luck.
The pairs event also has drawn a tremendous response. Close to 50 pairs have signed up for the IMP pairs event which will start tomorrow evening at 5 pm. Please make it a point to Register here. Please not Entries Close at 1 pm tomorrow. Those who qualify for the knock outs can join the pairs later only if they have registered for the pairs earlier.
The exact distribution of the prizes will be announced by the end of the day. While BridgeFromHome had guaranteed prizes worth Rs. 50,000, we are happy to announce that thanks to the sponsors and your response, the prizes are likely to be closer to Rs. 75,000.