Day 6 at Marrakesh was day of solid performances from the Open and Ladies teams. While the Open team has all our hearts beating with excitement at the prospect of qualification, the Ladies team has given us hope for the future. A quick reaction to a couple of comments received on yesterday’s post. Let me […]
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Day 5 at Marrakesh was a good one for the Indian open team, a disastrous one for the seniors, a heartening one for the ladies and a nothing (for want of a better word) day for the seniors. As we come to the closing stages of the round robin, only the Open team has any
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Day 4 at Marrakesh was a good one from India and has left one brimming with some hope albeit only time will tell our final standing. The Open Team has continued to maintain its solid steady performance keeping our hopes up. The seniors team posted two big wins yesterday to raise hopes of the possibility
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Day 3 at Marrakesh continued to be one of disappointments with all teams except the open virtually out of the race for qualification. The Open Team, while it still does have a chance, will have to play hard to make the cut. We hope they do! We have, today, some pictures from Marrakesh, shared in
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Day 2 at Marrakesh was definitely a disappointing one for India. The Indian ladies, who had filled us with so much hope on day 1, were given a dose of reality today. The Indian mixed team continued to struggle, notching up their first win only in the last session. While the Indian seniors did win
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The 46th World Bridge Championships got underway in Marḥba, Marrakesh on the 20th of August. BridgeFromHome will attempt to cover them in an overall manner. We would welcome reports of hands, or detailed matches from anybody. Will try and post them in the day’s coverage. For India, the day appeared to be a mixed bag.
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I first met Naku,when I joined the Aravali Hostel of IIT Delhi in 1979,where Naku was a “long term resident”. I think he was in his 7th or 8th year then. He was brilliant having got straight A s in all the Maths courses he took, no mean fit to achieve in an IIT. However
Test your defensive skill in today’s deal from a match-point event that had 50 tables on play. Initial Play You lead the D2 to 3, Queen and declarer’s Ace. South leads a Spade to dummy’s Queen, winning the trick. He plays the King next with East discarding the C2. You refuse to win
V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Bridge is not just another Card game ! No doubt that all and sundry have agreed that Bridge is the ultimate mind game. The jury is out with a clear verdict that this is the King of all card games, alright. Nevertheless, Bridge keeps close alliance with other card
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One of my friends, an instrumentation engineer, is fond of opening ‘light’, often putting his partners in a dilemma of whether to bid game or stay out of it. If they bid and go down, he would say ‘You know very well I open sub-minimum hands’ and if they stay out of game and it
