V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, On the auspicious occasion of Guru Purnima, here are a few thoughts penned by me Bridge is a game which keeps you learning for ever. You are yet to meet a player who can say with finality that he has nothing more to learn. What is the best way […]
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, All of us, irrespective of our depth of knowledge or skill level game play this game for pleasure, not pain. To ensure this pleasure for all of us, it is necessary that, notwithstanding the sanctity of our system, personality and gender, we follow UCC on bridge table! UCC is
V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, “Is Bridge a Two- wheel drive or a Four – wheel drive? ” Any bridge player, novice or otherwise, knows that Bridge is a partnership game. Ok, you can call it a “Team game” too when you are playing a duplicate event – still the team consists of partnerships
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Madurai – the name itself is synonymous with culture, history, civilization, chivalry and challenge! The city was put firmly on the Bridge map of the country by Late RR ( R. Ratnam of TVS family). The ever benevolent, philanthropic and industrious RR converted a bridge tournament to a “Bridge
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, The game of bridge is benevolent to both the declarer and defenders, equally! Clues, informations and opportunities are all available for the asking and yet… Philip Alder in his recent column advises “Remember the bidding”. It applies equally to the declarer and the defenders. You might have read a
V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, There was a time when people used to ask “Not playing?” and the usual response was “Yet to find a partner”. But not any more. Especially in the on-line version of the game at least. The human-found robots are available, at a price of peanuts or even free. A handful
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The Catholic Club, Bangalore, held its annual tournament yesterday. As a transient visitor to the city, I had gravitated there to play and was really overwhelmed by the event. For more than one reason. The first reason for being overwhelmed was the participation. There were 34 tables for the pairs event in the morning and
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Dear Bridge Lovers, Yesterday’s post drew a lot of reactions in various WhatsApp groups and raised a few questions about the upcoming Summer National Championships. I am therefore focusing this post on this event. As usual, the emphasis will be on facts. I am sure organizing an event of this scale is quite difficult. Nevertheless,
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Dear Friends, It has taken a long time for me to come to writing this post. Believe you me, I have agonized about it for the past several weeks about whether we should air the issues taxing the BFI in such a public manner. I kept telling myself that the officials of the BFI are
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V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen, Does the ‘loser’ count in Bridge maths? Well, if there is a giver there has to be taker. If there is a winner, there has to be a loser! “Bridge Dharma” doesn’t allow any one to be a constant winner or perennial loser. It is like a “Kal Chakra”
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