V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen “Are you myopic on the Bridge table?” It is an irrefutable fact that a bridge player needs to be far-sighted and sharp on the table! But it is not uncommon that one develops “Myopia” – worse, one becomes “Color blind ” even 🙃 The colorful game has only two […]
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The 18th Yeshwant Rao Holkar Championships concluded yesterday. Here are a few observations and thoughts (all my own work). As has now become usual, there are no comments to be made on the organization of the event itself. Managing events on this scale is tough and the organising team did a great job to run
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V N Ramamoorthy For time immemorial, men have been struggling to decipher the minds and moods of the fairer sex! If married, it is much more a daunting task, may be 😢😇 But both men and women are equally at their wits’ end at the bridge table – for locating / taming of her majesty
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Shri Vijayanand Singh, along with his son, Pradeep, won the Shri Murli Deora Memorial IMP pairs event conducted yesterday with a score of 43.09 IMPs. Harjeet Singh and R. Venkatesh secured 2nd place with a score of 39.39 IMPs. We could not help put feel for N. Rajmohan and Jenish (sir?!) who were second by
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Let’s face it. We have all faced days when the Queen is elusive. Both the finesses don’t work! 75% BAH! Your non vulnerable pre-empt goes for a telephone number when opponents don’t have a slam. Opponents reach unreachable games or slams! The worst thing: opponent passes a forcing bid and you gleefully pass only to
Manyawar (Pankaj Doshi, Ajay Khare, Raju Tolani, Anil Padhye, and Choti Hegde) won the Malabar Hill Club Championship with a score of 71.22 VPs. They finished comfortably ahead of second placed Mavericks (Subodh Maskara, Anal Shah, Jaggy Shivdasani, Sandeep Thakral, Keyzad Anklesaria and Debabrata Mazumder) who secured 63.63 VPs. The full results can be seen here
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Ladies and Gentlemen, “Partner Jodo Yatra is a challenge!” In the top echelons of Bridge, partnership is either already established, or easy to jodo. In the lower echelons, it does not matter! As usual, the problem is in the middle! Proof? Take any tournament in the BBO and look at the partnership desk! It is
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As 2022 draws to a close, BridgeFromHome was pleased to draw down the curtain on a year which has seen a transition from next to no F2F tournaments to an overdose of them. This article is being written just as our Welcome 2023 event came to an end. It would be remiss on our part
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V N Ramamoorthy Every year, year after year, we do get a new year. And there are many who make resolutions for the New Year! Bridge players are not an exception. The only difference may be,for bridge fraternity, the Old resolutions can stand good for every New year, year after year. Funny, you may think,
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V N Ramamoorthy “Jingle bells and tricks all the way!” It is Xmas season. Time for festivities, camaraderie, friendship, flowers, gifts, presents and the inevitable cake. A bridge tourney is also like a Xmas carnival. You can witness pleasantries, bursts of laughter, merriment, old jokes cracked and enjoyed even at the risk of repetition 😂
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