The text book stuff we read while cutting our teeth learning the ABCs, featured in this deal from the finals of the recently concluded HCL Championships, featuring Formidables, arguably India’s top dog team pitted against the sugar candy men of Dhampur Sugar Mills. The hand below had many interesting facets A Case For The Defense […]
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The bridge fraternity of India lost another 3 regulars yesterday in the form of Mr. Ningaiah, Mr. Jagapathi and Mr. Paresh Gupta. While the first two are not known to me (entirely my loss, I am sure), Paresh and I had interacted extremely pleasurably on several occasions. I have attempted to put together a small
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Priyanka Gulati Knowing how to lose is the art of winning, knowing how to deal with negativity is the art of positivity. I have always argued with my mother (who is a great believer of happiness and positivity) that per me not hearing negative news or thoughts is not positivity. Rather, knowing how to deal
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Hello Everyone! My name is Sutanu Behuria and I have the privilege of being elected as the President of BFI. I would like to thank all of you for your support and pledge to do my best for the benefit of the bridge fraternity. We have had an introductory meeting of the Executive Committee and some issues
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The Winners! In the elections for the new executive committee of the BFI held yesterday, the following were the results (while the source is not official, it is extremely reliable). President Prasad Kenny: 20 Sutanu Behuria: 23 Secretary Debashis Ray: 17 C M Kulkarni: 26 Treasurer Suman Sengupta: 6 K.P.Mathur: 22 Hemant Pandey: 13 T.
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The Winners! Swiss Teams Setu (Prasanta Bera – Priyotosh Sarkar – Saurendranath Chakrabarti – Sujit Bhattacharyya – Swapan Some) finished their bridge building (Setu is actually a bridge) in style conquering yet another stalwart team from India, namely Dhampur Sugar Mills (Anindya Bhattacharya – Ashok Kumar Goel – Kaustabh – Kaustubh Bendre – Sagnik Roy
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The Home Stretch! Swiss Teams Setu (Prasanta Bera – Priyotosh Sarkar – Saurendranath Chakrabarti – Sujit Bhattacharyya – Swapan Some) continued their giant killing streak taming Tornatae (Bhabesh Saha – Gopinath Manna – Monica Jajoo – NRK Moorthy – Prasad Keni – Uttam Gupta) by a margin of close to 30 imps. In the other
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The Final Countdown! Swiss Teams The quarter finals saw some tremendous bridge being played. At the top table, Tornatae (Bhabesh Saha – Gopinath Manna – Monica Jajoo – NRK Moorthy – Prasad Keni – Uttam Gupta) had to stave off a determined fight from Kohinoor (Binod Shaw – Biswadip Roy – Jibak Tewary – Mithun
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Making The Cut! At the end of the Swiss League Tornatae (Bhabesh Saha – Gopinath Manna – Monica Jajoo – NRK Moorthy – Prasad Keni – Uttam Gupta) finished on top, ahead of Bindiya Chamkegi (Bindiya Naidoo – Karthik Srinivasan – Koushik Mukherjee – Priya Ranjan Sinha – R.Venkatesh – Sanjay Sondhi – Soumalya Ghosh
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The Plot Thickens! Swiss League After four rounds at the end of day 2, we have Setu (Prasanta Bera – Priyotosh Sarkar – Saurendranath Chakrabarti – Sujit Bhattacharyya – Swapan Some ) leading the event by over 7 VPs from Texan Aces (Ajay Khare- Anil Padhye – Gopal Venkatesh – Prakash Hegde – Rajeev Gulavani
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