V N Ramamoorthy Ladies and Gentlemen To quote my favorite writer Alfred Sheinwold, “Every bid tells a story and every card gives a clue” – how true! Quite often, the challenges to a declarer are posed by the defenders. Occasionally, your CHO (aka partner) may also do the same 😇 On Sunday evening I got […]
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Introduction In large pairs events conducted by BridgeFromHome, we try to provide each player with a personalized login so that it is easy for people to find an appropriate seat opposite partner without having to go the scramble of searching for a place and making sure partner comes there. However, we find that a few
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This is a small account of the journey of my partner, Mridul Das, and myself as we played through the Upasana Jajoo pairs event which we miraculously happened to win. Sukrit really pushed me to write this; nagging me with the ease of a grandmother so, in case you think I am boasting, please do
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Hema Deora is a familiar face to all of us. Apart from having won a bronze medal in the mixed teams in the Asian Games held in Jakarta, 2018, she has won several open titles over the last years and narrowly missed winning several more. She has recently been writing about her work during Covid
The 63rd Winter National Bridge Tournament starts on Saturday with this iconic event. The annual IMP Pairs, hitherto called the Niranjan IMP Pairs will now be named the Murli Deora Memorial IMP Pairs. As a personality, he is so huge that it is impossible to do justice to him in a few small paragraphs. However,
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And, for the last day of 2021, a few thoughts and observations (all my own work)……. Like this is the first time in my memory that we are going into a new year with a sense of foreboding….. while last year, we were well in the grip of Covid, the sense around a year ago
These fellows from BridgeFromHome have been pestering me to write about bridge, something which I have been used to doing quite regularly in the past and which I will continue to do in the future as well. However, I am still marveling at my experiences in the post Covid era which have been challenging, enriching,
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Another year has gone by and before we knew it, 2022 is about to start. From our perspective, January is going to be an action packed month for all bridge lovers. We present below the calendar for the month of January. We are just outlining them for you as a reminder Junior Bridge RealBridge
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Some more of Debashis’s friends would like to tell us more about him and their relationship with him. We are including below a write up by Anirban Mitra, his first partner. It is a tad long and we don’t feel that we can do justice to it by editing it. We are therefore, publishing it
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This morning, the Bridge World in India awoke to a rude shock as news of Debashis (Inu) Bose’s death was relayed across WhatsApp groups. The cause of death was reported as a massive heart attack. Many of his colleagues in the Railways recall interacting and playing with him in the Inter Railways Championship held just
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