The last day of the 65th Winter Bridge Nationals saw Kamal Mukherjee and Mithun Mukherjee lift the Shree Cement Gold MP Pairs trophy. Rajeev Deo and Vilas Chouthai won the Senior IMP Pairs and R. Anbazaghan and KK Mishra won the Consolation Swiss Pairs Event.
Read about all this and more as BridgeFromHome completes its coverage of the event.
Shree Cement Gold Match Point Pairs - Finals
After 5 rounds of 10 boards each, Kamal Mukherjee and Mithun Mukherjee lifted the Shree Cement Pairs Gold trophy. Vijay Phatarphekar and Prakash Hegde were in second place. Shambhunath Ghosh and Biswajit Poddar were in 3rd place.
While 26 pairs had qualified for the finals, Amarnath Banerjee and R Tripathi had to withdraw as the former was feeling unwell. We are happy to advise you that he is feeling much better now.
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Ashok Ruia Senior IMP Pairs
After 3 sets of 14 boards each, Rajeev Deo and Vilas Chouthai clinched the Ashok Ruia Senior Pairs championship with a score of +77 imps. They were followed, in second place, by NC Kothari and Suresh Lele. Borhan Ali and BD Nayak were in 3rd place. I have to say it is heartening to see non standard names clinching honors. No one among the top 3 pairs is a National Master.
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Consolation Swiss Pairs
A small consolation Swiss Pairs was conducted for the remaining players
In a 12 pair event R. Anbazaghan and KK Mishra secured first place with 73.01 VPs. Subhashis Sarkar and Prasanta Bera were in second place and Rajib Roy and KD Choudhary were in 3rd place
In Conclusion
It has been a pleasure bringing to you, gentle reader a short report of the goings on in Jabalpur, even if one has done it remotely from Mumbai. We hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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Disclaimer : All opinions are entirely those of the author and are no reflection of the views of the BridgeFromHome Team.
fantastic coverage by sukrit. I wish he be in this work rather than be a director. very well done by Mithun again after HCL am-pro event. consistent enough. an active member of amarnath Banerjee’s lawrance club. unfortunately amarnath could not play due to momentary weakness but he is well now. mithun should be more happy that he bring the trophy to their club. kamalda is Kamalda the genius. Kudos to the senior winners. it is very gratifying to know that none of them are even national Masters. it proves that still we have hopes in bridge.