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    • In this section I would cover mostly tournaments happening in India and from perspective of performance of Indian & Uttar Pradesh bridge players. For an infrequent visitor of this website, the "new" things in this section are tournament reports of past six months though the reports of past one year are carried.The tournament report part of the news is in orange shade whereas tournament calender part of news is in green shade.

    Smt Rama Jain Memorial Times National Bridge Championship at Delhi 2010

    Smt Rama Jain memorial bridge championship took place at DBA premises, Delhi from March 6-7, 2010. 32 airs took part in this prestigious matchpoint pairs event. After 124 deals in two days Dhampur Sugar Mill's Ashok Goel & Bhabesh Saha won the event and pocketed first prize of Rs 40000/-. Vijay Goel & Sukamal Das finished runners up. Ashok Goel & Vijay Goel are real brothers. The results are as follows:

    1. Ashok Goel-Bhabesh Saha (1146.17 match points), 2. Vijay Goel-Sukamal Das (1070.83), 3. Subhash Gupta-Rajeshwar Tiwari (1068.83), 4. R Shridharan-PG Hegde (1052.67), 5. Subir Majumdar-Rana Roy (1050.17)

    Lucknow's RP Narain & RK Aneja ,the lone UP pair, finished 8th.

    Courtsey: RP Narain, Times of India Website

    24th Seth Srinivas Lohia Memorial Bridge Championship at Kanpur 2010

    Lohia Bridge Championship is taking place at Ganges Club, Kanpur from February 18-21, 2010.

    Day 4

    25 teams played BAM final which was won by Dhampur Sugar Mills (Sumit Mukherjee, Bhabesh Saha, Pritish Kushari, D Majumdar).They won Late Sri Ram Kumar Newatia Trophy.Arun Jain (Arun Jain, AK Jha, Manas Mukherjee, Rana Roy) was second & received Sri BM Prahladka Trophy. Small Arms Factory (RN Godbole, AK Acharya, N Chakraborty, AK Mishra) was third.

    32 pairs played final which was won by B Saha & Sumit Mukherjee with a score of 276. Mahendra Singh & AK Sinha (261) were second and Arun Srivastava & Girish Kumar (259.5) were third. Samir Basak & Sukamal Das (257.5) were fourth & Supravat Ghosh & Tapan Naskar (246) were fifth.

    Dhampur Sugar Mills justifying its top billing made clean sweep of all the three titles at stake.

    Day 3

    Dhampur who were trailing after first session of SF eventually defeated Prakash Bhandari 80-36 and Maya Meera prevailed over Mukul Gupta 69-31 IMPs to setup final. In 3*10 final Dhampur led by 39 IMPs after two session when Maya Meera conceded the match enabling Dhampur to win the Seth Srinivas Lohia Trophy.Playing for Dhampur are Sumit Mukherjee, B Saha, P Kushari, D Majumder.RK Lohia trophy for runners up went to Maya Meera.

    39 teams took part in Board A Match elimination. Pairs second elimination also took place on day 3. On day 4 BAM final & Pairs final would take place.

    Day 2

    After 9 rounds of swiss league the top seven teams are: Dhampur Sugar Mills -186, Mukul Gupta -175,Maya Meera Sneha -173 (Ashim Mukherjee, Subhashish Roy,Samir Basak, Sukamal Das, Kingshuk Bhattacharya) , Kamlesh Gupta -161 (Kamlesh Gupta, Prabir Paul, A Bhattacharjee, JN Roy, Indranil Chakraborty, B Bose), Prakash Bhandari -156 (Prakash Bhandari, Amarjit, DK Tiwari, PC Gupta, S Lahiri, SM Moin) ,Amateurish, Delhi -156 (KC Kumar, Anil Bharihoke, MR Goyal, MM Sinha, R Parasrampuria, RN Gupta), Pritish, Asansol -152 (S Bannerjee, B Ganguly, PK Jana, Kamal Ganguly, D Das, D Chakraborty). SPSBA, Kanpur ( SP Shukla, KP Newatia, AK Nigam, SK Kaushik, PK Haldar, P Chakraborty) was the eighth team to qualify as best local team with 141.

    In 2*10 QF Dhampur defeated SPSBA 42-31, Mukul Gupta defeated Pritish 66-30, Maya Meera defeated Amateurish 83-30 & Prakash Bhandari defeated Kamlesh Gupta 30-16.

    One session of 2*12 Semi Final was also played on day 2. Maya Meera is leading against Mukul Gupta 38-14 and Prakash Bhandari is leading against Dhampur 26-16.

    1st session of 2 session first elimination of Pairs event was also played on day 2 with 88 pairs taking part. They are divided into four sections of 11 tables each.

    Day 1

    44 teams are taking part in the duplicate event. They would play 9 rounds of swiss league of 10 boards each. Six rounds of swiss league were played on day one. The leader's are: Dhampur Sugar Mills -127, Maya Meera Sneha -124, Mukul Gupta, Lucknow (Mukul Gupta, SA Abbasi, Mahendra Singh, AK Sinha, RP Narain, RK Aneja) -121, Arun Jain -111, Abolpool -110, Chinchow -108, Kamlesh Gupta - 106, Prakash Bhandari -106. On day 2 three more rounds would be played to determine 8 Quarter Finalists (7 top swiss league finishers & one best local team).

    Courtesy: Sri NN Rastogi on phone from Kanpur.

    Swiss IMP Pairs at HAL, Lucknow 2010

    Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Officer's Club Lucknow organised a Swiss IMP Pairs event on February 14, 2010. HAL boys under guidance of RP Narain ( rpnarain@gmail.com ) have designed a software for Swiss Pairs. The event was very efficiently organised because of the software. Anyone in need of this software can contact him or myself. 14 pairs took part in the event and played swiss league of 7 rounds of 7 boards each. Maximum/ Minimum score obtained each round was +25/ -25 with maximum swing on each deal being 17 IMPs. JS Kaul & Dr SK Agarwal won the event with a score of 75. The other prize winners were RP Narain & RK Aneja (33), Pravin Agarwal & JN Bajpai (24), Shantanu Rastogi & Arun Srivastava (17) and GN Mehrotra & SA Abbasi (13).

    The event also served as trial for DN Rastogi Memorial pairs event.Apart from five prize winners, Manish Jaiswal & HK Singh also qualified. The two reserve pairs are - SK Richhariya & Cdr RP Srivastava and HP Misra & AK Srivastava.

    7th Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar National Bridge Championship at Indore 2010

    7th Yeshwant Rao Holkar National Bridge Championship took place at Yeshwant Club, Indore from January 7-10, 2010. In the four day event there were two main events Kalani Trophy duplicate teams and Holkar IMP pairs. Though this is the seventh edition of the championship duplicate event has been started for the first time. Before I report about the results a bit about this championship. This was my first visit to Indore and what a pleasure it turned out to be even though Indore is not very well connected to Lucknow - I changed two trains while going and three while returning and also made journey through road. Though as usual in any bridge event you dont get time for sightseeing the event itself was a surprise. It was magnificently organised bridge event and I found it better than the prima donna in India -the HCL Bridge Tournament - so I recommend it to most Indian players to take part in it. Magnificient venue, bidding boxes, common boards in duplicate, pre dealt boards in Holkar pairs, good prizes and okish food (Its a fallacy that only five star hotels provide good food. Menu needs to be ok as well) made it such a pleasure so much so that I could overcome my bad performance in Holkar Pairs. There was a sombre note in the tournament. We lost a fine bridge player from Allahabad ,Dr SK Bapat, in the midst of Holkar pairs due to a massive heart attack. The organisers in their fine gesture cancelled dinner & cocktails in mark of respect for the deceased soul.

    Kalani Trophy

    39 teams took part event. They played 8 rounds of swiss league of 10 boards with common boards. Agarwal's Team (Siddharth Behura, Kr Vijayananad Singh, Indresh Agarwal, Pradeep Singh, Sudhir Agarwal, Vinod Sharma) topped the swiss league with 162 VPs. Dhampur Sugar Mills (Ashok Goel, Kamal Mukherjee, Pritish Kushari, D Majumder, Sumit Mukherjee, B Saha) with 153, Shree Radhey (VM Lal, R Bhiwandkar, Anal Shah, G Manna) with 150, Khandelwal (Rajiv Khandelwal, Himani Khandelwal, Sandeep Thakral, K Bendre, S Inamdar) with 142, Texan Aces ( P Sridhar, KR Venkatraman, R Krishan, JM Shah) with 136, Manidipa (D Santra, CS Mazumder, Biman Chatterjee, RK Mazumder) with 134, Maya Meera Sneha (Vijay Goel, Sukamal Das, Asim Mukherjee, Sankar Acharya) with 133, 3 Idiots Plus One (Sham Sharma, Subhash Gupta, B Satyanaryana, K Bhattacharya) with 133 were other qualifiers.

    Maya Meera defeated Agarwal, 3 Idiots defeated Shree Radhey, Dhampur defeated Manidipa and Khandelwal defeated Texan Aces in the 42 board quarter final. 3 Idiots won against Dhampur and Maya Meera defeated Khandelwal in the semi final to set up tital clash where idiots prevailed.

    There were prizes for top 16 teams.

    The interesting name of the winners is based on the smashing hit movie 3 idiots. The movie is based on a novel 5 point someone by Chetan Bhagat ,an IIT Delhi -which is one of the top five original premier engineering institutes of India- alumnus, who has sadly not been given credit in the movie. The novel is based on life of 3 youngsters at IIT Delhi. A few members of this idiots team are from IIT Delhi and hence the name. The IITs especially from Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai) & Delhi have given some of top Indian bridge players, Kharagpur & Kanpur lag behind. Yours truly is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur.

    Holkar Pairs

    107 pairs played the elimination of Holkar Pairs. They were joined by losing quarterfinals after first two sessions at 27th position. The elimination was played over 5 sessions of 22 boards each of pre dealt boards with IMP scoring. 27 pairs qualified were joined by 5 losing SFs to form a field of 32 for final. Promising youngsters Anurag Mohota & Sapan Desai topped the qualifying rounds with massive 205.3 IMPs. The field was mixed and hence could see such high scores. Final was won by Krishna Kumar & Kaizad Anklesaria. Kajal Das & JN Roy were second followed by KR Venkatraman & R Krishnan.

    One of the problems which I guess is there elsewhere in the world also is fair disclosure by even experienced players in India. This puts the newer players to disadvantage. I came across incidents of these sharp practices in the pairs eliminination. Bad but I guess thats the way world is. We need to do something about this as bridge gets poor name and results in a drawback as far as future development of bridge as Olympic sports.

    RM Gupta playing with Rajesh Gautam was the only UP player to qualify for final. A very creditable feat.

    There were assured prizes for all 32 finalists.

    Sponsored Event

    71 pairs took part in the event for the non qualifiers of pairs event. They played 42 deals in two sessions. Amarjit & Paresh Gupta won the event with high 101 score. DK Tiwari & S Lahiri (UP) came second.There were prizes for top 5 pairs.

    51st Winter Nationals at Bengaluru 2009

    Ruia Trophy

    Indian Railways ‘A’ team headed the list of 16 qualifiers in Group B of the early Swiss league of 15 rounds on day 3 in the 51st Winter National bridge championship being played at Jasma Mandir, Bengaluru from Decmeber 15-24, 2009. The Railways team, which has won the Ashok Ruia Trophy several times, is represented by Manas Mukherjee, Rana Roy, Amar Nath Banerjee, Sumit Mukherjee, S. Majumder and D. Majumder. Group A was topped by Hansa Narasimhan’s team which comprises of Hansa Narsimhan (She has won Venice Cup representing USA), Anal Shah, Sandip Datta, Amod Rele, Jagdish Biswas and Prasun Mukherjee. 32 teams thus qualified would play the mini Swiss league of eight rounds to decide the quarterfinalists. A total of 143 teams are taking part in the coveted Ruia Trophy and are divided into two groups of 70 & 73 teams.The following is the list of 32 qualifiers for the Ruia Trophy mini Swiss league:

    Group ‘A’: Hansa Narasimhan, Formidables, Indian Railways ‘B’, Mango, C.V. Rao, S. Behura, Arun Jain, Ramcharan Projects, Cabal Mumbai, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Alpha, Captain Karmarkar, Mohata Nagpur, Pritha, Maya Mira Sneha and Govardhan Agarwal.

    Group ‘B’: Indian Railways ‘A’, Anauttara, India Blues, Pankaj Mehta, Sunil Machhar, Farias, Dr. Vasanth Bangalore, Shatabdi Express, Mahajan Kolkata, Arnabs Kolkata, Jupiter Hyderabad, Shree Cements, Navayuga, Poddar Developers, Dr. P.K. Banerjee and Ashok Chatterjee.

    There are two teams from comprising of UP players which have qualified for round of 32. They are S Behura from Group A and Pankaj Mehta from Group B.

    Indian Railways A topped the mini swiss league with 171 VPs on day 4. The other quarterfinalists were: Arun Jain, Kolkata -143 (A Daga, AK Jha, K Bhattacharya, SP Ghosh, CS Majumder, K Nandy), CABAL, Mumbai -143 (P Hegde, DA Gadgil, BG Daxindas, R Gulvani, Dr Vahalia, Sanjay Damle), CV Rao- 142 (CV Rao,VR Kumar,Badal Das,Shibnath Dey Sarkar,Pranab Bardhan, Partha Sarathy Mukherjee) Sunil Machar-142 (Sunil Machar, Anil Padhye, Kalpana Misra, R Sridharan, Ajay Khare, Milind Athavale), Dhampur Sugar Mills-138 (Ashok Goel, P Kushari, B Saha, S Dutt, U Gupta, Kamal Mukherjee), India Blues-135 (Ashok Ruia, JM Shah, KR Venkatraman, Ravi Dudhane, S Karmakar, Kamal Roy), Mango-134 (Jeroo Mango, BN Parasrampuria, A Sequiera, Vivek Bhand, Alok Sadhu, AB Chakraborty). The quarter final line up is: Railways vs Mango, Arun Jain vs Dhampur, CABAL vs India Blues, CV Rao vs Sunil Machar. On day 5 QF 10 *3 and SF 12*3 would be played.

    It is Indian Railways A vs Dhampur Sugar Mills final.The final would be played on day 6 in 4 sessions of 16 boards each. In the Semi Final Railways beat CV Rao 94-58 and Dhampur beat CABAL 69-61. In QF Railways beat Mango 99-61, Dhampur beat Arun Jain 62-57, CABAL beat India Blues 72-48, CV Rao beat Sunil Machar 47-28.

    Indian Railways A wins Ruia Trophy by a whisker defeating Dhampur Sugar Mills by 1 IMP (124-123) in the 64 board final. Dhampur Sugar Mills got runners up BM Malani Trophy.

    MNC Trophy-Kamalakar Trophy

    204 pairs took part in the IMP pairs for MNC & Kamalakar trophies which was played over 3 sessions. The pairs were divided into 6 sections of 17 tables each. Sections ABC & DEF played separately but the winner was highest scorer of both groups combined. Vinay Desai & Arun Bapat won the MNC Trophy scoring 176 IMPs in DEF group. Sunil Verghese & Srihari Verghese won the runners up Kamalakar Trophy scoring 168 IMPs in ABC group.

    UP's RS Misra & RK Shukla finished a very creditable second in group DEF and combined rank third with 149 IMPs. RM Gupta & RN Gupta also from UP finished 5th in group DEF with 130 IMPs.

    Mohan Sicka Board A Match Trophy

    60 teams took part in the 1st elimination of BAM. 38 teams qualified were joined by 6 QF/SF of Ruia Trophy for 2nd elimination. 19 teams qualified were joined by 2 finalist teams of Ruia Trophy to make a field of 21 for the final. The final was played over 3 sessions and 60 boards.Dhampur Sugar Mills won the event with a score of 225.Shree Cement was in second place with 221 and Formidables finished third with 218.

    Holkar Pairs

    132 pairs took part in Holkar pairs 1st elimination, 88 the 2nd elimination and 52 the 3rd elimination. The final was a field of 28 playing 54 boards all play all.Manas Mukherjee & Rana Roy won the event with a score of 413.VM Lal & R Bhiwandkar finished runners up with 409. Alok Daga & SP Ghosh were third with 404.

    Courtesy: R Jayaram - The Hindu Online, Bulletins

    All India Prize Money Tournament at Ludhiana 2009

    All India Prize Money Bridge Tournament took place at Sutlej Club, Ludhiana from October 3-4, 2009. 32 teams took part in the event which was won by Maheshwari, Allahabad (Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Singh, Indresh Agarwal ). 32 teams played swiss league on day 1 after which 8 temas qualified for QF. QF, SF & Finals were played on day 2. The remaining players played pairs event on day 2. Total prize money was Rs 2.75 lacs out of which winners took Rs 80000/-.

    All India GM Modi Memorial Bridge Tournament at Nanital 2009

    All India GM Modi Memorial Bridge Tournament took place at Boat House Club, Nainital from September 17-20, 2009. 55 teams took part in duplicate event and played 10 rounds of swiss league of 8 boards to determine 8 quarter finalists. Dhampur Sugar Mills (Ashok Goel, Kamal Mukherjee, Pritish Kushari, D Majumdar, Sumit Mukherjee, B Saha) topped the swiss league with a very high 205 VPs. Other qualifiers were Arun Jain (Arun Jain, AK Jha, Manas Mukherjee, Subir Majumdar, S Saha, Rana Roy ) 197, JP Goenka (JP Goenka, S De Sarkar, Pranab Bardhan, Arun Bapat, G Manna) 185, Azure (SK Hooda, Bharati Dey, Alok Sadhu, Manik Chakraborty) 184, Mukul Gupta, Lucknow (Mukul Gupta, Mahendra Singh, Shantanu Rastogi, SR Bhattacharya, S Some) 178, Mango (Jeroo Mango, BN Parasrampuria, JM Shah, Anand Samant) 176, Boat House Club - A (VK Jhunjhunwala, Arvind Prasad, Kingshuk Bhattacharya, Tapas Mukherjee) 171, Chrysalis (Sandeep Thakral, Joyjit Sen Sharma, Souren Dutt, Prasun Mukhopadhyay) 171. It was a series of upsets in 10*2 QF where Boat House Club defeated Dhampur Sugar Mills, Mukul Gupta defeated Arun Jain, Chrysalis defeated Azure. JP Goenka was the only top 4 team to survive where they defeated Mango. Chrysalis defeated Boat House Club and JP Goenka won over Mukul Gupta in the 12*2 SF. Final was 10*3 where JP Goenka emerged as winners of GM Modi memorial trophy.

    50 (48 + 2 losing SF) teams took part in the Board a Match event and played an elimination from which 26 teams played in the final. Manidipa (D Santra, B Chatterjee, R Majumder, S Sarkar) won the HP Varshney memorial trophy. AG4 (AK Bansal, V Mittal, BG Joshi, RD Sharma) were second. Man-U (Vinod Sharma, Sudhir Agarwal, NK Gupta, Manish Bahuguna, Suhas Vaidya, Prakash Hegde) were third. Mukul Gupta, Lucknow - the seeded team from SF (Mukul Gupta, Mahendra Singh, SR Bhattacharya, S Some, Shantanu Rastogi) were fourth.

    110 pairs took part in first elimination of pairs. 68 pairs played in second elimination from where 28 pairs played in final. Sumit Mukherjee & B Saha won the Rishabh Lohia trophy with 67.75% score. AK Mukherjee & Sunil Bhatia were runners up. Other prize winners were PK Mukherjee & G Manna, B Chatterjee & D Santra, Alok Daga & SP Ghosh and SK Roy & Satyabrata Mukherjee.

    World Bridge Championship at Sao Paulo, Brazil 2009

    World Bridge Championship 2009 is taking place at Sao Paulo, Brazil from August 29- September 12, 2009. India is represented in Bermuda Bowl by Rajesh Dalal, Subhash Gupta, Sunit Chokshi, KR Venkatraman, Mrs Kiran Nadar & B Satyanarayana and in D' Orsi Senior Bowl by Ashok Ruia, SK Iyenger, RA Agarwal, VM Lal, Dipak Podar & R Sridharan. India is unrepresented in the Venice Cup for ladies. At the end of first day both the teams didnt do quite so well. Indian open team scored- vs Netherlands 7, vs Pakistan 12, vs Brazil 16 to lie joint 15th out of 22 teams of which 8 would qualify for QF. Indian senior team scored - vs Sweden 17, vs Indonesia 2, vs England 6 to lie 21st among 22 teams. The second day was better for Indian teams. Open team scored - vs Morocco 25, vs Italy 6, vs Australia 25 to lie 10th. Senior team scored - vs Pakistan 14, vs Belgium 14.5, vs Venezuela 22 to lie 15th. On third day Open team scored - vs Argentina 12, vs Egypt 9, vs USA2 11 to lie 14th. Senior team scored - vs Turkey 17, vs Poland 21, vs NZ 14 to lie 14th.On fourth day Open team scored - vs Russia 12, vs Germany 13, vs Mexico 25 to lie 11th. Senior team scored - vs Uruguay 19, vs Australia 15, vs Brazil 21 to lie 11th. On the fourth day more than half of the league phase has got over and the Open team faces an uphill task of qualifying as the difference between 8th place and 11th place is 31 VPs, for the senior team this difference is 9.5 VPs. On fifth day Open team scored - vs China 22, vs USA1 11, vs Chile 15 to lie 12th. Senior team scored - vs USA2 0, vs USA1 10, vs Barbados 25 to lie 13th. On sixth day both teams went out of reckoning. Open team scored - vs Chinese Taipei 5, vs Norway 21, vs Guadelope 13 to lie 13th. Senior team scored - vs Japan 9, vs Egypt 14, vs Italy 9 to lie 13th. At the end of 21 rounds both Indian team finished at 14th place. Open team scored - vs Bulgaria 13, vs NZ 10, vs Japan 13 to finish with 296 VPs 62 VP behind the qualifying mark. Senior team scored - vs SA 20, vs Canada 15, vs Argentina 18 to finish with 302.5 VPs 39 VPs behind the qualifying mark.

    In Bermuda Bowl following teams qualified- Italy 390.25, Norway 385.25, Bulgaria 382, USA2 368, Netherlands 361, Germany 360, Russia 359, China 358. In Venice Cup for ladies following teams qualified - China 411,France 389, USA1 377.5, USA2 354, Italy 348, Germany 347.75, Spain 345, Sweden 333. In Senior Bowl following teams qualified - England 402, Belgium 378.5, Poland 371, USA1 365, USA2 361, Egypt 352, Sweden 344, Indonesia 341.5.

    It is Italy vs Bulgaria and USA2 vs China in the SF of Bermuda Bowl.China 197 beat Norway 194.5, USA2 214 beat Netherlands 200, Bulgaria 271 beat Germany 245 & Italy 234.5 beat Russia 186.In Venice Cup it is China vs France and USA1 vs USA2 in the SF. China 259 beat Sweden 182, USA2 258 beat Germany 210, USA1 189 beat Spain 139 & France 252.5 beat Italy 188. It is England vs Indonesia and USA2 vs Poland in the SF of Senior Bowl. England 237 beat Egypt 236, Indonesia 211 beat Belgium 140.5, USA2 222.67 beat USA1 161 & Poland 247 beat Sweden 164.33.All the three teams (USA2 -0, Indonesia- 2 & England- 6) which thrashed Indian Senior team are in the SF while Italy which gave Indian Open team single digit score (6) is in SF.

    Its Italy ( Giorgio Duboin, Antonio Sementa, Alfredo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Fulvio Fantoni, Claudio Nunes) vs USA2 (Bob Hamman, Zia Mahmood, Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, Nick Nickell, Ralph Katz) final in Bermuda Bowl, China (Yongling Dong, Yi Qian Liu, Ming Sun, Hongli Wang, Wenfei Wang, Ru Yan) vs USA1 (Lynn Baker, Lynn Deas, Irina Levitina, Karen McCallum, Beth Palmer, Kerri Sanborn) final in Venice Cup & England (Paul Hackett, Gunnar Hallberg, Ross Harper, John Holland, David Price, Colin Simpson) vs Poland (Julian Klukowaski, Apolinery Kowalski, Krzysztof Lasocki, Victor Markowicz, Jacek Romanski, Jerzy Russyan) final in Senior Bowl.Italy 237 beat Bulgaria 132 & USA2 224 beat China 123 in the SF of Bermuda Bowl.China 245 beat France 221.33 & USA1 179.5 beat USA2 80 in the SF of Venice Cup. England 204.5 beat Indonesia 182 & Poland 273 beat USA2 236 in the SF of Senior Bowl.

    In Bermuda Bowl Bulgaria (Victor Aronov, Diyan Danailov, Kalin Karaivanov, Georgi Kanakolev, Julian Stefanov, Roumen Trendifilov) 186 defeated China (Jianming Dai, Zhong Fu, Weimin Wang, Lixin Yang, Jie Zhao, Zejun Zhuang) 84 to win bronze. In Venice Cup France (Daniele Allouche Gaviard, Veronique Bassis, Benedicte Cronier, Catherine D'Ovidio, Elisabeth Hugon, Sylvie Willard) 139.5 defeated USA2 (Connie Goldberg, Renee Mancuso, Shawn Quinn, Jo Ann Sprung, Peggy Sutherlin, Pam Witts) 93 to win bronze. In Senior Bowl Indonesia (Arianto Karna Djajanegara, Micheal Bombang Hartono, Henky Lasut, Eddy Manoppo, Denny Sacul, Munawar Sawiruddin) 125 defeated USA2 (David Berkowitz, Dan Gerstman, Mark Lair, Carolyn Lynch, Mike Passel, John Sutherlin) 77 to win bronze.

    China 220 beat USA1 148 to lift Venice Cup. England 187 beat Poland 163.67 to win Senior Bowl. USA2 235.33 leads Italy 167 after 96 of the 128 boards which may give Zia Mahmood ,who has left Pakistan to become citizen of USA, his first world title after a few near misses.USA2 285.33 defeated Italy 249 to win coveted Bermuda Bowl.

    It was heart break for Indian Texan Aces (G Venkatesh, JM Shah, Honey Prabhakar, R Tewari, P Sridhar, S Sundarram) team as they failed to qualify for QF by 1 VP in World Transnational Team Championship having lost their last match by 23-7. The other Indian team India (the Indian team in Bermuda Bowl) finished 13th in the 68 team field.The Transnational final is between Zimmerman (Cezary Balicki, Geir Helgemo, Tor Helness, Franck Multon, Pierre Zimmerman, Adam Zmudzinski) & Apreo Logistic Poland (Krzysztof Buras, Piotr Gawrys, Jacek Kalita, Krzysztof Kotorowicz, Grzegorz Narkiewicz, Jacek Psczola) where Zimmerman won by 95.5-93.

    Courtesy: WBF Website

    39th UP State Bridge Championship at Lucknow 2009

    39th UP State Bridge Championship took place at VKS Varadan Auditorium, GSI, Lucknow from August 28-30, 2009. A modest 18 teams (though higher than previous two years) took part in the event. They played 8 rounds of swiss league of 8 boards each after which four qualifiers for Semi finals were selected.Kaul (JS Kaul, S Lahiri, BN Batra, SP Agnihotri) topped the swiss league with 140 VPs. Other qualifiers were Wasi-4, Aligarh (Mohd Wasi, S Zuberi, Khalique, Anil Bansal) 139 VPs, Rajjan Agarwal, Allahabad (Rajjan Agarwal, Shankar Chatterjee, Pintoo Bose, BK Agarwal, SP Srivastava, Deepak Chatterjee) 136 VPs, Siddiqui, Lucknow (RA Siddiqui, B Prasad, RP Narain, RK Aneja, TP Khare, NC Bhattacharya) 135 VPs.The defending champions and favourites Maheshwari, Allahabad lagged far behind and couldnt qualify. In 2*10 boards Semi Final Wasi-4 defeated Rajjan's team by 5 IMP and Siddiqui defeated Kaul by 20 IMPs to reach final. In 2*12 board final Wasi-4 defeated Siddiqui by 6 IMPs to lift DN Rastogi Memorial Trophy.

    38 pairs took part in the first elimination and played in two sections of 10 & 9 tables Mitchell Movement of 3 boards each. 21 pairs qualified and were joined by 5 losing SF pairs and played Scrambelled Mitchell movement of 12 rounds of two boards each to take 13 qualifiers. The Final was 18 pair Howell movement of 15 rounds of two boards each. JS Kaul & S Lahiri won the JS Kothiwal Memorial Trophy with 57.58% score. The other prize winners were SP Srivastava & Deepak Chatterjee, RP Narain & RK Aneja, Pintoo Bose & BK Agarwal and Shantanu Rastogi & Arun Srivastava in that order.

    15 teams took part in the BAM event. Raja (Mohd Wasi, Sultan Zuberi, BK Agarwal, RM Gupta) won the event and with it Gajendra Nath Rastogi Memorial Trophy. Maheshwari, Allahabad (BN Rastogi, AK Sinha, SQ Wajahat, Govind Agarwal) were runners up.

    It is heartening to note that teams from relatively smaller towns are showing quality to win the state championship. However, there is a lack of younger players.

    4th GSI Lucknow Open State Level Bridge Tournament at Lucknow 2009

    4th Lucknow Open Bridge tournament organised by Geological Survey of India (GSRC - Geobridge) took place at VKS Varadan Auditorium, GSI, Lucknow from August 22-23, 2009. A good 17 teams took part in the event out of which at least ten were non GSI teams. They played 7 rounds of swiss league of 8 boards each after which two qualifiers for finals were selected. Mahendra Singh (Mahendra Singh, Mrs Asha Sharma, Mukul Gupta, SA Abbasi) topped the swiss league with 139 VPS and faced Kaul (JS Kaul, Kamal Agarwal, BN Batra, SP Agnihotri), who were second with 128 VPs, in the final. Mahendra team won the 2*12 final by 34 IMPs and with it the KN Srivastava Trophy.The best GSI team prize went to RK Singh (RK Singh, Y Deva, IP Bajpai, VN Bajpai).

    36 pairs played in two sections of Mitchell movement 9 tables, 8 rounds of 3 boards each to determine 18 qualifiers for the finals who were joined by 3 duplicate finalist pairs and a seeded pair to make a field of 22 pairs for final. Finals was 11 rounds of 3 boards each Scrambled Mitchell movement to determine three prize winners. Shantanu Rastogi & Arun Srivastava won the JR Singh Trophy with a 65.91% session. BN Rastogi & AK Sinha finished runners up with 63.94% score.BN Batra & SP Agnihotri finished third with 58.64% score. The best GSI pair prize went to AK Srivastava & P Purkayastha.

    It is a well organised tournament with good hospitality and hopefully the participation would increase in future editions of the event.

    HCL Bridge Tournament at NOIDA 2009

    HCL bridge tournament is taking place at Hotel Radisson, NOIDA from August 13-16, 2009. 72 teams took part in the event inspite of swine flu scare. They played 10 rounds of swiss league of 10 boards each to determine 8 qualifiers for quarter finals. Ajay Vaish, Moradabad (Ajay Vaish, SA Abbasi, Dhanesh Chandra, Justice BP Singh) played very well and were the sole UP team to qualify for QF with 174 VPs. Texan Aces (G Venkatesh, JM Shah, R Tewari, P Sridhar) topped the swiss league with 193 VPs. The other teams to qualify were Mango 185, Promila Saraf 181, Manyawar 180, Shree Cement 176, Shri Radhey 180 & B Malhotra 174. Texan Aces defeated Ajay Vaish, Mango defeated B Malhotra, Promila Saraf defeated Shri Radhey and Manyawar lost to Shree Cement in the QFs.Though Ajay Vaish lost out in the QF they became richer by Rs 50000/-, the prize for a losing QF team. It was Promila Saraf vs Mango and Texan Aces vs Shree Cement in the SFs. Texan Aces prevailed by 30 IMPs and Mango (Mrs J Mango, BN Parasrampuria, Ian Concessio, Archie Sequeira, Aloke Sadhu & Manik Chakraborty) won by 11 IMPs to set up final on Sunday for Naresh Tandan trophy. Semi Final between Mango & Promila Saraf shown live on BBO was decided on the last deal where Mango pair played a 24 (split 20 - 4) point deal in 4 Spade making 7. Had Promila Saraf pair shown a little more of enterprise (1S -P-3S (pre-emptive)-P- 4C (Cue) - X-P-P-4S-All Pass) and bid six (By cue bidding his diamond ace and forcing pre-empting partner to cue bid hearts) making seven if outside club ace is not cashed they would have won the match. The 1 spade opener held S AK 10xxx H AQx D AQx C J and his partner had S 98xx H KJxx D xx C xxx.Basically partner can not cue at first possible opportunity as he lacks first round controls, is almost minimum and is unsure about Clubs after the double. The 4 diamond cue not only shows slam interest but also tells partner not to worry about clubs forcing him to cue bid something or sign off in 4 Spades. It is a 50% slam and is entirely acceptable when you need to gain or even otherwise. It is first big final for Mrs Mango and her team would be underdogs. It is not often that the swiss league top 2 reach the finals also. Both the teams did not face each other in the swiss league which is an irony of the swiss league format. The final on Sunday turned out to be one sided with Texan Aces winning easily the coveted Naresh Tandan trophy.

    Open Pairs

    Open pairs for Neena Bonnerjee trophy final also takes place on Sunday. The field is pared to 32 strong after 155 pairs took part in first elimination. There is only one UP pair of Pradeep Singh & Pankaj Mehta playing in the finals.The husband & wife duo of Rajeev Khandelwal & Himani Khandelwal won the pairs event.

    HCL 2009 Pairs Final Results

    It is good to note that HCL, a premier IT company, which sponsors a bridge tournament ,where cream of society also turn up in large numbers, mainly because Mrs Kiran Nadar ,a member of Formidables team, is married to HCL founder Shiv Nadar, is also taking up its social responsibilty in a big way by opening up fabulous schools for underprivileged children in state of Uttar Pradesh(UP). Though NOIDA ,where the tournament takes place, is strictly in UP the UP or NOIDA Bridge Association is not consulted. This gesture of opening schools in UP in a far way compensates whatever is due to UPBA.

    Courtesy: www.hcl-bridge.com, TC Pant, BBO

    Ubhayakar Trophy Final Results 2009

    Ubhayakar trophy 2009 final results have been computed. This year it took place at 46 centres. 47th centre Bilaspur hasnt send the results.In session 1 333 pairs played & in session 2 327 pairs played. Pune saw the largest participation for a centre with 25 tables in each session.The overall top three in each direction & in each session are as follows:

    NS 1st session

    1. Col RS Bajwa & Dr Harbans Singh - Solan - 1698 - 13 tables - 30 MP
    2. N Koley & SK Chakraborty - Hooghly - 1617 - 10 tables - 28.5 MP
    3. Bhakti Roy & Pradip Rn. Das - Guwahati - 1600 - 9 tables - 27.08 MP

    EW 1st session

    1. SGK Rao & Veerachari - Hospet - 1623 - 3 tables - 30 MP
    2. K Suryanarayan & K Sriniwas - Hyderabad - 1603 - 14 tables - 27.79 MP
    2. Gangi Reddy & Krishna Reddy - Tirupati - 1603 - 5 tables - 27.79 MP

    NS 2nd session

    1. Zefrin Rodrigues & SJ Coelho - Mangalore - 1775 - 5 tables - 30 MP
    2. KN Jaiswal & MM Nangia - Lucknow - 1682 - 6 tables - 28.5 MP
    3. Kr Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh - Varanasi - 1630 - 5 tables - 27.08 MP

    EW 2nd session

    1. Naik Navare & DK Reddy - Hyderabad - 1635 - 5 tables - 30 MP
    2. Ghatage & Sham Phadnis - Sangli - 1545 - 10 tables - 28.5 MP
    3. MR Tarkunde & NV Pandey - Nagpur - 1540 - 13 tables - 27.08 MP


    Four centres in UP held the event. They are Lucknow (12 pairs), Allahabad (10 pairs), Kanpur (8 pairs) & Varanasi (10 pairs) in each session. Apart from two pairs in top three Rajjan Agarwal & Shankar Chatterjee (Allahabad) in Session 1 NS finished 6th with 1561 score and 23.21 masterpoints. The UP Pairs who got masterpoints apart from top ten finishers are:

    NS 1st session

    12. PK Bannerjee & J Pandey - Allahabad - 1493 - 17.06 MP
    25. KP Newatia & SK Kaushik - Kanpur - 1419 - 8.76 MP
    27. AK Nigam & SP Shukla - Kanpur - 1416 - 7.91 MP
    28. SP Srivastava & D Chatterjee - Allahabad - 1411 - 7.51 MP
    46. Kr Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh - Varanasi - 1374 - 2.98 MP
    58. VB Lal & Nirmal Biswas - Varanasi - 1345 - 1.57 MP

    EW 1st session

    30. SP Agnihotri & S Lahiri - Kanpur - 1417 - 6.44 MP
    47. BN Saha & Bhagwan Sah - Varanasi - 1382 - 2.69 MP
    53. NC Bhattacharya & TP Khare -Lucknow- 1369 - 2.08 MP
    60. RS Misra & OP Tewari -Allahabad- 1353 - 1.42 MP

    NS 2nd session

    32. Bal Agarwal & VK Agarwal - Allahabad - 1479 - 6.12 MP
    44. PK Haldar & P Chakravorty - Kanpur - 1455 - 3.3 MP
    50. SP Srivastava & D Chatterjee - Allahabad - 1430 - 2.51 MP
    53. GN Mehrotra & SA Abbasi - Lucknow - 1426 - 2.08 MP

    EW 2nd session

    14. DM Verma & BK Agarwal - Allahabad - 1465 - 15.4 MP
    35. RS Misra & OP Tewari - Allahabad - 1383 - 5.24 MP
    57. Dr Moitra & SK Biswas - Allahabad - 1336 - 1.7 MP

    Ubhayakar Trophy 2009 Masterpoints

    6th Late Sri BP Halwasiya Memorial Bridge Tournament at Lucknow 2009

    6th Late Sri BP Halwasiya Memorial Bridge Tournament took place at MB Club, Lucknow on July 26, 2009. 24 pairs took part in the event which is very good by Lucknow standards. They played in Mitchell movement with 24 boards and a skipped round. Three prizes in both NS & EW direction were given along with one prize to best MB Club pair. A lady participating along with four ladies who actually paid entry fee but didnt take part as they were soaking the ambience of competitive bridge were also felicited by the generous sponsor. Sri Sudhir Halwasiya holds this event in the memory of his father who was a keen bridge player and is definitely a generous sponsor giving prizes to the tune of Rs 13000/-. The results are as follows:

    NS

    1. Shantanu Rastogi & Arun Srivastava 63.59%
    2. Dr AS Gupta & AK Dhall 57.11%
    3. Dr RP Saxena & Col Ravi Kapoor 56.02%

    EW

    1. B Prasad & RA Siddiqui 62.89%
    2. SQ Wajahat & BN Rastogi 59.36%
    3. Pravin Agarwal & JN Bajpai 54.34%

    KL Gupta & Mrs Joginder Singh in the NS direction and Dr Mehra & J Dhall in the EW direction were the best MB Club pairs.

    15th BFAME Bridge Championship at Amman, Jordan 2009

    15th BFAME (Bridge Federation of Asia & Middle East) Bridge Championship to select two teams from this zone for Bermuda Bowl (Open), Venice Cup (Women) & Senior event is taking place at Amman, Jordan from June 26- July 4, 2009. Indian open team- Rajesh Dalal, Subhash Gupta, Sunit Chokshi, KR Venkataraman, B Satyanarayana & Mrs Kiran Nadar and Indian Senior team- Ashok Ruia, SK Iyenger, Dipak Poddar, R Sridharan, RA Agarwal & VM Lal have qualified for the main event at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Indian ladies team ,however, made a shocking exit and couldn't qualify. Indian open team defeated Pakistan in the final to win the 15th BFAME Open team Championship. The seniors though lost to Pakistan in the final. Jordan & Pakistan were the two teams qualifying in the ladies section.

    Courtesy: www.bfame.org

    Indian Achievement at 4th European Open Bridge Championship at Sanremo, Italy 2009

    Texan Aces ,a team of Indian players but captained by an Indian born US citizen, reached semi finals in the 4th European Open Bridge Championship taking place at Sanremo, Italy from June 12-27, 2009. Playing for Texan Aces were P Sridhar, S Sundarram, B Prabhakar, R Tiwari, JM Shah & G Venkatesh (c).

    World Wide Bridge Contest 2009

    World Wide Bridge Contest took place on June 5-6, 2009.

    Friday, June 5, 2009

    5251 pairs from 298 Clubs across 43 Countries took part in the event worldwide.In India 133 pairs from 6 Centres (Kolkata - two sections - 42 pairs, Mumbai - 26 pairs, Delhi - 21 pairs, Bangalore - 24 pairs, Lucknow - 10 pairs, Nainital - 10 pairs) took part in the event. The event was won by T Abadi & Rosita Castaneda of Aurora Bridge Club, Sect N, Mexico with 73.85% score. Amongst Indian pairs Narsimhan & Ravimani of KSBA, Bangalore came first with a score of 68.84% giving them 28th overall rank.Lucknow results are as follows (Local Rank, Name, Local Score, Overall Rank, Overall Score):

    1. RP Narain & RK Aneja, 55.09%, 1906, 52.70%
    2. B Prasad & RA Siddiqui, 53.24%, 2276, 51.35%
    3. Pravin Agarwal & JN Bajpai, 51.39%, 2264, 51.39%
    4. JS Kaul & SK Richhariya, 50.93%, 836, 57.67%
    10. Mahendra Singh & Mukul Gupta, 46.3%, 2093, 51.99%


    Saturday, June 6, 2009

    5246 pairs from 258 Clubs across 33 Countries took part in the event worldwide.In India 137 pairs from 6 Centres (Kolkata - two sections - 46 pairs, Mumbai - 32 pairs, Delhi - 20 pairs, Bangalore - 19 pairs, Lucknow - 10 pairs, Nainital - 10 pairs) took part in the event. The event was won by Ottavio Luigi & Casalini Marco of Bridge Cremona, Italy with 73.49% score. Amongst Indian pairs Anil Padhye & Raju Tolani of Mumbai came first with a score of 65.44% giving them 45th overall rank.Lucknow results are as follows (Local Rank, Name, Local Score, Overall Rank, Overall Score):

    1. AK Sinha & BN Rastogi, 55.09%, 1516, 53.83%
    1. B Prasad & RA Siddiqui, 55.09%, 1530, 53.78%
    3. Pravin Agarwal & JN Bajpai, 54.63%, 1692, 53.18%

    Courtesy: www.ecatsbridge.com as on 10/6/09 10:20 AM India Time

    Ubhayakar Trophy 2009

    National pairs at Home for Ubhayakar Trophy took place at registered centres on May 31, 2009. At Lucknow there were 6 tables in each session. The first word about the Ubhayakar trophy this year is disappointment. This is not written to discourage the organisers but to tell them that National event of such importance deserve better effort. The organisers dont make mistakes purposely but printing & typing errors are avoidable. The deals were set by SK Iyengar of Bangalore who is an accomplished player himself. The deals themselves were not a problem but in many deals scoring appeared inconsistent. There were problems of vulnerability also and the EW & NS scores appeared switched in some places. These are the first thoughts - I havent gone through the booklet as yet. I think R Venkatesh of Bangalore had set the deals a few years back and he gave pretty good account of himself. We look forward to such efforts in future. Good luck to winners this time around, inspite of mistakes there is no lack of effort on part of players.

    Lucknow Results are as follows:

    NS 1st session

    1. HK Singh & Manish Jaiswal - 1341
    2. NN Rastogi & NP Srivastava - 1298

    EW 1st session

    1. NC Bhattacharya & TP Khare - 1369
    2. RP Narain & RK Aneja - 1264

    NS 2nd session

    1. KN Jaiswal & MM Nangia - 1662
    2. SA Abbasi & GN Mehrotra - 1426

    EW 2nd session

    1. HK Singh & Manish Jaiswal - 1232
    2. Shantanu Rastogi & Mahendra Singh - 1105

    DN Rastogi Memorial Bridge Tournament at Lucknow 2009

    DN Rastogi memorial bridge tournament took place at Lucknow Club, Lucknow from May 9-10, 2009. 16 pairs took part in the event which is modelled on Agarwala finals. The state level event had very thin outside Lucknow participation with 4.5 pairs. 15 rounds of 8 boards each were played to determine winner. RS Misra & BN Agarwal (Allahabad) won the event with 257 VPs. The other prize winners were - 2nd RP Narain & RK Aneja (Lucknow) 254, 3rd Pradeep Singh & SQ Wajahat (Varanasi/Lucknow) 254, MM Nangia & KN Jaiswal (Lucknow) 243, B Prasad & RA Siddiqui (Lucknow) 236, Govind Agarwal & Indresh Agarwal (Allahabad) 230.

    Summer Nationals at Pune 2009

    Summer Nationals begun today ,April 19, and would continue till April 26. There are 31 teams taking part in this premier inter state duplicate event for TP Khosla trophy. They are divided into two groups of 16 & 15 teams each who would play full league of 15 rounds of 10 boards each after which 4 teams from each group would qualify for quarter finals. There are two UP teams taking part in the event. The SPSBA team from Kanpur , represented by KP Newatia, SK Kaushik, NN Rastogi, NP Srivastava, SK Richhariya & Cdr RP Srivastava, which has been fielded as it organized Winter Nationals in 2008 is in group A which have star studded teams like Railways, West Bengal B, two teams from Maharashtra, West Zone, Delhi, TamilNadu & Andhra Pradesh A amongst the 16.The UP regular team represented by RP Narain, RK Aneja, SQ Wajahat, BN Rastogi, B Prasad & RA Siddiqui is in Group B with 15 teams which includes West Bengal A & two teams from Maharashtra.Even if we leave the traditionally stronger West Bengal & Maharashtra teams the teams from Railways, Tamil Nadu, Delhi & West Zone have won TP Khosla trophy in the past few years indicating that Group A is much tougher. The fact that composition of the winning teams may not be same doesn't hold as a conclusion from winning team can be derived that teams from winning states generally tend to be stronger than others and hence need to be paired differently. At the end of 6 rounds on day one SPSBA has scored 90 and UP regular team has scored 114.The leaders after six rounds are: Group A - APSBA A (127), Railways (118), Maharashtra -Vidarbha (107), Chandigarh (107), West Bengal B (104). Group B - West Bengal A (120), UP (114), CCSCSB (111), Maharashtra S (103), South Zone (103). At the end of day two 13 rounds are completed. The leaders are: Group A - Railways (260), Maharashtra-Vidarbha (240), West Bengal B (231), APSBA A (218), Delhi (213). Group B - Maharashtra S (241), Maharashtra A (239), South Zone (229), Karnataka (227), CCSCSB (226). SPSBA is on 178 & UP has scored 211. After two rounds on day 3 following emerged as quarter final qualifiers: Group A - Railways (296), Maharashtra- Vidarbha (268), West Bengal B (259), Delhi (256). Group B- Maharashtra A (268), CCSCSB-Civil Services (266), Karnataka (266), Mahrashtra- Sponsored (257). UP team finished fifth in the group B with 251 (253 with 2 penalty) and couldn't qualify. SPSBA scored 198. The 3*10 quarter final would be played on day 3 along with one session of semi final. The quarter final lineup is 1 vs 4, 2 vs 3, 3 vs 2, 4 vs 1 between groups.All the three Maharashtra teams in the quarter finals along with CCSCSB have qualified for semi finals. Maharashtra- Sponsored caused upset by defeating fancied Railways team.A consolation event held was won by UP's RP Narain & RK Aneja. Its all Maharashtra final. In the 3*12 Semi Final Maharashtra-Vidarbha defeated Maharshtra A & Maharashtra-Sponsored defeated CCSSCB. The final of 4*14 is slated for day 5. Maharashtra-Vidarbha defeated much more fancied Maharashtra-Sponsored team to lift prestigious TP Khosla Trophy. Representing winners were C Bajaj, VJ Puranik, MK Chordiya, VK Saboo, RP Deshpande & AJ Puranik. Playing for Runners Up were Dipak Poddar, Jitu Solani, R Sridharan, Ajay Khare, Milind Athavale & Anand Samant. Agarwala IMP Pairs first elimination begins on day 4 afternoon.After 5 sessions of Agarwala pairs only one UP pair of RP Narain & RK Aneja (who got special permission as the fourth UP Pair) has got chance of playing the Semi Finals as they are Reserve 1.Having got a chance in Semi Finals as reserve pair RP Narain & RK Aneja have qualified for the 2 day finals of Agarwala Trophy on April 25 & 26.After 9 rounds on April 25 in the Agarwala pairs final RP Narain & RK Aneja are on 6th place with a score of 259.Anil Padhye & Kalpana Misra (Maharashtra) win Agarwala pairs on the final day where 6 more rounds were played. This is their second victory in Agarwala pairs which also completes a double win for Maharashtra state though Vidarbha fields a separate team. S Majumder & JN Roy (West Bengal) finished runners up. UP's & Lucknow's RP Narain & RK Aneja finished a very creditable third. The title was within grasp of Narain & Aneja as in the final round they missed a 28 hcp cold 3NT playing in part score and allowed their opponents to make one 2 Spade which was going down if defended properly.Both would have taken them past the winners as difference between them & winners was 16.

    Courtesy: Sri NN Rastogi on phone from Pune.Names of Winners & Runners Up of TP Khosla trophy and Agarwala Trophy SF & Final (9 rounds) Reports courtesy TC Pant.

    All India Benaras Club Bridge Tournament would take place at Benaras Club, Varanasi from March 19-21, 2010.Prize Money Rs 1.5 lacs.

    Dehradun Club Open Bridge Tournament would take place at Dehradun Club, Dehradun from April 10-11, 2010.Prize Money Rs 70000/-.

    Worldwide Simultaneous Pairs would take place on June 5-6, 2010.

    41st Summer Nationals would take place at Andhra Club, Chennai from June 17-20, 2010.

    TP Khosla duplicate trophy to be played on swiss league basis instead of full league. 8 rounds ( 6 on day 1 & 2 on day 2) of 10 boards swiss league after which 8 teams would qualify for next stage.Stage 2 & 3 would be played on day 2 & day 3 with final on day 4.Agarwala trophy pairs open to everyone. Starts on day 2 and 5 session of 18 boards qualifying for 32 pairs final. Final on day 4 with 27 rounds of 2 boards.Both duplicate and pairs event to be played with bidding boxes and computer dealt boards.

    Much as we appreciate BFI's effort to bring costs down for players in these days of high inflation and prices of essential commodities going up with a result boarding and lodging cost sky rocketing, there is duplication now in winter & summer nationals. There is no difference between Kamalakar trophy & Agarwala trophy and both duplicates now have swiss league. Summer nationals needs a different & distinct identity. Perhaps summer national's duplicate event needs to be complete knock out and Kamalakar trophy needs to be phased out from winter nationals.

    Madhava Prasad Memorial Bridge Tournament would take place at The Corbett River View Retreat, Garjia from July 8-11, 2010.

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