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Prime Mixed Teams & Pairs at Bombay Gymkhana, Mumbai from November 13 - 16, 2024 - Winners

  • Harmony (Aparna Sain, Rajul Dalal, Sadhna Gupta, Subir Majumdar, Vasanti Shah, Satyabrata Mukherjee) wins Team Event
  • Marianne Karmarkar & Sandeep Karmarkar win MP Pairs Event
  • Deepika Mehta & Ravi Kaul win Strata II MP Pairs Event
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    Prime Women Pairs at Bombay Gymkhana, Mumbai from November 11 - 12, 2024 - Winners

  • Asha Sharma & Puja Batra win IMP Pairs Event
  • Rupa Bakeri & Kinjal Desai win Strata II IMP Pairs Event
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    3rd Balrampur Chini East Zone at NKDA Community Center, Kolkata from November 8 - 10, 2024 - Winners

  • Formidables (Rajeshwar Tewari, Sumit Mukherjee, Kaustubh Bendre, Kaustabh Nandi, Sagnik Roy, Sayantan Kushari) wins Duplicate Event
  • Pinaki Khan & Animesh Majumder win MP Pairs Event
  • SP Ghatak & S Naskar win IMP Pairs Event
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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.

    21st HCL International Bridge Championship at Delhi 2024

    21st HCL International Bridge Championship took place at The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, Delhi from September 14 - 22, 2024. The tournament carried a prize money purse of Rs 2.7 Cr ($325,000). The flagship duplicate event was played in Gold & Silver categories with Gold being a World Bridge Tour event attracting 51 teams (down 1 from 52 in 2023) & Silver 92 teams (down 1 from 93 in 2023). More than 800 players participated in the championship. This year a mixed pair event was added as a special event. The international players were from countries like Australia, Italy, Norway, USA, Bangladesh, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, UAE. The summarised results are as follows:

    HCL Gold for Naresh Tandan Trophy, Day 3-8, 51 Teams, 20 Prizes plus a Prize for Swiss League Winner, Total Prize Money: Rs 124.3 Lac

    Day 3-4 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 5 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 6 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 7 Semi Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 8 finals were of 4*14 boards and play offs for 3rd place.

    1. WHAM (Sartaj Hans, Andy Hung, Matthew Brown, Michael Whibley) Prize Rs 44 Lac
    2. Shourie (Rajath Shourie, Gavin Wolpert, John Kranyak, Vincent Demuy, Kevin Bathurst, John Hurd) Prize Rs 24 Lac
    3. WBT Bridge App (Boye Brogeland, Christian Bakke, Thomas Charlsen, Martin Andresen) Prize Rs 12 Lac
    4. Vedic (Krishna Kumar Malani, Craig Gower, Rana Roy, Bhabesh Saha, Abhijit Chakraborty, Prasun Kumar Mukherjee) Prize Rs 9 Lac


    QF Losers: Mavericks, Texan Aces, Indian Chain, Pro3Max
    PQF Losers: Dhampur Sugar Mills, Bianchi, Acemates, Hemant Jalan, Monica Jajoo, Shree Cement, Formidables, Bangur Cement

    HCL Silver for Mohini Tandan Trophy, Day 3-8, 92 Teams, 20 Prizes plus a Prize for Swiss League Winner, Total Prize Money:Rs 47.96 Lac

    Silver event is for those Indian teams (foreign teams require approval from technical committee) who can not play more than one National Master or above ranked player (Those with at least 600 Masterpoints out of which 500 should be Federation level) and all Silver finalists since 2013 are considered as National Masters irrespective of whether they have achieved that rank by masterpoint or not. Day 3-4 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 5 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 6 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 7 Semi Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 8 finals were of 4*14 boards and play offs for third place.

    1. RSCS (Chandan Choudhury, Sanjay Raha, Ramprosad Das, Subrata Chakraborty) Prize Rs 16 Lac
    2. Jackalls (DP Acharya, Shubham Acharya, Mukesh Ghatiya, Mridul Das, Hemanta Kumar Sarmah, Subhrajit Mukhopadhyay) Prize Rs 9.2 Lac
    3. Sahyadri (Nitin Shirole, Sampath Srinivasan, Dilip Karmarkar, Shrikant Bendre, Ajoy Sonak, N Rajmohan) Prize Rs 4.8 Lac
    4. Sabass (Arun Kanti Chatterjee, Sukalyan Sarkar, Smita Govilkar, Soumitra Chakraborty, Asim Saha, Biswajit Mahata) Prize Rs 3.6 Lac


    QF Losers: Andromeda, Dazzle, Chefs Table, Setu
    PQF Losers: Team Kabra, Dehradun, Shib Shakti, Dilip Atha B, Adventurers, Borivali Sports Club, Team Vibrant, Invincibles

    Open Matchpoint Pairs for Neena Bonerji Trophy, Day 5-8, 16 Prizes plus Prizes to top 2 in eliminations & Prizes to Best Ladies and Mixed Pairs, Total Prize Money: Rs 48.22 Lac

    277 Pairs played first elimination on day 5, 144 Pairs played in second elimination on day 6, 72 Pairs played in third elimination on day 7 and final on day 8 was of 28 (26 + 2 sponsored) pairs

    1. S Sunderram & P Sridhar Prize 12.8 Lac
    2. Binod Shaw & Sanjit Dey Prize 8.4 Lac
    3. Marianne Karmarkar & Sandeep Karmarkar Prize 6.4 Lac
    4. Rajeshwar Tewari & Sumit Mukherjee Prize 4.8 Lac


    Open Matchpoint Pairs Silver, Day 8, 10 Prizes Total Prize Money: Rs 7.25 Lac

    26 Pairs finishing 27-52 in third elimination on day 7 played Silver final on day 8.

    1. Jody Tutty & David Beauchamp Prize 2 Lac
    2. Pijus Kanti Baroi & Satyabrata Mukherjee Prize 1.5 Lac
    3. Keyzad Anklesaria & Harald Eide Prize 1.2 Lac
    4. Tanmoy Majumder & Sagar Bhuia Prize 0.8 Lac


    IMP Pairs, Day 7-8, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 7.25 Lac

    254 Pairs played in the elimination on day 7. Final on Day 8 was of 130 pairs.

    1. TV Ramani & Subhash Bhavnani Prize 2 Lac
    2. Gautam Pore & Suman Banerjee Prize 1.5 Lac
    3. Jaydeep Bhattacharjee & Nantu Bhattacharjee Prize 1.2 Lac
    4. Ajay Kumar Bagadia & Ravi Goenka Prize 0.8 Lac


    MP Strata II Pairs, Day 6, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.51 Lac

    153 Pairs played.

    1. Rajendra Ray & Sanat Roy Prize 0.8 Lac
    2. Avijit Sarkar & Pritam Das Prize 0.5 Lac
    3. Babrubahan Bose & Pradip Dey Prize 0.36 Lac
    4. Prabir Das & Biplab Dawn Prize 0.24 Lac


    IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 8, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.51 Lac

    120 Pairs played.

    1. Dibyendu Shee & Debasish Bhadra Prize 0.8 Lac
    2. Kishor Kumar Ganguly & Priyotosh Sarkar Prize 0.5 Lac
    3. Rajesh Jain & Ramesh Patodia Prize 0.36 Lac
    4. Suvankar Basu & Sudip Pandit Prize 0.24 Lac


    HCL ProAm IMP Pairs, Day 9, 12 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 20 Lac

    24 Pairs played.

    1. Arun Bapat & Sanjit Dey Prize 6 Lac
    2. Sailja Tahiliani & Christian Bakke Prize 4 Lac
    3. Amit Dabriwala & Keyzad Anklesaria Prize 3 Lac
    4. Dr Mukund Jagannathan & Thomas Charlsen Prize 1.8 Lac



    Mixed IMP Pairs Gold for NK Gupta Trophy, Day 1-2

    102 Pairs played elimination on day 1. 26 Pairs played Gold Final.

    1. Gopika Tandon & Arun Jain
    2. Alka Kshirsagar & Joyrup Mullick
    3. Marianne Karmarkar & Sandeep Karmarkar
    4. Himani Khandelwal & Rajeev Khandelwal



    Mixed IMP Pairs Silver, Day 2

    24 Pairs played finishing 27-50 in elimination played Silver Final.

    1. Bindiya Kohli & TV Ramani
    2. Dagmar Neuman & Maurits Van der Vlugt
    3. Elvan Edis & Timur Edis
    4. Monica Jajoo & Sumit Mukherjee



    Mixed IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 2

    43 Pairs played.

    1. Aditi Sahastrabuddhe & Hemant Purkar
    2. Dr Nikita Kamal & Amarjit
    3. Kamna Sharma & Pijus Kanti Baroi
    4. Reena Pal & Swapan Some



    The detailed results including hand records are available at http://www.hcl-bridge.com


    Courtesy: http://www.hcl-bridge.com

    Posted:23/09/2024 12:45 PM

    52nd UP State Bridge Championship at Prayagraj 2024

    52nd UP State Bridge Championship took place at KP Community Center, Prayagraj from August 9-11, 2024. 18 teams including 15 UP teams, 2 from Delhi & 1 from Dehradun took part in the Championship. The event was very well organised by Allahabad Bridge Association. The whole show was superbly managed by Sri Sushil Agarwal ably assisted by Sri Shankar Chatterjee. This is the 7th time Prayagraj is holding UP State Championship with first being in 1971 & last time being in 2010. Sri P Narasinga Rao was CTD ably assisted by Sri SP Sharma. Sri TC Pant looked after technical work very efficiently.

    From 2012 the UP State Championship was made open to neighbouring states with a new trophy being instituted for best non UP team since 2018.

    Lal Sriram Agarwal Trophy for Best UP Team, Madhava Prasad Trophy for Swiss League Winner and Dr JS Kothiwal Trophy for Best Non UP Team in Duplicate Event

    18 teams took part in the event and played 7 rounds of swiss league of 8 boards after which 6 teams qualified for Super League. Sushil's IV - 101.04 topped the swiss league followed by Delhi Blues - 86.49, Dehradun - 85.67 finished third, Kashvi - 83.76 were fourth, Kosmos - 81.42 were fifth and Pals, Lucknow - 81.31 were last team to qualify. After 5 rounds of super league of 10 boards each the final results are:

    1. Pals, Lucknow (Mukul Gupta, TP Khare, SK Garg, Dr VK Rattan) - 59.41 UP State Champions & Winners of Lala Sriram Agarwal Trophy
    2. Dehradun (Ranveer Singh Chauhan, TK Mandal, Rahul Agarwal, Yashpal Singh) - 54.82 winners of Dr JS Kothiwal Trophy for Best Non UP team
    3. Kosmos, Delhi (TC Pant, Rajesh Kumar Jain, GP Aggarwal, SM Moin) - 54.19
    4. Sushil's IV (Sushil Agarwal, BN Rastogi, AK Sinha, Siddharth Behura) - 52.62 Swiss League Toppers & Winners of Madhava Prasad Trophy
    5. Kashvi (Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Singh, Girish Kumar, Sunil Kumar Sinha) - 44.74
    6. Delhi Blues (Dr Nikita Kamal, Amarjit, DK Tewari, PC Gupta, Dr Tushar Moghe, Dr Vijay Gupta) - 34.22



    This is 13th time teams from Lucknow have become State Champions. The other winners are Prayagraj 26, Moradabad 4, Varanasi 3, Kanpur 2, Nainital (undivided UP) 1, Singrauli 1, Aligarh 1, Johri, Baghpat - 1. Ever since state championship was made open to neighbouring states thrice teams from outside UP have come first.

    VC Agarwal Trophy for Duplicate Silver Event

    There was a Silver event for non qualifiers of Duplicate event. 12 teams took part in the event. They played swiss league of 5 rounds of 10 boards each. The results are as follows:

    1. RS Mishra, Prayagraj (RS Mishra, Sunil Mishra, Jitendra Pandey, Anil Bansal, Shahid Askari, Nurul Hasan) - 64.98
    2. Rajjan, Prayagraj (Shanker Chatterjee, Pintoo Bose, Bal Agarwal, Rakesh Bagga, BN Agarwal) - 63
    3. Sangam (Sanjay Amist, Amar Bose, Gautam Aich, Deepak Kothiwal, Navin Kumar, Ashish Vishwakarma) - 57.47



    IK Agarwal Trophy for Best UP Pair in IMP Pairs Event

    39 pairs took part in the event. The event was played over two sessions on final day of 20 boards each with Scrambelled Mitchell movement. From 2018 the event is played as IMP pair event instead of Matchpoints. The results are as follows:


    1. Mukul Goel & Ajay Agarwal (Noida/Bareilly) - 74
    2. PC Gupta & DK Tewari (Delhi) - 61.38
    2. TC Pant & Rajesh Kumar Jain (Delhi) - 61.38
    4. Rakesh Bagga & BN Agarwal (Prayagraj- 55.88
    5. Dr Mala Singh & Deepak Srivastava (Greater Noida/Lucknow) - 51



    VK Chaube Trophy for Player of the Year having Highest Masterpoint from UP in 2023

    1. Umesh Kumar Singh (Kanpur)
    2. AK Sinha (Lucknow)
    3. Siddharth Behura (Others)


    Posted: 13/08/2024 6:30 AM

    Sir Padampat Singhania Memorial at Kanpur 2024

    Sir Padampat Singhania Memorial Bridge Tournament took place at Kamla Club, Kanpur from February 23-25, 2024. 26 pairs took part in the event. They played 25 rounds of all play all 6 board matches with VP scoring. Sri VK Sharma was CTD. The result is as follows:

    1. Gopi Nath Manna & Uttam Gupta 287.95
    2. Somesh Bhattacharya & Samir Basak 285.06
    3. Abhijit Chakraborty & Rana Roy 282.42
    4. Sanjit Dey & Binod Shaw 280.00
    5. Badal Das & Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay 274.5
    6. S Machhar & Arun Bapat 274.12
    7. Swarnendu Banerjee & Sapan Desai 264.26
    8. Koushik Mukherjee & Priya Ranjan Sinha 263.67
    9. Sumit Mukherjee & Monica Jajoo 261.13
    10. Kr Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh 257.07
    11. Hemant Jalan & Ashish Malhotra 254.88
    12. B Mohota & Anurag Mohota 254.73
    13. SM Moin & Sunil Kumar 251.77


    Courtesy: Sri Gajendra Singh

    Posted:26/02/2024 10:05 AM

    66th Winter Nationals would take place at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Complex, Balewadi Sports Stadium, Pune from December 8 - 18, 2024.

    Gimatex Swiss Pairs would take place at Mohota Bhawan, Hinganghat from January 4 - 5, 2025.

    Maharaja Yeshwant Rao Holkar Memorial would take place at Yeshwant Club, Indore from January 7 - 12, 2025.

    Madras Gymkhana Annual would take place at Madras Gymkhana, Chennai from January 16 - 20, 2025.

    Willingdon Swiss Pairs would take place at Willingdon Sports Club, Mumbai from January 26 - 28, 2025.

    All India Ladies National Level Championship would take place at Bombay Gymkhana, Mumbai from January 29 - 30, 2025.

    FNCC Annual would take place at Filmnagar Cultural Center, Hyderabad from February 1 - 3, 2025.

    Express Avenue Women Event would take place at Express Avenue Mall, Chennai from February 9 - 10, 2025.

    Vijya Jajoo Memorial Mixed Pairs would take place at Express Avenue Mall, Chennai from February 11 - 12, 2025.

    Tolani All India Open National Masters would take place at Express Avenue Mall, Chennai from February 13 - 16, 2025.

    Padampat Singhania Memorial would take place at Kamla Club, Kanpur from February 21 - 23, 2025.

    Kr Murli Manohar Memorial would take place at Bareilly Club, Bareilly from February 27 - March 2, 2025.



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  • Lala Sriram Agarwal Memorial Trophy given to Best UP Team in the Main Duplicate Event
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  • Sri VC Agarwal Memorial Trophy given to Winner of Silver Duplicate Event
  • Sri Madhava Prasad Memorial Trophy given to Winner of Duplicate Swiss League Event
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    Report 2018-19 Report 2017-18 Report 2016-17 Report 2015-16 Report 2014-15 Report 2013-14 Report 2012-13 Report 2011-12 Report 2010-11

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    logoPrevious Issues

    These pertain to times when I used to report a deal a week or longer time. If you like Law of total tricks there are some interesting deals. Some of the earlier deals were reported in the process of my evolvement as a bridge player.Some of deals are from ACBL NABCs & WBF tournaments. Also there are some interesting deals on bridge ethics that senior bridge players should have for youngsters. I discontinued this section as I was not finding enough interesting deals in Lucknow.

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