Shantanu Rastogi's Bridge Page

2nd All India Jagdish Agarwal Memorial Oudh Bridge Championship concluded at Oudh Gymkhana, Lucknow on February 14, 2000. There was a low participation this year with 24 teams taking part in the duplicate event. Pals, Delhi (DK Tewari, PC Gupta, Anand Bhatia,MM Chopra, Ajay Sinha) won the duplicate event defeating Jaguar, Kanpur. DK Tewari & PC Gupta also won pairs event. AK Ganguly's team from Calcutta won board a match event. They were perhaps the strongest team of the championship with Manas Mukherji, Rana Roy & AN Bannerji playing for them but got knocked out in quarter finals to a scratch combination.

A two day bridge tournament would take place at Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun on February 26 & 27. The organisers have made a provision to play one session of National Pairs at Home on February 27.

National Pairs at Home for Ubhayakar Trophy and Arun Swamy Trophy would take place on February 27, 2000.According to Kr. Vijayanand Singh , Vice President , BFI this year the event would be scored separately for the two sessions.

Lohia Bridge Tournament would take place at Ganges Club, Kanpur from March 9-12, 2000.

Rossel Tea-Soshen Gupta Bridge Championship would take place at Delhi Gymkhana from March 24-26, 2000.

UP State Summer National selection trials would take place at Kanpur from April 7-9, 2000.

Summer Nationals would take place at Shimla from April 22, 2000 onwards.

WBF World Wide Simultaneous Pairs event (formerly known as EPSON) would take place on June 2 & June 3 , 2000. The scoring of this event would be done on internet.

WBF is organising Mind Sports Organization's Worldwide Simultaneous Pairs on August 22 and August 23, 2000. It would be on the lines of Fifth Friday Championship organised by Herman De Wael. The magnitude of the championship would be higher with about 10000 tables results being compiled together.