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Bridge Facilities in India

In this section I would be putting together all the information regarding bridge facilities in the various cities in India.The information may be sketchy at present but would be made comprehensive in future.

Tournament News

In this section I would cover tournaments happening in India and more so the tournaments happening in Northern part of India and in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

HINDALCO bridge tournament would take place at Renukoot from July 21-23, 2000.

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.

Deal of the Week

In this section I would cover one good deal which appeared in the Weekly Bridge Tournaments at Lucknow or in a recent tournament with explanations.

This week's deal is from 17th European Youth Bridge Team Championship which is taking place at Turkey.

Dealer:East Vul:EW Lead:2 NORTH J 3 K 10 5 2 K Q 9 8 4 3 3 WEST A 8 4 2 8 7 4 3 2 K 8 5 2 EAST 9 Q J 9 6 A 6 5 A J 10 9 6 SOUTH K Q 10 7 6 5 A J 10 7 Q 7 4

Bidding

East	South	West	North
1	1	X	2
3	3	Pass	Pass
Pass

17th European Youth team Chmpionship is taking place at Turkey. This week's deal is from a practice match between Turkey and Netherlands and shows a good piece of defending.

At both the tables contract was 3 by South and both Wests led singleton .

The dutch dfender gave a ruff indicating suit preference for which was duly shifted to get another ruff. The contract thus went one down.

The Turkish defender had other ideas.

He shifted to a trump after getting the first ruff. Declarer won the trick and played back another which was won with Ace. Now was shifted to and another ruff was taken. The trump shift ensured that declarer had no entry left in dummy to enjoy his s. In the end he had to lose couple of trick as well and he went three down.

The routine defence of two immediate ruffs leaves declarer with an entry in to enjoy the s.

Very well defended by Turkish defender.

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