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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.

23rd HINDALCO bridge championship took place at Renukoot from July 21-23, 2000. Pritish Kushari's four (Pritish Kushari, Asim Mukherji, S Bannerji, S Mukherji, S Chudhari, Deobrat) won duplicate event amongst 60 teams. Pairs event was won by P Bardhan & P Paul.

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 US International Team Trial finals.

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

Bidding

EAst	South	West	North
2	Pass	2 NT	Pass
3	Pass	4	Pass
4	Pass	5 NT	Pass
6	Pass	7	Pass
Pass	Pass

International team trials in US was won by a team which had Larry Cohen & David Berkowitz.

This week's deal shows great bidding by this pair in the finals.

Berkowitz opened weak two . Cohen forced with 2 NT over which Berkowitz's 3 showed feature. Cohen asked for key cards in s by bidding 4 . Berkowitz's reply showed one key card. Cohen's 5 NT asked Berkowitz to pick a slam and Berkowitz's reply of 6 showed 4 cards of . Now Cohen was able to raise to 7 counting discards on suit and the fact that Berkowitz would be able to ruff a trick in a side suit in which he held a singleton.

EW on the other table just played in 6 resulting in a gain of 10 IMP for Cohen-Berkowitz.

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