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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.

Narayandas Rathi memorial Poona Club bridge championship took place at Poona Club, Pune from August 3-6, 2000. Sanghavi & Chaudhari won the pairs event.

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 Chaudhari, Deobrat) won duplicate event amongst 60 teams. Pairs event was won by P Bardhan & P Paul.

Golcha memorial bridge tournament would take place at Jai Club, Jaipur from October 13-15, 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 Ruia Trophy 1999 quarter finals.

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

Bidding

South	West	North	East
Pass	1	Pass	3
X	4	5	Pass
Pass	Pass

Lead directing bids are very useful. This week's deal shows the utility.

Ruai Trophy quarter final was played between ACLA & Kini. A S Vishwanathan playing for Kini was able to bid a cold game over his partner's lead directing double.

West opened 1 to which East replied with Bergen raise.ShyamSundar found it appropriate to make lead directing double of artificial 3 bid by East which prompted Vishu to try for game in 5 .

Vishu scored his game easily where as contract at other table was just 2 by EW and Kini's team gained 13 IMPs due to the lead directing bid.

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