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

KN Modi memorial bridge tournament would take place at Boat House Club, Nainital from September 21-24, 2000.

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 72nd Summer NABC which took place at Anaheim recently.

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

Bidding

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

This week's deal shows what partnership co-operation can do.NS defended excellently to win most of the matchpoints on this deal.

West was playing in 4 after an auction where three suits were bid and received a lead. Usually after such auctions unbid suit is led. Here North did well to avoid lead. East won the trick with Ace and cashed trump Ace. South discarded Queen and when she followed with 3 on second round of , she had caught the attention of her partner. West continued with third round of which was won by North. On this South played a discouraging . North got the message and played a instead of . South didn't want a shift from partner and managed to achieve that with carding which caught partner's attention.

Now West was helpless. He won Ace and ruffed a to come to hand and had to play a by himself. A to King resulted in three tricks going to NS and the contract went one down.

This would not have happened if North had shifted to s. South had the information needed by partner ie that he should not shift to and was able to convey it with combination of plays.

Well defended.

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