an Enakshee creation Headlines BFI Newcomers Tournament on BBO from October 6 - 10, 2021 - Winners Vishy (SK Devarajan, KV Ramkrishna, Amithava, K Srinivasan, Chellapan) wins Duplicate 0-25 Masterpoint Event Kashi Ke Pandey (Sushant Panda, Rama Gunturi, Sanjay Joshi, Sanjay Vaidya, Sudhir Phadnis, Pasupathy PV) wins Duplicate 0 Masterpoint Event Ranjit Singh & Kailash Monga win IMP Pairs 0-25 Masterpoint Event Ganguly G & Sanjit Sarkar win IMP Pairs 0 Masterpoint Event 2nd VS Gangal & Kaushalya Gangal Memorial on Realbridge from October 1 - 10, 2021 - Winners Savage and Average (Hema Deora, Rana Roy, Swarnendu Banerjee, Samir Basak, Abhijit Chakraborty, Biswajit Poddar) wins Duplicate Event for VS Gangal Trophy Swapan Some & Sankar Narayan Ghosh win MP Pairs Event for Kaushalya Gangal Trophy Ravi Goenka & R Krishnan win IMP Pairs Event Bindiya Naidoo & Priya Ranjan Sinha win Mixed Swiss Pairs Event Buddy Shah Passes Away Courtesy: BFI - September 28, 2021 18th HCL International Bridge Championship on Realbridge from September 18 - 26, 2021 - Winners Texan Aces (G Venkatesh, Anil Padhye, Sunit Chokshi, P Sridhar, S Sundarram, Milind Athavale, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare) wins Duplicate Gold Event for Naresh Tandan Trophy Dr SSMC (Amiya Ranjan Das, Somnath Mitra, Goutam Das, Shyama Prasad Chatterjee, Bikash Dutta, Subrata Sadhukhan) wins Duplicate Silver Event for Mohini Tandan Trophy Urbane Gaming (Abhishek Sarkar, Akash Saha, Sanjay Chakravorty, Soham Chakraborty) wins Duplicate Bronze Event for HCL Rising Stars Trophy Rajeshwar Tewari & Keyzad Anklesaria win Gold MP Pairs Event for Neena Bonarji Trophy Swapan Some & Swapan Kumar De win Silver MP Pairs Event Swetadri Saha & Krishna Das Chakraborty win IMP Pairs Event For your comments please e-mail to shrastogi@yahoo.comPage updated (Headlines) on October 11, 2021.

In this section I would be putting together all the information regarding bridge facilities in the various cities in India. I try to update any new information on the existing cities as soon as I get them but as information collection is not perfected some of the information may be outdated or incomplete.Ever since inception of this webpage a few other Indian websites have also come up so if you are looking for more information on Indian bridge you may look at links section of this webpage and check out Indian websites.

In this section I would cover mostly tournaments happening in India and from perspective of performance of Indian & Uttar Pradesh bridge players. For an infrequent visitor of this website, the "new" things in this section are tournament reports of past six months though the reports of past one year are carried.The tournament report part of the news is in orange shade whereas tournament calender part of news is in green shade.

18th HCL Online International Bridge Championship 2021 18th HCL Online International Bridge Championship took place on Realbridge from September 18-26, 2021. The tournament carried a prize money purse of Rs 20 Lac ($ 27000). The flagship duplicate event was played in Gold, Silver & Bronze categories with Gold attracting 54 teams (down 1 from 55 in 2019), Silver 67 teams (down 35 from 102 in 2019) and Bronze 9 teams (down 19 from 28 in 2019) clearly showing that not all bridge players prefer online bridge. Over 100 international players took part in the event. The international players were from countries like Russia, Bangladesh, Israel, Argentina, UAE, UK, Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia. Apart from smoothly conducting the championship the organisers must also get credit for keeping a rest day for teams reaching finals/play offs. It was a matter of immense personal pride that an all UP team without any National Masters "Ganga Gomti" coached by me finished runners up in Silver Teams event. The summarised results are as follows: HCL Gold for Naresh Tandan Trophy, Day 1-7, 54 Teams, 20 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 10.54 Lac Day 1-2 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 3 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*10 boards. Day 4 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*10 boards. Day 5 Semi Finals knock out of 4*10 boards. Day 7 Finals/Play Offs of 4*12 boards. 1.Texan Aces (G Venkatesh, Anil Padhye, Milind Athavale, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, Sunit Chokshi, P Sridhar, S Sundarram) Prize Rs 3.5 Lac 2. Formidables (Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Keyzad Anklesaria, Rajeshwar Tewari, Sumit Mukherjee, Debabrata Majumdar, Sandeep Thakral, Jaggy Shivdasani) Prize Rs 2 Lac 3. Solaris (Aniruddha Bhattacharya, Shibnath De Sarkar, Pranab Bardhan, Pinaki Khan, Badal Das, PS Mukherjee) Prize Rs 1 Lac 4. Shree Cement (Ravi Goenka, Arun Bapat, Himani Khandelwal, Rajeev Khandelwal, R Krishnan, Raghvendra Rajkumar, B Prabhakar) Prize Rs 0.6 Lac HCL Silver for Mohini Tandan Trophy, Day 1-7, 67 Teams, 20 Prizes, Total Prize Money:Rs 2.8 Lac Silver event is for those Indian teams (foreign teams require approval from technical committee) who can not play more than two National Master but below Life Master ranked player (National Masters are those with at least 600 Masterpoints out of which 500 should be Federation level) and not in partnership. Day 1-2 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 3 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*10 boards. Day 4 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*10 boards. Day 5 Semi Finals knock out of 4*10 boards. Day 7 Finals/Play Offs of 4*12 boards. 1. Dr SSMC (Amiya Ranjan Das, Bikash Dutta, Goutam Das, Shyama Prasad Chatterjee, Somnath Mitra, Subrata Sadhukhan) Prize Rs 0.8 Lac 2. Ganga Gomti (BN Batra, Umesh Kumar Singh, Anil Kumar Srivastava, Wg Cdr GK Johri, Dr VK Rattan, SK Garg, Anup Kumar, Anand Srivastava) Prize Rs 0.5 Lac 3. Prayas (Dr Vikram Jain, Kamlesh Gupta, Amitava Ghosh, Sagar Bhuiya, Santanu Ghosh, Swapan Sardar, Tanmoy Mazumdar, Tapas Kumar Roy) Prize Rs 0.3 Lac 4. Dr Sanghi (Dr RL Sanghi, Arya Priyamber, Prajjwal, Pradip Ghosh, Prasenjit Manna, Rakesh Ranjan, Suresh Kumar) Prize Rs 0.2 Lac HCL Bronze for HCL Rising Stars Trophy, Day 1-2, 9 Teams, 8 Prizes, Total Prize Money:Rs 0.505 Lac Bronze event is for those Indian teams who can have two players with less than 100 Masterpoints and other four with less than 50 masterpoints. Day 1-2 Swiss League of 9 rounds of 9 boards each. Day 2 2 top teams played Final of 3*8 boards. 1. Urbane Gaming (Abhishek Sarkar, Akash Saha, Sanjay Chakravorty, Soham Chakraborty) Prize Rs 0.15 Lac 2. Crackerjax (Aswin Sanghvi, Madhuri Gokhale, Pankaj Tanna, Shruti Savle, Parag Savle, Vinesh Kamdar) Prize Rs 0.12 Lac 3. Dhanu (Aman Tyagi, Kinjal Desai, Ranjit Chugh, Devendra Patel, Supriya Sen) Prize Rs 0.075 Lac 4. Vagabonds (Neela Khanage, Vasant Kumar Tiwari, Anagha Kadolkar, Dilip Vaidya) Prize Rs 0.06 Lac Open Matchpoint Pairs for Neena Bonarji Trophy, Day 4-9, 16 Prizes plus Prizes to Top 2 in Eliminations & Prizes to Best Ladies and Mixed Pairs, Total Prize Money: Rs 3.74 Lac Day 4-5 First Elimination 226 Pairs played 2*24 boards. Day 6-7 Second Elimination 124 Pairs played 2*24 boards. Day 8 Third Elimination 70 Pairs played 2*24 boards. Day 9 Final 28 (27 + 1 sponsored) Pairs played 3*18 boards. 1. Rajeshwar Tewari & Keyzad Anklesaria Prize 0.8 Lac 2. Subhash Gupta & Sapan Desai Prize 0.6 Lac 3. Anant Somani & Rahul Khambete Prize 0.5 Lac 4. Rajeev Khandelwal & Himani Khandelwal Prize 0.4 Lac Open Matchpoint Pairs Silver, Day 4-9, 8 Prizes Total Prize Money: Rs 0.605 Lac Day 9 Silver Final 28 Pairs finishing 28-55 in Third Elimination on Day 8 played 3*18 boards. 1. Swapan Some & Swapan Kumar De Prize 0.15 Lac 2. SK Bandopadhyay & JB Sengupta Prize 0.12 Lac 3. Sandeep Karmarkar & Marianne Karmarkar Prize 0.10 Lac 4. Prashanth Kandulakunta & V Mohan Rao 0.08 Lac 7. Anup Kumar & Anand Srivastava (UP) Prize 0.03 Lac IMP Pairs, Day 8-9, 16 Prizes plus Prizes to Top 2 in Elimination & Prizes to Best Ladies and Mixed Pairs, Total Prize Money: Rs 1.81 Lac Day 8 Elimination 208 Pairs played 3*18 boards. Day 9 Final 90 Pairs played 3*18 boards. 1. Swetadri Saha & Krishna Das Chakraborty Prize 0.4 Lac 2. Paresh Gupta & Anukul Mandal Prize 0.3 Lac 3. Hasibul Hasan & SM Moin Prize 0.2 Lac 4. Levy Stern & Lior Urman Prize 0.15 Lac The detailed results including hand records are available at http://www.hcl-bridge.com Courtesy: http://www.hcl-bridge.com Posted:06/10/2021 5:55 PM

UP State Online Selection Trials 2021 UP State Online Selection Trials for Online Inter State Championship in August 2021 took place on BBO from June 13 - 16, 2021. UP has a quota of one team in duplicate event and three pairs in the IMP pairs event. The duplicate trials took place on June 14 - 16, 2021 and pairs on June 13, 2021. Duplicate 6 teams took part in the duplicate event and played double round robin 5 rounds each of 10 boards to pick top two teams who played 12 x 2 final to determine the winners. Players from Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Meerut, Noida, Aligarh, Moradabad & UP players residing in Delhi/ Gurugram/ Hyderabad took part in the event. The director for the event was RP Narain. The results are as follows: Final Winners: President's 6 (Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Singh, AK Sinha, Siddharth Behura) 84 - 14 (Carryover 6, 54 - 3, 24 -11) Runners UP & Reserve 1: Johri (Shantanu Rastogi, Wg Cdr GK Johri, Maj Gen VK Rattan, SK Garg) Double Round Robin 1. President's 6 - 151.43 2. Johri - 108.55 3. Gold Galaxy (BN Batra, Umesh Singh, HS Dua, Vikas Mohan Gupta, Anil Bansal, Sultan Zuberi) - 104.51 4. SP Agnihotri (SP Agnihotri, Anil Srivastava, AC Srivastava, Deepak Srivastava, Anurag Tiwari) - 86.53 5. UP Lions (CP Agarwal, Pullak Garga, Sanjay Jain, Tarun Singhal, Mukul Goel, Arun Srivastava) - 85.64 6. Spartan (RA Siddiqui, RP Narain, RK Aneja, Girish Kumar, Anil Upadhyay, Pankaj Mehta) - 63.34 Pairs 19 pairs took part in the pairs trials and played two sessions of 18 boards each with IMP scoring to determine 3 qualifiers. Players from Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Meerut, Noida, Aligarh, Moradabad, Prayagraj, Renukoot & UP players residing in Delhi/ Gurugram/ Hyderabad. Directors for the event were Sanjay Chakravorty, Ranju Bhattacharya & Sukrit Vijayakar. The results are as follows: 1. RP Narain & RK Aneja (Others) - 69.22 Qualifier1 2. HS Dua & Vikas Mohan Gupta (Kanpur) - 23.44 Q2 3. AK Sinha & Siddharth Behura (Lucknow/Others) - 22.96 Q3 4. Tarun Singhal & Sanjay Jain (Noida/Varanasi) - 20.25 Reserve1 5. CP Agarwal & Pullak Garga (Meerut) - 19.18 R2 6. HK Girdhar & Vakul Aren (Meerut) - 17.28 R3 Posted:17/06/2021 10:25 AM

Lucknow Bridge Association has purchased 8 Bridgemates 2, a Bridgemate 2 Server and a Netbook to process results with a total cost of Rs 75990/-. From February 1, 2011 instantaneous results are available to members as soon as session ends. The scoring software is ACBLScore ver 7.66 which is downloaded from ACBL website and for which we are thankful to ACBL. It is part of association's endevour to provide better amenities and world class infrastructure to its members. The Bridgemates are available on hire to any Bridge Association wanting World Class Bridge.

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These pertain to times when I used to report a deal a week or longer time. If you like Law of total tricks there are some interesting deals. Some of the earlier deals were reported in the process of my evolvement as a bridge player.Some of deals are from ACBL NABCs & WBF tournaments. Also there are some interesting deals on bridge ethics that senior bridge players should have for youngsters. I discontinued this section as I was not finding enough interesting deals in Lucknow.