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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. 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the existing cities as soon as I get them but as information collection is not perfected some of the information may be outdated or incomplete.Ever since inception of this webpage a few other Indian websites have also come up so if you are looking for more information on Indian bridge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.

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  • Tournament News

    • 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.

    9th BP Halwasiya Memorial Bridge Tournament at Lucknow 2012

    9th BP Halwasiya memorial bridge tournament took place at MB Club, Lucknow on April 8, 2012. The tournamnet is held every year at MB Club and is sponsored by Sri Sudhir Halwasiya in memory of his father Late Sri BP Halwasiya who was ex Mayor of Lucknow and was a good bridge player as well.. From this year onwards he has also instituted a running trophy for the winners of the event. The tournament gets support from MB Club in form of high tea after prize distribution being organized by the club. The event is one session matchpoint pairs carrying a prize money of over Rs 11000/-.The entry fee was Rs 50 per pair for MB Club members and Rs 100 per pair for others. 26 pairs took part in the event of which 9 were from MB Club. They played Scrambelled Mitchell movement of 11 rounds (6+5) of 22 boards to determine the prize winners. The prizes were given by Sri AP Verma, ex Chief Secretary UP, Sri Tripuresh Tripathi & Sri KL Gupta, ex DGPs UP. The winners of running trophy were Cdr RP Srivastava & Dr DC Gupta with 63.41% score. The other prize winners were:

    2. GN Mehrotra & NC Bhattacharya - 61.14%
    3. BN Rastogi & AK Sinha - 60.68%
    4. RK Singh & M Srivastava - 60%
    5. AC Srivastava & BD Sarkar - 57.73%
    5. RK Aneja & SQ Wajahat - 57.73%

    The best MB Club pair was Col DPS Rawat & Col JK Jauhari - 51.14%..

    2nd All India Benares Club Bridge Tournament at Varanasi 2012

    2nd All India Benares Club Bridge Tournament took place at Benares Club, Varanasi from March 16-18, 2012. 48 teams took part in duplicate event. A lot of colour was added by Ms Watanabe ,a Japanese, and few other ladies. The event was very well organised by Kr Vijayanand singh & Pradeep Singh along with his team of Varanasi Bridge Association led by BC Bose and Benares Club officials. Benares Club is one of the oldest clubs in India and has lots of sports facilities. Its infrastructure is very good for bridge and can perhaps hold Inter State Championship for which BFI has been sounded. Technical Management was by TC Pant and Directors were Ranju Bhattacharya ( CTD), G Roy Chaudhary & Kamal Agarwal. Sri SK Modi of Calcutta sponsored prize money. Organisers also provided cocktails & dinner on two days.

    Duplicate event

    48 teams played 9 rounds of swiss league of 10 bords each from where 8 QFs were spotted.Sanat Banerjee (Sanat Banerjee, NL Ghosh, Arup Nandi, BP Dhibar, Jayanata Chaudhary, Deepak Majumdar) - 174 topped the swiss league. Bando Pankaj (SK Bandopadhyay, AK Sinha, A Bhattacharya, Prabir Paul) - 162. Om Amar (OP Chaudhary, B Das, A Sadhu, S Sarkar, P Bardhan, PS Mukherjee) - 161, Bridge Sangam (BK Agarwal, SP Srivastava, RK Shukla, BG Verma, Anisul Haq, Shankar Chatterjee) - 158, Shekhar Banerjee (Shekhar Bannerjee, D Bose, CS Majumdar, D Santra, G Das, S Roy) - 156, Electric Engineer (G Chatterjee, S Bhuiya, A Banerjee, D Sinha, G Aich, AR Mishra) - 156, RS Misra ( RS Misra, OP Tiwari, NK Bajpai, RK Gupta, Jitendra Pandey) -154, Calcutta Bridge Club (SR Bhattacharya, SN Ghosh, S Bose, S Shome) -154 were other qualifiers. In 2* 10 QF Calcuuta Bridge Club defeated Bridge Sangam, Bando Pankaj Defeated RS Misra, Om Amar defeated Electric Engineer and Sanat Banerjee lost to Shekhar Bannerjee. In 2*12 SF Om Amar lost to Bando Pankaj 33-51 and Shekhar Banerjee trounced Calcutta Bridge Club 80-28. Shekhar Banerjee won 3*12 Final beating Bando Pankaj 72-69. 12 teams were given prizes which included AK Bose, Amar Bose, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Nerbudh. Club. A surprising miss out was SK Modi which incuded Manas Mukherjee, Subir Majumdar, Alok Daga & Subrata Saha

    Pairs event

    92 pairs took part in first elimination and 56 played second. 28 pair final was won by Pritish Kushari & Sukamal Das. D Bhadra & A Bhattacharjee were second. Otehr prize winners were OP Chaudhary & Pranab Bardhan, Manas Mukherjee & Subir Majumdar, Girish Kumar & Ashok Biswas, SN Ghosh & S Bose & Kr Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh.

    Mohanlal Bhartia Memorial Bridge Championship at Delhi 2012

    Mohanal Bhartia Memorial Bridge Championship took place at Hotel Surya, Delhi from February 9-12, 2012. 62 teams took part in duplicate event. Everone played with Bidding boxes and top eight teams played with screens and common computer dealt boards. Pairs event was also throughout played with computer dealt boards. Food and ambience were good but main hall needed a bit brighter lights. Technical work was done by Sudhir Agarwal & TC Pant. CTD was Ranju Bhattacharya ably assisted by Nagraja, P Vahalia & G Roychoudhary. BBO work was done by Chetan Raval.

    Texan Aces (G Venkatesh, Keyzad Anklesaria ,S Sundarram, P Sridhar, Swarnendu Banerjee, JM Shah) won the duplicate event defeating Formidables (Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Subhash Gupta, KR Venkatraman, B Prabhakar, R Tiwari) in the final.

    Pairs event was won by NR Kirubakara Murthy & Uttam Gupta

    The detailed results are available at http://bfi.net.in

    Delhi Gymkhana Bridge Tournament at Delhi 2011

    Delhi Gymkhana Bridge Tournament for BM Gupta Memorial Trophy took place at Delhi Gymkhana, Delhi from November 25 -27, 2011. 52 teams took part in the duplicate event which was played at Kashmir lawns. The amiable surrondings, good food and polite hosts (which are there everywhere I guess ) makes participation a pleasure here. Sri NK Jain was CTD who was ably assited by Major Iyer & Sri Joshi. Sudhir Agarwal & TC Pant looked after technical matters, Buddy Shah organised BBO and Punit Gangal was chief editor of Daily Bulletin. They all deserve accolades.

    52 team played 10 rounds of 10 boards each to determine 7 open teams and one best Gymkhana team for QFs. The qualified teams were:Formidables 187, Dhampur Sugar Mills 185, Maya Meera Sneha 179, Azure 178, Promila Saraf 175, Alpha 175, CV Rao 173 & Urmil Agarwal (Best Delhi Gymkhana) 157.In 22 boards QF Formidables beat Urmil Agarwal by 13 IMPs, CV Rao beat Dhampur Sugar Mills by 12 IMPs, Maya Meera beat Alpha by 5 IMPs & Promila Saraf beat Azure by 14 IMPs. In 26 board SF Formidables (Subhash Gupta, KR Venkatraman, B Satyanarayana, Rajeshwar Tiwari) beat Promila Saraf (Uttam Gupta, NR Kirubakara Murthy, Sudhakar Rao, Promila Saraf, Dipak Santra, CS Majumdar) by 48 IMPs and CV Rao (CV Rao, SN De Sarkar, PS Mukherjee, Pranab Bardhan) beat Maya Meera (Vijay Goel, Sukamal Das, Samir Basak, Shankar Acharya, Ashim Mukherjee, Kingshuk Bhattacharya) by 8 IMPs. In 30 board Final Formidables defeated CV Rao by 96-38 to win the championship.

    Pairs event was played over two eliminations after which 32 board 32 pairs final was played. The prize winners were: 1. Sumit Mukherjee & Bhabesh Saha 59.48%, 2. S Lahiri & SM Moin 58.44%, 3. R Krishnan & R Venkatesh 58.13%, 4. NR Kirubakara Murthy & Uttam Gupta 56.88%, 5. Shankar Acharya & Samir Basak 56.77%, 6. CS Majumdar & Dipak Santra 53.75%.

    Courtesy (apart from self): Sri TC Pant

    DN Rastogi Memorial Bridge Tournament at Lucknow 2011

    DN Rastogi Memorial Bridge Tournament took place at Lucknow Club, Lucknow from November 19-20, 2011. It is a 16 pairs invitational IMP pairs event. This year 8.5 pairs from Allahabad (5), Kanpur (1.5), Varanasi & Jabalpur apart from 6 from Lucknow and one sponsors pair took part in the event. It was a 15 round all play all event with each round having 8 boards. The maximum/minimum score in a round was 25 IMPs. The results were scored by a software developed by HAL under supervision of Sri RP Narain who was doing scoring also along with competing. The results were displayed on a LCD TV screen though personal scoresheets were also provided. Sri NN Rastogi was player director and was helped by Sri Kamal Agarwal. The prize winners are as follows:

    1. BN Batra & SP Agnihotri (Kanpur) - 120
    2. Indresh Agarwal & AK Gupta (Allahabad) - 44
    3. NN Rastogi & SH Zaheer (Lucknow) - 40
    4. GN Mehrotra & Dr DC Gupta (Lucknow) - 33
    5. JS Kaul & S Lahiri (Lucknow/Kanpur) - 30
    6. RK Shukla & BG Verma (Allahabad) - 25

    40th World Team Championship at Veldhoven 2011

    40th World Team Championship for 40th Bermuda Bowl Open Teams, 18th Venice Cup for Ladies, 6th D'Orsi Senior Bowl & 8th Transnational Teams took place at Veldhoven, Netherlands from October 15-29, 2011. 22 teams took part each in Bermuda Bowl, Venice Cup & Senior Bowl. They played 21 rounds of 16 boards all play all league with common boards to identify 8 qualifiers for knockout stage.

    India was represented in all three categories.Indian Open team - Ashok Goel, Suhas Vaidya, Pritish Kushari, D Majumdar, S Mukherjee, B Saha. Indian Ladies team - Rita Choksi, Bharati Dey, Geeta Lakhani, Aparna Sain, Prabha Kunder, Y Singapuri. Indian Seniors team - Ashok Ruia, Archie Sequeira, Subhash Gupta, Kamal Roy, Ashok Vaidya, VM Lal.

    Bermuda Bowl

    8 qualifiers were - Italy 409, Netherlands 390, USA2 372, Israel 355.3, USA1 340.5, Sweden 335, China 334.5, Iceland 333.5. Last qualifier averaged 15.9 showing an even field. India finished 17th with 286. They defeated 5 of the qualifiers but had single digit scores against three other qualifiers which shows the inconsistency. The 96 board Quarter Final scores were: Italy 205 - China 178.3, USA2 213 - Sweden 171.3, Netherlands 233 - Iceland 142, USA1 221 - Israel 98. Both USA teams faced each other in the 96 board Semi Final where USA2 emerged victorious by 217-157. Nethelands defeated Italy 199.3 -170 in other SF.Netherlands (Sjoert Brink, Bas Drijver, Bauke Muller, Ricco Van Prooijen, Louk Verhees Jr, Simon de Wijs) defeated USA2 (Kevin Bathurst, Daniel Zagorin, Joe Grue, Justin Lall, John Hurd, Joel Wooldridge) in the 128 board final to win coveted Bermuda Bowl. Italy (Norberto Bocchi, Giorgio Duboin, Lorenzo Lauria, Agustin Madala, Antonio Semeneta, Alfredo Versace) won the bronze. Justin Lall ,25, playing for USA2 who qualified for Finals is from a bridge playing Indian American family and has outdone his father Hemant Lall who played in Bermuda Bowl for USA (Nickell team) partnering legendary Bob Hamman but didnt qualify for QF.

    Venice Cup

    8 qualifiers were - USA2 391, USA1 389, England 384, China 368, Sweden 365, Indonesia 357, Netherlands 355, France 352. The last qualifier averaged 16.8 showing some difference in quality. India finished 16th with 275. The 96 board Quarter Final scores were: Indonesia 238 - USA2 205, England 226 - Sweden 168, Netherlands 200 - USA1 172, France 205.7 - China 197. In 96 board Semi Final Indonesia defeated England 185-177 and France defeated Netherlands 162 - 141.5. France (Veronique Bessis, Benedicte Cronier, Catherine D'Ovidio, Daniele Gaviard, Jonna Nere, Sylvie Willard) beat Indonesia (Lusje Olah Bojoh, Fera Damayanti, Suci Amita Devi, Kristina Wahyu Murniati, Riantini, Julita Grace Tieje) in 96 board final to win Venice Cup. Netherlands (Carla Arnolds, Laura Dekkers, Marion Michielsen, Jet Pasman, Anneke Simons, Bep Vriend) won the bronze.

    D'Orsi Senior Bowl

    8 qualifiers were - France 383, Poland 382, USA2 370, Denmark 368, USA1 360, Australia 351, Indonesia 351, Germany 342. The last qualifier averaged 16.3. There was heartbreak for Indian seniors as they failed to qualify by 1 VP finishing 9th with 341.The 96 board Quarter Final scores were:France 230 - Germany 167, USA1 242 - Denmark 220.5, Poland 269 - Australia 142, USA2 229.5 - Indonesia 181.Both USA teams faced each other in the 96 board Semi Final where USA2 emerged victorious by 176.5 - 95. In other SF France defeated Poland by 197 - 196.7. France (Patrick Grenthe, Guy Lasserre, Francois Leehardt, Patrice Piganeau, Philippe Poizat, Philippe Vanhotte) beat USA2 (Peter Boyd, Neil Chambers, Gaylor Kasle, Larry Kozlove, Steve Robinson, John Schermer) in 96 board final to win Senior Bowl. Poland (Julian Klukowski, Apolinary Kowalski, Krzystof Lasocki, Victor Markowicz, Jacek Romanski, Jerzy Rossyan) won the bronze.

    Transnational Teams

    154 teams including 5 from India having 748 players from 40 countries took part in the event. They played 15 rounds of swiss league of 10 common boards to identify 8 quarter finalists. Israel Juniors (Alon Birman, Lotan Fisher, Gal Gerstner, Moshe Meyuchas, Dror Padon, Ron Schwartz) beat Oz Open ( George Bilski, Nabil Edgtton, John Paul Gosney, Hugh Grosvenor, Sartaj Hans, Tony Nunn) in the final to win Transnational Teams. Sartaj is an Indian who used to play in India before moving to Australia.

    Courtesy: WBF Website

    GM Modi Memorial Bridge Tournament at Nainital 2011

    GM Modi Memorial Bridge Tournament took place at Boat House Club, Nainital from September 22-25, 2011 This annual event at this picturesque hill town saw some great weather - a welcome change from last year. The enjoyment ,however, was marred by the news on last day of the passing away of Sri Kishore Bhai from Surat who was a regular visitor and participant here. The organisers including directors led by CTD Sri Ranju Bhattachrya did a commendable job with BAM final and pairs final being played with computer dealt deals. The international flavour was Ms Norikow whose team did well also. The organisers have decided to change the format from next year onwards with a much needed repechege event for non qualifiers of normally cruel swiss league format and a view graph for later stages. The sponsors ,Smt Raj Agarwal, are very supportive of the event and we can see some exciting times ahead.

    Duplicate Event

    46 teams took part in the duplicate event and played 9 rounds of 8 boards after which 8 teams qualified for knock out QFs.Trozen (Prakash Bhandari, Snehashish Roy, Norikow, Prasun Mukherjee, RK Majumdar) topped the swiss league with 189 VPs. MMRMC (Dr PK Bera, Satyabrat Mukherjee, Asit Kr Kundu, Gautam Pore, NP Kabiraj, Sunil Das) were second with 166 VPs. Kr Vijayanand Singh (Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Singh, Sudhir Agarwal, Vinod Sharma) were third with 163 VPs. Spartans ( AK Upadhyaya, SM Moin, SC Bhandari, SP Agnihotri, Girish Kumar, Myself ) were fourth with 161 VPs.. The other qualifiers were Dhampur Sugar Mills (Ashok Goel, Suhas Vaidya, Sumit Mukherjee, Bhabesh Saha, Pritish Kushari, D Majumdar) with 159 VPs, Ganesh (GD Chunal, N Janardan, Ranga Khadloya, CP Deshpande) with 155 VPs, Lucknow Four ( Mukul Gupta, SA Abbasi, Jus BP Singh, CP Agarwal) with 154 VPs and Priya 4 (RA Siddiqui, NC Bhattacharya, TP Khare, S Lahiri) with 153 VPs. It was a happy experience for UP players with 2 full teams and 2 part teams qualifying and these teams had six palyers from my native Lucknow which is a pleasent surprise. MMRMC, Trozen, Dhampur, Kr Vijayanand singh reached SF with easy wins. My team Spartan had a tough QF against Dhampur the team representing India at Bermuda Bowl this year and the pleasent fact was we could have won the match. Dhmapur won not because of their good play but due to our gifts. I played only in the second session when we were down 31 IMPs and something unfortunate which I'm sure was inadvertant happened at our table which could be termed as unauthorised information. I didnt pursue the matter with TD as we had no chance of recovering those 31 as we had missed a sitter slam on deal 2 of 10. But if the same thing happens in world championship it would be and it would give India a bad name and would be very embarrasing. My only advise to the team is - please dont make such inadvertant mistakes there. MMRMC, Trozen lost in SF and Dhampur justifying its top billing beat Kr Vijayanand Singh in the final to win the trophy.

    NBA - A was best local team. Delhi Blues, Arun Jain, AK Mukherjee's IV, Fortune Club got 9th-12th prize.

    BAM Event for HP Varshney Trophy

    Maya Meera ( AK Mukherjee, K Bhattacharya, S Basak, S Acharya) won the BAM trophy in which 41 teams took part. Pearl Luv Mehta (Mohit Mehta, CS Majumdar, D Santra, P Paul, Hasibul Hasan) got second prize. Srikanta (Srikanta Mondol, Sheikh Sher Ali, NC Ghosh, Ashim Harah, J Samanta) were third and Mango (J Mango, Sridhar, J Biswas, J Roy) got fourth prize. NBA - JL Verma were best local team.

    Pairs Event for Rishabh Lohia Trophy

    Sudhir Agarwal & Vinod Sharma won the pairs trophy. It is second big success for them after finishing runners up in the HCL event. Sudhir also happens to be NPC of Indian open & ladies teams at Bermuda Bowl. K Gupta & P Paul were second. CS Majumdar & D Santra, S Bask & S Acharya, Rana Roy & P Bardhan, Sumit Mukherjee & B Saha took other prizes.

    HCL International Bridge Tournament at NOIDA 2011

    HCL International Bridge Tournament took place at Hotel Radisson, NOIDA from September 8-11, 2011. 77 teams took part in the duplicate event with the international flavour being a team from Bangladesh. The tournament was very well organised technically and the plus was that vegetarian food menu was much better than previous years. The tournament ,biggest in terns of prize money in India with a prize pool of $ 27500, has had constant entry fee for past few years. With the rising food inflation in India for past few years the organisers had to cut corners which resulted in no dinner being served to partcipants along with traditional cocktails on day two. The tournament sponsor HCL is one of the largest information technology player from India and the sponsorship comes courtesy Mrs Kiran Nadar , an accomplished bridge player herself , who is wife of Shiv Nadar ,Chairman HCL. The technical work was done by Sudhir Agarwal & TC Pant. CTD was Ranju Bhattacharya who was ably supported by other directors. The orgnising secreatry was Subhash Gupta.

    In the duplicate event for Naresh Tandan trophy all the tables played with bidding boxes and the top ten tables played with common computer dealt deals, screens and Bridgemates for scoring. The deal records were provided to participants making the tournament much more enjoyble. The pairs event for Neena Bonnerjee trophy were also played with computer dealt deals with deal records being available. As in previous years the organisers gave a parting gift to participants.

    Duplicate event was won by Dhampur Sugar Mills (Ashok Goel, Suhas Vaidya, Sumit Mukherjee, Bhabesh Saha, Pritish Kushari, Debabrata Majumdar). They also happen to be representing India at Bermuda Bowl later this year. Congratulations and Good Luck to them. They defeated Manyawar ( Rajesh Dalal, Anil Padhye, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare) in the finals. The losing SFs were Formidables ( Mrs Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Honey Prabhakar, Subhash Gupta, KR Venkataraman) and Khandelwal (Rajeev Khandelwal, Himani Khandelwal, Maneesh Bahuguna, NK Gupta). The pairs event was won by Tapan Roy & Satyabrata Mukherjee with Sudhir Agarwal & Vinod Sharma being runners up. The detailed results are available at various Indian sites.

    An interesting deal came up in the consolation pairs event. Yes consolation. With the sort of partners I had in this tournament even a fairly good system of Precision with 2 over 1 game force couldnt bring luck this year also. Its quite disappointing and equally disappointing was the fact the despite playing on top tables and performing decently against top teams scoring 140 till round 8 we were done in by this cruel swiss league format which gives you no chance on a bad session towards end. And the terrible fact is that you hardly have knockouts or full league events in India which could be the reason for Indian teams performing below average outside India..

    Dealer:West Vul:None Bidding W 1 S N P E 2 S S P All Pass W S Q10xxx H QJx D Axx C Kx , N S AJ9x H K109x D Jxx C Qx , E S 87x H Axx D Kx C Jxxxx , S K H 8xx D Q10xxx C A10xx. The lead was small diamond. You cash King , Ace and ruff a diamond. and play small spade from dummy King appears with North playing a small card. Is it singleton or doubleton ? The lady at South shifts to small club she had paused before passing 2 S so you hope like hell at your own peril and go up with King which holds. How should you continue ? I took heart finesse and went one down. The correct play was to exit with a club which end plays North and gets repeated end played with spades to yield three heart tricks. To defeat the contract South has to shift to heart when she gets in with spade king. So if defenders are hoping for a club misguess to take down two they are taking a big chance of allowing the contract and a bottom.

    Talking of system that I was playing. I havent read any system book on the Precision with 2 over 1 game force and am playing largely the gadgets my partner has read and feels comfortable is. The feature of the system is Rodwell 3 card Major response with support doubles on 1 Diamond opening on certain variety of hands especially big balanced hands and we alert. But if you play a system and cant follow system half cooked you get no results and no book or system explains everything and you've finally have to use your on logic to work out. Look at this beauty of a deal from Round 4 of the swiss league which we were playing against two youngsters of Azure team. If you are Meckstroth or Rodwell you may make 3 NT but should you be there ? D East Vul Both N S 843 H A96 D Q75 C AK74, E S QT65 H Q4 D AT10863 C 9, S S AJ97 H KJ32 D K2 C 1032 , W S K2 H 10875 D J4 C QJ865. Bidding E P S 1 D W P N 1 S E 2 D S 2 S W X (Other two suits) N 3 NT All Pass. East lead D 10 which if ducked by both hands West unblocking D J Diamond Ace winning second trick East has no convenient shift other tahn continuing diamond. Now all finesses have to be taken into West hand as East is the dangerous opponent. When heart finesse works play of C 10 would develop three tricks in suit. You would also need to take S 9 finesse to make 2 tricks in suit to make 3 NT. But in our system my partner could have passed 2 S double and would have landed the game easily with east having no choice but to pass. He could have redoubled also and East West would have rued coming into auction. My partner didnt even duck diamond lead took wrong heart finesse and went four down. What is the point of playing any such beautiful system.

    41st UP State Bridge Championship at Singrauli 2011

    41st UP State Bridge Championship took place from September 2-4, 2011 at Officer's Club, NCL Jayant, Singrauli. Singrauli Bridge Association has affiliation to state of Uttar Pradesh though Singrauli lies in State of Madhya Pradesh. Singrauli lies South East of UP has coal mines, has been named power hub of MP and has recently been upgraded to status of a district in the state. Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL) is the nodal company of mining in the area and has some of the operation in UP as well.Almost all of the Singrauli Bridge fraternity is working with NCL. Jayant is one of the biggest open cast mining project in the area and the championship was organised in the project's officer's club. The organisers led by Dr Sumit De & Dr Kushal Mitra left no stone unturned in making tournament a success despite last minute obstacles. The venue was superb and hospitality was equally good. The organisers also had a cultural program on day one. Both the gentlemen have been awarded organisational colours by Bridge Association (UP). Singrauli being slightly remote area there were only 12 teams taking part though organisers made staying arrangements as well which were not to the best of organisers liking due to a last minute pollution conference in the company in the same dates. UP State Championship , which in 70s had more than 50 teams taking a part and since then seen a declining trend, has been attracting less teams from the state of late due to rising cost & practically no young players and hence the association has decided to invite 1 team each from neighbouring states for next year's championship on trial basis.

    Bidding boxes were used through out the championship. Cash prizes to the tune of Rs 40000/- were distributed. Sri NN Rastogi - the CTD & Sri Kamal Agarwal - Director , both from Lucknow, ensured smooth running of the championship.

    Duplicate DN Rastogi Memorial Trophy

    12 teams took part in the duplicate event. They played full league of 11 rounds of 8 boards each. Top two teams then contested finals. Kr Vijayanand Singh, Varanasi (Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Singh, AK Sinha, BN Rastogi, Govind Agarwal) topped the league with 199 VPs. NCL, Singrauli ( Dr Sumit De, C Goswami, PK Chakraborty, Ashok De, PP Agarwal, Dr K Mitra) were second with 196 VPs. Amar Bose, Varanasi ( Amar Bose, Gopal Chatterjee, R Bhargava, S Bhattacharya, CM Singh, VB Lal) were third with 188 VPs and Rajjan, Allahabad ( Shankar Chatterjee, Pintoo Bose, BK Agarwal, SP Srivastava, D Chatterjee) finished fourth with 187 VPs. In the final Kr Vijayanand Singh defeated NCL to win the trophy. Its the first trophy for Kr Vijayanand Singh who is also President of Bridge Association (UP) though his son Pradeep has won the trophy earlier also. Rest of the members have won the trophy many a times.

    BAM GN Rastogi Memorial Trophy

    13 teams took part in the event and played 26 borad session. Amar Bose, Varanasi ( Amar Bose, Gopal Chatterjee, R Bhargava, S Bhattacharya) won the trophy with a score of 93. Lucknow Bridge Association A, Lucknow ( Myself, MM Nangia, RP Narain, RK Aneja) finished runners up with 90. Rajjan, Allahabad (Shankar Chatterjee, Pintoo Bose, BK Agarwal, SP Srivastava) were third with 87. It is the first BAM trophy for team from Varanasi.

    Matchpoint Pairs JS Kothiwal Memorial Trophy

    30 pairs took part in the event. They played two session of 42 boards (22+ 20) Scrambelled Mitchell movement. The results are as follows:

    1. Sanjay Amist & S Lahiri ( Renukoot, Kanpur) - 240.77
    2. AK Sinha & BN Rastogi (Lucknow) - 234.89
    3. Kr Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh (Varanasi) - 231.5
    4. Dr Sumit De & C Goswami ( Singrauli) - 227.17
    5. RS Misra & SD Pandey (Allahabad) - 226.4

    It is the first trophy for Sanjay Amist , the young executive from Hindalco Industries in small town of Renukoot. Sandip Lahiri has won the trophy before also. They also get a chance to represent UP in Rama Jain pairs event in Delhi.

    Bridge Association (UP) has decided to felicitate UP players who have grossed highest masterpoints in a calender year with the criterion that the players should be interested in playing for UP and have UP registration number and should normally be residing in the state. VK Chaube , an eminent bridge administrator of Lucknow and a retired GM of Railways who passed away recently, family has come forward and has decided to donate a trophy in his memory to be given to the highest masterpoint winner in a calendar year from UP. The trophy and cash prize of Rs 5000 for 2010 went to AK Sinha of Lucknow. The second highest grosser S Lahiri of Kanpur got a prize of Rs 3000. I was the third highest grosser and got Rs 2000. This felicitation also took place during prize distribution and AK Sinha got the trophy from Smt Chaube who with the family has specially come to Singrauli. Sri Gajendra Singh of Kanpur who maintains masterpoints for BFI has compiled the results.List of 2010 Masterpoint Grossers of UP

    Important Bridge Association (UP) Decisions taken at Executive Committee Meeting at Singrauli

    Bridge Association (UP) has also decided to suitably honour those UP players who have accumulated more than 1000 Masterpoints. This would be a continuous process with new players getting honoured as and when they join the 1000 masterpoint club.

    Bridge Association (UP) also strongly advises its member players to not to take part in any private bridge tournaments held in the state which dont pay association or BFI any capitation fee. Association takes care of its members and need funds to promote the game to its members. BFI would neither send its directors nor would award masterpoints for such tournaments.

    Madhava Prasad Memorial at Corbett Park 2011

    Madhava Prasad Memorial Bridge Tournament took place at Riverview Retreat Resort, Corbett Park from July 7-10, 2011. Corbett Park is a Wild Life Sanctuary located in state of Uttarakhand in North India. The venue for bridge tournament is a scenic resort. The entry fee in comparison to prize money is little stiff but the place is worth visiting. The playing conditions were very good and so was food and cottages for stay.

    Duplicate

    37 teams took part in the event and were divided into two groups of 18 & 19 teams. They played 17 rounds of league of 8 boards each. Top 4 teams form each group qualified for quarter finals. The QFs were - Bimal Sicka 360, Maya Meera 318, Spartan 307, Pankaj Mehta 284 from group B and Dhampur Sugar Mills 312, Garg 308, Rajputana 304, N Chitlangia 303 from group A. In 8*3 QF Bimal Sicka lost to N Chitlangias 21-80, Dhampur Sugar Mills defeated Pankaj Mehta ( whose one player suffred chest pains and hence played with substitute) 77-8, Maya Meera defeated Rajputana 93-14 and Garg defeated my team Spartan (Girish Kumar, Myself, SM Moin, Ambrish Wadera) 54-48 after a genuine appeal was ridiculously rejected by an appeals committee which comprised of Pritish Kushari, Debashish Roy, Kamal Mukherjee & RP Bhatnagar. The first three are Indian International players who ganged up and didnt listen to fourth person. They justified a 12 point normal distributional opening of 1 Club which was supposed to be 16+ on the grounds that it was a miscount. Then didnt even protect our rights as we were damaged in auction that saw all four players making bids Vul vs Non Vul. If on a misocunt strong club is opened then opponents rights has to be protected and they should get double dummy normal auction score. Such is the prejudice and incompetancy of Indian Bridge

    In 10 *3 super league Maya Meera (Vijay Goel, Sukamal Das, Shankar Acharya, Samir Basak, Ashim Mukherjee, K Bhattacharya) won the trophy. N Chitlangia (Subhash Gupta, Kamal Roy, Alok Daga) wre second and Dhampur Sugar Mills were third.

    Pairs

    70 pairs played pairs. After first session QF losing pairs joined with 12th best score. CS Majumdar & Prasun Mukherjee won the event. SR Bhattacharya & Gouranga Das were second and Kr Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh finished third. Prizes also went to S Sarkar & S Majumdar, Kishore Kanti Roy & Pravat and SN De Sarkar & Badal Das.

    UP State Selection Trials for Inter State Championship at Lucknow 2011

    UP State Selection Trials for Inter State Championship took place on June 18-19, 2011 at Lucknow Club, Lucknow.

    Duplicate

    5 teams took part in the duplicate trials on June 18. They played 5 rounds ( with one bye round) of 12 common boards with bidding boxes to determine the winner. Mukul's (Mukul Gupta, SA Abbasi, JS Kaul, S Lahiri) won the trials with 72 VPs in 4 rounds and would be representing UP at Inter State Championship in Ajmer. Parv (Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Singh, AK Sinha, BN Rastogi) were second with 66 VPs and Narain (RP Narain, MM Nangia, RK Aneja, Shantanu Rastogi) were third with 62 VPs.

    Pairs

    12 pairs competed for 3 UP quota pairs on June 19. They played two session of 22 boards each all play all sessions with IMP scoring using bidding boxes. Bridgemates were used for scoring.The results are as follows:

    1. JS Kaul & S Lahiri - 61 IMP
    2. TP Khare & Anil Bansal - 52 IMP
    3. Kr Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh - 21 IMP
    1st Reserve: NN Rastogi & Kamal Agarwal - 11 IMP
    2nd Reserve: SK Richhariya & SA Abbasi - 10 IMP

    World Wide Bridge Contest 2011

    World Wide Bridge Contest took place on June 3-4, 2011.

    Friday, June 3, 2011

    5209 pairs from 293 Clubs across 37 Countries took part in the event worldwide.In India 186 pairs from 6 Centres (Kolkata - two sections - 48 pairs, Mumbai (Matunga Gymkhana) - 34 pairs, Delhi - 35 pairs, Bengaluru (KSBA) - 34 pairs, Lucknow - 13 pairs, Ahmedabad - 22 pairs) took part in the event. The event was won by Elizabeth Legacy & Elaine Mackiegon of Cape Breton Duplicate Bri, Canada with 79.34% score. Amongst Indian pairs Namit Sharma & Rajesh Jain of Delhi Bridge Association came first with a score of 69.4% giving them 20th overall rank.Lucknow results as per global ranks are as follows :

    1. B Prasad & HK Singh 59.53% 486 rank, local rank 1
    2. Shantanu Rastogi & NN Rastogi 57.42% 799 rank, local rank 2
    3. AC Srivastava & Mahendra Kumar 57.1% 857 rank, local rank 3


    Saturday, June 4, 2011

    5085 pairs from 250 Clubs across 31 Countries took part in the event worldwide.In India 216 pairs from 6 Centres (Kolkata (Calcutta Club) - two sections - 52 pairs, Mumbai (Matunga Gymkhana)- 30 pairs, Delhi - 34 pairs, Bengaluru (KSBA) - 29 pairs, Lucknow - 12 pairs, Pune - two sections- 59 pairs) took part in the event. The event was won by Borla Bomenico & Lagana Daniele of Bridge Club, Alassio, Italy with 74.92% score. Amongst Indian pairs Pramod Joshi & Milind Athavale of Pune Bridge Association Section B came first with a score of 66.8% giving them 29th rank overall. Lucknow results as per global rank are as follows :

    1. AK Sinha & SQ Wajahat 61.74% 237 rank, local rank 2
    2. MM Nangia & RP Narain 59.62% 453 rank, local rank 1
    3. RA Siddiqui & TP Khare 55.43% 1189 rank , local rank 3

    Courtesy: www.ecatsbridge.com as on 6/6/11 12:30 hrs India Time

    World Wide Bridge Championship would take place on June 1 & 2, 2012.

    Open Summer Nationals would take place at Taleigaon Community Centre, Panaji, Goa from June 17-21, 2012.

    All India Madhava Prasad Memorial Bridge Tournament would take place at Corbett Hideaway, Garjia (Corbett Park) from July 12-15 , 2012.

    42nd UP State Bridge Championship would take place at Noida Golf Course, Noida from August 17-19, 2012.

    HCL Bridge Tournament would take place at Hotel Radisson, NOIDA from August 30-September 2 , 2012.

    GM Modi Memorial Bridge Tournament would take place at Boat House Club, Nainital from September 27-30 , 2012.

    Poddar National Masters would take place at Mumbai from October 4-7, 2012.

    Inter State Championship would take place at Ludhiana from November 1-4, 2012.

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  • Lucknow Results

    • 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..From February 2010 onwards on the last Tuesday & last Friday of the month computer dealt deals are played, the software for which is kindly provided by Sri TC Pant of Delhi.

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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.

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