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Well Done (Bridge):Anil Padhye & Kalpana Misra win Agarwala Pairs.Maharashtra-Vidarbha wins TP Khosla Trophy at Summer Nationals in Pune.Team Poddar wins Senior & Team Elan wins Women Selection Trials at Mumbai.Team Formidables wins Indian Open Team Selection Trials for Bermuda Bowl at Chennai.

Well done (Indian Sports):Pankaj Advani (Winner Asian Billiards),Sania Mirza (Women Doubles Winner at Miami),Men Hockey Team (Azlan Shah Winner), Gagan Narang (Gold & Bronze in Shooting World Cup), Cricket Test Team (Series Win Vs NZ 1-0 in NZ), Rahul Dravid (World Record Catches in Test Match Cricket),Jwala Gutta & V Diju (Runners Up Indian Open Badminton Mixed Doubles),V Anand (2nd in Amber Chess, FIDE Rankings 2nd),Women Cricket Team (3rd in World Cup in Australia),Koneru Humpy (Winner Istanbul World GP Women Chess, FIDE Rankings 2nd), Archers (One Gold & 3 Bronzes in World Cup at Santo Domingo, 17 medals at Asian Grand Prix Bangkok), MS Dhoni (ICC Ratings ODI 1st Among Batsmen).

Well done (other Indians):ISRO (RISAT-2 Satellite launch), Priyanka Chopra (Nielsen Award).

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Page updated on April 26, 2009.

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existing cities as soon as I get them but as information collection is not perfected some of the information may be outdated or incomplete.Ever since inception of this webpage a few other Indian websites have also come up so if you are looking for more information on Indian bridge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

    Summer Nationals at Pune 2009

    Summer Nationals begun today ,April 19, and would continue till April 26. There are 31 teams taking part in this premier inter state duplicate event for TP Khosla trophy. They are divided into two groups of 16 & 15 teams each who would play full league of 15 rounds of 10 boards each after which 4 teams from each group would qualify for quarter finals. There are two UP teams taking part in the event. The SPSBA team from Kanpur , represented by KP Newatia, SK Kaushik, NN Rastogi, NP Srivastava, SK Richhariya & Cdr RP Srivastava, which has been fielded as it organized Winter Nationals in 2008 is in group A which have star studded teams like Railways, West Bengal B, two teams from Maharashtra, West Zone, Delhi, TamilNadu & Andhra Pradesh A amongst the 16.The UP regular team represented by RP Narain, RK Aneja, SQ Wajahat, BN Rastogi, B Prasad & RA Siddiqui is in Group B with 15 teams which includes West Bengal A & two teams from Maharashtra.Even if we leave the traditionally stronger West Bengal & Maharashtra teams the teams from Railways, Tamil Nadu, Delhi & West Zone have won TP Khosla trophy in the past few years indicating that Group A is much tougher. The fact that composition of the winning teams may not be same doesn't hold as a conclusion from winning team can be derived that teams from winning states generally tend to be stronger than others and hence need to be paired differently. At the end of 6 rounds on day one SPSBA has scored 90 and UP regular team has scored 114.The leaders after six rounds are: Group A - APSBA A (127), Railways (118), Maharashtra -Vidarbha (107), Chandigarh (107), West Bengal B (104). Group B - West Bengal A (120), UP (114), CCSCSB (111), Maharashtra S (103), South Zone (103). At the end of day two 13 rounds are completed. The leaders are: Group A - Railways (260), Maharashtra-Vidarbha (240), West Bengal B (231), APSBA A (218), Delhi (213). Group B - Maharashtra S (241), Maharashtra A (239), South Zone (229), Karnataka (227), CCSCSB (226). SPSBA is on 178 & UP has scored 211. After two rounds on day 3 following emerged as quarter final qualifiers: Group A - Railways (296), Maharashtra- Vidarbha (268), West Bengal B (259), Delhi (256). Group B- Maharashtra A (268), CCSCSB-Civil Services (266), Karnataka (266), Mahrashtra- Sponsored (257). UP team finished fifth in the group B with 251 (253 with 2 penalty) and couldn't qualify. SPSBA scored 198. The 3*10 quarter final would be played on day 3 along with one session of semi final. The quarter final lineup is 1 vs 4, 2 vs 3, 3 vs 2, 4 vs 1 between groups.All the three Maharashtra teams in the quarter finals along with CCSCSB have qualified for semi finals. Maharashtra- Sponsored caused upset by defeating fancied Railways team.A consolation event held was won by UP's RP Narain & RK Aneja. Its all Maharashtra final. In the 3*12 Semi Final Maharashtra-Vidarbha defeated Maharshtra A & Maharashtra-Sponsored defeated CCSSCB. The final of 4*14 is slated for day 5. Maharashtra-Vidarbha defeated much more fancied Maharashtra-Sponsored team to lift prestigious TP Khosla Trophy. Representing winners were C Bajaj, VJ Puranik, MK Chordiya, VK Saboo, RP Deshpande & AJ Puranik. Playing for Runners Up were Dipak Poddar, Jitu Solani, R Sridharan, Ajay Khare, Milind Athavale & Anand Samant. Agarwala IMP Pairs first elimination begins on day 4 afternoon.After 5 sessions of Agarwala pairs only one UP pair of RP Narain & RK Aneja (who got special permission as the fourth UP Pair) has got chance of playing the Semi Finals as they are Reserve 1.Having got a chance in Semi Finals as reserve pair RP Narain & RK Aneja have qualified for the 2 day finals of Agarwala Trophy on April 25 & 26.After 9 rounds on April 25 in the Agarwala pairs final RP Narain & RK Aneja are on 6th place with a score of 259.Anil Padhye & Kalpana Misra (Maharashtra) win Agarwala pairs on the final day where 6 more rounds were played. This is their second victory in Agarwala pairs which also completes a double win for Maharashtra state though Vidarbha fields a separate team. S Majumder & JN Roy (West Bengal) finished runners up. UP's & Lucknow's RP Narain & RK Aneja finished a very creditable third. The title was within grasp of Narain & Aneja as in the final round they missed a 28 hcp cold 3NT playing in part score and allowed their opponents to make one 2 Spade which was going down if defended properly.Both would have taken them past the winners as difference between them & winners was 16.

    Courtesy: Sri NN Rastogi on phone from Pune.Names of Winners & Runners Up of TP Khosla trophy and Agarwala Trophy SF & Final (9 rounds) Reports courtesy TC Pant.

    Indian Open Team Selection Trials for Bermuda Bowl through BFAME at Chennai 2009

    Indian selection trials for open team to represent India at Bermuda Bowl taking place at Sao Paulo, Brazil in August/September 2009 took place at Andhra Social Club, Chennai from March 16-21, 2009. The selected team would have to go through the BFAME zonal qualification before going to Bermuda Bowl. 5 teams took part in the event. Tolani Shipping - The Ruia trophy winners at winter nationals and Dhampur Sugar Mills - The Tolani Grand Prix winners got direct entry. 3 other teams Formidables, Texan Aces & H&R paid 1.5 lac to BFI to earn the right to play in the trials. They played a triple round robin of 14 boards each to select two teams to contest in 80 board final. Formidables (Mrs Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Subhash Gupta, Rajesh Dalal, Sunit Chokshi, KR Venkataraman) & Texan Aces (G Venkatesh, JM Shah, B Prabhakar, R Tewari, P Sridhar & S Sundarram) made it to finals. The final went to wire. After 80 boards both teams were tied at 138 IMPs (including a 3 IMP penalty on Formidables for keeping mobile switched on). Formidables won the 4 board tie-breaker 12-7 to earn the right to represent India at BFAME zonal trials .

    Courtesy: The Hindu Online & TC Pant

    Smt Rama Jain Memorial Times Bridge Championship at Delhi 2009

    Smt Rama Jain memorial bridge championship took place at DBA premises, Delhi from March 7-8, 2009. 28 pairs took part in this matchpoint pairs event. The event was won by Suhas Vaidya & Kaustabh Bendre.TC Pant , who helps in conduct of so many bridge events, & Namit Sharma finished runners up. The complete results are as follows: RamaJain Results

    Courtesy: TC Pant

    23rd Seth Srinivas Lohia Memorial Tournament at Kanpur 2009

    Lohia memorial bridge tournament took place at Ganges Club, Kanpur from February 19-22, 2006. 44 teams took part in the duplicate event and played 9 rounds of swiss league of 10 boards each after which 7 top teams and one best local team qualified for the quarter finals. A heartening feature this year has been large scale participation of youngsters from IIT Kanpur (they fielded five teams) and also the fact that a 12 year old from Kolkata qualified for quarter finals. The teams which made it to last eight were: Dhampur Sugar Mills - 184, Kamlesh Gupta - 169, Col Sabharwal - 165, A Bannerjee's - 164, Koushik, Hyderabad - 164, Ranjit Bose - 160, Arun Jain - 158 & SPSBA, Kanpur (best local team) - 136. BB Lal, Lucknow (BB Lal, NP Srivastava, SK Richhariya, Cdr RP Srivastava, SA Abbasi) were very unlucky to not make it to the cut by 1 VP. Quarter final was played over 2*10 boards and the line up was 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6 & 4 vs 5. Dhampur, Kamlesh Gupta, Col Sabharwal & Koushik reached Semi Finals. Semi Final was played over 2*12 boards where Dhampur (Ashok Goel, Kamal Mukherjee, P Kushari, D Majumder, B Saha, Sumit Mukherjee) & Col Sabharwal (Prakash Bhandari, KK Sabharwal, SM Moin, Tapash Mukherjee) lost out.The final of 2*16 boards played between Kamlesh Gupta (Kamlesh Gupta, Kajal Das, Prabir Paul, Joy Roy, A Bhattacharya) & Koushik was won by Koushik (Alok Daga, Samir Basak, SP Ghosh, CS Majumdar, P Sudhakar Rao, A Subbaraju) . 39 teams took part in BAM elimination and 99 in pairs first elimination , the finals of both of which were played on last day. Dhampur Sugar Mills won the BAM event. Shree Cement finished second & Central Secretariat Club, Delhi finished third.Pairs event was won by Kingshuk Bhattacharya & PC Gupta. Prabir Paul & Aniruddha Bhattacharya were runners up. The UP pairs finishing in top Ten were: AK Garg & Om Hari Agarwal (5th), Arun Srivastava & Girish Kumar (7th), SK Bandopadhyay & Mahbudullah (9th) & Rajjan Agarwal & Sankar Chatterjee (10th).

    Courtesy(Other than Self): Hindustan Online,Dainik Jagran Online & Ranju Bhattacharya's Website

    All India Power Corporation Bridge at Lucknow 2009

    All India Power Corporation Bridge Championship took place at Oudh Gymkhana Club, Lucknow from February 11-13, 2009. 13 teams took part in the duplicate event and played 13 rounds (with one bye round) of 8 board full league to determine the winner. Maharashtra Genco with 220 VPs emerged winners and would represent Electricity Control Board in the Summer National at Pune. Maharashtra Discom with 219 VPs finished second and Orissa with 218 VPs finished third. 38 pairs took part in the pairs event and played 38 board with Scrambled Mitchell movement. Arun Srivastava & AK Garg of UPPCL emerged winners of pairs event.

    Ahmedabad Cavendish 2009

    A Cavendish tournament with IMP scoring took place from January 31- February 1, 2009 at Ahmedabad.32 pairs took part in the event.The event was won by Anand Samant & Milind Athavale with 108 IMPs. The lone UP pair of Pankaj Mehta & Pradeep Singh had a creditable joint 11th finish.It was surprising (as the prize money was close to 25 lacs) to note that no other player except Kamal Mukherjee from West Bengal ,where many top Indian players reside, took part in the event. The top half results are as follows - Name, Score, Rank (The results are courtesy N Sriram's website):

    Anand Samant & Milind Athavale , 108, 1
    V. M. Lal & Raju Bhiwandkar, 104, 2
    R. Sree Krishnan & R. Krishnan (Kista), 82, 3
    Jaggy Shivdasani & Rajesh Dalal, 80, 4
    Ajit Chakradeo & Janak Shah, 75, 5
    Vinay Desai & Suhas Vaidya, 72, 6
    R. A. Agarwal & Archie Sequeira, 51, 7
    Joyjit Sen Sarma & Abinash Kumar Jha, 40, 8
    Ariz Anklesaria & Parimal Vahalia, 23, 9
    R. Venkatesh & Arvind Srinivasan, 20, 10
    K. Krishnakumar & N. R. Kirubakara Moorthy, 11, 11
    Pankaj Mehta & Pradeep Anand Singh, 11, 11
    Sunit Chokshi & K. R. Venkatraman, 11, 11
    Subhash Gupta & Rajeshwar Tiwari, 9, 14
    Sapan Desai & Kaustubh Bendre, 8, 15
    Arvind Vaidya & Prakash Hegde, 1, 16

    UP State Summer National Selection Trial at Lucknow 2009

    6 teams took part in the UP State Selection trials which took place on January 25, 2009 at Lucknow Club, Lucknow. They played a full league of 5 rounds of 10 boards each after which top two teams played final of 16 boards to determine the winner. Narain, Lucknow (RP Narain, RK Aneja, Arun Srivastava, SQ Wajahat) topped the league with 98 VPs and played Pankaj Mehta, Moradabad (Pankaj Mehta, Pradeep Singh, Kr Vijayanand Singh, JS Kaul) ,who were runners up in the league with 82 VPs, in the final. Narain's team continued their fabulous form and won the final with 1 IMP (10-27,21-3 in two sets of 8 boards) to earn the right to represent UP in the Summer Nationals at Pune. Favourites Maheshwari, Allahabad (IK Agarwal, Govind Agarwal, AK Gupta, BN Rastogi & AK Sinha) couldn't reach finals.

    Pairs trial took place on January 26, 2008. 17 Pairs took part in the event which was played in two sessions of all play all of 17 & 34 boards with one round as bye, the scoring was IMP. The results are as follows:

    1. SK Richhariya & Cdr RP Srivastava (Lucknow) - 47
    2. B Prasad & RA Siddiqui (Lucknow) - 44
    3. OP Tiwari & BG Verma (Allahabad) - 42
    4. Shantanu Rastogi & Mahendra Singh (Lucknow) - 39
    5. Amitabh Tayal & AK Sinha (Lucknow) - 31
    6. NP Srivastava & NN Rastogi (Lucknow) - 20

    UP has quota of three pairs in Agarwala pairs hence 4th,5th & 6th placed pairs are reserve pairs.

    Eldeco Club Orkide Pairs at Lucknow 2008

    Eldeco Club Orkide matchpoint pairs tournament took place at Eldeco Club Orkide, Eldeco Greens, Lucknow on Decmeber 21, 2008. 20 pairs took part in the event. They played 9 rounds of 3 boards each of Scrambled Mitchell movement. The event was won by GN Mehrotra & KN Jaiswal with 61.31% score. BN Rastogi & AK Sinha with 60.16% finished runners up. The third place went to Shantanu Rastogi & Mahendra Singh with 55.3% score. The other prize winners were B Prasad & RA Siddiqui (54.95%), Mukul Gupta & SA Abbasi (54.72%) & MM Nangia & Arun Srivastava (50.67%). The host Eldeco Club Orkide made perfect arrangements and it didn't show that if it was the first Bridge event that they were hosting.

    50th Winter Nationals at Kanpur 2008

    50th Winter Nationals took place at Kamla Nagar, Kanpur from November 12-21, 2008.This is Bridge Federation of India's major open bridge event which is held once a year. This time it is organized by Kailshpat Singhania Sports Foundation under the auspices of UPBA & Kanpur Bridge Association.The event was well organised except for minor hitches like lack of appeal forms & the toilets being far off from venue (There should also be separate toilet for ladies - Not sure if there was one at the venue). Some UP players got agitated and wanted to withdraw from Nationals after an appeal of one of their team was rejected. They had to be pacified. If proper appeal forms were there may be their case would have been more properly presented.I overheard a conversation between UPBA president & an appeal commitee member who seem to suggest that appeal was not properly written. I want to ask relatively how many players know how to write appeals. The relatively newer players dont even know rules properly, forget about writing appeals. The directors should be helping out the players in writing appeals if any such case arises. Due to the appeal pre quarter final league was delayed and teams had to play 72 boards in a day which is too many. In my opinion any National or International event should not have more than 60 boards a day as we must assess quality of play not quantity.Entry Fee became reasonable after organizers reduced Holkar pairs entry fee.Food arrangements were included in the entry fee and the food though typically North Indian was good.There were many side events for non qualifiers of the main events.Bulletins courtsey TC Pant were published every day and Semi Finals & Finals were on BBO viewgraph courtsey Bharat Shah & Mahesh Rohera.Gajendra Singh & his team did scoring efficiently. The sponsors JK group should be thanked for keeping the flame of bridge alive in this part of India.

    Duplicate Ruia Trophy Report

    127 teams took part in the duplicate Ruia Trophy event which included a team from Sri Lanka. They were divided into two groups of 64 & 63 where they played 15 rounds of Swiss League of 10 boards each after which 16 top teams each from both groups were selected to play 32 team pre quarter final swiss league of 8 rounds of 12 boards each from where 8 teams were selected for knock out quarter finals.

    From Group A following teams qualified -

    Gurukripa (288), India Blues (261), Dhampur Sugar Mills (261), Alok Daga (261), Maya Mira (259), CV Rao (252), Pankaj Mehta (Only pure UP Team-Pankaj Mehta, Pradeep Singh, Indresh Agarwal, Kr Vijayanand Singh, BN Rastogi, AK Sinha- 250), Indian Railways (250), NIC & ED (249), ACLA-Asansol (247), Farias (245), Formidables (245), Arnab's IV (243), Mangal Moorthi (243), Mukund-Lucknow (242), Khandelwal (242).

    From Group B following teams qualified -

    Dr PK Bera (289), Railways-A (269), Tolani Shipping (266), Arun Jain (259), Poddar (258), NALCO (257), Arun Bhar-IV (253), Bimal Sicka (252), Manyawar (251), Bannerjee's IV (249), Nagbagan Card Club (247), BDBU-B (245), Tata Steel (244), Transparent (243), Basu Mazumder- IV (243), Pritha (243).

    After pre quarter final league following teams went through -

    India Blues- 155 (Ashok Ruia, JM Shah, R Krishnan, Sandeep Karmakar, Ravi Dudhane, SK Iyenger), Indian Railways A- 153 (Manas Mukherjee, Rana Roy, Sumit Mukherjee, Amar Nath Banerjee, Debabrata Majumder, Subir Majumder), Tolani Shipping- 152 (RA Agarwal, Arun Bapat, Sunil Machhar, PG Hegde, Arvind Vaidya), Khandelwal- 147 (Raju Khandelwal, Himani Khandelwal, NK Gupta, Vinod Sharma, VM Lal, Raju Bhiwandkar), Arun Jain- 139 (Arun Jain, Sunil Bhatia, K Krishnakumar, NR Kirubakara Moorthy, AK Jha, Joyjit Sen Sharma), Bimal Sicka- 139 (Bimal Sicka, TK Roy, Swapan Some, Jagdish Biswas, Sandip Datta), Formidables- 137 (Kiran Nadar, B Satyanaryana, Rajesh Dalal, Subhash Gupta, Sunit Chokshi, KR Venkatraman), Gurukripa- 135 (Aloke Sadhu, Keyzad Anklesaria, Joy Roy, Sanat Saha, SR Bhattacharya, RS Gupta)

    India Blues lost to Bimal Sicka, India Railways A defeated Arun Jain, Tolani Shipping defeated Gurukripa & Formidables defeated Khandelwal in 10*3 quarter finals to reach Semi Finals.Formidables defeated Bimal Sicka by 65 IMPs & Tolani Shipping beat Indian Railways A by 24 IMPs in 12*3 Semi Finals. Tolani Shipping defeated Formidables 136-115 in 16*4 Finals to win coveted Ruia Trophy. Well Done. Formidables -the number one seed, defending champions and the most experienced Indian international team- had to contend with runners up BM Malani Trophy.

    MNC Trophy & Kamlakar Trophy Report

    For the non qualifiers of duplicate event there is an option of playing IMP pairs event. 174 pairs took part in the event. They were divided into 6 groups. Group ABC & DEF played separately 18*5 boards and the highest scorer was declared winner. The MNC Trophy was won by B Dey & TK Roy of ABC group with 134 IMPs , B Singha Roy & S Singha Roy of DEF group won runners up Kamlakar Trophy with 116 IMPs.

    Mohan Sicka Trophy Board A Match Report

    54 teams took part in BAM event and played two eliminations after which 20 teams qualified for final. They were joined by duplicate event finalist for 22 team final.Indian Railways won the event. Formidables finished runners up yet again.Alok Daga was third. Siddiqui, Lucknow (RA Siddiqui, B Prasad, NC Bhattacharya, TP Khare) were the only pure UP team in the finals but they couldn't fare too well.

    Holkar Trophy Matchpoint Pairs Report

    The most coveted matchpoint event in Indian bridge is Holkar Trophy but only 108 pairs took part in the first elimination of the event (This number should be around 150-200 as more than that field doesn't remain stable and the luck factor increases. Also in stable field steady play is more important as there are more pairs who can take rather than those who would give). The 72 qualifiers of first elimination were joined by 8 pairs of Semi Finalists and Finalists for second elimination from where 44 pairs went into third elimination from where 28 pairs were selected for Finals. All play all 54 pre dealt boards final was played over two sessions of 28 boards & 26 boards with screens and bidding boxes.Subhash Gupta & Raju Tolani should thank their stars as they won the event after getting eliminated in the second elimination. They got in as a reserve pair as Finton Lewis & Ivan Alphonso's auto took them all over Kanpur. As the players stay in hotels all over the city and the city is new directors should be considerate if they are informed about late arrival.Ashim Mukherjee & Hasibul Hasan were runners up and the bronze went to NK Gupta & Vinod Sharma.Lone UP pair of Shantanu Rastogi & Kalika Prasad finished 17th improving their qualifying position of 24.


    Categorised pair - a matchpoint event reserved for non life masters - title came to UP where BN Batra (Kanpur) & RS Misra (Allahabad) won the event.

    Hindalco Invitational at Renukoot 2008

    Hindalco Invitational Bridge Tournament took place at Hindalco Officer's Club, Renukoot from October 17-19, 2008. 18 teams from places such as Allahabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Ranchi, Patna, Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal apart from local teams took part in the duplicate event. They played 8 rounds of swiss league of 10 boards to determine top four teams who then played super league of 3 rounds of 12 boards each to determine the winner.Maheshwari, Allahabad (IK Agarwal, Govind Agarwal, AK Gupta, Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Singh) topped the swiss league with 167 VPs. NCL, Singrauli (PK Chakraborty, Dr S Dey, A Dey, PP Agarwal, SK Bagchi, TK Bhattacharya) 146 VPs, Sunil's, Ranchi (S Lahiri, SM Moin, Ajay Kumar, TP Dutta, S Ghosh) 137 VPs, Bhattacharya, Lucknow (NC Bhattacharya, HK Singh, TP Khare, JS Kaul, Kalika Prasad) 133 VPs were other qualifiers. Maheshwari emerged the winners in the super league with 57 VPs, Sunil's were second with 54 VPs, Bhattacharya finished 3rd with 35 VPs & NCL finished 4th with 34 VPs.

    28 pairs participted in pairs elimination 39 boards of which 15 selected to play finals. They were joined by 11 duplicate qualifier pairs to make a field of 26 for pair finals. They played scrambled Mitchell movement to determine single winner. SM Moin & S Lahiri and RK Majumder & S Majumder finished with identical score of 64.58% to emerge joint winners.A Dey & PK Chakraborty 59.13%, NC Ghatak & SK Chakraborty 57.53%, SD Pandey & BG Verma 55.61% were other prize winners.

    18 teams took part in Board a Match event. They were divided into two houses of 9 teams and played identical boards. Sunil's, Ranchi with a score of 94 emerged winners. Aranb's IV A, Varanasi 86 were runners up. NCL, Singrauli 84 & Arnab's IV B, Varanasi 83 were 3rd & 4th.


    Hospitality as usual of Hindalco was excellent with organisers promising to increase the number of teams to 30-35 next year and also shifting the dates to last week of July from next year.

    1st World Mind Sport Games at Beijing 2008

    1st World Mind Sport Games are taking place at Beijing from October 3-18, 2008.Bridge along with other mind sports like Chess, Draughts, Go & Xiangqi (Chinese Checkers) are being played there.In bridge India is represented in Open, Women,Senior, Under 28 & Under 26 categories. In under 21 category India has no representation. In Open teams 71 countries are taking part, they are divided into 4 groups, from each group 4 teams would qualify for round of 16 after full league & India is represented by Rajesh Dalal, Subhash Gupta, Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayna, Sunit Chokshi & KR Venkataraman. In Women category 54 countries are taking part, they are divided into 3 groups, from each group 5 teams & one team with best percentile VP would qualify for round of 16 after full league & India is represented by Lakshmi Chari, Subadra Rao, Hema Deora, Bimal Sicka, Sherien Ryan & S Vasanth. In senior category 32 countries are taking part, they are divided into 2 groups, from each group 8 teams would qualify for round of 16 after full league & India is represented by Ashok Goel, Major S Hooda, Kamal Mukherjee, VM Lal, R Sridharan & Ashok Vaidya.In Under 28 category 74 teams are taking part, they play swiss league of 17 rounds after which 8 teams would qualify for round of 8 & India is represented by Prasenjit Das, Sandip Datta, Sapan Desai, Pravin Kashlekar, Anurag Mohota & Aniket Sanghvi. In under 26 category 18 countries are taking part, they play full league of 17 rounds after which 8 teams would qualify for round of 8 & India is represented by Soumya Das, Raja Guthi, Arijit Hazra, Vinoth Raghvan, Karan Sharma & Prasanth Sriram.

    Day 7 Report.

    Open teams - India finished at 4th place in their group B with 313 VPs & Qualified for round of 16.Day 1- Vs Argentina 14, Vs China Hong Kong 21 & Vs Israel 20.Day 2- Vs Korea 25, Vs Jamaica 23, Vs Scotland 19.Day 3- Vs Austria 25, Vs Hungary 12, Vs China 16.Day 4- Vs Russia 11, Vs French Polynesia 21, Vs San Marino 15.Day 5- Vs Sweden 10, Vs Netherlands 15.Day 7- Vs Mexico 25, Vs Latvia 16, Vs Portugal 25.

    Women - India finished at 11th place in their group E with 226 VPs.Day 1- Vs USA 10, Vs Brazil 18, Vs Lithuania 13.Day 2- Vs Norway 11, Vs Reunion 17.5, Vs Egypt 21.Day 3- Vs China Hong Kong 15, Vs Trinidad 7, Vs Belarus 17.Day 4- Vs Gudeloupe 12, Vs England 13, Vs Thailand 16.Day 5- Vs Japan 11, Vs Portugal 8.Day 7- Vs Italy 6.5, Vs Palestine 18, Vs Poland 12.

    Senior - India finished 10th place in their group L with 215 VPs.Day 1- Vs Germany 5, Vs Indonesia 7, Vs Italy 17.Day 2- Vs Netherlands 19, Vs Thailand 21, Vs Belgium 20.Day 3- Vs Finland 20, Vs Canada 15.Day 4- Vs Ireland 13, Vs Australia 8, Vs Reunion 22.Day 5- Vs Egypt 14, Vs Poland 4.Day 7- Vs China 16, Vs Guadeloupe 16.

    Under 28 - India finished at 15th place with 276 VPs, they needed 18 from their last match could manage only 4.Day 1- Vs Ecuador 17, Vs Ireland 25, Vs Croatia 21.Day 2- Vs Iceland 16, Vs Portugal 21, Vs Egypt 16.Day 3- Vs Serbia 25, Vs Poland 14, Vs England 5.Day 4- Vs China 13, Vs Israel 7, Vs Norway 19.Day 5- Vs Latvia 22, Vs Hungary 16.Day 7- Vs Australia 24, Vs Chinese Taipei 11, Vs Belgium 4.

    Under 26 - India finished at 18th place with 160 VPs.Day 1- Vs Australia 7, Vs Egypt 17, Vs Argentina 13.Day 2- Vs China 14, Vs Indonesia 9, Vs Netherlands 0.Day 3-Vs Chile 0, Vs Poland 10, Vs China Hong Kong 5.Day 4- Vs USA 15, Vs Norway 20, Vs Chinese Taipei 7.Day 5- Vs Canada 13, Vs New Zealand 11.Day 7- Vs Italy 7, Vs Germany 12, Vs Denmark 0.

    Individual Event

    An Invitational Individual event for men & women was played over 3 sessions (One session on Day 0 & two sessions on Day 6). There were 36 participants in men category & 24 in women. Tor Helness of Norway won the men's event with 58.66% score, Geir Helgemo (Norway) was second with 55.27% & Andrey Gromov (Russia) was third with 53.75%. India's Subhash Gupta was joint 14th with 50.45%. The women's event was won by Midskog Catarina of Sweden with 57.51%, Levy Anne Fredrique (France) was second with 57.13% & Yan Ru (China) was third with 55.1%. India's Bimal Sicka finished 18th with 46.81%.

    Open Knock Out Phase

    Open team round of 16 saw European domination with 12 out of 16 countries from its zone making it. India drew a tough opponent & a potential title contender in Italy (Claudio Nunes, Fulvio Fantoni, Alferdo Versace, Lorenzo Lauria, Antonio Sementa & Georgio Duboin) . Italy defeated India thus ending Indian campaign. The upsets in this round were Poland defeating powerful USA team (Nickell, Freeman, Hamman, Compton, Rodwell & Meckstroth), China defeating Brazil & Romania upsetting Israel. Norway defeated Turkey, England defeated Bulgaria, Netherlands beat Estonia & Germany beat Belgium to make it to last eight. The six segment 2 day quarterfinal saw Italy beat Poland, Norway beat China, England beat Romania & Germany upsetting Netherlands. Italy defeated Norway & England beat Germany to reach finals.Italy defeated England (Justin Hackett, Jason Hackett, David Gold, Tom Townsend, Nicklas Sandqvist, Artur Malinowski) 200-170 in 6 segment 2 day final to win the title.Norway (Ulf Tundal, Glenn Groetheim, Jorgen Molberg, AA Terje, Geir Helgemo, Tor Helness) defeated Germany 93-56 in 2 segments to win bronze medal.

    Women/Senior categories Report

    In Women category China, USA, England & Turkey made it to Semi finals.China beat USA & England beat Turkey to reach finals.England (Nevena Senior, Heather Dhondy, Nicola Smith, Sally Brock, Catherine Draper, Anne Rosen) defeated China (Yalan Zhang, Gu Ling, Sun Ming, Wang Hongli, Wang Wenfei, Liu Yi Qian)223-222 in 6 segment 2 day final to win Gold. USA (Jenice Seamon Molsen, Tobi Sokolow, Marinesa Letizia, Mildred Breed, Judi Radin, Sylvia Moss) defeated Turkey 134-88 in 3 segments to win Bronze.

    In Senior category no European country made it to round of four with USA, Egypt, Indonesia & Japan making it.USA beat Egypt & Japan defeated Indonesia to reach senior finals.Japan (Ino Masayuki, Abe Hiroya, Yamada Akihiko, Ohno Kyoko) defeated USA (Sam Lev, Billy Eisenberg, Russ Ekeblad, Matt Granovetter, Grant Baze, Reese Milner) 202-200 in 6 segment 2 day final to win Gold. Indonesia (Eddy Monoppo, Danny Sacul, Munawar Sawiruddin, Henky Lasut, Waluyan, Hartono Michael Bambang) defeated Egypt 108-56 in 3 segments to win Bronze.

    Youth categories Report

    U 28 Semifinalists were Poland, France, China & Norway where Poland beat France & Norway defeated China. Norway (Sverre Johan Aal, Erik A Eide, Jorn Arild Ringseth, Stefan Fredrik Simonsen) over came 47.3 IMP deficit in 4th segment to win by 2.7 IMPs against Poland, China finished 3rd. Under 26 category was won by Denmark (Dennis Bilde, Anne Sofie Houlberg, Jonas Houmoller, Emil Jepsen, Lars Kirkegaard Nielsen, Martin Schaltz) who defeated Poland in the final, Norway was 3rd & Chinese Taipei was 4th. Under 21 category was won by France (Marion Cannone, Piere Franceschetti, Alexendre Kilani, Aymeric Lebatteux, Nicholas Lhuissier, Cedric Lorenzini) who defeated England in the final, China was 3rd & Bulgaria was 4th.

    All reports courtesy WBF website & www.swangames.com

    GM Modi Memorial at Nainital 2008

    GM Modi memorial bridge tournament took place at Boat House Club, Nainital from September 25-28, 2008. The results -courtesy Mr TC Pant- are as follows:
    Team of Four: Total 64 Teams

    1. MAYA MEERA SNEHA
    2. MANGO
    3/4. DHAMPUR SUGAR MILLS
    3/4. PANKAJ MEHTA (Pankaj Mehta,Pradeep Singh,B Saha,Joy,S Bandopadhyay)
    5/8. HA JA BA RA LA
    5/8. DR. USHA KOTHARI
    5/8. TRANSPARENT, PUNE
    5/8. JESUS's IV

    BAM: Total - 53 Teams
    1. PANKAJ MEHTA - 98(Pankaj Mehta,Pradeep Singh,B Saha,S Bandopadhyay)
    2. ERSA - 93
    3. DHAMPUR SUGAR MILLS - 91
    4. DYNAMITE - 90
    5. PROMILA SARAF - 89
    6. S. CHATTERJEE - 85

    OPEN PAIRS

    1. Pranab Bardhan - G. Manna
    2. Badal Das - Sumit Mukherjee
    3. K. Das - A. Bhattacharjee
    4. J.B. Sengupta - R.C. Consul
    5. A.B. Chakraborty - J. Biswas
    6. A. K. Jha - A. Mandal

    HCL tournament at NOIDA 2008

    HCL bridge tournament took place at Hotel Radisson, NOIDA from September 4-7, 2008. 72 teams took part in the duplicate event and played 10 rounds of 10 boards swiss league to determine 8 quarter finalist and 9-12 position prize winners. Maya Meera Sneha, Delhi (AK Mukherji, Vijay Goel, CS Majumdar, Yuu Rong, Samir Basak, S Das) topped the swiss league with 199 VPs. Other Quarter finalists were Dhampur Sugar - 188 VPs (Ashok Goel, Kamal Mukherjee, Pritish Kushari, D Majumder, Sumit Mukherjee, Badal Das), Shree Cement - 183 VPs (Manas Mukherjee, Rana Roy, Subroto Saha, Subir Majumdar, V Todi, S Lahiri), Bimal Sicka - 182 VPs (J Biswas, Tapan Roy, Kamal Nagauri, Dibyendu Shee, Swapan Some, Sandeep Dutta), Promila Saraf - 177 VPs (Promila Saraf, P Sudhakar Rao, B Venkateswarlu, S Acharya, Mrinal Mukherjee, Gobinda Sinha), Texan Aces -176 VPs (G Venkatesh, JM Shah, R Tewari, S Sunderram, B Prabhakar, P Sridhar), Sunil Machhar -175 VPs (Sunil Machhar, Anil Padhye, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, Suhas Vaidya, Vinay Desai), India Seniors - 170 VPs (S Hooda, A Vaidya, VM Lal, PR Bafna). Rajjan, Allahabad (Rajjan Agarwal, S Chatterjee, BK Agarwal, SP Srivastava, Deepak Chatterjee, RK Shukla) was unlucky to miss out on quarter final berth as they lost out on tie break and finished 9th. WellKnit, Alok Daga & Khandelwal were the 10-12 position prize winners. The quarter final was played over 3 sessions of 14 boards each. Maya Meera Sneha defeated Promila Saraf by 55 IMPs, Dhampur Sugar Mills defeated India Seniors by 62 IMPs with India Senior conceding the last set, Shree Cement lost out to Sunil Machhar by 100 IMPs & Texan Aces defeated Bimal Sicka by 24 IMPs. It was Maya Meera Sneha vs Texan Aces and Dhampur Sugar Mills vs Sunil Machhar in the semi finals of 3 sets of 16 boards.Texan Aces came through by 15 IMPs and joined Sunil Machhar in final who won by 4 IMPs. Final was one sided with Texan Aces becoming champions by 102 IMPs as Sunil Machhar conceded the last set and lifted Naresh Tandan trophy with a prize purse of 3 lac.

    150 pairs participated in 1st elimination of pairs and 72 in second from which 24 were selected for finals they were joined by 6 losing semi finalist pairs and 2 sponsors pairs to make a field of 32. They included three UP pairs of Indresh Agarwal & Pradeep Singh, VK Agarwal & BK Agarwal and Kr Vijayanand Singh & Siddharth Behura. RB Goyal of Meerut playing with RP Airon was also in final. Subroto Saha & Satyabrata Lahiri came out to be winners of Neena Bonerjee trophy after 62 computer dealt boards session and went richer by 1.25 lac. Vinod Sharma & Sudhir Agarwal were runners up. Other prize winners in that order are D Majumdar & P Kushari,Gobind Singha & V Todi, Kiran Nadar & B Satyanarayna, Alok Sadhu & Keyzad Anklesaria, D Santra & AB Chakraborty, Sukamal Das & Vijay Goel, Tapas Mukherjee & S Dey, KR Venkataraman & Sunit Choksi, Ashim Mukherjee & Yuu Rong, Manas Mukherjee & Rana Roy.

    Ubhayakar Trophy Final Results 2008

    Ubhayakar trophy 2008 final results have been computed. This year it took place at 45 centres. In session 1 332 pairs in each direction played & in session 2 317 pairs in each direction played. The overall top three in each direction & in each session are as follows:

    NS 1st session

    1. KRV Krishna Rao & R Pulliah - Warangal - 1606
    2. CBS Rao & Shyamsunder - Hospet - 1545
    3. Dr SK Meena & CV Kekre - Bhopal - 1510

    EW 1st session

    1. Suresh B Joshi & SM Gajewar - Sangli - 1857
    2. Ajay Yadnik & Bihari Lal - Hyderabad - 1765
    3. B Rammohan Rao & S Rajagopal Rao - Hyderabad - 1699

    NS 2nd session

    1. RP Bhatnagar & RVS Chauhan - Dehradun - 1622
    2. Dr SK Meena & CV Kekre - Bhopal - 1589
    3. Satyaranjan Das & Amrendra Sutradhar - Guwahati - 1571

    EW 2nd session

    1. SP Chatterjee & Amit Chakraborty - Kolkata - 1603
    2. PK Nayyar & Rakesh Sharma - Patiala - 1461
    3. YV Rao & GV Rao - Hyderabad - 1457


    Four centres in UP held the event. They are Lucknow (12 pairs), Allahabad (14 pairs), Kanpur (10 pairs) & Varanasi (10 pairs). No pair from UP could finish in top 10 this year. The masterpoints obtained by UP Pairs are as follows (Rank,Name,Place,Score, Masterpoints):

    NS 1st session

    27. BC Bose & Subir Bose -Varanasi-1352-7.9
    30. GC Chatterjee & Amar Bose -Varanasi-1342-6.61
    47. BB Lal & GN Mehrotra -Lucknow-1320-2.83

    EW 1st session

    19. NC Bhattacharya & TP Khare -Lucknow-1520-11.92
    26. RK Shukla & B Agarwal -Allahabad-1494-8.32
    55. AK Sinha & BN Rastogi -Lucknow-1438-1.88
    57. AP Singh & AK Nigam - Allahabad-1436-1.69

    NS 2nd session

    11. SA Abbasi & KN Jaiswal -Lucknow-1545-17.06
    17. R Agarwal & S Chatterjee -Allahabad-1524-13.2
    38. Dr DC Gupta & JP Mathur -Lucknow-1451-4.62
    45. HK Singh & Manish Jaiswal -Lucknow-1421-3.06
    60. KP Newatia & SK Kaushik -Kanpur-1399-1.45

    EW 2nd session

    15. SP Agnihotri & DN Prasad -Kanpur-1328-15.02
    54. DS Jadon & S Lahiri -Kanpur-1246-1.98
    58. Mukul Airon & IP Jain -Kanpur-1241-1.61

    Ubhayakar Trophy 2008 Complete Results (click on sheets at the bottom of this excel file to get all the results)

    GSI Lucknow Open at Lucknow 2008

    3rd Lucknow Open Bridge tournament took place at VKS Varadan auditorium, Geological Survey of India, Lucknow from August 23-24, 2008. 14 teams took part in the duplicate event. They played 7 rounds of swiss league of 8 boards each to determine top 2 teams who played finals. Richhariya, Lucknow (SK Richhariya, Shantanu Rastogi, SH Zaheer, MA Quadri, AK Bansal, Sultan Zuberi) topped the swiss league with 127 VPs. There were two teams tied at second place with 124 VPs with tie break going for Narain, Lucknow (RP Narain. RK Aneja, Mukul Gupta, Kalika Prasad). RS Misra , Allahabad which missed out on final berth led mostly in swiss league but bad last two rounds cost them a place in final. Narain team defeated Richhariya in 24 board final by 10 IMPs to win KN Srivastava trophy. 22 pairs took part in the pairs elimination from where 10 pairs were selected for finals after playing 10 rounds of 3 boards each with the Mitchell movement. Finals was all play all 16 pairs 30 boards howell movement. JS Kaul & BN Batra won the JR Singh trophy with approx 62% session. MM Nangia & BD Sarkar finished runners up and AK Sinha & BN Rastogi got the third prize.Masterpoints of 3rd Lucknow Open Bridge Championship

    38th UP State Championship at Bareilly 2008

    38th UP state championship took place at Allen Union Club, Bareilly from August 8-10,2008. 15 teams from took part in the duplicate event.The teams played full league of 15 rounds of 8 boards each. 2 top teams from the league then played in the finals to determine the winners.Rajjan, Allahabad (Rajjan Agarwal, BK Agarwal,SP Srivastava,Deepak Chatterjee,Shanker Chatterjee,RK Shukla) topped the league with 295 VPs.Maheshwari,Allahabad (Indresh Agarwal, Govind Agarwal, BN Rastogi, AK Gupta, AK Sinha, Deepak Kothiwal) finished second with 260 VPs.Siddiqui, Lucknow (RA Siddiqui, B Prasad,NC Bhattacharya, TP Khare) was unlucky to miss out on final berth as they also ended up with 260 VPs but as Maheshwari had defeated them in the league it progressed to final. Ajay Agarwal, Bareilly (Ajay Agarwal, BS Agarwal, Kr Vijayanand Singh, JS Kaul, Pradeep Singh, Pankaj Mehta) finished fourth with 256 VPs. Maheshwari defeated Rajjan in the final and won and retained the DN Rastogi trophy.CK Bhargava & RK Shukla from Allahabad won JS Kothiwal trophy for winning pairs event in which 28 pairs took part. B Prasad & RA Siddiqui (Lucknow) finished runners up. Other prize winners in pairs event were RS Misra & OP Tiwari (Allahabad), VK Agarwal & BK Agarwal (Allahabad).Ajay Agarwal, Bareilly (Ajay Agarwal,Kr Vijayanand Singh, JS Kaul, Pradeep Singh,) won board a match event and with it the Late Gajendra Nath Rastogi memorial trophy where 13 teams were competing. Pensions, Allahabad (AP Singh,HS Gaur, CB Yadav,AK Bannerjee) were runners up. Participation this year was thin again with no teams from Varanasi & Kanpur taking part.Host Bareilly Bridge Association put up a good show for which Mr BS Agarwal, Mr Ajay Agarwal & Mr AK Garg need special mention.Masterpoints of 38th UP State Bridge Championship

    Indian Achievement at Summer NABC at Las Vegas 2008

    KR Venkataraman (Chennai) & Sunit Choksi (Ahmedabad) have won the Wernher pairs event at the 80th Summer NABC which is taking place at Las Vegas. Both are part of Formidables team which would represent India at the first World Mind Sport Games at Beijing in October. It is perhaps the first major win by purely an Indian combination in the NABC.

    1st Madhav Prasad Memorial at Garjia 2008

    Pankaj Mehta, Moradabad (Pankaj Mehta, Pradeep Singh, Sumit Mukherjee, Badal Das, Bhavesh Saha) qualified for the super league of 8 teams in the 1st Madhava Prasad bridge tournament which took place at The Corbett River View Retreat, Corbett Park, Garjia from June 26-29, 2008 in which 30 teams took part. The event was won by Bimal Sicka, Mumbai (Bimal Sicka, Vinay Sharma, Finton Lewis, Gopi Nath Manna, Pranab Bardhan). Pankaj Mehta & Pradeep Singh also finished 5th in the pairs event in which 49 pairs took part.

    Ubhayakar Trophy at Lucknow 2008

    2008 edition of National Pairs at Home for Ubhayakar Trophy took place on June 22. There were 6 tables in each session at Lucknow.The results are as follows:
    NS 1st session
    1. BB Lal & GN Mehrotra - 1320
    2. HK Singh & Manish Jaiswal - 1135
    EW 1st session
    1. NC Bhattacharya & TP Khare - 1520
    2. AK Sinha & BN Rastogi - 1446
    NS 2nd session
    1. SA Abbasi & KN Jaiswal - 1506
    2. Dr DC Gupta & JP Mathur - 1412
    EW 2nd session
    1. RP Narain & SQ Wajahat - 1175
    2. SK Richhariya & Cdr RP Srivastava - 1111

    Dehradun Club Open at Dehradun 2008

    Pankaj Mehta, Moradabad (Pankaj Mehta,Bhavesh Saha, CS Majumder,Kingshuk Bhattcharya) won the Open bridge tournament organised by Dehradun Club Ltd, Dehradun from June 14-15, 2008 amongst 21 teams. ML Jain (Meerut) partnering NK Bajpai won the pairs event amongst 28 pairs. Mrs Asha Sharma & DP Sharma of NOIDA were 3rd.

    World Wide Bridge Championship 2008

    2008 edition of World Wide Bridge Championship took place on June 6 & 7. 5662 pairs from 313 clubs in 38 countries took part on June 6 and 5481 pairs from 268 clubs in 37 countries took part on June 7. In India 5 centres (110 pairs) - Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai (CBA),Bangalore, Nainital- took part on June 6 and 7 centres (159 pairs) - Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai (CBA), Bangalore, Nainital, Varanasi, Kolkata (2 sections)- took part on June 7. The Friday event was won by Frau S Bohnsack & Herr H Bohnsack of BV Fair Play 90 Koln- Sud, Germany with 73.74% score. On Friday the top score from India was from Shyam Sundar & Swarup Anand of Bangalore who scored 69.67% and overall finished 19th. The Saturday event was won by Zara Giovanna & Di Ceasre Sandro of Ass Sportiva Mes Annis Galatina Sect A, Italy with 73.81% score. On Saturday the top score from India was from Sumit Mukherjee & Sukamal Das of Kolkata who scored 67.7% and overall finished 31st.In Lucknow 10 pairs took part on both the days. The results are as follows (Local Rank, Name, local score %,Overall rank, Overall score %):

    Friday June 6
    1. GN Mehrotra & Dr DC Gupta 56.81%,2761,50.34%
    2. SQ Wajahat & MM Nangia 55.23%,2080,52.66%
    3. SA Abbasi & KN Jaiswal 52.31%,1754,53.71%
    7. RP Narain & RK Aneja 47.69%,1987,52.95%
    Saturday June 7
    1. KN Jaiswal & SA Abbasi 66.11%,699,58.09%
    2. GN Mehrotra & Dr DC Gupta 56.11%,1152,55.86%
    3. RP Narain & RK Aneja 54.07%,989,56.58%

    Indian Selection Trials at Hyderabad 2008

    Formidables (Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayna, Subhash Gupta, KR Venkataraman, Rajesh Dalal, Sunit Choksi) won the Indian selection trials held at Fateh Maidan Club, Hyderabad from May 3-10, 2008 to earn the right to represent India at Beijing Olympiad to be held later in 2008.

    DN Rastogi Memorial at Lucknow 2008

    DN Rastogi memorial IMP pairs event took place at Lucknow Club, Lucknow from May 10-11, 2008.This is a state level event modelled on finals of Agarwala trophy. 16 pairs played 15 rounds of 8 boards each with IMP difference converted into VPs.8 outstation & 8 local pairs took part in the event. The event was won by Indresh Agarwal & Sushil Agarwal of Allahabad (265). The other prize winners were RS Misra & SD Pandey of Allahabad (254), Rajjan Agarwal & BK Agarwal of Allahabad (250), BN Rastogi & AK Sinha of Lucknow (247), NC Bhattacharya & TP Khare of Lucknow (236) & RP Narain & RK Aneja of Lucknow (235).

    Selection Trial for DN Rastogi Memorial at Lucknow 2008

    A selection trial was held in Lucknow on May 4,2008 to select 6 local pairs for DN Rastogi memorial IMP pairs event which would take place at Lucknow Club, Lucknow from May 10-11, 2008. 16 pairs played 52 (22 with local movement + 30 with Howell movement) deals in two sessions with matchpoint scoring.BN Rastogi & AK Sinha (208), KN Jaiswal & SA Abbasi (204.5), Shantanu Rastogi & SK Richhariya (202.5), JS Kaul & Kalika Prasad (202), B Prasad & RA Siddiqui (196), RP Narain & RK Aneja (194) were the selected pairs.

    DN Rastogi Memorial tournament would take place at Lucknow Club, Lucknow from May 9-10, 2009.

    National Pairs at Home for Ubhayakar Trophy would take place at registered centres on May 31, 2009.Circular

    Worldwide Simultaneous Pairs would take place on June 5 & 6 , 2009.

    Madhav Prasad Memorial Bridge Tournament would take place at Garjia (Corbett Park) from July 2-5, 2009.

    All India Hindalco Bridge Tournament would take place at Renukoot from July 24-26, 2009.

    HCL Bridge Tournament would take place at NOIDA from August 13-16, 2009.

    All India GM Modi Memorial Bridge Tournament would take place at Nainital from September 17-20, 2009.

    Tolani Grand Prix would take place at Mumbai from October 3-6, 2009.

    51st Winter Nationals would take place at Bengaluru from December 2-13, 2009.

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