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Bulletin # 2 7th Tolani Open Summer National Bridge Championships 2017 Page 1 of 14

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Editor: T.C. Pant Bulletin No. 2: Sunday, 18th June 2017

The Summer Nationals 2017 is declared Open The 7th Tolani Open Summer National Bridge Championships were inaugurated yesterday at Nashik Engineering Cluster, MIDC, Ambad, Nashik in the august presence of the Chief Guest Mr. Sudhir Bhagwat, Vice President, State Bank of India. The other dignitaries on the dais, gracing the occasion were Mr. J.K. Bhosale, President of Maharashtra Bridge Association and Vice President of Bridge Federation of India, Mr. Vinod Kapoor, President, Nashik District Bridge Association and Mitra Vihar Club, Nashik, Mr. Anand Samant, Secretary, Bridge Federation of India and Mr. Mohan Ukidave, Secretary, MBA.

Mr. Hemant Pande, the tournament Convener welcomed the dignitaries on the dais and all the participants & officials to Nashik for this prestigious National Championships.

Mr. Anand Samant, Secretary, BFI informed the participants of the inclusion of Bridge in the Asian Games 2018 at Jakarta and emphasised the importance of the forthcoming Bridge tournaments and Selection Trials planned by BFI for succeeding of Indian teams in the Asian Games.

Shibnath Dey Sarkar & Prannab Bardhan from West Bengal were felicitated by the Chief guest for their excellent performance in the Pairs event at the recently concluded APBF Championships at Seoul.

After declaring the Championship open, it was handed over to the CTD, Mr. MBV Subrahmanyam for further conduct of the tournament.

MAAYA MEERA in Gold & KASTUR KUNJ in Silver Lead the Team of Four event

The championships commenced with the Team of Four event for the Tolani Gold Trophy & Tolani Silver Trophy. 28 teams in the Tolani Gold and 27 Teams in Tolani Silver (for non-masters) are participating in the Team of Four event.

At the end of first day (after 6 rounds of 10 boards each), MAAYA MEERA, comprising of Sukamal Das, Pranab Roy, Sayantan Kushari, Sagnik Roy & Bijoy Mondal lead the event with 90.53 VPs.

In the Tolani Silver event, at the end of 6 rounds of Swiss league (10 boards each), KASTUR KUNJ comprising of AJIT SHIVDASANI, CAPT VIJAY ANAND, MRS SULEKA PANDIT, VILAS PANDIT lead the event with 92.32 VPs.

See detailed results on Page 6-9.

2 more rounds of Swiss league will be played today in both the Tolani GOLD & SILVER events, after which the TOP 16 teams will qualify for the pre-QF knock out stage to be played in the afternoon. The draw for pre-QF matches (3 rounds of 10 boards each) will be 1 Vs 16, 2 Vs 15 and so on, with teams ranked 1 to 7 having right to chose their opponents from ranked 9 to 16. For e.g. if team ranked 1 chooses 13th ranked team, the 13th ranked team will be considered ranked 16.

There will be a PATTON Teams event consisting of 4 rounds of 8-board matches, for the non-qualifying GOLD teams. See details on Page 8.


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THE INAUGURATION FUNCTION 7th Tolani Open Summer National Bridge Championships, Nashik

The convener Mr. Hemant Pande welcoming guests & participants to the Championships at Nashik. On the dais: from L to R Mr. Anand Samant, Mr. Vinod Kapoor, Mr. Sudhir Bhagwat (Chief Guest),

Mr. J.K. Bhosale & Mr. Mohan Ukidave

Mr. Pranab Bardhan & Mr. Shibnath De Sarkar were felicitated by BFI for their excellent

performance in the Open Pairs of 51st APBF Championships at Seoul


TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE Chairman: Prasad Keni

Members: M.R.G. Apparao, S. Sundareshan,

J.K. Bhosale, K.S. Samant, R. Venkatesh, Vinay Desai

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chief Patron: J.K. Bhosale Chairman: Vinod Kapoor

Vice-Chairman: Mohan Ukidave Conveners: Hemant Pande &

Dr. Atul Dashputre Chief Co-ordinator: R. Rajagopalan

Org. Secretary: Surya Reddi Jt. Org. Secretary: Sunil Patki

Accommodation:

Hemant Pande (9822498456) Atul Dashputre (9822053095)

EVENT PRIZES Dr. Tolani Gold Trophy Dr. Tolani Silver Trophy

Winner Rs. 120,000 Rs. 50,000 Runner-up Rs. 60,000 Rs. 25,000 Third Rs. 40,000 Rs. 15,000 Fourth Rs. 25,000 Rs. 10,000 5th to 8th Rs. 7,500 each Rs. 5,000 each

IMP Pairs PATTON Teams Winner Rs. 25,000 Rs. 6,000 Runner-up Rs. 12,000 Rs. 4,000 3rd / 4th Rs. 6,000 / Rs. 5000 Rs. 2,000 each 5th / 6th Rs. 4,000/ Rs. 3000 Rs. 1,000 each 7th / 8th Rs. 2,000/ Rs. 1000 Rs. 1,000 (for 7th position only)

Entry Fees: Dr. Tolani Gold Trophy: Rs. 6000 for 4 member team. Additional member Rs. 1000 each. Dr. Tolani Silver Trophy: Rs. 4000 - for 4 member team. Additional member Rs. 500 each. IMP Pairs Elimination: Rs. 1200 per Pair. IMP Pairs Final: Flight A & B - Rs. 300 per Pair. PATTON Teams Rs. 400 per Team Match Point Pairs Rs. 400 per pair.

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT

Chief of Technical Management T.C. Pant

Scoring Srinivasan Iyengar & Team

Bulletin Editor T.C. Pant

Vu-graph Bharat Shah &Team

Computer Deals Chetan Raval & Team

REVIEW Vinay Desai

R. Venkatesh

TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS M.B.V. Subrahmanyam, CTD Pranab Bhattacharya, Jt. CTD

Directors: P. Narasinga Rao, D. Roy Choudhury, Sanjay Chakraborty, B.G. Daxindas


TEAM ROSTER TOLANI GOLD

T# Team Name Players Names 1 Cogito Andrey Purushottam, Nk Gupta, Animesh Raj, Uttam Gupta 2 Anoop Dhawan Anoop Dhawan, Kajal Das, Pinaki Khan, Subrato Saha, Shamboo Ghosh,

Biswajit Poddar 3 Hemant Jalan Hemant Jalan, Sandip Dutta, Ashish Malhotra, Kaustubh Bendre,

Swarnendu Banerjee, JM Shah 4 Samadhan Ravi Raman, Rahul Khambete, Vijay Phatarphekhar, Tv Ramani,

Arvind Vaidya, Abhay Todankar 5 Shri Radhey Vm Lal, Rajendra Bhiwandkar, Finton Lewis, Sandeep Karmarkar,

Ivan Alphanso, 6 Aristos Sanjoy B, Sk Iyengar, Arvind Srinivasan, R Venkatesh, Dr. K Srinivas,

Rajendra Gokhale 7 Bridgeduniya com Sandeep Thakral, Vivek Bhand, Joyjit Sen, Paresh Gupta 8 Maa Sarada Kamal Naguri, Kalyan Mukherjee, Ramkrishna Majumder, Ab Chakravorty,

Satyabrata Mukherjee, Abhijit Chakraborty 9 Alpha Daya Dhaon, Subir Majumdar, Amarnath Banerjee, Rana Roy, Dipak Santra,

Aniruddha Bhattacharya 10 CV Rao Cv Rao, Badal Das, Shibnath Dey Sarkar, Pranab Bardhan, Alok Sadhu 11 Poddar Housing Ltd Anand Samant, Jitu Solani, Anal Shah, R Sridharan, Subhash Dhakras,

Milind Athavale 12 Bold Play Sanat Saha, Ajit Saldana, Ravindran, Suresh Kumar, Amod Rele 13 Mango Jeroo Mango, B Parasrampuria, Koushik Mukherjee, Vikrant Mehta,

Archie Sequeria, Ian Concessio 14 Acropolis Vinay Desai, Anil Padhye, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, Arun Bapat,

Sunil Machhar 15 Maaya Meera Sneha Sukamal Das, Pranab Roy, Sayantan Kushari, Sagnik Roy, Bijoy Mondal 16 Hridhaan Ajit Chakradeo, Parimal Vahalia, B Ogale, S Krishnan 17 SummerCooler Hema Deora, Rahul Shetty, Prasun Mukherjee, Gopinath Manna,

Bhabhesh Saha, Samir Basak 18 Vajra Rajesh Somani, Anantvikram Somani, Jenish Shah, Vinoth Kumar,

Marianne Karmarkar 19 KBA Rajeev S, Mithun Mukherjee, S Saheerudddin, Nizamuddin S 20 NDBA A Sunil Patke, Sharad Takane, Dilip Gosavi, Dr Purandare, Dr. Kulkarni,

Ramesh Talajia 21 Guptas Bangalore As Gupta, V Krishnan, Prakash Eashwaran, Anirudh Prakash,

Bindiya Naidoo, Priya Ranjan Sinha 22 Janak Shah Janak Shah, Rajmohan, Avi Medekar, Dipak Pradhan 23 Mitra Vihar A Hemant Pande, Mohan, Atul Deshputre, Pradeep Deshpande, Dr Shirodkar,

Rohit Mishra 24 Jai Ganesh Raju Khare, Sg Surve, Pa Bhosale, S Khaholkar, Bhaskar Pendse, NB Shinde 25 OSRC Odisha Bhimsen Pradhan, Ashok Kumar, Ramchandra Nayak, Pramod Mishra,

Basanta Kumar, 26 En Passant Sk Bandopadhyay, Shankar Acharya, Bharati Dey, Alok Daga 27 TAS Powertek TK Padwal, TP Mogre, M Tharuniah, Raghavacharya 28 I Doctors Shrikant Tembe, Deven Doshi, Gary Singh, Rajul Dalal

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you; it is when you dont understand yourself.


TEAM ROSTER TOLANI SILVER

T# Team Name Players Names 1 INDRADHANUSH SRS SHASTRI, ROBERT SIMA, SITARAMAIH, MADHAV GOKHALE,

B J NARAYAN, TIWARI 2 ABA J J SINGH, D BISWAS, A SARKAR, P DALVI 3 SOUMITRA ASHOK VAIDYA, SOUMITRA WARDEKAR, AVINASH CHITALE,

SAMPATH SRINIVASAN, PRASAD HONAP 4 KASTUR KUNJ AJIT SHIVDASANI, CAPT VIJAY ANAND, MRS SULEKA PANDIT, VILAS PANDIT 5 TWEM RAMAN GIRDHARDDAS, ASHOK KULKARNI, VINAY SHARMA, DR K VAHALIS 6 GURUPRASAD MRS ALKA WATVE, R A WATVE, ANIL SATHE, PRAMOD MOKASHI,

MADHAV JOSHI, G C DEY 7 BARC A ANBAZHAGAN, K K MISHRA, A BHATTACHARYA, DASMAHAPATRA,

K BHANJA, A ACHARYA 8 GURJAR GURJAR SUBODH, DAMU JOGLEKAR, PATWARDHAN V C, DAMLE V K,

DAMLE C K, KHER 9 AMOL AMOL DESHMUKH, V CHANDRASHEKHAR, D B NAGRAJ, C D KUMAR 10 DIGNITY DIGNITY, RAVISHANKAR, R B KELKAR, C S PURANIK 11 AGRESAR SUKRIT VJAYKARI, BUDDY SHAH, COL DIWANJI, DR HAJIRNIS, SANZGIRI,

DR DAVE 12 AMANORA J K BHOSLE, SATISH GOLE, M P KULKARNI, ANANT GOLWALKAR,

PRASANNA BHIDE, DAYAL 13 INDIAN OIL UDAY BEDEKAR, B MAHATA, S GOVILKAR, A V SURESHBABU 13 MUMBAI BPT S SHEKHARNARAYAN, CHARULATA VAKALE, ANIL SATHE, SUHAS VICHARE,

S V APTE, R C SHAH 14 USHA KIRAN USHA JOSHI, KABIRAJ, UMESH ATHAVALE, RAGHUNATH KARMARKAR,

MEKAL, BHARAT PARANJPE 15 LALIT MOHAN KA JOYRUP MULLICK, ARITRA BHATTACHARYA, ANINDRA SARKAR,

BINOD KUMAR SHAW, BHASKAR SARKAR 16 KOSY KOUSIK PITHADIA, PRASENJIT MANNA, GAURAB BISWAS,

SOUMYADIP CHAKRABARTY, KEISNA BISWAS, SANJIT DEY 17 SWAMI SAMARTH SHASHIKANT MODAK, SHASHIKANT KULKARNI, VIJAYKANT TARALE,

MAHENDRA MOGHE 18 JUPITOR D SEETHARAMAIAH, S SRINIVAS RAO, S SUDHAKAR RAO,

D S PRAKASA RAO, C CHANDRAMOHAN, A BALARAM 19 RAINBOW PUNE JAYKUMAR, G P GUPTA, S PANCHI, S KULKARNI 20 PRESIDENTS VINOD KAPOOR, VR PARANJAOE, MADHU DIXIT, ISHAK RAJE,

SANJAY VISPUTE, CB BAPAT 21 STAR TUSHAR BEDI, SUBHASH BHAVNANI, SOUVIK KAR, PRITAM DAS 22 MARKED PUNE SUNANDA RANADE, SANYOGITA MODAK, HEMA DATE,

SUSHMA KARANDIKAR 23 RAHARA CARD CLUB K D CHAKRABORTY, WRIK CHAKROBORTY, SANAT ROY, SAKTI PADA ROY 24 CFCO C S MAJUMDAR, J K MAJUMDAR, P S MUKHARJEE, B BHATTACHARYA,

MRS R CHANDRA, DR S CHANDRA 26 DOUBLES M K JANARDAN, A S MAHADAR, RAMRATNAM, P R KULKARNI 27 BORIVALI SPORTS CLUB KHUSHRU KAPADIA, LYN NAZARETH, STANLY NAZARETH,

RONALD MIRANDA, ASVIN GANGER

Success lies not in the result, but in the effort. Being the best is not at all important, doing the best is all that matters. Do your best.


OPEN TEAM (GOLD) EVENT RESULTS Round # 1

TBL # Team Name Team Name IMPs VPs 1 Cogito Vs. AnoopDhawan 5-33 2.49-17.51 2 Hemant Jalan Vs. Samadhan 32-14 15.52-4.48 3 Shri Radhey Vs. Aristos 22-23 9.61-10.39 4 Bridgeduniya Vs. Maa Sarada 22-20 10.77-9.23 5 Alpha Vs. CV Rao 15-40 3.03-16.97 6 Poddar Housing Vs. Bold Play 14-7 12.51-7.49 7 Mango Vs. Acropolis 6-36 2.16-17.84 8 Maaya Meera Vs. Hridhaan 28-21 12.51-7.49 9 SummerCooler Vs. Vajra 41-7 18.44-1.56 10 KBA Vs. NDBA A 30-34 8.5-11.5 11 Guptas Vs. Janak Shah 5-30 3.03-16.97 12 Mitra Vihar Vs. Jai Ganesh 34-21 14.28-5.72 13 OSRC Vs. En Passant 17-44 2.66-17.34 14 TAS Vs. I Doctors 14-30 4.95-15.05

Round # 2 TBL # Team Name Team Name IMPs VPs

1 SummerCooler Vs. Acropolis 9-23 5.46-14.54 2 AnoopDhawan Vs. En Passant 29-10 15.75-4.25 3 Janak Shah Vs. CV Rao 21-24 8.86-11.14 4 Hemant Jalan Vs. I Doctors 4-15 6.28-13.72 5 Mitra Vihar Vs. Poddar Housing 6-26 4.03-15.97 6 Maaya Meera Vs. NDBA A 39-2 18.84-1.16 7 Bridgeduniya Vs. Aristos 33-27 12.18-7.82 8 Shri Radhey Vs. Maa Sarada 16-12 11.5-8.5 9 KBA Vs. Hridhaan 31-12 15.75-4.25 10 Bold Play Vs. Jai Ganesh 23-22 10.39-9.61 11 TAS Vs. Samadhan 7-40 1.7-18.3 12 Alpha Vs. Guptas 17-20 8.86-11.14 13 OSRC Vs. Cogito 22-25 8.86-11.14 14 Mango Vs. Vajra 21-18 11.14-8.86


1 AnoopDhawan Vs. Acropolis 6-11 8.15-11.85 2 Maaya Meera Vs. I Doctors 18-0 15.52-4.48 3 Poddar Housing Vs. CV Rao 16-24 7.17-12.83 4 Janak Shah Vs. KBA 20-26 7.82-12.18 5 SummerCooler Vs. Bridgeduniya 14-31 4.71-15.29 6 Samadhan Vs. En Passant 22-7 14.8-5.2 7 Hemant Jalan Vs. Shri Radhey 24-19 11.85-8.15 8 Mitra Vihar Vs. Aristos 4-20 4.95-15.05 9 Bold Play Vs. Maa Sarada 11-26 5.2-14.8 10 Jai Ganesh Vs. Guptas 26-18 12.83-7.17 11 Cogito Vs. Mango 40-2 18.97-1.03 12 NDBA A Vs. Alpha 11-25 5.46-14.54 13 Hridhaan Vs. OSRC 12-7 11.85-8.15 14 Vajra Vs. TAS 42-6 18.71-1.29


OPEN TEAM (GOLD) EVENT RESULTS


1 Maaya Meera Vs. Acropolis 40-33 12.51-7.49 2 AnoopDhawan Vs. CV Rao 7-33 2.84-17.16 3 Bridgeduniya Vs. Samadhan 34-6 17.51-2.49 4 KBA Vs. Poddar Housing 37-31 12.18-7.82 5 Hemant Jalan Vs. Janak Shah 28-24 11.5-8.5 6 Aristos Vs. I Doctors 23-34 6.28-13.72 7 Cogito Vs. Maa Sarada 19-29 6.57-13.43 8 Shri Radhey Vs. Vajra 56-7 20-0 9 SummerCooler Vs. Jai Ganesh 43-11 18.15-1.85 10 En Passant Vs. Alpha 24-28 8.5-11.5 11 OSRC Vs. Mitra Vihar 8-49 0.67-19.33 12 Bold Play Vs. Guptas 17-43 2.84-17.16 13 Hridhaan Vs. NDBA A 24-9 14.8-5.2 14 Mango Vs. TAS 33-13 15.97-4.03


1 Maaya Meera Vs. CV Rao 21-15 12.18-7.82 2 Bridgeduniya Vs. Acropolis 42-24 15.52-4.48 3 Shri Radhey Vs. KBA 34-5 17.68-2.32 4 I Doctors Vs. SummerCooler 24-11 14.28-5.72 5 Maa Sarada Vs. Hemant Jalan 20-14 12.18-7.82 6 AnoopDhawan Vs. Poddar Housing 13-17 8.5-11.5 7 Mitra Vihar Vs. Janak Shah 15-24 6.86-13.14 8 Samadhan Vs. Aristos 28-14 14.54-5.46 9 Cogito Vs. Guptas 22-33 6.28-13.72 10 Hridhaan Vs. Alpha 0-33 1.7-18.3 11 En Passant Vs. Mango 20-17 11.14-8.86 12 Jai Ganesh Vs. Vajra 9-18 6.86-13.14 13 Bold Play Vs. NDBA A 11-22 6.28-13.72 14 OSRC Vs. TAS 49-0 20-0


1 Maaya Meera Vs. Bridgeduniya 40-2 18.97-1.03 2 Shri Radhey Vs. CV Rao 20-14 12.18-7.82 3 I Doctors Vs. Maa Sarada 45-42 11.14-8.86 4 Alpha Vs. Acropolis 10-26 4.95-15.05 5 Janak Shah Vs. Poddar Housing 27-9 15.52-4.48 6 Samadhan Vs. AnoopDhawan 42-1 19.33-0.67 7 Hemant Jalan Vs. SummerCooler 43-13 17.84-2.16 8 Guptas Vs. KBA 4-11 7.49-12.51 9 Mitra Vihar Vs. En Passant 40-20 15.97-4.03 10 Cogito Vs. Aristos 35-20 14.8-5.2 11 Vajra Vs. OSRC 16-31 5.2-14.8 12 Hridhaan Vs. Mango 7-54 0.04-19.96 13 NDBA A Vs. Jai Ganesh 19-26 7.49-12.51 14 Bold Play Vs. TAS 10-10 10-10


TOLANI GOLD EVENT Rankings after Round-6

Rank Team Name VPs Rank Team Name VPs 1 Maaya Meera 90.53 15 Guptas 59.71 2 Shri Radhey 79.12 16 Poddar Housing 59.45 3 Samadhan 73.94 17 Mango 59.12 4 CV Rao 73.74 18 OSRC 55.14 5 I Doctors 72.39 19 SummerCooler 54.64 6 Bridgeduniya 72.30 20 AnoopDhawan 53.42 7 Acropolis 71.25 21 En Passant 50.46 8 Hemant Jalan 70.81 22 Aristos 50.20 9 Janak Shah 70.81 23 Jai Ganesh 49.38

10 Maa Sarada 67.00 24 Vajra 47.47 11 Mitra Vihar 65.42 25 NDBA A 44.53 12 KBA 63.44 26 Bold Play 42.20 13 Alpha 61.18 27 Hridhaan 40.13 14 Cogito 60.25 28 TAS 21.97

PATTON TEAMS Combination of IMP & Match Point Scoring Patton teams, very popular in parts of Europe and played in the Pachabo and Lederer in England, has some degree of similarity to point-a-board. Normally, you play 4 boards against a pair, and your teammates will be playing against your opponents' team-mates.

A) The principle of scoring is similar to point-a-board in the first instance, except that it is more common to get 2 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss Thus there are 16 points available in the point-a-board element (two for each board). However, the aggregate is also taken into account.

B) When you score up with IMP scale, you also aggregate the totals of the 8 IMP scores. That aggregate is then turned into victory points with 16 VP scale (8-8) at stake. Thus there are 32 points at stake per match. E.g. you might win three of the four boards on point-a-board scoring, to give you 6 out of 16 points, and achieve a draw in the aggregate scoring, to give you 8 points out of 16, thus giving you a combined 22 points out of the total of 32 available in the match.

Obviously, the tactics are different here once again. You cannot afford to double them into game or go for a large penalty gratuitously. Yet you may well take some risk in trying for overtricks in part score contracts. If the difference between the two scores (i.e. OPEN ROOM AND CLOSED ROOM) is 20 or more points the result is 2-0 or 0-2. With a difference of 0 or 10 points is the result 1-1. After you have calculated the VPs Board by board, it is the time to calculate the net IMP difference between the total match and compare it with a given VP scale: This is quite simple as the IMPs are to be calculated initially as is done in any T4 Duplicate and then compared with the above 16 VP SCALE to get the VP score. The first part VP total + second part VP total is the total VP for the team in that round. Thus the total VPs to be distributed will be 16 (2 VP per board comparison) + 16 (IMP scale diff) = 32 VPs.


TOLANI SILVER EVENT

Score & Rankings after 6 Rounds

Pos Team # Team Matches Total VPs 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 4 KASTUR KUNJ 17.51 19.86 18.44 14 10 12.51 92.32 2 5 TWEM 16.39 9.61 9.61 10.77 15.52 15.52 77.42 3 3 SOUMITRA 2.49 15.29 7.49 18.44 12.83 19.22 75.76 4 24 CFCO 8.5 4.71 17.34 17.16 18.97 7.49 74.17 5 9 AMOL 18.3 17.68 1.56 13.72 17.34 4.48 73.08 6 7 BARC 12.83 14.28 10.39 10 13.43 10.77 71.70 7 2 ABA 16.97 10.39 12.18 11.85 10 9.23 70.62 8 27 BORIVALI SPORTS CLUB * 4.95 14.28 14.28 8.86 15.75 58.12 9 12 AMANORA 15.29 16.39 6 6.28 11.14 14.8 69.90

10 18 JUPITOR 12.83 15.05 7.82 10 4.48 16.59 66.77 11 15 LALIT MOHAN KA 18.84 2.32 11.14 5.72 10.39 17.16 65.57 12 11 AGRESAR 4.71 12.51 13.43 8.86 9.61 16.39 65.51 13 13 INDIAN OIL 13.43 3.61 6.57 12.51 6.86 19.96 62.94 14 14 USHA KIRAN 6.57 15.97 8.86 11.14 7.17 12.18 61.89 15 23 RAHARA CARD CLUB 11.5 19.33 14 6 2.66 4.25 57.74 16 8 GURJAR 7.17 11.5 1.7 16.18 15.75 5.2 57.50 17 25 MUMBAI BPT 17.16 0.14 12.51 2.84 16.59 7.82 57.06 18 26 DOUBLES 2.84 19.86 3.41 1.56 * 16.97 44.64 19 20 PRESIDENTS 9.23 15.29 16.59 8.15 6.57 0.78 56.61 20 6 GURUPRASAD 3.61 7.49 15.97 10.39 13.14 3.41 54.01 21 17 SWAMI SAMARTH 7.17 8.5 5.72 7.49 19.22 3.61 51.71 22 21 STAR 13.14 5.72 18.3 9.23 1.03 2.84 50.26 23 10 DIGNITY 1.7 4.71 2.49 * 5.46 20 34.36 24 19 RAINBOW PUNE 10.77 0.67 4.03 13.43 3.41 * 32.31 25 22 MARKED PUNE 6.86 4.03 17.51 9.61 4.25 0.04 42.30 26 16 KOSY 1.16 * 2.66 3.82 14.54 3.03 25.21 27 1 INDRADHANUSH 3.03 0.14 * 6.57 0.78 0 10.52


A VERY RARE OCCURANCE ONE SUIT SQUEEZE

Board 19, Dlr: South, Vul: EW

JT9 JT63 AJ9 K75

75432 KQT873 T6

KQ K42 654 AQJ82

A86 AQ9875 2 943

West North East South 2]

Pass 4] All Pass

The bidding went as shown above. East took a long time before passing, giving enough clues that he has points but is not able to take any action over 4]. The contract is doomed on }10 lead, with declarer losing 3 clubs and a spade. But the natural lead on the given bidding is {K. How you play the hand on this lead. Win the {K with Ace in dummy. Take the ]J finesse and continue if not covered. Now play the H6 and let it ride and play the [J to Queen and Ace. Now take out the last trump with Ace and play low spade to Easts King. East can not play the club, which will give a trick to dummy, hence he plays the diamond, which is ruffed in hand and the 3rd spade is played from hand to dummy and the last diamond is ruffed. When you play another trump, the last 3-card position is:

K75

Q T6

AQJ

943

Now when you play the low club, whatever card is played by West, play low and East has to win perforce and he has to give the 10th trick to declrear. In case, East discards his }J in the hope of not getting end played, then also declarer can overcome this by inserting the }K over }10 by West, now after winning with Ace, East will give a trick to Souths }9. A very rare case of One Suit Squeeze.


The editor randomly chose the closed room Table # 4 of the GOLD event for kibitzing the first round match, between two very balanced sides.Both sides were playing American Standard, with NS playing UDCA and EW playing Standard carding.

NS: MAA SHARDA - Satyabrata Mukherjee Abhijeet Chakraborty

EW: BRIDGE DUNIYA Paresh Gupta Joyjit Sensarma

The line-up in the OPEN room was:

NS: BRIDGE DUNIYA - Sandeep Thakral Vivek Bhand

EW: MAA SHARDA Kamal Naguri AB Chakraborty

The match started with a flat but interesting board, in which both rooms bid the slam.

Board 1, Dlr: North, Vul: None

Q6 KQJ52 A3 AKT2

9843 93 974 Q984

JT52 A764 T86 J7

AK7 T8 KQJ52 653

West North East South 1] Pass 2{ Pass 3} Pass 3NT Pass 6NT All Pass The board had only to be bid for slam, there was nothing in play. The OPEN room played in 6] for no swing.

Board 2, Dlr: E, Vul: NS

J3 AJ6 JT53 8643

Q76 KT8743 K8 75

A92 Q952 62 AJT2

KT854 AQ974 KQ9

West North East South 1} 1[ DBL Pass 2] DBL 2[ Pass 3] All Pass

West first doubled the 1[ overcall and over 2] by East, South doubled (may be 3{ would have been more fruitful) showing his shortness of Hearts. West gave another push to game by bidding 2[ (showing excellent heart support) and finally EW stopped at 3]. South led the [4, which turned out to be a bad lead and declarer won with the [Q and played trump King from dummy won by North with Ace. North shifted to a club to declarers Jack and won by South with }Q. [10 was continued and declarer won with Ace. Declarer now played }A and ruffed a club.. When the }K fell, declarer took the marked heart finesse and discarded his losing spade on the winning club. With one diamond trick to give, declarer made 10 tricks for +170.

In the open room, NS were allowed to play in 4{ making for a 7 IMP gain to Bridgeduniya team.

Board 3 Dlr: South, Vul: EW

82 62 K964 K7632

K943 KQJ9 52 AT9

AQ7 43 AQJT QJ85

JT65 AT875 873 4

West North East South 2] Pass Pass DBL Pass 3] Pass 4} Pass 4[ All Pass

EW could have bid 3NT after 3] bid by West and it would have been easy. But once West did not bid 3NT and West responded with 4}, West opted for 4[.

North led the H6 and South won with Ace and shifted to his singleton club. West rightly put the Ace and took out 3 rounds of trumps playing [A, [K and [Q in that order and playing a low heart and finessing the ]9, he discarded 2 diamonds on Heart winners and played the }9. North could take that and returned a diamond but declarer finessed and played a low club, ruffed by South but that was all and EW got +620 on the board.

However in open room, South had other ideas. He opened the hand as Ekren 2{ (showing H & S (5-4 min) and ended in playing 2[ doubled. That went five down for -1100 to them and where they may have thought to gain, they lost the board by 10 IMPs.

TOLANI GOLD - RND -1 (MAA SHARDA Vs. BRIDGE DUNIYA )


Bridgeduniya gained an IMP on board 4 by making an overtrick in 3[ contract. They again gained 2 IMPs on board 6 but then disaster struck on next board.

Board 7, Dlr: South, Vul: All

AQ865 J952 73 73

J7 K KJT864 A865

K4 Q87643 95 JT4

T932 AT AQ2 KQ92

West North East South 1NT Pass 2](*) Pass 3[rder Pass 4[ All Pass (*) Transfer to Spades

In the closed room, South bid 3[, showing his 4 carder spade support and North took the plunge to 4[. West led the [J to Queen from dummy and [K won by East. Now East led back a club, declarer playing the King to Wests Ace and West continuing with another spade won by declarer in hand and playing the ]A. Suddenly he was a happy man, when ]K fell. Now he simply played the ]10 giving ]Q to east but the diamond return was won by Ace and diamond losers went on hearts.

If East returns the diamond on trick-2 the contract is doomed as declarer has to lose one trick in each suit. In the open room, Nor South nor North took the liberty of showing spade fit and upgrading the hand and stopped at 2[ making 9 tricks for +140. That was a gain of 10 IMPs to Maa Sarada.

The next board was a flat 3NT board, both team bidding and making 9 tricks. But then from nowhere NS had a bout of bad bidding.

Board 9, Dlr: North, Vul: EW

KT54 Q762 86532

632 AT53 97 AJ53

AJ97 J AKQT K976

Q8 K984 J4 QT842

West North East South Pass 1} 1] 1NT 3] 3NT Pass Pass 4] DBL All Pass In the open room, the EW were allowed to play in 3NT asking 11 tricks for 660. But in the closed room, it was a hara-kiri by East who hoped for a miracle and trying to take advantage of non-vulnerability bid 4], which got doubled and opponents did not disappoint in defense. They took them 6 down for 1400 and a 13 IMP gain on the board to Bridgeduniya..

Board 10, Dlr: East, Vul: Both

Q Q9653 J652 642

A9642 AJ KQ987 K

KJ5 872 4 QJT985

T873 KT4 AT3 A73

In the closed room, the bidding was:

West North East South Pass 1} 1[ DBL 2} Pass 2{ Pass 2[ Pass 4[ All Pass North did well to lead heart, which created a heart loser, else, declarer would have been able to discard the heart loser on clubs. Now there was one loser each in heart, diamond & club and now the only hope was spade 3-2 with queen rightly placed. That was not to be and the contract went one down. With the same result in open room, there was no swing on the board and finally Bridgeduniya prevailed over Maa Sarada by 22-20.


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Important Changes in the Tournament Schedule s

The Tournament committee has made the following changes in the play format & tournament schedule of the tournament, based on the no. of entries. 1. The no. of rounds in the Swiss league has been reduced from 9 to 8 for

both Gold & Silver events.

2. Like Gold, the Silver event will also have a full 4*12 boards QF on day-3. Subsequently, they will play the SF on day-4 & Final and play-off matches on day-5.

3. The losing QFs pairs of Gold & Silver teams will enter the Elim-2 on day-4. They will be given a Carryover equivalent to 10th position carryover.

4. The Losing Semi-finalist pairs of Gold & Silver will not be playing in the Pairs event, as they have to play Play-off matches on day-5 along with the finalists.

Special General Meeting of BFI s

A Special general meeting of Bridge Federation of India will be held at the URMI Hall (The venue for Gold event) from 7:30 PM on 20th June 2017. All Presidents / Secretaries of respective State Associations are requested to attend.


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7th TOLANI SUMMER NATIONAL BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 17th to 21st June 2017

Tournament Schedule IMPORTANT: The time schedules are subject to change, before or during these championships, at the discretion of the Tournament Committee in consultation with the CTD. June 18 1000 1300 Hrs. Tolani Gold & Silver R7 & R8 of Swiss League 10 boards

(After 8 Rounds, the TOP 16 Teams in both GOLD & SILVER events to qualify for Pre-QFs KO of 30 Boards to be played in 3 sessions. Draw will be as per SCoC)

1400 1900 Hrs. Tolani Gold & Silver Pre-QFs (3 segments of 10 Boards) (1 Vs 16, 2 Vs 15 and so on till 8 Vs 9)

1400 1900 Hrs. PATTON Teams for non-qualifiers of Tolani Gold / Silver (4 rounds of 8 boards)

June 19 1000 1800 Hrs. Tolani Gold / Silver QFs 4 Segments of 12 boards each 1000 1300 Hrs: IMP Pairs Elimination 1 Session 1 of 18/20/22 Boards 1400 1700 Hrs: IMP Pairs Elimination 1 Session 2 of 18/20/22 Boards 1715 2015 Hrs: IMP Pairs Elimination 1 Session 3 of 18/20/22 Boards

June 20 1000 1900 Hrs. Tolani Gold / Silver SFs (4*14 Boards) Pairs of Losing Tolani Gold / Silver QFs enter the IMP pairs in Flight - A 1000 1230 Hrs: IMP Pairs, Flight A - Elim 2 Session 1 of 18 Boards 1000 1230 Hrs: IMP Pairs, Flight B Play-off Session 1 of 18 Boards 1400 1630 Hrs: IMP Pairs, Flight A - Elim 2 Session 2 of 18 Boards 1400 1630 Hrs: IMP Pairs, Flight B - Play-off Session 2 of 18 Boards 1700 1930 Hrs: IMP Pairs, Flight A - Elim 2 Session 3 of 18 Boards 1700 1930 Hrs: IMP Pairs, Flight B - Play-off Session 3 of 18 Boards Note: The losing SFs will not be playing in Pair event. They will have to play the Play-off on the last day.

June 21 0900 1815 Hrs. Tolani Gold / Silver Finals (4*14 Boards) 1000 1630 Hrs. Tolani Gold / Silver Play-off (3*14 Boards) 1000 1800 Hrs. IMP Pairs Final (2 Sessions) 1000 1800 Hrs. Match Point Pairs for non-qualifiers (2 Sessions) 1815 Hrs. Prize Distribution Ceremony

BBO Schedule Live Vu-graph of the Tolani Gold Trophy will be available on BBO as per the following Schedule: 18th June 2017: 1530 to 2030 Hrs - Pre-QFs 3 sessions of 10 boards each 19th June 2017: 1000 to 1830 Hrs Quarter- Finals in 4 Sessions (12 boards each) 20th June 2017: 1000 to 1900 Hrs Semi- Finals in 4 Sessions (14 boards each) 21st June 2017: 1000 to 1830 Hrs Finals in 4 Sessions (14 boards each)
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