MBA Newsletter Q1 2014 - Maharashtra Bridge Association

Maharashtra Bridge Association Newsletter
Volume 2, April 2014
Website : www.maharashtrabridgeassociation.com
President: Mr. J. K. Bhosale
Editor: Dr. Subir Roy
Hon. Secretary: Mr. Mohan Ukidave
AAM STATE OF MIND
Summertime! Time for the ubiquitous Aam, both fruitwise and politically. Maharashtra produces
the King of Aams, the Hapus (Alphonso) currently priced at thousand bucks a dozen! This is beyond
the reach of the Aam Aadmi. Is bridge heading the same way? Keeping the topical and current in
mind, it seems appropriate to talk about the Aam Aadmi with respect to bridge.
Mr. Bhide from Sangli has raised some relevant issues pertaining to sponsorship, Master Points, etc;
refer inside to "Letters to the Editor" (which the ever enthusiastic and hardworking Aniruddh
Sanzgiri has painstakingly translated from Marathi. Thanks Mate. ?
)
Sponsorship will always be an issue, what with the exorbitant cost of living and soaring prices. The
MBA is caught between a rock and a hard place with respect to sponsorship. Garnering funds,
distribution, allocation; its a fine balancing act, walking the tight rope between international,
national, state-level events, infrastructure, technology, promotion, etc on one side and the district
level tournaments, specially in the country cousin towns (excluding Mumbai and Pune) on the other.
And this tight rope has no safety net of remuneration. The job is gratis, philanthropical and often
thankless. Having said that, Mr. Bhide's letter ought to make us introspect, look within and find
solutions. The game must be made financially comfortable at the grass root level - the Aam level.
The Master Points is also a very pertinent issue. The technology is all there, the MBA honestly does
the data entry and uploading to the national federation. Where is the problem? Why do players not
get real time or even periodic updates? Somewhere somehow we are falling short. Is it the
Tournament Directors, or the State or National level authorities not delivering ? Net-net the players
get the short end of the stick. The teething days are over. The infrastructure is in place. C'mon
gentlemen, lets get the Apps (applications) working.
Unless we get feedback, criticism (constructive or otherwise), suggestions and ideas, the MBA,
which in essence comprises the Aam Aadmi bridge player, will be left to the efforts and imagination
of a few, even if its an honest and time-effort sapping job.
Send your valuable inputs to the A-List overleaf (All The President's Men),or to the address
mentioned on top or even to the Editor at [email protected]
Maharashtra produces the best Aam (mangoes) in the Country. Let us endeavour
to produce the best conditions, tournaments and infrastructure in the country
too. Let us lead the way; especially in taking bridge to the ground level, the
districts. After all, You, dear bridge player, and I, are the flavour of the season The Aam Log.
AAMCHI MAATI AAMCHI MAANSA
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FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK
J K BHOSALE, President, MBA
Dear Bridge friends,
Of late it looks like Indian bridge is alive and kicking. It is almost certain the World Bridge Championship in
2015 will be held in India. BFI President Mr. Kirubakara Moorthy is solely responsible for this. Three cheers for
KM. Anand Samant is experimenting with new Swiss league formats which may become popular worldwide in
open tournaments. Maharashtra Bridge Association is doing its bit by holding The Nashik Summer National
once again in Maharashtra within 5 years. The event is being supported by Nationalised Banks like State Bank
of India, Indian Bank and other Corporates. PRBA is holding a major event in May, 2014 after the Lal Memorial
in April, 2014. Is Pune becoming the Bridge Capital of Maharashtra? Books are being written on bridge. Anant
Bhagwat who is normally a cut & dry director of bridge tournaments writes with passion on things which he is
associated with and bridge is the foremost. His book ‘The Works Of An Occasional Writer’ is worth reading ( &
buying ). And it is not because of the anecdote about our passion for bridge reported in which myself and my
partner Mr. Rajamani paid for two hotels for one night stay in London to play the Epsom Tournament in 1989!.
There is more to it. Then there is university of Bridge at BARC, Mumbai. I attended the convocation for
awarding bridge diplomas. The recipients included preteen and teen age girls, the three Shrinivasan sisters
trained by Ambu. They also sang Ai Mere Vatane Ke Logo in the function. All befitting the BARC atmosphere.
We need to replicate this kind of training elsewhere. Any takers ? We will see in the next academic year the
Symbiosis Colleges at Pune having bridge as a part of Sports / curriculum activity and holding inter collegiate
tournaments. But our Pune Dronacharya of bridge Mr. Suhas Vaidya is not too fit and his Eklavya has migrated
to Delhi, therefore, we are short of faculty. Ofcourse we have some Viduras like C. P. Deshpande and
Prasanna Bhide who have agreed to conduct the classes in Symbiosis. All these things need to be done on a
sustained basis which is the challenge. See you all at Nashik.
Regards,
J.K.Bhosale.
All The President’s Men - MBA MANAGING COMMITTEE 2013 - 2015
DESIGNATION
NAME
MOBILE
E - mail
PLACE
President
Vice President
Vice President
Hon. Secretary
Hon. Treasurer
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Member
Committee Member
J. K. Bhosale
Ravi Raman
Suhas Vaidya
Mohan Ukidave
Dilip Karmarkar
Arvind Vaidya
Aniruddh Sanzgiri
Hemant Pande
P. Khadloya
Mohan Hulsurkar
Makarand Kelkar
Abhay Lele
Kumar Bhide
9850958952
9820085046
9423138157
9422255971
9823434313
9322305064
9819267457
9822498456
9209192124
9423395304
9822098146
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PUNE
MUMBAI
PUNE
NASHIK
PUNE
MUMBAI
THANE
NASHIK
SHOLAPUR
AURANGABAD
PUNE
RATNAGIRI
SANGLI
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MBA-BFI BRIDGE CALLENDER 2014
DATES
TOURNAMENT NAME
LOCATION
ASSOC
APRIL
4-6
8TH JUSTICE J M LAL
MEMORIAL
PYC, PUNE
BFI
4TH TOLANI OPEN
SUMMER NATIONALS
NASHI
BFI
10-14
MBA SELECTION TRAIL
MUMBAI
MBA
31 - 1
PRBA & JAIN GROUP
STATE LEVEL EVENT
PYC, PUNE
MBA
21-22
JAIN STATE LEVEL
PYC, PUNE
MBA
21-22
MONSOON LEAGUE FINALS
PYC, PUNE
BFI
19-23
MAY/JUNE
JUNE
MBA SUMMER MONSOON LEAGUE
METAMORPHOSIS
Played in the verdant monsoon season in Mumbai,
the redundent Ruia Handicap still evokes strong
nostalgia for most of us. We grew up to and cut our
teeth in it. Even rookies fancied their chances to
make the play offs. Sadly all this has passed.
However thanks to the effort of Ravi Raman and his
gang this Old Wine Mumbai centric tournament has
been rebottled in a revamped reformatted avatar. It
has gone National.
If the Ruia Handicap was the Chrysalis then the MBA
Summer Monsoon League will hopefully turn out to
be the pretty butterfly. Metamorphosis!
Way to go Ravi Raman!
MBA has been conducting the Summer Monsoon
League successfully for the last 3 years. We had 146
teams from 16 cities last year. We have 163 teams
this from 17 cities as per details given below:
Location
Section
JULY
10-13
Mumbai
JIM CORBETT PARK
PRIZE MONEY
U. P.
BFI
18-21
GOA BRIDGE FESTIVAL
GOA
BFI
27
RATHI MEMORIAL ONE
DAY PAIRS EVENT
POONA CLUB MBA
2-3
RATHI MEMORIAL TEAMS
POONA CLUB MBA
9-10
SANGLI ANNUAL
SANGLI
MBA
17-20
HCL
NEW DELHI
BFI
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
4-7
INTERSTATE
CHAMPIONSHIPS
PATNA, Bihar BFI
13
CORPORATE BRIDGE
NEW DELHI
BFI
19-21
NANDU OKE MEMORIAL
SWISS PAIRS
VILE PARLE
Mumbai
BFI
MODI TROPHY EVENT
U.P.
BFI
25-28
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER
30-1
PODDAR MASTERS
PSY, PUNE
BFI
ASHOK KAPOOR PAIRS
MUMBAI
BFI
NOV
21-23
DECEMBER
1st Wk
PRESIDENTS CUP
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AHMEDABAD BFI
MUM-Prabha
N
MUM-Nandu
W
E
Pune
PUN-Blackwood
S
Pun-Stayman
PUN-Jacoby
Dombivali
DOM-Ukidawe
Thane
THN-Mama Vaidya
Sangli
SNG-Joglekar
Nagpur
NGP-Agarwala
Goa
GOA-Keni
Nashik
NSK-Gharpure
Solapur
SOL-Govardhan Bhutada
Aurangabad
AUR-Pardikar
Ratnagiri
RAT-Damle
Delhi
DEL-XXX
Ahmdabad-Baroda ABX-Nivetia
Chennai
CHN-Ramaratnam
CHN-Nachiappan
Dehradun
DHN-xxx
Hyderabad
Hyd-xxx
Bangalore
BNG-xxx
Total
Number Qouta
of teams for finals
9
8
7
7
7
8
10
9
8
5
5
4
4
4
8
8
8
7
6
8
23
163
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
2
2
2
2
6
A. Finals on June 21-22 (Saturday-Sunday) at Pune
PYC
B. League matches start from March 1 2014
C. Penalty of 2 VP per delay (see Tournament note
for schedule) without permission for the
Tournament Coordinator/Organizer
E. Tournament Coordinator is Aniruddha Sanzgiri
(9819267457, [email protected])
F. Tournnament Organizer is Ravi Raman
(9820085046, [email protected])
G. Chief Tournament Director is Avinash Chitale
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R.I.P
LATE BALCHANDRA P. OKE
LATE PRABHA KUNDER
On Fri Sept 13th 2013 the Mumbai bridge fraternity
lost one of its own while I lost a dear friend and long
time bridge partner. More importantly it is difficult
to come across a human who combined such a highly
principled attitude to life with unbounded affection
for family and friends. The number of people he has
helped both financially and otherwise are legion.
The Parle Tilak Mandir Annual Event will never be
the same for many of us without Nandu bustling
around moving boards, helping with scoring and
draws and then coming running to join me at our
table. At the bridge table he was a tricky and
imaginative defender. I recall at a tournament in
Pune he underled an Ace knowing the strength
would be on his left. Dummy had K J 10 and when
Declarer played the 10 a shocked partner, me, won
the trick with the Q. Subsequently Declarer who had
a singleton in that suit, confidently took a ruffing
finesse through me. His facial expression when
Nandu won the Ace was worth going miles to see.
Nandu my friend I hope they have BBO wherever you
are — Raman Giridharadas, (Nandu’s long standing
bridge partner and friend)
Prabha Kunder was born on the 27 of May 1960 and
died on the 22 August 2012, while on a trip to the
Himalayas with her family. Her life has been a
journey of achievements in the field of Bridge. She
has been a part of the ladies team which won the
Nationals in the year 2007 in Mysore, apart from the
various bridge tournaments which she won in the
entire span of her life. Prabha represented the
Indian Team in the Bridge Olympiad held in Holland
in 2011. Her dedication to Bridge has made her an
iconic figure for all the ladies to emulate. In fact, it
is all the more commendable as she comes from a
middle class family and was a working mother
managing both home and office. Besides Bridge, she
was a wonderful human being and was always
contributing to Society both financially and
physically, encouraging women to achieve their
goals.— Yashwant Kunder, Husband.
Nandu was a personal and dear friend of mine. We
go back a long long way from our first World Bridge
Championships in Geneva Switzerland in 1990
where we were teammates to the weekend in his
superb getaway bungalow in Talegaon where he
spent a lot of his time. His fondness for the
occasional beer and being a permanent feature at
all Lokmanya Seva Sangh, Vile Parle and Willingdon
Catholic, Santa Cruz tournaments will be missed a
lot. Bandook (is how I used to call him). Here a 21
HCP salute to you, pal. Cheers!
— Editor
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Prabha partnered Uday Bedekar her colleague from
Indian Oil for over a quarter of a century. And they
played almost every tournament there was to play.
All Open events. Thats consistency! Uday
said,"Please mention that above all she was a good
human being” — Editor
GAME ON.
Venue: Heaven.
None Vulnerable
Cheers Nandu and Prabha!
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RESULTS
LADIES NATIONAL
Rank
TEAM
Winner
Subu
Runner
Electric Eyes
30th Nov & 1st Dec. 2013, Total teams -12
Players
Bharati Dey, Yvette Singapuri, Usha Kabra, Uma Singh
Hema Deora, Varsha Jain, Rita Choksi, Leena Mayadas, Himani Khandelwal, Jessal
MAHARASHTRA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, DOMBIVILI
18 - 20 JAN. 2014 No. of Teams : 33
Winner
Dr. Vahalia
Dr. K V Vahalia, Jenish Shah, Ravi Shivram, Rahul Khambete, Bharat Shah
Runners up
Manyawar
Anil Padhye, Raju Tolani, Pankaj Doshi, Amod Rele, Ajay Khare
Third
Hridhaan
B G Ogale, Venkatesh, C P Deshpande, Parsram Puria, Arun Bahulkar
Fourth
Mitravihar
Dr. B A Kulkarni, Sunil Patki, Hemant Pande, Surya Reddy
Fifth
Sunil Machhar
Sunil Machhar, Arun Bapat, Vinay Desai, Deepak Pradhan, Suhas Vaidya
Sixth
Rash
R A Agarwal, K Agarwal, R. Anbazhgan, Shekhar Banerjee, K Bhanja, M K Saxena
INDIAN GYMKHANA TOURNAMENT
25 - 26 January 2014
Winner
Veegees -1
Dr Bun Shah, Arvind Vaidya, N Raj Mohan, Vijay Phaterphakar, T V Ramani
Runners up
ABA
R A Agarwal, Kailash Agarwal, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, Indrajit Singh, A K Sharma
Third
Shah
Janak Shah, Sanjay Damle, Raju Gulawani, Abhay Todankar
Fourth
I Doctor
Dr Yogesh Shah, Ashok Bhawanani, Rajul Dalal, Gary Singh, Deven Doshi
OTTER CLUB BRIDGE TOURNAMENT
8 - 9 February 2014
Winner
Shri Radhey
V M Lal, R G Bhiwandkar, Prakash Dalvi, Subhash, Dhakras,
Runners up
Veegees
Ian Concessio, Arvind Vaidya, T V Ramani, V Phaterphakar, Jitendra Solani
Third
Manyawar
Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, Sandeep Karmarkar, Vivek Bhand, Amod Rele, Pankaj
Doshi
Fourth
Samadhan
Ravi Raman, R W Khare, Aniruddh Sanzgiri, Bhaskar Pendse.
ARYA KRIDA
Winner :
Runners up :
Third :
Fourth :
Fifth :
MANDAL, THANE
Manyawar
Samadhan
Hajirnis
Watve
29-30 Mar. 2014, No. of Teams -25
Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare , S Dhakras, Rajeev Gulawani , Gopinath Manna
R A Bhosale, R W Khare , N B Shinde, S G Surve
Dr. M Hajirnis, Dr Dave, Daxindas B , Abhay Todankar, Janak Shah Nandu Kulkarni
Mrs Alka Watve, R A Watve, Madhav Joshi, Mokashi
Nandeep Mehta , Mayekar , M V Athavale, P S Shejwalkar, Abhay Sharma
MBA SELECTION TRIALS FOR INTERSTATE CHAMPIONSHIPS 10 – 11 May 2014
QUALIFIED TEAMS
NO.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
EVENT
Hirabaug
Poona Club
Sangli Annual
BARC
Indian Gym.
Otters Club
Thane Annual
Vile Parle
TEAM
Pune Chakradeo
Poddar Developers
Samadhan
Pradhans
Veegees
Shri Radhye
Manyawar
Manyawar
Players
Ajit Chakradeo, Nitin Shah, Gopinath Manna, B. G. Daxindas
D. Poddar, Anal Shah, Anand Samant, S. Karmarkar, R. Agarwal, J. Solani
Ravi Raman, Umesh Athavale, B. Pendse, P. Khadloya, N. Shinde, S. Surve
D. Pradhan, P. Khadloya, N. Shinde, S. Vichare
Dr. B. Shah, V. Phatarphekar, N. Rajmohan, Arvind Vaidya, T. Ramani
V. M. Lal, R. Bhivandkar, S. Dhakras, Prakash Dalvi
Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, S. Dhakras, R. Gulavani
Anand Mehta, Anil Padhe, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare, Amod Rele, Pankaj
Doshi
9
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Dombivili
Dr. Vahalia
Dr. K. Vahalia, Buddy Shah, Ravi Shivram, Jenish Shah, Rahul Khambete
(Seeded To Semi Finals)
QUORUM RULE
1. Four Member Team : ALL FOUR MEMBERS will be the quorum and the quorum members must be present at the venue
and as far as possible play the first round.
2. Five / Six Member Team : ANY FOUR MEMBERS will be the quorum and the quorum members must be present at the
venue and as far as possible play the first round.
Interstate Championship Patna, 4th-7th Sept,2014. MAHARASTRA QUOTA: 1Team & 4 Pairs.
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OP ED - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I can express my self better in Marathi . Hence I
am writing this letter in Marathi. (1) I read the
email from Ravi Raman regarding MBA
Newsletter. All the points are good. My
suggestions are as follows (a) This is a MBA
Newsletter. Therefore at least one page should
be in Marathi. This will encourage marathi
bridge literature. Shri Avinash Gokhale had
written some good articles in Sakal sometime
back. We could request him for contributing
articles or we may republish those old articles.
(b) The pattern of the newsletter should be like
ACBL bulletin. Clarifications of doubts,
Directors' decisions, Bridge conventions and
their implications could be some of the topics
which could be included. (c) At present this
newsletter is in the form of e-literature but it is
necessary that it be available in printed form.
My experience is that the expenses could be
met by way of advertisements in the bulletin.
(2) It will be better if The rule that " MBA will
not contribute any amount to State Level
Bridge tournament" is reworded as " At present
MBA can not contribute any amount to State
Level Bridge Tournament "(3) Most of the bridge
players from districts cannot participate in the
State Level Tournaments held at Mumbai/
Pune. Therefore the State Association hold
State Level Tournaments so that local players
get an opportunity to play at least 2-3 rounds
against renowned players and to watch the
game of good players. The local players
contribute about Rs. 25-30 thousand to meet
the tournament expenses. The cost of holding a
tournament comes to around one / one and a
half lakhs. Sponsorship to that extent is not
available at the districts. It should be noted by
MBA that, for this reason tournaments have not
been held at Ratnagiri and Solapur for the last 2
years. Sangli District Bridge Association
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organized State Championship in August 2013
but could not get sponsorship. The association
had to spend 40,000 from its corpus. No
organization can do this every year. Therefore
if it is desired that District Associations should
organize State level tournaments, then MBA
must contribute some amount. Otherwise such
tournaments will be held only in Mumbai and
Pune. (4) District Associations pay capitation
fee, Affiliation fees. Master point fees to MBA.
What does MBA give to Districts. As a matter of
fact I have begun to wonder why district
associations should become members of MBA at
all?(5) Members are opposed to payment of
Master Point Fees. This is not due to payment of
Rs. 100 but because District Association
members do not get Master Points which are
legitimately due to them. As I understand it is
the duty of Tournament Director to send a
report to Master Point Secretary, MBA and the
organizers. Yet in the last 10 years, no Panel
Director has sent such a report after state level
tournaments held in Sangli. Therefore none of
the players from Sangli have received any
master points. As per my information I have not
received Master Points due to me after Pune
Summer Nationals Pairs and 2013 Sangli State
Level because Director/s did not send reports.
Therefore I suggest MBA should hold back the
Director's honorarium and give it only after
Director sends reports. (6) It is necessary to
discuss the rules regarding State
Championship. Does MBA contribute financially
for organizing State Championship ? If yes , how
much? Is there a sponsor at present for State
Championship? Does MBA have any rules
regarding Sponsors ? I have put forth my
thoughts. I feel it is necessary to think over the
points put forward by me.
Regards and Thanks Kumar Bhide (Sangli)
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