My Hobbies...

Contract Bridge

• Different forms of Contract Bridge (rules, informally)
• Quick look at Rubber bridge scoring However, I feel that 100 points (below the line) should be scored in a single deal to score a game.
•     The laws of Duplicate Contract Bridge 1997
•     The laws of Rubber Bridge 1993
• Introduction to Duplicate Bridge from ACBL (American Contract Bridge League): http://www.acbl.org/learn/introDuplicate.html
•     Some links about duplicate pair movements:
• http://www.elsid.co.za/bridge/templates.html
• http://www.monmouth.com/~colonel/bridge/
• http://www.rpbridge.net/rpbr.htm (look for the heading Duplicate Forms near the end of the page)
• A simple C program to convert ‘raw’ N-S scores of a board played at several tables to N-S IMP scores. Click here

October 2003 social bridge tournament: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~saha/hobbies/dakshini_bridge.htm

October 2004 social bridge tournament http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~saha/hobbies/dakshini_bridge_2004.htm

Chess

Carrom 

Carrom is a very popular indoor sport in India. The board is not much expensive and many households have one of them. I used to play a lot of it in my undergraduate days. There were lot of good players in our school.  I consider myself as a better doubles player. I liked those 'touch' shots where the striker touches an intermediate coin, gets deflected and finally hits the actual coin. Diptikalyan was my regular partner in annual college tournaments for four years. We were two time finalists.  Here is the  International Carrom Federation  and US Carrom Association. If you look at the current "US Ranking list" here, you will see a lot of Indian names.