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Welcome to Demicoma Bridge Academy.
This site is devoted to Bridge in general, and the DEMICOMA bidding system in particular. DEMICOMA Stands for DEstructive MInors COnstructive MAjors. Dr. Prakash K. Paranjape is the founder of the DEMICOMA bidding system and the chief architect of this website. This is a new format. Please read the faq for more. Prakash plays on OKBridge and Bridge Base online as PANJA. More information about PANJA is available in some of these faqs, for example, HERE is a list of major championship wins of Panja.
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 06:06 AM
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The first round of the Bermuda Bowl 2009 did not go well for India. Here is a deal from that round. There was a mildly interesting lead problem. Holding KTxx,Qxx,xx,xxxx; what do you lead if righty opens 1H and the bidding goes 1H P 2C P 2D P 2H P 2S P 4H PPP? Make your choice before reading on..
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Posted by: admin on Friday, April 03, 2009 - 04:58 AM
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Here is the deal from the recent Indian trials that appeals committee had to look at. In a strong auction, North paused slightly before bidding 4S, the agreed suit. South next Asked Aces and bid the slam. The director was called before the auction ended. He ruled that the score be adjusted to 4S made six. NS appealed.
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Read full article: 'The Appeals from 2009 Trials - I' (4820 bytes more)
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Posted by: bandikl on Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 08:55 PM
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Following deal came in finals of holkar trophy second session
E-AQ8x: KQ KJ9xxx 6
N-K109xxx: xx Qx Kxx
W-Jx: AJ9xx 8 Q98xx
S-x: 10xxx A10xx AJ10x
My partner Dr Harish Sahni as east dealer opened 1 D.We play prepared diamond. South bid 2 spades weak jump overcall.I Dr. K L Bandi thought and bid 3 clubs thinking that if it is doubled I can switch to hearts. south passed and Dr Sahni thought and decided to bid 3 notrump and then all pass. south led Hx. Dr Sahni made both K Q and played x spade south rightly played K thinking that if east had S A Q X the entry to west will be blocked..Now south was in dilemma.Thinking that if east had doubleton club ACE LOW C LEAD WILL GIVE ENTRY TO DUMMY so he rightly played D queen-x x to east King. Now east played low spade and dummys jack won and ran 3 hearts.south discarded low club on spade jack and and club Jack on last heart.North discarded 2 spades and one club.now east played C8 from dummy andsouth jumped with ace and played D ace and continued with diamond.east discarded low diamonds and last 3 cards were Diamond J and spade A Q.Thus we ended in making 10 tricks. EW being vulnerable ended +630 andscoreed +12. datum being. -20 We were the ony pair in whole field to make 3 NT.
Iff you have any querry please write to me . The deal was played on 11 jan 09 at yeshwant club
Thanking you
Dr. K L Bandi
KJ9xxx
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Posted by: admin on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - 03:33 PM
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On the diagrammed deal, not many North players would prefer to spread their cards on the table when 6Nt is an attractive option. Perhaps, it isn't a a good idea to play in six Clubs and risk a Heart ruff on trick two.
Can you, playing as South justify the confidence partner has placed in your Dummy play skills?
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Read full article: 'A safe plan (With solution)' (3148 bytes more)
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Posted by: admin on Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 03:37 PM
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People differ, and the difference does not vanish at the bridge table or in a bridge game. Some players would enjoy a game if the atmosphere and the food is nice; some others would enjoy if people are courteous; and still some others would not mind a shortcoming or two in either of these areas if the game is good and the players, competent.
Unfortunately, not many appreciate the point. Last week, Jayesh Goyal and I played against a competent Pakistan pair, Rasheed Ahmed Jafer and Javed Miran. It was an enjoyable short session not the least because our opponents were competent and courteous.
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Read full article: 'Do you enjoy bridge? (with solution)' (3033 bytes more)
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Posted by: admin on Saturday, March 22, 2008 - 03:59 PM
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When you are defending, it is important to build a picture of the Declarer's
hand and act accordingly. Sometimes, you have to go through the line the
Declarer is likely to take, and find the killing defense with a bit of extra
effort. See if you can manage that on the following problem.
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Posted by: admin on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 07:02 PM
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One of my favourite bridge passtimes is to keep track of my own mistakes and try and find the reason behind each. Here is a hand where I should have found the right solution. I didn't....
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Read full article: 'How would you defend? why?' (4056 bytes more)
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after
West opens the bidding in the third seat with a 1
bid but passes on two
further rounds. West leads a top Diamond and shifts to the 
Q. South wins and
plays a small Heart and West makes the fatal mistake of ducking.