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Bulletin - 1 20th BFAME CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019, AMMAN, JORDAN Page 1 of 16

The 20th BFAME Championships gets underway The 20th BFAME Championships got underway following the Opening Ceremony held yesterday at Bristol Hotel, Amman. The Championship is being organised by the Jordan Bridge Federation (JBF) and will continue till Sunday, 30th June, 2019.

The opening ceremony was co-ordinated by Mr. Waleed El-Menyawi, who is also the Director of operations for this tournament. The proceedings got started with Mr. Bahjat Al Majali, Chairman of the organizing committee & BFAME Vice President being invited to the dais. Mr. Majali warmly welcomed all the dignitaries, participants and officials to this prestigious Zonal Championships and promised that Jordan Bridge Federation will have no stone unturned to make all the participants comfortable, so that they take back happy memories from Amman. Mr. Mazhar Jafri, the BFAME President Emeritus & WBF Senior Officer spoke on behalf of WBF and Mr. Ashok Kumar Goel, the BFAME President then welcomed all and congratulated the organisers for hosting the BFAME for the record 5th time.

Bulletin - 1 Monday, 24th June 2019

Mr. Bahjat Al Majali, the Chairman of Organizing Committee welcoming the Guests


The organising committee then presented a ten minutes video of all the previous championships organised by Jordan Bridge Federation.

The Chief Guest, Professor Khaled Al Atyat, the representative of His Royal Highness Prince Feisal bin Al Hussein, President of the Jordan Olympic Committee then declared the championship open.

Mr. Abel Abdul Rahman then took the Olympic oath on behalf of all the players and Mr. Ihsan Qadir on behlf of all the directors. All the teams were then introduced to the audience with a thunderous applause.

The tournament commenced with a Friendship Pairs event of 24 boards. 60 pairs, including many local pairs participated in the event. Himani Khan - Rajef Khan with 62.22% and Imran Syed - Numan Alturk with a score of 58.95 were first & second respectively in the NS direction, whereas Rafiqul - Ma Quppus with 61.97% and Abdul Hakem Sahab - Mohamed Hamodah with 59.69% were first & second respectively in the EW direction. For detailed score, See page 10.

Play in all the four events i.e. OPEN, WOMEN, MIXED & SENIORS will start today. 2 matches (4 tables) per session are being shown live on BBO.

Seven teams are participating in the Open Team event and will play an all-play-all double round-robin after which the TOP 4 teams will qualify for the semi-finals, followed by the finals on 30th June 2019 for the coveted Zakaria Adamjee Memorial Trophy.

Four teams are participating in the Women Team event and will play an all-play-all quadruple round-robin. 2 rounds per day will be played from today till Saturday, 29th June 2019. The TOP 2 teams will qualify for the finals to be played on 30th June 2019 for the Vinodini Goenka Trophy.

Six teams in the Seniors event and five teams in the Mixed event are participating and will play a triple round robin after which the TOP 2 teams will qualify to play the finals on 30th June 2019 for the coveted Nawzad Shaker Trophy and Mixed Teams Trophy respectively. 29th June 2019 will be a rest day for Seniors & Mixed teams.

The 2 teams reaching the finals in all the four events will qualify from Zone-4 for the World Championships 2019 to be held at Wuhan, China from 14th till 28th September 2019.

Mr. Waleed El-Menyawi, the Opening Ceremony co-ordinator addressing the audience


Today’s Play Schedule (Monday – 24th June 2019)

OPEN TEAMS

TBL # RR-1, RND-1 (1030 Hrs.) RR-1, RND-2 (1430 Hrs.) RR-1, RND-3 (1730 Hrs.) TBL-01 UAE Vs BANGLADESH BANGLADESH Vs JORDAN JORDAN Vs S. ARABIA TBL-02 INDIA Vs S. ARABIA S. ARABIA Vs UAE UAE Vs KUWAIT TBL-03 PAKISTAN Vs KUWAIT KUWAIT Vs INDIA INDIA Vs PAKISTAN

WOMEN TEAMS TBL # RR-1, RND-1 (1030 Hrs.) RR-1, RND-2 (1430 Hrs.) TBL-05 PAKISTAN Vs JORDAN INDIA Vs PAKISTAN

TBL-06 PALESTINE Vs INDIA PALESTINE Vs JORDAN

SENIORS TEAMS TBL # RR-1, RND-1 (1030 Hrs.) RR-1, RND-2 (1430 Hrs.) RR-1, RND-3 (1730 Hrs.) TBL-07 S. ARABIA Vs INDIA PAKISTAN Vs S. ARABIA S. ARABIA Vs UAE TBL-08 JORDAN Vs PAKISTAN UAE Vs JORDAN JORDAN Vs BANGLDESH TBL-09 BANGLDESH Vs UAE INDIA Vs BANGLDESH PAKISTAN Vs INDIA

MIXED TEAMS TBL # RR-1, RND-1 (1030 Hrs.) RR-1, RND-2 (1430 Hrs.) RR-1, RND-3 (1730 Hrs.) TBL-10 INDIA Vs S. ARABIA S. ARABIA Vs UAE UAE Vs JORDAN TBL-11 PAKISTAN Vs JORDAN JORDAN Vs INDIA INDIA Vs PAKISTAN

Today’s Vu-Graph Matches on BBO

Round-1: 1030 Hrs BBO 1: INDIA Vs. SAUDI ARABIA (OPEN) BBO2: PAKISTAN Vs. JORDAN (WOMEN)

Round-2: 1430 Hrs BBO 1: BANGLADES Vs. JORDAN (OPEN) BBO2: JORDAN Vs. INDIA (MIXED)

Round-3: 1730 Hrs BBO 1: INDIA Vs. PAKISTAN (OPEN) BBO2: SAUDI ARABIA Vs. UAE (SENIORS)

IMPORTANT All NBO Captains are informed that all arrears, BFAME Subscription & Entry Fee should be cleared at the earliest. The teams may not be allowed to play any further, in case they default.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mr. Bahjat Al Majali, Chairman,

Organizing Committee & BFAME Vice President

Mr. Mazhar Jafri, BFAME President Emeritus & WBF SENIOR OFFICER Mr. Ghassan Ghanem, President,

Jordan Bridge Federation Mr. Ramzi Goussous, Secretary

General, Jordan Bridge Federation Mr. Raed Darwish, Admin. Manager

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

Head TD & Director of Operation Mr. Waleed El-Menyawi

Chief Tournament Director Mr. Ihsan Qadir

Directors Mr. Tarek Ahmad Mr. Raad Atoom

Scorer Mr. Anil Altindag Bulletin Editor

T.C. Pant

BBO Ms. Haneen Suhail Ms. Paradise Suhail

Mr. Ahmad Ghwanmeh

Pre-Dealt Boards Mr. Tarek Ahmad Mr. Raad Atoom

REVIEW COMMITTEE Mazhar Jafri,

Bahjat Al Majali, TC Pant

TOURNAMENT COMMITTEE Mr. Ashok Kumar Goel: President,

BFAME (India)

Mr. Bahjat Al Majali (Chairman, Organizing Committee & BFAME Vice

President)

Mr. Azwer Ul Haque: Vice President & Secretary, BFAME (Pakistan)

Mr. Ahmed Al-Midfaa: Vice President BFAME (UAE)

The Chief Guest, Professor Khaled Al Atyat with Mr. Ghassan Ghanem, President of JBF


Participants of the 20th BFAME CHAMPIONSHIPS, AMMAN OPEN EVENT

Country Team Members

BANGLADESH Zahir Abdullah Al (NPC), Ahasan Md. Rashedul, Chowdhury M.Asifur Rahman, Haque Shah Zia-Ul, Islam Mohammad Monirul, Kamruzzaman A.H.M, Quddus M A, Rahman Md Moshiur

INDIA S Sundareshan (Head of Delegation), Debasish Ray (NPC), Anirudh Bhattacharya, Dipak Santra, Keyzad Anklesaria, Kirubakaramoorthy NR, Rajeshwar Tewari, Uttam Gupta

JORDAN Amr Al Nimr, M Zafer Jarrar, Iskander Imseeh, Jawan Hallasa, Sakher Malkawi, Aaida Abu Jaber

KUWAIT Juma Hussein Juma (NPC), ADBDULAZIZ ALDASHTI, BADER ALREFAE, IBRAHIM ALQATTAN, KHALED ALOBAIDI, NUMAN ALTURKI, NABIL ALHUSAINI

PAKISTAN JAHANGIR AHMED, Muhammad Mubashir, Mansoor Arslan, Farooq Ahmed Alvi, HAMID MOHIUDDIN, KHALED MOHIUDDIN

SAUDI ARABIA

Abdallh Rehaimi , Abdul Hakim Sahab, Salem Al Sabbali , Omer Al Sowaiegh , Ahmed Soliman, Bassem Afiouni

UAE Amr Mekky, Maria Hindie, Hussein Adam Ali, Nafis Jafar, Manju Law, RUBINDER

KAUR KOCHAR

WOMEN EVENT

INDIA Subhash Gupta ( NPC ), Alka Kshirsagar, Asha Sharma, Meenal Thakur, Nikita Kamal, Puja Batra, Rupa Bakeri

JORDAN Amal Fakhouri, Dimah Al Taher, Hala Sawwaf, Mona Al Zaben, Noura Kanaan, Yasmin Abu Jaber

PAKISTAN Qudsia Dosa, Rubina Agha, Rubina Saeed Hai, Shahnaz Pirzada, Fatime Raza, Najm Abid

PALESTINE Baher Ahmed (NPC), Fadia Najjar, Fatina Al Najjar, Hanan Al Bitar, Maha Malhas, Selvi H .Hairbedian, Tamara Rustom

MIXED EVENT

INDIA Ramratnam Krishnan (NPC), Bharati Dey, Bindiya Naidoo, Himani Khandelwal, Priya Ranjan Sinha, Rajeev Khandelwal, Sujit Kumar Basu

JORDAN Nuha Hattar, Ghassan Ghanem, Sereen Barkat , Marwan Ghanem, Farah Ahmed, Samer Al Rawshdah

PAKISTAN Nilofar Aslam, Zia Hyder Naqvi, Rehana Saigol, Fehmida Sarfraz, Saeed UZ Zafar Shah, Ahsan Qureshi

SAUDI ARABIA

Fatma Manadilly, Dalia Hachem, Mohamed Hassan, Hussam Sallout

UAE Mohamed Manaf (NPC), Khaled Hasan, Nicole Elzir, Sawsan Al Ebiary, Tamer Abbas

SENIORS EVENT

BANGLADESH Mohan Mushfiqur Rahman (Chief Delegation), Amin M A Bani (President, B’desh Bridge Fed.), Siddique AKM Rafiqul Hussain, Islam Khondakar Mobinul, Hussain A.T.M. Moazzem, Haque Mohammad Azizul, Haque Khandakar Muzharul, Haque Md.Jahirul

INDIA Anal Shah (Coach), Dipak Poddar (Captain), JITENDRA SOLANI, RAMAMURTHY SRIDHARAN, SUBHASH DHAKRAS, SUKAMAL DAS, SUBRATA SAHA

JORDAN May Abu Gharbeih, Mais Bitar, Omar Al Masri, Omran Abu Dhaim, Bana Kayyali, Jamal Abdul Jalil

PAKISTAN Anwar Kizilbash, Ghalib Bandesha, Ghias Malik, Izzat Khalil, Safdar Mahmood

SAUDI ARABIA

Adnan Mously, Ibrahim Al Ahdal, Abdulhafidh Mohammad , Tarek Ahmed

UAE Ahmed Al Midfaa, Darshan Valrani, Akiel Madi, Wael Al Agamawi, Huamyun

Sumar, Nermeen Noorani


Tournament Draw

OPEN TEAMS (7 TEAMS)

RND # TBL-1 TBL-2 TBL-3 BYE TBL Team # TEAM NAME 1 2 Vs 7 3 Vs 6 4 Vs 5 1 Vs 8 1 JORDAN 2 7 Vs 1 6 Vs 2 5 Vs 3 8 Vs 4 2 UAE 3 1 Vs 6 2 Vs 5 3 Vs 4 7 Vs 8 3 INDIA 4 5 Vs 1 4 Vs 2 7 Vs 6 8 Vs 3 4 PAKISTAN 5 1 Vs 4 2 Vs 3 5 Vs 7 6 Vs 8 5 KUWAIT 6 3 Vs 1 6 Vs 5 7 Vs 4 8 Vs 2 6 SAUDI ARABIA 7 1 Vs 2 3 Vs 7 4 Vs 6 5 Vs 8 7 BANGLADESH

8 BYE WOMEN TEAMS (4 TEAMS)

RND # TBL-5 TBL-6 Team # TEAM NAME 1 1 Vs 4 2 Vs 3 1 PAKISTAN 2 3 Vs 1 2 Vs 4 2 PALESTINE 3 1 Vs 2 3 Vs 4 3 INDIA 4 JORDAN

SENIOR TEAMS (6 TEAMS)

RND # TBL-7 TBL-8 TBL-9 Team # TEAM NAME 1 1 Vs 6 2 Vs 5 3 Vs 4 1 SAUDI ARABIA 2 5 Vs 1 4 Vs 2 6 Vs 3 2 JORDAN 3 1 Vs 4 2 Vs 3 5 Vs 6 3 BANGLADESH 4 3 Vs 1 6 Vs 2 5 Vs 4 4 UAE 5 1 Vs 2 4 Vs 6 3 Vs 5 5 PAKISTAN

6 INDIA

MIXED TEAMS (5 TEAMS) RND # TBL-10 TBL-11 BYE TBL Team # TEAM NAME

1 2 Vs 5 3 Vs 4 1 Vs 6 1 UAE 2 5 Vs 1 4 Vs 2 6 Vs 3 2 INDIA 3 1 Vs 4 2 Vs 3 5 Vs 6 3 PAKISTAN 4 3 Vs 1 5 Vs 4 6 Vs 2 4 JORDAN 5 1 Vs 2 3 Vs 5 4 Vs 6 5 SAUDI ARABIA

6 BYE NOTES: 1. The above is the draw for the first Round-Robin taken out in the Captain's Meeting. 2. In the subsequent Round-Robin, the same draw as of the first round-robin will continue with new Team Nos. being allocated to Teams, based on their rankings at the end of previous round-robin 3. There will be 2 Round-Robins in OPEN, 4 Round Robins in WOMEN and 3 Round-Robins each in MIXED & SENIORS event.


List of Qualified Teams to the World Championship 2019 at Wuhan, China

Zone # Zone No. of Berths

OPEN WOMEN SENIOR MIXED

ZONE-1 Europe 8 Norway Poland France Sweden Israel Sweden Sweden Latvia Russia Norway Poland France Sweden Denmark Ireland Poland Netherlands England Denmark England Monaco Netherlands Norway Denmark England Scotland Netherlands Italy Italy France England Roamnia

ZONE-2 North America 3 USA 1 USA 1 USA 1 USA 1 USA 2 USA 2 USA 2 USA 2 Canada Canada Canada

ZONE-3 South America 2 Argentina Argentina Brazil Argentina Chile Brazil Chile Brazil

ZONE-4 Asia & Middle East 2 To Be Decided To Be Decided To Be Decided To Be Decided

ZONE-5 Central America & Caribbean

1 Guadeloupe Trinidad & Tobago Costa Rica

ZONE-6 Asia Pacific 3 Singapore Chinese Taipei Indonesia A Chinese Taipei

Indonesia Japan Chinese Taipei B Thailand China Hong Kong China Hong Kong Japan Indonesia

ZONE-7 South Pacific 2 Australia Australia Australia Australia New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand

ZONE-8 Africa 2 Egypt South Africa Egypt Egypt Morocco Tunisia Morocco Morocco Host Country 1 China China China China

Total 24

Mr. Ashok Kumar Goel, President BFAME addressing the audience


Few Interesting deals from the previous championships are given below:

BFAME 2009: Women’s match Pakistan Vs. Palestine Board 19, Dlr: South, Vul: EW

A T 5 K J 9 6 3 2 5 A T 6

7 6 3 8 A 6 4 3 J 9 4 3 2

9 8 2 A Q 7 K Q T 8 7 Q 5

K Q J 4 T 5 4 J 9 2 K 8 7

West North East South Pass Pass 1H 2D 3H Pass 4H All Pass

South considered his hand to be better than a simple 2H raise, and bid an invitational 3H. With his 6-carder suit and singleton diamond, there was no way North could resist to bid the game now and that’s how it turned out. The lead was DK and defenders could only take one in diamond and 2 in trump suits for an excellent +420 to NS. In the closed room, the contract was only 2H making 10 tricks for 170 and Palestine gained 6 IMPs on the board. It is interesting to note that on CQ lead, declarer wins in dummy and tries the heart finesse losing to the Queen. Another club continuation and now when in with the Heart Ace, East’s DK can be overtaken by West with Ace and the all important club ruff can be given to take the contract down.

BFAME 2013 - OPEN TEAMS – ROUND -10 (INDIA Vs KUWAIT)

Board 2, Dlr: East, Vul: NS

A K T 8 4 2 A J T 9 7 A T

J Q T 9 8 7 3 8 6 5 4 2 8

3 J 4 2 K Q 3 K 9 6 4 2

Q 9 7 6 5 A K 6 5 Q J 7 5

West North East South Turki Venky Husaini Sunit Pass 1S 2S* 3H* Pass 4S Pass 5C* Pass 6C* Pass 7S* All Pass

2S= Michaels, 3H=Limit Raise or better in Spades, 5C=Cue bid; 6C= I don’t mind playing here if your Clubs are Real, 7S = I am sure we can make this.

When Sunit bid 4S accepting the Game invitation, Venky tried the 5C cue, hoping to hear something useful from partner, and after Sunit’s 6C, Venky had no hesitation in bidding the makeable Grand.

A heart was led, and Sunit ruffed with the Ace announcing my trumps are too strong. There was hardly anything to play for 13 tricks.

WHO DARES WINS This interesting deal was played in the round-6 of the match between Bangladesh & India in the OPEN Teams.

Board 29, Dlr: North, Vul: All

A J 7 4 K Q 8 5 4 K 5 Q 4

T 9 8 A 7 3 6 4 T 9 5 3 2

5 2 J T 9 6 2 Q 3 2 K 8 6

K Q 6 3 A J T 9 87 A J 7

Double-Dummy you can score 7S as the club finesse is on. The Bangladesh pair in the closed room bid 4S and made all the 13 tricks, but in the open room Sunit Chokshi – K.R. Venkatraman, the Indian pair playing in NS direction bid as follows: West North East South Sunit Venkatraman 1H Pass 2D Pass 2S Pass 3S Pass 4D(1) Pass 5H(2) Pass 5S(3) Pass 7S DBL All Pass

(1) – Cue-bid (1st or 2nd round control but no singleton); (2)– Exclusion Key card Blackwood (3) – Showed 1 or 4 Key cards 1H-2D was game forcing unless the diamonds are repeated. The 3S bid showed a better hand (4S says - partner end of it). The 4D cue-bid showed 1st or 2nd round control but no singleton as they don’t cue-bid singleton of partner suit. 5H was EKB and 5S showed 1 or 4 key cards.

East on lead wasn’t sure what lead partner expected for his double and led the C6, the un-bid suit of the opponents. North had no option except to ride that to his Queen and when that held he took out trumps in 3 rounds, played the top diamonds, ruffed a diamond and took the marked club finesse to score all the 13 tricks and a 17 IMPs swing. South should have asked 6C over 5S asking partner to bid 7S with extra values and bid 6S otherwise. But then “Who dares Wins”.

Few Interesting Deals from the Previous BFAME Championships


BFAME 2017: Women’s match UAE Vs. INDIA

Board 25, Dlr: North, Vul: EW

Q J 5 T 9 6 4 2 9 4 K Q 2

A T 8 6 3 A Q 3 A T 7 5 3

K 7 3 A Q 7 K 7 5 2 J 9 6

9 4 2 K J 8 5 J T 8 6 8 4

Open Room: NS (UAE) – Maria - Hongyan EW (INDIA) – Bindiya - Sathyavati

Closed Room: NS (INDIA) – Marianne – Rupa Bakeri EW (UAE)) – Manju Law - Sawsan

OPEN / CLOSED ROOM: West North East South Pass 1D Pass 2C Pass 3NT All Pass

Both rooms bid identically to reach the 3NT contract but the leads from South made the difference in scoring the contract. In open room, South led the S9, which was covered with Ten, Jack and won by King in hand. Declarer watching the lead carefully was sure of the danger of heart suit and postponed the club finesse and played the S7 back, hoping to get 3 spades, 1 heart, 1 club & 4 diamonds or hope that hearts King is inside. North won with SQ and returned the expected H10, East hopped up with Ace and now tried for 3-3 diamonds. When that did not work, the contract went 1 down. In the closed room, declarer was given some breather when South led the H5. East won with the HQ and now should have combined her chances in both black suits by first playing on spades. If spades are 3-3, you score 3 spades, 2 hearts, 3 diamonds and a club. It is also possible that one of the spade honors may fall giving more clarity on the opponent’s distribution. In case, no honor falls, you can go back to club finesse.

Declarer however went for double finesse in clubs, losing the first finesse to North, who returned H10 and declarer ducked but South now messed up by playing low and not Jack (Chances of East having 4-hearts are low on this bidding). Another heart from North was won by declarer and the 2nd club finesse taken. North again won and played heart but now the suit was blocked. Defenders could get 2 hearts and 2 clubs to give away the contract. That was a swing of 12 IMPs on the board.

BFAME 2017: Senior Teams RR1, Round – 5

INDIA Vs. PAKISTAN

Board 21, Dlr: North, Vul: NS

A Q T 5 4 9 4 T 9 8 6 4 3

J 9 A T 7 6 4 2 A J 7 5 3

K 7 6 3 2 5 K Q T 6 2 Q 5

8 K Q J 9 8 3 8 A K J 7 2

Open Room: NS (India) – Shridharan - Dhakras EW (Pakistan) – Masood - Mirza Closed Room: NS (Pakistan) – Ghalib - Assad EW (India)) – Agarwal - Anand

OPEN ROOM: West North East South Pass Pass 1H Pass 1S 2D 3C 5D DBL All Pass

CLOSED ROOM: West North East South Pass Pass 1H Pass 1S 2D 4H DBL All Pass

It was an interesting hand. After 2 passes, West was holding his breath expecting to bid a 1S-2S, Michael’s when he surprisingly heard South bidding 1H. He passed and now over North’s 1S, East showed his diamonds. That was sufficient for West to bid 5D over South’s 3C.

Now the ball was in North’s court. He knew that opponents are having massive diamond fit, but he did not have the values to bid 6C, though over 4D from West, he could have surely bid 5C. Hence he doubled and that became the final contract in open room.

South led the HK and North ruffed the Ace and cashed the SA and a ruff to partner for 1 down. On the table, NS must be ruining their luck for not bidding 6C but in the closed room another drama folded.

The bidding was similar to what happened in open room but here South rather than bidding his club suit and giving choice to partner, directly bid 4H. West who was itching when the 1H bid was made doubled it and it was a massacre on the table, as the contract went 4 down for a massive 1100 to India and a gift of 15 IMPs.

- Editor


RESULT OF FRIENDSHIP PAIRS NS Direction

Rank Pair # Pair Name Score % 1 A-11 Himani Khan - Rajef Khan 343.48 62.22 2 A-4 Imran Syed - Numan Alturk 325.43 58.95 3 A-7 Rubina Agha - Fatima Raz 325.00 58.88 4 B-1 Debasish Ray - Subhash Gupta 312.93 56.69 5 B-15 Clement Momar - George Qash 311.93 56.51 6 A-1 Nermeen Qassmi - Humayem 306.43 55.51 7 A-3 Omran AD - Jamal Jal 303.93 55.06 8 A-5 Hafidhn Naesh Abdl - Ibrahim Ahdk 297.00 53.80 9 B-6 Abla Musa - Suhad Musa 296.00 53.62 10 B-12 Sujil Basu - Bharati 293.93 53.25 11 B-8 Ibrahim Qattan - Nabil Al Husaini 290.93 52.70 12 B-13 Azizul Haque - Moazzem Hussaien 288.93 52.34 13 A-8 Rana Abdelhadi - Nawar Hashem 286.43 51.89 14 B-10 Manjyu - Ruby 282.93 51.26 15 B-7 Issam Slfati - Louay Hussani 274.50 49.73 16 B-3 Iftikar Khal. - Mona Al 272.93 49.44 17 B-9 Asha Sharma - Puja Batra 270.93 49.08 18 B-2 Najwa Kh. - Naj. Naj. 270.43 48.99 19 A-2 Sinle Priya - Naidoo Birdiyh 265.85 48.16 20 A-6 Hussam Sallout - Dr Fatmeh 265.00 48.01 21 A-13 Sandra Q - Nabila Lb 264.93 47.99 22 A-15 Meenal Thakur - Nikita Kamal 258.43 46.82 23 B-11 Issam Q - Rima Elissa 256.41 46.45 24 B-14 Bassem Afiouny - Ahmed Maher 255.93 46.36 25 A-9 Bana Ky - Omar Ms 245.93 44.55 26 A-10 Ah Kayali - Rabeha En 237.91 43.10 27 B-4 Adma Karadsheh - Jehan Q. 226.00 40.94 28 B-5 Nabil Haddad - Hafidhn Naesh Adel Abdelrhman 223.50 40.49 29 A-14 Mona Al - Siham Samaan 219.43 39.75 30 A-12 Samira Kh - Mary Naj 206.52 37.41

EW Direction Rank Pair # Pair Name Score %

1 B-13 Rafiqul - Ma Quppus 342.07 61.97 2 B-4 Abdul Hakem Sahab - Mohamed Hamodah 329.50 59.69 3 A-5 Tewar Rajeeshwar - Anklesaria Keyzad 325.98 59.05 4 A-6 Iskander - Amr Nmr 321.50 58.24 5 B-2 Mouhmad Manaf - Tamer Abbas 316.57 57.35 6 B-11 Hussein Adam Ali - Nafis Jaafer 316.57 57.35 7 A-14 Maria - Amr Mk 313.57 56.81 8 A-13 Zia Haydar - Rehna 304.57 55.18 9 A-3 Khaleed Hassan - Nicole Alzer 297.52 53.90 10 B-6 Rubina Hai - Qudsia Dossa 295.50 53.53 11 B-7 Sirren Barkat - Marwan Ghanem 292.07 52.91 12 B-9 Ashok Goyal - S.sundreshan 291.07 52.73 13 B-10 Fehmiola - Sqeed Shah 288.00 52.17 14 A-12 Anal Shmt - R. Krishnan 287.07 52.01 15 A-7 Shahnaz Birzadea - Nash Abid 283.07 51.28 16 A-2 Mohamed Badawoud - Daila Abealqafar 268.07 48.56 17 A-9 Alka Kshirsaqak - Ruba Bakri 268.07 48.56 18 A-8 Issam Rm - Fiuroz Rm 266.00 48.19 19 B-15 M.boushehri - B.alrefae 264.07 47.84 20 A-4 Darshan - Al Midfaa 263.57 47.75 21 B-1 Reem Dj. - Maher Nb. 259.57 47.02 22 A-1 Mamoun Q - Firyal Bt 254.59 46.12 23 A-15 Uttam Gupta - Dipak Sahtra 253.65 45.95 24 B-5 Lina Haddad - Ramze Q 250.07 45.30 25 B-8 Adnan Mosely - Tareq Lafi 242.00 43.84 26 B-12 Suha Toukan - Hassana 239.07 43.31 27 B-14 Samer Rw - Ghaith Mz 231.07 41.86 28 A-10 Omar Sowikh - Salem Sabbali 211.50 38.32 29 A-11 Zaid Bt - Laith Jr 209.57 37.97 30 B-3 Amina Hu. - Janet Nd. 194.59 35.25


AMMAN MALLS Below we illustrate the biggest Malls in Amman. However, for your daily needs, there are

many mini markets and shops around the Bristol Hotel where you can make your shopping at a walking distance and at a relatively very reasonable prices.

TAJ Mall The original actual name was Tajumaat Mall, after the name of the founding Company. For branding reasons the name was changed to TAJ which means in Arabic “Crown”. Location: Situated in Abdoun Area at its lower neighbourhood, the area is full of different international, regional and local cosines restaurants. Proximity from Bristol Hotel: Five minutes by Taxi at a tariff of JD 1.00, but more if you take the hotel Taxi. Description: TAJ is the Jordan’s premier one–stop family shopping destination offering an extensive range of new international brands, variety lager restaurants, coffee shops, dieticians, optics shops, Banks, family entertainment zone, … etc. the activities are distributed over four levels of elegantly designed space.

Al Baraka Mall The meaning of the name is “God blessing”, hoping that everything you buy there will have the ultimate blessing for your actual benefit and added value. We believe that this is true. Location: Situated in Swefeia Area (Originally Sopheia), the area is full of different regional and local cosines restaurants, with many western and local fast foods such as falafel, Shawerma, and grills. Proximity from Bristol Hotel: Five minutes by Taxi at a tariff of JD 1.00, but more if you take the hotel Taxi. You can also reach there within 15 minutes’ walk. Description: Al Baraka is one of Amman west one–stop family shopping destination offering a range of new international and local brands, versified restaurants including international, Sochi Bar, local fast food, coffee shops, dieticians, optics shops, Banks, family entertainment zone, and 6 screens Cineplex, … etc. the activities are distributed over four levels of functionally and elegantly designed space.

City Mall City Mall is one of two Amman North premier one–stop family shopping destination and hosts within its premises a comprehensive a brand hyper market “Carrefour”. Location: City Mall is situated at King Abdullah II Street, very close to the Medical City, the famous King Hussein Gardens and the beautiful King Hussein Mosque. Proximity from Bristol Hotel: Twenty to twenty five minutes by Taxi at a tariff of JD 2.5, but more if you take the hotel Taxi. Description: City Mall is Jordan’s premier one stop family shopping destination offering an extensive range of new international brands, restaurants, coffee shops,10 Screen Cineplex and an exciting family entertainment zone, and a hyper supermarket, all distributed over four levels of 55,000 elegantly designed space. City Mall has a total built up area of 160,000 sq. m including ample parking space with the country’s larges tparking lot, of some 2400 car-capacity. Host to Jordan’s largest hypermarket, Carrefour, and housing many 1st time international brands to Jordan like Virgin Megastore, River Island, I zone, Bershka and many more, City Mall provides visitors with a world class family shopping, dining and entertainment experience. http://www.citymall.jo

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Mecca Mall Class "A" suburban shopping mall is conveniently located by Mecca Street - a main city-highway that provides quick and easy access to several major sectors of Amman. The Mall's premium site centers residential areas, schools, various businesses, Al Hussein Medical Center and King Hussein Park. Location: Mecca Mall is situated in Amman North, its entrance is from Mecca Street. Proximity from Bristol Hotel: Twenty to twenty five minutes by Taxi at a tariff of JD 2.5, but more if you take the hotel Taxi. Description: This 65000 meter square five-story Mecca Mall spacious floors have been designed for comfortable and joyous shopping. This fascinating establishment comprises 490 shops including supermarket, gaming center, kids play area, 8 cinemas, and the food court of 22 different restaurants, recreational areas, as well as all other facilities. Mecca Mall is an ideal place for the whole family where leisure, safety and quality are all central considerations. Mecca Mall features diversified dining and entertainment, highlighted by a stunning interior. The mall's parking area can comfortably accommodate 1200 cars. http://www.meccamall.jo/en Safeway Safeway Jordan was founded in 1987 as a pioneer in retailing services. In 1991, the Masri family purchased the company. The success of the flagship store in Shmesani led to a rapid expansion throughout the country. Today, Safeway operates a total of six full-service stores, one wholesale center, and two new Safeway Express convenience stores in Jordan. Location: The nearest and most comprehensive Safeway is situated in Wadi Esseer Area, not far from Bristol Hotel and still a part of Greater Amman. Proximity from Bristol Hotel: 10 minutes by Taxi at a tariff of JD 1.5, but more if you take the hotel Taxi. Description: The Safeway offers to the visitors a wide range of services, fruits, vegetables, meat butchery, sweets, food, cosmetics, accessories, book shop, office accessories, furniture, bakery, restaurant, clothes, electrical tools …etc. http:www.safeway.com.jo COZMO Mall Cozmo Jordan was founded in 1987 as a pioneer in retailing services. In 1991, the Masri family purchased the company. The success of the flagship store in Shmesani led to a rapid expansion throughout the country. Today, Safeway operates a total of six full-service stores, one wholesale center, and two new Safeway Express convenience stores in Jordan. Location: The nearest and most comprehensive cozmo is situated in Wadi Esseer Area, not far from Bristol Hotel and still a part of Greater Amman. Proximity from Bristol Hotel: 10 minutes by Taxi at a tariff of JD 1.5, but more if you take the hotel Taxi. Description: The Safeway offers to the visitors a wide range of services, fruits, vegetables, meat butchery, sweets, food, dilly, cosmetics, accessories, book shop, office accessories, furniture, bakery, restaurant, clothes, electrical tools, pharmacy, fish market, nuts, best buys …etc.

Cozmo prides itself on providing an enjoyable shopping experience to its customers, with a range of amenities, excellent parking facilities and wide aisles to offer you everything you need under one roof. Cozmo offers a wide range of other services, with its partners including Readers, Pharmacy 1 and Fakhreldin & Co., plus much more. http://www.cozmocentre.com/

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REMINDER - FROM THE DESK OF “HEAD TD”

General Points: 1. A change of players, pairs or partnerships can be made only at the beginning of a

match or a session. 2. Every participating partnership in the Championships must complete, accurately and

legibly, two WBF/BFAME Convention Card (with supplementary sheets as appropriate).

3. After the line-up is known to the players, teams are not allowed to change their own line-ups unless they have a valid reason and after the approval of the Head TD / C.TD and the other team as well.

4. Both members of a partnership must adopt the same methods in the auction and in their carding.

5. The use of Mobile phone in the playing area is totally prohibited (no exception), a severe penalty will be given for each infraction and if the infraction is repeated, it will be reported to the Organizing committee for more penalties. Mobiles should not be brought to the playing area, otherwise should be handed to the T.D. in charge before play starts.

6. Random checking will be in order at any time during the play with the above penalty applied.

7. Smoking is not allowed in the playing floor/Area, a severe penalty will be given for such infraction and if the infraction is repeated, it will be reported to the Organizing committee e for more penalties, the playing area includes the toilets.

8. Players who would like to go to the toilets must inform the T.D. in charge, who will provide an escort with the player to the toilets and before going to the toilets the player must empty his/her pockets, bag, etc.; and the above mentioned rules will be applied, if appropriate.

9. Spectators are allowed in the open room but they must enter the room before the play of the session. If they leave the room they will not be allowed to come back.

10. Players are not allowed to watch their own team and also no mobiles or smoking are allowed in the playing arena. Those found breaking the rules will be taken away from the playing area and with the approval of the C.T.D. will never be allowed to enter the playing area for the rest of the championship.

11. Non playing captains are allowed to watch their own team in the closed or the open rooms with the provisions mentioned in (5-8).

12. Screen regulations shall be followed with written explanations and proper alert procedure.

Alerting Procedures Players who participate in The BFAME zonal championship are expected to protect themselves to a large extent by asking their screen mates in case of any clarification required. Full disclosure is vital. Alerting should be done properly; see screen regulations, and explanations are given in writing.

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Policy:

The following classes of calls should be alerted: (1) Conventional calls. (2) Those calls which have special meanings or which are based on or lead to special understanding between partners. (See Law 40(b)). (3) Non- forcing jump changes of suit responses to opening bids or overcalls, and non-forcing new suit responses by un-passed hand to an opening bid one of a suit; “negative free bids”. (4) Opening bid of 1 must be alerted, if it may show 2 cards. (5) Precision 1 / systems must be alerted as well as their conventional responses as each time they occur. (6) For strong club/diamond systems all natural bidding should be alerted as showing a maximum of certain points. (7) Conventional special doubles and redoubles. As there is No Appeals committee in BFAME, a review will be asked instead.

REVIEW PROCEDURE The BFAME shall appoint a list of Reviewers for the Head Tournament Director to choose

from according to the case. When the tournament director notifies players of a decision, they will be told of their right to seek a review. See Section “Protest Time” for the time limit for seeking a review.

The Reviewer will check that the Tournament Director has gathered the necessary evidence of what occurred when the infraction arose. The Reviewer will then need to be satisfied that the correct law was applied and that other Tournament Directors, C.TD and H.TD were consulted where appropriate.

In matters involving the judgment that was exercised by a player following unauthorized information, incorrect explanation or failure to alert, the Reviewer will clarify that suitable players have been asked appropriate questions to enable a judgmental view to be obtained. Finally the Reviewer will check that the ruling that was issued based upon all the Information available to the Tournament Directors was within the bounds of reasonableness.

The fact that the Reviewer might have determined a slightly different ruling would not be good reason for the ruling to be varied. In the event that the process had not been followed properly in some material way, the Reviewer will ask the Head Tournament Director to correct the failings and issue a new ruling

PROTEST TIME In respect of scores the protest time of all matches played in a day ends at the starting time of the first match on the day following, and in respect of the final day’s play two hours after the official finishing time of the final match but, in any case, not later than the official starting time of the Closing Ceremony.

The time for a request for a Tournament Director ruling or for a review of a ruling already received ends 30 minutes after the end of the round. A fee of $100 will be paid for the case to be reviewed; which will be forfeited, if the Reviewer decides that the request has no basis.

Waleed El Menyawi, Head TD


IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE The Tournament Directors would award penalties as prescribed by the Laws and Conditions of the contest for Use of Mobiles, Slow play or Late Arrival.

All players are informed that ENGLISH is the official language of the tournament for interacting while the match is on.

No Smoking

Smoking in the playing area, is strictly prohibited and will attract heavy penalties.

No Mobile Phones Use of Mobile telephones is prohibited in the playing area, while the play session is on. No player can take the Mobile phone inside the playing arena. It has to be deposited outside playing area and TDs will make a random check. Strict action will be taken against the offending players.

Vu-Graph on BBO

Live Vu-graph of the 20th BFAME Championships will be available on BBO daily from 24th June to 30th June 2019 as per the following Schedule:

1030 – 1250 Hrs (0730 GMT) – Session-1

1430 – 1650 Hrs (1130 GMT) – Session-2

1730 – 1950 Hrs.(1430 GMT) – Session-3

SCORING ON BRIDGEMATES Participants must note that the correct rule for entering the scores on Bridge mate is: “NORTH is to enter the Score and EAST is to verify the same on Bridgemate”.

In case of any mistake made while entering, please call the director immediately and get the entry rectified on the Bridgemate.

SUBMITTING YOUR LINE-UP It is mandatory for Captains to give their Line-up through the Electronic LINE-UP Software. Each Captain will be provided with a PASSWORD for accessing the software at the Captain’s meeting.

Regulations for Electronic Line‐Ups The Line‐ups must be submitted electronically in accordance with the details below. Failure of a captain to submit his line‐up in a timely fashion shall result in fines as follows:

1st infraction Warning 2nd Infraction 20 US $ 3rd Infraction 40 US $ 4th Infraction a report will be written to the BFAME organizing committee to decide the suitable penalty, which might be in VPs.

The line-ups during the round robin must be submitted by both teams no later than 15 minutes after the end of the previous round; teams will not know the line-up of their opponents (blind line-up). The line-up for the first round must be given in accordance with the decision taken in the Captains Meeting.

In the KO phase the team to line-up first must submit its line-up no later than 15 minutes after the end of the previous session. The second team must then submit its line-up no later than 20 minutes after the end of the previous session or no later than 5 minutes after the submission of the first line-up, whichever is latest.

Line-ups are to be submitted in a dedicated area, with computers as designated by the Operations Director. However, each team will have its own password protected page on the website ( www.toygarabi.com ) to enable them to use the software with their own laptops / mobile phones.

The time of the Line‐Up will be recorded automatically by the system, and penalties for late line‐ups will be mandatory. An official clock will be set in the playing area for the purpose of showing the official time.

Waleed El-Menyawi, Head TD & Dir. of Operations

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The 20th BFAME Championships, AMMAN 23rd June to 30th June 2019

Championships Schedule Monday, Jun 24 1030 – 1250 Hrs. Round-1 of RR- OPEN/WOMEN/SENIORS/MIXED Teams 1430 – 1650 Hrs. Round-2 of RR- OPEN/WOMEN/SENIORS/MIXED Teams 1730 – 1950 Hrs. Round-3 of RR- OPEN/SENIORS/MIXED Teams

Note: 1. From Tuesday, Jun 25 till Thursday, Jun 27, there will be every day 3 matches per day for

OPEN Teams. On Friday, Jun 28, there will be 2 matches in OPEN Teams & the first session of Semi-Finals of 16 boards will also be played from 1730 Hrs..

2. From Tuesday, Jun 25 till Friday, Jun 28, there will be every day 3 matches per day for SENIORS / MIXED. 29th June will be a rest day for SENIORS / MIXED

3. From Tuesday, Jun 25 till Friday, Jun 29, there will be 2 matches per day for WOMEN

4. The 2nd BFAME Council Meeting – Election of BFAME office bearers will be held from 2015 Hrs. on Tuesday, Jun 25.

Saturday, Jun 29 1030 – 1250 Hrs. Semi-Finals – 2nd Segment OPEN Teams 1430 – 1650 Hrs. Semi-Finals – 3rd Segment OPEN Teams 1730 – 1950 Hrs. Semi-Finals – 4th Segment OPEN Teams

Sunday, Jun 30 1030 – 1250 Hrs. Finals – 1st Segment (OPEN, WOMEN, SENIORS, MIXED Teams) 1430 – 1650 Hrs. Finals – 1st Segment (OPEN, WOMEN, SENIORS, MIXED Teams) 1930 Hrs. Prize Distribution over Victory Banquet

Finals: 32 boards (16x2) for all four categories on last day (Sunday, June 30)

IMPORTANT LOCAL CONTACT OF ORGANISERS

Mr. Bahjat Al Majali (Chief Organiser): +962 79 517 7111 Mr. Ramzi Goussous: +962 79 591 5151 Mr. Raed Darwish: +962 79 666 5565

Results & Daily Bulletins of 20th BFAME BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIPS @ http://www.bridgewebs.com/bfame/

On Line Running Scores: bridgeduniya.com/tournaments/1340/2724/.

Enter Line-up: www.toygrabi.com Check the line-ups

Open : www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=333&id=1 Women : www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=335&id=1 Seniors : www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=336&id=1 Mixed : www.toygarabi.com/tables.aspx?t=337&id=1

Detailed Results: Clubs.vugraph.com/BFAME/calendar.php

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