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The Mylapore Club bridge camp is an initiative undertaken by the Tamil Nadu Bridge Association (TNBA) together with the Mylapore Club, with the support of several ardent bridge players from the city, to promote the fabulous game of Contract Bridge. Contract Bridge is an intensely challenging intellectual game that has been popular around the world for centuries. Rivalling the game of chess in the intellectual challenges it presents, bridge offers much more than chess in terms of promoting teamwork, psychology, planning and organization and communication. Bridge illustrates and enhances several of the qualities that are critical for success in today's world.
Bridge is extremely popular in India as well. However, being a card game, bridge is associated with many of the games that contain an inherent notion of gambling, leading to the game being stigamitized in Indian society. While bridge can be played for stakes, the most popular form of the game, tournament bridge, has nothing to do with gambling whatsoever. On the contrary, bridge tournaments are prestigious events, similar to chess and cricket tournaments, and the people who do well in these events occupy the top stratum of intellectuals in the society. This is easily demonstrated by the number of top Indian industrialists and businessmen who have a passion for bridge. Bridge can also be played as a social pastime, and is a great way to build and enhance relationships. For young students who are in the process of building a career the advantages of playing bridge are manifold: not only does thinking get stimulated by the intellectual challenges of playing the game, but they also get to meet and mingle with many of the top intellectuals and businessmen of society. In short, bridge is the ultimate challenge with multi-faceted rewards.
The Mylapore Club needs to be commended for its efforts in organizing this project. This bridge camp is being offered free to the participants. The Club has spared no expense in organizing this venture and providing all the facilities to make sure that the students as well as the faculty are comfortable. In addition, the instructors and organizing members are also to be appreciated for devoting their precious time and energies in order to make this program a success. It is our sincere belief that the dwindling bridge population is given a major boost by this program as well as the follow-up courses and programs that are being planned.
On this website, you can get information about the Bridge camp such as schedules, contact information for your instructors, handouts for course material and a whole lot more.
