KARACHI, Dec 12: Fine Foods foiled Candyland’s efforts to record fourth win in a row clinching the weekly Swiss Movement Duplicate bridge programme by 94 Victory Points (VPs) at Aslam Memorial Bridge Hall on Sunday.

Fine Foods’ Rashid Shamsi, Ibrahim Baig, Khalid Zaki and F A Naeem showed impressive performance to claim the title.

They outpaced Four Bidders 25-02, had a tough time but prevailed over Aggressive 17-13, outplayed Mahmood IV 21-9 in the third round just to lose forth round to Ahmed IV 8-22 and recouped in the last round, defeating Mushtaq 23-7.

Mahmood IV occupied second berth with 92 VPs. The two combinations of Mahmood Naqvi-Noor Alam, Asghar Naqvi-Anwer Kemal netted winning swings against Abedies 23-7, Candyland 22-8, Aggressive 19-11 and Ahmed IV 19-11. Mahmood IV lost their third round match to Fine Foods.

Candyland and Ahmed IV scored 88 VPs, each. Candyland, losing only one match, made it to third spot. Candyland’s Muhammed Ismail, Mubashir Puri, Ziaullah Baig, Hamid and Khalid Mohiuddin won four matches against Crescent 21-9, Sprinter 25-5, EFU 19-11 and Aggressive 15-15.

In the pairs event held earlier, 28 contested Mitchel Movement.

From the north-south direction, S M Ozair-Dr Sarfraz reached the apex with an impressive score of 65 per cent.

Irfan Khan-Tanvir Mazahir occupied second spot with 60 per cent followed by Ahmed Hameed-Farhat Abbas at 55.81 per cent.

From the other direction, M Azwerul Haque-Asghar Abbas claimed first position with 57.81 per cent. Hamed Mohiuddin-Ziaullah Baig scored 54.91 per cent and Faisal Ehsan-Tabrez made 55.19 per cent.

The monthly pairs contest at Karachi Club will be held at 6:00 pm on Tuesday. It will be open to all bridge players of the city.—APP