KARACHI, Aug 28: Yusuf Dada Swiss Team Tournament will begin on Saturday at the Aslam Bridge Hall under auspices of the Karachi Bridge Association. It will be a two-day Swiss movement tournament based on seven rounds of 12 boards each.

Meanwhile, the KBA held its regular weekend duplicate bridge program on Friday when thirty pairs turned up to vie for the day's honour.

In this Mitchel Movement program, Zia and Hameed, competing from East-West direction, topped with 63.20 per cent score while from the other side, the pair of Qamar Puri and Shahab Saeed topped with 63.08 per cent score.

Tariq Zafar-Syed Ameer Hasan finished second with 61.57 per cent, Khalid Mohiuddin-Mubashir Puri finished third with 59.72 per cent score from East-West.

Mohsin Chandna-Gulzar Bilal scored 61 and Raza Naqvi-Anwar Kemal scored 58 per cent for second and third positions from North-South direction.

In the team event, it was Candyland that topped with 106 victory points, winning four matches from Alliancer 25-5, Puris 22-8, Ahmed IB 25-5 and Mahmood 23-7 losing first round match to Salim 11-19. The team had services of their regular pairs of Hamed-Zia, Khalid-Mubashir.

Salim, putting up remarkable performance in Swiss movements and scoring 91 V.P., finished second by winning four matches — Candyland 19-11, Chandna 17-13, Four Bidders 16-14, Strikers 25-5 — and losing last match to Ahmed IV 14-16.

Salim Zaki, Ghulam Muhammad, Anis-ur-Rehman and Shahab Sarki were representing Salim-IV.

Ghaffar Qureshi, Anwar Kemal, Jamal Nizami, Tariq Zafar and Syed Ameer Hasan finished third with 87 V.P., winning three matches from Mohsin 22-8, Chandna 16-14 and Strikers 20-10; and losing two close matches to Ahmed 12-18 and Salim 14-16.—PPI