20th HCL International Bridge Championship at Delhi 202320th HCL International Bridge Championship took place at The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, Delhi from October 31 - November 6, 2023. The tournament carried a prize money purse of Rs 2.6 Cr ($310,000). The championship has been given category 2 status (just below World events) in the World Bridge Tour by World Bridge Federation. The flagship duplicate event was played in Gold & Silver categories with Gold attracting 52 teams (up 7 from 45 in 2022) & Silver 93 teams (up 22 from 71 in 2022). More than 800 players participated in the championship. The international players were from countries like Bulgaria, Sweden, Norway, USA, Bangladesh, Poland, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia . The summarised results are as follows:
HCL Gold for Naresh Tandan Trophy, Day 1-6, 52 Teams, 20 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 124.3 Lac
Day 1-2 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 3 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 4 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 5 Semi Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 6 finals were of 4*14 boards and play offs for 3rd place.
1. Azs Buboslavia (Kamil Nowak, Piotr Marcinowski, Jakub Patreuha, Patryk Patreuha) Prize Rs 44 Lac
2. Formidables (Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Rajeshwar Tewari, Sumit Mukherjee, Kaustabh Nandi, Sagnik Roy) Prize Rs 24 Lac
3. Poland (Jacek Pszczola, Buras Krzystof, Wojciech Gawel, Rafel Jagniewski, Przemyslaw Janiszlewski, Wojciech Strzemecki) Prize Rs 12.5 Lac
4. Hemant Jalan (Hemant Jalan, Ashish Malhotra, Abhijit Chakraborty, Prasun Mukherjee, Sayantan Kushari, Kaustubh Bendre) Prize Rs 9 Lac
QF Losers: Mavericks All Stars, Joyjits Army, Delhi Blues, Bulgaria
PQF Losers: Mavericks Prodigies, DKI Red, Rampage, DKI Blue, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Tornatae, Ruia Blazers, Lake My Love
HCL Silver for Mohini Tandan Trophy, Day 1-6, 93 Teams, 20 Prizes, Total Prize Money:Rs 47.96 Lac
Silver event is for those Indian teams (foreign teams require approval from technical committee) who can not play more than one National Master or above ranked player (Those with at least 600 Masterpoints out of which 500 should be Federation level).Day 1-2 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 3 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 4 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 5 Semi Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 6 finals were of 4*14 boards and play offs for third place.
1. Standard Plus (Rajeev Sukumaran, Sahirudeen, Asok Jose Lean, Ranga Khadloya, Nizamudeen Shahul Hamid, Franz Mundaden) Prize Rs 16 Lac
2. Shiv Shakti (Gautam Chatterjee, Sanjib Bhattacharjee, Sanjib Ganguly, Prabir Kumar Thakur, Manoj Kumar Dey, Tapan Kumar Bhattacharya) Prize Rs 9.6 Lac
3. ICSA Coolers (S Vijayraghavan, Afshar Majeed, Sandeep Dang, Surajit Bar, Soham Sarkar, Subhashree Basu) Prize Rs 4.8 Lac
4. Mind Crusaders (Sanjib Majumdar, Sayantan Konar, Sujit Sadhak, Biswadip Roy, Shouvik Das, Bijit Datta) Prize Rs 3.6 Lac
QF Losers: Spartans, Potluris, Team Vibrant, Hyderabad Blues
PQF Losers: PMDBA, Pals, Dr SSM, Autumsonata, Invincibles, Miracle, Eisk, Bappa
Open Matchpoint Pairs for Neena Bonarji Trophy, Day 3-6, 16 Prizes plus Prizes to top 2 in eliminations & Prizes to Best Ladies and Mixed Pairs, Total Prize Money: Rs 48.22 Lac
264 Pairs played first elimination on day 3, 144 Pairs played in second elimination on day 4, 74 Pairs played in third elimination on day 5 and final on day 6 was of 28 (26 + 2 sponsored) pairs
1. Boye Brogeland & Christian Bakke (Norway) Prize 12.8 Lac
2. Julian Stefanov & Vladimir Mihov (Bulgaria) Prize 8.4 Lac
3. Jerry Stamatov & Ivan Nanev (Bulgaria) Prize 6.4 Lac
4. Zia Mahmood & Geir Helgemo (USA/Norway) Prize 4.8 Lac
Open Matchpoint Pairs Silver, Day 6, 10 Prizes Total Prize Money: Rs 7.25 Lac
26 Pairs finishing 27-52 in third elimination on day 5 played Silver final on day 6.
1. Mukund Jagannathan & Gautam Biswas Prize 2 Lac
2. RG Bhiwandkar & Subhash Dhakras Prize 1.5 Lac
3. Priya Ranjan Sinha & Koushik Mukherjee Prize 1.2 Lac
4. Mrinal Mukherjee & Sowmik Das Prize 0.8 Lac
IMP Pairs, Day 5-6, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 7.25 Lac
237 Pairs played in the elimination on day 5. Final on Day 6 was of 110 pairs.
1. Binod Kumar Shaw & Sanjit Dey Prize 2 Lac
2. Mithun Mukherjee & Soumya Das Prize 1.5 Lac
3. Rashebul Hasan & Md Aminul Islam Prize 1.2 Lac
4. Prosenjit Manna & Babrubahan Bose Prize 0.8 Lac
MP Strata II Pairs, Day 4, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.51 Lac
148 Pairs played.
1. Prakash Bhandari & Raghunath Tripathi Prize 0.8 Lac
2. Sailen Das & Tapan Kumar Roy Prize 0.5 Lac
3. Binod Kumar Shaw & Sanjit Dey Prize 0.36 Lac
4. Sudhir S Gavandi & Suresh S Bhattad Prize 0.24 Lac
IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 6, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.43 Lac
126 Pairs played.
1. Swapan Sardar & Sisir Kumar Banerjee Prize 0.8 Lac
2. R Krishnan & Atul Rai Prize 0.5 Lac
3. Pramod Kumar Mishra & Sudhir Kumar Tripathy Prize 0.3 Lac
4. Tanmoy Majumder & Santanu Chakraborty Prize 0.3 Lac
HCL Pro Am IMP Pairs, Day 7, 12 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 20 Lac
28 Pairs played.
1. Nabil Edgtton & Mithun Mukherjee 6 Lac
2. Debabrata Majumder & Sudhir Aggarwal Prize 4 Lac
3. Jacek Pszczola & Vikrant Mehta Prize 3 Lac
4. Raju Tolani & Arun Bapat Prize 1.8 Lac
The detailed results including hand records are available at http://www.hcl-bridge.com
Courtesy: http://www.hcl-bridge.com
Posted:22/11/2023 11:45 AM
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