19th HCL International Bridge Championship at Gurugram 202219th HCL International Bridge Championship took place at Hyatt Regency, Gurugram from October 11-16, 2022. The tournament carried a prize money purse of Rs 2.2 Cr ($275,000). The flagship duplicate event was played in Gold & Silver categories with Gold attracting 45 teams (down 10 from 55 in 2019) & Silver 71 teams (down 31 from 102 in 2019). More than 600 players participated in the championship. The international players were from countries like South Africa, USA, Bangladesh, Poland, Thailand, Sri Lanka . The summarised results are as follows:
HCL Gold for Naresh Tandan Trophy, Day 1-6, 45 Teams, 20 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 114 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. Dhampur Sugar Mills (Ashok Goel, Vinay Desai, Kaustubh Bendre, Kaustabh Nandi, Sagnik Roy, Sayantan Kushari) Prize Rs 40 Lac
2. Formidables (Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Rajeshwar Tewari, Keyzad Anklesaria, Sumit Mukherjee, Debabrata Majumdar) Prize Rs 24 Lac
3. Mind & Matter (Hema Deora, Arvind Vaidya, Satyabrata Mukherjee, Bhabesh Saha, Rana Roy, Biswajit Poddar) Prize Rs 12 Lac
4. Hope & Prey (Puja Batra, Subhash Gupta, Animesh Raj, Sapan Desai, Subir Majumdar) Prize Rs 8 Lac
QF Losers: Texan Aces, Mavericks, Rampage, Tornatae
PQF Losers: Amanora, Symphony, Cogito, Bangur Cement, Arun Jain, Mango, Bridge 24 Pl, Shri Radhey
HCL Silver for Mohini Tandan Trophy, Day 1-6, 71 Teams, 20 Prizes, Total Prize Money:Rs 43.1 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. Pradeep (Pradeep Goenka, Gautam Pore, Pijush Kanti Baroi, Biswadeep Roy, Mithun Mukherjee, Rajesh Kumar Shaw) Prize Rs 15 Lac
2. Prayas (Kamalesh Gupta, Vikram Jain, Santanu Chakraborty, Sumit Saha, Tanmoy Majumdar, Swapan Sardar) Prize Rs 9 Lac
3. Lucky Six (Indranil Chakraborty, Moloy Kumar Mondal, Raj Kumar Chaudhury, Goutam Mazumdar, Saurav Sil, Saptrishi Chanda) Prize Rs 4.5 Lac
4. Eisk (B Seenivasagan, Kannan Krishnamurthy, Surajit Bar, Souvik Kar, Arya Chakraborty, Soumadeep Ghosh) Prize Rs 3 Lac
QF Losers: Mahakal, Sangam, Gold Galaxy, Blitz
PQF Losers: Vibrant, Six Spade, Pals, Jeevan Jyoti, Jhontu, Invincibles, Bharat, Usha Kiron
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 43.7 Lac
197 Pairs played first elimination on day 3, 112 Pairs played in second elimination on day 4, 66 Pairs played in third elimination on day 5 and final on day 6 was of 28 (27 + 1 sponsored) pairs
1. PS Mukherjee & Aniruddha Bhattacharya (India) 61.2% Prize 12 Lac
2. Jaggy Shivdasani & Sandeep Thakral (India) 59.09% Prize 8 Lac
3. Zia Mahmood & Daniel Korbel (USA) 58.65% Prize 6 Lac
4. Bartosz Chmurski & Igor Chalupec (Poland) 58.32% Prize 4 Lac
Open Matchpoint Pairs Silver, Day 5-6, 10 Prizes Total Prize Money: Rs 7.17 Lac
26 Pairs finishing 28-53 in third elimination on day 5 played Silver final on day 6.
1. Rajeev Khandelwal & Himani Khandelwal 61.93% Prize 2 Lac
2. Anirban Sasmal & Atanu Ganguly 60.15% Prize 1.5 Lac
3. Sukamal Das & Subrata Saha 58.06% Prize 1.2 Lac
4. SN De Sarkar & Badal Das 57.91% Prize 0.8 Lac
IMP Pairs, Day 5-6, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 7.17 Lac
172 Pairs played in the elimination on day 5. Final on Day 6 was of 75 pairs.
1. Subhajit Chaudhury & Bulu Saha 93.1 Prize 2 Lac
2. R Bhiwandkar & S Dhakras 82 Prize 1.5 Lac
3. Rupa Bakeri & Marianne Karmarkar 73.7 Prize 1.2 Lac
4. Nitin Shah & Shirish Karkarey 69.2 Prize 0.8 Lac
MP Strata II Pairs, Day 4, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.43 Lac
106 Pairs played.
1. Prakash Gupta & Somnath Mitra 61.61% Prize 0.8 Lac
2. Prosenjit Manna & Joyrup Mullick 61.52% Prize 0.5 Lac
3. Krishna Das Chakraborty & Swetadri Saha 61.4% Prize 0.36 Lac
4. Chandan Chaudhury & Indranath Chatterjee 61.25% Prize 0.24 Lac
IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 6, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.43 Lac
86 Pairs played.
1. Tapan Das & Subir Kumar Chaudhuri 92 Prize 0.8 Lac
2. Hemkanti Talulkar & Anup Mahajan 67 Prize 0.5 Lac
3. Soumya Das & Sampath Srinivasan 62 Prize 0.3 Lac
3. Swarnashish Chatterjee & Wrik Chakraborty 62 Prize 0.3 Lac
The detailed results including hand records are available at http://www.hcl-bridge.com
Courtesy: http://www.hcl-bridge.com
Posted:29/10/2022 7:15 PM
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