22nd HCL International Bridge Championship at Delhi 202522nd HCL International Bridge Championship took place at The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, Delhi from October 6 - 14, 2025. The tournament carried a prize money purse of Rs 2.7 Cr ($310,000). The flagship duplicate event was played in Gold & Silver categories with Gold being a World Bridge Tour event attracting 58 teams (up 7 from 51 in 2024) & Silver 88 teams (down 4 from 92 in 2024). More than 800 players participated in the championship. The international players were from countries like Australia, Kenya, Norway, USA, Bangladesh, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, England, Lithuania, Poland, Israel. The summarised results are as follows:
HCL Gold for Naresh Tandan Trophy, Day 3-8, 58 Teams, 20 Prizes plus a Prize for Swiss League Winner, Total Prize Money: Rs 124.3 Lac
Day 3-4 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 5 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 6 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 7 Semi Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 8 finals were of 4*14 boards and play offs for 3rd place of 3*14 boards.
1. Wham (Sartaj Hans, Andy Hung, Matthew Brown, Michael Whibley) Prize Rs 44 Lac
2. Olimp (Anna Gulevich, Andrey Gromov, Sergey Orlov, Olga Firsova, Evgeny Rudakov) Prize Rs 24 Lac
3. EA Bridge (Koushik Mukherjee, Priya Ranjan Sinha, Badal Das, Pranab Bardhan, Shibnath De Sarkar) Prize Rs 12 Lac
4. Monica Jajoo (Monica Jajoo, Sukamal Das, Binod Shaw, Sanjit Dey, Sayantan Kushari, Kaustubh Bendre) Prize Rs 9 Lac
QF Losers: Shourie, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Texan Aces, Mavericks
PQF Losers: Dass Bridge Gold, Proyas, Mohota, Deep Finesse, Vedic, Diamonds, Magnum, Team Tolani
HCL Silver for Mohini Tandan Trophy, Day 3-8, 92 Teams, 20 Prizes plus a Prize for Swiss League Winner, 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) and all Silver finalists since 2013 are considered as National Masters irrespective of whether they have achieved that rank by masterpoint or not. Day 3-4 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 5 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 6 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 7 Semi Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 8 finals were of 4*14 boards and play offs for third place of 3*14 boards.
1. Nagpur VI (Sameer Roy, Mahesh Mor, Anil Mohota, Arun Puranik, MM Lule) Prize Rs 16 Lac
2. Hyderabad Blue (RP Narain, D Sudhanand, Prabhat Kumar Gupta, A Prabhat Kumar) Prize Rs 9.2 Lac
3. Ernis (Arun Kumar Majhi, Chandan Kumar Mitra, Sumita Dasgupta, Santanu Chakraborty, Jibak Tewari) Prize Rs 4.8 Lac
4. Ashok Bedi (Ashok Bedi, Rohit Gupta, Rakesh Nanda, BS Gupta) Prize Rs 3.6 Lac
QF Losers: Chefs Table, Gladiators, Team Kabra, Ranjan
PQF Losers: Marudhara, Hopeful Six, Dazzle, Laxmi, Hello, Chennai, Challengers, We R Six
Open Matchpoint Pairs for Neena Bonerji Trophy, Day 5-8, 16 Prizes plus Prizes to top 2 in eliminations & Prizes to Best Ladies and Mixed Pairs, Total Prize Money: Rs 48.22 Lac
271 Pairs played first elimination of 54 boards on day 5, 144 Pairs played in second elimination of 54 boards on day 6, 72 Pairs played in third elimination of 54 boards on day 7 and final on day 8 was of 28 (26 + 2 sponsored) pairs playing 54 boards
1. Christian Bakke & Tor Eivind Grude Prize Rs 12.8 Lac
2. Sandeep Thakral & Subhash Gupta Prize Rs 8.4 Lac
3. Diego Brenner & Paul Hackett Prize Rs 6.4 Lac
4. Oren Toledano & Ami Zamir Prize Rs 4.8 Lac
Open Matchpoint Pairs Silver, Day 8, 10 Prizes Total Prize Money: Rs 7.25 Lac
26 Pairs finishing 27-52 in third elimination on day 7 played Silver final of 50 boards on day 8.
1. Vinay Desai & Raju Tolani Prize Rs 2 Lac
2. RG Bhiwandkar & Subhash Dhakras Prize Rs 1.5 Lac
3. Rajesh Dalal & Jitu Solani Prize Rs 1.2 Lac
4. Anurag Mohota & Basant Mohota Prize Rs 0.8 Lac
IMP Pairs, Day 7-8, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 7.25 Lac
252 Pairs played in the elimination of 54 boards on day 7. Final on Day 8 was of 130 pairs playing 48 boards.
1. Tatiana Nokhaeva & Aleksandr Piatkov Prize Rs 2 Lac
2. Saptarshi Chanda & Animesh Majumdar Prize Rs 1.5 Lac
3. Jayanta Sarkar & Amal Kumar Gune Prize Rs 1.2 Lac
4. Manoj Das & Kedar Nath Shaw Prize Rs 0.8 Lac
MP Strata II Pairs, Day 6, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.51 Lac
155 Pairs played 44 boards.
1. Alok Daga & Kamal Mukherjee Prize Rs 0.8 Lac
2. MK Haldar & Amitava Mukherjee Prize Rs 0.5 Lac
3. JB Sengupta & Prakash Bhandari Prize Rs 0.36 Lac
4. Kishore Das & Debobrata Mondal Prize Rs 0.24 Lac
IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 8, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.51 Lac
118 Pairs played 44 boards.
1. Gaurav Rajwade & Rajendra Mekal Prize Rs 0.8 Lac
2. Md. Shahidul Islam & Mohammad Ehasanuzzaman Prize Rs 0.5 Lac
3. Sunit Kumar Bose & Sujoy Kumar Dey Prize Rs 0.36 Lac
4. Pradeep Govil & SK Sharma Prize Rs 0.24 Lac
HCL Pro-Am IMP Pairs, Day 9, 12 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 20 Lac
26 Pairs played 50 boards.
1. Richa Sriram & Boye Brogeland Prize Rs 6 Lac
2. Arjun Sawhny & Sandeep Thakral Prize Rs 4 Lac
3. Maneesh Bahuguna & Christian Bakke Prize Rs 3 Lac
4. Arun Kumar Sinha & Kaustabh Nandi Prize Rs 1.8 Lac
Mixed IMP Pairs Gold for NK Gupta Trophy, Day 1-2, 16 Prizes plus Prizes for top 2 in elimination, Total Prize Money: Rs 7 Lac
115 Pairs played elimination of 50 boards on day 1. 26 Pairs played Gold Final of 50 boards on day 2.
1. Vidya Patel & Keyzad Anklesaria Prize Rs 2 Lac
2. Savleen Thadani & Pijus Kanti Baroi Prize Rs 1.25 Lac
3. Kavita Ajmera & Debabrata Majumder Prize Rs 0.8 Lac
4. Priya Balasubramanian & Subhash Bhavnani Prize Rs 0.6 Lac
Mixed IMP Pairs Silver, Day 2, 8 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.5 Lac
26 Pairs finishing 27-52 in elimination played Silver Final of 50 boards.
1. Monica Jajoo & Sumit Mukherjee Prize Rs 0.6 Lac
2. Bindiya Judge & Bhaskar Sarkar Prize Rs 0.5 Lac
3. Anna Gulevich & Andrey Gromov Prize Rs 0.4 Lac
4. Marianne Karmarkar & Sandeep Karmarkar Prize Rs 0.3 Lac
Mixed IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 2, 6 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 0.5 Lac
54 Pairs played 44 boards.
1. Usha Kabra & Gopinath Manna Prize Rs. 0.15 Lac
2. Sarika Mittal & Rajendra Sirohia Prize Rs 0.12 Lac
3. Bijal shah & Ranjan Bose Prize Rs 0.08 Lac
4. Jesal Dabriwala & Shambhu Nath Ghosh Prize Rs 0.06 Lac
The detailed results including hand records are available at http://www.hcl-bridge.com
Courtesy: http://www.hcl-bridge.com
Posted:18/10/2025 4:45 PM
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