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23rd HCL International at The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, Delhi from October 2 - 11, 2026 - Winners

  • Mavericks Gold (Subodh Maskara, Dominik Filipowicz, Ami Zamir, Oren Toledano, Mikael Rimstedt, Ola Rimstedt) wins Duplicate Gold Event for Naresh Tandan Trophy

  • Gladiators (Tarun Singhal, Anurag Pandey, Rakesh Chandra Sharma, Umesh Singh, Pintu Sao, Pankaj Chaudhari) wins Duplicate Silver Event for Mohini Tandan Trophy

  • Kaustubh Bendre & Sayantan Kushari win MP Pairs Gold Event for Neena Bonarji Trophy

  • Anuradha Bakshi & Soumitra Das win IMP Pairs Event

  • Shambhu Nath Ghosh & Jesal Dabriwala win Mixed IMP Pairs Gold Event for NK Gupta Trophy

  • Monica Jajoo & Sumit Mukherjee win ProAm IMP Pairs Event

  • Gromov (Evgeny Rodakov, Sergey Orlov, Yury Khyuppenen, Vadim Kholomeev) wins BAM Event

  • SM Moin & Naveen Kumar win MP Pairs Silver Event

  • Priya Ranjan Sinha & Bindiya Naidoo win Mixed IMP Pairs Silver Event

  • Krishna Das Chakraborty & Swetadri Saha win MP Pairs Strata Event

  • Krishna Das Chakraborty & Swetadri Saha win IMP Pairs Strata Event

  • Maneesh Bahuguna & Devi Bhatnagar win Mixed IMP Pairs Strata Event

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    JHIC Annual at Jubilee Hills International Center, Hyderabad from September 19 - 21, 2026 - Winners

  • Nest Inn (N Niranjan, R Kannan, NR Kirupakaramurthy, S Sunderram, P Sridhar, Uma Rajesh) wins Duplicate Event

  • Bhabesh Saha & V Ramesh Kumar win MP Pairs Event

  • Shambhu Nath Ghosh & Biswajit Poddar win IMP Pairs Event

  • D Sudhanand & Wajid Ali Mirza win MP Pairs Strata Event

  • Nag Bhusan Rao & KSRV Challam win IMP Pairs Strata Event

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    Page updated (Tournament News - 23rd HCL International Report) on October 20, 2026.
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    23rd HCL International Bridge Championship at Delhi 2026

    23rd HCL International Bridge Championship took place at The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, Delhi from October 2 - 11, 2026. The tournament carried a prize money purse of Rs 2.85 Cr ($300,232). The flagship duplicate event was played in Gold & Silver categories with Gold being a World Bridge Tour event attracting 55 teams (down 3 from 58 in 2025) & Silver 84 teams (down 4 from 88 in 2025). More than 800 players participated in the championship. The international players were from countries like Australia, Kenya, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Italy, USA, Bangladesh, Russia, South Africa, New Zealand, Latvia, Poland, England. This year a BAM event was added on final day and the Mixed Pair event was played over 3 days instead of 2 days earlier. The summarised results are as follows:

    HCL Gold for Naresh Tandan Trophy, Day 4-9, 55 Teams, 20 Prizes plus a Prize for Swiss League Winner, Total Prize Money: Rs 124.3 Lac

    Day 4-5 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 6 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 7 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 8 Semi Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 9 finals were of 4*14 boards and play offs for 3rd place of 3*14 boards.

    1. Mavericks Gold (Subodh Maskara, Dominik Filipowicz, Ami Zamir, Oren Toledano, Ola Rimstedt, Mikael Rimstedt) Prize Rs 44 Lac
    2. Wham (Sartaj Hans, Andy Hung, Matthew Brown, Michael Whibley) Prize Rs 24 Lac
    3. Mavericks Platinum (Keyzad Anklesaria, Boye Brogeland, Jakub Patreuha, Patryk Patreuha, Nicolai Heiberg-Evenstad, Christian Lahrmann) Prize Rs 12 Lac
    4. Monica Jajoo (Monica Jajoo, Somesh Bhattacharya, Binod Shaw, Sanjit Dey, Sagnik Roy, Kaustabh Nandi) Prize Rs 9 Lac

    QF Losers: EA Bridge, Hemant Jalan, I Doctors, Young Comrades
    PQF Losers: Ash Gupta, Baikunth, Bangur Cement, Dhampur Sugar Mills, Latvia, Phoenix Ruia, Shri Radhey, Vedic

    HCL Silver for Mohini Tandan Trophy, Day 4-9, 84 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 4-5 Swiss League of 10 rounds of 10 boards each. Day 6 16 teams played Pre Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 7 Quarter Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 8 Semi Finals knock out of 4*14. Day 9 finals were of 4*14 boards and play offs for third place of 3*14 boards.

    1. Gladiators (Tarun Singhal, Anurag Pandey, Rakesh Chandra Sharma, Umesh Kumar Singh, Pintu Sao, Pankaj Chaudhari) Prize Rs 16 Lac
    2. CAPA (Sanjay Bagaria, Anirban Mitra, Anirudh Ghosh, Pallab Roy, Biplab Dawn, Shantanu Roy) Prize Rs 9.2 Lac
    3. Tricks N Trump (Rakesh Bagga, Shanker Chatterjee, Atanu Ganguly, Sumit Bhattacharjee, Bipul Kumar Roy) Prize Rs 4.8 Lac
    4. Winning Minds (M Vasanth Pai, Kalpana Gurjar, Vidya Patel, Sayantan Konar, Mathew Chandy, Soham Sarkar) Prize Rs 3.6 Lac

    QF Losers: Blooming Bidders, Conquerors, Ekdalia, Miracle
    PQF Losers: Ace of Spade, Affinity, Dr SSM, Karpag, Playwell, Ranjan, RSCSBP, Zenith

    Open Matchpoint Pairs for Neena Bonarji Trophy, Day 6-9, 16 Prizes plus Prizes to top 2 in eliminations & Prizes to Best Ladies and Mixed Pairs, Total Prize Money: Rs 48.24 Lac

    268 Pairs played first elimination of 54 boards on day 6, 138 Pairs played in second elimination of 54 boards on day 7, 66 Pairs played in third elimination of 54 boards on day 8 and final on day 9 was of 28 (26 + 2 sponsored) pairs playing 54 boards

    1. Kaustubh Bendre & Sayantan Kushari Prize Rs 12.8 Lac
    2. Yury Khiuppenen & Vadim Kholomeev Prize Rs 8.4 Lac
    3. Daniel Masika & Ido Moskovitz Prize Rs 6.4 Lac
    4. Andrey Gromov & Anna Gulevich 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 8 played Silver final of 50 boards on day 9.

    1. SM Moin & Naveen Kumar Prize Rs 2 Lac
    2. Samir Basak & Sandip Datta Prize Rs 1.5 Lac
    3. Subhash Gupta & Swarnendu Banerjee Prize Rs 1.2 Lac
    4. Prosenjit Manna & Joyrup Mullick Prize Rs 0.8 Lac

    IMP Pairs, Day 8-9, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 9.1 Lac

    245 Pairs played in the elimination of 54 boards on day 8. Final on Day 9 was of 102 pairs playing 48 boards.

    1. Anuradha Bakshi & Soumitra Das Prize Rs 2.4 Lac
    2. Subhash Bhavnani & Prakash Hegde Prize Rs 1.6 Lac
    3. Souvik Kar & Pradip Dey Prize Rs 1.2 Lac
    4. Ranjit Ghosh & Chandan Chowdhury Prize Rs 0.9 Lac

    MP Strata II Pairs, Day 7, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.66 Lac

    145 Pairs played 44 boards.

    1. Krishna Das Chakraborty & Swetadri Saha Prize Rs 0.8 Lac
    2. DN Lenka & J Pratihari Prize Rs 0.6 Lac
    3. Surendra Nath Kar & Aviram Rout Prize Rs 0.4 Lac
    4. KSRV Challam & CV Kekre Prize Rs 0.24 Lac

    IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 9, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.66 Lac

    120 Pairs played 44 boards.

    1. Krishna Das Chakraborty & Swetadri Saha Prize Rs 0.8 Lac
    2. NK Chitlangia & Shekhar Kumar Bandopadhyay Prize Rs 0.6 Lac
    3. Subrata Chakraborty & Ramprosad Das Prize Rs 0.4 Lac
    4. Peiyush Jain & R Anbazhagan Prize Rs 0.24 Lac

    HCL Pro-Am IMP Pairs, Day 10, 12 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 20 Lac

    28 Pairs played 54 boards.

    1. Monica Jajoo & Sumit Mukherjee Prize Rs 6 Lac
    2. Amit Dabriwala & Karlis Rubins Prize Rs 4 Lac
    3. N Rajachandra & Rajeshwar Tewari Prize Rs 3 Lac
    4. Subrata Sadhukhan & Nicolai Heiberg-Evenstad Prize Rs 1.8 Lac

    BAM Event, Day 10, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 10.17 Lac

    58 Teams played 48 boards.

    1. Gromov (Sergey Orlov, Evgeny Rudakov, Yury Khiuppenen, Vadim Kholomeev) Prize Rs 3.6 Lac
    2. Gower (Craig Gower, Diana Rosslee, Arnab Basu Roy, Abhirup Ghosh) Prize Rs 2.4 Lac
    3. Vedic (Subir Majumdar, Satyabrata Mukherjee, Debabrata Majumder, Kaustubh Bendre, Rana Roy, Bhabesh Saha) Prize Rs 1.2 Lac
    4. Kosmos (Namit Sharma, Asha Sharma, Rajesh Jain, Shouvik Das) Prize Rs 0.9 Lac

    Mixed IMP Pairs Gold for NK Gupta Trophy, Day 1-3, 16 Prizes plus Prizes for top 2 in elimination, Total Prize Money: Rs 8.5 Lac

    124 Pairs played elimination of 100 boards on day 1 & 2. 26 Pairs (25 + 1 Sponsored) played Gold Final of 50 boards on day 3.

    1. Jesal Dabriwala & Shambhu Nath Ghosh Prize Rs 2.4 Lac
    2. Kamna Sharma & Abhijit Pal Prize Rs 1.5 Lac
    3. Uma Rajesh & P Sridhar Prize Rs 1 Lac
    4. Marianne Karmarkar & Sandeep Karmarkar Prize Rs 0.75 Lac

    Mixed IMP Pairs Silver, Day 3, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 3.35 Lac

    26 Pairs finishing 26-51 in elimination played Silver Final of 50 boards.

    1. Bindiya Naidoo & Priya Ranjan Sinha Prize Rs 0.8 Lac
    2. Zaira Davide & Joyjit Sensharma Prize Rs 0.6 Lac
    3. Kalpana Gurjar & Surajit Bar Prize Rs 0.5 Lac
    4. Alka Kshirsagar & Vijay Phatarphekar Prize Rs 0.4 Lac

    Mixed IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 3, 8 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 0.81 Lac

    61 Pairs played 44 boards.

    1. Devi Bhatnagar & Maneesh Bahuguna Prize Rs. 0.2 Lac
    2. Puja Batra & Jaggy Shivdasani Prize Rs 0.15 Lac
    3. Madhu Malti Jain & JB Sengupta Prize Rs 0.1 Lac
    4. Kanta Stanchina & Atanu Ganguly Prize Rs 0.08 Lac


    The detailed results including hand records are available at http://www.hcl-bridge.com


    Courtesy: http://www.hcl-bridge.com

    Posted:20/10/2026 11:35 AM

    1st VC Agarwal Memorial at Lucknow 2026

    1st VC Agarwal Memorial Invitational Pairs Championship took place at Symphony Hall, Lucknow Golf Club, Lucknow from August 17 - 18, 2026. 20 pairs played 19 rounds of 5 boards each against each other pair. The IMP obtained were converted into VPs which were cummulated to determine the winner. The tournament was mainly for UP players. The tournament saw players from Bareilly (1), Muzaffarnagar (1), Meerut (2), Prayagraj (2), Kanpur (3), Varanasi (4), Johri Village (1), Greater Noida (1), Noida (1), Others (4) apart from 20 players from host Lucknow including 3 Golf Club members participating. The tournament is sponsored by Sri SK Garg in memory of his father , who was a philanthropist from Anupshahar, and carried a prize money of Rs 81000/-. The tournament was scored by Sri Gajendra Singh who also brought computer dealt boards courtesy SP Singhania Bridge Academy. The director was Shantanu Rastogi ably assisted by Sri Umesh Singh. We are grateful to Lucknow Golf Club for supporting bridge. The prizes were distributed by Sri Mukul Goel & Kr Vijayanand Singh. The prize winners are as follows:

    1. Tarun Singhal & Umesh Kumar Singh (Greater Noida/Kanpur) - 237.53 Rs 25000/-
    2. BN Rastogi & Amitabh Tayal (Lucknow) - 233.77 Rs 18000/-
    3. Ajay Garg & TP Khare (Lucknow Golf Club) - 213.26 Rs 12000/-
    4. Girish Kumar & Sunil Sinha (Others) - 212.93 Rs 8000/-
    5. Mukul Goel & Ajay Agarwal (Noida/Bareilly) - 210.85 Rs 5000/-
    6. Vipin Rai & Manish Jaiswal (Lucknow) - 207.62 Rs 4000/-
    7. Naveen Kumar & Sanjeev Tomar (Muzaffarnagar/Johri) - 203.28 Rs 3000/-
    8. Subroto Bose & Gopal Chatterjee (Varanasi) - 202.19 Rs 2000/-
    9. SM Moin & Ashish Vishwakarma (Others) - 196.92 Rs 2000/-
    10. CP Agarwal & Pullak Garga (Meerut) - 196.48 Rs 2000/-


    Posted: 19/08/2026 6:10 AM

    Lucknow Golf Club Inter Club 2026

    Lucknow Golf Club Summer Meet Inter Club Championship took place at Symphony Hall, LGC on May 26, 2026. 17 pairs from various clubs of Lucknow took part in the event. The tournament saw pairs from Lucknow Club (9), Lucknow Golf Club (4), MB Club (2) & Oudh Gymkhana (2). It was 22 board IMP Pairs event. The prize winners are as follows:

    1. Prabhas Pande & AK Srivastava (Lucknow Club) 57.2
    2. AK Sinha & SQ Wajahat (Oudh Gymkhana) 50.6
    3. Amitabh Tayal & BN Rastogi (Oudh Gymkhana) 38.5


    Posted: 28/05/2026 7:35 AM

    54th UP State Bridge Championship at Meerut 2026

    54th UP State Bridge Championship & 12th Alexander Athletic Club Open Championship for Northern India took place at Alexander Athletic Club, Meerut from May 22 - 24, 2026. 24 teams including 9 UP teams took part in the Championship. The non UP teams were from Delhi, Punjab, Himachal, Uttarakhand & Rajasthan. The event was very well organised by Meerut Bridge Association under patronage from Alexander Club. The whole show was superbly managed by Sri CP Agarwal, Sri Pullak Garga and Sri Sanjay Jain. Sri Rakesh Goel was instrumental in excellent press coverage. This is the 5th time Meerut is holding UP State Championship with first being in 2015 & last time being in 2025. Sri P Narasinga Rao was CTD and singlehandedly managed the show. Sri TC Pant looked after technical work very efficiently. In a first move in UP State Championship Bridgemates were used for pair scoring.

    From 2012 the UP State Championship was made open to neighbouring states with a new trophy being instituted for best non UP team since 2018.

    Lala Sriram Agarwal Trophy for Best UP Team, Madhava Prasad Trophy for Swiss League Winner and Dr JS Kothiwal Trophy for Best Non UP Team in Duplicate Event & Nimita Agarwal Trophy for Overall Winner

    24 teams took part in the event and played 7 rounds of swiss league of 8 boards after which 6 teams qualified for Super League. Ace Royale - 93.43 topped the swiss league followed by Tricolor Titans - 93.31, Endeavour - 91.75 finished third, Jai Jawan Jai Kisan - 87.92 were fourth, Alexander Club - 87.81 were fifth and Gladiators - 83.01 were last team to qualify. After 5 rounds of super league of 10 boards each the final results are:

    1. Ace Royale (Deepak Kothiwal, Sanjay Amist, Amar Bose, Naveen Kumar, Sunil Kumar Sinha, SM Moin) - 78.46 UP State Champions & Winners of Lala Sriram Agarwal Trophy and Nimita Agarwal Trophy for being Overall Winners. Winners of Madhava Prasad Trophy for being Swiss League Toppers.
    2. Gladiators (Tarun Singhal, Anurag Pandey, Umesh Kumar Singh, Rakesh Chandra Sharma) - 61.92
    3. Alexander Club (CP Agarwal, Pullak Garga, Mukul Goel, Ajay Agarwal, Kr Vijayanand Singh, Pradeep Anand Singh) - 53.66
    4. Tricolor Titans (Dr Nikita Kamal, Amarjit, Col KK Sabharwal, Anukul Mandal) - 39.67 Winners of Dr JS Kothiwal Trophy for being Best Non UP Team
    5. Endevour (Raminder Gujral, Rohit Gupta, RK Garg, Shiv S Gupta) - 33.49
    6. Jai Jawan Jai Kisan (Vipin Kumar, Monu Kumar, Munesh Sharma, Lokesh Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar) - 32.80


    Ace Royale is a mixed team from Moradabad/Renukoot/Varanasi/Muzaffarnagar/Others to have become State Champions. The other winners are Prayagraj 26, Lucknow - 14, Moradabad 4, Varanasi 3, Kanpur 2, Nainital (undivided UP) 1, Singrauli 1, Aligarh 1, Johri, Baghpat - 1. Ever since state championship was made open to neighbouring states thrice teams from outside UP have come first.

    VC Agarwal Trophy for Duplicate Silver Event

    There was a Silver event for non qualifiers of Duplicate event. 18 teams took part in the event. They played swiss league of 6 rounds of 8 boards each. The results are as follows:

    1. Delhi Blues (DK Tewari, PC Gupta, Dr Tushar Moghe, Dr Vijay Gupta, Vijay Kumar) - 79.95
    2. Lucknow Blues (Shantanu Rastogi, Vipin Rai, Anuj Sharma, Wg Cdr GK Johri, SK Gautam, SK Jain) - 79.44
    3. RS Mishra (Shanker Chatterjee, Rakesh Bagga, BN Agarwal, Jitendra Pandey, Anil Bansal, Sunil Mishra) - 78.58
    4. Rajputana (Puneet Gangal, Rajendra Kumar, Dr SK Sharma, NK Sharma) - 72.37


    JK Lohia Trophy for Best UP Pair in IMP Pairs Event and BC Jain Trophy & Alexander Club Trophy for Overall Pair Winner

    56 pairs took part in the event. The event was played over two sessions on final day of 22 boards each with Scrambelled Mitchell movement. From 2018 the event is played as IMP pair event instead of Matchpoints. The results are as follows:


    1. Tarun Singhal & Anurag Pandey (Greater Noida/Others) - 84 Winners of JK Lohia Trophy for Best UP Pair and BC Jain Trophy & Alexander Club Trophy for being Overall Pair Winner
    2. PK Aggarwal & SS Bhullar (Punjab/Chandigarh)- 78
    3. Sunil Kumar Sinha & SM Moin (Others) - 78
    4. SK Agrawal & BN Agarwal (Lucknow/Prayagraj) - 76
    5. CP Agarwal & Pullak Garga (Meerut) - 75
    6. Rajesh Jain & Ambarish Wadera (Delhi) - 66

    Best Ladies Pair: Asha Sharma & Devi Bhatnagar


    VK Chaube Trophy for Player of the Year having Highest Masterpoint from UP in 2025

    1. Umesh Kumar Singh (Kanpur)
    2. Naveen Kumar (Muzaffarnagar)
    3. Rakesh Chandra Sharma (Kanpur)

    Posted: 25/05/2026 8:05 PM

    1st Dr RN Singhal Memorial at Lucknow 2026

    1st Dr RN Singhal Memorial Invitational Pairs Championship took place at Crystal Hall, MB Club, Lucknow from March 14 - 15, 2026. 16 pairs played 15 rounds of 4 boards each against each other pair. The IMP obtained were converted into VPs which were cummulated to determine the winner. The tournament was mainly for UP players. The tournament saw players from Aligarh (1), Muzaffarnagar (1), Moradabad (1), Prayagraj (2), Kanpur (3), Varanasi (4), Johri Village (2), Greater Noida (1), Renukoot (1), Others (4) apart from 12 players from host Lucknow including 5 MB Club members participating. The tournament is sponsored by Sri Tarun Singhal in memory of his father ,who was a fine rubber bridge player, and carried a prize money of Rs 67000/-. The tournament was scored by Sri Gajendra Singh. The director was Shantanu Rastogi. MB Club was co host of the tournament providing key facilities at nominal charges. We are grateful to MB Club for supporting bridge. The prizes were distributed by Smt. Nita Singhal. The prize winners are as follows:

    1. Shanker Chatterjee & Naveen Kumar (Prayagraj/Muzaffarnagar) - 183.54 Rs 20000/-
    2. HS Dua & Vikas Mohan Gupta (Kanpur) - 180.71 Rs 15000/-
    3. Sushil Agarwal & AK Sinha (Prayagraj/Lucknow) - 173.51 Rs 10000/-
    4. Amar Bose & Sunil Sinha (Varanasi/Others) - 171.43 Rs 8000/-
    5. Anup Kumar & Anand Srivastava (Others/Lucknow) - 164.05 Rs 5000/-
    6. Amitabh Tayal & BN Rastogi (Lucknow - MB Club) - 163.16 Rs 4000/-
    7. Kr Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh (Varanasi) - 160.79 Rs 3000/-
    8. SQ Wajahat & SK Garg (Lucknow - MB Club/Lucknow) - 156.33 Rs 2000/-


    Posted:16/03/2026 6:45 AM

    Sir Padampat Singhania Memorial at Kanpur 2026

    Sir Padampat Singhania Memorial Bridge Tournament took place at Cawnpore Club, Kanpur from February 20-22, 2026. 26 pairs took part in the event. They played 25 rounds of all play all 6 board matches with IMP converted into VP scoring. The result is as follows:

    1. AK Sinha & Kingshuk Bhattacharya 294.06 Winner of Sir Padampat Singhania Trophy
    2. Prosenjit Manna & Prasun Mukhopadhyay 286.92 Winner of Dr Gaur Hari Singhania Trophy
    3. Sumit Mukherjee & Monica Jajoo 285.80 Winner of Seth Ramkumar Newatia Trophy
    4. Rajendra Sirohia & Sukalyan Sarkar 277.77
    5. Raju Tolani & Swarnendu Banerjee 277.41
    6. Satyabrata Mukherjee & Pinaki Khan 271.68
    7. Pranab Roy & Joyrup Mullick 270.34
    8. Avijit Sarkar & Dr Mukund Jaganathan 270.04
    9. Hemant Jalan & Ashish Malhotra 266.03
    10. Soumadeep Ghosh & Arya Chakraborty 264.43
    11. Binod Shaw & Sanjit Dey 262.43
    12. Gopinath Manna & Pijus Kanti Baroi 258.70
    13. Sourendra Coomer Dutt & Swapan Some 257.60


    Posted:23/02/2026 6:35 PM

    Kr Murli Manohar Memorial at Bareilly 2026

    Kr Murli Manohar Memorial Bridge Tournament took place at Bareilly Club, Bareilly from February 12 - 15, 2026. The tournament is sponsored by Sri Ashok Goel & Sri Vijay Goel of Dhampur Sugar Mills in memory of their father. The tournament's format allowed everyone to play on all the 4 days and carried a prize money of Rs 12 lac with team event being a category 2 ranking point event. With the kind of prize money being offered the tournament couldnt attract competitive bridge playing fraternity with only 28 teams participating. An event of this stature should attract at least 40 teams as the tournaments in vicinity like UP state championship at Meerut in 2025 with fraction prize money attracted 26 teams and Ambassador Satnam Singh tournament at Dehradun also in 2025 had 29 teams taking part. Organizers had to change the format because of low participation and commitment of 16 teams qualifying. 16 qualifying teams out of 28 is bonanza for players but leaves little room for pairs event hence remaining 12 teams played in continuous Swiss of 3 rounds with token prizes to top 3. So those who couldnt win prizes have themselves to blame. In such a small gathering with star studed team of directors some incidents left bad taste even for prize winners. The ultimate being players being threatened as to see them in the next tournament, a glaring example of absolute highhandedness. For the other rulings the lesser said is better as one party will always be aggrieved and this happens regularly in most tournamnts in our country but is totally avoidable. If 16 teams are qualifying and playing with common boards in PQF how can any poll be taken from equal calibre players from remaining 12 teams though I am not certain if different sets were used for different tables which should be a must. This is something BFI & WBF must ponder on.

    Duplicate

    28 teams took part in the duplicate event who played 8 rounds of Swiss league of 10 boards.After swiss league 16 qualifiers played knock out PQF 10 x 3, QF 10 x 3, SF 10 x 3 and Final 12 x 4 to determine winner, play off for 3rd place was 12 x 3. The results are as follows:

    1. Sarlafibers (Himani Khandelwal, Rajeev Khandelwal, Sandeep Thakral, Subhash Gupta, Maneesh Bahuguna) - Swiss League Rank 16th
    2. AJDJ (Aditi Jhaveri, Jesal Dabriwala, Biswajit Poddar, Shambhu Nath Ghosh, Rana Roy, Ramkrishna Majumder) - Swiss League Rank 2nd
    3. Tricolor Titans (Dr Nikita Kamal, Amarjit, BN Rastogi, AK Sinha) - Swiss League Rank 14th
    4. Delhi Blues (DK Tewari, PC Gupta, Dr Tushar Moghe, SK Bandopadhyay, JB Sengupta, Dr HS Nanda) - Swiss League Rank 9th
    5/8. Monica Jajoo (Badal Das, Sukamal Das, Soham Sarkar, Binod Shaw, Sanjit Dey) - Swiss League Rank 6th
    5/8. Dhampur Sugar Mills (Ashok Goel, KR Venkatarman, Raju Tolani, Vinay Desai, Arun Bapat, Ajay Khare) - Swiss League Rank 1st
    5/8. EA Bridge (Debabrata Majumder, Samir Basak, Pranab Roy, Gopinath Manna, Joyrup Mullick) - Swiss League Rank 12th
    5/8. Mix N Match (Anu Jalan, Bhabesh Saha, Satyabrata Mukherjee, Indranath Chatterjee, Pijus Kanti Baroi) - Swiss League Rank 5th

    Losing PQF - YUJ (Swiss League Rank 3rd) , 114 (4th), Kosmos (7th), Juthika (8th), Assasins (10th), Mohmaya (11th), Ace Royale (13th), Tappu's Five (15th)

    Continuous Swiss

    12 teams played 3 rounds of Swiss League of 10 boards with carryover. The prize winners are as follows:

    1. Savvy Acers (RS Gujral, Rohit Gupta, CM Vasudev, Awadhesh Goyal, Subhshish Gope, Suchet Dhar) - 118.22
    2. KGOC Kangroo Ludhiana (Krishan Goyal, JS Bahel, PK Aggarwal, SS Bhullar, Sudhir Goyal) - 109.77
    3. Kawaljit Singh (Naveen Kumar, Monu Kumar Ranchhad, Amar Bose, Sanat Roy) - 104.22


    2. MP Pairs for Kr Ajay Kumar Goel Trophy

    52 pairs played matchpoint pairs elimination over 2 sessions. 24 pairs qualified for finals. The prize winners are as follows:

    1. Bhaskar Sarkar & Sukanta Das - 650.1
    2. Arun Bapat & Ajay Khare - 613.1
    3. Gajendra Vyas & Puneet Gangal - 611.5
    4. Pijus Kanti Baroi & Satyabrata Mukherjee - 600.6
    5. Badal Das & Sukamal Das - 590.9
    6. Krishna Das Chakraborty & Swetadri Saha - 583.1
    7. Ramprosad Das & Swapan Sardar - 569
    8. Wrik Chakraborty & Arya Chakraborty - 564


    IMP Pairs

    22 pairs played. The prize winners are as follows:

    1. Indranath Chatterjee & Soham Sarkar - 91
    2. Sanjay Amist & Deepak Kothiwal - 69
    3. Amar Bose & Sanat Roy - 56
    4. Raghunath Tripathi & Kalindi Mewar - 50
    5. Binod Shaw & Sanjit Dey - 38
    6. Rajendra Ray & Girish Kumar - 32


    Detailed Results are available at Bridgewebs page of Delhi Bridge Association


    Posted: 21/02/2026 9:30 PM

    PSN Sarma Memorial would take place at Catholic Club, Bengaluru from October 31 - November 1, 2026.

    Prime National Mixed and Women Event would take place at CCI, Mumbai from November 15 - 20, 2026.

    Inter Club Tournament would take place at Arera Club, Bhopal from November 20 - 22, 2026.

    Ashok Vaidya Memorial would take place at PYC Hindu Gymkhana, Pune from November 21 - 24, 2026.

    HCL Karnataka State Championship would take place at KSCA, Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru from November 27 - 29, 2026.

    CCI AILBA Ladies Pairs would take place at CCI, Mumbai from December 8 - 9, 2026.

    CCI West Zone Championship would take place at CCI, Mumbai from December 10 - 13, 2026.

    68th Ashok Ruia Memorial Winter Nationals would take place at Pasricha Lawns & Gardens, Jabalpur from December 17 - 27, 2026.

    FNCC Open would take place at FNCC, Hyderabad from January 2 - 4, 2027.

    Vijya Jajoo Mixed Pairs would take place at EA Mall, Chennai from January 19 - 20, 2027.

    EA Bridge National Women :Pairs would take place at EA Mall, Chennai from January 21 - 22, 2027.

    Willingdon Swiss Pairs would take place at Willingdon Sports Club, Mumbai from January 25 - 27, 2027.

    VBA Open would take place at Nagpur from February 4 - 7, 2027.

    Madras Gymkhana Club Open would take place at Madras Gymkhana, Chennai from February 17 - 21, 2027.

    Sir Padampat Singhania Memorial would take place at Cawnpore Club, Kanpur from February 26 - 28, 2027.

    Kr Murli Manohar Memorial would take place at Bareilly Club, Bareilly from March 4 - 7, 2027.



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    These pertain to times when I used to report a deal a week or longer time. If you like Law of total tricks there are some interesting deals. Some of the earlier deals were reported in the process of my evolvement as a bridge player.Some of deals are from ACBL NABCs & WBF tournaments. Also there are some interesting deals on bridge ethics that senior bridge players should have for youngsters. I discontinued this section as I was not finding enough interesting deals in Lucknow.

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