21st HCL International Bridge Championship at Delhi 202421st HCL International Bridge Championship took place at The Leela Ambience Convention Hotel, Delhi from September 14 - 22, 2024. The tournament carried a prize money purse of Rs 2.7 Cr ($325,000). The flagship duplicate event was played in Gold & Silver categories with Gold being a World Bridge Tour event attracting 51 teams (down 1 from 52 in 2023) & Silver 92 teams (down 1 from 93 in 2023). More than 800 players participated in the championship. This year a mixed pair event was added as a special event. The international players were from countries like Australia, Italy, Norway, USA, Bangladesh, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, UAE. The summarised results are as follows:
HCL Gold for Naresh Tandan Trophy, Day 3-8, 51 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.
1. WHAM (Sartaj Hans, Andy Hung, Matthew Brown, Michael Whibley) Prize Rs 44 Lac
2. Shourie (Rajath Shourie, Gavin Wolpert, John Kranyak, Vincent Demuy, Kevin Bathurst, John Hurd) Prize Rs 24 Lac
3. WBT Bridge App (Boye Brogeland, Christian Bakke, Thomas Charlsen, Martin Andresen) Prize Rs 12 Lac
4. Vedic (Krishna Kumar Malani, Craig Gower, Rana Roy, Bhabesh Saha, Abhijit Chakraborty, Prasun Kumar Mukherjee) Prize Rs 9 Lac
QF Losers: Mavericks, Texan Aces, Indian Chain, Pro3Max
PQF Losers: Dhampur Sugar Mills, Bianchi, Acemates, Hemant Jalan, Monica Jajoo, Shree Cement, Formidables, Bangur Cement
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.
1. RSCS (Chandan Choudhury, Sanjay Raha, Ramprosad Das, Subrata Chakraborty) Prize Rs 16 Lac
2. Jackalls (DP Acharya, Shubham Acharya, Mukesh Ghatiya, Mridul Das, Hemanta Kumar Sarmah, Subhrajit Mukhopadhyay) Prize Rs 9.2 Lac
3. Sahyadri (Nitin Shirole, Sampath Srinivasan, Dilip Karmarkar, Shrikant Bendre, Ajoy Sonak, N Rajmohan) Prize Rs 4.8 Lac
4. Sabass (Arun Kanti Chatterjee, Sukalyan Sarkar, Smita Govilkar, Soumitra Chakraborty, Asim Saha, Biswajit Mahata) Prize Rs 3.6 Lac
QF Losers: Andromeda, Dazzle, Chefs Table, Setu
PQF Losers: Team Kabra, Dehradun, Shib Shakti, Dilip Atha B, Adventurers, Borivali Sports Club, Team Vibrant, Invincibles
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
277 Pairs played first elimination on day 5, 144 Pairs played in second elimination on day 6, 72 Pairs played in third elimination on day 7 and final on day 8 was of 28 (26 + 2 sponsored) pairs
1. S Sunderram & P Sridhar Prize 12.8 Lac
2. Binod Shaw & Sanjit Dey Prize 8.4 Lac
3. Marianne Karmarkar & Sandeep Karmarkar Prize 6.4 Lac
4. Rajeshwar Tewari & Sumit Mukherjee Prize 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 on day 8.
1. Jody Tutty & David Beauchamp Prize 2 Lac
2. Pijus Kanti Baroi & Satyabrata Mukherjee Prize 1.5 Lac
3. Keyzad Anklesaria & Harald Eide Prize 1.2 Lac
4. Tanmoy Majumder & Sagar Bhuia Prize 0.8 Lac
IMP Pairs, Day 7-8, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 7.25 Lac
254 Pairs played in the elimination on day 7. Final on Day 8 was of 130 pairs.
1. TV Ramani & Subhash Bhavnani Prize 2 Lac
2. Gautam Pore & Suman Banerjee Prize 1.5 Lac
3. Jaydeep Bhattacharjee & Nantu Bhattacharjee Prize 1.2 Lac
4. Ajay Kumar Bagadia & Ravi Goenka Prize 0.8 Lac
MP Strata II Pairs, Day 6, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.51 Lac
153 Pairs played.
1. Rajendra Ray & Sanat Roy Prize 0.8 Lac
2. Avijit Sarkar & Pritam Das Prize 0.5 Lac
3. Babrubahan Bose & Pradip Dey Prize 0.36 Lac
4. Prabir Das & Biplab Dawn Prize 0.24 Lac
IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 8, 10 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 2.51 Lac
120 Pairs played.
1. Dibyendu Shee & Debasish Bhadra Prize 0.8 Lac
2. Kishor Kumar Ganguly & Priyotosh Sarkar Prize 0.5 Lac
3. Rajesh Jain & Ramesh Patodia Prize 0.36 Lac
4. Suvankar Basu & Sudip Pandit Prize 0.24 Lac
HCL ProAm IMP Pairs, Day 9, 12 Prizes, Total Prize Money: Rs 20 Lac
24 Pairs played.
1. Arun Bapat & Sanjit Dey Prize 6 Lac
2. Sailja Tahiliani & Christian Bakke Prize 4 Lac
3. Amit Dabriwala & Keyzad Anklesaria Prize 3 Lac
4. Dr Mukund Jagannathan & Thomas Charlsen Prize 1.8 Lac
Mixed IMP Pairs Gold for NK Gupta Trophy, Day 1-2
102 Pairs played elimination on day 1. 26 Pairs played Gold Final.
1. Gopika Tandon & Arun Jain
2. Alka Kshirsagar & Joyrup Mullick
3. Marianne Karmarkar & Sandeep Karmarkar
4. Himani Khandelwal & Rajeev Khandelwal
Mixed IMP Pairs Silver, Day 2
24 Pairs played finishing 27-50 in elimination played Silver Final.
1. Bindiya Kohli & TV Ramani
2. Dagmar Neuman & Maurits Van der Vlugt
3. Elvan Edis & Timur Edis
4. Monica Jajoo & Sumit Mukherjee
Mixed IMP Pairs Strata II, Day 2
43 Pairs played.
1. Aditi Sahastrabuddhe & Hemant Purkar
2. Dr Nikita Kamal & Amarjit
3. Kamna Sharma & Pijus Kanti Baroi
4. Reena Pal & Swapan Some
The detailed results including hand records are available at http://www.hcl-bridge.com
Courtesy: http://www.hcl-bridge.com
Posted:23/09/2024 12:45 PM
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