2nd HCL BRIDGE TOURNAMENT 12th to 15th August 2004 |
| The 2nd All India HCL Bridge Tournament was held at Hotel Claridges, New Delhi from 12th to 15th August 2004. |
| Total 46 Teams & 127 Pairs participated in the Team of Four & Open Pairs tournament, comprising players from all over India. Agsar Paints, Formidables, WELLKNIT, Tolani Shipping, DSM & MONOTONA were some of the top participating teams. |
| Team of Four Event: |
| DHAMPUR SUGAR MILLS Team with 195 VPs, topped the 10 rounds Round-Robin stage. Agsar Paints with 193 VPs were second. |
| The quarter finalists were: Dhampur Sugar Mills(195 VPs), Agsar Paints (193), WELLKNIT (192), Formidables (176) , Pankaj Kapadia’s IV (174), MONOTONA (171), Lucknow Blue (171),GUPTA’s Bangalore (166). |
| In the 4*14 boards Quarter Finals Dhampur Sugar Mills beat GUPTA’s Bangalore 114-73 (20-38, 27-23, 67-12); Agsar Paints beat Lucknow Blues 135-84 (27-24, 48-46, 60-14); WELLKNIT beat Pankaj Kapadia’s IV 98-89 (42-33, 24-31, 32-25) and Formidables beat Monotona by 127-68 (51-18, 29-12, 47-38). |
| In the first of the 3*16 boards semi-final, WELLKNIT beat Dhampur Sugar Mills by 85-71 IMPs (c/o 3-0,16-17, 21-41, 45-13) and Agsar Paints beat Formidables by 121.5- 113 IMPs (c/o 13.5-0,41-29, 33-39, 34-45). |
| In the 4*16 boards final, WELLKNIT (R. Krishnan, A.S. Vishwanathan, Krishna Kumar, R. Venkatesh & J.M. Shah), beat AGSAR PAINTS (N.R. Kirubakara Murthy, B. Prabhakar, P. Sridhar, Anil Padhye & S. Sunderram) by 142 - 81 (C/O: 0-3, 30-29, 38-7, 27-23, 47-19). |
| The winners of the Pairs event were: |
| 1. Subhash Gupta-Rajeshwar Tewari 561.00 2. R.A. Agrawal - Goutam Biswas 537.00 3. Badal Das - Sumit Mukherjee 534.00 4. P.C. Gupta - D.K. Tewari 525.50 |