3rd HCL BRIDGE TOURNAMENT 12th to 15th August 2005 |
| The 3rd All India HCL Bridge Tournament was held at Hotel Radisson, NOIDA from 12th to 15th August 2005. |
| Total 70 Teams & 176 Pairs comprising of players from all over India along with 3 teams from Pakistan participated in the tournament. Agsar Paints, Formidables, Well Knit, Tolani Shipping, DSM, RADHEY, J.P. Goenka, Alok Daga, Dipak Poddar and PAK I were some of the top teams participating. |
| Team of Four Event: |
| J.P. GOENKA’s Team with 194 VPs, topped the 10 rounds Round-Robin stage. Ratanlal Kejriwal M.C. with 185 VPs were second. |
| The quarter finalists were: J.P. Goenka (194 VPs), Ratanlal Kejriwal M.C. (185), PUSHPAK (184), Dhampur Sugar Mills (182), Manas Saha’s IV (179), Pankaj Mehta (174), PAK I (173) & PALOOKAS (170) . |
| In the 4*14 boards Quarter Finals Dhampur Sugar Mills beat Manas Saha’s IV 180-56 (35-15, 80-26, 65-15); PAK 1 beat PUSHPAK 100-74 (37-10, 41-20, 22-44); J.P. Goenka beat PALOOKAS 133-80 (51-25, 32-34, 50-21) Ratanlal Kejriwal Memorial Club beat Pankaj Mehta 126-83 (29-43, 60-30,37-10). |
| In the 3*16 boards semi-finals, J.P. Goenka beat Dhampur Sugar Mills by 107-101 (37-29, 35-25, 35-47) and PAK I beat Ratanlal Kejriwal M.C. by 108-69 (c/o 3-0,54-22, 41-24, 10-23). |
| J.P. Goenka’s Team (J.P. Goenka, Pritish Kushari, Alok Sadhu, Badal Das, Shib Nath Dey Sarkar & Sumit Mukherjee) beat the PAK I team (Tahir Masood, Sarfaraz Khan, Munir Ataullah, Khurshid Hadi & Abdul Rehman Allana) by 79 IMPs in the 4*16 boards Team of Four Finals. The score was 171-92 (34-27, 37-14, 67-13, 33-38). |
| The winners of the Pairs event were: |
| 1. J. Biswas – T.K. Roy 523.57 2. Rajesh Dalal – Anil P. Padhye 520.50 3. R.A. Aggarwal – Ajit Chakradeo 520.33 4. Sunit Chokshi – K.R. Venkatraman 516.74 |