4th HCL BRIDGE TOURNAMENT 12th to 15th August 2006 |
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| The 4th All India HCL Bridge Tournament with total prize money of approximately 9.7 lacs was held at Hotel Radisson, NOIDA from 12th to 15th August 2006 under the auspices of Contract Bridge Association. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total 62 Teams & 144 Pairs comprising players from all over India along with the DATA STEEL team from Karachi, Pakistan, participated in the Team of Four & Open Pairs tournament,. Formidables, Tolani Shipping, Dhampur Sugar Mills, SHREE RADHEY, J.P. Goenka, Alok Daga, MONOTONA and Manyavar were some of the top participating teams. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team of Four Event for “Naresh Tandan Trophy”: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dhampur Sugar Mills Team (Ashok Goel, Kamal Mukherjee, Kamal Roy, Debashish Roy, Sandeep Thakral & R. Venkatesh) with 190 VPs, topped the 10 round - Round-Robin stage. SHREE RADHEY (V.M. Lal, P. Bafana, Ashok Vaidya & Raju Bhiwandkar) with 187 VPs were second. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The quarter finalists were: DHAMPUR SUGAR MILLS (190 VPs), SHREE RADHEY (187), MANAS SAHA’S IV (185), MAHESHWARI, ALLAHABAD (182), J.P. GOENKA (176), PANKAJ MEHTA (172), NEST INN (170.7) & MAHARAJA (170). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quarterfinal Stage: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the 3*12 boards Quarter Finals Dhampur Sugar Mills beat Maharaja team (S. Lahiri, Amal Kundu, Kalyan Choudhury, Suman Sengupta, Mrinal Mukherjee & Samir Pal) by 105-56 (C/O: 12-0, 57-12, 24-27, 12-17); Shree Radhey beat Pankaj Mehta’s team (Pankaj Mehta, Punit Gangal, A.B. Chakravarty, Bhavesh Saha, Pradeep Anand Singh & S. Bandopadhyay) by 120-83 (C/O: 0-5, 80-8, 17-37, 23-33); Manas Saha’s IV beat Nest Inn (N.R. Kripakara Murthy, B. Prabhakar, R. Krishnan, P. Sridhar, J.M. Shah & Uttam Gupta) by 92-77 (33-23, 19-20, 40-34) and J.P. GOENKA beat MAHESHWARI (I.K. Agarwal, B.N. Rastogi, Sushil Agarwal, V.K. Agarwal, B.K. Agarwal, A.K. Sinha) by 74-58 (C/O: 3-0, 31-18, 7-27, 33-13). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Semi-final Stage: (3*14 Boards) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the first semi-final, J.P. Goenka beat Dhampur Sugar Mills (Ashok Goel, Kamal Mukherjee,Kamal Roy, Debashish Roy, Sandeep Thakral & R. Venkatesh) by 144-87 (48-55, 42-19, 54-13). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the second semi-final, Manas Saha’s IV beat Shree Radhey (V.M. Lal, R.G. Bhiwandkar, P. R. Bafna, Ashok Vaidya) by 124-69 (28-35, 35-24, 61-10). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team of Four Final: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the 4*16 boards final, J.P. GOENKA (J.P. Goenka, Pritish Kushari, Alok Sadhu, Badal Das, Shib Nath Dey Sarkar & Sumit Mukherjee) beat MANAS SAHA’s IV (Manas Saha, Snehashish Roy, Debabrata Majumder, Santanu Chowdhury, Pranab Roy, Kaustabh Nandi) by 150 - 109 (39-34, 61-37, 20-29, 30-9) to won the “Naresh Tandan Trophy” and the first prize of Rs. 2.5 Lacs. The loser got Rs. 1.2 Lacs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| J.P. Goenka’s team was leading by a solitary 5 IMPs margin in the first set but in the second set, they consolidated their position with another 24 IMPs to lead by 29 IMPs at half-way stage. Manas Saha’s team was able to recover back 9 Imps in the 3rd set and the match was well poised for the final set with Goenka’s team leading with 20 IMPs. However, there was no more hiccups and the strong Goenka team added a further 21 IMPs to won the match by 41 IMPs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| OPEN PAIRS Event for “Neena Bonerjee Trophy” | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 144 pairs participated in the Open Pairs event. These pairs went through two grueling eliminations rounds and the 32 finalists played an all-play-all 62 boards final. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The winners of the Pairs event were: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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