HCL Bridge Tournament The HCL Bridge Tournament was established by Mrs. Kiran Nadar, one of the top Indian players of competitive bridge - to promote the sport in India . The Tournament offers Rs 12.5 lacs(~$30,000) as prize money to winners to encourage players. Mrs. Kiran Nadar is Member of the “FORMIDABLES” team, which has not only won many laurels at the National level but has represented India several times in international competitive bridge events. Mrs. Kiran Nadar is married to Mr. Shiv Nadar who is the Founder of HCL, India ’s leading Global Technology and IT Enterprise - which is the sponsor for this prestigious event. This annual tournament consists of the “Team of Four” as well as “Open Pairs” event. The “Team of Four” Trophy of the tournament has been instituted in the name of Late Shri Naresh Tandan (Mrs. Kiran Nadar's Father), whereas the “Open Pair” Trophy of the tournament is instituted in the name of Late Mrs. Neena Bonerjee by Nisha, daughter of the late Mrs. Neena Bonerjee. Mrs. Neena Bonerjee and Mrs. Kiran Nadar were bridge partners for a long time.

Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships will be held in New Delhi from October 24th to October 29th

THE INAUGURAL HCL BRIDGE TOURNAMENT 18th to 21st Dec 2003 35 teams comprising players from all over India participated in the first HCL Tournament held at Hotel Claridges, New Delhi from 18th to 21st Dec 2003. Formidables, Agsar Paints, Well Knit, Tolani Shipping, DSM & MONOTONA were some of the top teams who participated in the tournament. Team of Four Event: AZURE Team (Surender Hooda, Mrs. Rita Chokshi, Badal Das, Pranab Bardhan, Sumit Mukherjee & Shibnath Dey Sarkar) and Tolani Shipping (R.A. Agarwal, R. Bhiwandkar, Arvind Vaidya & Dr. J. Mukund) with 183 VPs, topped the 10 rounds Round-Robin stage to finalize the quarter-finalists. The quarter finalists were : AZURE (183 VPs), Tolani Shipping(183), Formidables (182), Agsar Paints (175), Phoenix (175), Calcutta Bridge Club(173) , WELLKNIT (170), MAYA-MIRA (165) In the 4*14 boards Quarter Finals AZURE beat MAYA-MIRA 134-32 (69-12, 65-20, third set conceded); CALCUTTA BRIDGE CLUB beat Tolani Shipping 119-83 (C/0 0-10, 41-28, 32-36, 46-9); Formidables beat Phoenix 114-79 (19-36, 54-18, 41-25) and in a very tough tussle between both Chennai teams WELLKNIT beat Agsar Paints by 77-71 (43-32, 9-20, 25-19). In the first of the 3*16 boards semi-final, WELLKNIT (C.R. Badrinath, R. Krishnan, J.M. Shah, P. Sridhar, Sundarram, R. Venkatesh) beat AZURE (Surender Hooda, Mrs. Rita Chokshi, Badal Das, Pranab Bardhan, Sumit Mukherjee & Shibnath Dey Sarkar) by 125 – 96 IMPs ( 55-21, 25-23, 45-52 ). In the second semi-final, CALCUTTA BRIDGE CLUB (B. Todi, Kamal Roy, S. Lahiri, Alok Sadhu, A.B. Chakravarty, B. Saha) beat Formidables (Mrs. Kiran Nadar, B. Satyanarayana, Subhash Gupt, Rajeshwar Tewari, Sunit Chokshi & K.R. Venkatraman) by 107- 100 IMPs (47-31, 31-29, 29-40). In the 4*16 boards final CALCUTTA BRIDGE CLUB finally prevailed over WELLKNIT by 1 IMP in a ding-dong battle which went right up to the last session. The final score was 147-146(32-44, 37-20, 37-50, 41-32). To know more please visit Archive Pages