14th Steel Strips Group
All India Open Bridge Championship – 2026
Dates: 10th April to 12th April 2026
Venue: Mount View Hotel, Sector-10, Chandigarh
Organized by: Punjab Bridge Association (Under the Aegis of BFI)
Total Prize Money: ₹10 Lakhs
Maximum 32 teams will be accepted on a First-Come, First-Served basis.
If more than 22 teams participate, top 8 teams will qualify for Super League.
📞 Tournament Contacts
J.S. Bahl – +91 9814030390
Kuldeep Khanna – +91 9814041728
Durgesh Mishra – +91 8360538375
BROCHURE: CLICK HERE
Tournament Schedule
10 April 2026
- Registration & Lunch
- Inauguration
- Director’s Announcement
- 2 Rounds Swiss League (10 Boards each)
- 2 Rounds Swiss League
11 April 2026
- 3 Rounds Swiss League
- 2 Rounds Super League
- 1 Round Super League
- Pair Session-1 (20/22 Boards)
- Dinner
12 April 2026
- 2 Rounds Super League
- Pair Session-2 (20/22 Boards)
- Prize Distribution
TEAM EVENT – Total Prize Money ₹5,88,000/-
1st Prize – ₹1,10,000/-
2nd Prize – ₹90,000/-
3rd Prize – ₹70,000/-
4th Prize – ₹60,000/-
5th Prize – ₹50,000/-
6th Prize – ₹45,000/-
7th Prize – ₹40,000/-
8th Prize – ₹35,000/-
9th Prize – ₹28,000/-
10th Prize – ₹24,000/-
11th Prize – ₹20,000/-
12th Prize – ₹16,000/-
Special Prizes:
• Ladies Team Prize – ₹20,000/- (Minimum 3 teams required)
• Under-30 Team Prize – ₹20,000/- (Minimum 3 teams required)
PAIRS EVENTS – Total Prize Money ₹3,72,000/-
1st Prize – ₹55,000/-
2nd Prize – ₹50,000/-
3rd Prize – ₹45,000/-
4th Prize – ₹36,000/-
5th Prize – ₹30,000/-
6th Prize – ₹25,000/-
7th Prize – ₹22,000/-
8th Prize – ₹20,000/-
9th Prize – ₹18,000/-
10th Prize – ₹16,000/-
11th Prize – ₹14,000/-
12th Prize – ₹12,000/-
13th Prize – ₹11,000/-
14th Prize – ₹10,000/-
15th Prize – ₹8,000/-
PAIRS RESULTS:
Steel Strips Tournament – Three Session
Date: April 12, 2026
Event Leaders
- 1080.26 (C) – Wrik Chakraborty & Sambhu Nath Sarkar
- 1078.53 (A) – Ashis Pan & Naveen Kumar
- 1052.22 (A) – Sujit Bhatacharj & S K Bandopadya
- 1031.44 (A) – Vijayanand Singh & Pradeep Singh
- 1011.66 (A) – Namit Sharma & Rajesh Jain
- 1005.94 (A) – Swapan Some & Sourendra Dutta
- 1005.66 (B) – Majumdar Ramkrishna & Souvik Saha
- 1004.44 (A) – Bindiya Judge & Aloke Sadhu
- 1002.57 (A) – Tanmoy Majumder & Rana Jolly
- 999.94 (A) – Rajendra Kumar & Puneet Gangal
- 994.48 (A) – Satyabrata Lahir & Ajit Saldana
- 988.38 (C) – Prakash Paranjape & Deepak Khemani
- 983.94 (A) – Girish Kumar & Sunilkumar Sinha
- 983.34 (C) – Mrinal Mukherjee & Ashim Guha
- 981.00 (A) – Hatinder Panwar & A Sen
- 980.88 (B) – Kushari Sayantan & Kaustubh Bendre
- 973.50 (A) – Anil Bharihoke & R.K. Garg
- 970.35 (A) – Majumdar Debabrata & Gopinath Manna
- 970.06 (B) – Bhaskar Sarkar & Daisy Singh
- 961.97 (C) – Sukanta Das & Gajendra Vyas
- 961.69 (A) – S M Moin & Ekta Chadha
- 960.40 (B) – Rana Roy & Kamal Mukherjee
- 954.87 (C) – Prasun Kr Mukhopadhyay & Prosenjit Manna
- 954.79 (C) – Biswadip Roy & Bijan Kumar Banerjee
- 952.91 (C) – N K Sharma & S K Sharma
- 952.84 (A) – Monu Kumar & B Bawa
- 950.93 (C) – M P S Chauhan & Ravi Kaul
- 949.42 (B) – Preeti S & Brig Harinder S
- 948.23 (C) – Sarika Mitta & Rajendra Sirohia
- 944.01 (C) – Kavita Dhawan & Bhavna Naraindas
- 942.90 (B) – Sandeep Narang & Saurav Sil
- 939.77 (B) – Kalpana V & Paramjit D
- 928.75 (C) – Ramprasad Das & Swapan Sardar
- 928.21 (B) – Nikita Dr Kamal & Amarjit Wadhawan
- 923.71 (C) – Rakesh Sharma & P K Nayyar
- 923.22 (C) – Kamna Sharma & Abhijit Pal
- 920.01 (B) – Bhattacharya Sarbeshwar & Soumitra Das
- 916.13 (B) – Rajib Roy & Sudipta Adhikary
- 895.70 (A) – V M Lal & A Sarkar
- 894.77 (A) – Govinder Singh & S S Bhullar
- 894.36 (A) – Souvik Kar & Pradip Dey
- 893.38 (A) – Arvind Gupta & Prithvi Raj
- 892.44 (A) – Jagannath Pratihari & P K Mishra
- 889.87 (B) – Ashok Sinha & Priyanka Gulati
- 886.53 (A) – C P Aggarwal & Pullak Garga
- 884.43 (A) – J S Bahl & P K Agarwal
- 883.36 (B) – T C Pant & Daleep Mutreja
- 881.86 (C) – Tamadas Gupta & P Majumdar
- 875.29 (B) – B S Gupta & R Nanda
- 871.35 (B) – Raj Srivastava & Shiv Hare
- 855.26 (B) – Lt Gen C B Vijan & Col S K Sharma
- 852.93 (B) – S K Sadana & R N Mehta
- 845.69 (A) – Paban Agarwal & Kalindi Mewar
- 845.54 (C) – Sant Sharma & R Lyall
- 842.53 (C) – Rohit Gupta & Raminder Gujral
- 841.66 (B) – Devi Bhatnagar & Alka Jain
- 839.92 (C) – S K Desal & Vijay Singh
- 839.48 (B) – Rita Bhagwati & C M Vasudevan
- 839.08 (A) – Rajesh & Ashwani
- 835.99 (A) – Dr Harbans Singh & Balwant Singh
- 832.58 (C) – Anju B & Naveen Chadha
- 830.99 (B) – Sanjiv Tomar & Sudhir Kumar
- 830.77 (C) – Vandana Khuslani & Sandeep Abbey
- 827.98 (C) – Atanu Ganguli & Suren Mewar
- 823.61 (B) – Vinay Mehta & Tayal
- 819.70 (B) – Naresh Jain & R M Aggarwal
- 816.43 (A) – Amit Nagpal & Subhasish Gope
- 806.85 (C) – Dheeraj Kumar & Yogendra Deva
- 805.76 (B) – Vikro H D & Sharma Sunil
- 804.08 (C) – Ajesh Kumar & Naveen Sharma
- 803.98 (B) – Amar Wadhwa & D Bhatnagar
- 800.31 (C) – Rinku Singh & Bina Malhotra
- 796.72 (B) – Bidyut Thakur & Lalit M
- 791.90 (C) – Vijaykumar & P C Gupta
- 789.26 (B) – Durgesh Mishra & Anil Kaushik
- 788.65 (B) – Dr Gurucharan & M K Malhotra
- 787.89 (C) – Neeraj Jain & Nirmal M
- 778.62 (C) – Rajeev Arora & Arun Khaitan
- 774.45 (B) – Atulya Sood & Dinesh Sood
- 769.04 (A) – Devendra Kumar & R K Gupta
- 766.30 (A) – S K Aggarwal & Rashida
- 760.10 (B) – Lalit M & Dheeraj Sood
- 757.85 (C) – Madhu Sharma & R P Tripathi
- 756.40 (A) – Moiyana Chauhan & Ranjan Bhattacharya
- 752.33 (C) – Jai Kishan & Ashok
- 723.62 (B) – Chander Negi & B S Bhatia
- 720.39 (C) – B S Nayyar & C Prakash
- 718.86 (C) – Nirmal B & Sajan Chauhan
- 717.91 (C) – B Pandey & Dinesh Kumar
- 715.40 (A) – Y P Punj & B L Anand
- 712.52 (C) – Hemant K & Rohit Tandan
- 691.48 (A) – K R Lakhanpal & Anil Sood
- 684.68 (A) – Tarun Bakshi & Anuradha Bakshi
- 630.19 (B) – Dharmender Kumar & Vinod Kumar
- 629.20 (B) – P P Sawhney & Hardip Singh
- 608.43 (B) – Sudhir Goel & S K Bhandari