BPCL is hosting 31st PSPB Inter Unit Chess Tournament and 41st PSPB Inter Unit Bridge Tournament from 7th – 11th March 2022 at Mumbai
Participating Oil Organisations – AOD (IOCL), BPCL, EIL, GAIL, HPCL, OIL, ONGC, NRL
Total Players participated – 132 ( 74 Bridge, 58 Chess)
Grandmasters (Chess) – 16
International Bridge Player – 1
Chief Guest for award ceremony – Mr. Biju Gopinath, Head New Businesses, BPCL
PSPB Representative for award ceremony – Mr. Gautam Vadehra, Joint Secretary, PSPB
Chief Guest for inauguration ceremony – Mr Manoj Heda, ED(Corporate Finance, BPCL) and Mr. Syed Abbas Akhtar, CGM Brand & PR, BPCL
PSPB Representative for inauguration ceremony – Mr. Lalit Watts, Advisor- PSPB
Host – BPCL ( Anchored by Joseph Anthony Kujur, Chief Manager Corporate HRS, BPCL)
Bridge Event Prizes
Category | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
Board- A- Match | ONGC – C
Namit Sharma Alok Kumar S C Sarkar Mrityunjay Kumar Sanjeev Agarwal P K Pramanick |
ONGC – B | HPCL | |
Open Pair | Namit Sharma and Alok Kumar – ONGC | M. Dey and S C Sarkar – ONGC | Sandeep Karmarkar and Atul Jayawant – HPCL | |
Team of four duplicate | IOC – A
Sujit Das Piyush J Adak Biswajit Mahata Subhash Mahata Smita Govilkar Surbhi Lele Mayur Kadrekar |
ONGC | HPCL | IOC-B |
Best Pair of the tournament | Namit Sharma and Alok Kumar – ONGC |
Chess Event Prizes
Category
( Board Prizes) |
Rank 1 | Rank 2 |
Board 1 | GM Abhijeet Gupta – BPCL | IM Nisha Mohota OIL-A |
Board 2 | GM Koneru Humpy – ONGC A | GM Adhiban B – IOCL A |
Board 3 | GM Deep Sengupta – ONGC A | GM G N Gopal – BPCL |
Board 4 | GM Sethuraman S P ONGC A | GM Vaibhav Suri- BPCL |
Board 5 | GM Neelotpal Das ONGC A | IM Devaki Prasad V – IOCL B |
Category
|
Winner | Runner Up |
Unrated Individual | Batham Sumit Kumar – ONGC | Gope Biplob – NRL |
Unrated Team | HPCL – B
D N V Kumar Ashish Gupta Muktansh Chaturvedi Narayanan R Shubham Nayak |
OIL – B
Jadon Vishal Singh Gogoi Keshab Anand Amitesh Pal Sandeepan Dipan Paul Pranab Jyoti Das |
Category
|
Winner | Runner Up |
Individual | GM Abhijeet Gupta – BPCL | GM Lalit Babu MR – IOCL |
Category
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Winner | 2nd | 3rd |
Team | ONGC – A
GM Sasikaran Krishnan GM KOneru Humpy GM Deep Sengupta GM Sethuraman S P GM Neelotpal Das Kongevel (Manager) |
BPCL
GM Abhijeet Gupta GM M R Venkatesh GM G N Gopal GM Vaibhav Suri |
IOCL –A
GM Mitrabha Guha GM Adhiban B GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly GM Mulali Karthikeyan GM M R Lalit Babu GM Abhijeet Kunte ( MANAGER) |
Category
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Winner |
Player of the Chess Tournament | GM Koneru Humpy – ONGC |