Central Yarnton Bridge Club

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Tournaments are now Face to Face in the hall on Tuesdays starting at 10am and Thursdays on RealBridge Online starting at 9:45am.

Come and join us!

We are also running 12-board supported game in the hall every Tuesday starting at 10:00am

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Central Yarnton Bridge Club Developments

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Central Yarnton Bridge Club Application Form

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Our Handling of Your Personal Data

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At Central Yarnton Bridge Club, we are careful about how we handle your data. We have therefore updated our Privacy Policy in line with the latest regulations.

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Welcome to Central Yarnton Bridge Club

Thursday Morning Online Game

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We play an online Duplicate Game every Thursday morning.

Come and join us

Start time: 9.45am. Finish Time: 12.15pm

Boards played. 20

Cost £3.50

How to pay: We will invoice you by email at the end of each month.

How to get the link. Click on the Real Bridge Link in the index and then click on the Player link.

This will take you straight there.

Once there:

Log in (best 10-15 minutes before) under your own name..

The ID number is your EBU number but this is not essential

You will appear in the lobby (you will see your name at the bottom on the right)

Please click on a seat at one of the tables (first check to see if your partner is already seated)

If you don't have a partner you can probably still play. When you get to the lobby use Chat to let the Director know you are looking for a partner.

The Director may be able to help.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Helen Hannay and Claire Johnson.
They came home with the Sandra Landy Trophy having won the OBA Friendly Pairs competition at the annual OBA congress held in Abingdon school on Sunday August 17th.

The Annual Christmas Party

A morning of fun and laughter was had by all at our Christmas Party. Our director, John Rowe had lined up some silly hands for us to play which confused nearly all of us! I don't know how they did it, but Paul and Julie came up trumps and won the tournament. They each went home with a bottle of wine and very well desrved it was! There were no prizes for the Christmas hats but if there were then it would had to have been awarded to Judy (she made her own hat) and Andrea who spent the morning with a reindeer on her head. The director got into the swing of it all and was Christmas from head to toe as you can see above where he is standing with some lucky winners of a random prize.

The memorial crystal bowl was presented to Maggie and Mo jointly. They work tirelessly in the background sending out emails to invite people to our Tuesday morning game and then each week make the coffees, and teas as well as monitoring the supplies to check we don't run out of anything. We really don't know how we could mangae without them. A big thank you to you both from all of us at Central Yarnton

Didn't they do well!!

Congratulations to our members who did so well in the ECATS simultaneous pairs raising money for Children in Need on November 5th 2023. They were competing against over 1,300 pairs across the country, Bharat and Rita managed to come 11th and Nieell and Stevie came 48th. Well done to them and thanks to all of you who took part and helped to raise money for such a good cause.

Happy Birthday

It was a big birthday for our director John. He spent the morning directing our face to face game where all the club members joined in singing him a Happy Birthday. A quieter celebration followed when he was taken out for a Birthday lunch with the club chair and secretary. We all appreciate everything that John does for the club, he is an excellent director and offers lots of support to our club members playing on the 12 board table.

Arthur gets the Crystal Bowl 2023

Every year we at CYBC award the Crystal Bowl to one of our members. This year we decided to award it to Arthur Harold.

This year he has not only organised our first charity Bridge Drive, he has also made significant strides towards setting up a Junior Bridge Club in a local school. We all wish him every success with this new venture.

CYBC's First Bridge Drive

Charity Bridge Drive March 18th 2023

We all enjoyed a fun day at our first charity Bridge Drive. We raised money for ROSY which is a small local charity that provides respite care for parents of sick children. A cheque for £700 was handed over to a representative from ROSY. The food was great, and we welcomed players in from clubs around Oxfordshire.

The only person who didn’t have such a good day was the director John Rowe as all the software crashed and he ended up having to input all the scores manually.

Beginners and Central

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Our Club meets twice a week, in the Village Hall on Tuesday morning and an online game on a Thursday morning. We are a very inclusive Club and on our Tuesday game we try to accommodate players of differing levels. We do this by running 3 separate events simultaneously. They are a game playing 18 boards for our long standing members and improving players, a more gentle session for players fairly new to the game or players who want to play at a more gentle pace (playing 12 boards) and then a table for beginners where they sit with a more experienced player and practice bidding and play. Beginners and players in the gentle session are supported by the tournament director and other more experienced players and can ask questions at any time.

As we do not have a resident teacher, what we recommend is that absolute beginners go on a weekend course where they can learn the basic elements of the game. Many of the larger Clubs will run a beginners course, the one we recommend is the one run by Cheltenham Bridge Club (you can find out details by visiting their website). After that we can accommodate beginners on our Tuesday session. We have recently linked with Basingstoke Bridge Club and they have been offering an online teaching course for our club. We have just completed a Year One course and are looking to see what we can offer for next term.

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Wessex League Success

Congratulations to Nigel and his partner Gillian Lonsdale on their success at winning the Wessex League Daytime League, Division 1 for the third year running.

At CYBC, Nigel advises on those tricky bidding problems and helps the people playing 12 boards with both their bidding and play.

CENTRAL YARNTON BRIDGE CLUB LATEST NEWS

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Welcome to Central Yarnton Bridge Club

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Central Yarnton Bridge Club

Let's Play Bridge

Central Yarnton Bridge Club (CYBC), near Oxford, is a sociable Bridge Club that aims to facilitate relaxed and friendly bridge sessions for people of varying ability. The Club welcomes new members and provides opportunity for improvers and the more experienced player who want to learn more about bridge. New members and visitors are welcomed.

The Club meets on Tuesday mornings in Yarnton Village Hall, The Paddocks, Yarnton, Oxfordshire, OX5 1TE and online on Thursdays. The Hall is fully accessible with car parking provided on site.

Coffee, tea and biscuits are available from 9.40am. We like to start play at 10am promptly, the sessions end at 12.00 - 12.15pm approximately.

We aim to play 18 boards of ‘Duplicate Bridge’ on a Tuesday morning but this is dependent on number of members attending.

Duplicate Bridge is facilitated on both Tuesday (Hall) and Thursday mornings (online).

Game Options

Game options Just Play: 18 Boards Duplicate

Dependent on number of members attending 8 to 12 tables of Duplicate Bridge is facilitated on Tuesday mornings. 20 boards of duplicate are played in our online game played on Real Bridge

Thursday Morning Online game (Real Bridge)

This game is open to anyone wishing to play. It starts at 9.45am and there are 20 boards played. Non-members will need to request the link in advance to play in this game. Please email John Rowe at john53rowe@gmail.com to be sent the game link. Non-members will be charged an extra 50p per game. Invoices are emailed at the end of each month where you will be charged for all games played during the past month.

Tuition table 12 Board Duplicate.

For players wanting a gentler game or gaining confidence to move on to the more competitive 18 Board game. Simply put your hand up and you will be assisted with your bidding or declarer play by an experienced player.

All the above are played in the hall alongside each other.

Cost
Tea and coffee

Annual membership: £10

Bridge Play: £3.50 payable per session

Charge includes coffee, tea and biscuits.

The Club relies on members volunteering to set up the sessions and help with clearing up afterwards.

Learning Bridge

The Club is committed to enabling as many people as possible to learn and enjoy playing bridge. However, due to numbers now attending the Club on a Tuesday morning we are unable to offer a programme for absolute beginners. There are a small number of local tutors who organise courses. Several members of the Club have attended courses led by Francis Pike, in Cassington, and we would recommend them to anyone interesting in learning bridge in the Oxford area.

Coordinator: Jonathan Price, mobile 07394994151