| Friendly Bridge Club in Ilkley |
 Welcome to OLICANA Bridge Club in the delightful West Yorkshire town of Ilkley. We are located at 12 Wells Promenade in the town centre, just a few minutes walk from Ilkley Train Station - regular services from Leeds and Bradford and a few minutes walk from the bus station (which is adjacent to the Train Station).
For 2020 we have a revised and extended programme as follows. We have duplicate evening sessions on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Please try to be seated no later than 6.50pm so that we can make a prompt start at 7pm. Our daytime duplicate programme will be Monday afternoon (2pm) and Wednesday morning (9.55am) for less experienced players with 16 boards and no master points, Tuesday afternoon (1.15pm) and Friday afternoon (1.30pm) for more experienced players typically with 24+ boards and master points.
We offer a warm welcome to any visiting pairs. There are teams of four evenings, and beginners/improvers sessions including Stepping Stones on first and third Friday evenings - please see the weekly calendar for precise details of all of our events. We have a host system on Monday afternoon, Wednesday evening and Friday evening Stepping Stones which allows players without a regular partner to come along and to be guaranteed a game. We have pivot teams of four events on many second Friday evenings too. All of our sessions are scored using bridgemates.
On the second and fourth Saturday mornings from 9.30am we now have regular open sessions to come and play, practice or watch. Usually on the first Sunday from 2pm we have informal social bridge (no master points) concluding with wine and nibbles. All very welcome.
Please click here for a location map for Olicana Bridge Club.
If you need to ring the club during bridge sessions the number is 01943 602961
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| Harrogate Spring Congress |
This weekend is the Harrogate Spring Congress. A good number of members are taking part and we will endeavour to let you know of notable successes.
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| Annual Masterpoints Leaderboard |
The EBU has recently published the Annual Masterpoints Leaderboard for 2019. For the leaderboard in Yorkshire we have an impressive representation in the top fifty including most notably Stuart Davies in third and Carole Kelly in tenth. Click here to see the Yorkshire top 50 Leaderboard and see where you finished using the search button. There are nearly 3,000 players registered in Yorkshire alone in total.
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| Yorkshire League Match 6 |
Our sixth set of matches in the Yorkshire League took place on Sunday 16th February as follows
A team v Doncaster A AWAY WON 14 - 6
B team v Sheffield D HOME LOST 8 - 12
C team v Wakefield C HOME DREW 10 - 10
D team v Huddersfield C AWAY WON 13 - 7
E team v Keighley D AWAY WON 14 - 6
Lots of close games and three good wins. D team remain top of their division with one match to go.
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| Margery Cartwright Sim Pairs |
The YCBA Margery Cartwright Sim Pairs took place on Thursday 13th February. Please click here to see the overall results from across Yorkshire. 14 clubs in total took part (220 players). All of the results have now been collated and our top pair were Alison Speller & Ada Reed who were 10th overall (well done).
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| February TD and Scorers Rota |
Please click here to download the February TD and Scorers Rota. As always, this was correct at the time of publication but does not take any subsequent amendments into account. Thanks to everyone who helps our events run smoothly and in a friendly manner.
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| New for 2020 |
New for 2020. We have a new Afternoon Duplicate Pairs on a Tuesday afternoon from 1.15pm to around 4.15pm now underway. This session will earn master points, play around 24 boards and is not designed for beginners and is not hosted. We are also conducting a three month trial where our evening sessions will start play at 7pm so can you please be seated by 6.50pm, we are aiming to finish earlier (hopefully around 10.15pm) whilst still playing a good number of boards. We have a new Fun Slam competition open to all members across all events. There will be three points awarded for a bid and made grand slam and one point for a bid and made small slam. Finally some evening events have been designated with a red highlight - at these events we would encourage everyone to remember that these are competition events so can you please minimise any hand discussions and call the TD to resolve any problems.
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| Bridge Courses 2019/20 |
Here at Olicana we are keen to encourage as many as possible to be able to enjoy the marvellous game of bridge.
Our current courses began in September 2019 as follows
Year 1/Beginners Monday 9.30am Tutor Les Rothnie
Year 2 Wednesday 2pm Tutor Christina Powne
Year 3 Friday 9.30am Tutor Diana Roberts
Improvers Tuesday 10am Tutor Brian Davison
Our Improvers session welcomes players at any time.
Our next Accelerated Learning course starts on Saturday 29th February 2020 and covers five sessions. Please click here to contact us to find out more or to book your place.
If you are interested in our 2020 courses which will start in September 2020 please click here to contact us.
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