Engagement: Shahzaad Natt & India Leeming
LOVE MATCH! Many congratulations to popular YC members, India and Shahzaad on their engagement. The YC wishes them all the best for their future—and we look forward to celebrating their news properly when we can all meet around the bridge table once more.
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Item posted 25 March 2021
The London heat of the Garden Cities Trophy, the inter‑county championship for club teams‑of‑eight, was held online on RealBridge on Thursday 18 March and contested by seven teams. The YC fielded four teams and the event was won by one of these, the team comprising Sally Brock & Barry Myers, Susanna Gross & Claire Robinson, Martin Nygren & Margaret Nygren and Ollie Burgess & Paula Leslie. [See more…]
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Item posted 22 March 2021
Mike Durrant caricature (March 1990)
Mike Durrant in Spain (June 2019)
YC members will be saddened to learn of the death, earlier this month, of Mike Durrant at the age of 68 at his home in Córdoba, Spain. He was a club member since the 1980s until he and his partner Helen Chambers retired to Spain about 15 years ago. Mike will be remembered as a kind and clever man who was one of the club’s personalities. He edited the club newsletter in the 1990s where this caricature first appeared. [See more…]
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Item posted 14 March 2021
The Goldhawks of the Young Chelsea Bridge Club have now moved online!
Once a month, we run an online Goldhawks session on RealBridge: a sociable bridge platform where you can interact with the other players as though you were sitting around a real table! These sessions are aimed towards beginners and improvers: improve your confidence and grab the opportunity to improve your game by discussing the hands with two experienced bridge teachers: Ollie Burgess (YC manager) and India Leeming.
These sessions take place every fourth Thursday; the next session will be on Thursday 8 April at 7.30pm. This is a friendly group and everyone is welcome!
The session will be:
- 12 deals
- Zoom post mortem with Ollie and India—ask questions about the hands you played!
- normal end time of around 9.45–10.00pm
- £5.00 each
[See more…]
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Item posted 7 March 2021, updated 14 March, author India Leeming
The Young Chelsea Online Congress took place over the weekend 16 & 17 January 2021.
The Swiss Pairs on the Saturday attracted 36 pairs, and ran over seven 6‑deal matches. Congratulations to the winners on 107 VPs, Brian Senior & Clive Owen.
On the Sunday the format was a traditional multiple teams. Twelve teams played a complete round robin scored as straight IMPs with no conversion to VPs. Congratulations to team Sushi (Kath Stynes & Debbie Sandford, Nick Sandqvist & Nathalie Shashou) winning with a convincing 84 IMPs. [See more…]
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Item posted 19 January 2021
We are pleased to announce that the Young Chelsea Bridge Club is moving home. In January we will be moving from the Goldhawk Road premises to a new home in Dalling Road, Hammersmith—the former Salvation Army Hall. [See more…]
New home—the former Salvation Army Hall
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Item posted 6 November 2020
Twenty‑five teams have entered this year’s competition. After seeding the teams by NGS, the draw (updated regularly as results come in—click to view) has been made. All Round Two matches have been played and teams can see who their Round Three opponents are. Please start to arrange and play your Round Three matches if you haven’t already done so. [See more…]
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Item updated 18 March 2020
Interested in learning bridge? Know someone who might be? We can help!
For anyone whose social life is on hold, now is the ideal time to learn to play bridge. As anyone who has ever tried it knows, bridge is absorbing, fascinating and fun. It is also the most social of games—you will make many new friends and have a lifetime of entertainment ahead of you. Bridge can easily be learnt and played online and we are now offering a beginners’ course for those with no previous experience of the game. See more details, and tell your non‑playing bridge friends about it!
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Item posted 17 September 2020
We have launched a
flexible new online teaching programme—a modular course for improvers covering popular topics like slam bidding and the best use of doubles. Individuals, pairs, or groups of three or four can elect to attend a full course or individual sessions as they wish and, as far as possible, at times that also suit them. [
See more…]
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Item posted 16 September 2020
We hold online games every Monday and Friday at 7.30pm on BBO—payment in BB$. Please note that wherever possible we now use movements that maximise the number of pairs you meet during a session and minimise the chance of playing the same pair again. They also produce a single winning pair per session as is traditional at the club. [See more…]
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Item posted 24 May 2020
Most club members will be aware that the YCBC has been operating on limited financial resources for some time. [See more…]
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Item posted 25 March 2020