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The YC’s Individual for the Keith Loveys Trophy followed by a Summer Party buffet and general knowledge quiz is coming up on Sunday 22 June. You can play bridge, come for the buffet and quiz or do both; please register to give us an idea of numbers.

Please allow extra time, if coming to the club by road, since King Street is due to be closed, because of planned works, from Friday 25 through Sunday 27 April.

The sixth (and last in the ladder) scheduled date for our Tuesday evening monthly matchpointed duplicate (upstairs in the Warwick Room) is coming up on 17 June.

The YC Championship Pairs for the Franklin To trophy takes place at the end of this week on Sunday 2 February starting at 11.30am.

The first scheduled date for our Spring 2025 Super League matches is 22 January—Wednesday this week.

The Friday evening duplicate this week on 30 May is upstairs in the Warwick Room.

The Friday evening duplicate is cancelled on 13 December but will be held at the club in the Main Hall as usual on the day before—on Thursday 12 December.

Please allow extra time travelling to or from the club from the Richmond direction if using public transport at the weekend, 5 & 6 September. There is no service on the District line between Turnham Green and Richmond at the weekend.

The club is closed as usual over Easter, so there are no Friday morning and no Friday evening duplicates on 18 April.

Congratulations to the YC members listed below who attained a promotion in EBU rank during May!

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Item posted 9 June 2025

The Young Chelsea Mixed Pairs 2025 took place at the club on Sunday 18 May. Twenty‑seven pairs played two sessions of eighteen deals each.

Well done to the winners, Nicola Smith and Ollie Burgess, with an impressive 64.59%.

Overall ranking and session results are available via the following links:

• Overall ranking
• Session one of two
• Session two of two

[See more…]

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Item posted 26 May 2025

The Spring 2025 Young Chelsea Super League finished on Wednesday 14 May, the last scheduled date of the season.

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The league positions in Division One were close going into the last match, with team Leslie in the lead facing team Hillman lying third, while team Hinden was in between. Congratulation to winning team Leslie (Tim Leslie, Ben Norton, Sebastian Atisen, Matt Brown, Phil King, Stefano Tommasini), who did just enough. Prizes were the same as in the Autumn season. First place received £600.

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In second place, winning every match but falling short by 1½ VPs, was team Hinden (Sally Brock, Paul Barden, David Burn, Richard Fedrick, Frances Hinden, Barry Myers, Graham Osborne, Andrew Southwell, David Willis) picking up a £200 prize.

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Meanwhile, the top two teams in Division Two won promotion to Division One for the next season in the Autumn.

In first place was team Robbo’s Rabble (Andi Boughey, Susanna Gross, Jen Middleton, Claire Robinson, Steve Root, Duncan Thomas, Ewa Wieczorek) getting £300.

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In second place was team Polish Club (Ewa Kater, Heather Bakhshi, Aleksander Blicharz, Grzegorz Blicharz, Maks Blicharz, Maciej Szczerczak) getting £100.

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Commiserations to the two teams at the bottom of Division One which are relegated to Division Two next season. [See more…]

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Item posted 21 May 2025

YCKO 2025

Sixteen teams have entered this year’s competition. (You can still view the YCKO 2024 competition.) The club will contact those teams which entered last year and have not yet done so this year.

After seeding the teams by NGS (team numbers 9 through 16 being chosen randomly), the draw (updated regularly with match results) has been made. The competition is now under way and teams should contact their opponents to arrange a match date. Once the teams have a date agreed they should book the match in, preferably online via the match booking page, or by emailing the club at bookings@ycbc.co.uk. Round Two is complete with the last straggling match now played. (This season Trevor Mathews is policing the match schedule.) The play‑by date for Round Three matches is 22 June.

Once your match has been played, please notify the result to the club at manager@ycbc.co.uk, stating the names of the players in both teams as well as the outcome. Team captains will be notified of their opponents for their next match as soon as the team to be played is known.

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The Young Chelsea Knockout (YCKO) is the club’s annual teams event that runs on “double elimination” lines—every team has to lose two matches before it is knocked out. Teams may consist of up to six players, all of whom must be paid‑up club members before taking part in a match. (Anyone who needs to may subscribe via the payments page.)

For 2025, the event will be played as a face‑to‑face competition with matches held at the club. Matches will be charged at the standard price. A team may choose whether it wants half‑time refreshments. For matches of up to 32 deals, this is currently either £12.50 per player (with refreshments) or £10.00 per player (without). Should the club exceptionally allow you to play a match online, the charge per match (debited from the captain’s/organizer’s YC account) will be the same as if played face to face. No other entry fee will be charged. Prize money will be £800 for the winning team, £300 for the runners‑up.

The winning team will hold the YCKO Trophy for the following year and will be eligible for a play‑off match against the team winning the LMBA London Championship Teams‑of‑four to decide which team will represent London in the 2024 Lederer invitation tournament.

Please enter by the end of February on the registration page of the website. or by emailing the club manager at manager@ycbc.co.uk. (Entries are now closed.)

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Team Rosters

The organizer/captain’s name appears first in each team’s player list.

[See more…]

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Page last updated 11 June 2025

New Matchpointed Pairs Ladder Competition

Poster

Following a request made at the club’s AGM last month, we are introducing a regular matchpointed pairs duplicate game that we hope will be attractive to all our members. For the first six months of 2025 it will be held once a month, on a Tuesday evening, on the following dates:

• 28 January
• 25 February
• 25 March
• 29 April
• 20 May
• 17 June

Members are encouraged to play in as many of these as they can manage—there will be a ladder cash prize for the three best games with at least two different partners over the season.

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Item posted 11 December 2024

We are delighted to announce that we have raised the grand total of £5,521.21 for the Help Ukraine Emergency Appeal. The club organised a special fundraising duplicate on 6 March and our Ukrainian staff rallied round baking cakes and donating Ukrainian goods for sale. The event attracted a great mix of club members and others, all of whom gave very generously and the funds rolled in. We are very grateful to all, and every penny will go to the Ukrainian people. [See more…]

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Item posted 9 March, updated 19 March 2022