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The LMBA Championship and 9‑high Pairs events due to have taken place on Sunday this week have been cancelled because of insufficient entries.

Members are encouraged to attend the club AGM to be held this year just before the regular duplicate on Friday 7 November.

Registration for our Half Marathon this coming Saturday 4 October has closed to enable the movement to be finalised. Would registered players arrive a little before 10.30am to assist in a prompt start, please.

Please allow extra time travelling to or from the club if using public transport over the weekend, 4 & 5 October. There is no service then on much of the District line including Ravenscourt Park.

The Friday evening duplicate this week on 16 January is upstairs in the Warwick Room.

The Goldhawks Tuesday duplicates due to have been held on 14 October and 21 October will not take place as most of the regulars are away on a bridge holiday. The duplicates will resume on 28 October.

If you use the tube to travel to and from the club, be warned there are strikes planned from the evening of Sunday 7 September through Thursday 11 September. You can find details of the strikes on the TfL website.

The LMBA’s green‑pointed Summer congress takes place at the weekend 5 & 6 July. There is still time to enter the pairs on Saturday and/or the teams on Sunday. Contact the club if you want to form a team; we have a visitng pair from Poland currently looking for teammates.

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 Autumn 2025 Super League matches is 27 August—Wednesday this week.

Both the Friday morning and evening duplicates this week on 15 August are 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.

The winners of the Open Teams Challenge for the Hecht Cup, played on Saturday 21 March were

Kath Stynes, Chris Duckworth, Brian Callaghan and David Burn.

Seven teams entered. The top two teams after the first session of multiple teams qualified for the 24‑deal final in the second session. In qualifying order, they were

Sally Brock, Graham Osborne, Barry Myers and Frances Hinden

Kath Stynes, Chris Duckworth, Brian Callaghan and David Burn

The second‑placed qualifying team were 6 IMPs in front, hardly a decisive margin, after the first half of the final. But they powered away in the second half to win by 43 IMPs and receive a prize of £240.

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Results from the multiple‑teams events Session One and Session Two are on BridgeWebs.

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Thanks to club member Gitte Hecht‑Johansen for her generous sponsorship of the event with the traditional free‑flowing Famous Grouse and the more viscous Danish liquorice.

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Item posted 22 March 2026

In accordance with long‑standing practice, the club will not run any sessions over the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend 2026 (Friday 3 April–Monday 6 April inclusive). This means there will be no Friday morning and no Friday evening duplicates on 3 April, and no beginners lessons either on both the Friday and Monday.

For those of you looking to play bridge in London during Easter, try the Easter Festival in the Novotel West London organised by the EBU.

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Item posted 13 March 2026

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

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Item posted 11 March 2026

Poster

The annual Young Chelsea Mixed Pairs Championship, our popular one‑day two‑session event, takes place this year on Sunday 19 April, starts at 1.00pm and should finish around 6.00pm. Last year’s winners were Ollie Burgess & Nicola Smith; this year it could be you. So, please note the date in your diary and, better still, register now.

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Item posted 9 March 2026

On Saturday 28 February the Young Chelsea launched a new style of event—a mixed teams. Unlike the Hubert Phillips (the national mixed knockout teams), which merely requires at least one male and one female to be playing, this tournament stipulated that both partnerships be mixed. Eleven teams contested and play started at 1.30pm with a break for complimentary coffee and biscuits at half time. In order to play a full four boards against each of the other ten teams, the finish would have to be a little later than the advertised time. Tournament director Gitte Hecht‑Johansen polled the players to check they were OK with this (they were) and the event finished at 6.45pm.

Scoring was by total IMPs. Congatulations to the winning team of Brian Callaghan, Rosie White, Brendan Doolan and Chris Duckworth who finished well in front on 106 IMPs. (Rosie inducted Brian as a temporary Raven—her team in the YC Super League—for the day.) Prizes were a bottle of wine to each player. And thanks to Kath Stynes for the photo.

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Item posted 1 March 2026

The 2026 YCKO is under way, details can be found on the  dedicated YCKO 2026 pages.

The annual Young Chelsea Championship Pairs was contested by 21 pairs over 49 deals as a two‑session event on Sunday 1 February. Every pair played two or three deals against each of the other pairs. Congratulation to winners, Daniel McIntosh and Claire Robinson, on a score of 63.21%. They keep the Franklin To trophy for a year and their names go up on the honours board. This was an impressive show of consistency from Claire, who also won last year in a different partnership.

Results

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Item posted 2 February 2026

The final of the Young Chelsea Knockout 2025 took place, only about a month overdue, on Saturday 18 January 2026. The players introduced a novel twist by opting to play the 48‑deal match in four 12‑deal stanzas (instead of six 8‑deal ones).

The teams contesting were Muller (David Muller, Trevor Mathews, Brian McGuire and Gordon Rainsford) and Atisen (Stefano Tommasini, Neil Rosen, John Atthey, Sebastian Atisen and and Ambrose Holmes‑Mackie). Team Atisen played four handed in the final with Holmes‑Mackie sitting out. For a change both teams were once‑defeated, so there was no prospect of the extra eight deals that an undefeated team could claim. If the Atisen team looks familiar, the same four players won the 2024 final as team Tommasini.

Team Muller were trailing by 22 IMPs after 36 of the 48 deals, so still had some hope. However, the leaders didn’t let the trophy slip from their grasp. Congratulations to team Atisen who finished 41 IMPs ahead after the final set.

The winners and runners‑up received prizes of £800 and £300 respectively.

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Item posted 19 January 2026

The Autumn 2025 Young Chelsea Super League finished on Wednesday 17 December, the last scheduled date of the season.

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In Division One team Jupiter had rearranged their last scheduled match for an earlier date and established a target for the other contenders. One of them, team Leslie fell short. But team Hillman did just enough to finish first, nearly 2 VPs in front. Congratulation to them (John Atthey, Keith Bennett, Brian Callaghan, Rob Cliffe, Richard Hillman, Neil Rosen and Nicola Smith). Prizes were the same as in the Spring season; the winning team received £600.

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In second place was team Jupiter (Christophe Grosset, Andrew Kay, Nicolas Leprovost, François Picard and John Vos) picking up a £200 prize.

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Item posted 19 December 2025

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