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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.

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

YCKO 2026

You may now register your team for next season’s competition, the YCKO 2026.

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Sixteen teams have entered this season’s competition.YCKO 2024 competition.) The club will contact those teams which entered last year and have not yet done so this year.

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. The Final has now been played with team Atisen defeating teamt team Muller by 41 IMPs. The tournament ran just over a month beyond schedule, the final being played on Saturday 18 January 2025. Trevor Mathews who policed the match schedule will put ideas about keeping the event on track into practice in the next season. 

The club made a draw on Sunday 20 January to decide the Quarter‑final matches (from possibilities that prevent teams which have already met from facing each other again):

The one semifinal match is:

The final match is:

The undefeated team, Tommasini, having won their quarter‑final match, has a bye to the final.

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 2026, 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.

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Arranging matches

The play‑by dates below for completion of each round are below. Every effort should be made to adhere to play‑by dates. (Any match unplayed by these dates risks having its winner adjudicated.)

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Item last updated 23 February 2026

The YC Open Teams Challenge is back again. Open to all, the event is fast approaching and will take place on Saturday 21 March starting at 11.30am. For the £30 per member entry fee (£35 for non‑members)  you get two sessions of multiple teams and the chance of substantial prizes. Finish time will be around 7.15pm. Don’t delay in registering your team.

You can find more details on the poster.

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Item posted 19 February 2026

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

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Item posted 17 February 2026

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.

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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

Young Chelsea in Sicily—October 2025

 

 

The natural self‑organising tendencies of the YC Goldhawks group (actually months of ceaseless labour from Malcolm Mearns and Sara Chiappara) saw them and a bunch of hangers‑on out in Sicily for a holiday. It wasn’t strictly a bridge holiday, but the programme included bridge every afternoon. Most of the participants flew to Catania, the closest airport to the venue, Hotel Casale Milocca, in the countryside near Syracuse. A few hardier souls shepherded the bridge equipment there by car over mountain and sea.

The picture shows the group in the playing hall after the TicTac Pairs on 18 October, a significant date for Pam Avril who was there celebrating her 90th birthday (although she wasn't the oldest in the group). The meal afterwards featured a birthday cake sufficient for everyone (in other words, huge).

 

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Item posted 19 October 2025

Help Ukraine Emergency Appeal—Report

 

 

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