Bulletin

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.

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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.

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There’s still time to give yourself a chance of a £500 prize by signing up and playing in our Half Marathon on Saturday 27 July—details in the poster.

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due to some very last‑minute dropouts which make the session unviable on this occasion.

Come along on Wednesday 21 August for a lighthearted evening duplicate with complimentary nibbles and no NGS. Everyone is welcome. Nibbles from 7.00pm; duplicate starts at 7.30pm.

Unfortuanetely, we have cancelled the Wednesday duplicate, scheduled this week for 21 August. due to too few registrations.

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It is not too late to enter the Mixed Pairs this coming Sunday 19 May. And we are delighted to say that the leading pairs in this event will be eligible to win one of four fantastic prizes being offered by the organisers of the International Deauville Bridge Festival in July.

Any last‑minute entries to the 2024 YCKO accepted until Wednesday 31 January.

The club is closed as usual over Easter, so there are no Friday morning and no Friday evening duplicates on 29 March.

The regular Super Wednesday Duplicate is suspended on 20 March this week due to too few registrations.

New Friday morning games start this week.

The Friday evening duplicate this week on 14 March is upstairs in the Warwick Room.

The second scheduled date for our Tuesday evening monthly matchpointed duplicate (upstairs in the Warwick Room) is this week on 25 February.

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.

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Members are welcome to attend the club AGM to be held this year just before the regular duplicate on Friday 20 October.

From Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 October, there will be no District line service between Earl’s Court and Ealing Broadway/Kensington (Olympia)/Richmond. This means Ravenscourt Park, the closest station to the club, will not be in use. Hammersmith, a ten‑minute walk or short bus ride away, is the closest station served by other lines.

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Current standings in the Women’s Swiss Teams held this year over the weekend 18 & 19 November.

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Play your match
at the Young Chelsea in the London MindSports Centre.

at the London MindSports Centre.

As Monday 8 May is a bank holiday, the weekly evening supervised game will not take place that day.

Please would you register your pair for any Monday evening duplicate in which you plan to play.

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Our March ladder is now under way. Play on at least one Monday during the month to maximize your chances!

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Help Ukraine Emergency Appeal

The club has raised  £7,628.

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For any information

Contact the Management Team

manager@ycbc.co.uk

07713 322420
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YC Super League—Spring 2020
YC Super League—Spring 2020

Update: 5 April 2020

With the club closed for face‑to‑face play at present, the Super League committee asked the teams how they wanted to proceed. The great majority preferred to continue the event online (on BBO). This is now under way with matches played on the original days in the schedule. However, a team from Division One and two teams from Division Two opted not to continue. Since the event was less than halfway through, results against withdrawn teams have been cancelled. And at the end of the season only three teams will be relegated from Division One.

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Match result details are loaded to both Pianola and BridgeWebs. League standings appear on EBU league results pages: Division One, Division Two.

You can view the teams registered, see the draw (for the remainder of the season from 15 April), and the regulations.

 

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The Young Chelsea Super League (YCSL) format has been arranged by Organizing Committee (SLOC).

  • All ten teams which qualified from last season’s super league (the top eight from Division One and the top two promoted from Division Two) have opted to join the YCSL. They plus two new highest ranked teams (De Botton, Leslie) form Division One which therefore exceptionally has twelve teams.
  • Division One teams start on Wednesday 22 January, play every other week until the penultimate round on 27 May, and finish one week later on 3 June (eleven matches). Teams: Black, Huggins, RGBA, Hinden, Jones, McGuire, Hillman, Rusty, Phoenix, Martin, De Botton, Leslie.
  • Division Two plays alongside Division One, starts two weeks later on Wednesday 5 February, ends 27 May, and has eight matches. (Each team has one round off.) Teams: Natt, Lawrence, Newman, Harris, Lehto, Hatstand, NewKids, Totah, Robinson.
  • There will be ten matches in play on every Division Two date. That is 80 players, logistically towards the maximum the club can feed at half time (we envisage Division One eating in the teaching room, Division Two in the bar, but this may change).
  • Prize money will be announced before start date.
  • After this season, four teams will go down from Division One, two up from Division Two, to achieve a more manageable ten teams in Division One in the Autumn season. (So Division Two teams have a better chance of promotion than if the numbers in each division were equal, but Division One teams are worse off.)

If there are any weeks you know your team will need to reschedule please tell us now, via email to the club. Where possible, where two teams from a division need to reschedule in the same week we will try to schedule them to meet that week, to minimise the number of matches that need rescheduling.

SLOC members are: Brian Callaghan, David Muller (both on the YC management committee), Jonathan Lillycrop (YCSL Tournament Director), François Picard, and Gordon Rainsford.

If you wish to help make this event a success, please come forward to the SLOC. We welcome and need your help.

We thank you for your participation and hope you enjoy this new league.

 

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Page last updated 5 April 2020
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