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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.

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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 18 April.

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 fourth scheduled date for our Tuesday evening monthly matchpointed duplicate (upstairs in the Warwick Room) is coming up on 29 April.

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
Release 2.19r
*NEW* YCBC JUNIOR DUPLICATES
 
William Clennell—YC U26 junior duplicate organiser
William Clennell—YC U26 junior duplicate organiser
 

SIGN UP HERE - CLICK FOR FORM

A new weekly duplicate exclusively for junior players—more than 150 are signed up—is now up and running at the Young Chelsea Bridge Club. Under-26s from across the country and beyond are able to play via RealBridge on Friday evenings at 7.30pm free of charge.

Each session is scored using cross-IMPs and split into separate sections according to experience, with EBU masterpoints awarded to the leading pairs.

These duplicates are being organised by William Clennell, President of Cambridge University Bridge Club, who ran the hugely successful junior pairs initiative last summer.

For further information, contact Will at wjc41@cam.ac.uk.

 

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Congratulations to the winners of our latest duplicate on 9 July:

Benjamin Gardner & Henry Rose!

Bjorn Ahl
Bjorn Ahl
James Cater
James Cater

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Item posted 10 January 2021, updated 10 July 2021
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