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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 JanuaryWednesday this week.

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.

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

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.

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

Help Ukraine Emergency Appeal

The club has raised  £7,628.

For any information

Contact the Management Team

manager@ycbc.co.uk

07713 322420

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March Ladder 2023

March 2023 Ladder

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Winners

Congratulations to husband and wife pair, Mike and Carrie Eden, who topped the standings below with an impressive 147.94 IMPs and share a hamper as their prize. Well done also to the winner of the non‑expert (NGS‑ranked at the start of the month as a ten or below) prize: two free duplicate entries. By checking the EBU website for NGS rank, the winner is Athena Chow on 120.21 IMPs.

Final Standings on 31 March

(Abbreviations in column headings are Q: Qualifying Sessions S: Scoring Sessions, M:Mondays, T:Thursdays, F:Fridays.)

Player IMPs Q S M T F
               
Carrie Eden 147.94 5 3 1 0 2
Mike Eden 147.94 5 3 1 0 2
Niall Igoe 136.37 5 3 0 0 3
Brian Callaghan 127.03 7 3 0 1 2
Athena Chow 120.21 5 4 1 0 3
Chris Duckworth 105.83 8 4 1 2 1
Trudy Coleman 89.00 2 2 0 2 0
Magnus Spence-Jones 88.83 4 2 0 0 2
Martin Lerner 88.23 4 2 0 1 1
Nathan Piper 88.23 2 2 0 1 1
Billie MacCarthy 85.36 5 3 0 3 0
Alex Hannon 80.41 5 3 1 0 2
Rosalind Simpson 80.40 3 3 0 0 3
Jonathan Lillycrop 70.83 3 2 0 0 2
John Cox 70.03 6 3 0 0 3
Gitte Hecht-Johansen 68.73 2 2 0 0 2
Alan Hayward 64.48 4 2 1 0 1
Kath Stynes 60.59 5 3 0 0 3
Maciej Szczerczak 59.67 3 2 1 1 0
Steve Root 59.20 2 1 0 0 1
Mark Lehto 56.16 4 3 0 0 3
Will Roper 56.15 2 2 0 0 2
Szczepan Smoczyński 53.63 1 1 0 0 1
Nick Sandqvist 51.57 1 1 0 0 1
Sally Brock 51.57 1 1 0 0 1
Brendan Doolan 51.13 3 2 0 0 2
Graham Long 51.13 4 2 0 0 2
Konrad Mau 49.17 2 2 0 2 0
Richard Creamer 49.17 2 2 0 2 0
Fabien Dunlop 48.65 4 2 1 0 1
Andrew Whittome 45.00 3 2 0 2 0
Liz Wright 42.66 5 2 0 2 0
Tim Gauld 41.37 4 2 0 0 2
James Thrower 40.20 2 1 0 0 1
Robert Myers 40.20 2 1 0 0 1
Carla Sidney-Woollett 35.16 5 2 0 2 0
Rosie White 34.50 1 1 0 0 1
John Pemberton 34.43 2 1 0 0 1
Emma Wu 32.86 1 1 0 0 1
David Willis 30.90 3 2 0 0 2
Sara Chiappara 30.00 4 1 0 1 0
Mike Bell 27.71 4 2 1 0 1
Nigel Clayton 27.00 4 1 0 1 0
Jack Ronayne 26.52 1 1 0 0 1
Brian Wallace 26.22 1 1 0 0 1
Jonathan Jacobs 26.22 1 1 0 0 1
Gordon Clark 25.00 4 1 0 0 1
Miu Wong 23.86 4 2 0 0 2
Barry Myers 22.95 2 2 0 1 1
Hugo Jee 21.80 3 3 0 0 3
Liam Sanderson 21.80 3 3 0 0 3
Helen Rose 21.70 1 1 0 0 1
Henry Rose 21.70 1 1 0 0 1
Eryk Gozdowski 20.60 3 1 0 0 1
Raja Krovvidi 20.60 2 1 0 0 1
Gilly Cardiff 17.80 1 1 0 0 1
Mahmoud Sadek 16.35 1 1 0 1 0
Nigel Bird 16.35 1 1 0 1 0
Jon Cooke 15.91 1 1 0 0 1
Sarah Bell 15.91 3 1 0 0 1
Andrew Clery 15.10 3 1 0 0 1
Harvey Duckers 10.90 1 1 0 1 0
Martin Lowes 10.90 1 1 0 1 0
Naomi Cohen 10.13 1 1 0 0 1
Tony Verran 10.13 3 1 0 0 1
Lorna Vestey 7.88 3 1 0 0 1
Faris Kapetanovic 6.25 4 1 0 0 1
Rachael Wilkinson 6.25 3 1 0 0 1
Chantal Girardin 6.00 3 1 0 0 1
David Ramsbottom 5.75 1 1 0 0 1
David Taylor 5.75 3 1 0 0 1
Martin Nygren 4.95 2 1 0 0 1
Rowena Clow 4.71 1 1 0 0 1
Stuart Nelson 4.03 1 1 0 0 1
Roger Pratt 2.71 1 1 1 0 0
Elsa Nelson 2.00 3 1 0 0 1
Roy Cooper 2.00 3 1 0 0 1

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Information

The March 2023 ladder runs from Thursday 2 March to Friday 31 March inclusive. Monday evening, Thursday afternoon and Friday evening duplicate sessions count towards the ladder and you need to play in at least four of these duplicates to qualify. In a departure from previous ladders, scoring is by IMPs with your best total of four positive scores, provided that at least one of the scores is from a Monday duplicate. Otherwise, only your best three scores count, which means you may still win but your chances are poorer.

For ladder calculations on sessions scored by matchpoints instead of cross‑IMPs, your percentage is converted to IMPs employing the same formula as the EBU uses for NGS.

The winner will receive a hamper or equivalent to the value of around £50.

There will also be a smaller prize for the best score by a non‑expert player (defined as one with an NGS of 10 or below).

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Page last updated 3 April 2023