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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.

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Contact the Management Team

manager@ycbc.co.uk

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Release 2.19r
Young Chelsea Super League Autumn 2022—Report
 
Team De Botton—winners of the YC Super League 2022 Spring season—pictured: Thor Erik Hoftaniska, Janet de Botton, Tom Townsend, Artur Malinowski
Team De Botton—winners of the YC Super League 2022 Spring season—pictured: Thor Erik Hoftaniska, Janet de Botton, Tom Townsend, Artur Malinowski
 

Both divisions concluded on Wednesday 14 December.

In first place in Division One, unusual suspects team Hillman  (got their hands on the trophy.

 (David Bakhshi, Janet de Botton, Thor Erik Hoftaniska, Artur Malinowski, Tom Townsend). They finished on 149.56 VPs (an average of 16.62 per match). This was the first Super League season played primarily face to face for a couple of years and accordingly we have a picture of four of the team at the post‑season celebrations in the bar on Wednesday evening. First place received a £600 prize.

And in second place on 120.78 VPs (an average of 13.42 per match) was team Tommasini (Mike Bell, Sarah Bell, Ollie Burgess, Ben Green, Tim Leslie, Ben Norton, Stefano Tommasini). Their prize was £200.

Division One dates for next season are in the calendar. The season starts on Wednesday 24 August and runs for nine rounds at fortnightly intervals to finish on 14 December.

 

The league finished with one match unplayed by the final date. With matches having frequently to be rescheduled due to team members having Covid, the committee decided that neither team was particularly at fault and ranked the teams by their average over the season. Commiserations to the two teams at the bottom of Division One which are relegated to Division Two next season.

Division One Final Standings

(Full details on the EBU website.)

Rank Team VPs Average
1 De Botton 149.56 16.62
2 Tommasini 120.78 13.42
3 Huggins 93.79 10.42
4 Hillman 93.30 10.37
5 Hinden 82.35 10.29
6 32BG 86.82 9.65
7 Saucepan 67.64 7.52
8 Martin 66.08 7.34
9 Lawrenzo 65.47 7.27
10 The Covert Operations 54.21 6.78

Item updated 18 July 2022