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The Friday evening duplicate this week on 17 October is upstairs in the Warwick Room.

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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.

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.

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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 if using public transport over the weekend, 4 & 5 October. There is no service then on much of the District line including Ravenscourt Park.

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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.

Both the Friday morning and evening duplicates this week on 15 August are upstairs in the Warwick Room.

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.

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Members are encouraged to attend the club AGM to be held this year just before the regular duplicate on Friday 7 November.

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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Young Chelsea in Sicily—October 2025
 
Young Chelsea in Sicily—October 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
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