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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.

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 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 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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Ladder

From time to time, the club runs a ladder competition in either the spring or autumn months of the year. Players need to play a number of times during the ladder season and there is a prize for the best performances in the season.

The most recent ladder is being held from January to June 2025 with one Tuesday evening session played in each month. Details of this are below, together with further details of previous ladder competitions.

January through June 2025 Ladder

InformationPrevious Ladders

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.

Current Standings on 30 April

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

Player Average % Qualify P S
         
David Muller 62.70 1 1 1
Fiona Hutchison 60.42 1 1 1
Lars McBride 59.03 1 1 1
Mark Davies 57.38 3 2 3
Richard Creamer 56.56 2 1 2
John Pemberton 56.25 1 1 1
Hanna Tuus 55.61 2 1 3
Claire Robinson 55.61 2 1 3
Ryan Stephenson 55.54 4 4 4
Brian Callaghan 55.33 3 2 4
Tim Gauld 55.21 2 2 2
Alistair Brown 55.20 2 1 3
David Newman 55.20 2 1 3
Athena Chow 54.17 1 1 1
Natasha Clarke 54.00 1 1 1
Jenny Barb 54.00 1 1 1
Mike Eden 52.92 1 1 1
Kath Stynes 52.50 1 1 1
Celia Greig 51.59 1 1 1
Gilly Arber 51.59 1 1 1
Carrie Eden 50.67 2 2 2
Mark Nelson 50.42 1 1 1
Jilly Pattison 50.42 1 1 1
Elisabeth Mathison 50.00 1 1 1
Greg Kun 50.00 1 1 1
Chris Duckworth 49.31 3 2 4
Fergal Boland 48.17 2 2 2
Mark Lehto 48.00 1 1 1
Maciej Sczerczak 48.00 1 1 1
Gordon Rainsford 47.79 3 3 3
Guy Hart 47.43 2 2 2
Malcolm Mearns 45.83 1 1 1
Pam Avril 45.83 1 1 1
Jonathan Lillycrop 45.00 1 1 1
Graham Long 44.17 1 1 1
Mary Anne St Clair-Ford 42.36 1 1 1
Michael Chun Tsang 42.00 1 1 1
Faris Kapetanovic 42.00 1 1 1
Paul Gibson 40.48 1 1 1
Sara Chiappara 37.53 2 2 2
Jim Stevenson 30.78 2 2 2
Heather Hanbury 26.98 1 1 1

StandingsPrevious Ladders

Information

The January through June 2025 ladder runs from Tuesday 28 January to Tuesday 17 June inclusive. There is one Tueday evening session per month.in the ladder, and you need to play in at least three of these duplicates with at least two partners to qualify.

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 £100 prize.

StandingsInformation

Previous Ladders

Page last updated 30 April 2025