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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.

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 30 May is 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 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.

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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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The Young Chelsea Bridge Club is delighted to announce its first Online Bridge Course, which will take place on the weekend of 27 & 28 June! [Poster]

Format

  • Saturday session 11.00am–1.00pm
  • Sunday session 11.00am–1.00pm
  • Both sessions will comprise a lesson followed by play, with the opportunity to ask the teacher questions as you go

[See more…]

Item posted 9 June 2020, author India Leeming

The YC is continuing its fortnightly series of Saturday online pairs events on BBO alternating between matchpoint and cross‑IMP scoring. The next, scored by cross‑IMPs, will be held on Saturday 20 June. [See more…]

Item posted 7 June 2020

Come and join our Midsummer Swiss Teams consisting of eight matches over eight weeks! The event is open to members and non‑members alike. See our competition poster for details.

Round 1 has now been completed and the rankings can be found here. Assignments for Round 3 can be found here.

 

Item posted 4 June 2020

Interested in learning bridge? Know someone who might be? We can help!

Many people may be looking for new ways to spend their time whilst normal life is on hold. As anyone who has ever tried it knows, bridge is absorbing, fascinating and fun. It is also the most social of games—you make many new friends at the bridge table. For a lifetime of future entertainment, now is the ideal time to learn.

Bridge translates remarkably well between online and face‑to‑face formats. We are very pleased to announce that Mike Eden, long‑standing club member and experienced bridge teacher, is now teaching bridge lessons online! [See more…]

 

Page last updated 12 May 2020

We hold online games every Monday and Friday at 7.30pm on BBOpayment in BB$. Please note that wherever possible we now use movements that maximise the number of pairs you meet during a session and minimise the chance of playing the same pair again. They also produce a single winning pair per session as is traditional at the club. [See more…]

 

Item posted 24 May 2020

Most club members will be aware that the YCBC has been operating on limited financial resources for some time. [See more…]

 

Item posted 25 March 2020

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Athena Chow Athena Chow
Louise Selway Louise Selway
 

We are very pleased to have launched an exciting new project aimed at recruiting new, younger members. [See more…]

 

Item posted 22 February 2020, updated 6 April 2020

Youth Initiative Donations
 

Sum Pledged to Date: £12,400 Target: £50,000

Item last updated 15 April 2020