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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 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 January—Wednesday this week.

The Friday evening duplicate this week on 14 March is upstairs in the Warwick Room.

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.

The club is closed as usual over Easter, so there are no Friday morning and no Friday evening duplicates on 18 April.

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The annual Young Chelsea Mixed Pairs Championship, our popular one‑day two‑session event, takes place this year on Sunday 18 May, starts at 1.00pm and should finish around 6.00pm. Last year’s winners were Richard Haydon & Mireille Levy; this year it could be you. So, please note the date in your diary and, better still, register now.

As an inducement to less experienced players, club member Ollie Burgess is generously donating a non‑expert prize of an online lesson with him (Ollie will decide who qualifies as a non‑expert).

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Item posted 22 April 2025

The winners of the Open Teams Challenge for the Hecht Cup, played on Saturday 29 March were

Jon Cooke, Gad Chadha, Stephen Lee and Cameron Small.

Nine teams entered. The top two teams after the first session of multiple teams qualified for the final in the second session. In qualifying order, they were

Jon Cooke, Gad Chadha, Stephen Lee and Cameron Small

Hanna Tuus, Alan Hayward, Alex Hannon and John Cox

The leading team had dominated the qualifying session and continued strongly to win the final by 60 IMPs to receive a prize of £300.

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Results from the multiple‑teams events Session One and Session Two are on BridgeWebs

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Thanks to club member Gitte Hecht‑Johansen for her generous sponsorship of the event, which included the traditional free‑flowing Famous Grouse and Danish licquorice (the latter something of an acquired taste). [See more…]

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Item posted 31 March 2025

Well done to team YC Z: Richard Creamer, Konrad Mau, Heather Dhondy, David Burn, Trevor Mathews, Gordon Rainsford, Mike Graham and Ian Payn. They won, on a split tie, the London qualifying heat for the Garden Cities Trophy played at the club on Thursday 20 March. If you’re wondering about the team name, it is probably an artefact of the tournament director’s choice to distinguish them from the other two YC teams‑of‑eight in the field of five. In second place was team YC Binkie and in third was team YC Evici; clubs may enter as many teams as they wish in the qualifier and the YC has more strength in depth than most.

The team members in the regional final on Saturday 10 May only have to belong to their qualifying club, but those from YC Z will form the core of the London team.

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Detailed results on the LMBA website

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Item posted 24 March 2025

Congratulations to the YC members listed below who attained a promotion in EBU rank during February!

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Item posted 14 March 2025

YCKO 2025

Sixteen teams have entered this year’s competition. (You can still view the YCKO 2024 competition.) The club will contact those teams which entered last year and have not yet done so this year.

After seeding the teams by NGS (team numbers 9 through 16 being chosen randomly), the draw (updated regularly with match results) has been made. The competition is now under way and teams should contact their opponents to arrange a match date. Once the teams have a date agreed they should book the match in, preferably online via the match booking page, or by emailing the club at bookings@ycbc.co.uk. Round One is complete apart from a couple of straggling matches, Atisen versus Sushi and Boland versus SMB etc., which are booked in for 24 & 25 April. (This season Trevor Mathews is policing the match schedule.) The play‑by date for Round Two matches is 18 May.

Once your match has been played, please notify the result to the club at manager@ycbc.co.uk, stating the names of the players in both teams as well as the outcome. Team captains will be notified of their opponents for their next match as soon as the team to be played is known.

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The Young Chelsea Knockout (YCKO) is the club’s annual teams event that runs on “double elimination” lines—every team has to lose two matches before it is knocked out. Teams may consist of up to six players, all of whom must be paid‑up club members before taking part in a match. (Anyone who needs to may subscribe via the payments page.)

For 2025, the event will be played as a face‑to‑face competition with matches held at the club. Matches will be charged at the standard price. A team may choose whether it wants half‑time refreshments. For matches of up to 32 deals, this is currently either £12.50 per player (with refreshments) or £10.00 per player (without). Should the club exceptionally allow you to play a match online, the charge per match (debited from the captain’s/organizer’s YC account) will be the same as if played face to face. No other entry fee will be charged. Prize money will be £800 for the winning team, £300 for the runners‑up.

The winning team will hold the YCKO Trophy for the following year and will be eligible for a play‑off match against the team winning the LMBA London Championship Teams‑of‑four to decide which team will represent London in the 2024 Lederer invitation tournament.

Please enter by the end of February on the registration page of the website. or by emailing the club manager at manager@ycbc.co.uk. (Entries are now closed.)

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Team Rosters

The organizer/captain’s name appears first in each team’s player list.

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Page last updated 11 April 2025

The annual Young Chelsea Championship Pairs was contested by 14 pairs over 52 deals as a two‑session event on Sunday 2 February. Every pair played four deals against each of the other pairs. Congratulation to winners, Alan Hayward and Claire Robinson, on a score of 60.82%. They keep the Franklin To trophy for a year and their names go up on the honours board.

Results

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Item posted 3 February 2025

The Autumn 2024 Young Chelsea Super League finished on Wednesday 18 December, the last scheduled date of the season.

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Congratulation to winning team Hillman (Richard Hillman, Keith Bennett, Neil Rosen, John Atthey, Heather Dhondy, Rob Cliffe, Nicola Smith, Brian Callaghan), who finished strongly after a slow start. Prizes were the same as in the Spring season. First place received £600. [See more…]

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Item posted 29 December 2024

The Goldhawks celebrated Christmas with members bringing a selection of mostly home‑cooked treats for lunch during their Tuesday meeting on 17 December.

Club Chair, Chris Duckworth, directed the event as a seventeen‑player individual movement (one player sitting out in each of the rounds). Congratulations to the winner, Jayne Barber on 68.75% who keeps the Goldhawks Trophy for a year. Commiserations to second‑placed Robert Twell on 63.54%.

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Results

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Item posted 18 December 2024

New Matchpointed Pairs Ladder Competition

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Following a request made at the club’s AGM last month, we are introducing a regular matchpointed pairs duplicate game that we hope will be attractive to all our members. For the first six months of 2025 it will be held once a month, on a Tuesday evening, on the following dates:

• 28 January
• 25 February
• 25 March
• 29 April
• 20 May
• 17 June

Members are encouraged to play in as many of these as they can manage—there will be a ladder cash prize for the three best games with at least two different partners over the season.

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Item posted 11 December 2024

The club hosted the LMBA’s Palmer Bayer pairs, a “no fear” event with methods restricted to simple systems, on Sunday 1 December. Six tables played 27 deals at a relaxed pace in the main hall. Afterwards the prizegiving took place in the bar, with complimentary drinks for the competitors and a hand discussion led by bridge luminaries Ian Payn and David Burn

Congratulations to Pete Challis and Sam Oestreicher who won with a score of 62.52%. This was Pete’s first win, but Sam has turned out for this event over many years and has previously won with a variety of partners.

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The youngest player in the field, taking part in her very first competitive duplicate, was Bianca Baratta. Club Chair Chris Duckworth presented her with a special award to mark the occasion.

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See the LMBA website for full results.

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Item posted 2 December 2024

We are delighted to announce that we have raised the grand total of £5,521.21 for the Help Ukraine Emergency Appeal. The club organised a special fundraising duplicate on 6 March and our Ukrainian staff rallied round baking cakes and donating Ukrainian goods for sale. The event attracted a great mix of club members and others, all of whom gave very generously and the funds rolled in. We are very grateful to all, and every penny will go to the Ukrainian people. [See more…]

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Item posted 9 March, updated 19 March 2022