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LIGHTHEARTED WEDNESDAY EVENING SESSIONS

The Wednesday evening sessions that the YCBC runs between Super League seasons are back! Now for the same £10 fee as as our regular evening games you get complimentary nibbles before the session. The food is available from 7.00pm and the bridge starts at 7.30pm. Your results in these sessions do not affect your EBU NGS. These sessions are suitable for any player who enjoys a sociable game of matchpoint bridge.

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ADVANCE NOTICE

The next session is on Wednesday 3 July.

For catering purposes, please register online via the website.

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Item posted 25 June 2024

 

The Young Chelsea Individual is held in memory of the late Keith Loveys, a popular club member and expert bridge player. At seven tables, entries were slightly up from last year. The event this year was part of the Summer Party on Sunday 9 June.

Congratulations to the winner Rachel Bingham, who made it look like a walk in the park, finishing on 68.65% (over 7% clear of the field).

Second was Prakash Paranjape on 61.51% and third equal were John Pemberton and Stuart Nelson on 61.11%..

Results

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Item posted 13 June 2023

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

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Item posted 11 June 2024

The Young Chelsea Mixed Pairs 2024 took place at the club on Sunday 19 May. Seventeen pairs played two sessions of eighteen deals each.

On offer to the first four pairs were generous prizes from the Deauville Bridge Festival (to be held in July) of complimentary entry to the teams event plus accommodation in the Barrière hotel.

Very well done to the winners, Richard Haydon and Mireille Levy (on 60.94%), who established such a commanding lead in the first half that no one was able to catch them!

Overall ranking and session results are available via the following links:

• Overall ranking
• Session one of two
• Session two of two

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Item posted 23 May 2024

PLAYER OF THE MONTH

For many years, Mahmoud Sadek has produced statistics relating to the performance of players in YC club duplicates, determining an overall “Player of the Month” every month, and a “Player of the Year” for every calendar year. His method of calculating these performance statistics is something of a black art, known only to him! But they are based on the following metrics:

• The size of the field in which the player plays—i.e. the number of tables. Doing well in a large field will earn a player more points than playing in a small field.
• The strength of the field. His formula for calculating this is similar to, but not identical to the NGS. The stronger the field, the more points are awarded.
• The final position of the player in each duplicate. Those coming in the top five places earn points on a decreasing scale from first to fifth.
• He also keeps records of the number of wins for each player each month.

Points allocated for all these measures are added up to give a winner each month and year. Mahmoud no longer plays regularly in our duplicates himself, but he still maintains these statistics, which are based on all the games played at the club. These include the Goldhawks games, the regular Friday duplicates, Super Wednesdays and the YC Super League. So…

The player of the month for April 2024 is: SARA CHIAPPARA

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Item posted 5 May 2024

New Friday Morning Relaxed Duplicates

Starting on Friday 15 March, we will be running a new Friday morning duplicate game aimed at our less‑expert members. It will be an 18‑board pairs duplicate from 10.00am until 12.30pm, hosted by either Gitte Hecht‑Johansen or Shelley Shieff. All abilities will be welcome, but we expect most to be at or below a jack on the NGS scheme. Table money will be £8 a head and we hope it will prove popular with those who can make a daytime  game.

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Item posted 4 March 2024

After a fallow period, the Young Chelsea Championship Pairs was revived in 2024 and played on Sunday 28 January. The event has a handsome new trophy, the Franklin To Cup, generously donated by Franklin’s widow Macille. In 2012 Barry Myers and Franklin were the previous pair to have won the event and have their names recorded on the honours board.

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The event resolved into a two‑horse race between the winners and the runners‑up. Congratulation to Martin Nygren and David Willis, who prevailed with a score of 60.31%. They keep the trophy for a year and each received one of the increasingly rare YC 50^th anniversary coffee mugs as prizes. More importantly, their names go up on the honours baord.

Thank you, especially, to Franklin’s sons, Ainsley and Christopher, who took the time to come along to present the trophy and prizes, say a little about Franklin and chat with the contestants.

Results

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Item posted 30 January 2024

YCKO 2024

Seventeen teams have entered this year’s 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, 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 with the club at bookings@ycbc.co.uk. The tournament is running late as the notional play‑by date for the Round Three matches was 5 May. Undefeated teams have all been informed of their opponents and should play their matches as soon as practicable, please.

The club made a draw on Monday 21 August to decide the Quarter‑final matches (from possibilities that prevent teams which have already met from facing each other again):

The one semifinal match is:

The final match is:

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 YC members.

For 2024, the event will be played as a face‑to‑face competition with matches held at the club. Table money (inclusive of refreshments) per match will be £12.50 per player, 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.) 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 January 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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Page last updated 7 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