Yorkshire Improvers Pairs
17th March 2019
This event was very well attended: 44 pairs competed
Bill & Jennifer Fawkner-Corbett were the winners with 61.81%
Sheila Dodd & Ralph Thompson were runners up on 60.12%
Please click on the heading more information
New Technology Grants
The Management Board of YCBA has decided to make funds available to clubs for technological development.
The idea is to help as many Yorkshire clubs as possible to improve their technical resources.
You have to agree to stay affiliated to the YCBA & EBU for at least 3 years.
Clubs may apply for grants using the form provided. Please click HERE for a copy.
Harrogate Spring Congress
8th - 10th February 2019 Improvers Pairs
Joan Eager & Brian Eager = 61.63% Open Pairs
Kevin Higgins & Julian Hayward = 60.10% Mixed Pairs
Fiona Brown & Michael Levi = 62.07% Swiss Pairs
Tom Slater & Michael Byrne = 145 vps Improvers Teams
Mark & Jenny Dunkley, Iwan & Maureen Williams = 28 Imps Swiss Teams
Kiat Huang, Mark Wardell, Nick Hunter & Ruby Schnalke = 100vps
Please click on the heading to visit the EBU website for the full results
Jeremy Clarkson on Learning Bridge
Jack Stocken has sent in an amusing article about the 'mysteries' of contract bridge written by Jeremy Clarkson recently for the Sunday Times. Click on the heading to see it.
Yorkshire Junior Bridge
Calling all Yorkshire youngsters, students, and those young at heart. We are looking to build the Yorkshire Youth
(Under 25) community and organise a get-together in the near future for all ages and abilities covering both bridge
and minibridge. If you are a Junior, parent or teacher, or are interested in helping with youth bridge in the future
please contact Phil Morrison, County Youth Officer at yorkshireyouthbridge@gmail.com
or via the new Twitter account @YorksYthBridge
Mixed Pivot Teams
25th November 2018
The event, at Bradford Bridge Club, was won by Jan Springett, Tom Copeland, Alan Hayward, and Stephen Berson
Their winning score was 82 IMPs. Please click on the heading for details.
YCBA Development Day - Chairman's Observations
The members meeting held at the Hilton, Leeds on Sunday 18th November together with the YCBA development day was a great success.
First my thanks go to the speakers on the day which included ones from ArcScorer and BriAn, which showed us the future of how we will be inputting scores and Phil Godfrey for stepping in to do Pianola at the last moment. This was apart from his duties at discussing EBU Score and some of the new laws together with BB@B with Ron Millet. Bev Purvis, the club liaison officer at the EBU, was also present.
Two main items came from the members meeting itself and these were the investment in technology which is going to be offered by the county to clubs. This will include, hopefully, everything from whiteboards to new technology and discussions as to how this will be implemented will be at our next board meeting in January. The idea of having seminars aimed at non-experts was brought up and it seemed that a day set aside would be a popular idea. This will be discussed at the next Bridge development meeting.
It is likely we will be holding the members meeting at development days in the future, so if you have any ideas that you would like to be presented at one of these, please let a board member know.
Nick Woolven
Tollemache 2018
17-18th November
Sadly, Yorkshire did not qualify, finishing 6th in group B
You can view the details on the EBU website by clicking on the heading, above.
Northern Bridge League
A division: Yorkshire 2 were 2nd, behind Manchester 1
B division: Yorkshire were 2nd, behind Manchester
C division: Yorkshire NW were joint 1st with Manchester 1
The tie is split by considering the total VPs scored between the tying teams over all four heats
This means that Yorkshire NW prevail by 43 to 37, and qualify for the National Final
Congratulations to all involved in this achievement
Please click on the heading to visit the NBL website for the full results
and click on the team titles to see the names of the players
