The YCBA promotes, manages and supports EBU affiliated
competitive bridge play in our county.
7th December 2024
Winter season of OYL starts soon
32 teams have entered the Winter 2025 season of the Online Yorkshire League.
There will be three divisions of 10, 10 and 12 teams.
On each match day teams, who represent clubs affiliated to YCBA, play three matches of eight boards using BBO or RealBridge.
The matches are on Sunday afternoons, 5th and 19th January and 2nd February.
13th November 2024
FROM the recent European women’s training event on RealBridge.
The post-mortem was led by Sabine Auken, author of I Love This Game.
The top two teams were both English.
The winners were Gill Copeland and Nichola Cockerill Smith, Catherine Thompson and Lesley Bridson;
in second place were Jacqueline Farrar and Christina Powne, Dina Bennett and Harriet Cork.
13th November 2024
The winners of the EBU Overseas Congress Swiss Teams were
Stuart Davies
Nichola Cockerill-Smith
Lesley Bridson
Catherine Thompson
11th November 2024
Yorks miss out on Tolle final place
Yorkshire’s quest for a place in the final of the intercounty Tollemache Cup has been unsuccessful once again. The qualifying round was played online using RealBridge over the weekend of 9th and 10th November 2024.
25th October 2024
Adjustments for players with disabilities
Clubs may be interested to know that the EBU’s Bridge Warehouse now stock decks of large figure playing cards suitable for players with impaired vision.
21st October 2024
Yorkshire teams have completed a remarkable season in the 2024 Northern Bridge League by finishing in first place in all three divisions.
The final round of matches was played on 19th October. In the A division this round was won by Merseyside & Cheshire, but over the season as a whole Yorkshire were more consistent and finished 11 victory points clear of their rivals.
Yorkshire entered two teams in the B and C divisions. In the B division, the final round was won by Manchester, but our teams had built a substantial lead at the top of the table, and in the end it was Yorkshire 2 that prevailed by 18 victory points ahead of Yorkshire 1 with the others trailing by a distance.
In the C division, Merseyside & Cheshire won the final round and in the process overtook Yorkshire 2. Yorkshire 1 however finished as champions, 36 victory points clear of Merseyside with Yorkshire 2 another 13 points adrift.
Yorkshire A, B2 and C1 will be eligible to play in the finals of the National Inter–Counties League taking place next summer. Congratulations to all and thanks to the players for supporting the competition and to the selectors for their hard work in ensuring the county fielded five highly competitive teams on all four match days.
A more detailed report, including the players in the final round of matches, will be posted on the Leagues page in the near future.
6th October 2024
1st: Alan Hayward & Alan Jarvis
2nd: Steve Raine & Adam Hickman
3rd=: Andy Cope & Oscar Selby
3rd=: Ryan Stephenson & Arthur Hughes
Full results
6th October 2024
1st: Ian Newsham & Pauline Stout
2nd: Peter Farmer & Chris Farmer
3rd: Cathy Wood & Michael Pointon
Full results
18th September 2024
Jacqui Hutchinson & Robert Eaton hit the top 10 in the Festival Pairs – Well done.
The following Yorkshire players had some success here:
All in top 10 listed.
Festival Pairs (31 pairs)
4th Freda Conquest & Stephen Berson
7th Paul Belsten & Stuart Davies
8th Gill Copeland & Rickard Pike
10th Jacqui Hutchinson & Robert Eaton
Swiss Pairs (42 pairs)
2nd Paul Belsten & Stuart Davies
Swiss Teams (20 teams)
1st Ted & Janet Latham, Lesley Bridson & Catherine Thompson
4th= Freda Conquest & Stephen Berson +2
7th Richard Pike & Nichola Cockerill-Smith, Paul Belsten & Stuart Davies
9th= Carole Kelly & Geoff Kenyon, Gill Copeland & Steve Blackburn
16th September 2024
As part of the Festival of Bridge week, a Golf/Bridge day on Friday 13th! was organised by Mark Dunkley and Alastair Davidson on behalf of the YCBA.
Beautiful weather arrived for the golf and 3 fourballs teed off. Michael Pointon and Steve Smith won this part of the competition with a score of 39 points.
After a lovely lunch, the bridge started with an all play all Howell. The winners of this were Martin Edge and Nick Woolven who were the overall winners after combining the golf and Bridge scores.
A great day was had by all with the hope that this may be a fixture in the calendar every year. Our thanks to Thirsk and North Allerton Golf club who provided a lovely course, good food and accommodation for the bridge. Also to Jim Edwards who very kindly agreed to direct.
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