Free Club Seminar: Don’t miss your chance to quiz the Chief TD On November 14th at 10.00am we will be running a free online seminar on the topic of directing club sessions. This is not a training session for new directors; rather it is a chance to discuss issues such as: …How to keep a session friendly …How to get help with a difficult ruling …Recent law changes from a club perspective …Common problems when directing and tips on how to solve them We will have the Chief TD Gordon Rainsford in attendance. If there are subjects you would particularly like to discuss please let us know in advance so we can be sure to include them. Book now by contacting sam@ebu.co.uk.
Online Yorkshire League – Winter season
1st November 2023
Online Yorkshire League – Winter season
Entries are now open for the Winter 2024 season and will close on 30th November. The match days are 7th and 21st January and 4th February. Teams of four representing clubs affiliated to YCBA compete in the League. Matches are played on BBO or RealBridge. For further details and how to enter, visit the Leagues pages of this website and/or contact your club secretary.
It may (but probably not!) have come to your attention that the annual members meeting will be coming up shortly. This is a meeting which is held as part of the constitution and the board would encourage you to attend if at all possible. Details of how the meeting will be run appear at the end of this article.
This is a chance for all members of the YCBA, where their first county of allegiance (or registered as a second county) is Yorkshire, to question the board, assess how we are doing, put ideas forward that we may not have thought of and for the board to give an update of what we are doing to progress bridge in the county. The good news is that there will be a free session of about 18 boards, to be run on BBO, for all members who attend (provided of course they want to play) with a prize of free entry (pairs) to the Spring Congress in Harrogate in February 2024. So how can you fail to want to attend if only to put faces to names (if you haven’t inspected the website!) of members of the board.
If you are unable to attend but would like a question/query to be answered, please let the acting secretary (Robin Jepson) have your details at least one week before the meeting.
The meeting will be held on Zoom as we feel that this offers the best approach to try and get a broader spectrum of members from across our large geographical county and the details are as follows:
Should this link, for any reason fail to work, it will be on the website as well.
Let’s hope the weather is a bit better then and we hope to see you there.
David Guild/Nick Woolven (YCBA Co-chairs)
EBU Venetian Overseas Congress Winners
22nd October 2023
The winners of the overseas Congress Swiss Teams were
Stuart Davies Nichola Cockerill-Smith Lesley Bridson Catherine Thompson
All Yorkshire.
Yorkshire teams win 2023 NBL
15th October 2023
Yorkshire teams win 2023 NBL
The final round of matches in the 2023 season of the Northern Bridge League took place on 14th October, and Yorkshire have won the A division for the first time since the competition began in 2006. Yorkshire One also were the winners of the B division, with Yorkshire Two in fifth place. It was very nearly a clean sweep, as in the C division Yorkshire and Manchester finished level on points, with Manchester declared winners by a tiebreak.
A more detailed report of the final round of matches will be posted on the Inter-County page.
Great Northern Swiss Pairs 2023 Video Blog
4th October 2023
Steve Raine’s video blog (YouTube) for day 1 of the GNSP 2023 click here.
