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16th February 2023
1st: Tom Cohen, Jake Milne, Fiona Brown, Helen Erichsen
2nd: Sue McIntosh, Philip Cooper, Ingar Hansen, Richard Bowdery
3rd: Paul Chapman, Sue Chapman, Helen Wildsmith, Tim Chanter
Full results on Pianola
13th February 2023
Congratulations to
Ron & Diane Lesseter
in the Really Easy Section
Steve Raine & Chris Cooper
in the Swiss Pairs
Tom Cohen, Jake Milne, Fiona Brown, Helen Erichsen
in the Swiss Teams
12th February 2023
1st: Ron & Diane Lesseter
2nd: Justine Davies & Rebecca Pullan
3rd: Nicola Wayman & Erica Smith
Full results on Pianola Feb-2023
22nd January 2023
1st: Nick Woolven & Mike Ferguson
2nd: Tom Gisborne & Sandy Davies
3rd: Stuart & Pam Coggrave
Full results on Pianola Jan-2023
11th January 2023
A happy new year to you all and I hope your bridge playing exploits, whether on-line or face to face, continue to give you enjoyment over the coming year. Also, congratulations to each and every one of you for winning the Tony Priday award, given out by the EBU in recognition of outstanding contributions and enhancing the game of bridge.
First of all, I would like to draw your attention to a couple of upcoming events. The first is the Yorkshire pairs to be held at York Bridge Club on 22nd January, 1pm start and secondly the Spring Congress at the Crowne Plaza in Harrogate, 10th-12th February which the YCBA run on behalf of the EBU. Details of the Easter festival (again, run on behalf of the EBU) will also be following soon. All the details for entry into these events (the first two) can be found on the YCBA website.
As you may be aware, the YCBA set aside some money for grants to assist clubs getting restarted and so far, £6000 has been taken up. Some of this money is still available and if you have a specific targeted initiative that you think may help your club, eg. to get an afternoon session organised which may need extra room hire, then please do not hesitate to contact us. On this note, the EBU has money available for ‘struggling clubs’ (I do not have the definition!) as well. To avail yourself of this, you would have to contact the EBU directly.
The teaching campaign which proved so popular, looks set to return later on this year. Our board member, David Guild, has worked hard to get the original scheme off the ground and will be trialling it again in the North Yorkshire region to start with in the near future. There is now new material available from Jim Edwards to back up the lessons broadcast and the tuition that follows, so watch this space. For those who have completed perhaps one or two years there are also supervised play sessions available on BBO through EBED. If you look on the EBED website, details are there.
The weather this winter has been very mild so far, so you may think that having a break in the face to face Yorkshire league was unnecessary. However, we still believe that this is the way ahead and with 40 odd teams playing in the on-line league that fills this winter break, it would seem to justify making bridge available throughout the period. Special thanks go to Mike Jackson and the YL committee for all the work that goes into making these events run as smoothly as possible. The introduction of RealBridge as well as BBO, I think is a great enhancement and would encourage you to have a look/go at it if you are not familiar with it. All the work is done by the team at RealBridge and it is very intuitive to use, plus you get to see the whites of the eyes of the opposition!
Lastly, rather like that record that has stuck in its groove, I would like to mention that we still have a vacancy on the management board of the YCBA. We have a plan to contact all clubs in the future as part of a recruitment drive but if you would like to pre-empt this manoeuvre by all means contact any member of the board. We are happy to invite people along to have taster sessions to see how we operate with no obligation! I appreciate that this does mean a commitment on your behalf but the YCBA has always been able to find excellent volunteers to run the organisation and hope that some of you may consider joining us.
Nick Woolven (YCBA Chair)
2nd January 2023
The winners of the Swiss Pairs were Roger Harris and Alan Patel
with Tim Chanter and Helen Wildsmith in 2nd place.
The teams was won by Pearl Murphy & Val Gibson with Denis Murphy & Julian Gibson.
Runners up were David Beresford & Bob Brown with Ian Johns & John O’Sullivan.
4th December 2022
Congratulations to all the players who represented Yorkshire in the C Division of the
Northern Bridge League in 2022. Yorkshire won each of the four rounds and finished 79
victory points ahead of second placed Lancashire in the league table.
There were also strong performances by the other Yorkshire teams. Both Yorkshire B and
Yorkshire A finished in second place in their respective divisions, both of which were won by
Manchester.
4th December 2022
The Tollemache is the EBU’s teams of eight competition for teams representing county
associations. A qualifying round is played in November and the leading eight teams
proceed to the final the following February.
Yorkshire has not had much success in this competition in recent years, and the pattern
continued this year, as we finished in eighth place out of 15 in our group. This was nine
victory points short of a qualifying spot
18th November 2022
Click here to download the flyer
At the YCBA, we are well aware that there is a real mix of players with some preferring online and some preferring face to face. As has become tradition in the last couple of years, the first event of 2023 will again be the YCBA New Year Bonanza. The event will be played on BBO and will feature 2 days of blue pointed events with pairs on the 1st January and teams on the 2nd January. The nature of a Swiss style event means it is suitable for all players as you will play against people who are doing as well (or badly!) as you are on the day.
There is a flyer attached with more details but if you are part of a pair who require team mates then please let me know by reply and I can try to pair you up.
For those of you are playing face to face, I should like to remind you about the Harrogate Spring Congress which is taking place at a new venue this year, the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Harrogate. Full details on this event and lots of others taking place both online and face to face for clubs across the County can be found on the YCBA website.
Best regards,
Oliver Cowan (Online Tournament Administrator)
2nd November 2022
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The Really Easy Pairs will have a talk from Jim Edwards about Swiss Pairs and then playing a 25 board session with high tea being served in the break..
There is free parking in the hotel car park for all events as well as tea and coffee being available free of charge for all sessions.
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