Yorkshire Contract Bridge Association

Online Yorkshire League Spring 2022

26th April 2022

The Spring 2022 season of the Online Yorkshire League was completed on Sunday 24th April. Congratulations to the divisional winners Sheffield Buzz, Thirsk A, Halifax A and Leeds F. Full results are available here

43 teams from 15 clubs took part, playing 9 matches of 8 boards each over three match days. An innovation this season was giving teams the option of playing their home matches on RealBridge as an alternative to Bridge Base Online. This was generally well received despite some players being initially apprehensive about a new playing environment for the online game.

Thanks to all players. The next season will be in January and February of 2023.

York Bridge Club – New Clubhouse

10th April 2022

After 15 months in construction, York Bridge Club is now open from it’s fabulous new premises.

The new clubhouse is stand-alone and purpose-built solely for bridge play. 

It includes a 25 tables capacity play room, teaching and catering facilities and extensive parking spaces. 

The club latest play schedule and location map can be found at www.bridgewebs.com/york/

The YCBA congratulate York Bridge Club on their far-sighted successful development of this project.

More information is available here

YCBA TD course

14th March 2022

As announced at the last YCBA members meeting, this is a YCBA run Tournament Directors course over three Saturdays and will cover the same material as the EBED version

Dates:     Saturday 26th March, Saturday 9th April, Saturday 23rd April

VENUE: 

   Huddersfield Bridge Club
   4/6 Cambridge Rd
   Huddersfield
   West Yorkshire
   HD1 5BU

  01484 427621

Course Director: Barrie Partridge   TD@sheffieldbridgeclub.co.uk

There is no cost for the course for YCBA members and a YCBA certificate will be issued on completion.

Each day will run from 10.00 until 5.30 with a break for lunch. Tea and coffee will be provided free of charge, but no food, so you will need to bring along something to eat if needed.

If you plan on attending, please can you e-mail Barrie at the above address, or failing that contact Nick Woolven chairman@ycba.co.uk , so we can get an idea of numbers.

If you are interested in tournament directing then I know that the course will be both informative and instructive.

Nick Woolven

2022 Northern Easter Festival

3rd March 2022

2022 Northern Easter Festival

Over the Easter weekend (April 16/17th), we getting back to face to face Bridge in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales’ setting of Ilkley where the YCBA on behalf of the EBU will be running blue pointed 9-High Pairs and Teams events alongside the green pointed Swiss Pairs and Swiss Teams events.

Details of each session are shown in the Event Calendar and a full schedule of sessions with details of how to book accommodation is available here

An entry form is available here. Closing date for entries is 6th April

New Beginner’s Bridge course

15th February 2022

The YCBA has commissioned Jim Edwards to produce comprehensive digital resources for the first ten lessons of a beginners’ course in bridge play.
Lesson 1 can be openly previewed at  https://bridgeplay.uk/Lessons/Index/123

This full course materials are available free of charge, exclusively to Yorkshire EBU affiliated clubs. Our Clubs can now contact Jim at  jimedwards.bridge@gmail.com to get their Club password access to the full course materials. 

2022 Spring Congress

11th February 2022

The 2022 Spring Congress takes place this weekend and links to the Swiss Team and Swiss Pairs events are available via their respective event pages.

Tollemache Qualifier 2021 – November 13th/14th

4th December 2021

The withdrawal of some of our top pairs meant Yorks were on the back foot straight away and once again failed to qualify for the Tollenmache final.

31 county teams entered on Realbridge and these were split into 2 groups of 16 and 15 with the top 4 qualifying from each group.

Yorkshire were in the group of 15 and finished 8^th, 23 victory points short of 4^th. The team took a hammering from the eventual winners, London (who cantered to victory) and there after mediocre performances left them mid table. Robinson and Sowter were by far and away the best performing pair being the only ones positive on the cross imps.

The organisation of the pairs and the seating rights etc. were well coordinated by the NPC Alan Brosgill, who did a sterling job ensuring everyone was in position at the correct time and keeping us well informed.

In the Yorkshire group, qualifiers were London, Berks and Bucks, Gloucester, Norfolk
and in the other group, qualifiers were Manchester, Devon, Warwicks, Herts.

Some notable teams performed worse than Yorks (Surrey, Middlesex, Cambs, Kent) but that is of no consolation!

Yorkshire Team: Robinson / Sowter / McNiff / Hayward / Woolven / Cohen / Pike / Waxman / Cook / Haines.

Event Entries – Closing Date reminders

23rd November 2021

There is still time for members to send their Team entries for the Waddington Shield Knockout competition before the closing date of 30 November.

The popular New Year Bonanza event will be run online again over two days (2nd and 3rd January) and includes both Pairs and Swiss Teams blue pointed events. So get your entries in now before the closing date of 29 December.

Full details are in the Event Calendar

YCBA Members Meeting

10th November 2021

YCBA Members Meeting 11am Saturday 20th November 2021

All members of our affiliated Yorkshire Bridge Clubs are invited to attend this Zoom event to meet and ask questions of your YCBA Board.

The session will include a brief update of current YCBA performance and points of interest.

The meeting will be approximately one hour and to be followed by two hours of free online bridge.

Full details are available in the Event calendar

YCBA Great Northern Swiss Pairs – Winners

7th October 2021

The 2021 Great Northern Swiss Pairs took place again this year on BBO.

Congratulations to Paul Murray & Andrew Woodcock who finished in first place, with a score of 57.97%.

In second place were Ron Davis & Tracy Sherman with a score of 56.04%, and in third place were Robin Jepson & Alan Brosgill with a score of 55.82%

The top three and results links are shown below