The YCBA promotes, manages and supports EBU affiliated
competitive bridge play in our county.
16th August 2021
The YCBA Grants committee has now made an offer of assistance to 7 clubs to help them with their restarting face to face bridge. This offer of assistance from the YCBA to all clubs will continue to the end of December. If your club would like to find out how to go about getting some assistance, please do not hesitate to contact anyone on the board who will then pass it onto the Grants committee for consideration.
Nick Woolven (YCBA Chair)
8th August 2021
For anyone who missed Phil Godfrey’s online seminar on 24 July, a recording is available to the end of August here
27th July 2021
It is with great pleasure to announce that the YCBA has appointed Dani Hyman as acting secretary to the YCBA (her appointment will only become official when approved at the AGM). She replaces Julia Staniforth who has given 10 years of unstinting service to the role and will hopefully still contribute her expertise to the YCBA.
Dani is a member of Leeds BC and has been playing since she was 13 years old. Unfortunately she is a Leeds Rhinos fan, so it is not all perfect!. She has vast administrative experiences in the roles she has carried out for her work and will bring those with her to the role of YCBA secretary. If you wish to contact her, this can be done through the link on the website .
We, at the YCBA, wish Dani all the best in her new role and look forward to working with her.
16th July 2021
To help ease you back into potentially face to face bridge, Phil Godfrey, one of our leading tournament directors, will be running a refresher course on common calls/problems on Saturday 24th July.
Full details are available in the Event Calendar.
14th July 2021
Wakefield Bridge Club are moving premises. Please see their website for the new address and directions to their clubhouse.
9th July 2021
Yorkshire pair Keith Joules and David Beck won the Swiss Pairs event at the EBU virtual Seaside Summer Congress (previously the English Riviera Congress) by the considerable margin of 34 VPs. Full results are available on the EBU website or here
27th June 2021
Many congratulations to the Sheffield A team of Dave Robinson & Tony Sowter, Richard Pike & David Waxman, Arthur Hughes & Dave Banks, and Baz Caygill & Sandy Davies for winning the Garden Cities Trophy.
This is a national competition for winners of county leagues teams of 8 and after coming through the regional heats, they went on to win the final.
Full results can be found here
22nd June 2021
The YCBA is seeking to make an appointment from among its membership to the position of Secretary.
It is an honorary role but travel and other reasonable expenses will be reimbursed – travel expenses in accordance with an existing scale. The successful candidate will be co-opted until the next Annual General Meeting in June 2022. Under the YCBA Constitution all officers including the Secretary are elected annually at the AGM.
Full details are available here.
Applications should be sent by email to Nick Woolven, chairman@ycba.co.uk
17th June 2021
Friendly between a Yorkshire invitation team & Southampton and District
On 10th June a friendly took place between a Yorkshire invitation team and Southampton and District. The Southampton team comprised of the Corwen winning pair, 2 of the strongest players from Kent and several strong Southampton players. I am pleased to say that the Yorkshire team won by 3 matches to one.
In the first match Nick Woolven and Mike Ferguson were on fire and partnering Mike Jackson and John Hayton, winning by 73-26.
The second match probably saw some of the best bridge from both teams and Southampton won this by 58-38. The Yorkshire team was Alan Hayward and Alan Jarvis partnering Robin Jepson and Alan Brosgill.
The third match saw Keith Joules and David Beck partnering Ian Johns and John O’Sullivan winning by 49 -24, with some good contracts being bid and made.
The final match saw Chris and Pauline Fort partnering Stephen and Cheryl Brown who had a storming victory of 41-9 bidding and making some good contracts missed in other matches.
The match was played in a friendly manner and competitive spirit and the banter afterwards on the zoom meeting was lively.
7th June 2021
In light of the sudden death of Philip Mason, the Malton Cup scheduled for June 20th has been cancelled.
Money will be refunded for any entries that have already been paid. Any queries should be directed to Richard Hilton at Malton Bridge Club whose contact details can be found under the ‘About Clubs‘ directory.
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