Bernard Magee's Acol Bidding Quiz
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Number: 165 UK £3.95 Europe €5.00 September 2016 Bernard Magee’s Acol Bidding Quiz This month we are dealing with all sorts of conventions. You are West in the auctions below, BRIDGEplaying ‘Standard Acol’ with a weak no-trump (12-14 points) and four-card majors. 1. Dealer South. Love All. 4. Dealer East. N/S Game. 7. Dealer East. Love All. 10. Dealer North. Love All. ♠ K Q 3 ♠ A 6 ♠ A Q 4 3 ♠ 6 2 ♥ K 4 3 2 N ♥ J 9 7 6 N ♥ 7 6 ♥ Q 2 N W E W E N W E ♦ K 7 6 ♦ A 9 8 3 2 ♦ Q J 10 8 ♦ A 8 7 3 S S W E S ♣ Q J 2 ♣ 6 5 ♣ J 8 2 ♣ A 9 8 5 4 S West North East South West North East South West North East South West North East South 2♠1 1NT 2♣1 1♥ 2♥1 1♣1 Dbl 1♠ ? 1Weak two ? ? ? 1May have just one club 1Hearts and another suit (5-4+) 1Michaels cue bid: 5-5 in ♠ & ♣ or ♦ (five-card majors and a strong 1NT) 2. Dealer North. E/W Game. 5. Dealer West. Love All. 8. Dealer West. Love All. 11. Dealer North. Love All. ♠ 7 ♠ A Q 7 6 ♠ A K 7 5 ♠ A 7 6 3 N ♥ Q 8 7 6 N ♥ 3 2 N ♥ K Q 7 6 5 ♥ 6 5 4 N W E ♦ W E ♦ W E ♦ ♦ W E A 9 8 5 3 J 4 3 J 8 7 S 9 8 S S S ♣ K 9 6 ♣ A Q 10 3 ♣ 2 ♣ K Q J 10 West North East South West North East South West North East South West North East South 2♠1 Pass Pass 1NT Pass Pass 2♣1 1♥ 2NT1 Dbl Pass 1♣1 Dbl 1♠ ? 1Weak two ? ? Pass 1NT Pass Pass 1Hearts and another suit (5-4+) 1Unusual no-trump: 5-5 in ♣ & ♦ ? 1May have just one club (five-card majors and a strong 1NT) 3. Dealer North. Love All. 6. Dealer West. Love All. 9. Dealer East. Love All. 12. Dealer North. Love All. ♠ 7 6 4 3 ♠ K 3 2 ♠ J 3 2 ♠ 8 6 5 4 N ♥ A 4 3 2 N ♥ K 6 4 3 N ♥ A 4 ♥ K 2 N W E ♦ K Q 7 2 W E ♦ A 7 3 W E ♦ Q J 9 3 ♦ J 8 6 5 W E S S S S ♣ 7 ♣ A 8 4 ♣ K 8 6 3 ♣ A 4 2 West North East South West North East South West North East South West North East South 2♠1 Dbl Pass 1NT 2♦1 2♥ Pass 1♥ 2♥1 1♣1 Pass 1♦2 ? 1Weak two ? Dbl 2♠ 3♣ Pass Pass 1♠ Dbl Pass 1Spades and a minor suit (5-4+) ? ? 1Michaels cue bid: 5-5 in ♠ & ♣ or ♦ 1Strong club 2Negative Answers on page 7 Answers on page 9 Answers on page 11 Answers on page 13 Features this month include: ADVERTISERS’ 1 Bidding Quiz by Bernard Magee INDEX BRIDGE Mr Bridge 2 Clive Goff’s Stamps 3 Ryden Grange, Knaphill, 6 Aegean Classics Surrey GU21 2TH 4 In My Opinion onboard Minerva 7 Designs for Bridge ( 01483 489961 7 Bidding Quiz Answers (1-3) by Bernard Magee Table Covers [email protected] 9 Bidding Quiz Answers (4-6) by Bernard Magee 7 Travel Insurance www.mrbridge.co.uk 7 Designs for Bridge Tables shop: www.mrbridge.co.uk/ 11 Bidding Quiz Answers (7-9) by Bernard Magee 8 Old Empires mrbridge-shop 13 Bidding Quiz Answers (10-12) by Bernard Magee onboard Minerva Publisher and 9 Acol Bidding Managing Editor 14 David Stevenson Answers Your Questions with Bernard Magee Mr Bridge 10 Adriatic to Venice 18 Teachers’ Corner by Ian Dalziel onboard Minerva Associate Editor and 11 Defence 21 Trump Control by Bernard Magee Bridge Consultant with Bernard Magee Bernard Magee 22 Julian Pottage Answers Your Questions 12 Italian Overture bernardmagee onboard Minerva @mrbridge.co.uk 23 Declarer Play Quiz by David Huggett 13 Club Insurance Cartoons & Illustrations 13 Duplicate Bridge Marguerite Lihou 25 Declarer Play Answers by David Huggett Rules Simplified www.margueritelihou.co.uk 13 Pot Boiler Tea Towel 26 Globe Trotter Part Three by Shireen Mohandes 14 Fiestas de Navidad Technical Consultant onboard Minerva 28 Balancing by Jeremy Dhondy Tony Gordon 19 The Present Tea Towel Typesetting & Design 33 More Tips by Bernard Magee 19 QPlus 11 Ruth Edmondson 19 Life’s a Game Tea Towel [email protected] 33 Defence Quiz by Julian Pottage 20 Atlantic Isles onboard Minerva Proof Readers 35 Defence Quiz Answers by Julian Pottage Julian Pottage 24 Archipelagos onboard Minerva Mike Orriel 37 Sally’s Slam of the Month 30 Volcanic Islands Catrina Shackleton onboard Minerva Richard Wheen 38 Readers’ Letters 31 French Riviera & Customer Services 40 Catching Up with Sally Brock Moorish Spain with Catrina Shackleton Voyages to Antiquity [email protected] 41 Wendy Wensum’s Diaries 32 Maritime Iberia onboard Minerva Events & Cruises 42 Friar Tuck’s Deception by David Bird 34 UK Scenes from Silver ( 01483 489961 Screen with Fred.Olsen 44 Alerts and Announcements by David Stevenson Jessica Galt 36 Irish Christmas Markets [email protected] 46 Trump Management by Andrew Kambites with Fred.Olsen Megan Riccio 37 Mr Bridge [email protected] 47 Seven Days with Sally Brock Festive Season 2016 Sophie Pierrepont 41 Mr Bridge Just [email protected] 50 The Abbot, The Parrot and The Bermuda Bowl Duplicate Bridge Events Clubs & Charities reviewed by David Huggett 45 Bernard Magee’s Maggie Axtell Tutorial Software [email protected] 47 Madeira, Morocco REDUCE THE COST OF YOUR POSTAGE & Seville with Address Changes Voyages to Antiquity ( 01483 485342 Postage stamps for sale at 85% of face-value, 49 Declarer Play Elizabeth Bryan all mint with full gum. Quotations for with Bernard Magee [email protected] commercial quantities available on request. 50 Renaissance Values supplied in 100s, higher values & Rivieras with Printed in the UK by available as well as 1st and 2nd class Voyages to Antiquity The Magazine (eg 2nd class: 100x38p+100x16p). 51 Bernard Magee DVDs Printing Company 52 Fred.’s Favourite Fjords www.magprint.co.uk ( 020 8422 4906 e-mail: [email protected] with Fred.Olsen Page 2 BRIDGE September 2016 SHOP WINDOW also sent a set as a withhold their name. and duplicate bridge. Extra consolation prize for her copies for friends and Whilst this can be entry, Mr Hat. family are available at £8 acceptable for contributors including p&p. to David Stevenson’s or 2016 DVDs Julian Pottage’s columns, a LIGHTNING The 2016 filming has now debate can only really be been through all its started if readers can In early July, Ryden Grange post-filming processes and respond to a name. Future was struck by lightning, the finished DVDs are now contributors to ‘In My which knocked out the in stock. It can be included Opinion’ should put on telephone line, internal as part of the ‘any two for their armour and pick up exchange and broadband. My promotional booklet, the price of one’ offer which their sword, before sitting This resulted in our IT Shop Window, is enclosed is set to expire at the end in front of their PC to type being down for almost a with this issue. Do use its of August. See page 51 for in their letter. full week. mail order form on its full details. After several weeks of poor page 47 if you want to 2017 FILMING service, our server and take up the DVD offer VESTED INTERESTS other parts gave up and we before it expires. In an editorial earlier this were down for another four It is intended to divert year, I made a plea for new days while everything was adverts and free-up developments and downloaded and space in BRIDGE for directions for the game. transferred… it’s a case of more bridge. These are to be included this stuff is great when it in the new ‘In My Opinion’ works but a real pain when it doesn’t. C’est la vie. GOODBYE column. The 2017 filming event is I also warned that vested scheduled for 13-16 Readers will sense that I PATRICK JORDAIN have a love hate relationship interests will fight and January. Over three days with my tea towels. Indeed, resist any sort of change. Bernard Magee, pictured It is sad to report the they were the salvation of above, will give six self- passing of Patrick Jordain, My own vested interests contained tutorials on my bridge dreams and are obvious. Change is bridge correspondent of schemes years ago, so I have various aspects of the game. The Daily Telegraph. A full vital to arrest the These will be filmed and a soft spot for the entire continuing decline in obituary will be published collection. recorded and later edited in the October issue. R.I.P. the numbers playing. into six self-contained But they must go if I am to DVDs. Each lecture is MINERVA focus on the future, so I CO-INCIDENDENCE followed by a session of play really am clearing them OR … supervised by a team of out. 5 for £12.95, randomly really experienced bridge Just over 10 years ago, selected, including postage hosts allowing Bernard I had two gas fired boilers and packing. I am sure the Magee to have a rest. For installed here at Ryden helpful girls in my office details see the carrier sheet.