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Julian Pottage's Double Dummy Problem Number: 203 November 2019 BRIDGEJulian Pottage’s Double Dummy Problem RIDL OCK G ♠ A K ♥ Q J 10 9 ♦ 10 9 6 5 4 3 2 ♣ Void ♠ 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 ♠ Q J ♥ N ♥ Void W E 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 ♦ Void S ♦ 8 7 ♣ 8 7 6 5 ♣ K J ♠ Void ♥ A K ♦ A K Q J ♣ A Q 10 9 4 3 2 Contract 7NT by South Lead: ♠10 This Double Dummy problem can also be found on page 5 of this issue. The answer will be published on page 4 next month. Mr Bridge Holidays 4* Hotel Riu Garoe 14-28 January 2020 Winter Sun - Tenerife Join Sandy Bell for a bridge holiday with winter sun in Tenerife. Throughout the fortnight, Sandy will offer a full What's Included... bridge programme, including four seminars followed by supervised play with the assistance of Sandy’s experienced R Flights from London team, all played in a friendly atmosphere. A full team ensures Gatwick or Manchester there are no half-tables and a partner will always be found. 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The Trouville Hotel Values supplied in 100s, higher 51 Duplicate Bridge Rules Printed in the UK by values available, as well as 1st and Simplified The Magazine 2nd class. 52 Closer Spain and Printing Company ( 020 8422 4906 Cruising the Seine www.magprint.co.uk e-mail: [email protected] with Fred. Olsen BRIDGE November 2019 Page 3 Review by Shireen Mohandes O POT B ILER Bridge Mix ♠ A Q 7 The Bridge Cartoons ♥ A K Q J ♦ Q J 10 9 8 7 Of Charles M. Schulz ♣ Void ♠ K J 10 8 6 ♠ 9 5 4 3 2 Published 2012 by About Comics. N ♥ 5 4 3 2 ♥ Void W E ♦ Void S ♦ 6 5 4 3 2 Available at £5 per copy including postage ♣ K Q J 10 ♣ 4 3 2 & packing from Mr Bridge Mail Order. ♠ Void ♥ 10 9 8 7 6 ♦ A K ♣ A 9 8 7 6 5 here are only two honorary American Life Masters: Snoopy and Woodstock. In 1997 Roy G. Green, ♥ Contract 7 by South. then Chief Executive of the ACBL, the American West leads the ♣K. Tequivalent of the EBU, presented the much-admired Charles Schulz (1922 - 2000) with certificates for the duo. Bridge Mix, published in 2012 by About Comics, is an endearing collection of Schulz’s bridge cartoons from the late 1950s onwards. 1. POT BOILER © Mr Bridge. ( 01483 489961. Printed in the UK on 100% cotton. “The thing to remember about Schulz’s bridge cartoons,” Available as a tea towel from Mr Bridge ( 01483 489961 says Nat Gertler, the publisher of Bridge Mix and author of three books on the history of Peanuts, “is that they’re The Solution to October’s not really about the game. They’re about the players - the emotional highs and lows of playing the game, and the Double Dummy Bridge Problem occasional obsessiveness of living a life of bridge. That’s true for all the cartoons he did about sports and games - it’s the people he’s really interested in.” BOI Nat Gertler added: Charles Schulz was an avid bridge OT LER player. Jim Sasseville, the artist who drew the finished P cartoons after Schulz had switched just to drawing layouts, The key element is for South to discard his ace did not play the game at all. and king of diamonds. One can go on ♠A, but It’s Only a Game was originally intended to be solely and specifically about bridge. By the time it was released, it was what to do with the other? three single-panel cartoons per each Sunday’s instalment, The answer is, strange as it seems, on the last with the third always being about bridge. trump from dummy, as after South has ruffed two These panels are not the first time that Schulz cartooned spades, his trumps will be shorter than North’s. about bridge. He had the Peanuts kids playing bridge 1. Win ♣A (discarding 7♦). as early as 1952, five years 2. Play a trump to ♥A. before he’d launch It’s Only ♠ a Game, the series that 3. Ruff 7. included the weekly bridge 4. Play a trump to ♥ K. cartoons collected in this 5. Ruff ♠Q. book. 6. Play a trump to ♥ Q. The entire run of It’s Only ♥ a Game, including the non- 7. Play J, drawing West’s last trump, bridge cartoons as well as the discarding ♦K. bridge ones, is available in the 8.
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