Number: 167 UK £3.95 Europe €5.00 November 2016 Bernard Magee’s Acol Bidding Quiz This month we are dealing with responder’s rebid. You are West in the auctions below, playing BRIDGE‘Standard Acol’ with a weak no-trump (12-14 points) and four-card majors. 1. Dealer East. Love All. 4. Dealer East. Love All. 7. Dealer East. Love All. 10. Dealer East. Love All. ♠ K 10 6 5 ♠ J 8 5 4 ♠ 6 4 ♠ Q 8 7 6 2 ♥ K Q 8 7 N ♥ A 9 8 7 6 N ♥ 7 2 N ♥ Q 9 N W E W E W E W E ♦ 7 ♦ 2 ♦ K Q 3 ♦ J 4 3 2 S S S S ♣ J 10 9 4 ♣ J 6 4 ♣ K Q 6 4 3 2 ♣ J 2 West North East South West North East South West North East South West North East South 1♦ Pass 1♦ Pass 1♥ Pass 1♣ Pass 1♥ Pass 1NT1 Pass 1♥ Pass 2♣ Pass 2♣ Pass 2♦ Pass 1♠ Pass 2♥ Pass ? 115-17 balanced ? ? ? 2. Dealer East. Love All. 5. Dealer East. Love All. 8. Dealer East. Love All. 11. Dealer East. 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Answers on page 45 Answers on page 47 Answers on page 49 Answers on page 50 2172 Mr Bridge 170915BR worked2_Layout 1 05/09/2016 09:42 Page 1 NEW – 2017 AUTUMN BRIDGE CRUISE ITALIAN & Venice Urbino Croatia Ancona Split ADRIATIC Italy Dubrovnik Adriatic Rome Pompe ii Sea Sorrento Brindisi Salerno albania Lecce Sarande HIGHLIGHTS Paestum Butrint Corfu greece Sicily Taormina Mediterranean Sea DEPARTS UK SEPTEMBER 15, 2017 SEP 15 Fly to ROME Italy Transfer to Civitavecchia and board Aegean Odyssey SEP 16 SORRENTO Italy overnight (Pompeii & Herculaneum) SEP 17 SORRENTO Italy overnight SEP 18 SORRENTO Italy Cruise past Capri and Amalfi Coast SALERNO Italy (Paestum) SEP 19 Cruise past Stromboli and through the Strait of Messina TAORMINA Sicily SEP 20 At Sea SEP 21 CORFU Greek Islands SARANDE Albania (Butrint) VENICE 13-day fly-cruise from £2,150 per person SEP 22 LECCE Italy SEP 23 DUBROVNIK Croatia with Mr & Mrs Bridge SEP 24 SPLIT Croatia SEP 25 URBINO Italy Cruise around Italy to the pleasures of beautiful Sorrento and SEP 26 VENICE Italy overnight Sicily, and along the glorious Adriatic coast to Venice. Begin with SEP 27 VENICE Italy Disembark and transfer to Venice Airport an extended stay in Sorrento with time to explore the ruins of both for flight home Pompeii and Herculaneum. Sail past romantic Capri and south AEG170915BR to Taormina with its magnificent Graeco-Roman theatre. Get a flavour of the Greek Islands in Corfu and visit charming Croatian MR BRIDGE VALUE FARES ports en route to one of the world’s greatest destinations – Venice. Premium Inside from £2,295pp Standard Outside from £2,650pp Premium Outside from £2,795pp Odyssey Club Members enjoy an additional 5% discount SINGLE on prices shown above. SUPPLEMENT JUST 10%† FARES INCLUDE: CALL NOW ON 01483 489961 • Scheduled economy class flights • Expert guest speaker programme OR VISIT www.mrbridge.co.uk • Mr Bridge drinks party Cabins can be held at no obligation for 7 days • Duplicate bridge every evening • Morning seminars and afternoon bridge when at sea • Sightseeing excursions in all ports of call • All meals on board in choice of two restaurants • Complimentary wine with dinner on board • Gratuities for on-board cabin and restaurant staff • Overseas transfers and baggage handling 10093 Mr Bridge fares are per person and subject to availability at time of booking. They may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Please see website for full terms and conditions. ABTA No.Y2206 †Single accommodation is available only in certain categories and is subject to availability. ALL OF A SUDDEN promoter once bled dry. Ask Bernard Magee. Bridge weekends, holidays Bernard will answer and cruises have ensured questions arising from his that the growth has been tutorial CDs, DVDs and steady and continuous. other published work and writings. The most recent success [email protected] came three years ago with Cities & Waterways the enforced morphing Ask Leanora. Leanora of Europe of BRIDGE from a bi- Adds, with more than monthly promotional mag 10 years experience in I realise that by next to a monthly subscription the Mr Bridge Holiday October I will have been magazine. The changes office, answers questions working as Mr Bridge were forced by the price relating to weekends, for 30 years. The aim hike in mailing costs ahead holidays and cruises. was to reform the EBU. of Post Office privatisation. [email protected] Whilst I did not advertise The current special offer this ambition openly, of 36 monthly issues of TIME TO I did begin with long BRIDGE for only £50 (UK CELEBRATE lists of to-dos and even addresses only) makes a Departs Dover longer lists of to-trys. Mrs Bridge will join me great Christmas present, 22nd April 2017 • 8 nights on lovely Aegean Odyssey Most of these amounted to but do please note the Balmoral • L1706 next autumn when all nothing much, although offer expires at the end three sailings will celebrate several of the bridge clubs of November this year. Dover, the 30th Anniversary. See founded in the late 80s still Thereafter it must returns Hamburg (Overnight), adverts on the facing page, Cruising River Elbe, flourish as members’ clubs. to £45 per year as the page 51 and the back cover. Cruising North Sea Canal Minerva promotion ends. (Noordzeekanaal), Little was I to know that Amsterdam (Overnight), Mr Bridge was to start after TEN DAYS LATE Cruising Western the popularity of the game NEW COLUMN Scheldt River, Antwerp had peaked. Just for the Jeremy Dhondy’s series (Overnight), Dover record, around two million on Conventions ends people played at least once with the second part of a month in the sixties and Daily bridge on board, bridge fees Lebensohl. This will be included. Mr Bridge welcome seventies. A slow decline published in the next drinks party. Partners for single set in, so that when I issue, very conveniently players. Special solo offers. Sebastian Paul John started in October 1987, the last of the year. it was around 1,850,000. Creasey, otherwise known Anxious to retain Jeremy as as No. 18, arrived last Great value Mr Bridge fares: Then the decline escalated he is a valued contributor week weighing 9lbs 6oz. Interior Room £719pp as declines do. Today to BRIDGE, I have invited I list all his Christian Ocean View Room £809pp there are less than 300,000 him in his capacity as names as I am proud to Ocean View Room £989pp playing at least once a Chairman of the EBU, to be included. His mother, Balcony Room £1,259pp month and that includes host an Ask Jeremy About father and no-longer-baby Suite £1,349pp those playing at home the EBU column. This he Rose are all doing fine. Balmoral or online and/or using has agreed to try for a year. a software program. Please send your emails to: YOUNG WENDY All the while, extra ideas [email protected] have been tried and tested I know from experience adding revenue streams your questions will be unthought of when I answered promptly, set out. Play programs, interactive tutorial CDs, courteously and with films and DVDs. authority. Both questions and answers will be For reservations call Mr Bridge To help fund these bridge published in BRIDGE. on 01483 489961 products, other non- www.mrbridge.co.uk bridge activities such Other new features being A number of readers added from January are: as tea towels blossomed have commented that Terms and conditions apply – see Fred.Olsen 2017 brochure or only to find themselves The History of Playing Wendy Wensum isn’t www.fredolsencruises.com for details. killed-off by an ungrateful Cards by Paul Bostock. the girl she was. 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