%5,'*(Number Ninety-nine February 2010 Sail into and out of Venice on the way to Dubrovnik See overleaf for further details. Discovery Club members save an extra Venice & the Adriatic 5% with Mr and Mrs Bridge From limestone fortress walls that ring Maltese Valletta, Discovery makes for A picturesque voyage of 11 days the rough-hewn town houses of enchanting Korcula, said to be Marco Polo’s Departing September 23, 2010 birthplace. On the Croatian mainland, Zadar surprises with its Roman forum. Date Port Sep 23 Depart Gatwick or Manchester by air A night in Venice invites you to linger on St Mark’s square after a day on the Rialto to VALLETTA, Malta Transfer to mv DISCOVERY or out at Murano. Stud farms outside Koper breed Vienna’s famous Lipizzaner VALLETTA, Malta horses, Split’s Peristyle, with its colonnades and open spaces, invites you to Sep 24 Cruising the Mediterranean, Ionian and Adriatic Seas people-watch around Diocletian’s ancient palace. Honeycomb patterns on Hvar’s Sep 25 KORCULA, Croatia promenade bake under the Adriatic sun as you make for the cool marble slabs of Sep 26 ZADAR, Croatia Dubrovnik’s Placa Stradun precinct and Sponza Palace. Sep 27 VENICE, Italy Sep 28 VENICE, Italy Sep 29 KOPER, Slovenia MR BRIDGE Sep 30 SPLIT, Croatia All Mr Bridge passengers, who have paid the £30 per person bridge supplement, will be Oct 1 HVAR, Croatia part of the exclusive bridge party. This will make them eligible for the seminars, drinks Oct 2 DUBROVNIK, Croatia Oct 3 DUBROVNIK, Croatia parties, quiz competitions, occasional afternoon and daily evening duplicates after fi rst Disembark and transfer to airport sitting dinner. The bridge programme is fully optional and you may participate as much for fl ight home to Gatwick or Manchester or as little as you wish. Mr Bridge actively encourages singles to join the party and they Inside fares from £1,199pp will always be found a partner for a game. Exclusive Outside fare from £1,399pp Your Voyage includes: • Flights from/to the UK (Manchester • Inspiring destinations and £15pp supplement) enlightening excursions • All meals, entertainment and gratuities • Comprehensive lecture and on-board included with no hidden extras Guest Speaker programme • Friendly and relaxed atmosphere on board • Travel with around 650 • All prices on board in British pounds like-minded passengers in • Captain’s cocktail parties and gala dinners 4-star comfort • All port and pre-paid airport taxes 01483 489961 for brochures and bookings Fares shown are per person based on two people sharing lowest twin-bedded cabin category currently available, are subject to availability and include all applicable discounts for new bookings. All offers are subject to availability, are capacity controlled and may be withdrawn at any time. Specifi c cabin number may not be allocated at time of booking. Flights from Manchester £15pp supplement (£7.50pp each way). Only bookings made directly with Mr Bridge are eligible to be part of the Mr Bridge Group. Those wishing to play bridge, please note that there is a bridge supplement of £30 per bridge player to be confi rmed at the time of booking. See brochure for full terms and conditions. Voyages of Discovery is a trading name of All Leisure Holidays Ltd. FEATURES 3 Bidding Quiz 52 Double Dummy Answer BIDDING QUIZ BRIDGE by Bernard Magee by Richard Wheen by Bernard Magee 4 53 Don’t be Too Clever Too Publisher and ou are West in the auc - 11 Double Dummy Quiz Soon by Dick Atkinson Managing Editor Ytions below, playing by Richard Wheen Mr Bridge 55 Last Words by Ned Paul 'Standard Acol' with a weak 13 The Generation Game no-trump (12-14 points) and Ryden Grange by Michael Scarrott ADVERTISEMENTS four-card majors. Knaphill, Surrey 17 Take-out of Partner’s 2 Venice & the Adriatic (Answers on page 43 ) GU21 2TH 3NT by Freddie North on Board Discovery ( 01483 489961 20 David Stevenson 5 Cut-out Form 1. Dealer West. N/S Vul. Answers Your Questions Mail Order Form ♠ A 7 4 e-mail : 6 Voyages to Antiquity ™ K 2 [email protected] 24 Defence Quiz by Julian Pottage on Aegean Odyssey © 10 4 3 ® A Q 8 5 2 website : 25 A Walk in Winter 8 Bridge Weekends www.mrbridge.co.uk by Countryman with Bernard Magee West North East South 27 Bernard Magee says 9 Tunisia 2010 ? Associate Editor Double if They 10 Highlands & Islands Julian Pottage Outbid You When with Swan Hellenic 2. Dealer East. Love All. You Own the Deal Discovery Cruising ♠ Void ™ K 7 6 5 Technical Consultant 28 Freddie North says 11 Ned Paul at © J 8 7 6 One Two, That Will Do the Beach Hotel Tony Gordon ® K 10 8 7 4 29 Julian Pottage 12 Crusaders & Pharoahs Answers Your Questions Bridge Consultant with Swan Hellenic West North East South Bernard Magee 33 Declarer Play Quiz Discovery Cruising 1NT Pass by Dave Huggett 18 Voyages of Discovery ? 34 Mike Wenble says 2010 Summer Cruises Proof Readers 3. Dealer West. N/S Vul. 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The views expressed in this publication are not 2♠ Pass 3™ Pass necessarily those of the publisher or its Managing Editor. ? Page 3 FORWARD IN DEED SECURITY RECAP OTHER STEPS Your details will always be What was I to do? I told you Everything else is on hold. treated as confidential that I was being coached to However, I am a young old information and will not be be a businessman. So out of man in a hurry and I am so sold or traded with third the window goes a working pleased with what has been parties. Indeed, I have been life-time of trying to change achieved in this first year. I registered under the Data things and into a new world. fully understand that Protection Act for nearly 20 One of planning and budgets consolidation comes first, years. Time seems to fly by and everything else that goes however boring. and as the mists lift from my with managing what I now memory, I remember I am confidently expect will turn COVER STORY also registered with the into a real business. My Financial Services Agency. coach has explained that I Some of you who read my That must have been when could very likely have last column will have taken my credit card was first achieved all my objectives part in the prize bidding launched back in 1995. within ten years of setting up quiz. Those with the correct in 1986. answer to Question 1, 1NT, MORE Anyway, you will be pleased should by now have been CORRECTIONS to learn that the first three notified. The answers to all quarters’ targets have been three questions are to be I must have given the wrong met and as these may have found on page 7 together impression of the current been “soft”, those for the with the winners’ details. state of my bridge career but many thanks to those who future have been upped. This time I thought we wrote in with suggestions. 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