4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship 8th to 14th September 2014 Daily bulletin – Monday 8th September Ready … Set … GlasGow The iconic Statue of the Duke of Wellington on Royal Exchange complete with the now obligatory cone. A very big welcome to Glasgow and the 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships which get under way today with Round Robin matches at 11:00 and 13:50. With play due to finish at 15.40 there will be time to relax before the Opening Ceremony and Civic Reception takes place at 19:00 in the Banqueting Hall at the City Chambers. See the Scottish Bridge Union noticeboard at the Information Desk outside the playing area for directions. Today’s matches on VuGraph and BBO Round 1 – 11:00 to 12:50 VuGraph: South Africa v Scotland BBO: Singapore v Malta Round 2 – 13:50 to 15:40 VuGraph: SBU v Scottish President’s BBO: Wales v Australia 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship Glasgow, Scotland Today’s Matches Championship Teams round robin – Day 1 Group 1 Group 2 Round 1 – 11:00 to 12:50 Match 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pakistan South Africa Barbados Guernsey 2 Harris Singapore Wales 2 Match Canada Scotland Malaysia Australia Women Chairman’s Malta England 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Guernsey Kenya India Jersey Scottish President’s Australia England 2 Pakistan 2 Northern Ireland Black Swan SBU South Africa 2 Isle of Man Wales Round 2 – 13:50 to 15:40 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Match Australia Women Chairman’s England Malaysia Scotland South Africa Malta Harris Wales 2 Singapore Pakistan Barbados Canada Guernsey 2 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Match SBU Scottish President’s South Africa 2 England 2 Wales Australia Black Swan Guernsey Northern Ireland India Kenya Pakistan 2 Isle of Man Jersey In each match, the first-named team will sit North-South in the open room and East-West in the closed room at the table number shown. The second-named team will sit North-South in the closed room and East-West in the open room at the corresponding tables. These matches will be on Vugraph (SUB room) These matches will be on BBO Page 2 8th to 14th September 2014 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship Teams Group 1 Team Players 1 Pakistan K Ibrahim; MS Hussain; A Hamid; Z Mahmood; M Mazhar; I Baqai 2 Guernsey 2 T Lehtinen; L Thompson; M Jones; H Bacon; Margaret Allen; Mike Allen 3 Chairman’s P Hackett; D Mossop; Jason Hackett; Justin Hackett; A McIntosh; D Bakhshi 4 Malta M Dix; MP England; K William; G Penney; B Kristiansen; O Clare 5 Wales 2 P Denning; P Shields; R Plackett; J Pottage 6 Scotland I Sime; J Murdoch; J Matheson; A Mould; P Barton; B Spears 7 Barbados C Hollingsworth; C Depradine; H Moseley; R Hinds; Y Seale; M Gill 8 Canada G McMullin; RS Yan; S Nystrom; T Walsh; D Korbel; B Maksymetz 9 South Africa I Kaprey; M Narunsky; D Balkin; M Holroyd; L Weers; N Bateman 10 Singapore M Lai; F Tan; G Chai; J Choo; WC Wai 11 Australia women B Travis; C Ginsberg; M Bourke; S Lusk 12 England B Green; J Holland; P King; C Small 13 Harris J Harris; S Capal; S Root; A Sobell 14 Malaysia SB Tan; SG Tan; D Law; TW Lim; WC Tham Group 2 Team Players 1 Guernsey D McIntosh; A Gauld; R Falla; R Plumley 2 Jersey H Basden-Smith; S Rankin; Stephen Halston; Sharon Halston; D Hole; R Bavin 3 South Africa 2 L Chemaly; J Zindel; P Balderson; J Gautschi; T Crosse; B Hewitt 4 Isle of Man T O'Mahony; P De Weerd; J Large; S Baggs; B Palmer; A Elliott 5 England 2 C Curtis; P Fegarty; D Kendrick; J Mestel 6 Northern Ireland M McFaul; N Cauwood; H Curran; A Fitzpatrick; H Cole; T Currie 7 India HK Jalan; A Malhotra; K Bendre; K Nandi; S Datta; S Thakral 8 Pakistan 2 A Rizvi; Z Baig; A Muqeet; A Kizilbash; K Mohiuddin; M Puri 9 Kenya S Esmail; B Shah; R Shah; J Deen 10 Australia A Edgtton; A Hung; I Del’Monte; L Milne; N Griffiths; P Hollands 11 SBU V Silverstone; W Coyle; G Haase; D Diamond; D Gerrard 12 Wales M Tedd; J Salisbury; P Jourdain; T Ratcliff; G Jones; T Rees 13 Scottish President’s S Duncan; I Gordon; D Sanders; S Peterkin; L McGowan; S Punch 14 Black Swan M Packer; R Moore; V Seward; J Free; P Tearne Page 3 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship Test Match report SCOTLAND v ENGLAND Bad light stops play; match ends in draw Albert Benjamin ‘the Lion of the North’ and one of Scotland’s finest was a regular contributor to Bridge Magazine. In this article from April 1972 he reports on a classic match in the Camrose Trophy. In those days the teams played three thirty board matches over a weekend. One wonders if the miners would have gone on strike and caused an electric power cut had they realised how much they disrupted this annual international match – bridge of course, not cricket. As dusk fell on the Saturday and adequate illumination was unavailable the Scots appeared to be losing ground and I appealed against the light. The umpire was Jack Robertson of Edinburgh and he naturally hates Glaswegians even more than he hates Sassenachs. My appeal was turned down flat. A little later in 9/10th cloud Bill Mitchell accidentally dropped a card on the table face upwards. Using the midget flashlamp that Reg Corwen had craftily provided for each of his players, Dixon was able to identify the faced card as a low diamond which became a penalty card. Astutely he led the-jack of diamonds, Mitchell was not permitted to cover with his king and England scored an impossible game-call. Query: Can a faced card be considered an exposed card in almost total darkness? It was obvious that some shady goings on (shady – get it?) would militate in England's favour. I didn't actually catch them exchanging cards beneath the table but of course it was too dark to see that they were not doing so. This is a completely unbiased report and I demand to know how it is possible for Scotland to be 22 IMPs. ahead in the first session with only ten boards to play and finally lose the first session by 13 IMPs, 2-4 in victory points. In the second session Scotland trailed by 38 IMPs with four boards left for play. Then the lights came on and what a transformation! We scored seven, thirteen and thirteen in quick succession-a total of 33 IMPs on three boards-and snatched a three-three draw. The final session had its drama too. The match had started with England and Scotland level in victory points and would decide the destiny of the Camrose Trophy unless Northern Ireland defeated Wales eighteen-nil!' Thus Scotland needed a five-one win in the third session to gain the trophy and with five boards left for play were 38 IMPs up and looked likely to do it. Page 4 Glasgow, Scotland England won the next four boards by eight, six, four and one IMP respectively thus reducing their deficit to nineteen IMPs for the last board. Scotland needed six IMPs for an outright win. England needed eleven IMPs. But Scotland scored five IMPs, which gave them four-two in VP and an overall draw, England and Scotland sharing the trophy. This was a match of rapidly changing fortunes and the spectators got their money’s worth. The standard was rather higher than such matches usually are and I have attended about thirty England-Scotland matches. It was my feeling, completely unbiased as I am, that the English had the edge on card play while the Scots had it on bidding. The three English pairs were using Precision à l’Anglaise but some bad contracts were due to misuse of the system. My first view of the English (and British) pair, Dixon and Sheehan, impressed me, especially their understanding in defensive card play. I was well satisfied with the showing of the three Scottish pairs. Bill Mitchell came through his baptism against England with credit. Any tendency I had to regard each of the Scottish pairings as consisting of a strong player and a less strong one was dissipated early in the match. As a captain it was pleasant to discover that those players in whom my confidence was less assured, rose to the occasion. One sad note. The Roxburghe Hotel, Edinburgh has just been reroofed, thus depriving me of the opportunity of ending this report with the immortal words – ‘Rain stopped play!’ Scotland: J. M. MacLaren & W. Mitchell, W. Coyle & V. Silverstone, S. Leckie & V. Goldberg, n.p.c. A. L. Benjamin. England: M. J. Flint & J. Cansino, C.P. Dixon & R. M. Sheehan, J. T. Reese & 1. Rose, n.p.c. R. Corwen. Coyle opened his shoulders wide and hit the ball over the pavilion on this one. Dealer North; E-W game ♠A J 9 6 4 2 ♥J 8 2 ♦ A K 10 ♣J ♠ K Q 10 8 3 N ♠5 ♥9 4 ♥Q 10 7 5 3 W E ♦8 7 4 ♦Q J 9 6 2 ♣10 9 7 S ♣3 2 ♠7 ♥A K 6 ♦5 3 ♣A K Q 8 6 5 4 8th to 14th September 2014 Open room: West North East South Flint Silverstone Cansino Coyle 1♠ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♠ Pass 4♣ Pass 4♦ Pass 4NT Pass 5NT Pass 7♣ All Pass Flint made the good lead of the nine of clubs which removed one of dummy’s entries. Trying for a spade break Coyle cashed ace of spades and ruffed a spade but had to change his plan of campaign when East showed out. He cashed three more rounds of trumps and cashed the ace and king of hearts. The queen failed to appear. Cashing two more trumps he reduced everyone to three cards. West had to keep a spade and only two diamonds. East kept three diamonds and ditched the queen of hearts. Coyle's lowly six of hearts became the biggest card in Edinburgh. Reese and Rose were content with a more modest boundary stroke. The auction was similar up to Four Diamonds. South bid Four Hearts instead of 4NT and North jumped to Six Clubs with his singleton jack. Rose also made thirteen tricks but Scotland gained eleven IMPs. A risky stroke by MacLaren pushed the ball to the boundary. Dealer North; E-W game ♠ 10 9 8 4 ♥J 7 3 2 ♦9 4 3 ♣6 5 ♠J 7 6 5 N ♠K ♥Q 10 9 8 4 ♥A K 5 W E ♦♦ A Q J 10 6 5 2 ♣Q 8 4 3 S ♣9 2 ♠A Q 3 2 ♥6 ♦K 8 7 ♣A K J 10 7 Open room: West North East South Coyle Flint Silverstone Cansino Pass 1♦ 1NT Pass Pass 3♦ All Pass That made in comfort, +110. The other room produced more drama. Closed room: West North East South Rose Mitchell Reese MacLaren Pass 1♣* 3♣ Pass Pass 3♦ 3♠ Double All Pass 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship This was the first appearance of the artificial Precision One Club. MacLaren made a jump overcall and then soldiered on with Three Spades. Despite the favourable vulnerability this was an uncharacteristic flag waving effort by MacLaren. MacLaren must have had some qualms slightly relieved when, after a heart lead from Rose, dummy went down with four trumps. Reese won the king of hearts, cashed ace of diamonds. At Trick 3 Rose ruffed the king of diamonds and led a second heart. MacLaren ruffed and cashed the ace of trumps, felling the king. This solved the declarer's worries and he continued in crossruff style losing only to the jack of trumps. In a sense, MacLaren was lucky that Rose did not have a singleton diamond. Scotland dropped a catch and gave away a couple of overthrows on this deal. Dealer South; Game all ♠ Q 10 8 7 6 3 ♥J 5 4 ♦Q 9 2 ♣5 N ♠♠J 9 ♥K 8 7 6 2 ♥Q 9 W E ♦ 10 7 6 ♦A K 5 4 3 ♣K J 8 4 3 S ♣A 10 6 2 ♠A K 5 4 2 ♥ A 10 3 ♦J 8 ♣Q 9 7 Open room: West North East South MacLaren Sheehan Mitchell Dixon 1♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass MacLaren led the four of clubs taken by the ace. Mitchell cashed the king of diamonds and switched to the nine of hearts. MacLaren won the king and continued with a heart since there was no need to take the setting diamond trick at this stage. Dixon won the heart and pulled two trumps. Mitchell inadvertently dropped the five of diamonds which became a penalty card. The declarer correctly led the jack of diamonds which had to score and ten tricks were made. Closed room: West North East South Cansino Coyle Flint Silverstone 1♠ 2♠* 4♠ 4NT* Double 5♣ Pass Pass Double All Pass 2♠ - Hearts and a minor 4NT - Minors Page 5 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship Cansino smelt out the trump position and wrapped up eleven tricks. This gave England a swing of sixteen IMPs. If England had been defeated in Four Spades they would have gained twelve IMPs, so Mitchell's mishap in the other room cost only four IMPs. I consider England was lucky to escape being lbw on this deal. Dealer South; Game all ♠ K J 10 7 6 ♥8 5 ♦K 6 ♣A J 8 5 ♠A 3 N ♠Q 8 5 4 ♥7 6 4 ♥ 10 3 W E ♦Q 9 5 ♦J 8 2 ♣Q 10 7 6 3 S ♣K 9 4 2 ♠9 2 ♥A K Q J 9 2 ♦ A 10 7 4 3 ♣Open room: West North East South Goldberg Cansino Leckie Flint 1♣* Pass 1♠ Pass 2♥ Pass 2NT Pass 3♦ Pass 4NT Pass 6♥ All Pass West led a club taken by the ace and and a spade was discarded. Flint ruffed a club and led the nine of spades. West ducked and the king scored for thirteen tricks. The slam is not a good one. Of course I am completely unbiased but it needs something more than a level split in diamonds. In the other room Mitchell opened 2♥ and MacLaren responded 2♠. Mitchell rebid 3♦ and passed 3NT! Exotic but effective. Cansino snicked one through the slips but the Scottish fielding was erratic. Dealer West; N-S game ♠ A K 10 9 ♥6 ♦Q J 5 2 ♣A Q 9 2 N ♠♠Q 6 5 3 2 ♥K Q J 10 9 4 2 ♥7 5 W E ♦ A 10 7 4 ♦9 8 ♣J 8 S ♣K 6 4 3 ♠J 8 7 4 ♥A 8 3 ♦K 6 3 ♣10 7 5 Page 6 Glasgow, Scotland Open room: West North East South Goldberg Flint Leckie Cansino 4♥ Double Pass 4♠ All Pass Cansino showed good nerve in not passing for penalties but when he won the heart lead and led a low trump to the ace he got a rude shock. He led the queen of diamonds and West won with the ace and switched to the jack of clubs covered by the queen and king. Leckie exited with a low trump taken in dummy. Then the king of diamonds, a heart ruff, three club tricks for a diamond discard and the play of the jack of diamonds left East helpless. He could score only one trump trick and Cansino claimed the contract. It is rare for Goldberg to drop a catch, especially such a simple one as ducking the ace of diamonds. Closed room: West North East South Dixon MacLaren Sheehan Mitchell 4♣* Double 4♥ All Pass 4♣ - Good 4♥ bid Four Hearts went one down for a swing to England of eleven IMPs. One wonders what the double of Four Clubs implies. Is it a take-out double of hearts, a penalty double of Four Clubs or a long club suit? It is probable that the new partnership of MacLaren and Mitchell has not discussed such issues. A similar transfer bid of Four Clubs occurred on the next deal with Coyle and Silverstone batting. Dealer West; N-S game ♠2 ♥A K Q J 10 5 3 ♦Q 9 ♣7 5 3 ♠J 9 5 N ♠ A Q 10 4 3 ♥6 ♥9 7 2 W E ♦ 10 8 7 6 4 ♦J 3 2 ♣Q 10 6 4 S ♣9 2 ♠K 8 7 6 ♥8 4 ♦A K 5 ♣A K J 8 Coyle opened Four Clubs after a pass by West and Silverstone in the South seat responded Six Hearts. Note how the king of spades is protected at the opening lead although as it happens dummy has a singleton. In the other room the England North opened Four Hearts. Why not Four Clubs? The Precision 8th to 14th September 2014 Club à l’Anglaise uses the Texas Four Clubs and Four Diamonds, but this type of opening approximates to an Acol Two bid in order to cover up a hole in the system. Perhaps my leg was being pulled! South had worries about a trump loser and two possible spade losers and passed. An almost identical hand occurred in the European Championship at Oslo a few years ago. Silverstone jumped to Six Hearts with a void and made the contract. In the other room a spade lead through South’s king yielded two tricks for the defence. Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship The Editor looks back at the three previous Championships. The first Commonwealth Championship was held in Manchester, England, from15th to 20th July 2002. Canada (Keith Balcombe, Gordon Campbell, Judith Gartaganis, Nicholas Gartaganis) defeated Wales (Adam Dunn, Peter Goodman, Dafydd Jones, Gary Jones, Jim Luck, Filip Kurbalija,Tim Rees) by 144 IMPs to 137 for the gold medal. India (C R Bandrinath, Sunit Choksi, R Krishnan, P Sridharen, S Sundarraman, KR Venkataraman) took the bronze. The final was decided by this dramatic deal near the end: Dealer West; N-S game ♠ 10 9 4 ♥8 7 6 2 ♦J 8 4 3 ♣J 6 N ♠A K Q J 8 7 2 ♠♥Q ♥9 5 3 W E ♦9 7 ♦ A K 10 5 2 ♣A 7 2 S ♣K Q 9 8 3 ♠6 5 3 ♥A K J 10 4 ♦Q 6 ♣10 5 4 Open room: West North East South Campbell Kurbilija Balcombe Rees 1♣* Pass 2♦ 2♥ 2♠ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♥* Double Pass Pass 5♠ All pass The strong 1♣ opening received a natural positive response. The auction went badly and the regulation 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship slam was missed. On a heart lead declarer soon claimed 12 tricks, +480. Closed room: West North East South Jones Gartaganis Jones Gartaganis 1♠ Pass 2♣ Pass 3♠ Pass 3NT Pass 4♣ Pass 4♦ Pass 4♥ Pass 5♦ Pass 5♠ Pass 5 NT Pass 6♠ Pass 7♣ Pass 7♠ All pass Another confused auction saw EW get their wires crossed. However, if North failed to find the right lead the grand slam would roll home ... but Nick Gartaganis found it and Canada had gained 11 title-winning IMPs. 2006 Murrumbeena, Melbourne, Australia The crown went to India (Alexander Lewis, Anal Shah, Ramawtar Agrawal, Archelious Sequeira, Gopinath Manna, Ajit Chakradeo) who finished ahead of Derofe Australia (Vincent Demuy, Ishmael DelMonte, Bobby Richman, Zoltan Nagy). England (Michelle Brunner, John Holland, John Hassett, Bill Hirst) finished third. This was one of the biggest swings in what was effectively the gold medal match (a sponsored team cannot win the title) – the semi-final between India and England: Dealer North; N-S game ♠ Q 10 4 ♥Q J 9 6 ♦ 10 7 4 ♣J 10 9 N ♠A 8 ♠K J 9 6 5 3 ♥4 2 ♥W E ♦A 9 6 ♦K Q J 8 5 ♣K Q 8 7 4 2 S ♣A 3 ♠7 2 ♥ A K 10 8 7 5 3 ♦3 2 ♣6 5 Open room: West North East South Manna Holland Chakradeo Brunner Pass 1♣* 2♥ 3♣ 3♠ 4♣* 4♦* 4♠ All pass Chakradeo’s 1♣ opening was strong and Manna’s 4♣ asked for key cards, the response showing one or Page 7 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship four, apparently, which looks odd (perhaps East intended it to be natural). Clearly the 2♥ overcall complicated matters sufficiently for EW to miss the boat. Brunner led a top heart and declarer ruffed, picked up the trumps without loss and made all thirteen tricks for +510. Closed room: West North East South Hirst Agrawal Hassett Sequeira Pass 1♠ Pass 2♣ Pass 2♦ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♦ Pass 4♦ Pass 4♥ Double 4♠ Pass 4 NT* Pass 5♥* Pass 5 NT* Pass 7♦ All pass When East opened 1♠ Sequeira was not prepared to make simple overcall and did not fancy a jump on a 72-2-2 hand at the vulnerability. Hassett had all the room in the world to bid out his shape then to cuebid once Hirst agreed diamonds. Hirst’s failure to redouble 4♥ denied the ace of that suit, so Hassett could ask for key cards without there being any ambiguity as to which aces were held. Hassett ruffed the heart lead and drew trumps, relying on one or other black suit behaving kindly for him. With clubs three-two, there was no need to worry about the spade position. Thirteen tricks meant +1440 and 13 IMPs to England, but not quite enough to see them into the final. 2010 Delhi By defeating Wales 25-4 in the last qualifying round Scotland (Brian Spears, John Murdoch, Derek Sanders, Derek Diamond, Irving Gordon, Sandy Duncan) secured a place in the last four and they went on to win the title from India’s Hemant Jalan (Hemant Jalan, Ashish Malhotra, Anal Shah, Keyzad A.Anklesaria, Jyotimdra M.Shah KR Venkataraman) Yet again a grand slam played a significant role: Dealer East; E-W game ♠ A K Q 10 ♥ Q 10 9 6 ♦A J ♣K 7 5 N ♠9 8 5 ♠J 4 3 ♥J 5 4 3 ♥8 W E ♦6 3 ♦ Q 10 8 7 4 2 ♣9 4 3 2 S ♣Q J 10 ♠7 6 2 ♥A K 7 2 ♦K 9 5 ♣A 8 6 Page 8 Glasgow, Scotland Open room: West Jones North Murdoch East Rees Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass All pass South Spears 1♣ 2♥ 4♥ 4NT* 5♠* Pass 1♥ Pass 2NT* Pass 4♠* Pass 5♦* Pass 6♥ 2NT Forcing East led the queen of clubs and declarer won with dummy's ace and cashed the ♥AK. When East discarded declarer drew West's trumps and ducked a club to East's ten. He won the club return and played off the top spades, +980. Closed room: West North East South Sanders Goodman Diamond Thomas Pass 1♣ Pass 1♥ Pass 2♥ Pass 2♠ Pass 4♥ Pass 4NT* Pass 5♦* Pass 5NT* Pass 6♦* Pass 7♥ All pass 4NT RKCB 5♦ 0 or 3 key cards 5NT Any kings? 6♦ ♦K East led the seven of diamonds and a grateful declarer won in hand with the jack and played a heart to the king. His next move was a heart to dummy's queen and the grand slam was down, giving Scotland 14 IMPs. Had declarer made 7♥ Scotland would not have advanced to the knock out rounds. 2014 Glasgow Will destiny decree that a grand slam again plays a crucial part in determining the destination of the title? Monday’s problem hand Dealer West; Love all ♠A K 10 4 ♥A K Q 10 9 W ♦6 ♣9 3 2 ♠J 9 5 ♥J 8 6 3 E ♦ A J 10 7 ♣K Q West North East South 1♥ Pass 2NT Pass 3♦ Pass 3NT Pass 4NT Pass 5♣ Pass 6♥ All Pass Contract: 6♥ Lead: ♦2 Does this slam just depend on the spade finesse? (Answer in tomorrow’s bulletin) 8th to 14th September 2014 4th Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championship Glasgow – Sights and Sounds What the thousands of tourists, players and coaches descending on Glasgow for the Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships will make of the traffic cone stuck on top of the Duke of Wellington’s head is anyone’s guess, but it might make them smile. Apparently when the local authorities wanted to remove it from his statue in Royal Exchange Square last year, there was uproar from many Glaswegians who had grown to love this iconic sight. As one tour guide said, “When tourists ask me what is the one thing they should do when they come to Glasgow, I always tell them to go and see the Duke. It’s hilarious and most people will see the funny side.” The statue ‘coned’ as a prank by students has become a symbol of the fun spirit which Glasgow embodies, and this is something visitors will find out when they come here during the Championships, which kick off today. Glasgow is fairly easy to get around but to get your bearings it can be a good idea to go on a quick tour of the city. The guides on the City Sightseeing buses offer an entertaining and colourful insight into Glasgow’s history and culture. There are 28 stops and you can hop on and off to visit a site or stay on for the full two-hour tour. The service runs daily every 20 minutes from 9:30am to 4:30pm. The main starting point is in George Square but you can get on anywhere along the route. For those aged six and over, headphones can be used to tune in to the bus’s Ghostly Glasgow tour, which describes the city’s grim, gory and ghoulish past. Here are a few of the ways you might spend some of your free time: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Argyle Street Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum houses one of Europe's great art collections. It is amongst the top three free-to-enter visitor attractions in Scotland and one of the most visited museums in the United Kingdom outside of London. Why not take a Mackintosh City Walking Tour, one of The Independent’s Top 10 UK architectural tours of 2013. Glasgow Science Centre With 3 floors packed with hundreds of interactive exhibits and experiences to enjoy, a ticket to the Science Mall represents great value for money. Burrell Collection In the heart of Pollok Country Park, this award-winning building houses a unique collection in a beautiful woodland setting. The collection is one of the greatest ever created by one person, comprising over 8,000 objects. Botanic Gardens Have a wee dram If all this touring around is making you thirsty then head to Wellpark Brewery for a free pint of Scotland’s 'favourite lager'. You will go on a guided walk through the brewing process, from mashing to canning, but there will be a pint of Tennent’s waiting for you at the end. The site, which is in Duke Street, is home to 450 years of brewing tradition. Visit the Necropolis There’s nothing more sobering than a wander around a cemetery, particularly after a pint. Just behind the brewery in Wishart Street is the Necropolis, which has been described as a ‘unique representation of Victorian Glasgow’. The large ornate memorials, designed by leading Glaswegian architects, such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, were erected in honour of wealthy merchants. It is on a hill and has a great view over the city. The Necropolis, where 50,000 people are buried, is open daily from 7am to dusk. Down by the Riverside The Riverside Museum, which won the European Museum of the Year Award in 2013, is housed in architect Zaha Hadid’s striking, steel-clad building and contains thousands of objects connected to transport and travel, dating from the 1700s to the present day. They include a recently acquired South African locomotive, which you can clamber on, and you can ride on an old subway train. You can also wander down a full-size recreation of an early 20th century Glasgow street. Admission is free. (glasgowlife.org.uk) To get another rare glimpse into life in the city at that time, pay a visit to the Tenement House in Buccleuch Street. Page 9 The Danish Bridge Federation proudly presents COPENHAGEN BRIDGE INVITATIONAL III 15th -18th of January 2015 20 international sparkling top pairs will battle in a 3-day imp pair event at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, home of Casino Copenhagen. The field is the strongest ever with stars like Helgemo-Helness, Zia Mahmood, Marion Michielsen, Brad Moss, Peter Bertheau, Sabine Auken, David Bakhshi, Dennis Bilde, Tom Hanlon etc. Play along the stars in the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Imp Pairs In 2015 we introduce an open 3-day imp pair event played simultaneously with the Copenhagen Bridge Invitational from the 16th-18th of January with a 1st price of 10.000 DKK. Players of all shapes and nationalities are invited to be a part of the magic surrounding the CBI III. Spend an Evening with the Prince, the Poker King and the Stars Prior to the CBI the traditional pro/am takes place on Thursday the 15th of January, where all players of the main event will be available as partners sold by an online auction. Participation includes drinks & buffet introducing the event and drinks & canapées closing the event in the company of bridge stars and celebrities and HRH the Prince Consort of Denmark. Read more and bid on the partner of your dreams at http://cbi.bridge.dk “I shook hands with a Prince, I played bridge against Gus Hansen. I doubled him in three hearts, and they only made nine tricks although they were cold for ten. I had an incredible evening. I have never been to an event like this before.” David Gold in 2013
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