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Triple silver master
points from Monday, May 25, which is Memorial Day, until Sunday, May 31. That’s
what players can win for playing in Virtual Clubs on Bridge Base Online.
The ACBL says every game
in a Virtual Club will award them, but adds, “This is not a STaC (Sectional
Tournament at the Clubs). There will be no overalls or combining of scores.
It’s your regular club game with new, temporary conditions.”
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While local clubs are
closed indefinitely due to the pandemic, the ACBL has joined
with Bridge Base Online to provide virtual club games awarding master points
while giving support to home clubs. Home clubs provide the online directors.
According to the Bridge Center of Buffalo
website, the BCB schedule is now largely replicated on BBO at the times they
would be played if the club was open. There is no Saturday game, but there is
one at 1 p.m. on Sundays.
Same for the Lockport
Duplicate Club’s 7 p.m. Tuesday and 1 p.m. Saturday games. Bridge Club Meridian
has “Buffalo Hot Wings” games, open to all players, at 10:30 a.m. Monday and
2:15 p.m. Friday. Fee is $5.
Also open to all players
are the Support Your Club games on BBO every day at 10 a.m., 5 p.m. and 7:30
p.m., which send part of the game fees to a club that players designate. For
more info, visit acbl.org and bridgebase.com.
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Unit 116 canceled last
weekend’s Non-Life Master Sectional Tournament today and Saturday, May 16 and
17, and the Spring Session of Youth Bridge Lessons. They will not be
rescheduled.
Still on the Unit 116
calendar, but looking less likely, is the summer picnic Aug. 2 in the
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. No longer on the unit calendar
is the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament Sept. 11 to 13, but no announcement
has been made.
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The Saturday Duplicate
Bridge column is on hiatus in the print edition of The
Buffalo News until clubs resume regular play, but it’s alive and well online. The
syndicated Daily Bridge Club column by Frank Stewart will continue to appear.
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Tournament
calendar
2020
CANCELED: Cleveland
All-American Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods
Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Today, Saturday, May 23, to Monday, May 25. For
info, click this link.
CANCELED: 2020 Canadian
Bridge Championships – Crowne Plaza Hotel, 5685 Falls St.,
Niagara Falls, Ont. Next Saturday, May 30, to Sunday, June 7. Regionally rated.
For info about online competition, click this link.
CANCELED: Syracuse
Sectional – Syracuse Contract Duplicate Bridge Club,
501 Edgerton St., Minoa. Saturday, June 13, and Sunday, June 14.
CANCELED: District 5
Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STAC) – Local clubs.
Monday, June 15, to Sunday, June 21.
CANCELED: Niagara-on-the-Lake
Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 26,
to Sunday, June 28. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: Southwest
Ontario Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention
Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 7, to Sunday,
July 12. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: Rochester
Summer Sectional – Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett
Drive, Webster. Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: Hamilton
Sectional – Royal Canadian Legion, 435 Limeridge Road
East, Hamilton, Ont. Saturday, July 18, and Sunday, July 19.
CANCELED: Syracuse
Regional – Holiday Inn Syracuse, 441 Electronics Parkway,
Liverpool. Monday, Aug. 10, to Sunday, Aug. 16. For info, click this link.
St. Catharines 299er
Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont
Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 15, and Sunday, Aug. 16. For info,
click this link.
Pittsburgh Labor Day
Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave.,
Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Sept. 1, to Monday, Sept. 7.
Buffalo Fall Sectional –
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday,
Sept. 13.
St. Catharines Regional –
Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St.
Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 20.
Rochester Fall Sectional
–
Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4.
CANCELED: Buffalo
Regional – Buffalo Grand Hotel (formerly Adam's Mark), 120
Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 20, to Sunday, Oct. 25.
Finger Lakes Sectional –
Seneca County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive, Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov.
7, and Sunday, Nov. 8.
Unit 255 Sectional –
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, to Sunday, Nov. 15.
2021
Cleveland Rock and Roll
Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd.,
Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
Buffalo Winter Sectional
–
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to
Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Sectional
–
Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St.
Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
Toronto Easter Regional –
Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday, March 30, 2021, to
Sunday, April 4, 2021.
Buffalo Spring Sectional
–
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 16, 2021, to
Sunday, April 18, 2021.
Cleveland All-American
Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd.,
Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 25, 2021, to Monday, May 31, 2021.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 4,
2021, to Sunday, June 6, 2021.
Southwest Ontario
Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention Centre, 425
Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 6, 2021, to Sunday, July
11, 2021.
Rochester Regional –
RIT Inn and Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Monday, Aug.
2, 2021, to Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021.
St. Catharines 299er
Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont
Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, and Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021.
Pittsburgh Labor Day
Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave.,
Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, to Monday, Sept. 8, 2021.
Great Lakes Sectional –
Erie Bridge Center, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, and
Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.
Buffalo Fall Sectional –
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, to
Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021.
Buffalo Regional – Tuesday,
Oct. 19, 2021, to Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Regional –
Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St.
Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021.
Unit 255 Sectional –
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 15, 2021.
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Bridge
club websites:
Click names for links.
The Airport Bridge Club does not have a website. For
info, call 716-603-6943.
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The Duplicate Bridge
column is compiled weekly by News Staff Reporter Dale
Anderson. The print version normally appears in the Life & Arts section in
the Saturday edition of The Buffalo News.
During this hiatus, it
can be found by Googling “Duplicate
Bridge” plus the current Saturday date, which should bring up a link to it on buffalonews.com,
the Buffalo News website.
Sometimes the online
version does not materialize on the Buffalo News website, at least not in a
timely fashion. Worse yet, columns from previous weeks currently cannot be
accessed on the News website. But all is not lost. They are available in an
appendix to Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/
The online version
contains unabridged scores and a longer list of notices. Deadline for
submission of scores and notices is Tuesday night. Email danderson@buffnews.com
or dahotwings@aol.com.
Office phone is 716-849-4420.
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Now a Gold Life Master,
Dale Anderson has a career total of more than 2,700 master points and is
playing online these days. He blogs about his quest for the next measure of
achievement, Emerald Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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