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No face-to-face tournaments for the rest of the year – that's what ACBL management has decided.
Not only have they
canceled the 2020 Fall North American Bridge Championships in Tampa, Fla.,
right after Thanksgiving, but they're also not providing directors for any
other tournaments.
"It is the
right thing to do," ACBL executive director Joseph Jones said in a message
on organization's website. "The safety of our members – the community most
at risk for Covid-19 – and our employees is of paramount importance to us. At
this time, we cannot ask players or staff to travel and risk exposure."
Jones noted that
players still can win black, silver, red and gold master points on Bridge Base
Online.
Open to all players
on BBO are the Support Your Club games 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/virtual
or bridgebase.com.
Local clubs also
share in the fees from when they offer online games as Virtual Clubs on BBO for
players who are affiliated with them.
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The Airport
Bridge Club has linked up with
the Alliance Bridge Club, the ACBL’s largest bridge club, which offers more
than a dozen games every day. Anyone who has played at the Airport Club is
automatically a member. For more info, visit alliancebridgeclub.com or call Airport
Club manager Bill Finkelstein at 603-6943.
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The Bridge
Center of Buffalo, Bridge Club
Meridian and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club offer games every day under
their own names or the banner “Buffalo Wings.” For the most part, the calendar
follows the schedule that the clubs maintained when they were able to play live
games.
For more info, visit
the Bridge Center of Buffalo
website, call director Dian Petrov at 228-2230 or email him at dpetrov@roadrunner.com.
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The Delaware
Wednesday Club plays at 7 p.m.
Wednesdays on Bridge Base Online, the same time that it had its actual games.
Delaware Wednesday
is invitational and to ensure that it is restricted primarily to club members,
there’s a master point limit of 1,500 on players who want to join. None of the
club members has more than 1,500 points.
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Western New
York Unit 116 scrubbed its
summer picnic Aug. 2 in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst,
following the ACBL announcement. Also formally canceled is the Buffalo
Fall Sectional Tournament Sept. 11 to 13.
In an email this
week, Unit 116 president Betty Metz said that the annual meeting Dec. 5 is
still pending and the Mentoring Program and the Youth Bridge Program are
currently on hold. She noted that the ACBL decision "does not mean the
clubs have to stay closed. That decision is individual to each club."
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For clubs
that want to reopen, the ACBL
has issued a lengthy list of "Club Safety Considerations," which
advises them to use a great many precautionary measures to limit the risk to
the players. To read the entire advisory, click here.
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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:
Niagara-on-the-Lake Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson
Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Today, Saturday, June 27, and 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.
CANCELED:
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.
CANCELED:
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional –
DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday,
Sept. 1, to Monday, Sept. 7.
CANCELED:
Buffalo Fall Sectional –
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday,
Sept. 13.
CANCELED:
St. Catharines Regional –
Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St.
Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 20.
CANCELED:
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.
CANCELED:
Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca
County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive, Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov. 7, and
Sunday, Nov. 8.
CANCELED:
Unit 255 Sectional –
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, to Sunday, Nov. 15.
District 5
Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs, if they're open and if the ACBL provides
a director. Monday, Dec. 7, to Sunday, Dec. 13.
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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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of June 15 to June 21
Week of June 15 to June 21
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. Peggy and Jeff Feather, 66.67%; Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Jiang,
64.14%; Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 59.04%; Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar,
54.69%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Maria Amlani and Jim Lanzo, 63.89%;
Carol Roth and Rivona Ehrenreich, 54.17%; (tie) Pat Haynes and Terry Camp, Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.31%; east-west, Betty DeFeo and Larry Himelein,
55.09%; Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 53.24%; Louisa Cameron and Bill Rich,
52.78%; (tie) Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, Judy Zeckhauser and Bonnie
Clement, 50.46%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 64.78%; Mary Ball
and Joyce Frayer, 58.60%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.33%; Nancy Deneen
and Martha Townson, 51.08%; east-west, Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 65.47%;
Ed Harman and Jim Lanzo, 63.31%; Rajat Basu and John Bava, 61.34%; Phyllis
Wilkinson and Sheila Hess, 53.24%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Sunday afternoon – Chris Urbanek and Rajarshi Roy, 59.72%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer,
56.94%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Terry Fraas
and Rajarshi Roy, 67.78%; Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 57.22%; Bill Rich and
Jim Hassett, 56.11%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 55.56%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning –
Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 68.52%; Mary Joyce and Pinky Regan, 60.19%; Amy
Habib and Susan Burns, 59.26%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening –
Martha and John Welte, 64.58%; Audrey Ray and Amita Arora, 58.33%; (tie) Gay
Simpson and Jeff Bender, Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 54.86%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Chris Urbanek and Bud Seidenberg, 80.56%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer,
58.33%; (tie) Ken Meier and Tom Koralewski, Anne O'Connor and Ed Harman,
52.78%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Helen Scott and partner, 70%; Elaine Idzik and Martha
Townson, 63.33%; Phyllis Wilkinson and partner, 54.44%.
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