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No summer
picnic this year for Western New York Unit 116. The event Aug. 2 in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St.,
Amherst, is canceled. Also formally canceled is the Buffalo Fall Sectional
Tournament Sept. 11 to 13.
In an email last
month, 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.
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Sectional
and Regional Tournaments are canceled for the rest of the year.
Management of the
American Contract Bridge League has pulled the plug on the 2020 Fall North
American Bridge Championships in Tampa, Fla., which had been scheduled right
after Thanksgiving, and is not providing directors for any other tournaments.
ACBL executive
director Joseph Jones said in a message on the organization's website 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 online games they sponsor 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 six days a week.
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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For clubs
that want to reopen for
face-to-face play, 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 Bridge Center
of Buffalo is contemplating reopening
sometime later this year and has compiled a list of changes and provisions needed
to do it, including new tables and floors. It can be found 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:
Southwest Ontario Regional –
Bingemans Conference and Convention Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive,
Kitchener, Ont. Today, Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12. For info, click
this link.
CANCELED:
Rochester Summer Sectional –
Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Drive, Webster. Today, Saturday, July 11,
and Sunday, July 12. For info, click this link.
CANCELED:
Hamilton Sectional – Royal
Canadian Legion, 435 Limeridge Road East, Hamilton, Ont. Next 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 29 to July 5
Week of June 29 to July 5
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 65.20%; Donna Saia and
Jeff Feather, 61.42%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 53.39%; Martha Cain and
Linda Henschel, 51.08%; east-west, Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar, 60.41%; Darwin
Skalski and Tiger Li, 56.44%; Meena Rustgi and Phyllis Stasiowski, 53.36%;
Betsy and Jim Greno, 51.74%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Terry and Bram Hamovitch, 65.08%;
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.14%; Maria Amlani and Jim Lanzo, 55.16%;
east-west, Amita Arora and partner, 63.49%; Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson,
61.51%; Ruth Nawotniak and Joyce Frayer, 54.76%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Doanne Jackson and Marcia Turley, 67.17%;
Ruth Nawotniak and David Schott, 63.13%; Amy Habib and Susan Burns, 60.10%; east-west,
Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 64.65%; Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 63.13%; Rajat
Basu and John Bava, 59.34%; (tie) Terry and Bram Hamovitch, Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 58.59%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Madhav
Deshmukh and Sushil Amlani, 65.97%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 60.42%; Terry
Fraas and Rajarshi Roy, 59.03%; Jan O’Mara and Walt Olszewski, 54.17%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Carole
Sedita and Pam Righter, 58.33%; Pinky Regan and Linda Henschel, 55.56%; Susan
Burns and Mary Joyce, 53.70%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Rajarshi
Roy and partner, 62.04%; (tie) Jasbeer and Violet Makhija, Heff Bender and Gabe
Tannenbaum, 56.48%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Amita Arora and Gabe Tannenbaum,
69.44%; Rajarshi Roy and partner, 56.94%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 67.36%; Phyllis
Wilkinson and Peggy Stock, 58.33%; Nancy Deneen and Cherry Searle, 56.94%; Fran
Schmidt and Christine Nieman, 53.47%.
Unit
116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan.
1, 2020, to June 30, 2020
0-5 Points – Linda
Henschel, 18.43; Nancy Deneen, 17.91; Martha Cain, 12.98; Elaine Idzik, 10.96.
5-20 Points – Martha
Townson, 29.43; Fred Schweiger, 7.33; Jane Constantine, 5.58; Tyler Mu, 5.43; Gini
Sicignano, 5.11.
20-50 Points –Stephane
Ronget, 12.27; Maria Amlani, 11.66; David Schott, 10.32; Cherry Searle, 8.94.
50-100 Points – Larry
Himelein, 30.46; Joanne Nover, 16.33; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 11.29; Barbara Hill, 9.67.
100-200 Points –Bonnie
Clement, 32.90; Ann Marie Ryan, 22.07; Vic Bergsten, 20.53; Terry Hamovitch, 18.79;
Bram Hamovitch, 16.49.
200-300 Points –
Jim Lanzo, 44.18; Jasbeer Makhija, 22.08; Margaret Zhou, 15.91; Patty Porter, 13.89;
Ruth Nawotniak, 13.69.
300-500 Points –
Larry Abate, 52.31; Joyce Frayer, 38.15; Amita Arora, 25.73; Violet Makhija, 22.64;
Pawan Matta, 16.62; Sushil Amlani, 14.06.
500-1000 Points – Bob
Sommerstein, 48.73; Mary Ball, 44.45; John Bava, 39.62; (tie) Jim Easton,
Marilyn Wortzman, 38.88; Ed Morgan, 36.30; Ten-Pao Lee, 35.70.
1000-1500 Points – Gay
Simpson, 42.52; Sandi England, 37.38; Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Joanne LaFay, 27.49;
Terry Fraas, 19.62; Howard Foster, 19.26.
1500-2500 Points – (Tie)
Martha Welte, John Welte, 162.83; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.31; Davis Heussler,
47.44; Linda Burroughsford, 38.65; Walt Olszewski, 33.25.
2500-3500 Points –
David Millward, 60.49; Allen Beroza, 56.52; Ken Meier, 48.56; Dale Anderson, 41.16;
Mike Silverman, 39.53; Fred Yellen, 37.67.
3500-5000 Points –Sharon
Benz, 54.11; Barbara Libby, 53.24; Mike Ryan, 50.35; John Ziemer, 43.41;
Christy Kellogg, 36.60.
5000-7500 Points –
Alan Greer, 100.85; Saleh Fetouh, 67.63; Bert Hargeshimer, 37.89; Judi
Marshall, 22.37; Jay Costello, 21.79.
Over 7500 Points –
Bud Seidenberg, 75.93; Chris Urbanek, 36.62; Jay Levy, 33.26.
Email danderson@buffnews.com
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