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Although tournaments
are canceled for the rest of the year and bridge clubs are closed, 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 and the
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club offer games five or 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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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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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:
Hamilton Sectional – Royal
Canadian Legion, 435 Limeridge Road East, Hamilton, Ont. Today, 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 July 6 to July 12
Week of July 6 to July 12
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Betsy and Jim Greno, 65.08%; Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li,
64.89%; Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar, 54.55%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory,
52.82%; east-west, Janet and David Desmon, 60.03%; Meena Rustgi and Phyllis
Stasiowski, 59.68%; Peg and Jeff Feather, 58.22; Linda Henschel and Martha
Cain, 56.33%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 56.29%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 71.45%; Jim
Hassett and Bill Rich, 57.91%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 54.90%; Nancy
Deneen and Martha Townson, 52.22%; east-west, Beena and Madhav Deshmukh,
60.76%; Beverly Titzel and Peter Brugger, 57.42%; Terry and Bram Hamovitch,
52.85%; Barbara Hill and Ruth Nawotniak, 51.16%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 64.10%;
Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 56.84%; Anne O’Connor and Ed Harman, 54.91%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 52.96%; east-west, Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 66.35%; Terry
and Bram Hamovitch, 60.20%; Carol Licata and Donna Saia, 59.47%; Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 58.83%; Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 56.59%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – (Tie) Walt Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, Jeannie Sedwick and
Andre Binet, 64.58%; Terry Fraas and Martha Townson, 61.11%; Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 59.26%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Nancy
Deneen and Martha Townson, 61.11%; Linda Henschel and Pam Righter, 59.26%;
(tie) Martha Cain and Robin Coffin, Amy Habib and Jane Mitchell, 57.41%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Amita
Arora and Joe Albert Garcia, 60.19%; Rajarshi Roy and partner, 55.56%; Gay
Simpson and partner, 53.70%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – (Tie) Amita Arora and partner,
Rajarshi Roy and Jim Lanzo, 61.11%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 60.56%; Christine
Nieman and Fran Schmidt, 60.28%; Barbara Kaye and Barbara Meenaghan, 57.22%;
Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 55%.
Unit
116 Master Point Leaders for Play in all Venues
Jan.
1, 2020, to June 30, 2020
0-5 Points – Linda Henschel, 23.38; Martha Cain, 17.93; Nancy Deneen, 17.91.
5-20 Points – Martha Townson, 32.02; Fred Schweiger, 7.33; Jane Constantine, 5.58.
20-50 Points – Stephane Ronget, 16.78; Mary Joyce, 12.64; Maria
Amlani, 11.66; David Schott, 10.32.
50-100 Points – Larry Himelein, 32.62; Joanne Nover, 20 even; Rose
Ann Grimaldi, 11.29; Pam Righter, 11.14.
100-200 Points – Vic Bergsten, 37.25; Bonnie Clement, 36.98; Ann
Marie Ryan, 22.59; Terry Hamovitch, 22 even; Bram Hamovitch, 19.70.
200-300 Points – Jim Lanzo, 61.01; Jasbeer Makhija, 22.08; Margaret Zhou, 20.89; Patty
Porter, 13.89; Ruth Nawotniak, 13.69.
300-500 Points – Larry Abate, 71.30; Joyce Frayer, 44.03; Amita Arora, 35.54; Violet
Makhija, 22.64; Pawan Matta, 16.62; Sushil Amlani, 14.76.
500-1000 Points – Bob Sommerstein, 72.61; (tie) Jim Easton, Marilyn Wortzman, 54.27; Mary
Ball, 48.71; John Bava, 47.95; Ten-Pao Lee, 44.61; Ed Morgan, 42.41.
1000-1500 Points – David Colligan, 64.80; Gay Simpson, 52.53; Sandi
England, 42.07; Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Howard Foster,
27.01.
1500-2500 Points – (Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 219.12; Davis Heussler, 133.75; Linda
Burroughsford, 110.89; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.95; Walt Olszewski, 35.83.
2500-3500 Points – Allen Beroza, 66.42; David Millward, 65.15; John Sinclair, 57 even; Ken
Meier, 55.28; Fred Yellen, 53.07; Dale Anderson, 45.71; Ken Meier, 44.26; Mike
Silverman, 44.69.
3500-5000 Points – Sharon Benz, 61.34; Mike Ryan, 61.01; John Ziemer, 57.90; Barbara Libby, 54.40;
Christy Kellogg, 53.67.
5000-7500 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 157.49; Alan Greer, 100.85; Bert Hargeshimer, 55.60; Jay
Costello, 39.27.
Over 7500 Points – Bud Seidenberg, 98.07; Chris Urbanek, 70.67; Jay Levy, 44.26.
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