Thursday, August 27, 2020

Duplicate Bridge: Aug. 29, 2020

Moderne Art Deco playing cards by Randy Coffey


Non-sanctioned bridge clubs have begun to play face-to-face games with health-related restrictions. At the Clarence Senior Center, the weekly game on Thursday is limited to three tables, Senior Center members only. The Brookfield Third Thursday group at Brookfield Country Club is playing pairs games with all pairs remaining stationary at their tables.
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Meanwhile, local ACBL-sanctioned clubs continue to encourage their players to compete online until face-to-face games to resume.
“Virtual Vacation,” a regionally rated ACBL tournament that awards gold and red master points, continues today, Saturday, Aug. 29, and Sunday, Aug. 30, on Bridge Base Online. For details, visit acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
Open to all players on Bridge Base Online 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. More info can be found at 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 offers games three or four days a week on Bridge Base Online and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club has games there on Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon. For the most part, the calendar follows the schedule that the clubs maintained when they were able to play games face to face.
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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Canceled due to the pandemic is the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday, Sept. 13. The annual Unit 116 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: 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.
CANCELED: District 5 Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs. 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 Aug. 17 to Aug. 23
Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. North-south, Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 64.44%; Janice and Tony Ogorek, 56.17%; Leondina Passucci and Jim Hassett, 55.10%; Janet and David Desmon, 53.28%; east-west, Barb and Jim Aston, 67.16%; Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 59.20%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 53.84%; Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Jiang, 53.35%.  
Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Terry Fraas and Donna Sinrud, 61.62%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.85%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 56.31%; Gabe Tannenbaum and Jim Lanzo, 53.54%; east-west, Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 64.65%; Audrey Ray and Margaret Zhou, 63.89%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 55.30%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.54%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice game. Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 75%; Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Jiang, 55.95%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Judy Zeckhauser and Bonnie Clement, 62.73%; Rajat Basu and John Bava, 59.49%; (tie) Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 56.48%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 54.17%; east-west, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 63.43%; Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 62.04%; Larry Himelein and Vic Bergsten, 61.57%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.72%; Leondina Passucci and Jim Hassett, 57.18%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – Beena Bill Rich and Rajarshi Roy, 62.96%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 58.33%; Barbara Hill and Ruth Nawotniak, 54.63%.   
Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – (Tie)  Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, Robin Coffin and Jane Constantine, 62.96%; Carole Sedita and Amber Dixon, 60.19%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Xiaoxin Susa Xu and Amita Amora, 55.56%; Rajareshi Roy and partner, 54.63%; Sushil Amlani and Jim Lanzo, 51.85%.
Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Christine Nieman and Helen Scott, 63.33%; Fran Schmidt and Sheila Hess, 56.11%; Anne Slater and Kathleen Voigt, 53.33; Barbara Kaye and Barbara Meenaghan, 52.22%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Brookfield Third Thursday – North-south, Joyce Frayer and Pat Wolcott, 55.83%; Marilyn Steffan and Judy McDermid, 51.67%; east-west, Anne O’Connor and Pat Addelman, 57.50%; Janet Frisch and Nancy Torrell, 50%.
Clarence Senior Center Thursday – Judy Graf and Stan Kozlowski, 68%; Kathy Borcik and Bill Westley, 54%.


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