Looking for a
bridge game online until face-to-face
games return?
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. Plans are
still pending for the annual Unit 116 meeting Dec. 5. 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, Sapphire Life
Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Aug. 24 to Aug. 30
Week of Aug. 24 to Aug. 30
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Martha Townson and Gloria Beddow, 68.70%; Michael Metzger
and Karen Dearing, 58.13%; Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 57.54%; Peg and Jeff
Feather, 52.38%; east-west, Janet and David Desmon, 63.05%; Tyler Mu and
Michael Passucci, 60.37%; Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 57.84%; Betsy and Jim
Greno, 54.56%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran,
60.71%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 56.35%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer,
53.97%; Hannah Weinberg and Judith Babat, 53.57%; east-west, Janet Desmon and
Joanne Nover, 65.87%; Ed Harman and Jim Lanzo, 55.95%; Judy Zeckhauser and Pat
Haynes, 52.78%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice
game. Linda and Jim Hassett, 64.81%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Linda Henschel and Martha Cain,
59.88%; Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 56.17%; Carol Bedell and Marietta Kalman,
53.40%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 52.16%; east-west, Linda Milch and Jim
McClure, 56.48%; Amy Habib and Susan Burns, 55.25%; William Qu and Rajarshi
Roy, 54.94%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 53.40%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Martha Townson and Eva Berlin, 59.49%; (tie) Miriam Regnet
and Jim Lanzo, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 53.70%; Jeff Bender and Henry Chudy,
52.78%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Elizabeth
Schreier and Linda Henschel, 60.42%; Carole Sedita and Pam Righter, 58.10%;
(tie) Michele Witt and Robin Coffin, Pinky Regan and Jane Mitchell, 54.40%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Audrey
Ray and Margaret Zhou, 61.11%; Gay Simpson and Rajarshi Roy, 58.33%; Sushil
Amlani and Walt Olszewski, 51.85%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 69.17%; Nancy Deneen
and Cherry Searle, 62.64%; Fran Schmidt and Sheila Hess, 57.50%; Phyllis
Wilkinson and Peggy Stock, 52.78%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday – Judy Graf and Donna
Steffan, 64%; Mr. and Mrs. S. Junar, 61%; Kathy Borcik and Bill Westley, 58%.
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