Gold points
are available for two more days for those playing online in Fall Into Bridge, a
regionally-rated tournament. It continues today, Saturday, Oct. 17, and Sunday,
Oct. 18, on Bridge Base Online. Cost is $15 per session. For more info and a
schedule, visit acbl.org.
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Bridge Base
Online has teamed with the ACBL to
offer games with ACBL master points, some of which benefit local clubs. Among
the clubs taking part in Virtual Club play locally are the Airport Bridge Club,
the Bridge Center of Buffalo, Delaware Wednesday and the Lockport Duplicate
Bridge Club. More info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
The Airport
Bridge Club is linked 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.
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.
The Delaware
Wednesday Club also
plays under auspices of the
Bridge Center of Buffalo on Bridge Base Online at 7 p.m. Wednesday, the same
time that it had its actual games.
Delaware Wednesday
is invitational. For info, call Ed Harman at 480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has resumed face-to-face
games, becoming the first ACBL sanctioned club in the area to resume live
competition. Play begins at 10 a.m. Wednesdays in the Aurora Senior Citizens
Center, 101 King St., East Aurora.
Director Dave Larcom
says that players will have their temperatures checked upon arriving and must
wear masks. For more info, email him at dmocral@verizon.net.
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It wasn’t
the coronavirus that canceled the Buffalo Regional Tournament, which would
have been held next week. ACBL District 5 could not reach an agreement on the
arrangements with the venue, the Buffalo Grand Hotel in downtown Buffalo,
formerly the Adam’s Mark. The tournament is scheduled to return next October in
the Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga.
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The Saturday
Duplicate Bridge column is on
hiatus in the print edition of The Buffalo News, but here it is online, alive
and well.
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Frank Stewart’s
Daily Bridge Club column stopped
appearing last week in The Buffalo News when pages were eliminated to cut
costs. Comments may be emailed to assistant managing editor Margaret Kenny at mkenny@buffnews.com. Stewart, meanwhile, is still writing instructive columns
featuring Cy the Cynic, Minnie Bottoms and all the other denizens of the penny
game at his club. You can read them at bridgefeed.acbl.org.
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Tournament
calendar
2020
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
CANCELED: Cleveland
Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021,
to Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
CANCELED: Buffalo
Winter Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 24,
2021.
RESCHEDULED:
St. Catharines Sectional –
Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St.
Catharines, Ont. Was Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
Rescheduled for Friday, March 26, 2021, to Sunday, March 28, 2021.
Rochester Spring
Sectional – Webster Columbus
Center, 70 Barrett Drive, Webster. Saturday, March 27, 2021, and Sunday, March
28, 2021.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday,
March 30, 2021, to Sunday, April 4, 2021.
Unit 112
(Rochester) 199er Tournament –
Strathallan Hotel, 550 East Ave., Rochester. Saturday, April 9, 2021, and
Sunday, April 10, 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.
District 5
Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs. Monday, June 14, 2021, to Sunday, June 20,
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.
RESCHEDULED:
Buffalo Regional – Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. Was Tuesday,
Oct. 19, 2021, to Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. Rescheduled to Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021,
to Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021.
Niagara
Falls Regional – Crowne Plaza
Hotel, 5685 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls, 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.
District 5 Winter
STaC – Local clubs. Monday, Dec. 6,
2021, to Sunday, Dec. 12, 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 and went on hiatus in
March when the pandemic forced local bridge clubs to halt face-to-face play.
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 sometimes cannot be
found 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 Oct. 5 to Oct. 11
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 60.07%; Martha Cain and Linda
Henschel, 58.33%; Peg and Jeff Feather, 55.56%; Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty
DeFeo, 54.17%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning –
Non-life masters. North-south, Audrey Ray and Margaret Zhuo, 59.38%; Paula
Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 57.99%; Janet Desmon and Susan Levy, 52.78%; Beena
and Madhav Deshmukh, 51.74%; east-west, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 67.71%;
Pat Haynes and Judy Zeckhauser, 59.72%; Richard McGowan and Jim McClure,
55.90%; Mary Terrana and Usha Khurana, 53.82%.
Bridge Center
of Buffalo Tuesday morning – Open
game. Meg Klamp and Chris Urbanek, 63.89%; Sharon Benz and John Marvin, 56.94%;
Judy Padgug and Christy Kellogg, 51.39%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 66.44%;
Laura and John Houghtaling, 63.19%; Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian,
56.02%; Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 54.63%; east-west, Richard McGowan and
Bill Rich, 63.66%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 62.27%; Linda Milch and Jim
McClure, 59.72%; Amy Habib and Susan Burns, 55.79%.
Bridge Club of East
Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat and Dick Rasmus, 62.50%; Linda and Paul Zittel,
57.50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Amita Arora and Rajarshi Roy, 68.75%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer,
59.72%; (tie) Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, Beena Deshmukh and Bill Rich, 54.86%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Pinky
Regan and Robin Coffin, 65.28%; Mary Joyce and Pam Righter, 64.58%; Jane
Mitchell and partner, 56.94%; Pat Leonard and Linda Henschel, 55.56%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Joan
and Bob Ciszak, 57.50%; Martha and John Welte, 47.78%
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Martha and John Welte, 69.44%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 54.17%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning – (Tie) Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, Sheila Hess
and partner, 60%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 56.11%; Mary Joyce and Jane
Mitchell, 52.22%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday – Kathy % Judy Graf
and Donna Steffan, 66%; Kathy Borcik and Bill Westley, 60%; Judy Thielman and
Elaine Wegrzyn, 51%.
Unit 116 Master
Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2020, to Sept.
30, 2020
0-5 Points – Linda
Henschel, 41,45; Nancy Deneen, 34.65; Martha Cain, 30.82; Elaine Idzik, 27.17;
Amy Habib, 18.99; Betsy Greno, 18.62; Anne Allen, 18.60.
5-20 Points – Martha
Townson, 76.73; Jane Constantine, 14.76; Susan Burns, 11.51; Fran Schmidt, 11.15;
David Desmon, 10.68; Tyler Mu, 8.91.
20-50 Points – David
Schott, 23.94; Mary Joyce, 23.89; Maria Amlani, 21.80; Stephane Ronget, 21.76; Cherry
Searle, 13.16.
50-100 Points –
Larry Himelein, 76.34; Joanne Nover, 38.09; Pam Righter, 20.16; Rose Ann
Grimaldi, 16.27; Barbara Hill, 15.50.
100-200 Points – Vic
Bergsten, 95.24; Bonnie Clement, 69.29; James O’Hara, 51.95; Terry Hamovitch, 50.69;
Bram Hamovitch, 48.39; Audrey Ray, 42.14.
200-300 Points – Jim
Lanzo, 120.72; Patty Porter, 39.38; Margaret Zhou, 38.23; Jasbeer Makhija, 36.81;
Ruth Nawotniak, 21.46.
300-500 Points –
Amita Arora, 100.21; Larry Abate, 78.58; Joyce Frayer, 75.02; Violet Makhija, 37.37;
Sushil Amlani, 31.04.
500-1000 Points –
Bob Sommerstein, 99.91; (tie) Jim Easton, Marilyn Wortzman, 87.09; Mary Ball, 75.19;
John Bava, 73.73; Ed Morgan, 47.52; Ten-Pao Lee, 44.61.
1000-1500 Points –
Gay Simpson, 97.29; David Colligan, 71.07; Sandi England, 68.98; Terry Fraas, 32.08;
Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Howard Foster, 27.01; Ron
Henrikson, 22.20.
1500-2500 Points –
(Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 399.97; Davis Heussler, 148.47; Linda
Burroughsford, 114.83; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.95; Walt Olszewski, 42.64.
2500-3500 Points –
Allen Beroza, 128.95; Ken Meier, 96.59; Dale Anderson, 58.66; John Sinclair,
58.36; Mike Silverman, 55.77; Fred Yellen, 55.61.
3500-5000 Points –
Barbara Libby, 85.56; Sharon Benz, 73.19; Mike Ryan, 61.01; John Ziemer, 57.90;
Judy Padgug, 53.88; Christy Kellogg, 53.67.
5000-7500 Points –
Saleh Fetouh, 182.75; Alan Greer, 100.85; Bert Hargeshimer, 55.60; Judi
Marshall, 49.76; Jay Costello, 39.27.
Over 7500 Points –
Bud Seidenberg, 128.76; Chris Urbanek, 91.64; Jay Levy, 47.82.
Email danderson@buffnews.com
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