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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No directors for
tournaments through the end of
February, that’s what the ACBL has decided. Players are encouraged to find
games online.
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 Saturday
Duplicate Bridge column continues
on hiatus in the print edition of The Buffalo News until clubs resume regular
play, but here it is online, alive and well. The syndicated Daily Bridge Club
column by Frank Stewart will continue to appear in print.
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Tournament
calendar
2020
CANCELED:
Rochester Fall Sectional – Today,
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
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. 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 Sept. 21 to Sept. 27
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Janet and David Desmon, 65.74%; Meena Rustgi and Phyllis
Stasiowski, 64.91%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 60.93%; east-west, Amy
Habib and Jane Constantine, 61.11%; Carole Sedita and Susan Burns, 55.46%; Rose
Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 53.70%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning –
Non-life masters. North-south, Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 62.59%; Mary Ball
and Joyce Frayer, 59.44%; Linda Milch and Maryann Szafran, 56.11%; Bonnie
Clement and Larry Himelein, 50%; east-west, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo,
62.78%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 60.15%; Hannah Weinberg and Judith Babat,
54.72%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 53.77%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice game. Cynthia Tashjian and
Carol Licata, 63.89%; Joann and Gary Keenan, 62.96%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Usha Khurana and Bill Rich, 65.97%;
Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 63.66%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 59.26%;
Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 55.32%; east-west, Dorothy and Larry Soong,
62.73%; Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 61.81%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce
Frayer, 57.41%; John Bava and Rajat Basu, 55.32%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 65%; Louise Blankenship and
John Templin, 59.44%; Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 58.89%; Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 55.56%; Pat Radtke and Anne O’Connor, 52.22%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Pinky
Regan and Mary Joyce, 62.04%; (tie) Carole Sedita and Susan Burns, Pam Righter
and Robin Coffin, 53.70%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Vera Carpenter and Rashid Kahn, 72.22%; Rajarshi Roy and partner, 68.89%;
Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 67.78%; Jim Lanzo and Ed Harman, 60.56%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Martha Townson and partner, 52.78%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 50%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 61.39%; Bonnie
Botsford and Helen Scott, 58.33%; Barbara Meenaghan and Barbaraa Kaye, 57.78%; Sheila
Hess and partner, 56.67%; Lenore Belzer and Mary Bell, 53.61%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Clarence Senior Center Thursday – Kathy Borcik and Bill Westley, 69%; Judy Graf and Donna Steffan, 63%.
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