Downsized for its
next edition is the Buffalo Spring
Sectional Tournament. It’s moving from the Main-Transit Fire Hall in Amherst,
site of many sectionals for the past several years, to the more intimate Buffalo
Bridge Center, 3362 Sheridan Drive at Sweet Home Road, Amherst. Also downgraded
are awards of silver master points. They will be given at 65% of the usual rate,
which will help Unit 116 recover from financial losses at the Winter Sectional
in January. Dates remain as originally planned – Friday, April 1, to Sunday,
April 3. For more info, click this link.
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Face-to-face
games in the Buffalo bridge clubs may
become more frequent now that Omicron variant is subsiding. The Buffalo Bridge
Center has in-person open games at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Attendance is ranging from three to five tables.
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The East Aurora Bridge
Club has been holding face-to-face
games for more than a year. Play begins at 10 a.m. Wednesdays in the Aurora
Senior Citizens Center, 101 King St., East Aurora. Players must wear masks.
Attendance is generally three or four tables. For more info, email director
Dave Larcom at dmocral@verizon.net.
Also back to
in-person play is the Lockport Duplicate Club. Games begin at 1 p.m. Saturdays
in the Dale Center, 33 Ontario St., Lockport. For info, call Dian Petrov at
716-668-1226.
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In person games are
back at the Bridge Centre of Niagara
in St. Catharines, Ont., at 1 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, now that Ontario has relaxed Covid-19
restrictions. Proof of vaccination and mask-wearing required. The club’s other
regularly scheduled games continue on Bridge Base Online.
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Players who
aren’t comfortable with face-to-face
play or who are not vaccinated can earn ACBL master points in a variety of
games sponsored by local clubs on Bridge Base Online. Info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
Available on Bridge
Base Online are the Buffalo Bridge Center’s 0-750 master point limit game at 7
p.m. Mondays, a 1,200-point master point limit game at noon Tuesday, a
1,500-point game at noon Thursdays and the Delaware Wednesday game at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, which is limited to players with fewer than 2,000 points. For more
info, visit the Buffalo Bridge Center website, call 716-691-6201 or email acting club manager Terry
Fraas at tmfraas@gmail.com.
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The Rust Belt
Bridge Group, which invites players
from Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play on Bridge Base Online, has
novice games at 9:45 a.m. Monday to Saturday, with open games at 9:50. To visit
the group’s homepage, click this link. For
other info, call Dian Petrov at 716-688-1226 or email dpetrov@roadrunner.com.
The Airport
Bridge Club is linked on Bridge
Base Online 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 716-603-6943.
The Delaware
Wednesday Club plays on Bridge Base
Online under auspices of the Buffalo Bridge Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For
info, call Ed Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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Tournament
calendar
2022
Rochester Spring
Sectional – Moose Lodge, 5375 W.
Henrietta Road, West Henrietta. Saturday, March 26, and Sunday, March 27. For
more info, click this link.
NEW LOCATION:
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Buffalo
Bridge Center, 3362 Sheridan Drive at Sweet Home Road, Amherst. Friday, April
1, to Sunday, April 3. For more info, click this link.
Toronto Easter
Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre,
123 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 12, to Sunday, April 17. For
info, click this link.
Ithaca Sectional
– Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N.
Triphammer Road, Ithaca. Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15.
Cleveland All
American Regional – Embassy Suites
Hotel, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 24, to
Monday, May 30. For info, click this link.
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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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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Feb. 21 to Feb. 27
The ACBL Live results link was temporarily out of order when this column was written. It now has been restored.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Jill
and Bruce Brown, 60%; Joe Huber and Ron Canestro, 49%; east-west, Alicia
Kolipinski and Shirley Cassety, 58%; Joan Stankiewicz and Cindy Darone, 50%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 63%; Mike and Ed Rupp, 55%; east-west, Anne O’Conner
and Joan Stankiewicz, 60%; Pat Radtke and Bob Leuthe, 54%.
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The
Duplicate Bridge column is
compiled weekly by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version stopped
appearing Saturdays in The Buffalo News in March 2020 when the pandemic forced
local bridge clubs to halt face-to-face play.
These days you can
find it in two places online. Google “Duplicate Bridge” plus the current
Saturday date and that should bring up a link to it on buffalonews.com, the Buffalo News website. Another place to find it
is on Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/
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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A Gold Life
Master, Dale Anderson has
reached a career total of 2,900 master points. Playing exclusively online these
days doesn’t provide as much drama for his bridge blog as face-to-face
competition, but he still writes about his quest for the next measure of
achievement, Sapphire Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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