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While local clubs remain
closed indefinitely due to the pandemic, bridge players have
turned to the Internet, where the ACBL and Bridge Base Online offer virtual club
games awarding ACBL master points while giving financial support to home clubs.
Open to all players are
the Support Your Club games on BBO 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. For more
info, visit acbl.org or
bridgebase.com.
Local clubs also share in
the fees from when they offer online games as Virtual Clubs on BBO for players
who are affiliated with them.
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.
The Bridge Center of
Buffalo, Bridge Club Meridian and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club offer
games every day under their own names or the banner “Buffalo Wings.” For the
most part, the calendar follows the schedule that the clubs maintained when
they were able to play live games.
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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Silver Linings Week
continues today, Saturday, May 30, and Sunday, May 31, offering triple silver
master points for players competing in games in Virtual Clubs on Bridge Base
Online.
The ACBL says every game
in a Virtual Club will award them, but adds, “This is not a STaC (Sectional
Tournament at the Clubs). There will be no overalls or combining of scores.
It’s your regular club game with new, temporary conditions.”
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Still on the Unit 116
calendar is the summer picnic Aug. 2 in the Main-Transit Fire
Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. However, now that the Erie County Fair (Aug. 12
to 22) has been canceled, the picnic is looking even less likely to happen.
No longer on the unit
calendar is the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament Sept. 11 to 13, but no formal
announcement has been made.
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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
MOVED ONLINE: 2020
Canadian Bridge Championships – Live play at Crowne
Plaza Hotel, 5685 Falls St., Niagara Falls, Ont., today, Saturday, May 30, to
Sunday, June 7, is canceled. Round robin team competition begins Monday, June
1, on Bridge Base Online, and continues through Aug. 2. Registration deadline
is Sunday, May 31. For info about online competition, click this link.
CANCELED: Syracuse
Sectional – Syracuse Contract Duplicate Bridge Club,
501 Edgerton St., Minoa. Saturday, June 13, and Sunday, June 14.
CANCELED: District 5
Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STAC) – Local clubs.
Monday, June 15, to Sunday, June 21.
CANCELED: Niagara-on-the-Lake
Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 26,
to Sunday, June 28. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: Southwest
Ontario Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention
Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 7, to Sunday,
July 12. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: Rochester
Summer Sectional – Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett
Drive, Webster. Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: Hamilton
Sectional – Royal Canadian Legion, 435 Limeridge Road
East, Hamilton, Ont. Saturday, July 18, and Sunday, July 19.
CANCELED: Syracuse
Regional – Holiday Inn Syracuse, 441 Electronics Parkway,
Liverpool. Monday, Aug. 10, to Sunday, Aug. 16. For info, click this link.
St. Catharines 299er
Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont
Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 15, and Sunday, Aug. 16. For info,
click this link.
Pittsburgh Labor Day
Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave.,
Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Sept. 1, to Monday, Sept. 7.
Buffalo Fall Sectional –
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday,
Sept. 13.
St. Catharines Regional –
Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St.
Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 20.
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.
Finger Lakes Sectional –
Seneca County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive, Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov.
7, and Sunday, Nov. 8.
Unit 255 Sectional –
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, to Sunday, Nov. 15.
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 May 18 to May 24
Week of May 18 to May 24
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. North-south,
Tyler Mu and Michael Passucci, 69.44%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget,
62.04%; Shyam and Sarmisthta Kumar, 61.42%; east-west, Betsy and James Greno,
58.33%; Cynthia Tashjian and Savid Schott, 58.02%; Meena Rustgi and Phyllis
Stasiowski, 55.86%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. Jo Nasoff-Finton
and Rajat Basu, 69.44%; Maria Amlani and Jim Lanzo, 63.89%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 54.17%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Wednesday morning – Martha and John Welte,
65.74%; Saleh Fetouh and Bud Seidenberg, 60.19%; Carol Bedell and Terry Fraas,
53.70%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday
afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Ed Harman and
Jim Lanzo, 61.73%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.49%; Hannah Weinberg and
partner, 55.36%; John Bava and Rajat Basu, 55.71%; east-west, Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 72.96%; Barbara Hill and Ruth Nawotniak, 58.41%; Dorothy and
Larry Soong, 54.71%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 53.05%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Friday morning – Judy Padgug and Bud
Seidenberg, 61.11%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Sunday afternoon – Rajat Basu and John
Bava, 59.72%; (tie) Jay Levy and Rajarshi Roy, Martha and John Welte, 55.56%;
Phyllis Wilkinson and Carol Roth, 52.78%.
Garret Club Invitational
Monday morning – Susan Burns and Jane Considine, 65.74%;
Elizabeth Hemenway and partner, 60.19%; (tie) Judy Reich and Candace Graser,
Linda Henschel and Pam Righter, 50.93%;
Lockport Duplicate Bridge
Tuesday evening – Barbara Libby and Ken Meier, 64.17%;
Terry and Bram Hamovitch, 58.06%; Bob Cizsak and partner, 56.11%; Beena and Madhav
Deshmukh, 53.06%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge
Saturday afternoon – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 63.89%; Ken
Meier and Tom Koralewski, 61.11%; Jim Lanzo and partner, 55%.
