The Bridge Center
of Buffalo is contemplating reopening
sometime later this year and has compiled a lengthy list of changes and
provisions that will be needed in order to do it, including new tables and
floors. It can be found here.
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No
face-to-face tournaments for the
rest of the year – that's what ACBL management has decided.
The bridge
sanctioning organization has canceled the 2020 Fall North American Bridge
Championships in Tampa, Fla., right after Thanksgiving, and is not providing
directors for any other tournaments.
ACBL executive
director Joseph Jones said in a message on the organization's website that
players still can win black, silver, red and gold master points on Bridge Base
Online.
Open to all players
on BBO 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. For
more info, visit acbl.org/virtual 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.
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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, Bridge Club
Meridian and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club offer games six days a week.
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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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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No summer
picnic this year for Western New York Unit 116. The event Aug. 2 in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St.,
Amherst, is canceled. Also formally canceled is the Buffalo Fall Sectional
Tournament Sept. 11 to 13.
In an email last
month, Unit 116 president Betty Metz said that the annual meeting Dec. 5 is
still pending and the Mentoring Program and the Youth Bridge Program are
currently on hold. She noted that the ACBL decision "does not mean the
clubs have to stay closed. That decision is individual to each club."
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For clubs
that want to reopen, the ACBL
has issued a lengthy list of "Club Safety Considerations," which
advises them to use a great many precautionary measures to limit the risk to
the players. To read the entire advisory, click here.
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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:
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.
CANCELED:
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.
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.
District 5
Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs, if they're open and if the ACBL provides
a director. 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, Emerald Life
Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of June 22 to June 28
Week of June 22 to June 28
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. Tyler Mu and Michael Passucci, 63.77%; Candace Graser and Cynthia
Tashjian, 63.27%; Meena Rustgi and Phyllis Stasiowski, 58.14%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. Martha Townson and Amita Arora, 68.33%; Beena and
Madhav Deshmukh, 64.44%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 56.11%; (tie) Margaret Zhou
and Joyce Frayer, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 55%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 69.26%; Anne
O’Connor and Ed Harman, 61.94%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 59.29%; Dorothy and
Larry Soong, 58.55%; east-west, Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 61.42%; Rivona
Ehrenreich and Judith Babat, 58.24%; (tie) Martha Townson and Nancy Deneen,
Sheila Hess and Phyllis Wilkinson, 56.39%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Sunday afternoon – Mohan Prabhu and partner, 75%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.56%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – (Tie) Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 57.41%; Joan Vanek and Stuart
Schwartz, 53.70%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 53.24%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening –
Amita Arora and Rajarshi Roy, 66.20%; Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 56.02%;
Elve Johnston and Ed Harman, 54.83%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Elve Johnston and Miriam Regnet,
66.67%; (tie) Anne O’Connor and Ed Harman, Amita Arora and partner, 54.17%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Lou Etta Knight and Sheila Hess, 59.58%; Anne Allen
and Mary Ellen Cotter, 59.44%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 58.89%; Barbara
Kaye and Barbara Meenaghan, 55%.
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