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The Delaware Wednesday Club
has
joined the ranks of clubs offering virtual games via Bridge Base Online. It
plays Wednesday at 7 p.m., 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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The ACBL and Bridge Base
Online host a wide variety of 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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Still lingering 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
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 25 to May 31
Week of May 25 to May 31
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. North-south, Isabelle
Banas and Donna Saia, 64.29%; Janet and David Desmon, 55.95%; (tie) Darwin
Skalski and Tiger Li, Tyler Mu and Michael Passucci, 54.76%; east-west, Nancy
Deneen and Martha Townson, 69.44%; Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 61.51%; Andrew
Jiang and Meena Rustgi, 53.17%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south,
Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 59.38%; Martha Townson and Rob Hessel, 58.33%;
Caraol Roth and Rivona Ehrenreigh, 54.86%; east-west, Larry Abate and Ed
Morgan, 72.57%; Amita Arora and Peggy-Sue Verkerk, 62.50%; Rajarshi Roy and Jim
Lanzo, 55.21%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Wednesday morning – Margaret Zhou and Joyce
Frayer, 61.11%; Chris Urbanek and Sharon Benz, 59.26%; Saleh Fetouh and Bud
Seidenberg, 55.56%..
Bridge Center of Buffalo
Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Martha Townson
and Rob Hessel, 61.49%; Marcia Wright and Ginger Maiman, 58.80%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 56.44%; east-west, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 64.08%; Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 57.74%; Anne O’Connor and Ed Harman, 55.83%; Jim Lanzo
and Rajarshi Roy, 54.84%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo
Thursday evening – Amita Arora and Joe Albert Garcia, 61.81%;
Judy Padgug and Elaine Kurasiewicz, 52.78%; David Colligan and Davis Heussler,
52.08%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Friday morning – Kamil Bishara and Davis
Heussler, 66.67%; Chris Urbanek and Saleh Fetouh, 62.78%; Gay Simpson and
Subrata Ghosh, 61.67%; Larry Abate and Rajat Basu, 56.11; Judy Padgug and Bud
Seidenberg, 55%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Sunday afternoon – North-south, Martha
and John Welte, 61.90%; Davis Heussler and Rajarshi Roy, 56.22%; Maria and
Sushil Amlani, 54.50%; east-west, John Bava and Bob Sommerstein, 55.16%; Judy
Padgug and Gene Finton, 54.37%; Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 54.89%.
Bridge
Club Meridian Monday morning – Amita Arora and partner, 59.72%; Gene Finton
and Bill Hogsett, 55.96%.
Buffalo Silver Wings
Monday afternoon – Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargeshimer,
61.25%; Jo Nasoff-Finton and Rajat Basu, 58.89%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 56.81%;
Merilee Weitzman and Rhonda Leibner, 53.75%.
Buffalo Silver Wings Wednesday
afternoon – Martha Townson and Rob Hessel, 62.50%; Larry
Abate and Bob Sommerstein, 59.03%; Jim Lanzo and Rajarshi Roy, 54.86%; Martha
and John Welte, 52.08%.
Buffalo Silver Wings Friday
afternoon – Gay Simpson and John Bava, 62.50%; Jim
Lanzo and Rajarshi Roy, 56.94%.
Garret Club Invitational
Monday morning – Linda Henschel and partner, 69.72%; Susan
Burns and Mary Joyce, 55.56%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge
Tuesday evening – Jim Lanzo and Sushil Amlani, 61.81%; Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.56%; Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 54.86%; Martha
and John Welte, 52.08%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge
Saturday afternoon – North-south, Martha and John Welte, 61.26%;
Ken Meier and Tom Koralewski, 60.32%; David Heussler and David Colligan,
54.32%; Larry Abate and Rajat Basu, 53.62%; east-west, Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 64.14%; Manju Ceylony and Shakeel Ahmad, 60.17%; Chris Urbanek and
Sharon Benz, 56.25%; Jim Lanzo and Rajarshi Roy, 52.53%.
Twentieth Century Club Invitational
Friday morning – Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 60.42%;
Cherry Searle and Nancy Deneen, 57.87%; Kathleen Voigt and Anne Slater, 56.58%.
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