Silver
Lining Week concludes on Bridge Base Online today, Saturday, Aug. 1, and Sunday,
Aug. 2. Players in virtual club
games can earn silver points and extra points in games that are played in
Virtual Clubs.
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 online games they sponsor 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 and offers
games three or four days a week and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club has
games 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 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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For clubs
that want to reopen for
face-to-face play, 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 Bridge Center
of Buffalo is contemplating reopening
sometime later this year and has compiled a list of changes and provisions
needed to do it, including new tables and floors. It can be found here.
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Canceled due
to the pandemic is the Unit 116 summer picnic, which had been scheduled
Sunday, Aug. 2, in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St.,
Amherst. Also canceled is the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament Sept. 11 to 13.
The annual Unit 116 meeting
Dec. 5 is still pending and the Mentoring Program and the Youth Bridge Program
are currently on hold.
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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 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 July 20 to July 26
Week of July 20 to July 26
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar, 72.79%; Jennifer Epstein and
Andrew Jiang, 56.75%; Janet and David Desmon, 55.87%; east-west, Nicholas
Buzzard and Julian King, 58.73%; Martha Townson and Elaine Idzik, 58.28%; Tyler
Mu and Michael Passucci, 57.57%.
Bridge Center
of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon –
Non-life masters. North-south, Martha Townson and Amita Arora, 63.85%; Susan
Levy and Patricia Konrad, 56.98%; Barbara Scott and Jim Lanzo, 52.20%; Janet
Desmon and Joanne Nover, 51.58%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
61.07%; Phyllis Wilkinson and Sheila Hess, 56.40%; Mary Ball and Joyce Freayer,
55.67%; Pat Haynes and Terry Camp, 54.21%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Susan Burns and Amy Habib, 65.52%; Anne O’Connor
and Ed Harman, 61.40%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 59.59%; Tyler Mu and
Michael Passucci, 57.46%; east-west, John Scott and Jim Lanzo, 71.49%; Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 67.74%; Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 58.65%; Ginger Maiman
and Marcia Wright, 56.03%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Jan O’Mara and Bill Rich, 59.44%; Beena and Madhav
Deshmukh, 58.89%; Walt Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, 55%; (tie) Henry Chudy and Jeff
Bender, Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 52.22%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Jane
Constantine and Amber Dixon, 61.11%; Carole Sedita and Catherine Beltz, 55.56%;
Candace Graser and Amy Habib, 54.63%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Amita Arora and partner, 62.50%; Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 61.11%; Rajarshi
Roy and partner, 59.03%; (tie) Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, Jeff Bender and Gabe
Tannenbaum, 57.64%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 63.89%;
Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 62.50%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 80.32%;
Nancy Deneen and Sheila Hess, 75.93%; Phyllis Wilkinson and Peggy Stock,
52.31%; Anne Slater and Kathleen Voigt, 50.69%.
