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Non-sanctioned
bridge clubs have begun to play
face-to-face games with health-related restrictions. At the Clarence Senior
Center, the weekly game on Thursday is limited to three tables, Senior Center
members only. The Brookfield Third Thursday group at Brookfield Country Club is
playing pairs games with all pairs remaining stationary at their tables.
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Meanwhile, local ACBL-sanctioned clubs continue to encourage
their players to compete online until face-to-face games to resume.
“Virtual
Vacation,” a regionally rated ACBL
tournament that awards gold and red master points, continues today,
Saturday, Aug. 29, and Sunday, Aug. 30, on Bridge Base Online. For details,
visit acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
Open to all players
on Bridge Base Online 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. More info can be found at 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 offers
games three or four days a week on Bridge Base Online and the Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Club has games there 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 games face to face.
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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Canceled due
to the pandemic is the Buffalo
Fall Sectional Tournament Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday, Sept. 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:
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.
CANCELED: District
5 Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs. 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 Aug. 17 to Aug. 23
Week of Aug. 17 to Aug. 23
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 64.44%; Janice and Tony
Ogorek, 56.17%; Leondina Passucci and Jim Hassett, 55.10%; Janet and David
Desmon, 53.28%; east-west, Barb and Jim Aston, 67.16%; Amy Habib and Jane
Constantine, 59.20%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 53.84%; Jennifer Epstein
and Andrew Jiang, 53.35%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Terry Fraas and Donna Sinrud, 61.62%;
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.85%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 56.31%;
Gabe Tannenbaum and Jim Lanzo, 53.54%; east-west, Beena and Madhav Deshmukh,
64.65%; Audrey Ray and Margaret Zhou, 63.89%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon,
55.30%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.54%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice
game. Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 75%; Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Jiang,
55.95%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Judy Zeckhauser and Bonnie Clement, 62.73%;
Rajat Basu and John Bava, 59.49%; (tie) Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, Seema
Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 56.48%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 54.17%;
east-west, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 63.43%; Richard McGowan and Jim
McClure, 62.04%; Larry Himelein and Vic Bergsten, 61.57%; Marilyn Wortzman and
Jim Easton, 59.72%; Leondina Passucci and Jim Hassett, 57.18%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Beena Bill Rich and Rajarshi Roy, 62.96%; Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 58.33%; Barbara Hill and Ruth Nawotniak, 54.63%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – (Tie) Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, Robin Coffin
and Jane Constantine, 62.96%; Carole Sedita and Amber Dixon, 60.19%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Xiaoxin
Susa Xu and Amita Amora, 55.56%; Rajareshi Roy and partner, 54.63%; Sushil
Amlani and Jim Lanzo, 51.85%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Christine Nieman and Helen Scott, 63.33%; Fran Schmidt
and Sheila Hess, 56.11%; Anne Slater and Kathleen Voigt, 53.33; Barbara Kaye
and Barbara Meenaghan, 52.22%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Brookfield Third
Thursday – North-south, Joyce Frayer
and Pat Wolcott, 55.83%; Marilyn Steffan and Judy McDermid, 51.67%; east-west, Anne
O’Connor and Pat Addelman, 57.50%; Janet Frisch and Nancy Torrell, 50%.
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday – Judy Graf and Stan
Kozlowski, 68%; Kathy Borcik and Bill Westley, 54%.
