The Bridge Center
of Buffalo has informed its members
that the board of directors will not renew the lease on its club rooms in
Sheridan Center, 3362 Sheridan Drive, Amherst. The board encourages players to
continue competing on the Internet.
The Bridge Center 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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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. 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 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 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. Today, Saturday, Aug. 15, and
Sunday, Aug. 16. For info, click this link.
CANCELED:
St. Catharines 299er Sectional –
Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Today, 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 Aug. 3 to Aug. 9
Week of Aug. 3 to Aug. 9
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Janet and David Desmon, 57.25%; Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar,
57.02%; Karen Dearing and David Schott, 56.71%; Carol Licata and Stephane
Ronget, 54.13%; east-west, Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 64.81%; Betsy and
Jim Greno, 61.30%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 56.56%; Peg and Jeff
Feather, 55.75%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
61.42%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 59.88%; (tie) Jim Lanzo and Ed Harman,
Mary Terrana and Usha Khurana, 55.25%; east-west, Paula Rosen and Maryann
Szafran, 65.74%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 58.02%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer,
56.48%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 50.93%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice
game. Gary Keenan and partner, 72.32%; (tie) Cynthia Tashjian and Carol Licata,
Betsy and Jim Greno, 66.96%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Gabe Tannenbaum and Jim Lanzo, 65.91%;
Michael Passucci and Ed Harman, 61.87%; Rose Ann Grimaldi and Terry Camp,
61.62%; Rivona Ehrenreich and Judith Babat, 58.33%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim
Easton, 54.29%; east-west, David Schott and Larry Himelein, 62.37%; Usha
Khurana and Bill Rich, 61.87%; Bonnie Clement and Judy Zeckhauser, 58.84%;
Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 55.30%; John Bava and Rajat Basu, 53.79%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Walt Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, 64.44%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 59.86%; Rajarshi Roy and Ed Harman, 57.64%; Nancy Deneen and Martha
Townson, 56.81%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Linda
Henschel and Mary Joyce, 65.74%; Elizabeth Schreier and Martha Cain, 61.57%;
Jane Mitchell and Amy Habib, 57.87%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – North-south,
Amita Arora and Vic Bergsten, 64.58%; Jim Lanzo and Sushil Amlani, 63.89%; Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 60.42%; Rajarshi Roy and partner, 59.72%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon –Rajarshi Roy and partner, 66.67%; Jim
Lanzo and partner, 61.11%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Peggy Stock and Phyllis Wilkinson, 67.22%; Anne Allen
and Mary Ellen Cotter, 63.89%; Fran Schmidt and Jane Mitchell, 60%; Elaine
Idzik and Martha Townson, 58.33%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 53.33%.
Unit
116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan.
1, 2020, to July 31, 2020
0-5 Points – Nancy
Deneen, 27.72; Linda Henschel, 25.69; Martha Cain, 18.56; Elaine Idzik, 15.64;
(tie) Mary Ellen Cotter, Anne Allen, 13.23.
5-20 Points –
Martha Townson, 44.16; Jane Constantine, 8.94; Fred Schweiger, 7.33; Marcia
Turley, 5.53; David Desmon, 5.21; Gini Sicignano, 5.11.
20-50 Points –Maria
Amlani, 16.90; David Schott, 14.84; Stephane Ronget, 12.79; Cherry Searle, 10.89.
50-100 Points – Larry
Himelein, 43.04; Joanne Nover, 21 even; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 13.28; Barbara Hill,
11.81.
100-200 Points –Bonnie
Clement, 42.33; Vic Bergsten, 29.16; Terry Hamovitch, 27 even; Bram Hamovitch, 24.70;
Ann Marie Ryan, 23.85; James O’Hara, 21.08; Audrey Ray, 20.74.
200-300 Points –
Jim Lanzo, 61.91; Jasbeer Makhija, 25.32; Patty Porter, 22.11; Margaret Zhou, 19.51;
Ruth Nawotniak, 16.34.
300-500 Points –
Larry Abate, 57.07; Joyce Frayer, 50.55; Amita Arora, 42.43; Violet Makhija, 25.88;
Sushil Amlani, 19.79; Pawan Matta, 16.62.
500-1000 Points –
Bob Sommerstein, 64.63; Mary Ball, 57.09; John Bava, 39.62; (tie) Jim Easton,
Marilyn Wortzman, 50 even; John Bava, 42.97; Ed Morgan, 38.46; Ten-Pao Lee,
35.70.
1000-1500 Points – Gay
Simpson, 53.91; Sandi England, 43.52; Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Joanne LaFay,
27.49; Terry Fraas, 24.68; Howard Foster, 19.26.
1500-2500 Points –
(Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 218.29; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.31; Davis
Heussler, 49.46; Linda Burroughsford, 40.15; Walt Olszewski, 36.16.
2500-3500 Points –Allen
Beroza, 78.72; David Millward, 66.01; Ken Meier, 59.49; Dale Anderson, 46.52;
Mike Silverman, 45.45; Fred Yellen, 37.67.
3500-5000 Points – Barbara
Libby, 60.43; Sharon Benz, 57.21; Mike Ryan, 50.35; John Ziemer, 43.41; Christy
Kellogg, 36.60.
5000-7500 Points –
Alan Greer, 100.85; Saleh Fetouh, 73.64; Bert Hargeshimer, 37.89; Judi
Marshall, 24.13; Jay Costello, 21.79.
Over 7500 Points –
Bud Seidenberg, 82.92; Chris Urbanek, 41.41; Jay Levy, 35.82.
Email danderson@buffnews.com
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