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A regionally
rated ACBL tournament awaits players online
next week. “Virtual Vacation,” which will award gold and red master points,
begins Thursday, Aug. 27, and continues through Sunday, Aug. 30, on Bridge Base
Online. For details, visit acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
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All local clubs encourage their players to continue
competing on the Internet until face-to-face games can resume.
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 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 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:
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. 10 to Aug. 16
Week of Aug. 10 to Aug. 16
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Cynthia Tashjian and William Qu, 60.07%; Isabelle Banas and
Peg Feather, 59.33%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 58.38%; Carol Licata and
Stephane Ronget, 56.40%; east-west, Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 66.72%; Linda
Henschel and Martha Cain, 62.55%; Janet and David Desmon, 61.76%; Jennifer
Epstein and Andrew Jiang, 54.12%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Audrey Ray and Margaret Zhou, 59.26%;
Ruth Nawotniak and Rajat Basu, 58.33%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein,
54.01%; Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 51.85%; east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 65.43%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 65.12%; Beena and Madhav
Deshmukh, 58.02%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 50.93%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice
game. Cynthia Tashjian and Carol Licata, 60.95%; Joann and Gary Keenan, 59.40%;
Keen Williams and Eric Ma, 56.67%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 54.88%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 63.13%; Jim
Hassett and Bill Rich, 58.84%; Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 58.59%; Patty
Porter and Carol Roth, 57.58%; east-west, Richard McGowan and Jim McClure,
60.10%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 58.84%; Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh,
57.07%; Rajat Basu and John Bava, 51.26%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 62.50%; Miriam Regnet and Jim
Lanzo, 59.03%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 54.86%; Ed Harman and Bill Rich,
52.08%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Amy
Habib and Carole Sedita, 60.19%; Virginia Kalbach and Molly Morris, 57.41%;
Linda Henschel and Susan Burns, 52.78%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Walt
Olszewski and Sushil Amlani, 62.50%; Jeff Bender and Gabe Tannenbaum, 59.72%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Rajarshi Roy and Jim Lanzo, 67.36%;
Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 65.28%; Ed Morgan and Ken Meier, 56.25%; (tie)
Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 52.08%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Linda Henschel and Jane Constantine, 67.08%; Bonnie
Botsford and Helen Scott, 61.53%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 56.11%;
Lenore Belzer and Mary Bell, 53.61%; Elaine Idzik and Chris-Elaine Santilli,
50.14%.
Unit
116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan.
1, 2020, to July 31, 2020
0-5 Points – Linda Henschel, 30.64; Nancy Deneen, 27.72; Martha Cain, 23.51; Elaine Idzik, 16.46; (tie) Mary Ellen Cotter, Anne Allen, 13.23.
5-20 Points – Martha Townson, 46.75; Jane Constantine, 8.94; Fred Schweiger, 7.33; Marcia Turley, 6.63; David Desmon, 5.21; Gini Sicignano, 5.11.
20-50 Points – Stephane Ronget, 17.30; Maria Amlani, 16.90; David Schott, 14.84; Mary Joyce, 14.43; Cherry Searle, 10.89.
50-100 Points – Larry Himelein, 45.20; Joanne Nover, 24.67; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 13.28; Pam Righter, 13.26; Barbara Hill, 11.81.
100-200 Points – Bonnie Clement, 46.41; Vic Bergsten, 45.88; James O’Hara, 31.56; Terry Hamovitch, 30.21; Bram Hamovitch, 27.91; Audrey Ray, 25.13; Ann Marie Ryan, 24.37.
200-300 Points – Jim Lanzo, 78.74; Jasbeer Makhija, 25.32; Margaret Zhou, 24.49; Patty Porter, 22.11; Ruth Nawotniak, 16.34.
300-500 Points – Larry Abate, 76.06; Joyce Frayer, 56.43; Amita Arora, 52.24; Violet Makhija, 25.88; Sushil Amlani, 20.49; Pawan Matta, 16.62.
500-1000 Points – Bob Sommerstein, 90.43; (tie) Jim Easton, Marilyn Wortzman, 65.39; Mary Ball, 61.35; John Bava, 51.30; Ten-Pao Lee, 44.61; Ed Morgan, 44.57.
1000-1500 Points – David Colligan, 66.94; Gay Simpson, 63.92; Sandi England, 48.21; Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Howard Foster, 27.01; Terry Fraas, 25.98; Ron Henrikson, 22.20.
1500-2500 Points – (Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 274.58; Davis Heussler, 135.77; Linda Burroughsford, 112.39; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.95; Walt Olszewski, 38.74.
2500-3500 Points – Allen Beroza, 88.62; David Millward, 70.67; Ken Meier, 66.19; John Sinclair, 58.36; Fred Yellen, 53.07; Dale Anderson, 51.07; Mike Silverman, 50.61.
3500-5000 Points – Sharon Benz, 64.44; Barbara Libby, 61.59; Mike Ryan, 61.01; John Ziemer, 57.90; Christy Kellogg, 53.67; Judy Padgug, 46.65.
5000-7500 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 163.50; Alan Greer, 100.85; Bert Hargeshimer, 55.60; Jay Costello, 39.27.
Over 7500 Points – Bud Seidenberg, 105.06; Chris Urbanek, 75.46; Jay Levy, 46.82.
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