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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has resumed face-to-face
games, becoming the first ACBL sanctioned club in the area to return to live
competition. Play begins at 10 a.m. Wednesdays in the Aurora Senior Citizens
Center, 101 King St., East Aurora.
Director Dave Larcom
says that players will have their temperatures checked upon arriving and must
wear masks. Tables have clear plastic protective barriers and there is plenty
of hand sanitizer available.
“I’m trying to make
it as safe as possible, so we’ll give it a go,” Larcom says. For more info, email
him at dmocral@verizon.net.
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Stardust Week has been so popular that the ACBL has extended it through Tuesday, Sept. 29, for players in Virtual ACBL Clubs on Bridge Base Online. It doubles the usual master point awards and those points are one-fourth gold and three-fourths black. An extra fee is added onto the usual cost of club play. Among the clubs taking part in Virtual Club play locally are the Airport Bridge Club, the Bridge Center of Buffalo, Delaware Wednesday and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club. More info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
The Airport
Bridge Club is linked 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 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.
The Delaware
Wednesday Club also
plays under auspices of the
Bridge Center of Buffalo on Bridge Base Online at 7 p.m. Wednesday, 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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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:
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
No Longer on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: Cleveland Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd.,
Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
No Longer on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: Buffalo Winter Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst.
Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021.
Rescheduled:
St. Catharines Sectional –
Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St.
Catharines, Ont. Was Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
Rescheduled for Friday, March 26, 2021, to Sunday, March 28, 2021.
Rochester Spring
Sectional – Webster Columbus
Center, 70 Barrett Drive, Webster. Saturday, March 27, 2021, and Sunday, March
28, 2021.
No Longer on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday,
March 30, 2021, to Sunday, April 4, 2021.
Unit 112
(Rochester) 199er Tournament –
Strathallan Hotel, 550 East Ave., Rochester. Saturday, April 9, 2021, and
Sunday, April 10, 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.
District 5
Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs. Monday, June 14, 2021, to Sunday, June
20, 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.
RESCHEDULED:
Buffalo Regional – Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. Was Tuesday,
Oct. 19, 2021, to Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. Rescheduled to Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021,
to Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021.
Niagara
Falls Regional – Crowne Plaza
Hotel, 5685 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls, 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, Sapphire Life
Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Sept. 14 to Sept. 20
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 62.33%; Janet and David
Desmon, 59.29%; east-west, Betsy Greno and Stephane Ronget, 59.39%; Jennifer
Epstein and Kusum Phadke, 59.10%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning –
Non-life masters. North-south, Rivona Ehrenreich and Heidi Janes, 61.11%; Jim
McClure and Richard McGowan, 60.65%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 50.46%;
east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 64.81%; Jim Lanzo and Gabe Tannenbaum,
55.56%; Hannah Weinberg and Judith Babat, 53.70%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning – Open game. Gay Simpson and Claire
Gareleck, 55.56%; Meg Klamp and Chris Urbanek, 55.46%; Dian Petrov and Rajarshi
Roy, 54.71%; Saleh Fetouh and Bud Seidenberg, 53.80%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice game. Joann and Gary
Keenan, 66.67%; Shyam and Sarmishtha Kumar, 62.04%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 66.94%;
Mary Joyce and Pam Righter, 64.72%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 59.17%; Audrey
Ray and Carol Roth, 55.56%; east-west, David Schott and Larry Himelein, 61.39%;
Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 58.61%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 57.22%;
Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 54.17%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 56.48%; (tie) Bill Rich and
Rajarshi Roy, Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 54.63%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Betsy
Heuer and Susan Burns, 61.11%; Elizabeth Schreier and Pam Righter, 56.48%;
(tie) Linda Henschel and Jane Mitchell, Pinky Regan and Amy Habib, 52.78%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Jim Lanzo and Rajarshi Roy, 65.28%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 51.39%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 72.22%; Anne Slater
and Kathleen Voigt, 67.78%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 57.22%; Lenore
Belzer and Mary Bell, 56.11%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 52.22%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Brookfield Third
Thursday – North-south, Marilyn
Steffan and Judy McDermid, 56.67%; Jo Ann Smith and Anne O’Connor, 52.50%;
east-west, Judy Reynolds and Pat Radtke, 55.83%; Pat Burns and Ellen
Stancliffe, 53.33%.
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday – Kokila Chheda and
Stan Kozlowski, 67%; Judy Graf and Donna Steffan, 58%; Kathy Borcik and Bill
Westley, 53%.
