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The Buffalo Fall
Sectional Tournament, scheduled today,
Saturday, Sept. 12, and Sunday, Sept. 13, at Main-Transit Fire Hall in Amherst,
has been canceled due to the pandemic.
Still pending are other
Unit 116 events, including the annual meeting and game Dec. 5 and the Mentoring
and Youth Bridge programs.
Also canceled is the
St. Catharines, Ont., Regional Tournament, scheduled Tuesday, Sept. 15, to
Sunday, Sept. 20, in the Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327
Ontario St., St. Catharines.
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Bridge games have
gone online until face-to-face
games return.
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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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:
Buffalo Fall Sectional –
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Today, Saturday, Sept. 12, and 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, Sapphire Life
Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Aug. 31 to Sept. 6
Week of Aug. 31 to Sept. 6
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 67.03%; Carole Sedita and Jane Constantine,
60.66%; Meena Rustgi and Phyllis Stasiowski, 58.23%; Shyam and Sarmishtha
Kumar, 55.69%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Richard McGowan and Jim McClure,
56.35%; (tie) Ginger Maiman and Marcia Wright, Usha Khurana and Mary Terrana,
55.16%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 53.57%; east-west, Larry Himelein and
David Schott, 66.67%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 61.11%; Paula Rosen and
Maryann Szafran, 56.75%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Usha Khurana and Bill Rich, 61.97%;
Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 61.32%; Isabelle Banas and Donna Saia, 59.19%; Jim
Lanzo and Gabe Tannenbaum, 58.33%; east-west, Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn,
66.88%; Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 64.32%; Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 63.03%;
Ruth Nawotniak and Bill Noltee, 62.61%; Susan Burns and Amy Habib, 60.04%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 64.81%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 56.48%; Beena Deshmukh and Bill Rich, 50.93%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Judy
Reich and Jane Mitchell, 65.74%; (tie) Elizabeth Schreier and Susan Burns,
Pinky Regan and Michele Witt, 53.70%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Gay
Simpson and partner, 59.26%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 58.33%; Sushil Amlani
and Jim Lanzo, 55.56%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 65%; Susan Burns and
Sheila Hess, 62.22%; Nancy Deneen and Cherry Searle, 56.57%; Peggy Stock and
Phyllis Wilkinson, 56.11%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday – Judy Graf and Donna
Steffan, 69%; Lata Maheshwari and Ellen Lochead, 61%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2020, to Aug. 31, 2020
0-5 Points – Linda Henschel, 35.60; Nancy Deneen, 30.91; Martha
Cain, 23.88; Elaine Idzik, 20.01; Amy Habib, 15.98, Anne Allen, 15.63.
5-20 Points – Martha Townson, 52.11; Jane Constantine, 12.96; Tyler
Mu, 8.91; Fran Schmidt, 8.42; David Desmon, 8.33; Fred Schweiger, 7.33.
20-50 Points – Maria Amlani, 18.46; David Schott, 18.17; Stephane
Ronget, 14.57; Cherry Searle, 12.25; Mary Joyce, 10.04.
50-100 Points – Larry Himelein, 56.21; Joanne Nover, 26.42; Rose Ann
Grimaldi, 14.63; Barbara Hill, 13.05; Betty DeFeo, 9.07; Pam Righter, 8.72.
100-200 Points – Vic Bergsten, 56.83; Bonnie Clement, 51.89; Terry
Hamovitch, 35.55; Bram Hamovitch, 33.25; Audrey Ray, 27.38; Ann Marie Ryan, 24.24;
James O’Hara, 23.68.
200-300 Points – Jim Lanzo, 77.70; Jasbeer Makhija, 30.11; Patty
Porter, 29.36; Margaret Zhou, 26.80; Ruth Nawotniak, 18.42.
300-500 Points – Joyce Frayer, 57.97; Larry Abate, 57.07; Amita Arora,
48.79; Violet Makhija, 30.67; Sushil Amlani, 25.17; Pawan Matta, 16.62.
500-1000 Points – Bob Sommerstein, 67.65; Mary Ball, 61.06; (tie) Jim
Easton, Marilyn Wortzman, 57.26; John Bava, 49.56; Ed Morgan, 39.49; Ten-Pao
Lee, 35.70.
1000-1500 Points
– Gay Simpson, 68.54; Sandi England, 50.32;
Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Terry Fraas, 28.39; Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Howard Foster,
19.26.
1500-2500 Points
– (Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 272.52;
Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.31; Davis Heussler, 52.86; Linda Burroughsford, 40.15;
Walt Olszewski, 39.10; Pinky Regan, 31.16.
2500-3500 Points
– Allen Beroza, 94.57; David
Millward, 74.40; Ken Meier, 65.54; Mike Silverman, 50.04; Dale Anderson, 49.57;
Fred Yellen, 38.72.
3500-5000 Points
– Barbara Libby, 70.73; Sharon Benz, 63.78;
Mike Ryan, 50.35; John Ziemer, 43.41; Christy Kellogg, 36.60.
5000-7500 Points
– Alan Greer, 100.85; Saleh Fetouh, 80.95;
Bert Hargeshimer, 37.89; Judi Marshall, 34.22; Jay Costello, 21.79.
Over 7500 Points
– Bud Seidenberg, 92.93; Chris
Urbanek, 48.35; Jay Levy, 36.82.
Email danderson@buffnews.com
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