It’s official! Western New York Unit 116 has canceled its annual
meeting and game, scheduled for Dec. 5, due to the pandemic. Also canceled is
the Buffalo Winter Sectional Tournament Jan. 22 to 24.
Meanwhile, Unit 116
is resuming its successful Junior Lessons program online. Middle and high
school students who would like to learn how to play should contact Kathy
Pollock at bridgekat@gmail.com.
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Club
Appreciation Week continues at the ACBL-sanctioned Virtual Club games on
Bridge Base Online. All club games today, Saturday, Oct. 31, and Sunday, Nov.
1, will award double points at no extra cost. For more info, visit acbl.org.
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Bridge Base
Online has teamed with the ACBL to
offer games with ACBL master points, some of which benefit local clubs. 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. For info, call Ed Harman at 480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com
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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 resume 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. For more info, email him at dmocral@verizon.net.
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The Saturday
Duplicate Bridge column is on
hiatus in the print edition of The Buffalo News, but here it is online, alive
and well.
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Frank Stewart’s
Daily Bridge Club column stopped
appearing earlier this month in The Buffalo News when pages were eliminated to
cut costs. Comments may be emailed to Mike Connelly at mconnelly@buffnews.com and Margaret Kenny at mkenny@buffnews.com.
Stewart, meanwhile,
is still writing instructive columns featuring Cy the Cynic, Unlucky Louie,
Minnie Bottoms and all the other denizens of the penny game at his club. You
can read them at bridgefeed.acbl.org. Or better yet, follow Judie Bailey’s suggestion and find a whole
Frank Stewart archive at Baron Barclay here.
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Tournament
calendar
2020
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
CANCELED: Cleveland
Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021,
to Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
CANCELED: 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.
District 5 Winter
STaC – Local clubs. Monday, Dec. 6,
2021, to Sunday, Dec. 12, 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 and went on hiatus in March
when the pandemic forced local bridge clubs to halt face-to-face play. The
print version formerly appeared 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 sometimes cannot be
found 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 Oct. 19 to Oct. 25
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 61.11%; Joann and Gary Keenan,
60.42%; Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 55.56%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning –
Non-life masters. North-south, Barbara Hill and Ruth Nowatniak, 76.26%; Janet
Desmon and Joanne Nover, 56.06%; Mary Terrana and Usha Khurana, 55.30%; Judy
Zeckhauser and Pat Haynes, 54.29%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 52.53%; east-west,
Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 72.73%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 58.84%; Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.54%; Carol Roth and Rivona Ehrenreich, 52.27%; Mary
Joyce and Pam Righter, 52.02%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning – Open game. Meg Klamp and Chris Urbanek, 55.56%; Sharon Benz and John
Marvin, 54.17%; Saleh Fetouh and Bud Seidenberg, 52.78%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. Dorothy and Larry Soong, 62.50%; (tie) Miriam
Regnet and Jim Lanzo, Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 61.34%; Nancy Deneen and
Fran Schmidt, 53.94%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 53.01%; east-west, Larry
Himelein and David Schott, 59.26%; Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, 58.80%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.33%; (tie) Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, Elaine
Idzik and Martha Townson, 54.86%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Judy
Padgug and Davis Huessler, 77.50%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 67.50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 65.74%; Rajarshi Roy and Bill
Rich, 54.63%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 50.93%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Pinky
Regan and Carole Sedita, 62.04%; Judy Reich and Pam Righter, 52.78%; Jane
Mitchell and Amber Dixon, 51.85%; (tie) Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, Candace
Graser and Mary Joyce, 50.93%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 59.72%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.78%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 61.11%; Jim Lanzo and Rajarshi Roy, 52.78%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 71.11%; Donna Starnes
and Sheila Hess, 60%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 55.56%; (tie) Pat Ryan
and Chris-Elaine Santilli, Peggy Stock and Phyllis Wilkinson, 53.33%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday – Judy Graf and Donna
Steffan, 61%; Kokila Chheda and Stan Kozlowski, 57%.
