Stardust Week continues today, Saturday, Nov. 28, and Sunday, Nov.
29, at Bridge Base Online, offering double master points and gold points for
regular games in virtual bridge clubs. All Buffalo-area ACBL sanctioned clubs
can be found on BBO (see below).
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No annual meeting
and game for Western New York Unit
116 this year, due to the pandemic. It had been scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5.
Also canceled is the Buffalo Winter Sectional Tournament Jan. 22 to 24.
Unit 116 is resuming
its 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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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 691-6201 or email acting club manager Terry Fraas at tmfraas@gmail.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 last 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:
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. The print version, which
formerly appeared Saturdays in The Buffalo News, went on hiatus in March when
the pandemic forced local bridge clubs to halt face-to-face play.
During this hiatus,
it can be found in two places online. Google “Duplicate Bridge” plus the
current Saturday date and that 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/
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 Nov. 16 to Nov. 22
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Betsy and Jim Greno, 64.68%; Martha Cain and Linda
Henschel, 57.14%; Isabelle Banas and Donna Saia, 55.56%; Peg and Jeff Feather,
55.16%; east-west, Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 64.29%; Janet and David Desmon,
63.10%; Karen Dearing and Michael Metzger, 53.57%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning –
Non-life masters. North-south, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 68.94%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.59%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 57.58%; Joanne
Nover and Janet Desmon, 53.79%; east-west, Dorothy and Larry Soong, 62.63%;
Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 58.59%; David Schott and Stephane Ronget,
56.82%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 55.56%; Richard McGowan and Jim McClure,
55.05%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Tuesday morning – Open game. Kamil
Bishara and Davis Heussler, 69.44%; Martha and John Welte, 67.59%; Gay Simpson
and partner, 59.26%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 62.82%;
Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 62.39%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.69%;
Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 54.27%; east-west, Rajat Basu and John Bava,
64.32%; Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 62.18%; David Schott and Larry
Himelein, 57.69%; Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 53.63%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pepe
Justicia-Linde and Dave Larcom, 60%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 55%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 61.11%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 60.56%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 73.15%; Elizabeth Schreier and Mary Joyce,
66.67%; Pam Righter and Pinky Regan, 57.41%; Linda Henschel and Judy Reich,
54.63%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning – (Tie) Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, Phyllis
Wilkinson and Peggy Stock, 66.11%; Helen Scott and Bonnie Botsford, 55%; (tie)
Kathleen Voigt and Anne Slater, Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 53.89%.
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