Western New York 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.
Meanwhile, 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.
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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 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:
Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca
County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive, Seneca Falls. Today, 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. 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 Oct. 26 to Nov. 1
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Isabelle Banas and Donna Saia, 58.86%; Sarmishtha and Shyam
Kumar, 57.54%; Jeannine Dupuis and Mary Crofts, 56.68%; east-west, Jane
Constantine and Amy Habib, 65.48%; Karen Dearing and Michael Metzger, 65.34%;
Peggy and Jeff Feather, 63.89%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning –
Non-life masters. North-south, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 65.16%;
Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 62.04%; Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 57.33%;
east-west, Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 67.24%; Jo Nasoff-Finton and Rajat Basu,
57.33%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 56.13%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning – Open game. Amita Arora and Judy Padgug, 61.11%; Meg Klamp and Chris
Urbanek, 59.72%; Sharon Benz and John Marvin, 55.56%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. Mary Joyce and Pam Righter, 64.29%; Seema Bhagwat
and Beena Deshmukh, 63.69%; Barbara Hill and Ruth Nawotniak, 62.50%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.92%; east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 63.10%;
John Bava and Rajat Basu, 58.33%; Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 57.54%; Capri
O’Hara and Wayne Parsons, 54.56%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Jane
Larcom and Paul Zittel, 57.50%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 55%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 65.56%; Miriam Regnet and Jim
Lanzo, 60.69%; Jan O’Mara and Bill Rich, 58.33%; Jeff Bender and Henry Chudy,
55.97%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 52.64%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Elizabeth
Schreier and Carole Sedita, 58.33%; Jane Constantine and Amy Habib, 56.02%;
Jane Mitchell and Pam Righter, 55.09%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Sandi
England and Tom Koralewski, 71.11%; Martha and John Welte, 65.56%; Liz Ashby
and Tim Zuffi, 54.44%; Gay Simpson and Ken Meier, 51.67%; Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 50.56%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 50%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Sue Bergman and Gay Simpson, 68.61%; Jim Lanzo and Rajarshi Roy,
68.06%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 55.56%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Nancy Deneen and Cherry Searle, 67.78%; Anne Allen and
Mary Ellen Cotter, 57.78%; Jane Mitchell and Susan Burns, 56.67%; Bonnie Botsford
and Helen Scott, 55.56%; Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 55%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday – Kathy Borcik and
Bill Westley, 66%; (tie) Donna Steffan and Judy Graf, Kokila Chheda and Stan
Kozlowski, 55%.
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