A regional
tournament online? That’s the Winter
Wonderland Tournament on Bridge Base Online from Thursday, Dec. 17, to Sunday,
Dec. 20.
Stratified
two-session games will be held mornings and early evenings each day, awarding
gold points.
Daily side games,
open to all players and awarding gold points for those who play in two of them,
will be held at 10:45 a.m., 2:15 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.
Two flights of single
session games for novice players, awarding red points only, will held four
times daily, beginning at 10:15 a.m.
Fee is $15 per
session, 18 boards per session. For more info, visit acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
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The Bridge Center
of Buffalo has added an open game to
its Tuesday afternoon game for players with fewer than 999 master points on
Bridge Base Online. The 999er session starts at 12:05 p.m, while the open game for
all players begins at 12:20 p.m. Winners in the open game receive large point
rewards since they are based on the total table count from both sections. For
more info, visit the Bridge Center of Buffalo website.
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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 a couple months ago 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
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.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: 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.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: 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.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: 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. And sometimes access is not available to non-subscribers. Worse yet,
columns from previous weeks sometimes cannot be found on the News website. But
all is not lost. They all 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 is playing
online these days and his career total just surpassed 2,700 master points. Online
play doesn’t provide as much material for his bridge blog as face-to-face
competition, but he still writes 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. 30 to Dec. 6
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 68.65%; Betsy and Jim
Greno, 58.73%; Peggy and Jeff Feather, 57.94%; Pat Pasculle and Michel Dupuis,
49.21%; east-west, Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 66.27%; Jennifer and Howard
Epstein, 57.14%; Janet and David Desmon, 51.98%; Isabelle Banas and Donna Saia,
51.59%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning –
999ers. North-south, Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 64.17%; Dorothy and Larry
Soong, 60.28%; Stephane Ronget and Bill Noltee, 60%; Bonnie Clement and Larry
Himelein, 59.17%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 64.17%; Linda
Milch and Susan Cardamone, 61.67%; Ruth Nawotniak and Rajat Basu, 59.72%;
Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 53.61%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 51.39%;
Violet Makhija and Judy Zeckhauser, 50.83%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Tuesday morning – Open game. (Tie)
Judy Padgug and Davis Heussler, Sharon Benz and John Marvin, 56.94%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 64.68%; Jane
Mitchell and Fran Schmidt, 60.32%; Mary Terrana and Gail Pitterman, 59.33%;
Larry Himelein and David Schott, 53.77%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser,
53.37%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 69.84%; Amita Arora and
Martha Townson, 62.10%; Violet Makhija and Usha Khurana, 61.51%; Rajat Basu and
John Bava, 58.53%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 58.33%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning –
Victory Point Game. (Tie) Renee Cancilla and Jane Larcom, Dan Clark and Dave
Larcom, 2 vps.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Beena Deshmukh and Bill Rich, 60%; Joan and Bob Ciszak,
55.56%; Jim Lanzo and Walt Olszewski, 55%; Madhav Deshmukh and Sushil Amlani,
53.89%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.33%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – (Tie) Robin
Coffin and Susan Burns, Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 62.04%; Elizabeth
Schreier and Pinky Regan, 51.85%; Candace Graser and Jane Mitchell, 49.07%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Club Saturday afternoon – Peggy-Sue Verkerk and Gay Simpson, 54.17%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer,
52.78%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –North-south, Cherry Searle and Nancy Deneen, 63.43%;
Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 60.19%; Susan Burns and Jane Mitchell, 54.63%;
east-west, Fran Schmidt and Christine Nieman, 56.94%; Bonnie Botsford and Helen
Scott, 54.63%; Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 54.17%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2020, to Nov. 30, 2020
0-5 Points – Linda Henschel, 46.38; Nancy Deneen, 40.97; Martha
Cain, 35.96; Elaine Idzik, 33.27; Amy Habib, 29.30; Anne Allen, 24.91.
5-20 Points – Martha Townson, 102.80; Jane Constantine, 23.92;
Susan Burns, 18.23; David Desmon, 13.16; Fran Schmidt, 13.01; Peggy Stock,
9.11; Tyler Mu, 8.91.
20-50 Points – David Schott, 36.35; Maria Amlani, 33.34; Mary Joyce,
26.68; Stephane Ronget, 21.35; Carole Sedita, 18.10; Cherry Searle, 17.51.
50-100 Points – Larry Himelein, 105.05; Joanne Nover, 45.87; Pam
Righter, 23.57; Barbara Hill, 20.07; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 17.78; Betty DeFeo,
12.04; Bill Noltee, 11.17.
100-200 Points – Vic Bergsten, 126.54; Bonnie Clement, 82.23; Terry
Hamovitch, 77.96; Bram Hamovitch, 75.66; Audrey Ray, 51.59; James O’Hara, 35.95;
Carol Roth, 31.99.
200-300 Points – Jim Lanzo, 140.13; Patty Porter, 51.39; Jasbeer
Makhija, 48.73; Margaret Zhou, 39.17; Ruth Nawotniak, 26.03; Agi Maisel, 16.59;
Maryann Szafran, 15.99.
300-500 Points – Joyce Frayer, 87.58; Amita Arora, 70.17; Larry Abate,
61.48; Violet Makhija, 49.71; Sushil Amlani, 38.37; Paula Rosen, 19.57; Jim
McClure, 19 even.
500-1000 Points – Mary Ball, 88.40; Bob Sommerstein, 85.62; (tie) Jim
Easton, Marilyn Wortzman, 82.66; John Bava, 80.77; Bill Rich, 54.86; Ed Morgan,
48.89; Ed Harman, 40.91.
1000-1500 Points
– Sandi England, 109.52; Gay Simpson,
107.49; Terry Fraas, 32.44; Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Miriam
Regnet, 22.43; Howard Foster, 19.26; Kamil Bishara, 18.24.
1500-2500 Points
– (Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 491.30;
Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.95; Davis Heussler, 61.10; Pinky Regan, 55.55; Linda
Burroughsford, 51.46; Walt Olszewski, 42.24.
2500-3500 Points
– Allen Beroza, 148.87; Ken Meier, 134.14;
Dale Anderson, 70.61; Mike Silverman, 50.61; Fred Yellen, 44.58.
3500-5000 Points
– Barbara Libby, 116.92; Sharon Benz,
96.73; Judy Padgug, 53.55; Mike Ryan, 50.35; John Ziemer, 42.41; Kathy Pollock,
39.43; Christy Kellogg, 38.91.
5000-7500 Points
– Saleh Fetouh, 115.81; Alan Greer,
100.85; Judi Marshall, 65.79; Bert Hargeshimer, 37.89; Jay Costello, 21.79.
Over 7500 Points
– Bud Seidenberg, 121.54; Chris
Urbanek, 71.88; Jay Levy, 36.82.
Email danderson@buffnews.com
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