Bridge online on
Christmas? Not every club is doing
it. We just got notification from the Bridge Centre of Niagara in St.
Catharines, Ont., that their Bridge Base Online games are canceled for
Christmas Eve in the evening and Christmas Day. Schedules for other clubs may
be altered, too.
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Frank Stewart’s
Daily Bridge Club column stopped
appearing in The Buffalo News a couple months ago when pages were eliminated to
cut costs. Stewart himself believes that reader sentiment can succeed in
bringing it back. In an email to this column last week, he wrote:
“I will be most
grateful to readers who go to bat for bridge and for me and contact the paper
to ask that my column be reinstated. I rarely lose a paper; bridge players are
notably loyal to their local column, and there have been several instances
where a paper proposed to drop my column and had to back off after a deluge of
complaints. But a paper will act only in response to reader feedback.”
Stewart noted that
he has emailed editor Mike Connelly at mconnelly@buffnews.com and deputy managing editor 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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The Winter Wonderland Tournament on Bridge Base Online continues today, Saturday, Dec. 19, and 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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Tournament
calendar
2021
CANCELED: Cleveland
Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, to
Sunday, Jan. 10.
CANCELED: Buffalo
Winter Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 22, to Sunday, Jan. 24.
RESCHEDULED:
St. Catharines Sectional –
Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St.
Catharines, Ont. Was Friday, Feb. 12, to Sunday, Feb. 14. Rescheduled for
Friday, March 26, to Sunday, March 28.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: Rochester Spring Sectional – Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Drive, Webster. Saturday,
March 27, and Sunday, March 28.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday,
March 30, to Sunday, April 4.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: Unit
112 (Rochester) 199er Tournament –
Strathallan Hotel, 550 East Ave., Rochester. Saturday, April 9, and Sunday,
April 10.
Buffalo
Spring Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 16, to Sunday, April 18.
Cleveland
All-American Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 25, to
Monday, May 31.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 4, to
Sunday, June 6.
District 5
Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs. Monday, June 14, to Sunday, June 20.
Southwest
Ontario Regional – Bingemans
Conference and Convention Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont.
Tuesday, July 6, to Sunday, July 11.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: Rochester Regional – RIT Inn and Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta
Road, Henrietta. Monday, Aug. 2, to Sunday, Aug. 8.
St.
Catharines 299er Sectional –
Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday,
Aug. 21, and Sunday, Aug. 22.
Pittsburgh
Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree
Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Aug. 31, to
Monday, Sept. 8.
Great Lakes
Sectional – Erie Bridge Center,
1221 Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 11, and Sunday, Sept. 12.
Buffalo Fall
Sectional – Main-Transit Fire
Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 17, to Sunday, Sept. 19.
RESCHEDULED:
Buffalo Regional – Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. Was Tuesday,
Oct. 19, to Sunday, Oct. 24. Rescheduled to Tuesday, Oct. 5, to Sunday, Oct. 10.
Niagara
Falls Regional – Crowne Plaza
Hotel, 5685 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, to Sunday, Nov. 14.
Unit 255
Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, to
Sunday, Nov. 15.
District 5 Winter
STaC – Local clubs. Monday, Dec. 6, to
Sunday, Dec. 12.
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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. Sometimes non-subscribers can’t get access to it at all. And
sometimes columns from previous weeks cannot be found on the News website. But fear
not, they’re 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 drama 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 Dec. 7 to Dec. 13
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 62.22% Betsy and Jim Greno, 58.33%; Karen
Dearing and Michael Metzger, 57.78%; Joann and Gary Keenan, 55%; Carol Licata
and Stephane Ronget, 53.89%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday morning –
999ers. North-south, Bill Noltee and David Schott, 62.96%; Margaret Zhou and
Audrey Ray, 61.57%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 59.03%; Jim McClure and
Richard McGowan, 57.87%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 57.64%; east-west, Seema
Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 62.04%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 59.95%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.64%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 54.63%; Pat
Haynes and Judy Zeckhauser, 50%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Tuesday morning – Open game. Saleh
Fetouh and Bud Seidenberg, 65.74%; Kamil Bishara and Rajarshi Roy, 55.56%;
Sharon Benz and John Marvin, 54.63%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 68.75%;
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 68.06%; (tie) Gabe Tannenbaum and Jim Lanzo,
Dorothy and Larry Soong, 59.20%; (tie) Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, David
Schott and Larry Himelein, 54.34%; east-west, Richard McGowan and Bill Rich,
61.11%; Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 60.07%; Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn,
57.29%; Amita Arora and Stephane Ronget, 56.60%; Amy Habib and Susan Burns,
55.21%; Rose Bochiechio and Meena Rustgi, 53.47%; Jim Hassett and Bill Noltee,
53.30%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning –
Victory Point Game. Linda and Paul Zittel, 3 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – (Tie) Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 61.11%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 58.89%; Jan O’Mara and Walt Olszewski,
57.78%; Ed Harman and Bill Rich, 56.11%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Elizabeth
Schreier and Maureen Saab, 61.11%; Linda Henschel and Amber Dixon, 60.19%;
Robin Coffin and Carole Sedita, 56.48%; Pinky Regan and Susan Burns, 55.56%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Club Saturday afternoon – Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 61.11%; Chris Urbanek and Rajarshi Roy,
56.94% Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 50%.
Twentieth
Century Club Invitational Friday morning –North-south, Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 60.19%;
Susan Burns and Jane Mitchell, 57.41%; Barbara Kaye and Barbara Meenaghan,
55.09%; east-west, Sheila Hess and Donna Starnes, 70.37%; Phyllis Wilkinson and
Peggy Stock, 60.19%; Christine Nieman and Fran Schmidt, 48.15%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2020, to Nov. 30, 2020
0-5 Points – Linda Henschel, 51.33; Nancy Deneen, 41.62; Martha
Cain, 40.91; Elaine Idzik, 35.65; Amy Habib, 29.30; Anne Allen, 24.91.
5-20 Points – Martha Townson, 110.94; 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, 37.42; Maria Amlani, 33.34; Mary Joyce,
32.71; Stephane Ronget, 26.96; Carole Sedita, 18.10; Cherry Searle, 17.51.
50-100 Points – Larry Himelein, 108.52; Joanne Nover, 53.28; Pam
Righter, 29.60; Barbara Hill, 20.07; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 17.78; Betty DeFeo,
12.04; Bill Noltee, 11.17.
100-200 Points – Vic Bergsten, 144.09; Bonnie Clement, 95.50; Terry
Hamovitch, 81.87; Bram Hamovitch, 79.57; James O’Hara, 60 even; Audrey Ray, 55.58;
Carol Roth, 34.51.
200-300 Points – Jim Lanzo, 162.01; Patty Porter, 51.39; Jasbeer
Makhija, 48.73; Margaret Zhou, 46.35; Ruth Nawotniak, 26.03; Agi Maisel, 16.59;
Maryann Szafran, 15.99.
300-500 Points – Amita Arora, 107.48; Joyce Frayer, 97.02; Larry
Abate, 81.87; Violet Makhija, 49.71; Sushil Amlani, 41.99; Paula Rosen, 19.57;
Jim McClure, 19 even.
500-1000 Points –Bob Sommerstein, 114.68; (tie) Jim Easton, Marilyn
Wortzman, 110.50; Mary Ball, 94.02; John Bava, 91.35; Ed Morgan, 57.57; Bill
Rich, 54.86; Ten-Pao Lee, 44.61.
1000-1500 Points
– Sandi England, 119.31; Gay Simpson,
118.51; David Colligan, 71.77; Terry Fraas, 33.74; Joyce Greenspan, 31.91;
Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Howard Foster, 27.01; Kamil Bishara, 23.92; Miriam Regnet,
22.43.
1500-2500 Points
– (Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 561.46;
Davis Heussler, 157.23; Linda Burroughsford, 127.65; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.95;
Pinky Regan, 55.55; Walt Olszewski, 44.82.
2500-3500 Points
– Allen Beroza, 160.90; Ken Meier, 151.02;
Dale Anderson, 75.16; Fred Yellen, 59.98; John Sinclair, 58.89; Mike Silverman,
55.77.
3500-5000 Points
– Barbara Libby, 118.08; Sharon Benz,
103.96; Judy Padgug, 66.25; Mike Ryan, 61.01; John Ziemer, 57.90; Christy
Kellogg, 55.98; Kathy Pollock, 54.64.
5000-7500 Points
– Saleh Fetouh, 205.92; Alan Greer,
100.85; Judi Marshall, 67.22; Bert Hargeshimer, 55.60; Jay Costello, 39.27.
Over 7500 Points
– Bud Seidenberg, 143.68; Chris
Urbanek, 109.14; Jay Levy, 47.82.
Email danderson@buffnews.com
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