Covid
cancellations continue in the new
year. The ACBL has just pulled the plug on the Spring North American Bridge
Championships March 11 to 21 in St. Louis.
•
• •
In the meantime, the ACBL is sponsoring another Silver Linings Week
from Monday, Jan. 18, to Sunday, Jan. 24, on Bridge Base Online. Players can
win silver master points in their regular games at their Virtual Clubs.
•
• •
Bridge Base
Online has teamed with the ACBL to
offer a variety of 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 at least three days a week on Bridge Base Online and the Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Club has scheduled games there on Tuesday evening and
Saturday afternoon, the same days they played face to face.
The Bridge Center
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, call 691-6201 or email acting club manager Terry Fraas at tmfraas@gmail.com.
The Delaware
Wednesday Club, which is invitational, plays
under auspices of the Bridge Center of Buffalo on Bridge Base Online at 7 p.m.
Wednesday. For info, call Ed Harman at 480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com
•
• •
The East Aurora
Bridge Club has resumed face-to-face
games, the only ACBL sanctioned club in the area to hold 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 have their temperatures checked upon arriving and must wear
masks. For more info, email him at dmocral@verizon.net.
•
• •
Frank Stewart, whose Daily Bridge Club column stopped appearing in
The Buffalo News last fall, believes that reader sentiment can bring it back.
In an email to this column last month, 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.”
Feedback can be
emailed to Mike Connelly at mconnelly@buffnews.com and Margaret Kenny at mkenny@buffnews.com.
Meanwhile, you can
read Stewart’s columns at bridgefeed.acbl.org. Or find a whole Frank Stewart archive at Baron Barclay here.
•
• •
Tournament
calendar
2021
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.
•
• •
Bridge
club websites:
Click
names for links.
The
Airport Bridge Club does not have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.
•
• •
The
Duplicate Bridge column is
compiled weekly by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version stopped
appearing Saturdays in The Buffalo News when the pandemic forced local bridge
clubs to halt face-to-face play.
These days you can
find it 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.
If you can’t get to
it there, go 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.
•
• •
Now a Gold
Life Master, Dale Anderson is
playing online these days and finished 2020 with a career total of more than
2,800 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.
•
• •
Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Jan. 4 to Jan. 10
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Janet and David Desmon, 58.73%; Betsy and Jim Greno,
56.75%; Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar, 55.95%; east-west, Linda Henschel and
Martha Cain, 57.14%; Isabelle Banas and Donna Saia, 56.35%; Peggy and Jeff
Feather, 54.76%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999ers. North-south, Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 62.31%; Joanne Nover and
Janet Desmon, 56.75%; Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 56.40%; Jim Hassett and
Bill Rich, 56.02%; Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 54.97%; east-west, Dorothy and
Larry Soong, 62.27%; Terry Camp and Bill Noltee, 61.66%; Marilyn Wortzman and
Jim Easton, 54.27%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 54.04%; Carla Press and Agi
Maisel, 52.97%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open game. Martha and John Welte, 60.19%; Sam Pal and Rajat Basu,
53.70%; Judy Padgug and Davis Heussler, 51.85%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 64.50%;
Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 61.83%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 61%; Janet
Desmon and Joanne Nover, 57.17%; Gabe Tannenbaum and Jim Lanzo, 54.67%; David Schott
and Larry Himelein, 54.50%; Rajat Basu and John Bava, 53.67%; east-west,
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 60.83%; Vic Bergsten and John Marvin, 59%;
Usha Khurana and Violet Makhija, 56.33%; (tie) Sharon Wilcox and Joyce
Greenspan, Dorothy and Larry Soong, 54.67%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace
Graser, 52.67%; Pam Murphy and Doanne Jackson, 49.67%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning –
Victory Point Game. (Tie) Barbara Booi and Jane Larcom, Pat and Dick Rasmus,
Joan and Bob Ciszak, 2 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – (Tie). Beena Deshmukh and Bill Rich, 66.06%; Gay Simpson
and Tova Reinhorn, 60.88%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 54.40%; Madhav Deshmukh
and Sushil Amlani, 52.18%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Betsy
Heuer and Susan Burns, 62.04%; Jane Mitchell and Pam Righter, 60.19%; Elizabeth
Hemenway and Linda Henschel, 58.33%; Candace Graser and Judy Reich, 54.63%.
Garret Club
Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s
Game. Susan Burns and partner, 59.03%; Carole Sedita and partner, 52.08%;
Catherine Beltz and Elizabeth Schreier, 51.39%; (tie) Elizabeth Hemenway and
Linda Henschel, Amber Dixon and partner, 50.69%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Lenore
Belzer and Mary Bell, 59.44%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 53.33%; Martha
Townson and Jane Mitchell, 52.22%; Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 51.67%;
Bonnie Botsford and Helen Scott, 51.11%
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Final 2020 Totals
0-5 Points – Linda Henschel, 60.73; Martha Cain, 50.10; Nancy
Deneen, 42.96; Elaine Idzik, 37.39; Amy Habib, 32.47; Betsy Greno, 27.29; Jim
Greno, 26.57; Anne Allen, 24.91.
5-20 Points – Martha Townson, 124.04; Jane Constantine, 25.44; Susan
Burns, 20.06; Fran Schmidt, 15.78; David Desmon, 14.50; Peggy Stock, 10.42; Tyler
Mu, 9.63.
20-50 Points – David Schott, 45.47; Maria Amlani, 35.95; Mary Joyce,
32.71; Stephane Ronget, 32.52; Cherry Searle, 18.85; Carole Sedita, 18.70.
50-100 Points – Larry Himelein, 123.41; Joanne Nover, 61.96; Pam
Righter, 30.44; Barbara Hill, 20.07; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 20.47.
100-200 Points – Vic Bergsten, 159.90; Bonnie Clement, 101.98; Terry
Hamovitch, 91.58; Bram Hamovitch, 89.18; James O’Hara, 61.80; Audrey Ray, 60.71.
200-300 Points – Jim Lanzo, 186.68; Jasbeer Makhija, 53.26; Patty
Porter, 52.52; Margaret Zhou, 48.28; Ruth Nawotniak, 28.15; Agi Maisel, 20.70.
300-500 Points – Amita Arora, 114.08; Joyce Frayer, 107.70; Larry
Abate, 84.61; Violet Makhija, 56.69; Sushil Amlani, 47.31.
500-1000 Points – (Tie) Jim Easton, Marilyn Wortzman, 123.56; Bob
Sommerstein, 121.56; Mary Ball, 104.70; John Bava, 99.18; Ed Morgan, 67.67; Bill
Rich, 60.15; Rajat Basu, 53.20.
1000-1500 Points
– Sandi England, 140.65; Gay Simpson,
124.39; David Colligan, 78.15; Terry Fraas, 35.93; Joyce Greenspan, 33.26;
Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Howard Foster, 27.01; Kamil Bishara, 25.83; Miriam Regnet,
24.86.
1500-2500 Points
– (Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 632.59;
Davis Heussler, 179.31; Linda Burroughsford, 138.98; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.95;
Pinky Regan, 62.79; Walt Olszewski, 46.64.
2500-3500 Points
– Ken Meier, 184.08; Allen Beroza, 175.30;
Dale Anderson, 86.07; Fred Yellen, 66.48; John Sinclair, 58.89; Mike Silverman,
55.77.
3500-5000 Points
– Barbara Libby, 137.93; Sharon Benz,
121.45; Judy Padgug, 77.88; Mike Ryan, 61.01; Kathy Pollock, 58.97; John
Ziemer, 57.90; Christy Kellogg, 55.98.
5000-7500 Points
– Saleh Fetouh, 218.33; Alan Greer,
100.85; Judi Marshall, 81.36; Bert Hargeshimer, 55.60; Jay Costello, 39.27.
Over 7500 Points
– Bud Seidenberg, 162.14; Chris
Urbanek, 119.29; Jay Levy, 50.52.
Email danderson@buffnews.com
No comments:
Post a Comment