Continuing today, Saturday, Feb. 20, and Sunday, Feb. 21, is Hollywood
Magic, a regional-ranked Oscar-themed virtual tournament on Bridge Base Online.
Gold points and red points will be awarded in double-session games each day.
Single-session and side games will offer only red points. For more info, visit acbl.org.
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Bridge Base
Online offers a variety of games
every day 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
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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.
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Frank Stewart, whose Daily Bridge Club column stopped appearing in
The Buffalo News last fall, believes that reader sentiment can bring it back.
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.
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Tournament
calendar
2021
CANCELED: St.
Catharines Sectional – Holiday
Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont.
Was Friday, Feb. 12, to Sunday, Feb. 14, then rescheduled for Friday, March 26,
to Sunday, March 28.
CANCELED: Rochester
Spring Sectional – Webster
Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Drive, Webster. Saturday, March 27, and Sunday, March
28.
CANCELED: Toronto
Easter Regional – Sheraton
Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday, March 30, to Sunday, April 4.
CANCELED: Unit 112 (Rochester) 199er Tournament – Strathallan Hotel, 550 East Ave., Rochester.
Saturday, April 9, and Sunday, April 10.
CANCELED: 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 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.
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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.
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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Feb. 8 to Feb. 14
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Joann and Gary Keenan, 77.38%; Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar,
59.13%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 57.54%; east-west, Pat Pasculle and Michel Dupuis,
66.67%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 59.92%; Janet and David Desmon, 57.54%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999ers. North-south, Dorothy and Larry Soong, 63.41%; Martha Townson
and Jim Lanzo, 61.14%; Linda Henschel and Jane Mitchell, 58.64%; Natalie
Abramson and Penelope Shuman, 54.55%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 53.18%;
east-west, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 64.32%; Richard McGowan and Jim
McClure, 60.91%; Judith Duberstein and Susan Levy, 53.86%; Rose Bochiechio and
Judith Bailey, 52.05%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 51.59%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open game. Christy Kellogg and Judy Padgug, 59.52%; Bob Padgug and
Subrata Ghosh, 55.56%; Sam Pal and Rajat Basu, 53.97%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
65.89%; Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 64.29%; (tie) Richard McGowan and Bill
Rich, Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 54.29%; Gary Keenan and Jim Hassett, 51.43%;
Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 50.36%; Susan Burns and Amy Habib, 50.18%;
east-west, Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 61.43%; Amita Arora and Martha
Townson, 58.75%; Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 58.21%; Anne Slater and Kathleen
Voigt, 55.36%; Dorothy and Larry Soong, 53.39%; Cathy Majewski and Vince Taeger,
51.25%; Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 51.07%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Saturday morning – Under
1,500 points. North-south, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 55.81%; Amy Habib and Jane
Constantine, 55.05%; Dorothy and Larry Soong, 54.29%; Bob Sommerstein and Larry
Abate, 52.53%; east-west, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 61.87%; Carol Licata
and Stephane Ronget, 61.11%; Tova and Andrei Reinhorn, 59.60%; Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 56.31%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Sunday morning – 999ers.
North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Eastson, 66.33%; Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 63.11%; Paula Rosen and Linda Milch, 47.62%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria
Schory, 47.28%; east-west, Ruth Nawotniak and Richard McGowan, 56.12%; Dorothy
and Larry Soong, 55.44%; David Schott and Larry Himelein, 53.06%; Pat Haynes
and Judy Zeckhauser, 49.66%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning –
Home-style pairs. Linda and Paul Zittel, 3 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 59.72%; (tie) Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, Bill Rich and Ed Harman, 56.25%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
54.86%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Sunny
Davis and Linda Henschel, 62.96%; Maureen Saab and Susan Burns, 62.04%; (tie)
Elizabeth Schreier and Jane Mitchell, Virginia Gibson and Pinky Regan, 60.19%.
Garret Club
Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s
Game. Catherine Beltz and Pam Righter, 60.19%; Candace Graser and Maureen Saab,
55.56%; Amy Habib and Martha Cain, 53.70%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Anne
Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 63.33%; Mary Collins and Maria Schory, 62.78%;
Cherry Searle and Nancy Deneen, 61.67%; (tie) Anne Slater and Kathleen Voigt,
Lenore Belzer and Mary Bell, 49.44%.
Other clubs
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday morning – (Tie) Ellen
Lochead and Lata Maheshwari, Donna Stessan and Judy Graf, 60%.
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