Hollywood Magic, a regional-ranked Oscar-themed virtual tournament,
will be held Thursday, Feb. 18, to Sunday, Feb. 21, 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
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: 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.
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.
NO LONGER on
ACBL Tournament Schedule: 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. 1 to Feb. 7
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 65.56%; Sarmishtha and
Shyam Kumar, 55%; Janet and David Desmon, 51.57%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace
Graser, 50.93%; east-west, Betsy and Jim Greno, 61.57%; Ellen and Walter Balon,
54.26%; Susan Burns and Amy Habib, 54.44; Joann and Gary Keenan, 53.15%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999ers. North-south, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 69.55%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.95%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 52.95%; Carol Roth
and Patty Porter, 51.36%; Susan Cardamone and Linda Milch, 50.91%; east-west, Judy
Duberstein and Susan Levy, 56.82%; David Freimuth and partner, 56.14%; Paula
Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 55.45%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 53.18%;
Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 52.27%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open game. Kathy Pollock and Bill Rushmore, 60.32%; Gay Simpson and
partner, 58.73%; Amita Arora and Judy Padgug, 56.35%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 72.02%; Agi
Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 67.56%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 57.74%; John
Scott and Jim Lanzo, 56.70%; Sharon Wilcox and Joyce Greenspan, 55.95%; Pamela
Murphy and Doanne Jackson, 55.21%; east-west, (tie) Carol Roth and Audrey Ray,
David Schott and Larry Himelein, 58.04%; Amita Arora and Martha Townson,
57.44%; Mary Terrana and Gail Pitterman, 54.02%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 53.72%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 62.22%; Madhav Deshmukh and
Sushil Amlani, 60.83%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 58.75%; Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 55.28%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 54.58%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Judy
Reich and Jane Mitchell, 65.97%; Anne Slater and Martha Townson, 59.72%; Robin
Coffin and Amy Habib, 58.33% Martha Cain and Pat Leonard, 52.08%.
Garret Club Invitational
Friday morning – Janie’s Game. Robin
Coffin and Martha Cain, 62.50%; Linda Henschel and Patty Porter, 58.33%; (tie)
Catherine Beltz and Pam Righter, Devon Marlette and Amy Habib, 52.78%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Cherry Searle and Nancy Deneen, 60.19%; Kathleen Voigt and Anne Slater,
54.63%; Fran Schmidt and partner, 54.17%.
Other clubs
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday morning – Kathy Borcik
and Bill Westley, 73%; (tie) Marge McMillen and Elaine Wegrzyn, Judy Graf and
Donna Stessan, 50%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – Jan. 31, 2021
0-5 Points – Pamela Murphy, 1.88; Pat Radtke, 0.72.
5-20 Points – Gary Keenan, 2.22; Jennifer Epstein, 2.17; (tie) Peg
and Jeff Feather, 2.12; Cynthia Tashjian, 1.68; Amber Dixon, 1.66; Lenore
Belzer, 1.57.
20-50 Points – Susan Burns, 5.54; Candace Graser, 5.08; Amy Habib,
4.92; (tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, 3.51; Carol Licata, 3.26; Carole Sedita, 3.10.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 9.78; Martha Cain, 7.31; Nancy
Deneen, 5.35; David Schott, 3.32; (tie) Cherry Searle, Maria Amlani, 3.28;
Elizabeth Hemenway, 2.93; Bill Noltee, 2.91.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 24.13; Larry Himelein, 12.67; Carol
Roth, 7.87; Joanne Nover, 7.67; Pat Haynes, 3.60; Rivona Ehrenreich, 2.83;
Doanne Jackson, 1.88.
200-300 Points – Agi Maisel, 6.87; Audrey Ray, 5.80; Patty Porter,
4.57; Jim O’Hara, 3.46; Margaret Zhou, 2.79; Bob Ciszak, 2.34.
300-500 Points – Vic Bergsten, 26.05; Jim Lanzo, 20.99; Bonnie
Clement, 14.55; Violet Makhija, 6.22; Jasbeer Makhija, 5.17; Richard McGowan,
4.74; Joyce Frayer, 4.44; Jim McClure, 4.01.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 18.01; Bob
Sommerstein, 12.67; (tie) Marilyn Wortzman, Jim Easton, 12.34; Ed Morgan, 7.57;
Bill Rich, 72.9; Bill Regan, 6.88; (tie) Dorothy and Larry Soong, 6.79; Rajat
Basu, 5.75; Mary Ball, 4.44.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 26.33; John
Marvin, 8.94; Tova Reinhorn, 5.29; John Bava, 3.96; Kamil Bishara, 2.25; Joyce
Greenspan, 2.01.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 14.96; Pinky
Regan, 4.25; Linda Burroughsford, 3.63.
2,500-3,500 Points
– (Tie) Martha and John Welte, 95.15;
Allen Beroza, 28.59; Ken Meier, 21.66; Bill Rushmore, 7.27; Dale Anderson,
6.61; Fred Yellen, 5.40; Davis Heussler, 4.10.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 33.61; Sharon
Benz, 18.53; Brian Meyer, 16.71; Judy Padgug, 13.59; Kathy Pollock, 8.62.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 22.34; Bud
Seidenberg, 10.77; Saleh Fetouh, 4.10; Chris Urbanek, 4.07.
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