Gold points are on the horizon for online players Feb. 18 to 21.
Bridge Base Online is hosting Hollywood Magic, a regional-ranked tournament.
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 Jan. 25 to Jan. 31
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Janet and David Desmon, 75.40%; Carol Licata and Stephane
Ronget, 57.94%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 51.59%; east-west, Peggy and Jeff Feather,
59.92%; Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 58.73%; Joann and Gary Keenan, 56.75%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999ers. North-south, Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 67.77%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 65.95%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 65.14%; Rose Ann
Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 62.18%; Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 61.88%;
east-west, Usha Khurana and Mary Terrana, 62.36%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo,
60.08%; Carol Roth and Patty Porter, 55.52%; Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 52.03%;
Dorothy and Larry Soong, 51.71%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 51.67%.
Bridge Center of
Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open game. Bill Rushmore and Kathy Pollock, 62.04%; Sharon Benz and
John Marvin, 54.17%; Judy Padgug and Gene Finton, 53.24%; Bob Sommerstein and
Larry Abate, 52.78%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
62.44%; Dorothy and Larry Soong, 58.95%; Larry Himelein and David Schott,
58.41%; Pamela Murphy and Doanne Jackson, 58.04%; Linda Henschel and Martha
Cain, 56.25%; Amita Arora and Martha Townson, 55.50%; east-west, Agi Maisel and
Tova Reinhorn, 61.54%; Jane Mitchell and Fran Schmidt, 57.94%; Miriam Regnet
and Jim Lanzo, 57.72%; Anne Slater and Kathleen Vogt, 57.56%; Sharon Wilcox and
Joyce Greenspan, 57.09%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 53.75%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Home-style
pairs. (Tie) Pepe Justicia-Linde and Dave Larcom, Linda and Paul Zittel, Pat
and Dick Rasmus, 2 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 65.97%; (tie) Ed Harman and
Bob Ciszak, Pat Radtke and Anne O’Connor, 54.86%; (tie) Jennifer and Howard
Epstein, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 50%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Martha
Cain and partner, 65.28%; Virginia Gibson and Pinky Regan, 56.94%; Judy Reich
and Susan Burns, 55.56%; Maureen Saab and Carole Sedita, 51.39%.
Garret Club
Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s
Game. Carole Sedita and Linda Henschel, 63.89%; Robbin Coffin and partner,
50.69%; Amy Habib and Pam Righter, 50%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Club Saturday afternoon – Gay Simpson and partner, 55.56%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 54.17%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Donna
Starnes and Sheila Hess, 66.67%; Jane Mitchell and Martha Townson, 66.11%;
Phyllis Wilkinson and Peggy Stock, 65.56%.
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