Stardust Week continues
today, March 27, and Sunday, March 28,
offering players a chance to earn extra points, including gold points, in
regularly-scheduled games in virtual clubs on Bridge Base Online. More info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
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Most local bridge
clubs host online games on BBO. The
recently-organized Rust Belt Bridge Group, which invites players from Buffalo,
Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play, will have Stardust Week games today, Saturday,
March 27, for 499ers at 10:05 a.m. and 2:05 p.m. and open pairs games at 10:15
a.m. and 2:15 p.m. The RBBG also will host a Swiss team game at 3 p.m. Sunday,
March 28. To visit the group’s homepage, click this link. For
other info, call Dian Petrov at 688-1226 or email dpetrov@roadrunner.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, although the Lockport club has been inactive since the end
of January.
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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All tournaments are canceled nationwide through the end of July
because of the pandemic, the ACBL has declared. Depending on conditions, the
people who do the sanctioning think that August may be safe enough to allow
face-to-face play in sectional tournaments to resume. As for regionals, perhaps
early October.
Western New York
Unit 116 has scrubbed the Buffalo Spring Sectional Tournament in April. Plans
for the annual summer picnic and the Fall Sectional in September are up in the
air.
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Tournament
calendar
2021
CANCELED: St.
Catharines Sectional – Holiday
Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont.
Today, Saturday, March 27, and Sunday, March 28.
CANCELED: Rochester
Spring Sectional – Webster
Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Drive, Webster. Today, 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.
CANCELED: Cleveland
All-American Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 25, to
Monday, May 31.
CANCELED: 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.
CANCELED: District
5 Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs. Monday, June 14, to Sunday, June 20.
CANCELED: Southwest
Ontario Regional – Bingemans
Conference and Convention Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont.
Tuesday, July 6, to Sunday, July 11.
CANCELED: 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.
CANCELED: 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 in March 2020 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 has 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 March 15 to March 21
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 64.29%; Peggy and Jeff
Feather, 59.52%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 51.59%; east-west, Jennifer and
Howard Epstein, 60.71%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 56.75%; Isabelle
Banas and Donna Saia, 53.17%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999ers. North-south, Carla Press and Agi Maisel, 62.77%; Judy
Zeckhauser and Pat Haynes, 56.72%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 55%; Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 54.09%; Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, 53.22%;
Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 53.18%; east-west, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo,
61.46%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 60.95%; Jo Nasoff-Finton and Rajat
Basu, 54.28%; Rivona Ehrenreich and Carol Roth, 53.66%; Richard McGowan and Jim
McClure, 53.35%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, Amita Arora and Martha Townson,
59.71%; Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 59.07%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon,
58.47%; Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 53.88%; Isabelle Banas and Donna
Saia, 52.22%; Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, 51.78%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 62.78%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 57.99%; Linda Milch and
Jim McClure, 56.14%; David Schott and Larry Himelein, 55.10%; Sharon Wilcox and
Joyce Greenspan, 53.33%; Mary Terrana and Gail Pitterman, 52.99%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning –
Home-style pairs. (3-way tie) Pepe Justicia-Linde and Dave Larcom, Linda and
Paul Zittel, Pat and Dick Rasmus, 2 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday Evening – Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 68.75%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 65.97%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 56.02%; Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 55.79%; Nancy Deneen and Martha
Townson, 52.08%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Virginia
Gibson and Pinky Regan, 73.61%; Amy Habib and Judy Reich, 66.67%; Maureen Saab
and Robin Coffin, 62.50%.
Garret Club
Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s
Game. Marcia O’Neil-White and Maureen Saab, 62.50%; Carole Sedita and Susan
Burns, 61.11%; Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 56.25%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Cherry
Searle and Nancy Deneen, 61.11%; Kathleen Voigt and Anne Slater 59.03%; Phyllis
Wilkinson and Peggy Stock, 55.79%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 51.39%.
