Stardust Week begins Monday, 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 Monday to next Saturday 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 Swiss team games at 7 p.m. Monday and 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 in recent
weeks.
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.
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.
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 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 March 8 to March 14
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
99ers. North-south, Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 63.89%; Shyam and
Sarmishtha Kumar, 56.94%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 55.56%; Carol Licata and
Stephane Ronget, 51.04%; east-west, Joann and Gary Keenan, 62.15%; Peggy and
Jeff Feather, 60.42%; Janet and David Desmon, 60.07%; Pat Pasculle and partner,
53.47%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999ers. North-south, Betsy and Jim Greno, 58.33%; Richard McGowan and
Jim McClure, 56.93%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 56.67%; Beena and Madhav
Deshmukh, 55.98%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 53.86%; Janie Polk and Gail
Pitterman, 53.37%; east-west, Sandra Tillman and Wilbur Palmer, 66.68%; Bonnie
Clement and Larry Himelein, 66.63%; Susan Levy and David Schott, 65.09%;
Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 55.66%; Phyllis Wilkinson and Fran Schmidt,
55.63%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 53.28%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Under 1,500 points. North-south, (tie) Martha Townson and Amita Arora,
Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 61.07%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 59.29%;
Larry Himelein and David Schott, 57.68%; Sharon Wilcox and Joyce Greenspan,
57.32%; Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 56.79%; east-west, Agi Maisel and Tova
Reinhorn, 63.75%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 63.21%; Rajat Basu and John
Bava, 61.96%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 57.50%; Joanne Nover and Janet
Desmon, 55.71%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning –
Home-style pairs. Linda and Paul Zittel, 3 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday Evening – Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 65.28%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 64.58%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 58.33%; Louise Blankenship and Jim Bechtel, 56.25%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Betsy
Heuer and Susan Burns, 64.81%; Patty Porter and Carole Sedita, 62.96%; Pam
Righter and Linda Henschel, 57.41%; Elizabeth Schreier and Jane Mitchell, 50.93%.
Garret Club
Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s
Game. Devon Marlette and Robin Coffin, 54.63%; Elizabeth Schreier and Susan
Burns, 53.70%; Amy Habib and partner, 52.78%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – (Tie)
Nancy Deneen and Cherry Searle, 63.89%; Martha Townson and Jane Mitchell,
60.56%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 55.56%; Phyllis Wilkinson and Peggy
Stock, 51.67%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – Feb. 28, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 4.68; Howard Epstein, 3.02; Pamela
Murphy, 2.72; Devon Marlette, 2.38.
5-20 Points – Jennifer Epstein, 5.56; Anne Slater, 4.85; Gary
Keenan, 4.40; Kathleen Voigt, 3.80; Maria Schory, 3.73; Joann Keenan, 2.99;
John Houghtaling, 2.95.
20-50 Points – Amy Habib, 14.43; Candace Graser, 9.11; Carol Licata,
9.10; Susan Burns, 8.24 (tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, 6.57; Anne Allen, 6.02.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 21.29; Martha Cain, 13.70; Nancy
Deneen, 9.93; Pam Righter, 8 even; David Schott, 7.68; Maria Amlani, 6.79;
Cherry Searle, 6.52.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 48.55; Larry Himelein, 28.67; Carol
Roth, 13.77; Joanne Nover, 11.99; Pat Haynes, 7.85; Susan Levy, 4.89; Rivona
Ehrenreich, 4.53.
200-300 Points – Agi Maisel, 12.16; Audrey Ray, 10.70; Jim O’Hara,
8.45; Patty Porter, 6.75; Ruth Nawotniak, 5.22; Margaret Zhou, 5.05; Judy
Zeckhauser, 5.04; Bob Ciszak, 4.60.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 47.12; Vic Bergsten, 44.66; Bonnie
Clement, 21.23; Violet Makhija, 15.04; Joyce Frayer, 12.60; Richard McGowan,
12.46; Jasbeer Makhija, 11.76; Linda Milch, 9.64; Jim McClure, 8.05.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 36.69; Bob
Sommerstein, 24.73; (tie) Marilyn Wortzman, Jim Easton, 20.65; Rajat Basu,
17.05; Ed Morgan, 13.76; Mary Ball, 11.88; Bill Rich, 11.75; Bill Regan, 11.46;
(tie) Dorothy and Larry Soong, 10.29.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 37.92; John
Bava, 12.39; Tova Reinhorn, 11.05; John Marvin, 8.94; Cathy Majewski, 4.99;
Miriam Regnet, 3.68; Joyce Greenspan, 3.67; Bob Padgug, 3.60.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 31.15; Linda
Burroughsford, 12.57; Pinky Regan, 11.30.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) Martha and John Welte,
183.58; Ken Meier, 44.43; Allen Beroza, 41.89; Davis Heussler, 15.51; Dale
Anderson, 10.77; Bill Rushmore, 9.67; Fred Yellen, 9.23.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 51.50; Sharon
Benz, 31.24; Judy Padgug, 21.61; Brian Meyer, 16.71; Kathy Pollock, 11.41.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 34.96; Bud
Seidenberg, 18.46; Chris Urbanek, 11.67; Saleh Fetouh, 8.38.
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