Duplicate Bridge: April 24, 2021

         Celebrating its first birthday today is the Rust Belt Bridge Group, which invites players from Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play. Fun and surprises are promised. Games for 499er novices are held at 10:05 a.m. Monday to Saturday. Open games start at 10:15 a.m. Monday to Saturday. To visit the group’s homepage, click this link. For other info, call Dian Petrov at 688-1226 or email dpetrov@roadrunner.com.

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Most local bridge clubs host online games on BBO. More info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.

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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 – Monday, Tuesday and Thursday – on Bridge Base Online. Open games have been added to the Tuesday and Thursday afternoon games for beginning players on BBO. The novice 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 larger 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.

• • •

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.

• • •

Tournament calendar

2021

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.

Bridge Center of Buffalo.

Bridge Club Meridian.

Western New York Unit 116.

The Airport Bridge Club does not have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.

• • •

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.

• • •

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 April 12 to April 18

Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 49ers. Karen Dearing and Michael Metzger, 65.56%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 58.89%; Jim Hassett and partner, 57.22%; Shyam and Sarmishtha Kumar, 56.11%; Joann and Gary Keenan, 55%.   

Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – Open game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 69.44%; Paula Rosen and Judy Zeckhauser, 56.94%; Gay Simpson and Terry Camp, 51.39%; (tie) Janet and David Desmon, Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 48.61%.   

Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 299er game. Elizabeth Kavanagh and partner, 65.56%; Judy Zeckhauser and Pat Haynes, 61.11%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 58.89%; Carla Press and Agi Maisel, 52.78%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open Game. Saleh Fetouh and Bud Seidenberg, 72.50%; Martha and John Welte, 66.79%; Rajat Basu and Sam Pal, 56.07%; (3-way tie) Mary Terrana and Usha Khurana, Judy Padgug and Christy Kellogg, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 299ers. North-south, Laura and John Houghtaling, 60.20; Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 53.74%; Natalie Abramson and Judy Katz, 51.36%; east-west, Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, 58.50%; (tie) Janie Polk and Judith Bailey, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 52.04%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Open Game. Linda Burroughsford and Davis Heussler, 77.08%; Martha and John Welte, 67.08%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 52.50%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 52.08%; John Marvin and David Freimuth, 51.67%; Bill Rushmore and Art Morth, 50.42%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 50%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Sunday afternoon – Open Game. Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 68.29%; Sharon Wilcox and Joyce Greenspan, 64.58%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 63.19%; JoAnn Olson and Paula Boyd, 54.86%.

Delaware Wednesday Evening – Bill Rich and Ed Harman, 57.64%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 56.94%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 56.25%; Amita Arora and Gay Simpson, 55.56%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 54.17%.

Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 64.81%; Virginia Gibson and Pinky Regan, 59.26%; Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 53.70%.

Garret Club Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s Game. Carole Sedita and Pam Righter, 59.26%; Robin Coffin and Devon Marlette, 51.85%; Elizabeth Schreier and partner, 50.93%.

Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 58.33%; Nancy Deneen and Helen Scott, 57.41%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 56.25%; Mary Collins and Maria Schory, 53.47%; Jane Mitchell and Fran Schmidt, 51.62%.

Duplicate Bridge: April 17, 2021

 

Do we miss live, face-to-face tournaments? Sure we do, especially this weekend, when the Buffalo Spring Sectional would have been played. Meanwhile, ACBL Charity Week continues through Sunday, April 18. Double black points will be awarded in regularly-scheduled games in virtual clubs on Bridge Base Online.  More info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.

• • •

Most local bridge clubs host online games on BBO. The recently-organized Rust Belt Bridge Group invites players from Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play. Games for 499er novices are held at 10:05 a.m. Monday to Saturday. Open games start at 10:15 a.m. Monday to Saturday. Extra games are scheduled during ACBL Charity Week. 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 – Monday, Tuesday and Thursday – on Bridge Base Online. Open games have been added to the Tuesday and Thursday afternoon games for beginning players on BBO. The novice 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 larger 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

• • •

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

Tournament calendar

2021

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. 

• • •

Bridge club websites:

Click names for links.

Bridge Center of Buffalo.

Bridge Club Meridian.

Western New York Unit 116.

The Airport Bridge Club does not have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.

• • •

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

Duplicate scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of April 6 to April 12

Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 63.19%; Joann and Gary Keenan, 61.81%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 54.86%; Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 53.47%.   

Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – Open game. Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 61.34%; Peggy and Jeff Feather, 59.49%; Janet and David Desmon, 56.25%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhijz, 54.63%.   

Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 299er game. Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 71.53%; Janie Polk and Gail Pitterman, 68.06%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 61.11%; Carol Roth and Rivona Ehrenreich, 52.78%; (tie) Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, Laura and John Houghtaling, 52.08%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open Game. Kathy Pollock and Bill Rushmore, 71.79%; Martha and John Welte, 65.98%; Linda Burroughsford and Jay Levy, 59.78%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 55.22%; Gay Simpson and partner, 54.24%; Kamil Bishara and Judy Padgug, 53.39%; Saleh Fetouh and Bud Seidenberg, 53.04%; Larry Himelein and Bonnie Clement, 50.49%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 299ers. North-south, Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 62.04%; Pat Haynes and Judy Zeckhauser, 53.70%; Janie Polk and Judith Bailey, 52.31%; east-west, Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 64.35%; Ginger Maiman and Marcia Wright, 52.31; (tie) Gail Pitterman and partner, Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 50.93%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Open Game. Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 64.74%; Martha and John Welte, 63.14%; Sharon Wilcox and Joyce Greenspan, 58.33%; Tova Reinhorn and Agi Maisel, 56.09%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 54.81%; Amita Arora and Martha Townson, 54.17%.

Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat and Dick Rasmus, 62%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 54%.

Delaware Wednesday Evening – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 67.36%; Beena Deshmukh and Bill Rich, 62.50%; Jan O’Mara and Walt Olszewski, 55.56%; Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 52.78%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 50.69%.

Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – Elizabeth Schreier and Amy Habib, 60.19%; Pinky Regan and Pam Righter, 59.26%; Susan Burns and Jo Ann Smith, 54.63%; Linda Henschel and Jane Mitchell, 52.78%.

Garret Club Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s Game. Candace Graser and Martha Cain, 65.28%; Patty Porter and Carole Sedita, 51.39%.

Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 63.33%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 55%; (tie) Bonnie Botsford and Lenore Belzer, Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 52.78%.

Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play

Jan. 1, 2021 – March 31, 2021

0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 6.28; Howard Epstein, 5.94; Devon Marlette, 4.09; Pat Pasculle, 3.60; Marcia O’Neil-White, 3.08; Pamela Murphy, 2.72. 

5-20 Points – Jennifer Epstein, 10.10; Anne Slater, 7.29; Gary Keenan, 6.87; Maria Schory, 6.66; Kathleen Voigt, 6.24; Joann Keenan, 5.18; Cynthia Tashjian, 4.95; John Houghtaling, 3.70.

20-50 Points – Amy Habib, 18.65; (tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, 13.40; Candace Graser, 12.92; Susan Burns, 12.33; Carol Licata, 11.74; Anne Allen, 9.08.

50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 31.50; Janet Desmon, 22.26; Martha Cain, 21.83; David Schott, 14.53; Nancy Deneen, 13.39; Pam Righter, 12.09; Maria Amlani, 11.12; Cherry Searle, 9.16.

100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 73.11; Larry Himelein, 44.12; Carol Roth, 17.75; Joanne Nover, 17.49; Pat Haynes, 11.58; Hannah Weinberg, 9.67; Susan Levy, 6.68; Rivona Ehrenreich, 6.04.

200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 32.98; Agi Maisel, 18.84; Audrey Ray, 16.15; Patty Porter, 10.57; Bob Ciszak, 9.92; Jim O’Hara, 9.60; Ruth Nawotniak, 9.23; Margaret Zhou, 8.74; Maryann Szafran, 6.46; Judy Zeckhauser, 6.13.

300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 79.24; Vic Bergsten, 66.45; Violet Makhija, 33.87; Jasbeer Makhija, 29.16; Bonnie Clement, 28.19; Joyce Frayer, 20.61; Richard McGowan, 20.42; Jim McClure, 13.72; Linda Milch, 13.55.

500-1,000 Points – Amita Arora, 54.32; (tie) Marilyn Wortzman, Jim Easton, 31.46; Bob Sommerstein, 27.81; Rajat Basu, 26.05; Ed Morgan, 23.30; Bill Rich, 18.78; Mary Ball, 18.74; Larry Abate, 16.22; Sushil Amlani, 15.45.

1,000-1,500 Points – Sandi England, 53.67; John Bava, 19.48; Tova Reinhorn, 14.61; John Marvin, 10.85; Miriam Regnet, 8.99; Joyce Greenspan, 8.49; Cathy Majewski, 7.01.

1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 43.68; ; Pinky Regan, 17.36; Linda Burroughsford, 14.31; Walt Olszewski, 8.43.

2,500-3,500 Points – (Tie) Martha and John Welte, 255.18; Ken Meier, 67.33; Allen Beroza, 62.55; Dale Anderson, 19.21; Davis Heussler, 17.25; Bill Rushmore, 13.53; Fred Yellen, 10.48.

3,500-5,000 Points – Barbara Libby, 68.70; Sharon Benz, 46.53; Dian Petrov, 42.60; Judy Padgug, 26.08; Brian Meyer, 16.71; Kathy Pollock, 14.88.

Over 5,000 Points – Judi Marshall, 45.04; Chris Urbanek, 28.10; Bud Seidenberg, 19.71; Saleh Fetouh, 13.02. 

Duplicate Bridge: April 10, 2021

 

ACBL Charity Week starts Monday, April 12, and continues through Sunday, April 18. Double black points will be awarded in regularly-scheduled games in virtual clubs on Bridge Base Online.  More info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.

• • •

Most local bridge clubs host online games on BBO. The recently-organized Rust Belt Bridge Group invites players from Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play. Games for 499er novices are held at 10:05 a.m. Monday to Saturday. Open games start at 10:15 a.m. Monday to Saturday. Extra games are scheduled during ACBL Charity Week. 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 – Monday, Tuesday and Thursday – on Bridge Base Online. An open game has been added to the 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

• • •

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

Tournament calendar

2021

CANCELED: Unit 112 (Rochester) 199er Tournament – Strathallan Hotel, 550 East Ave., Rochester. Today, Saturday, April 10, and Sunday, April 11. 

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. 

• • •

Bridge club websites:

Click names for links.

Bridge Center of Buffalo.

Bridge Club Meridian.

Western New York Unit 116.

The Airport Bridge Club does not have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.

• • •

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.

• • •

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.

• • •

Duplicate scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of March 29 to April 5

Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 61.67%; (tie) Meena Rustgi and Phyllis Stasiowski, Joann and Gary Keenan, 60.56%; Karen Dearing and Michael Metzger, 52.78%; Pat Pasculle and Sue Crofts, 50%.   

Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – Open game. Martha and John Welte, 77.78%; Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 56.94%; Isabelle Banas and Donna Saia, 51.39% Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 49.31%.   

Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 199er game. (Tie) Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, Betsy and Jim Greno, 55.56%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 51.85%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open Game. North-south, Kathy Pollock and Bill Rushmore, 72.94%; Mary Magstadt and Nikolaos Mihailides, 62.92%; Richard McGowan and David Schott, 59.97%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 53.94%; east-west, Meg Klamp and Chris Urbanek, 65.25%; Martha and John Welte, 55.25%; Sam Pal and Rajat Basu, 52.36%; Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 51.61%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 199ers. Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 59.03%; Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 58.33%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 56.25%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 55.56%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Open Game. North-south, Bill Rushmore and Art Morth, 67.73%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 60.37%; Paula Rosen and Judy Zeckhauser, 54.04%; Bill Noltee and partner, 50.51%; east-west, Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 60.97%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 59.31%; Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 51.62%; John Bava and Rajat Basu, 51.02%.

Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Home-style pairs. Linda and Paul Zittel, 3 wins.

Delaware Wednesday Evening – Beena Deshmukh and Bill Rich, 61.11%; Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 57.64%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.08; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 50.69%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 50%.

Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – Jane Mitchell and Pam Righter, 65.74%; Maureen Saab and Martha Cain, 56.48%; Amy Habib and Linda Henschel, 51.85%.

Garret Club Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s Game. Robin Coffin and Jane Constantine, 59.26%; Susan Burns and Pam Righter, 57.41%; Nancy Schanne and Elizabeth Schreier, 50%.

Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning – (Tie) Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, Peggy Stock and Phyllis Wilkinson, 55.56%; Bonnie Botsford and Lenore Belzer, 54.17%; Barbara Kaye and Barbara Meenaghan, 51.39%.

Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play

Jan. 1, 2021 – March 31, 2021

0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 6.28; Howard Epstein, 5.94; Devon Marlette, 4.09; Pat Pasculle, 3.60; Marcia O’Neil-White, 3.08; Pamela Murphy, 2.72.

5-20 Points – Jennifer Epstein, 10.10; Anne Slater, 7.29; Gary Keenan, 6.87; Maria Schory, 6.66; Kathleen Voigt, 6.24; Joann Keenan, 5.18; Cynthia Tashjian, 4.95; John Houghtaling, 3.70.

20-50 Points – Amy Habib, 18.65; Betsy and Jim Greno, 13.40; Candace Graser, 12.92; Susan Burns, 12.33; Carol Licata, 11.74; Anne Allen, 9.08.

50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 31.50; Janet Desmon, 22.26; Martha Cain, 21.83; David Schott, 14.53; Nancy Deneen, 13.39; Pam Righter, 12.09; Maria Amlani, 11.12; Cherry Searle, 9.16.

100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 66.67; Larry Himelein, 44.12; Carol Roth, 17.75; Joanne Nover, 16.75; Pat Haynes, 11.58; Hannah Weinberg, 9.67; Susan Levy, 6.68; Rivona Ehrenreich, 6.04.

200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 32.98; Agi Maisel, 18.84; Audrey Ray, 16.15; Patty Porter, 10.57; Bob Ciszak, 9.92; Ruth Nawotniak, 9.23; Margaret Zhou, 8.74.

300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 68.43; Vic Bergsten, 65.47; Violet Makhija, 33.87; Jasbeer Makhija, 29.16; Bonnie Clement, 25.92; Richard McGowan, 20.42; Joyce Frayer, 20.34; Jim McClure, 13.72; Linda Milch, 13.55.

500-1,000 Points – Amita Arora, 40.66; (tie) Marilyn Wortzman, Jim Easton, 30.50; Bob Sommerstein, 27.81; Rajat Basu, 23.47; Bill Rich, 18.78; Mary Ball, 18.47; Ed Morgan, 17.97; Sushil Amlami, 13.87; Bill Regan, 11.46; Larry Abate, 10.89; (tie) Dorothy and Larry Soong, 10.29.

1,000-1,500 Points – Sandi England, 53.67; John Bava, 18.65; Tova Reinhorn, 14.61; John Marvin, 10.85; Miriam Regnet, 8.99; Joyce Greenspan, 8.49; Cathy Majewski, 7.01; Paula Kotowski, 4.49; Bob Padgug, 3.60.

1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 43.68; Pinky Regan, 17.36; Linda Burroughsford, 8.44; Walt Olszewski, 8.43; Martin Pieterse, 4.80.

2,500-3,500 Points – (Tie) Martha and John Welte, 239.79; Ken Meier, 67.33; Allen Beroza, 62.55; Dale Anderson, 19.21; Bill Rushmore, 13.53; Fred Yellen, 10.48; Davis Heussler, 8.35.

3,500-5,000 Points – Barbara Libby, 68.70; Sharon Benz, 46.53; Judy Padgug, 26.08; Dian Petrov, 24.10; Brian Meyer, 16.71; Kathy Pollock, 14.88.

Over 5,000 Points – Judi Marshall, 45.04; Chris Urbanek, 28.10; Bud Seidenberg, 19.71; Saleh Fetouh, 10.24; Christy Kellogg, 5.40.

 

Duplicate Bridge: April 3, 2021

 

Next chance for bonus points is ACBL Charity Week, which will take place Monday, April 12, through Sunday, April 18. Double black points will be awarded 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 invites players from Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play. Games for 499er novices are held at 10:05 a.m. Monday to Saturday. Open games start at 10:15 a.m. Monday to Saturday. 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: Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Today, Saturday, April 3, and Sunday, April 4. 

CANCELED: Unit 112 (Rochester) 199er Tournament – Strathallan Hotel, 550 East Ave., Rochester. Next Saturday, April 10, and Sunday, April 11. 

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.

Bridge Center of Buffalo.

Bridge Club Meridian.

Western New York Unit 116.

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 22 to March 28

Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar, 63.89%; Pat Pasculle and partner, 56.67%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 53.89%.   

Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – Open game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 65.56%; Joyce Greenspan and Sharon Wilcox, 62.78%; David Schott and Steven Aycock, 59.44%; Phyllis Wilkinson and Gerry Hooley, 56.11%.   

Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 199ers. Betsy and Jim Greno, 64.58%; (tie) Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, Linda Henschel and Jane Mitchell, 54.17%; Susan Burns and Amy Habib, 52.78%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open Game. North-south, Judy Padgug and Christy Kellogg, 58.89%; Sam Pal and Rajat Basu, 57.22%; Ruth Nawotniak and Richard McGowan, 56.94% Fran Schmidt and Phyllis Wilkinson, 52.78%; east-west, Martha and John Welte, 57.50%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 54.72%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.33%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 52.50%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 199ers. (Tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 61.11%; Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 58.33%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 54.44%; Jane Mitchell and Fran Schmidt, 51.67%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Open Game. Meg Klamp and Chris Urbanek, 67.14%; Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 57.38%; (tie) Martha and John Welte, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 56.90%; (tie) Bill Rushmore and Art Morth, Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 55.71%; Ruth Nawotniak and Richard McGowan, 55.48%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 54.76%; Rajat Basu and John Bava, 54.42%.

Bridge Center of Buffalo Sunday afternoon –Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 64.66%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 60%; Audrey Ray and Carol Roth, 57.73%; Sushil Amlani and Jim Lanzo, 57.05%

Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Home-style pairs. (3-way tie) Joan and Bob Ciszak, Linda and Paul Zittel, Pepe Justicia-Linde and Dave Larcom, 2 wins.

Delaware Wednesday Evening – Jan O’Mara and Bill Rich, 63.89%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 56.48%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 55.56%.

Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, 63.89%; Jane Constantine and Amy Habib, 59.26%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 50.93%.

Garret Club Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s Game. Pinky Regan and Robin Coffin, 62.04%; Susan Burns and Carole Sedita, 53.70%; Nancy Schanne and Judy Reich, 49.07%.

Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning – Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 63.89%; Christine Nieman and Fran Schmidt, 63.19%; Bonnie Botsford and Rivona Ehrenreich, 61.11%; Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 58.75%.