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.
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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. 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
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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: 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.
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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 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.
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