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.
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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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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