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.
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%.
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