Celebrating its first birthday today, Saturday, May 1, 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.
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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: 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 19 to April 25
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
49ers. Betsy and Jim Greno, 58.33%; (tie) Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser,
Patricia Pasculle and Michel Dupuis, 56.67%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 51.11%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
Open game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 63.89%; Carol Licata and Stephane
Ronget, 50%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 47.22%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 299er game. North-south, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 68%; Joanne Nover
and Janet Desmon, 59.50%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 57.50%; (3-way tie)
Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, Linda Milch and Jim McClure, Rose Bochiechio
and Judith Bailey, 50.50%; east-west, David Freimuth and partner, 58%; Dorothy
and Larry Soong, 57.25%; Audrey Ray and Susan Levy, 56.25%; Paula Rosen and
Maryann Szafran, 52.50%; Linda Henschel and Jane Mitchell, 51%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open Game. Meg Klamp and Chris Urbanek, 57.50%; Sharon Benz and John
Marvin, 52.50%; Sam Pal and Rajat Basu, 50%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 299ers. North-south, Judith Babat and Rivona Ehrenreich, 62.92%; Larry
Himelein and David Schott, 60.83%; Gary Keenan and Jim Hassett, 58.75%; Betsy
and Jim Greno, 56.67%; Marcia Wright and Ginger Maiman, 55%; Natalie Abramson
and Judy Katz, 52.50%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Open Game. Martha and John Welte, 68.25%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure,
59.52%; Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 54.76%; Judy Zeckhauser and Terry Camp,
50%.
Bridge Club of East
Aurora Wednesday morning – Home-style
pairs. Joe Rooney and Joe Miranda, 3 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Jan O’Mara and
Walt Olszewski, 63.89%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 62.96%; Martha Townson and
Jim Lanzo, 62.04%; Gay Simpson and Sum Tang, 55.56%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 54.17%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Candace
Graser and Amy Habib, 59.72%; Betsy Heuer and Susan Burns, 52.78%; (tie) Jane
Constantine and Amber Dixon, Pam Righter and Elizabeth Schreier, 51.39%.
Garret Club
Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s
Game. Amy Habib and Linda Henschel, 65.28%; Candace Graser and Patty Porter,
54.17%; Robin Coffin and Marcia O’Neil-White, 52.78%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Lenore
Belzer and Bonnie Botsford, 57.64%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 54.17%;
(tie) Nancy Deneen and Cherry Searle, Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 50.69%.
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