It’s Grass Roots Weekend on Bridge Base Online,
with upgraded awards of black points in regular club games today, Saturday, May
15, and Sunday, May 16. Silver points are available during the next Silver
Linings Week event from Monday, May 24, to Sunday, May 30. More info can be
found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
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The Airport
Bridge Club is linked on Bridge
Base Online 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, which now prefers to be known as the Buffalo Bridge Center,
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 Buffalo Bridge Center website, call 691-6201 or email acting club manager Terry
Fraas at tmfraas@gmail.com.
The Delaware
Wednesday Club 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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Another option is the Rust Belt Bridge Group, which 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. The club also takes part in ACBL special games. 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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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 May 3 to May 9
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
49ers. Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 65.74%; Phyllis Stasiowski and Meena
Rustgi, 61.11%; Karen Dearing and Michael Metzger, 60.19%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
Open game. Gay Simpson and Jim Easton, 60.19%; David Colligan and Davis
Heussler, 57.41%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.78%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 73.64%; Amita
Arora and Jim Lanzo, 60.68%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 57.50%; Dorothy
and Larry Soong, 57.27%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 55.45%; Joanne Nover and
Janet Desmon, 54.32%; east-west, Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 69.55%;
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 65.68%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran,
64.09%; Linda Henschel and Jane Mitchell, 55.45%; Natalie Abramson and Penelope
Shuman, 49.77%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open game. (Tie) Christy Kellogg and Judy Padgug, Kathy Pollock and
Bill Rushmore, 62.50%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 299ers. Larry Himelein and David Schott, 64.55%; Audrey Ray and Carol
Roth, 61.36%; Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 59.55%; Cynthia Tashjian and
Candace Graser, 58.18%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 52.73%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Open Game. North-south, Martha and John Welte, 60.71%; Sharon Wilcox
and Joyce Greenspan, 57.14%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 56.75%; east-west, Rajat
Basu and John Bava, 57.14%; Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 56.75%; Amita Arora
and Martha Townson, 49.60%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pepe
Justicia-Linde and Dave Larcom, 54%; Bill Feasley and Paul Zittel, 53%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 58.33%; (tie) Gabe Tannenbaum and Jeff Bender, Jo Ann Smith
and Maria Schory, 51.39%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Pinky
Regan and Linda Henschel, 63.89%; Amber Dixon and Susan Burns, 60.19%; Judy
Reich and Jane Mitchell, 59.26%.
Garret Club
Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s
Game. Pinky Regan and Elizabeth Schreier, 65.28%; Linda Henschel and partner,
54.17%; Robin Coffin and Devon Marlette, 51.39%; Nancy Schanne and Maureen
Saab, 50%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Barbara
Kaye and Helen Scott, 60.19%; Christine Nieman and Fran Schmidt, 58.33%; Elaine
Idzik and Martha Townson, 51.85%.
Other Clubs
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday morning – Jane and
Paul Garvey, 65%; (tie) Kathy Borcik and Bill Westley, Wilson McClaren and Stan
Kozlowski, 57%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – April 20, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 11.17; Howard Epstein, 8.89; (tie) Devon
Marlette, Michel Dupuis, 4.99; Pat Pasculle, 4.25; Marcia O’Neil-White, 3.48;
Pamela Murphy, 2.72.
5-20 Points – Jennifer Epstein, 15.69; Gary Keenan, 11.19; Cynthia
Tashjian, 10.43; Anne Slater, 8.80; Maria Schory, 8.66; Kathleen Voigt, 7.75; Mary
Luce, 6.27; Joann Keenan, 6.13; Lenore Belzer, 5.85; John Houghtaling, 5.73.
20-50 Points – Amy Habib, 22.92; Candace Graser, 20.01; (tie) Betsy
and Jim Greno, 19.31; Susan Burns, 15.09; Carol Licata, 12.88; Jim Hassett,
11.53; Anne Allen, 11.37; Carole Sedita, 9.33.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 37.99; Janet Desmon, 28.97; Martha
Cain, 26.89; David Schott, 16.92; Nancy Deneen, 15.02; Pam Righter, 14.88;
Maria Amlani, 12.07; Cherry Searle, 9.67.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 77.98; Larry Himelein, 58.07; Joanne
Nover, 22.01; Carol Roth, 19.25; Pat Haynes, 14.11; Hannah Weinberg, 11.09; Joan
Ciszak, 8.23; Rivona Ehrenreich, 8.14; Susan Levy, 8.00.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 45.67; Agi Maisel, 23.44;
Audrey Ray, 19.27; Bob Ciszak, 14.54; Judy Zeckhauser, 13.05; Patty Porter, 12.07;
Maryann Szafran, 10.41; Margaret Zhou, 10.23; Ruth Nawotniak, 9.65.
300-500 Points – Vic Bergsten, 84.26; Jim Lanzo, 83.82; Violet Makhija,
49.16; Jasbeer Makhija, 41.43; Bonnie Clement, 32.63; Joyce Frayer, 30.24; Richard
McGowan, 26.20; Jim McClure, 18.19; Paula Rosen, 17.98; Linda Milch, 16.77.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 49.10; (tie) Marilyn
Wortzman, Jim Easton, 39.25; Bob Sommerstein, 29.45; Mary Ball, 28.08; Bill
Rich, 27.66; Rajat Basu, 26.80; Ed Morgan, 20.61; Sushil Amlami, 16.59; Ed
Harman, 14.33; Bill Regan, 13.45; (tie) Dorothy and Larry Soong, 11.93.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 73.72; John
Bava, 26.83; Tova Reinhorn, 17.94; Joyce Greenspan, 14.05; John Marvin, 13.74;
Miriam Regnet, 9.59.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 55.71; Pinky
Regan, 22.69; Linda Burroughsford, 17.94; Walt Olszewski, 10.23.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) Martha and John Welte,
295.95; Ken Meier, 83.16; Allen Beroza, 69.84; David Millward, 61.11; Dale
Anderson, 25.80; Bill Rushmore, 18.88; Davis Heussler, 16.58; Fred Yellen,
10.48.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 87.11; Sharon
Benz, 57.81; Judy Padgug, 32.97; Dian Petrov, 25.73; Kathy Pollock, 18.69; Brian
Meyer, 16.71.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 54.89; Chris
Urbanek, 39.47; Bud Seidenberg, 23.31; Saleh Fetouh, 14.57; Christy Kellogg, 6.54.
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