Most local bridge
clubs are continuing to host virtual
club games on Bridge Base Online, where a pair of special events offering extra
master points are scheduled this month. The first is Grass Roots Weekend, with upgraded
awards of black points next 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 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 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. 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 April 26 to May 2
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
49ers. Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 63.19%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria
Schory, 59.03%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 58.33%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 57.64%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
Open game. Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 59.03%; Sharon Wilcox and Joyce
Greenspan, 58.33%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 56.25%; (tie) Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, Janet and David Desmon, 53.47%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 56.39%; Amita Arora
and Martha Townson, 55%; Fran Schmidt and Sheila Hess, 53.89%; Violet Makhija
and Ruth Nawotniak, 53.06%; Natalie Abramson and Penepole Shuman, 51.39%; east-west,
Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 69.44%; (tie) Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
Dorothy and Larry Soong, 52.22%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 51.67%;
Carol Licata and Cynthia Tashjian, 51.39%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 299ers. North-south, Betsy and Jim Greno, 67.01%; Rose Ann Grimaldi
and Betty DeFeo, 63.61%; Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, 55.10%; east-west,
David Schott and Larry Himelein, 60.20%; Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian,
55.10%; Gail Pitterman and Susan Levy, 54.76%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Open Game. North-south, Usha Khurana and Violet Makhija, 58%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.50%; Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 52.50%; east-west, (tie)
Denise Slattery and John Bava, Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 54%; Mary Ball
and Joyce Frayer, 50%.
Bridge Club of East
Aurora Wednesday morning – Home-style
pairs. (3-way tie) Bill Feasley and Paul Zittel, Joe Rooney and Joe Miranda,
Joan and Bob Ciszak, 2 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Seema Bhagwat and
Beena Deshmukh, 65.28%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 63.89%; Miriam Regnet and Jim
Lanzo, 59.03; Madhav Deshmukh and Sushil Amlani, 50.69%.
Garret Club
Invitational Friday morning – Janie’s
Game. Judy Reich and Pinky Regan, 62.50%; Betsy Heuer and Susan Burns, 58.33%;
Nancy Schanne and Jane Constantine, 52.78%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Anne
Slater and Kathleen Voigt, 61.11%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 54.86%; Phyllis
Wilkinson and Peggy Stock, 53.47%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 52.78%;
Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 51.39%.
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