Face-to-face play in the bridge clubs is expected to return soon and the ACBL thinks that August may be
safe enough to allow face-to-face play in sectional tournaments to resume in
some areas.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding
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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In the meantime, ACBL master points can be earned online. More info
can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
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 and which has recently reduced
the fee for its games. 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 Buffalo Bridge
Center,
formerly 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 the games for beginning
players on BBO at 7 p.m. Monday and noon on Tuesday and Thursday. Winners in
the open games 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
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 Thursday. Open games begin at 9:50 a.m. Friday and
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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Tournament
calendar
2021
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.
REMOVED FROM
THE ACBL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE: 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.
REMOVED FROM THE
ACBL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE: Niagara Falls Regional – Crowne Plaza Hotel, 5685 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls,
Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, to Sunday, Nov. 14.
REMOVED FROM THE
ACBL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE: 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 June 21 to June 27
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 49er
game. (Tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 58.33%; Jim
Hassett and Michel Dupuis, 52.08%; Meena Rustgi and Phyllis Stasiowski, 47.92%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – Open
game. Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 67.59%; Bonnie Clement and David Schott,
55.56%; Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 53.70%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 60.54%; Fran Schmidt and
Phyllis Wilkinson, 54.76%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 51.70%; east-west, Bonnie
Clement and Larry Himelein, 56.80%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 55.10%; Rose
Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 54.76%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Rivona Ehrenreich and Judith Babat, 58.57%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 58.10%; Carol
Roth and Audrey Ray, 57.14%; Jim Hassett and Bill Noltee, 53.33%; (tie) Fran
Schmidt and Gillian Mouat, Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 51.43%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 60.32%; Dorothy and Larry Soong, 55.56%;
Judy Zeckhauser and Jim McClure, 52.38%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Jim
Lanzo and Sushil Amlani, 57.30%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 55.29%; Pat and Dick
Rasmus, 55.09%; Martha Townson and Amita Arora, 54.17%; Bill Feasley and Paul
Zittel, 52.67%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – (Tie) Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, Jan O’Mara and Bill Rich, 58.33%.
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