It’s the Longest Day, the ACBL’s summer solstice
fundraiser for Alzheimer’s disease research, taking place today, Saturday, June
19, and Sunday, June 20, through virtual clubs on Bridge Base Online. Extra
master points will be awarded. Then, from Thursday, June 24, to Sunday, June
27, it’s the Endless Summer online tournament, with gold and red points. 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 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
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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, except Friday, when the time has been
moved up to 9:50 a.m. Open games start at 10:15 a.m. Monday to Saturday, except
Friday. 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: 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 7 to June 13
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 499er
game. North-south, Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 61.31%; Meena Rustgi and
Phyllis Stasiowski, 59.23%; Linda Henschel and Jane Mitchell, 56.85%; Candace
Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 53.87%; east-west, Judy Zeckhauser and Bonnie
Clement, 67.26%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 62.20%; Fran Schmidt and
David Schott, 60.71%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 50.30%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 499er
game. Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 60.31%; (tie) Judy Zeckhauser and Pat
Haynes, Carla Press and Agi Maisel, 57.50%; (3-way tie) Morris Streich and
Robert Meeker, Judith Babat and Hannah Weinberg, Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty
DeFeo, 56.88%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – Open
game. Kathy Pollock and Bill Rushmore, 65.38%; Judy Padgug and Christy Kellogg,
64.88%; Gene Finton and Kamil Bishara, 61.62%; Richard McGowan and Jim McClure,
56.12%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 499ers.
Judy Zeckhauser and Jim McClure, 63.75%; Larry Himelein and David Schott,
61.67%; Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, 60%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 58.75%;
Betsy and Jim Greno, 52.92%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Martha and John Welte, 63.33%; Ramani and Pankajam Sundaresan, 60.48%;
Bill Rushmore and Art Morth, 60%; Rich Kasprowicz and Chris Urbanek, 51.90%;
(tie) Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 49.52%; Mary Ball
and Joyce Frayer, 49.05%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Home
Style Pairs. Bill Feasley and Paul Zittel, 3 wins.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 62.50%; Ed Harman and Bill Rich, 56.94%; Gabe Tannenbaum and
Jeff Bender, 54.17%.
Other Clubs
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday morning – Judy Graf
and Donna Steffan, 69%; Jane and Paul Garvey, 59%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – May 31, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 13.25; Maureen Saab, 13.05; Howard
Epstein, 9.87; Michel Dupuis, 6.97; Pat Pasculle, 6.23; Devon Marlette, 5.24; Marcia
O’Neil-White, 3.48; Pamela Murphy, 3.22.
5-20 Points – Jennifer Epstein, 18.33; Cynthia Tashjian, 14.60; Gary
Keenan, 12.47; Maria Schory, 11.07; Anne Slater, 9.18; John Houghtaling, 8.39; Kathleen
Voigt, 8.13; Peggy Stock, 7.52; Mary Luce, 7.43; Joann Keenan, 6.13; Lenore
Belzer, 5.85.
20-50 Points – Candace Graser, 24.43; Amy Habib, 23.82; (tie) Betsy
and Jim Greno, 21.14; Susan Burns, 18.26; Carol Licata, 17.87; Jim Hassett, 16.42;
Fran Schmidt, 14.37; Anne Allen, 13.13.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 49.36; Janet Desmon, 30.16; Martha
Cain, 30.06; David Schott, 26.29; Nancy Deneen, 17.10; Maria Amlani, 14.92; Pam
Righter, 14.88; Cherry Searle, 10.95.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 111.03; Larry Himelein, 77.60; Joanne
Nover, 26.55; Carol Roth, 24.72; Pat Haynes, 14.78; Hannah Weinberg, 12.51; Rivona
Ehrenreich, 9.62; Susan Levy, 9.20; Joan Ciszak, 8.35.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 60.32; Agi Maisel, 25.56;
Audrey Ray, 24.25; Judy Zeckhauser, 16.74; Bob Ciszak, 15.34; Jim O’Hara, 15.01;
Patty Porter, 13.81; Margaret Zhou, 12.85; Maryann Szafran, 11.13; Ruth
Nawotniak, 9.65.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 126.81; Vic Bergsten, 97.63; Violet
Makhija, 62.38; Jasbeer Makhija, 54.65; Bonnie Clement, 46.61; Joyce Frayer, 41.61;
Richard McGowan, 34.05; Jim McClure, 22.82; Paula Rosen, 20.89; Linda Milch, 16.77.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 88.39; Jim Easton,
55.06; Marilyn Wortzman, 52.81; Mary Ball, 37.12; Rajat Basu, 36.61; Bill Rich,
34.64; Bob Sommerstein, 29.45; Brian Block, 26.94; Ed Morgan, 25.94; Sushil
Amlani, 25.48.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 78.68; John
Bava, 44.96; John Marvin, 19.74; Tova Reinhorn, 17.94; Joyce Greenspan, 17.68;
Miriam Regnet, 13.20.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 77.49; Pinky
Regan, 33.24; Linda Burroughsford, 31.06; Walt Olszewski, 11.33.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) Martha and John Welte,
374.77; Ken Meier, 100.75; Allen Beroza, 80.32; David Millward, 68.87; Davis
Heussler, 37.83; Dale Anderson, 31.34; Bill Rushmore, 22.54; Fred Yellen,
10.48.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 101.68;
Sharon Benz, 68.66; Dian Petrov, 46.56; Judy Padgug, 44.56; Kathy Pollock, 22.35;
Brian Meyer, 16.71.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 61.80; Chris
Urbanek, 41.36; Bud Seidenberg, 25.20; Saleh Fetouh, 18.93; Christy Kellogg,
14.76.
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