The Longest Day, the ACBL’s summer solstice fundraiser for Alzheimer’s
disease research, will be held online on Saturday, June 19, and Sunday, June 20,
through virtual clubs on Bridge Base Online. Extra master points will be
awarded. 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 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 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: Niagara-on-the-Lake
Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Today, Saturday,
June 5, 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 24 to May 30
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
49ers. Jim Hassett and partner, 62.50%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 59.72%;
John Houghtaling and partner, 59.03%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 52.78%; Jennifer
and Howard Epstein, 52.08%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday evening –
Open game. Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 68.06%; (tie) Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 56.25%; Judy Zeckhauser and Bonnie
Clement, 50%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 62.92%;
David Schott and Richard McGowan, 53.33%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 51.46%; (tie)
Jane Mitchell and Linda Henschel, Carla Press and Agi Maisel, 51.04%; east-west,
Martha Townson and Amita Arora, 72.50%; Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 59.58%;
Phyllis Wilkinson and Fran Schmidt, 57.71%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget,
56.25%; Dorothy and Larry Soong, 54.38%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Open game. Martha and John Welte, 61.25%; Sharon Benz and John Marvin,
60%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 299ers. North-south, Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 61.28%; Carol Roth
and Audrey Ray, 58.05%; Rivona Ehrenreich and Judith Babat, 53.46%; Laura and
John Houghtaling, 52.61%; east-west, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 61.22%;
Susan Levy and Meena Rustgi, 60.20%; Diane Appleby and Bill Noltee, 56.24%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – Open Game. Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 65.08%; Martha and John Welte, 62.75%;
John Bava and Rajat Basu, 57.67%; Amita Arora and Judy Padgug, 54.58%; Dorothy
and Larry Soong, 53.33%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Sunday afternoon – Open pairs. Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargeshimer, 62.50%; Larry Abate
and John Bava, 58.33%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 57.64%; Martha and John
Welte, 56.94%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 53.47%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Joe
Rooney and Joe Miranda, 59%; Pat and Dick Rasmus, 55%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Amita Arora and Jim
O’Hara, 68.52%; Richard McGowan and Terry Camp, 62.04%; (3-way tie) Ed Harman
and Bob Ciszak, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, Salina Poon and Bill Rich, 53.70%.
Garret Club
Invitational Monday morning – Jane
Mitchell and Linda Henschel, 70.37%; Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 54.63%;
Susan Burns and partner, 51.85%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Barbara
Kaye and Barbara Meenaghan, 56.94%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 55.56%;
Peggy Stock and Phyllis Wilkinson, 54.86%.
Other Clubs
Clarence Senior
Center Thursday morning – Jane and
Paul Garvey, 64%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 61%; Kathy Borcik and Bill Westley, 53%.
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