Face-to-face play
in the local bridge clubs may return
as early as next month, according to those familiar. And Western New York Unit
116 says there definitely will be a Fall Buffalo Sectional Tournament Sept. 17
to 19.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding
face-to-face games for quite some time now, 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: 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 July 5 to July 11
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 499er
game. Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 63.75%; Jim Hassett and partner, 57.50%;
Betsy and Jim Greno, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 499er
game. Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 71.25%; Laura and John Houghtaling,
62.08%; Carol Roth and Patty Porter, 59.58%; Pat Haynes and Judy Zeckhauser,
57.08%; Linda Henschel and Jane Mitchell, 55.83%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – Open
Game. Bernie Fudor and Jay Levy, 65.88%; Meg Klamp and Chris Urbanek, 59.75%;
Elizabeth Kavanagh and partner, 53.75%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.25%;
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 52.88%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 499ers.
Larry Himelein and David Schott, 62.78%; Reva Oren and Bonnie Clement, 60.87%;
Janie Polk and Judith Bailey, 60.32%; Bill Noltee and Lester Dolak, 60.48%;
Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, 60.32%; Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 59.29%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. (tie) Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargeshimer, Martha and John Welte,
55.56%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 53.97%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning –Dan
Clark and Dave Larcom, 61%; Pat and Dick Rasmus, 57%; Bill Feasley and Paul
Zittel, 54%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Beena Deshmukh
and Bill Rich, 69.44%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 55.56%; Jan O’Mara and Walt
Olszewski, 54.63%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 53.70%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – June 30, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 14.61; Maureen Saab, 13.05; Howard
Epstein, 11.13; Michel Dupuis, 8.26; Pat Pasculle, 6.86; Devon Marlette, 5.24; Tom
England, 3.55; Marcia O’Neil-White, 3.48; Pamela Murphy, 3.22.
5-20 Points – Jennifer Epstein, 19.59; Gary Keenan, 19.43; Cynthia
Tashjian, 15.96; Maria Schory, 13.25; Anne Slater, 9.90; John Houghtaling, 9.85;
Kathleen Voigt, 8.85; Mary Luce, 7.84; Peggy Stock, 7.52; Joann Keenan, 7.03;
Lenore Belzer, 5.85.
20-50 Points – (Tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, 26.04; Candace Graser, 25.79;
Jim Hassett, 25.39; Amy Habib, 24.07; Carol Licata, 18.87; Susan Burns, 18.26;
Fran Schmidt, 17.13; Anne Allen, 13.13; Carole Sedita, 9.33.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 54.96; Janet Desmon, 35.82; David
Schott, 33.43; Martha Cain, 31.99; Nancy Deneen, 18; Maria Amlani, 15.48; Pam
Righter, 14.88; Betty DeFeo, 12.48; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 12.17; Cherry Searle, 11.85;
Bill Noltee, 10.67.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 110.12; Larry Himelein, 89.34; Joanne
Nover, 32.53; Carol Roth, 30.34; Pat Haynes, 18.86; Hannah Weinberg, 16.71;
Rivona Ehrenreich, 12.37; Joan Ciszak, 10.58; Susan Levy, 9.70; Laura
Houghtaling, 8.80.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 72.82; Agi Maisel, 33.08;
Audrey Ray, 30.88; Judy Zeckhauser, 24.31; Bob Ciszak, 19.82; Margaret Zhou,
14.80; Patty Porter, 13.81; Maryann Szafran, 13.70; Judith Babat, 11.84; Ruth
Nawotniak, 10.07.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 119.12; Vic Bergsten, 101.03; Violet
Makhija, 70.21; Jasbeer Makhija, 59.94; Bonnie Clement, 52.80; Joyce Frayer, 42.94;
Richard McGowan, 38.52; Jim McClure, 28.43; Paula Rosen, 22.71; Linda Milch,
16.77.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 85.36; Jim Easton, 57.61;
Marilyn Wortzman, 55.36; Bill Rich, 39.83; Mary Ball, 37.51; Rajat Basu, 36.38;
Brian Block, 31.32; Bob Sommerstein, 29.45; Sushil Amlami, 26.39; Ed Morgan,
20.61; Ed Harman, 19.92; Bill Regan, 18.83; Larry Soong, 17.17; Dorothy Soong,
16.16; Larry Abate, 16.14.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 85.24; John
Bava, 50.92; John Marvin, 21.71; Tova Reinhorn, 17.94; Joyce Greenspan, 17.68;
Miriam Regnet, 13.20.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 79.28; Pinky
Regan, 35.38; Linda Burroughsford, 17.94; Walt Olszewski, 11.33.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) Martha and John Welte,
380.31; Ken Meier, 115.24; Allen Beroza, 90.16; David Millward, 82.08; Dale
Anderson, 36.51; Bill Rushmore, 27.54; Davis Heussler, 20.51; Fred Yellen,
10.48.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 106.41;
Sharon Benz, 72.31; Judy Padgug, 48.52; Dian Petrov, 31.13; Kathy Pollock, 27.73;
Brian Meyer, 16.71.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 72.20; Chris
Urbanek, 42.50; Bud Seidenberg, 23.31; Christy Kellogg, 18.42; Saleh Fetouh, 16.77.
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