Another Stardust
Week begins Monday, July 26, and
continues through Sunday, Aug. 1, on Bridge Base Online, offering extra points
to winners in regularly scheduled games in virtual clubs. More info can be
found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
The Rust Belt
Bridge Group, which invites players
from Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play, has adjusted its schedule for
Stardust Week. Games for 499er novices will be at 10:05 a.m. Monday to
Thursday. Open games will begin at 10:15. On Friday and Saturday, novice games
start at 9:45 a.m., with open games at 9:50. To visit the group’s homepage,
click this link. For
other info, call Dian Petrov at 688-1226 or email dpetrov@roadrunner.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 Buffalo Bridge Center 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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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. Proof of vaccination will be required for the sectional.
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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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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.
REMOVED FROM
THE ACBL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE: 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. For info,
click this link.
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. For info, click this link.
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 2,850 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 12 to July 18
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 99er
game. Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar, 70%; Jim Hassett and partner, 61.67%; Carol
Licata and Cynthia Tashjian, 58.33%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 56.11%; Betsy
and Jim Greno, 51.67%; Fran Schmidt and Karen Dearing, 51.11%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 66.25%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
64.06%; Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 60.31%; Laura and John Houghtaling,
55.31%; Mary Terrana and Usha Khurana, 54.69%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran,
54.06%; Carla Press and Agi Maisel, 53.12%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
(Tie) Larry Himelein and David Schott, Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, 58.33%;
Betsy and Jim Greno, 53.57%; (tie) Laura and John Houghtaling, Fran Schmidt and
Bill Noltee, 52.38%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 61.11%; Agi Maisel and Bonnie Clement,
59.52%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 55.56%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Bill
Feasley and Paul Zittel, 73%; Joe Rooney and Joe Miranda, 53%.
Delaware Wednesday
evening – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
63.89%; Bill Rich and Ed Harman, 60.19% Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 52.78%.
Other
Clubs
Brookfield Third
Thursday – North-south, Pat Burns and
Judie Bailey, 50%; Pat Wolcott and Diana Smith, 40%; east-west, Jo Ann Smith
and Ruth Wurster, 48%; Anne O’Connor and Daryl Farrell, 41%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall 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; Thomas
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.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 54.96; Janet Desmon, 35.82; David
Schott, 33.43; Martha Cain, 31.99; Nancy Deneen, 18.00; Maria Amlani, 15.48;
Pam Righter, 14.88; Betty DeFeo, 12.48; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 12.17; Cherry
Searle, 11.85; Bill Noltee, 11.32.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 127.99; Larry Himelein, 89.34; Joanne
Nover, 33.27; Carol Roth, 30.34; Pat Haynes, 18.86; Hannah Weinberg, 16.71;
Rivona Ehrenreich, 12.37; Joan Ciszak, 10.58; Susan Levy, 9.70.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 73.35; Agi Maisel, 33.08;
Audrey Ray, 30.88; Judy Zeckhauser, 24.31; Jim O’Hara, 21.05; Bob Ciszak, 19.82;
Margaret Zhou, 15.30; Patty Porter, 13.81; Maryann Szafran, 13.70; Judith
Babat, 11.84; Ruth Nawotniak, 10.07.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 147.37; Vic Bergsten, 102.01; Violet
Makhija, 70.21; Jasbeer Makhija, 59.94; Bonnie Clement, 57.00; Joyce Frayer, 46.13;
Richard McGowan, 38.52; Jim McClure, 28.43; Paula Rosen, 22.71; Linda Milch, 16.77.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 113.94; Jim Easton, 62.96;
Marilyn Wortzman, 60.71; Mary Ball, 40.20; Bill Rich, 39.83; Rajat Basu, 39.40;
Sushil Amlani, 35.10; Brian Block, 31.59; Bob Sommerstein, 29.45; Ed Morgan, 25.94.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 85.24; John
Bava, 52.86; David Colligan, 26.94; John Marvin, 21.77; Tova Reinhorn, 21.71;
Joyce Greenspan, 17.68; Miriam Regnet, 13.20.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 79.28; Pinky
Regan, 35.38; Linda Burroughsford, 34.62; Walt Olszewski, 13.01.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) Martha and John Welte,
426.93; Ken Meier, 115.24; Allen Beroza, 90.16; David Millward, 82.08; Davis
Heussler, 58.36; Dale Anderson, 36.51; Bill Rushmore, 27.24; Fred Yellen,
10.48.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 106.41;
Sharon Benz, 72.31; Dian Petrov, 50.26; Judy Padgug, 48.52; Kathy Pollock, 27.73;
Brian Meyer, 16.71.
Over 5,000 Points – Judi Marshall, 72.20; Chris Urbanek, 44.39; Bud Seidenberg, 25.20; Saleh Fetouh, 21.13; Christy Kellogg, 18.42.
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