Stardust Week continues today, Saturday, July 31, and Sunday, Aug.
1, on Bridge Base Online. Extra points are awarded 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. Novice games start at 9:45 a.m. today, Saturday, July 31, with an
open game 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 19 to July 25
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 99er
game. Meena Rustgi and Phyllis Stasiowski, 64.58%; Pat Pasculle and Michel
Dupuis, 54.86%; (tie) Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar, Leslie Deich and John
Houghtaling, 52.08%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Amita Arora and Martha Townson, 75%; Phyllis Wilkinson and
Fran Schmidt, 59.17%; Jim Lanzo and Sushil Amlani, 56.67%; Mary Terrana and
Usha Khurana, 53.33%; Maria Schory and Richard McGowan, 49.72%; east-west, Bonnie
Clement and Larry Himelein, 66.11%; Carol Roth and Patty Porter, 61.94%;
Margaret Zhou and Audrey Ray, 60.28%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.44%;
Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 55.56%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, 61.90%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 56.67%; (3-way tie) Rose
Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, Laura and John Houghtaling, Larry Himelein and
David Schott, 50.95%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. (Tie) Martha Townson and Winston Crow, Denise Slattery and John Bava,
57.14%; Maryann Szafran and John Marvin, 56.35%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce
Frayer, 55.56%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Bill
Feasley and Paul Zittel, 65.63%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 62.50%; Pat and
Dick Rasmus, 54.17%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 57.41%; Amita Arora and Gloria Beddow, 53.70%; Miriam Regnet and Jim
Lanzo, 52.78%.
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