The return of face-to-face
play may be delayed because of the
sudden rise of the Covid-19 Delta variant, according to those familiar. Still
on the schedule, though, is the Fall Buffalo Sectional Tournament Sept. 17 to
19. Proof of vaccination will be required for the sectional. For info, click
this link.
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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. Players must wear
masks. For more info, email director Dave Larcom at dmocral@verizon.net.
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In the meantime, players can earn ACBL master points in a variety of
games sponsored by local clubs on Bridge Base Online. 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 again.
Novice games start at 9:45 a.m. Monday to Saturday, with open games at 9:50.
All Rust Belt games today, Saturday, Aug. 14, to Saturday, Aug. 21, are NAP
qualifiers, awarding extra points. 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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Tournament
calendar
2021
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 Aug. 2 to Aug. 8
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 499er
game. North-south, Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 60.71%; Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 56.88%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 54.56%; Jennifer and Howard
Epstein, 50.27%; east-west, Fran Schmidt and David Schott, 60.91%; Joann and
Gary Keenan, 52.25%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 51.72%; Karen Dearing and
Michael Metzger, 51.39%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Pat Haynes and Judy Zeckhauser, 60.54%; Larry Himelein and
David Schott, 59.52%; Carol Roth and Patty Porter, 54.76%; east-west, Hannah
Weinberg and Judith Babat, 64.63%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 58.16%; Joanne
Nover and Janet Desmon, 54.08%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – Open
game. Martha and John Welte, 65.08%; Judy Padgug and Christy Kellogg, 57.94%;
Sharon Benz and John Marvin, 56.35%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 499ers.
Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 65%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 62%; Jim
Hassett and Gary Keenan, 56%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 49.50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. David Colligan and Davis Heussler, 68.75%; Martha and John Welte, 63.89%;
(tie) Maryann Szafran and John Marvin, Tova Reinhorn and Agi Maisel, 58.33%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – (Tie)
Bill Feasley and Paul Zittel, Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 56%; Janet Frisch and
Ann O’Connor, 54%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Beena Deshmukh
and Bill Rich, 65.97%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 63.89%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 59.72%; Madhav Deshmukh and Sushil Amlani, 56.25%; Terry Camp and Ed
Harman, 50%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Ann
Thompson and Fran Schmidt, 60.88%; Cherry Searle and Nancy Deneen, 59.72%; Donna
Starnes and Sheila Hess, 53.01%; Elizabeth Schreier and Linda Henschel, 49.31%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – July 31, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 15.51; Maureen Saab, 13.05; Howard
Epstein, 12.44; Michel Dupuis, 8.90; Pat Pasculle, 7.38; Devon Marlette, 5.24.
5-20 Points – Gary Keenan, 22.92; Jennifer Epstein, 21.75; Cynthia
Tashjian, 16.95; John Houghtaling, 15.02; Maria Schory, 13.74; Anne Slater, 9.90;
Kathleen Voigt, 9.13; Peggy Stock, 8.44; Mary Luce, 8.03; Joann Keenan, 7.62; Meena
Rustgi, 6.79.
20-50 Points –Jim Hassett, 30.72; (tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, 28.75; Candace
Graser, 26.33; Amy Habib, 24.63; Fran Schmidt, 19.51; Carol Licata, 19.32; Susan
Burns, 18.26; Mary Ellen Cotter, 17.89; Anne Allen, 16.60.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 58.15; David Schott, 41.34; Janet
Desmon, 38.36; Martha Cain, 31.99; Maria Amlani, 20.22; Nancy Deneen, 19.23;
Pam Righter, 14.88; Betty DeFeo, 13.63; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 13.32; Bill Noltee,
12.10; Cherry Searle, 11.85.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 136.61; Larry Himelein, 99.43; Carol
Roth, 37.41; Joanne Nover, 34.77; Pat Haynes, 19.64; Hannah Weinberg, 19.37; Laura
Houghtaling, 13.66; Rivona Ehrenreich, 13.22; Joan Ciszak, 10.58; Susan Levy, 10.37.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 82.59; Audrey Ray,
39.28; Agi Maisel, 36.95; Judy Zeckhauser, 25.09; Margaret Zhou, 20.09; Bob
Ciszak, 19.82; Patty Porter, 16.05; Maryann Szafran, 15.06; Judith Babat,
12.32; Ruth Nawotniak, 10.07.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 146.52; Vic Bergsten, 113.81; Violet
Makhija, 77.51; Jasbeer Makhija, 67.24; Bonnie Clement, 65.80; Joyce Frayer, 50.15;
Richard McGowan, 43.51; Jim McClure, 28.87; Paula Rosen, 23.01; Linda Milch, 18.37.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 118.56; Jim Easton, 72.53;
Marilyn Wortzman, 70.28; Bill Rich, 45.25; Mary Ball, 43.20; Rajat Basu, 36.38;
Brian Block, 36.10; Sushil Amlami, 34.31; Bob Sommerstein, 29.45; Ed Harman,
22.80; Ed Morgan, 20.61; Bill Regan, 19.81; Paul Zittel, 18.08; Larry Abate,
17.70; Phyllis Wilkinson, 17.39.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 93.97; John
Bava, 58.25; John Marvin, 23.62; Tova Reinhorn, 23.12; Joyce Greenspan, 17.68;
Miriam Regnet, 16.56.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 92.86; Pinky
Regan, 40.76; Linda Burroughsford, 17.94; Walt Olszewski, 15.01.
2,500-3,500
Points – John Welte, 407.65; Martha
Welte, 407.33; Ken Meier, 114.09; Allen Beroza, 92.95; David Millward, 91.19;
Dale Anderson, 41.47; Bill Rushmore, 27.24; Davis Heussler, 20.93.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 114.77;
Sharon Benz, 74.17; Judy Padgug, 52.14; Dian Petrov, 36.67; Kathy Pollock, 28.20;
Brian Meyer, 16.71.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 74.59; Chris
Urbanek, 44.76; Bud Seidenberg, 23.31; Christy Kellogg, 21.04; Saleh Fetouh, 16.77.
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