The plug has been pulled on the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament, planned for Sept. 17 to 19 in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. It was announced by John Bava, who's newly elevated to president of Western New York Unit 116, in an email Monday: “At today's Unit 116 Board meeting, the Board decided to cancel the September Sectional. This was a very difficult decision, but the final consideration was the health and safety of our members.”
The plug apparently also has been pulled on the Buffalo Regional, planned for Oct. 5 to 10 in the Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. It's disappeared from the ACBL tournament calendar, although it's still listed on the District 5 website. If it’s held, players in the regional will need to provide proof of vaccination.
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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 on Bridge Base Online, has novice
games at 9:45 a.m. Monday to Saturday, 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. 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 often are added to the games for beginning
players on BBO at 7 p.m. Monday and noon on Tuesday and Thursday. Winners in
the open games, which begin a few minutes after the novice 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
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.
CANCELED: Buffalo
Fall Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 17, to Sunday, Sept. 19.
REMOVED FROM THE ACBL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE: Buffalo
Regional – Millennium Hotel,
2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. 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 2,875 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. 16 to Aug. 22
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 62.30%; Carol Licata and
Stephane Ronget, 56.35%; Dave Taylor and partner, 55.56%; east-west, Irina
Muriby and Daniel Elezam, 59.13%; Bonnie Clement and David Schott, 58.33%; Jim
and Michael Hassett, 57.14%; Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 53.37%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 64.25%; David Schott and
Morris Streich, 57.75%; Carol Roth and Patty Porter, 57.25%; Paula Rosen and
Maryann Szafran, 55.25%; Judy Zeckhauser and Pat Haynes, 51.75%; Cynthia
Tashjian and Candace Graser, 50.75%; east-west, Dorothy and Larry Soong,
69.25%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 61.75%; Carla Press and Agi Maisel,
59.50%; Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 57.50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Louise Blankenship and Nicole Emond, 63.81%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon,
59.52%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 58.10%; Linda Henschel and partner,
56.67%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 52.38%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Martha and John Welte, 71.90%; Tova Reinhorn and Agi Maisle, 65.24%; Vic
Bergsten and Wayne Parsons, 57.62%; Ruth Nawotniak and John Marvin, 56.19%;
Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 55.24%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 53.81%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Dave
Larcom and Dan Clark, 67.71%; Pat and Dick Rasmus, 59.38%; Joan and Bob Ciszak,
58.33%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Henry Chudy and
Jeff Bender, 65.56%; Beena Deshmukh and Seema Bhagwat, 60.56%; Jan O’Mara and
Walt Olszewski, 56.67% Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 54.44%; Ed Harman and
Bob Ciszak, 53.89%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.78%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning – Anne
Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 58.33%; (tie) Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess,
Phyllis Wilkinson and Peggy Stock, 53.70%.
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