Face-to-face play
in the local bridge clubs may return
as early as this 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. 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 from Monday, Aug. 9, 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
CANCELED: Rochester
Regional – RIT Inn and
Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Today, Saturday, Aug. 7,
and 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 26 to Aug. 1
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 499er
game. Bonnie Clement and David Schott, 58.33%; (tie) Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 52.78%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer,
50.69%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, David Schott and Larry Himelein, 65.83%; Jim Hassett and
Luigi Giammarco, 56.11%; Amita Arora and Martha Townson, 53.89; Margaret Zhou
and Audrey Ray, 51.94%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 51.67%; east-west, Susan
Cardamone and Linda Milch, 64.44%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 56.11%; Jane
Mitchell and Linda Henschel, 54.17%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 53.89%;
(tie) Fran Schmidt and Phyllis Wilkinson, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 51.11%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 65.24%; (tie) Carole Sedita and Jane Constantine,
Laura and John Houghtaling, 56.19%; Linda Henschel and partner, 54.76%; Larry
Himelein and David Schott, 53.81%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 67.86%; Gay Simpson and John Bava, 60.48%;
Amita Arora and Judy Padgug, 59.88%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.36%; Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 51.67%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Sunday afternoon – Open
Game. Betsy and Jim Greno, 59.72%; Martha and John Welte, 59.03%; Richard
McGowan and Bill Rich, 54.86%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 52.08%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat
and Dick Rasmus, 62.50%; (tie) Bill Feasley and Paul Zittel, Howard Foster and
Davis Heussler, 57.29%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 68.75%; Amita Arora and Barbara Piester, 61.81%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.33%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 54.17%; Jane
Constantine and Amy Habib, 52.55%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning –
July 16. North-south, Elaine Kurasiewicz and Nancy Deneen, 57.50%; Sheila Hess
and Kathy Voigt, 51.73%; Martha Townson and Elaine Idzik, 50.63%; east-west,
Mary Ellen Cotter and Anne Allen, 63.13%; Lorey Repicci and Pat Truell, 61.10%;
Peggy Stock and Chris Neiman, 53.91%.
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