For the second
year in a row, there’s no Buffalo
Fall Sectional Tournament. Planned for Sept. 17 to 19 in the Main-Transit Fire
Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst, has been canceled due to concerns over the
resurgence of the pandemic. Canceled for the same reason is the Buffalo
Regional, scheduled Oct. 5 to 10 in the Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave.,
Cheektowaga. Western New York Unit 116 hopes to hold its annual meeting Dec. 4
and the Winter Sectional on Jan. 21 to 23.
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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: Buffalo
Fall Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 17, to Sunday, Sept. 19.
CANCELED: Buffalo
Regional – Millennium Hotel,
2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. Tuesday, Oct. 5, to Sunday, Oct. 10. For info,
click this link.
CANCELED: Niagara
Falls Regional – Crowne Plaza Hotel,
5685 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, to Sunday, Nov. 14.
CANCELED: 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. Another place to find it
is on 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. 30 to Sept. 5
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 61.02%; Bonnie Clement and
David Schott, 55.09%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 52.59%; Janet and David
Desmon, 49.54%; east-west, Jim Lanzo and Bob Ciszak, 66.20%; Carol Licata and
Stephane Ronget, 61.30%; Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan, 49.63%; Judy
Zeckhauser and Karen Dearing, 48.24%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Audrey Ray and Sharon Wilcox, 57.75%; Judy Zeckhauser and
Pat Haynes, 56.50%; Patty Porter and Carol Roth, 55.25%; Candace Graser and
Cynthia Tashjian, 54.75%; Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 53.25%; east-west,
Richard McGowan and Jim Lanzo, 62.75%; Susan Cardamone and Linda Milch, 62%;
Betsy and Jim Greno, 57%; Jane Mitchell and Linda Henschel, 54.25%; Hannah
Weinberg and Judith Babat, 51%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – Open
game. Gay Simpson and Dan Bergmann, 55%; Martha and John Welte, 53.75%; Judy
Padgug and Christy Kellogg, 52.50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 67.08%; Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, 57.08%;
Rivona Ehrenreich and Judith Babat, 54.58%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace
Graser, 52.50%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 51.67%: (tie) Gary Keenan and Jim
Hassett, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 49.58%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. (Tie) Martha and John Welte, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 55.56%; Rajat
Basu and John Bava, 54.76%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Davis
Heussler and Kamil Bishara, 69.05%; Bill and Bert Feasley, 66.67%; Linda Haim
and Richard Latt, 47.62%.
Delaware Wednesday
evening – Jan O’Mara and Walt
Olszewski, 67.59%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 64.81%; Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 58.33%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 54.63%.
Twentieth Century
Club Invitational Friday morning –
Ann Thompson and Fran Schmidt, 56.48%; Nancy Deneen and Cherry Searle, 53.70%;
Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, 50%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – Rajinder Puri and
Shrikant Joshi, 66%; Marian Morber and Ron Canestro, 62%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 68%; Mike and Ed Rupp, 67%; east-west, Joanne
Zavarella and Fritz Schweiger, 64%; Anne O’Conner and Pat Radtke, 58%.
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