Canceled due to
Covid-19 concerns is the Buffalo
Regional, scheduled Oct. 5 to 10 in the Millennium Buffalo Hotel, 2040 Walden
Ave., Cheektowaga. Western New York Unit 116 hopes to be able 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. Currently
there’s another Silver Linings Week, in which double silver points are awarded
to winners of regular games in virtual clubs. It continues today, Saturday, Sept.
25, and Sunday, Sept. 26, on BBO.
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
Regional – Millennium Hotel,
2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. Tuesday, Oct. 5, to Sunday, Oct. 10.
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 2,885 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 Sept. 6 to Sept. 12
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday afternoon – Open
game. Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 63.75%; Christy Kellogg and Bert
Hargeshimer, 62.50%; Gay Simpson and Jacqueline Garcia, 56.25%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. Larry Himelein and David Schott, 67.22%; Catherine Gay and Irina Muriby,
59.17%; Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 55.14%; Jim Hassett and Richard
McGowan, 54.44%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 54.31%; Pat Pasculle and Gary Keenan,
53.75%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Rose Bochiechio and Judith Bailey, 62.24%; Martha Townson
and Jim Lanzo, 57.48%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 53.06%; Linda
Henschel and Jane Mitchell, 50.68%; east-west, Audrey Ray and Carol Roth,
66.67%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 52.38%; Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty
DeFeo, 52.04%; Mary Terrana and Usha Khurana, 51.70%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Larry Himelein and David Schott, 71.25%; Fran Schmidt and Ann Thompson, 56.67%;
Janie Polk and Judith Bailey, 52.08%; Rivona Ehrenreich and Judith Babat, 50.83%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 66.67%; Martha and John Welte, 63.10%; Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.95%; Rajat Basu and John Bava, 54.17%; Paula Rosen
and Jim McClure, 51.19%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat
Rogers and Dave Larcom, 62%; Jane Larcom and Joe Rooney, 60%; Pat and Dick
Rasmus, 59%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 73.61%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 54.17%; Joan and Bob
Ciszak, 51.39%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Edna
and Ron Fill, 57%; George Mayers and Marian Morber, 54%; east-west, Ron
Canestro and Cathy Sidare, 53%; David Young and Tim Hartnett, 52%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Anne
O’Conner and Judie Bailey, 65%; Edna and Ron Fill, 55%; east-west, Freda
Brummer and Anita Fink, 58%; (tie) Prem Lata Maheshwari and Elaine Wegrzyn,
Cindy Darone and Elaine LaVigne, 55%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – Aug. 31, 2021
(Note: The ACBL recently did a radical overhaul of its
website and in the process has obliterated the long lists of players in the
running totals for the Masterpoint Races. What you see below is all they’ve got
at this moment. Hopefully, this situation will be corrected soon.)
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 16.49; Howard Epstein, 14.18; Maureen
Saab, 13.05; Michel Dupuis, 9.35.
5-20 Points – Gary Keenan, 25.49; Jennifer Epstein, 23.49; Cynthia
Tashjian, 18.67.
20-50 Points – (Tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, 34.34; Jim Hassett, 32.55.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 60.92; David Schott, 48.61.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 166.35; Larry Himelein, 111.12.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 95.50.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 161 even; Vic Bergsten, 126.54; Violet Makhija,
85.91.
500 -1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 126.82.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 104.85.
1,500-2,500
Points – No data at all on ACBL
Masterpoint Races site.
2,500-3,500
Points – John Welte, 435.73; Martha
Welte, 435.45; Ken Meier, 157.68; David Millward, 96.69; Allen Beroza, 96.04.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 123.85.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 81.60.
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