The Fall Buffalo
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.
No longer on the
ACBL tournament schedule is the Buffalo Regional Oct. 5 to 10 in the Millennium
Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. However, District 5, the regional governing
body that sponsors the tournament, has not announced a cancellation on its
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. Today, Saturday,
Sept. 5, to Monday, Sept. 7.
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. 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. 23 to Aug. 29
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 58.80%; Bonnie Clement
and David Schott, 56.48%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 50.93%; east-west,
Dorothy Soong and partner, 66.67%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 62.50% Betsy and
Jim Greno, 56.02%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 49.54%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Margaret Guziewicz and Richard McGowan, 61.11%; Mary Ball
and Joyce Frayer, 58.33%; Judy Zeckhauser and Violet Makhija, 55.28%; Patty
Porter and Carol Roth, 55%; Susan Cardamone and Linda Milch, 53.89%; east-west,
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.17%; Janie Polk and Bill Noltee, 56.39%;
Jane Mitchell and Linda Henschel, 55.83%; Mary Terrana and Usha Khurana,
52.50%; Carla Press and Agi Maisel, 49.72%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Betsy and Jim Greno, 69.50%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 62.67%; Judith Bailey
and partner, 55.83%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 51.50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Rajat Basu and John Bava, 58.93%; (tie) Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran,
Martha and John Welte, 55.95%; Tova Reinhorn and Agi Maisel, 54.17%; Miriam
Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 52.98%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Renee
Cancilla and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 58.33%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 54.17%;
Pat and Dick Rasmus, 53.13%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 60.19%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 59.26%; Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 57.48%; Larry Soong and partner, 53.70%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – Jill and Bruce
Brown, 61%; Edna and Ron Fill, 58%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Mike and
Ed Rupp, 63.9%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 63.8%; east-west, Joanne
Zavarella and Fritz Schweiger, 60%; Gus Alfano and Prem Lata Maheshwari, 55%.
Brookfield Third Thursday – Aug. 19. North-south, Carolyn Siracuse and Diana Smith, 61%; Daryl Farrell and Marilyn Steffan, 55%; east-west, Barb Hill and Jo Ann Smith, 68%; Pat Burns and Mary Ball, 60%.
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