Yes, face-to-face bridge is coming back. The Buffalo Bridge Center is opening up its tables again with a Welcome Back stratified pairs game at noon today, Saturday, Nov. 6, which will be free for all players. Limit is 28 pairs. Pre-registration required. Call Chris Urbanek at 716-694-9221, Terry Fraas at 716-998-4808 or Sharon Benz at 716-256-8469. Proof of vaccination required. Masks optional. No food will be served.
A full schedule of
face-to-face games will resume next week – a 999er game at noon Tuesday with
lessons at 11 and 11:30 a.m.; an open game at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday; a 0-2,000
master point game at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, and an open game at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Continuing online
will be the 0-750 master point game at 7 p.m. Mondays and the Delaware
Wednesday game at 7 p.m. Wednesday for players with fewer than 2,000 points.
Meanwhile, over in
St. Catharines, Ont., the Bridge Centre of Niagara is starting live play again on a limited basis next week with an open game Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 10, and a 499er
game Thursday afternoon, Nov. 11. All players must wear masks and there will be
hand sanitizer at every table.
“This schedule will
be expanded with a positive turnout for these two games,” club president Wiebe
Hoagland said in an email last weekend, “and hopefully we will be able to go
back to the schedule of games we had prior to the Covid 19 outbreak, before the
end of the year.”
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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 Buffalo 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 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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Nov. 20 is the
deadline for local ACBL members to
mail in their ballots for the Board of Directors for Western New York
Unit 116. Ballots, which were emailed to members a couple weeks ago, should be
mailed to Gay Simpson, 119 Parkhurst Blvd., Tonawanda, NY 14223. Need a little
longer? They also can be cast in person at the annual Unit 116 meeting Dec. 4
in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst.
Candidates for the
four open seats are Sandi England, Joyce Greenspan, incumbent Barbara Libby and
former board member Kathy Pollock. All of them will win places on the board,
but what the balloting will decide is the length of their terms. Members can
cast votes for up to three candidates. The two who get the most will serve for
three years. The others will take two-year seats.
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Tournament
calendar
2021
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, if face-to-face
play has resumed. 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 Oct. 25 to Oct. 31
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 70.63%; Audrey Ray and Ruth
Nawotniak, 56.75%; Pat Pasculle and Michel Dupuis, 54.37%; east-west, John
Scott and Jim Lanzo, 60.32%; Bonnie Clement and David Schott, 59.52%; Fran
Schmidt and Richard McGowan, 59.13%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 67.50%; Terry and Bram
Hamovitch, 54%; Ruth Nawotniak and Violet Makhija, 53.75%; Cynthia Tashjian and
Candace Graser, 53.50%; Carla Press and Agi Maisel, 52%; Jane Mitchell and
Linda Henschel, 51%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 69.75%; Richard
McGowan and Jim McClure, 65%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 60.25%; Bonnie
Clement and Larry Himelein, 59.50%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 51.50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – 0-2500
Swiss teams. John Bava, Rajat Basu, Larry Abate and Vic Bergsten, 117 Victory
Points; Betsy and Jim Greno, Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 87 vps; Joyce
Greenspan, Kasum Phadke, Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 84 vps.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Judy Zeckhauser and Pat Haynes, 56.67%; Judy Katz and Natalie Abramson, 55.24%;
Laura and John Houghtaling, 54.76%; Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, 54.29%;
(tie) Hannah Weinberg and Judith Babat, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 52.38%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 55.36%; Terry and Bram Hamovitch, 54.17%;
Rajat Basu and John Bava, 52.38%; (tie) Joyce Greenspan and Larry Abate, Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 51.79%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat
and Dick Rasmus, 67.70%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 57.30%; Pat Haynes and Joe
Miranda, 45.50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 66.67%; Sushil Amlani and Walt Olszewski, 64.81%; Henry Chudy
and Jeff Bender, 52.78%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – Edna and Ron Fill,
65%; Shirley Cassety and Alicia Kolipinski, 64%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday – North-south, Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 62%; Mike and Ed Rupp, 57%; east-west, Anita Fink and Freda Brummer, 65%; Karen Synor and Jeff Peters, 58%.
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