Thursday, August 27, 2020

Duplicate Bridge: Aug. 29, 2020

Moderne Art Deco playing cards by Randy Coffey


Non-sanctioned bridge clubs have begun to play face-to-face games with health-related restrictions. At the Clarence Senior Center, the weekly game on Thursday is limited to three tables, Senior Center members only. The Brookfield Third Thursday group at Brookfield Country Club is playing pairs games with all pairs remaining stationary at their tables.
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Meanwhile, local ACBL-sanctioned clubs continue to encourage their players to compete online until face-to-face games to resume.
“Virtual Vacation,” a regionally rated ACBL tournament that awards gold and red master points, continues today, Saturday, Aug. 29, and Sunday, Aug. 30, on Bridge Base Online. For details, visit acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
Open to all players on Bridge Base Online are the Support Your Club games every day at 10 a.m., 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., which send part of the game fees to a club that players designate. More info can be found at acbl.org/virtual or bridgebase.com.
Local clubs also share in the fees from online games they sponsor as Virtual Clubs on BBO for players who are affiliated with them.
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The Airport Bridge Club has linked up 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.
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The Bridge Center of Buffalo offers games three or four days a week on Bridge Base Online and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club has games there on Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon. For the most part, the calendar follows the schedule that the clubs maintained when they were able to play games face to face.
For more info, visit the Bridge Center of Buffalo website, call director Dian Petrov at 228-2230 or email him at dpetrov@roadrunner.com.
• • •
The Delaware Wednesday Club plays at 7 p.m. Wednesdays on Bridge Base Online, the same time that it had its actual games.
Delaware Wednesday is invitational and to ensure that it is restricted primarily to club members, there’s a master point limit of 1,500 on players who want to join. None of the club members has more than 1,500 points.
• • •
Canceled due to the pandemic is the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday, Sept. 13. The annual Unit 116 meeting Dec. 5 is still pending and the Mentoring Program and the Youth Bridge Program are currently on hold.
• • •
The Saturday Duplicate Bridge column is on hiatus in the print edition of The Buffalo News until clubs resume regular play, but it’s alive and well online. The syndicated Daily Bridge Club column by Frank Stewart will continue to appear.
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Tournament calendar
2020
CANCELED: Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Sept. 1, to Monday, Sept. 7.
CANCELED: Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday, Sept. 13.
CANCELED: St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 20.
CANCELED: Rochester Fall Sectional – Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4.
CANCELED: Buffalo Regional – Buffalo Grand Hotel (formerly Adam's Mark), 120 Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 20, to Sunday, Oct. 25.
CANCELED: Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive, Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov. 7, and Sunday, Nov. 8.
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.
CANCELED: District 5 Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs. Monday, Dec. 7, to Sunday, Dec. 13.
2021
Cleveland Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
Buffalo Winter Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Sectional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday, March 30, 2021, to Sunday, April 4, 2021.
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 16, 2021, to Sunday, April 18, 2021.
Cleveland All-American Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 25, 2021, to Monday, May 31, 2021.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 4, 2021, to Sunday, June 6, 2021.
Southwest Ontario Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 6, 2021, to Sunday, July 11, 2021.
Rochester Regional – RIT Inn and Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, to Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021.
St. Catharines 299er Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, and Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, to Monday, Sept. 8, 2021.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Center, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, and Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, to Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021.
Buffalo Regional – Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, to Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021.
Unit 255 Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 15, 2021.
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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.
• • •
The Duplicate Bridge column is compiled weekly by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version normally appears in the Life & Arts section in the Saturday edition of The Buffalo News.
During this hiatus, it can be found by Googling  “Duplicate Bridge” plus the current Saturday date, which should bring up a link to it on buffalonews.com, the Buffalo News website.
Sometimes the online version does not materialize on the Buffalo News website, at least not in a timely fashion. Worse yet, columns from previous weeks currently cannot be accessed on the News website. But all is not lost. They are available in an appendix to Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/
The online version contains unabridged scores and a longer list of notices. Deadline for submission of scores and notices is Tuesday night. Email danderson@buffnews.com or dahotwings@aol.com. Office phone is 716-849-4420.
• • •
Now a Gold Life Master, Dale Anderson has a career total of more than 2,700 master points and is playing online these days. He blogs about his quest for the next measure of achievement, Emerald Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Aug. 17 to Aug. 23
Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. North-south, Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 64.44%; Janice and Tony Ogorek, 56.17%; Leondina Passucci and Jim Hassett, 55.10%; Janet and David Desmon, 53.28%; east-west, Barb and Jim Aston, 67.16%; Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 59.20%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 53.84%; Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Jiang, 53.35%.  
Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Terry Fraas and Donna Sinrud, 61.62%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.85%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 56.31%; Gabe Tannenbaum and Jim Lanzo, 53.54%; east-west, Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 64.65%; Audrey Ray and Margaret Zhou, 63.89%; Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 55.30%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.54%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice game. Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 75%; Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Jiang, 55.95%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Judy Zeckhauser and Bonnie Clement, 62.73%; Rajat Basu and John Bava, 59.49%; (tie) Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 56.48%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 54.17%; east-west, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 63.43%; Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 62.04%; Larry Himelein and Vic Bergsten, 61.57%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.72%; Leondina Passucci and Jim Hassett, 57.18%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – Beena Bill Rich and Rajarshi Roy, 62.96%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 58.33%; Barbara Hill and Ruth Nawotniak, 54.63%.   
Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – (Tie)  Martha Cain and Linda Henschel, Robin Coffin and Jane Constantine, 62.96%; Carole Sedita and Amber Dixon, 60.19%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Xiaoxin Susa Xu and Amita Amora, 55.56%; Rajareshi Roy and partner, 54.63%; Sushil Amlani and Jim Lanzo, 51.85%.
Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Christine Nieman and Helen Scott, 63.33%; Fran Schmidt and Sheila Hess, 56.11%; Anne Slater and Kathleen Voigt, 53.33; Barbara Kaye and Barbara Meenaghan, 52.22%.
Other Clubs (face-to-face)
Brookfield Third Thursday – North-south, Joyce Frayer and Pat Wolcott, 55.83%; Marilyn Steffan and Judy McDermid, 51.67%; east-west, Anne O’Connor and Pat Addelman, 57.50%; Janet Frisch and Nancy Torrell, 50%.
Clarence Senior Center Thursday – Judy Graf and Stan Kozlowski, 68%; Kathy Borcik and Bill Westley, 54%.


Thursday, August 20, 2020

Duplicate Bridge: Aug. 22, 2020

Watermelon Playing Cards by Flaminko Playing Cards


A regionally rated ACBL tournament awaits players online next week. “Virtual Vacation,” which will award gold and red master points, begins Thursday, Aug. 27, and continues through Sunday, Aug. 30, on Bridge Base Online. For details, visit acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
• • •
All local clubs encourage their players to continue competing on the Internet until face-to-face games can resume.
Open to all players on Bridge Base Online are the Support Your Club games every day at 10 a.m., 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., which send part of the game fees to a club that players designate. For more info, visit acbl.org/virtual or bridgebase.com.
Local clubs also share in the fees from online games they sponsor as Virtual Clubs on BBO for players who are affiliated with them.
• • •
The Airport Bridge Club has linked up 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 Bridge Center of Buffalo offers games three or four days a week on Bridge Base Online and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club has games there on Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon. For the most part, the calendar follows the schedule that the clubs maintained when they were able to play games face to face.
For more info, visit the Bridge Center of Buffalo website, call director Dian Petrov at 228-2230 or email him at dpetrov@roadrunner.com.
• • •
The Delaware Wednesday Club plays at 7 p.m. Wednesdays on Bridge Base Online, the same time that it had its actual games.
Delaware Wednesday is invitational and to ensure that it is restricted primarily to club members, there’s a master point limit of 1,500 on players who want to join. None of the club members has more than 1,500 points.
• • •
Canceled due to the pandemic is the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament Sept. 11 to 13. The annual Unit 116 meeting Dec. 5 is still pending and the Mentoring Program and the Youth Bridge Program are currently on hold.
• • •
The Saturday Duplicate Bridge column is on hiatus in the print edition of The Buffalo News until clubs resume regular play, but it’s alive and well online. The syndicated Daily Bridge Club column by Frank Stewart will continue to appear.
• • •
Tournament calendar
2020
CANCELED: Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Sept. 1, to Monday, Sept. 7.
CANCELED: Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday, Sept. 13.
CANCELED: St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 20.
CANCELED: Rochester Fall Sectional – Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4.
CANCELED: Buffalo Regional – Buffalo Grand Hotel (formerly Adam's Mark), 120 Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 20, to Sunday, Oct. 25.
CANCELED: Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive, Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov. 7, and Sunday, Nov. 8.
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 Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs, if they're open and if the ACBL provides a director. Monday, Dec. 7, to Sunday, Dec. 13.
2021
Cleveland Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
Buffalo Winter Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Sectional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday, March 30, 2021, to Sunday, April 4, 2021.
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 16, 2021, to Sunday, April 18, 2021.
Cleveland All-American Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 25, 2021, to Monday, May 31, 2021.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 4, 2021, to Sunday, June 6, 2021.
Southwest Ontario Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 6, 2021, to Sunday, July 11, 2021.
Rochester Regional – RIT Inn and Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, to Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021.
St. Catharines 299er Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, and Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, to Monday, Sept. 8, 2021.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Center, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, and Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, to Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021.
Buffalo Regional – Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, to Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021.
Unit 255 Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 15, 2021.
• • •
Bridge club websites:
Click names for links.
The Airport Bridge Club does not have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.
• • •
The Duplicate Bridge column is compiled weekly by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version normally appears in the Life & Arts section in the Saturday edition of The Buffalo News.
During this hiatus, it can be found by Googling  “Duplicate Bridge” plus the current Saturday date, which should bring up a link to it on buffalonews.com, the Buffalo News website.
Sometimes the online version does not materialize on the Buffalo News website, at least not in a timely fashion. Worse yet, columns from previous weeks currently cannot be accessed on the News website. But all is not lost. They are available in an appendix to Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/
The online version contains unabridged scores and a longer list of notices. Deadline for submission of scores and notices is Tuesday night. Email danderson@buffnews.com or dahotwings@aol.com. Office phone is 716-849-4420.
• • •
Now a Gold Life Master, Dale Anderson has a career total of more than 2,700 master points and is playing online these days. He blogs about his quest for the next measure of achievement, Emerald Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
• • •
Duplicate scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Aug. 10 to Aug. 16
Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. North-south, Cynthia Tashjian and William Qu, 60.07%; Isabelle Banas and Peg Feather, 59.33%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 58.38%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 56.40%; east-west, Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 66.72%; Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 62.55%; Janet and David Desmon, 61.76%; Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Jiang, 54.12%.  
Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Audrey Ray and Margaret Zhou, 59.26%; Ruth Nawotniak and Rajat Basu, 58.33%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 54.01%; Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 51.85%; east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 65.43%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 65.12%; Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 58.02%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 50.93%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice game. Cynthia Tashjian and Carol Licata, 60.95%; Joann and Gary Keenan, 59.40%; Keen Williams and Eric Ma, 56.67%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 54.88%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 63.13%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 58.84%; Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 58.59%; Patty Porter and Carol Roth, 57.58%; east-west, Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 60.10%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 58.84%; Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 57.07%; Rajat Basu and John Bava, 51.26%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 62.50%; Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 59.03%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 54.86%; Ed Harman and Bill Rich, 52.08%.   
Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – Amy Habib and Carole Sedita, 60.19%; Virginia Kalbach and Molly Morris, 57.41%; Linda Henschel and Susan Burns, 52.78%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Walt Olszewski and Sushil Amlani, 62.50%; Jeff Bender and Gabe Tannenbaum, 59.72%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Rajarshi Roy and Jim Lanzo, 67.36%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 65.28%; Ed Morgan and Ken Meier, 56.25%; (tie) Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 52.08%.  
Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Linda Henschel and Jane Constantine, 67.08%; Bonnie Botsford and Helen Scott, 61.53%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 56.11%; Lenore Belzer and Mary Bell, 53.61%; Elaine Idzik and Chris-Elaine Santilli, 50.14%.

Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2020, to July 31, 2020


0-5 Points – Linda Henschel, 30.64; Nancy Deneen, 27.72; Martha Cain, 23.51; Elaine Idzik, 16.46; (tie) Mary Ellen Cotter, Anne Allen, 13.23.

5-20 Points – Martha Townson, 46.75; Jane Constantine, 8.94; Fred Schweiger, 7.33; Marcia Turley, 6.63; David Desmon, 5.21; Gini Sicignano, 5.11.

20-50 Points – Stephane Ronget, 17.30; Maria Amlani, 16.90; David Schott, 14.84; Mary Joyce, 14.43; Cherry Searle, 10.89.

50-100 Points – Larry Himelein, 45.20; Joanne Nover, 24.67; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 13.28; Pam Righter, 13.26; Barbara Hill, 11.81.

100-200 Points – Bonnie Clement, 46.41; Vic Bergsten, 45.88; James O’Hara, 31.56; Terry Hamovitch, 30.21; Bram Hamovitch, 27.91; Audrey Ray, 25.13; Ann Marie Ryan, 24.37.

200-300 Points – Jim Lanzo, 78.74; Jasbeer Makhija, 25.32; Margaret Zhou, 24.49; Patty Porter, 22.11; Ruth Nawotniak, 16.34.

300-500 Points – Larry Abate, 76.06; Joyce Frayer, 56.43; Amita Arora, 52.24; Violet Makhija, 25.88; Sushil Amlani, 20.49; Pawan Matta, 16.62.

500-1000 Points – Bob Sommerstein, 90.43; (tie) Jim Easton, Marilyn Wortzman, 65.39; Mary Ball, 61.35; John Bava, 51.30; Ten-Pao Lee, 44.61; Ed Morgan, 44.57.

1000-1500 Points – David Colligan, 66.94; Gay Simpson, 63.92; Sandi England, 48.21; Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Howard Foster, 27.01; Terry Fraas, 25.98; Ron Henrikson, 22.20.

1500-2500 Points – (Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 274.58; Davis Heussler, 135.77; Linda Burroughsford, 112.39; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.95; Walt Olszewski, 38.74. 

2500-3500 Points – Allen Beroza, 88.62; David Millward, 70.67; Ken Meier, 66.19; John Sinclair, 58.36; Fred Yellen, 53.07; Dale Anderson, 51.07; Mike Silverman, 50.61.

3500-5000 Points – Sharon Benz, 64.44; Barbara Libby, 61.59; Mike Ryan, 61.01; John Ziemer, 57.90; Christy Kellogg, 53.67; Judy Padgug, 46.65.

5000-7500 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 163.50; Alan Greer, 100.85; Bert Hargeshimer, 55.60; Jay Costello, 39.27.

Over 7500 Points – Bud Seidenberg, 105.06; Chris Urbanek, 75.46; Jay Levy, 46.82.



Thursday, August 13, 2020

Duplicate Bridge: Aug. 15, 2020





The Bridge Center of Buffalo has informed its members that the board of directors will not renew the lease on its club rooms in Sheridan Center, 3362 Sheridan Drive, Amherst. The board encourages players to continue competing on the Internet.
The Bridge Center offers games three or four days a week on Bridge Base Online and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club has games there on Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon. For the most part, the calendar follows the schedule that the clubs maintained when they were able to play games face to face.
For more info, visit the Bridge Center of Buffalo website, call director Dian Petrov at 228-2230 or email him at dpetrov@roadrunner.com.
• • •
Open to all players on Bridge Base Online are the Support Your Club games every day at 10 a.m., 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., which send part of the game fees to a club that players designate. For more info, visit acbl.org/virtual or bridgebase.com.
Local clubs also share in the fees from online games they sponsor as Virtual Clubs on BBO for players who are affiliated with them.
• • •
The Airport Bridge Club has linked up 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 Delaware Wednesday Club plays at 7 p.m. Wednesdays on Bridge Base Online, the same time that it had its actual games.
Delaware Wednesday is invitational and to ensure that it is restricted primarily to club members, there’s a master point limit of 1,500 on players who want to join. None of the club members has more than 1,500 points.
• • •
Canceled due to the pandemic is the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament Sept. 11 to 13. The annual Unit 116 meeting Dec. 5 is still pending and the Mentoring Program and the Youth Bridge Program are currently on hold.
• • •
The Saturday Duplicate Bridge column is on hiatus in the print edition of The Buffalo News until clubs resume regular play, but it’s alive and well online. The syndicated Daily Bridge Club column by Frank Stewart will continue to appear.
• • •
Tournament calendar
2020
CANCELED: Syracuse Regional – Holiday Inn Syracuse, 441 Electronics Parkway, Liverpool. Today, Saturday, Aug. 15, and Sunday, Aug. 16. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: St. Catharines 299er Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Today, Saturday, Aug. 15, and Sunday, Aug. 16. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Sept. 1, to Monday, Sept. 7.
CANCELED: Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday, Sept. 13.
CANCELED: St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 20.
CANCELED: Rochester Fall Sectional – Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4.
CANCELED: Buffalo Regional – Buffalo Grand Hotel (formerly Adam's Mark), 120 Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 20, to Sunday, Oct. 25.
CANCELED: Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive, Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov. 7, and Sunday, Nov. 8.
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 Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs, if they're open and if the ACBL provides a director. Monday, Dec. 7, to Sunday, Dec. 13.
2021
Cleveland Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
Buffalo Winter Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Sectional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday, March 30, 2021, to Sunday, April 4, 2021.
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 16, 2021, to Sunday, April 18, 2021.
Cleveland All-American Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 25, 2021, to Monday, May 31, 2021.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 4, 2021, to Sunday, June 6, 2021.
Southwest Ontario Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 6, 2021, to Sunday, July 11, 2021.
Rochester Regional – RIT Inn and Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, to Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021.
St. Catharines 299er Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, and Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, to Monday, Sept. 8, 2021.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Center, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, and Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, to Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021.
Buffalo Regional – Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, to Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021.
Unit 255 Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 15, 2021.
• • •
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 normally appears in the Life & Arts section in the Saturday edition of The Buffalo News.
During this hiatus, it can be found by Googling  “Duplicate Bridge” plus the current Saturday date, which should bring up a link to it on buffalonews.com, the Buffalo News website.
Sometimes the online version does not materialize on the Buffalo News website, at least not in a timely fashion. Worse yet, columns from previous weeks currently cannot be accessed on the News website. But all is not lost. They are available in an appendix to Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/
The online version contains unabridged scores and a longer list of notices. 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 has a career total of more than 2,700 master points and is playing online these days. He blogs about his quest for the next measure of achievement, Emerald Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Aug. 3 to Aug. 9
Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. North-south, Janet and David Desmon, 57.25%; Sarmishtha and Shyam Kumar, 57.02%; Karen Dearing and David Schott, 56.71%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 54.13%; east-west, Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 64.81%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 61.30%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 56.56%; Peg and Jeff Feather, 55.75%.  
Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 61.42%; Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 59.88%; (tie) Jim Lanzo and Ed Harman, Mary Terrana and Usha Khurana, 55.25%; east-west, Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 65.74%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 58.02%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 56.48%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 50.93%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice game. Gary Keenan and partner, 72.32%; (tie) Cynthia Tashjian and Carol Licata, Betsy and Jim Greno, 66.96%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Gabe Tannenbaum and Jim Lanzo, 65.91%; Michael Passucci and Ed Harman, 61.87%; Rose Ann Grimaldi and Terry Camp, 61.62%; Rivona Ehrenreich and Judith Babat, 58.33%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 54.29%; east-west, David Schott and Larry Himelein, 62.37%; Usha Khurana and Bill Rich, 61.87%; Bonnie Clement and Judy Zeckhauser, 58.84%; Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 55.30%; John Bava and Rajat Basu, 53.79%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – Walt Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, 64.44%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 59.86%; Rajarshi Roy and Ed Harman, 57.64%; Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 56.81%.   
Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – Linda Henschel and Mary Joyce, 65.74%; Elizabeth Schreier and Martha Cain, 61.57%; Jane Mitchell and Amy Habib, 57.87%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – North-south, Amita Arora and Vic Bergsten, 64.58%; Jim Lanzo and Sushil Amlani, 63.89%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 60.42%; Rajarshi Roy and partner, 59.72%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon –Rajarshi Roy and partner, 66.67%; Jim Lanzo and partner, 61.11%.  
Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Peggy Stock and Phyllis Wilkinson, 67.22%; Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 63.89%; Fran Schmidt and Jane Mitchell, 60%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 58.33%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 53.33%.

Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2020, to July 31, 2020
0-5 Points – Nancy Deneen, 27.72; Linda Henschel, 25.69; Martha Cain, 18.56; Elaine Idzik, 15.64; (tie) Mary Ellen Cotter, Anne Allen, 13.23.
5-20 Points – Martha Townson, 44.16; Jane Constantine, 8.94; Fred Schweiger, 7.33; Marcia Turley, 5.53; David Desmon, 5.21; Gini Sicignano, 5.11.
20-50 Points –Maria Amlani, 16.90; David Schott, 14.84; Stephane Ronget, 12.79; Cherry Searle, 10.89.
50-100 Points – Larry Himelein, 43.04; Joanne Nover, 21 even; Rose Ann Grimaldi, 13.28; Barbara Hill, 11.81.
100-200 Points –Bonnie Clement, 42.33; Vic Bergsten, 29.16; Terry Hamovitch, 27 even; Bram Hamovitch, 24.70; Ann Marie Ryan, 23.85; James O’Hara, 21.08; Audrey Ray, 20.74.
200-300 Points – Jim Lanzo, 61.91; Jasbeer Makhija, 25.32; Patty Porter, 22.11; Margaret Zhou, 19.51; Ruth Nawotniak, 16.34.
300-500 Points – Larry Abate, 57.07; Joyce Frayer, 50.55; Amita Arora, 42.43; Violet Makhija, 25.88; Sushil Amlani, 19.79; Pawan Matta, 16.62.
500-1000 Points – Bob Sommerstein, 64.63; Mary Ball, 57.09; John Bava, 39.62; (tie) Jim Easton, Marilyn Wortzman, 50 even; John Bava, 42.97; Ed Morgan, 38.46; Ten-Pao Lee, 35.70.
1000-1500 Points – Gay Simpson, 53.91; Sandi England, 43.52; Joyce Greenspan, 31.91; Joanne LaFay, 27.49; Terry Fraas, 24.68; Howard Foster, 19.26.
1500-2500 Points – (Tie) Martha Welte, John Welte, 218.29; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 72.31; Davis Heussler, 49.46; Linda Burroughsford, 40.15; Walt Olszewski, 36.16. 
2500-3500 Points –Allen Beroza, 78.72; David Millward, 66.01; Ken Meier, 59.49; Dale Anderson, 46.52; Mike Silverman, 45.45; Fred Yellen, 37.67.
3500-5000 Points – Barbara Libby, 60.43; Sharon Benz, 57.21; Mike Ryan, 50.35; John Ziemer, 43.41; Christy Kellogg, 36.60.
5000-7500 Points – Alan Greer, 100.85; Saleh Fetouh, 73.64; Bert Hargeshimer, 37.89; Judi Marshall, 24.13; Jay Costello, 21.79.
Over 7500 Points – Bud Seidenberg, 82.92; Chris Urbanek, 41.41; Jay Levy, 35.82.

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Duplicate Bridge: Aug. 8, 2020



Although face-to-face bridge games are suspended because of the pandemic, players are still earning master points on the Internet.
Open to all players on Bridge Base Online are the Support Your Club games every day at 10 a.m., 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., which send part of the game fees to a club that players designate. For more info, visit acbl.org/virtual or bridgebase.com.
Local clubs also share in the fees from online games they sponsor as Virtual Clubs on BBO for players who are affiliated with them.
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The Airport Bridge Club has linked up 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.
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The Bridge Center of Buffalo and offers games three or four days a week and the Lockport Duplicate Bridge Club has games on Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon. For the most part, the calendar follows the schedule that the clubs maintained when they were able to play live games.
For more info, visit the Bridge Center of Buffalo website, call director Dian Petrov at 228-2230 or email him at dpetrov@roadrunner.com.
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The Delaware Wednesday Club plays at 7 p.m. Wednesdays on Bridge Base Online, the same time that it had its actual games.
Delaware Wednesday is invitational and to ensure that it is restricted primarily to club members, there’s a master point limit of 1,500 on players who want to join. None of the club members has more than 1,500 points.
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For clubs that want to reopen for face-to-face play, the ACBL has issued a lengthy list of "Club Safety Considerations," which advises them to use a great many precautionary measures to limit the risk to the players. To read the entire advisory, click here.
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The Bridge Center of Buffalo is contemplating reopening sometime later this year and has compiled a list of changes and provisions needed to do it, including new tables and floors. It can be found here.
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Canceled due to the pandemic is the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament Sept. 11 to 13. The annual Unit 116 meeting Dec. 5 is still pending and the Mentoring Program and the Youth Bridge Program are currently on hold.
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The Saturday Duplicate Bridge column is on hiatus in the print edition of The Buffalo News until clubs resume regular play, but it’s alive and well online. The syndicated Daily Bridge Club column by Frank Stewart will continue to appear.
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Tournament calendar
2020
CANCELED: Syracuse Regional – Holiday Inn Syracuse, 441 Electronics Parkway, Liverpool. Monday, Aug. 10, to Sunday, Aug. 16. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: St. Catharines 299er Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 15, and Sunday, Aug. 16. For info, click this link.
CANCELED: Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Sept. 1, to Monday, Sept. 7.
CANCELED: Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 11, to Sunday, Sept. 13.
CANCELED: St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Sept. 15, to Sunday, Sept. 20.
CANCELED: Rochester Fall Sectional – Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4.
CANCELED: Buffalo Regional – Buffalo Grand Hotel (formerly Adam's Mark), 120 Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 20, to Sunday, Oct. 25.
CANCELED: Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive, Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov. 7, and Sunday, Nov. 8.
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 Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Local clubs, if they're open and if the ACBL provides a director. Monday, Dec. 7, to Sunday, Dec. 13.
2021
Cleveland Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
Buffalo Winter Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Sectional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021.
Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday, March 30, 2021, to Sunday, April 4, 2021.
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 16, 2021, to Sunday, April 18, 2021.
Cleveland All-American Regional – Embassy Suites, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 25, 2021, to Monday, May 31, 2021.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 4, 2021, to Sunday, June 6, 2021.
Southwest Ontario Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention Centre, 425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 6, 2021, to Sunday, July 11, 2021.
Rochester Regional – RIT Inn and Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, to Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021.
St. Catharines 299er Sectional – Bridge Centre of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, and Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, to Monday, Sept. 8, 2021.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Center, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, and Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, to Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021.
Buffalo Regional – Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, to Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021.
St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021.
Unit 255 Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, 2021, to Sunday, Nov. 15, 2021.
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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 normally appears in the Life & Arts section in the Saturday edition of The Buffalo News.
During this hiatus, it can be found by Googling  “Duplicate Bridge” plus the current Saturday date, which should bring up a link to it on buffalonews.com, the Buffalo News website.
Sometimes the online version does not materialize on the Buffalo News website, at least not in a timely fashion. Worse yet, columns from previous weeks currently cannot be accessed on the News website. But all is not lost. They are available in an appendix to Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/
The online version contains unabridged scores and a longer list of notices. Deadline for submission of scores and notices is Tuesday night. Email danderson@buffnews.com or dahotwings@aol.com. Office phone is 716-849-4420.
• • •
Now a Gold Life Master, Dale Anderson has a career total of more than 2,700 master points and is playing online these days. He blogs about his quest for the next measure of achievement, Emerald Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of July 27 to Aug. 2
Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday evening – 99ers. North-south, David Schott and Mohan Prabhu, 74.88%; Janet and David Desmon, 63.11%; Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 58.94%; Amy Habib and Jane Constantine, 53.49%; east-west, Carol Li and Melanie Skalski, 61.81%; Elaine Idzik and Martha Townson, 60.79%; Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 58.59%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 57.47%.  
Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life masters. North-south, Jim Lanzo and Rajarshi Roy, 59.72%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 57.41%; Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 55.32%; Audrey Ray and Margaret Zhou, 55.09%; east-west, Juliette Symchowicz and Gyula Kovacs, 64.81%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 64.35%; Phyllis Wilkinson and Sheila Hess, 57.18%; Amita Arora and Joe Albert Garcia, 56.94%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Wednesday evening – Novice game. Carol Licata and Donna Saia, 58.18%; Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 57.27%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon – 999er game. North-south, Larry Abate and Rajarshi Roy, 66.65%; Amy Habib and Susan Burns, 65.92%; Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 65.17%; Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 56.91%; east-west, Amita Arora and Kusum Phadke, 70.07%; Bonnie Clement and Judy Zeckhauser, 68.02%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 63.66%; Ed Harman and Jim Lanzo, 60.04%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – Beena and Madhav Deshmukh, 66.67%; Rajarshi Roy and Sushil Amlani, 59.03%; Barbara Hill and Anne O’Connor, 54.86%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 51.39%.   
Garret Club Invitational Monday morning – Nancy Deneen and Martha Townson, 65.74%; Pinky Regan and Carole Sedita, 58.33%; Mary Joyce and Pam Righter, 52.78%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – North-south, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 57.87%; Rajarshi Roy and Jim Lanzo, 56.94%; Gay Simpson and Amita Arora, 52.31%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 51.85%; east-west, (Tie) Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, Linda Burroughsford and Davis Heussler, 60.65%; Martha and John Welte, 60.19%; Audrey Ray and Margaret Zhou, 52.78%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Rajarshi Roy and Jim Lanzo, 61.81%; David Colligan and Davis Heussler, 59.03%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 58.33%; Gay Simpson and Ken Meier, 51.39%.  
Twentieth Century Club Invitational Friday morning –Anne Allen and Mary Ellen Cotter, 75%; Jane Constantine and Linda Henschel, 60.56%; Chris-Elaine Santilli and partner, 57.78%; Nancy Deneen and Cherry Searle, 51.11%.