There’s a new
location for the Buffalo Spring
Sectional Tournament. It’s being moved from the Main-Transit Fire Hall in
Amherst, site of many sectionals for the past several years, to the Buffalo
Bridge Center, 3362 Sheridan Drive at Sweet Home Road, Amherst. Dates remain
the same – Friday, April 1, to Sunday, April 3. For more info, click this link.
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In person games
return to the Bridge Centre of
Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont., at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays
beginning Wednesday, March 2, now that Ontario has relaxed Covid-19
restrictions. Proof of vaccination and mask-wearing required. The club’s other
regularly scheduled games continue on Bridge Base Online.
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Face-to-face
games in the Buffalo bridge clubs may
become more frequent now that Omicron variant is subsiding. The Buffalo Bridge
Center has in-person open games at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Attendance is ranging from three to five tables.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding
face-to-face games for more than a year. Play begins at 10 a.m. Wednesdays in
the Aurora Senior Citizens Center, 101 King St., East Aurora. Players must wear
masks. Attendance is generally three or four tables. For more info, email
director Dave Larcom at dmocral@verizon.net.
Also back to
in-person play is the Lockport Duplicate Club. Games begin at 1 p.m. Saturdays
in the Dale Center, 33 Ontario St., Lockport. For info, call Dian Petrov at
716-668-1226.
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Players who
aren’t comfortable with face-to-face
play or who are not vaccinated 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.
Available on Bridge
Base Online are the Buffalo Bridge Center’s 0-750 master point limit game at 7
p.m. Mondays, a 1,200-point master point limit game at noon Tuesday, a
1,500-point game at noon Thursdays and the Delaware Wednesday game at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, which is limited to players with fewer than 2,000 points. For more
info, visit the Buffalo Bridge Center website, call 716-691-6201 or email acting club manager Terry
Fraas at tmfraas@gmail.com.
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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 716-688-1226 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 716-603-6943.
The Delaware
Wednesday Club plays on Bridge Base
Online under auspices of the Buffalo Bridge Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For
info, call Ed Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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Tournament
calendar
2022
Rochester Spring
Sectional – Moose Lodge, 5375 W.
Henrietta Road, West Henrietta. Saturday, March 26, and Sunday, March 27. For
more info, click this link.
NEW LOCATION: Buffalo
Spring Sectional – Buffalo Bridge
Center, 3362 Sheridan Drive at Sweet Home Road, Amherst. Friday, April 1, to
Sunday, April 3. For more info, click this link.
Toronto Easter
Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre,
123 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 12, to Sunday, April 17. For
info, click this link.
Ithaca Sectional
– Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N. Triphammer
Road, Ithaca. Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15.
Cleveland All
American Regional – Embassy Suites
Hotel, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 24, to
Monday, May 30. For info, click this link.
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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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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Feb. 14 to Feb. 20
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 61.57%; Michael and Jim
Hassett, 57.87% Barb and Jim Aston, 56.94%; east-west, Larry Himelein and David
Schott, 62.96%; Mary Holmes and Leslie Deich, 59.72%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria
Schory, 52.31%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,200
game. North-south, Audrey Ray and Sharon Wilcox, 63.43%; Martha Townson and Jim
Lanzo, 62.96%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 56.48%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich,
52.31%; east-west, Pamela Lombardo and John Marvin, 67.13%; Richard McGowan and
Jim McClure, 54.63%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 53.24%; Judy Zeckhauser
and Pat Haynes, 50.46%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello, 61.11%; Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 58.33%;
Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 53.47%; Donna Steffan and Judy Padgug, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday morning – 0-1,500
game. North-south, Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 60.20%; (tie) Judy Zeckhauser
and Pat Haynes, Maria Schory and Jim Hassett, 54.42%; Henry Chudy and Bill
Rich, 51.36%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.18%; Carol Roth
and Audrey Ray, 53.74%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 52.38%; Janet Desmon
and Joanne Nover, 51.02%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Friday morning – Open
game. Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, 57.14%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 55.36%;
Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargeshimer, 52.98; Bud Seidenberg and Jay Costello,
52.38%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat
and Dick Rasmus, 66.67%; Paul Zittel and Bert Feasley, 60.12%; Pat Haynes and
Joe Miranda, 54.17%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Seema Bhagwat and
Beena Deshmukh, 67.46%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 66.67%; Linda and Paul
Zittel, 61.11; Madhav Deshmakh and Sushil Amlani, 55.95%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – Edna and Ron Fill
65%; Ron Canestro and Joe Huber, 63%; Joshi Shrikant and Raj Puri, 58%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 57.1%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 56.7%; east-west, Pat
Radtke and Bob Leuthe, 68%; Elaine Wegrzyn and Gus Alfano, 64%.
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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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A Gold Life
Master, Dale Anderson has
reached a career total of 2,900 master points. Playing exclusively online these
days 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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