The Bridge Center of
Buffalo will hold a special in-person game at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 23.
Players are asked to bring a dessert. For partners, call Jay Levy at
716-861-1056 or email jlevyb@aol.com.
The Buffalo Bridge
Center also 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.
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. Attendance is generally three or four tables. For more info,
email director Dave Larcom at dmocral@verizon.net.
The Bridge Centre of
Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont., has in-person games at 1 p.m. Wednesdays
(open) and Thursdays (499ers), 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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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.
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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Congratulations to Jay Levy, winner of the most master points in the Buffalo Spring Sectional Tournament April 1 to 3 at the Bridge Center of Buffalo. He collected 10.73 points.
Other major master
point winners included Kathy Pollock, 8.76; Bud Seidenberg, 7.91; Paul Zittel,
7.64; Mike Ryan, 7.42; Howard Foster, 6.48; Jay Costello, 6.35; Ten-Pao Lee,
5.99; Davis Heussler, 5.32; Bill Rushmore, 5.30, and Saleh Fetouh 5.28. For complete results, click this link.
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Tournament
calendar
2022
CANCELED: 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.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Spring Sectional – 0-750 Tournament.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Center, 14 Anderson Lane. Friday, June 3, to
Sunday, June 5. For info, click this link.
Toronto Summer
Regional – Delta Hotels by Marriott
Toronto Airport, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, July 5, to Sunday, July
10. 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 April 4 to April 10
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 65.28%; Jennifer and Howard
Epstein, 58.33%; Leslie Deich and Mary Holmes, 54.86%; Bonnie Clement and David
Schott, 51.39%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 58.73%; Amita Arora
and Jim Lanzo, 56.35%; (tie) Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, Carol Licata and
Cynthia Tashjian, 51.59%; east-west, Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 58.73%; Bill
Noltee and John Marvin, 55.95%; Sriram Datla and Kusum Phadke, 50.40%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. (Tie) Donna Steffan and Judy Gray, Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello,
54.76%; Davis Heussler and Ten-Pao Lee, 54.17; Chris Urbanek and Jay Levy,
53.57%; Fred Yellen and Bud Seidenberg, 52.98%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. North-south, Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 59.18%; Amita Arora
and Jim Lanzo, 57.48%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 54.08%; Laura and John
Houghtaling, 50.68%; east-west, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 65.99%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 64.63%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 51.70%; Sharon
Wilcox and Joyce Greenspan, 51.36%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning – Open
game. Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, 62.50%; Judy Padgug and John Sinclair,
52.98%; Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargeshimer, 51.79%; Howard Foster and Mike
Ryan, 50%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Joanne
LaFay and Joe Miranda, 64%; Pat and Dick Rasmus, 61%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 56%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 59.72%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.03%; Jan O’Mara and
Walt Olszewski, 50.69%; (tie) Beena Deshmukh and Bill Rich, Jim Hassett and
Gary Keenan, 50%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Edna
and Ron Fill, 65%; Marian Morber and George Mayers, 45%; east-west, Joshi
Shrikant and Raj Puri, 57%; David Young and Tim Hartnett, 52%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Marian
Morber and George Mayers, 58%; Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 52%; east-west,
Christine Whiting and David Young, 61%; Bobbi and Joe Huber, 60%.
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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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