It’s Grass Roots
Month for ACBL, with special games
that provide support for districts to send players to Grand National Teams and
North American Pairs tournaments. Games award extra points to winners and can
be held at any time this month at face-to-face clubs. For virtual clubs, the
Grass Roots games will be next Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15. Info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
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The Bridge Center
of Buffalo has regular 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.
In person games are
back at the Bridge Centre of Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont., at 1 p.m. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays, 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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Local clubs
offering virtual club games 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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Tournament
calendar
2022
CANCELED: Ithaca
Sectional – Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N.
Triphammer Road, Ithaca. Next 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 25 to May 1
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Bonnie Clement and David Schott, 67.78%; Janet and David Desmon,
60%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 57.22%; Jim and Michael Hassett, 52.22%; Linda
Milch and Paula Rosen, 51.11%; Phyllis Stasiowski and Cynthia Tashjian, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,200
game. Sriram Datla and Kusum Phadke, 68.71%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
58.84%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 56.12%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein,
53.06%; (tie) Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, Carol Roth and Rivona Ehrenreich,
52.04%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Ten-Pao Lee and Jay Levy, 67.36%; Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 65.97%;
Sue Neubecker and Chris Urbanek, 54.86%; (tie) Judy Padgug and Bud Seidenberg,
Betty Metz and Barbara Landree, 47.22%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. North-south, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 75.60%; Joyce Greenspan
and Sharon Wilcox, 63.39%; Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 52.98% Larry Himelein
and David Schott, 47.32%; Bill Noltee and Terry Camp, 46.73%; east-west, (tie)
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, John Bava and Rajat Basu, 68.15%; Amita Arora
and Kusum Phadke, 65.48%; David Taylor and Jim Greno, 54.17%; Audrey Ray and
Carol Roth, 50.89%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. (3-way tie) Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, Donna Steffan and Donna
Pottle, Pat Rasmus and Cathy Majewski, 54.86%; Bud Seidenberg and Jay Costello,
54.17% Chris Urbanek and Sharon Benz, 53.47%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat and
Dick Rasmus, 56.50%; Peggy Meade and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 55.20%; Joan and Bob
Ciszak, 54.50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Henry Chudy and
Jeff Bender, 65%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 60.56%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim
Easton, 55.56%; Jan O’Mara and Bill Rich, 53.33%; Sushil Amlani and Walt
Olszewski, 52.78%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.22%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Joshi
Shrikant and Raj Puri, 60%; Fritz Schweiger and Joe Huber, 49%; east-west,
Alicia Kolipinski and Shirley Cassety, 56%; Edna and Ron Fill, 49%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Ed and
Mike Rupp, 58.4%; Bruce Brown and Ruth Nawotniak, 56.3%; east-west, Bill
Westley and Gus Alfaro, 62.5%; Pat Radtke and Bob Leuthe, 60.9%.
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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 occasionally 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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