ACBL Longest Day games will be held at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 26,
at the Buffalo Bridge Center, 3362 Sheridan Drive, Amherst. Lunch and a drawing
will be held between games. Lunch and fun finger foods appreciated. Proceeds
benefit the Alzheimer’s Foundation. For partnerships and information, call Jay
Levy at 716-861-1056 or email jlevyb@aol.com.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center 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 nearly two years. 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.
Wednesdays and Thursdays, now that Ontario has relaxed Covid-19 restrictions.
Proof of vaccination required. Masks optional. 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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The Toronto
Summer Regional Tournament, in line
with ACBL policies for in-person games, will give a 20% upgrade in point awards
for winners, ACBL Unit 166 noted in an email this week.
The tournament,
which runs from Tuesday, July 5, to Sunday, July 11, in Delta Hotels by
Marriott Toronto Airport, 655 Dixon Road, has a separate schedule of games for
novice and intermediate players. There are no evening games. For more
information, click this link.
Players, staff and
volunteers all must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 at least 14 days before
the tournament. Boosters are not necessary. Masks may or may not be required,
but “if a player at your table requests face masks be worn, please do so.”
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Tournament
calendar
2022
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.
Rochester Summer
Sectional – Moose Lodge, 5375 W.
Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Saturday, July 9, and 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 June 13 to June 19
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, 62.22%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer,
58.89%; Jim and Michael Hassett, 56.11%; Janet and David Desmon, 55.56%; Carol
Licata and Stephane Ronget, 55%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Amita Arora and Kusum Phadke, 64.29%; Maryann
Szafran and Linda Milch, 56.80%; Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 53.40%; Janie
Polk and Gail Pitterman, 50%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
61.22%; Hannah Weinberg and Judith Babat, 56.46%; Srivatsa Rajan and John
Marvin, 55.78%; Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 51.70%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello, 66.67%; Chris Urbanek and Jay Levy,
64.58%; Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 56.25%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 60%; Richard McGowan and Bill
Rich, 57.62%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 56.67%; Agi Maisel and Bonnie
Clement, 54.76%; Fran Schmidt and Bill Noltee, 51.90%; (tie) Carol Roth and
Audrey Ray, Laura and John Houghtaling, 51.43%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning – Open
game. (Tie) Nancy Wolstoncroft and John Ziemer, Davis Heussler and David
Colligan, 60%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Linda Zittel and Bert Feasley, 63.69%; Bill Feasley and Paul Zittel, 60.12%;
Joanne LaFay and Barbara Booi, 58.93%; Pat and Dick Rasmus, 54.76%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 61.81%; Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 54.17%; Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 53.47%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 52.78%; (tie) Henry Chudy
and Jeff Bender, Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 50.69%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Fritz
Schweiger and Joe Huber, 54%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 51%; east-west, Alicia
Kolipinski and Shirley Cassety, 75%; Edna and Ron Fill, 41%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Mike and
Ed Rupp, 58.3%; June Feuerstein and Marilyn Sultz, 57.5%; east-west, Jill and
Bruce Brown, 61%; Elaine Wegrzyn and Marge McMillin, 54%.
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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 career
total of more than 2,900 master points. Still playing exclusively online these
days, he hasn’t encountered as much drama for his bridge blog as there was in 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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