The Toronto
Summer Regional Tournament begins
Tuesday, July 5, and continues through Sunday, July 11, in Delta Hotels by
Marriott Toronto Airport, 655 Dixon Road. There is a separate schedule of games
for novice and intermediate players, and 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 organizers say “if a player at your table requests face masks be worn,
please do so.”
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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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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. Next 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 20 to June 26
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 70.83%; Candace Graser and Cynthia
Tashjian, 57.64%; Karen Dearing and Michael Metzger, 56.25%; Mary Holmes and
Leslie Deich, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Judy Zeckhauser and Pat Haynes, 66.67%; Jim McClure
and Richard McGowan, 57.14%; Maryann Szafran and Linda Milch, 55.56%;
east-west, Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, 58.33%; Hannah Weinberg and Judith Babat,
50.79%; (tie) Amita Arora and Kusum Phadke, Janie Polk and Gail Pitterman, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello, 61.90%; Mike Ryan and John Ziemer,
54.17%; Sharon Benz and Kamil Bishara, 51.19% Howard Foster and Davis Heussler,
50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. North-south, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 57.94%; Jo Ann Smith and
Maria Schory, 55.95%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 51.59%; east-west, Bonnie
Clement and Joanne Nover, 63.10%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 60.71%; Amita
Arora and Kusum Phadke, 52.38%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning – Open
game. Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 60.42%; Chris Urbanek and Donna Steffan, 56.25%;
(tie) Judy Padgug and Fred Yellen, Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 52.08%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Sunday morning – Open
game (Longest Day). North-south, Daren Liu and Tyler Mu, 58.33%; Davis Heussler
and David Colligan, 54.76%; Sue Neubecker and Elaine Kurasiewicz, 53.87%; (tie)
Sushil Amlani and Vic Bergsten, 52.98%; east-west, John Ziemer and Kamil
Bishara, 57.74%; Judy Gray and Mike Ryan, 57.14%; (tie) Barbara Landree and Betty
Metz, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 51.79%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Sunday afternoon –
Open Game (Longest Day). North-south, Joanne Nover and Bonnie Clement, 60.42%;
Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 59.42%; Jim Lanzi and Eugene Giorgini, 56.55%; Tiger
Li and Darwin Skalski, 50.30%; east-west, Davis Heussler and David Colligan,
53.87%; Sue Bergman and Carol Bedell, 53.27%; Chris Urbanek and Jay Costello,
50.89%; (tie) Julian King and Daren Lu, Pat Haynes and David Schott, 50.60%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Joanne LaFay and John Fiegl, 62.50%; Pat and Dick Rasmus, 58.93%; Bert
Feasley and Dan Clark, 56.55%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 51.19%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Henry
Chudy and Jeff Bender, 61.81%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 58.33%; Jan O’Mara
and Bill Rich, 55.56%; Darwin Skalski and Tiger Li, 54.86%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – (Tie) Joe Huber and
Fritz Schweiger, Shrikant Joshi and Raj Puri, 60%; (tie) Edna and Ron Fill,
George Mayers and Rich Kayton, 58%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Mike and
Ed Rupp, 57.3%; Edna and Ron Fill, 56.9%; east-west, Elaine Wegrzyn and Gus
Alfano, 64%; Nina Doran and Dan Blatz, 56%.
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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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