Separate games for players with fewer than 500 points have been
added to the schedule for morning sessions at the Buffalo Fall Sectional
Tournament on Friday, Sept. 16, and Saturday, Sept. 17. The tournament will run
from Sept. 16 to 18 in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. For
more info, click this link.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center is now playing in-person
games in its new clubroom in the Boulevard Mall in Amherst. It’s easy to find.
Just enter the mall through the doors next to TGIFriday’s. The BBC is at the
end of the corridor, where it meets the main concourse.
The club hosts a
pair of games there at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday – one for novices with 99 master
points or less and another for players with fewer than 1,200 points. A free
lesson with director Chris Urbanek is offered at 10 a.m.
On Thursdays, there
also are two games at 10:30 a.m. – one for 99ers and another for more
experienced players with fewer than 1,600 points. Free lesson at 10.
In addition, the
club holds two open in-person games for all players – at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday
and 10:30 a.m. Friday. For more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website or call
716-280-6114.
The Bridge Center
continues to offer a game on Bridge Base Online at 7 p.m. Mondays for players
with fewer than 750 points. It also hosts the Delaware Wednesday game online at
7 p.m. Wednesdays.
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Face-to-face play
has resumed at the Tonawanda Senior
Center on Wednesdays. In face-to-face play at the Amherst Senior Center,
players have voted to stop playing their Thursday afternoon game and are
playing on Monday and Friday afternoons instead.
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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.
The Bridge Centre
of Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont.,
has in-person games at 1 p.m. Wednesdays (open to all players) and Thursdays
(players with fewer than 499 points). The club’s other regularly scheduled
games continue on Bridge Base Online. For more info, click here.
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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
Roni Regional – Masonic Center North, 3579 Masonic Way, Pittsburgh.
Friday, Sept. 2, to Sunday, Sept. 4. For more info, click this link.
Great Lakes
Sectional – Erie Bridge Center, 1221
Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 10, and Sunday, Sept. 11. For info, click
this link.
Buffalo Fall
Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall,
6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 16, to Sunday, Sept. 18. For info, click
this link.
Rochester Fall
Sectional – Gates Recreation Center,
1605 Buffalo Road, Gates. Saturday, Oct. 1, and Sunday, Oct. 2. For more info,
click this link.
Niagara Regional Tournament
– Holiday Inn and Suites, 327 Ontario
St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 8, to Sunday, Nov. 13. 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 Aug. 15 to Aug. 21
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 64.58%; Bonnie Clement and David
Schott, 63.89%; Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan, 59.03%; Paula Rosen and Linda
Milch, 52.08%; Jim and Michael Hassett, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.13%; Joanne
Nover and Janet Desmon, 55.63%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 51.88%;
east-west, Richard McGowan and John Marvin, 66.88%; David Schott and Henry
Chudy, 53.13%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 49.38%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Kathy Pollock and Chris Urbanek, 61.57%; Judy Graf and Jim Gullo,
60.19%; Jay Costello and Saleh Fetouh, 59.72%; Nancy Wolstoncroft and Jay Levy,
53.24%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,600 game. North-south, Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 58.33%; (tie) Paula
Kotowski and Nancy Kessler, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 55.22%; east-west, Larry
Himelein and David Schott, 59.17%; Betty Metz and David Whitt, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, 63%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 56%;
Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, 55%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Joanne LaFay and Barbara Booi, 63%; Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda, 57%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 66.67%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 59.72%; Richard McGowan
and Bill Rich, 52.08%; Madhav Deshmukh and Sushil Amlani, 51.39%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon –
North-south, Edna and Ron Fill, 59%; Cindy Darone and Rich Kayton, 58%;
east-west, Shrikant Joshi and Raj Puri, 58%; Jack Cukierman and Melvyn
Mesnekoff, 56%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Mike and Ed Rupp, 61%; Anne O’Connor and Joan Stankiewicz, 59%; east-west, Nina
Doran and Dan Blatz, 63%; Pat Radtke and Bob Leuthe, 60%.
Brookfield Third
Thursday – North-south, Nancy
Wolstoncroft and Judie Bailey, 65%; Joan Stankiewicz and Anne O’Connor, 62.5%;
east-west, JoAnn Smith and Mary Ball, 63.75%; Joyce Frayer and Pat Wolcott,
59.4%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – North-south, Rose Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 70%; Paul Morgante and Al
Miller, 53.4%; east-west, Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 54.2%; Lynda Pettit and
Kay Brinkman, 53.4%.
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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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