Western New York
Unit 116 holds its summer outing today,
Saturday, Aug. 6, at the home of the Lockport Dupliclub in the Dale
Association, 33 Ontario St., Lockport. Enter via the parking lot in the rear.
Lunch at noon, game at 1 p.m. Vaccinations required. Pre-register by calling or
texting John Bava at 908-256-6466 or emailing him at JBava@roadrunner.com.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center will officially celebrate
the opening of its new clubroom in the Boulevard Mall in Amherst with an
in-person game Sunday, Aug. 14. 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 also 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. A free lesson will be offered
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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Players at the
Amherst Senior Center have voted to
eliminate their Thursday afternoon game and play 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
Rochester
Non-Life Master Sectional – Temple
B’Rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave., Rochester. Wednesday, Aug. 10, and Thursday,
Aug. 11. For more info, click this link.
Niagara 499er
Summer Sectional –
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ont. Friday, Aug. 19, to Sunday, Aug. 21. For info, click this link.
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.
Buffalo Fall
Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall,
6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 16, to Sunday, Sept. 18.
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 July 25 to July 31
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan, 61.11%; Cynthia Tashjian and
Candace Graser, 57.64%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 54.86%; Bonnie Clement
and David Schott, 54.17%; (tie) Carol Licata and Phyllis Stasiowski, Jennifer
and Howard Epstein, 50.69%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 56.88%; Paula Rosen
and Jim McClure, 54.38%; Audrey Ray and John Marvin, 51.88%; east-west, Paul
Zittel and Jim Lanzo, 56.88%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 51.25%; Richard
McGowan and Henry Chudy, 50.63%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Jay Levy and Bill Rushmore, 63.43%; Jay Costello and Saleh Fetouh,
57.41%; Donna Steffan and Jim Gullo, 53.70%; John Ziemer and Mike Ryan, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,600 game. Larry Himelein and David Schott, 62.10%; Betty Metz and Carol
Bedell, 57.18%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.13%; Joanne Nover and Bonnie
Clement, 52.07%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning – Open
game. Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 60.71%; Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 57.74%;
Sue Neubecker and Dian Petrov, 52.98%; Betty Metz and Barbara Landree, 51.79%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Linda Zittel and Bert Feasley, 58.33%; Bill Feasley and Paul Zittel,
56.25%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 52.08%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Paul
Zittel and Ed Harman, 70.37%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 67.59%; Jan O’Mara
and Bill Rich, 50.93%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon –
North-south, Joe Huber and Fritz Schweiger, 55%; (tie) Jill and Bruce Brown,
Marian Morber and George Mayers, 52%; east-west, Nina Doran and Dan Blatz, 65%;
Shirley Cassety and Alicia Kolipinski, 58%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 55%; Shrikant Joshi and Raj Puri, 53%;
east-west, Nina Doran and Dan Blatz, 64%; Joan Stankiewicz and Anne O’Connor,
52%.
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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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