Next weekend brings the Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament to the
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Pairs games will be played at
10:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, and Saturday, Sept. 17, with Swiss
teams at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 18.
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. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination required. For more info,
click this link.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center is offering
“Introduction to Bridge Basics: A 3-Part Course,” 10 weekly sessions on Thursdays
at 2 and 6:30 p.m. beginning Oct. 6. For more info, call 716-280-6114.
The Bridge Center is
now playing in-person games in its new clubroom in the Boulevard Mall in
Amherst. To find it, 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., is
moving more of its online game schedule to in-person games at its club in
Tremont Square opposite the Pen Centre shopping plaza off Glendale Avenue. Face-to-face
games, both open and 499er, will be played at 1 p.m. Monday. Wednesday has an
open game face-to-face at 1 p.m. and a 299er game moving to in-person at 7
p.m., pre-registration required. The in-person game at 1 p.m. Thursday is
expanded to include players with up to 750 master 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
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.
Buffalo Regional
Tournament – Buffalo Marriott Hotel,
1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst. Tuesday, Oct. 25, to Sunday, Oct. 30. 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. 29 to Sept. 4
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. North-south, Janet and David Desmon, 62.10%; Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 51.92%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 51.72%; east-west, Margaret
Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 65.54%; Bonnie Clement and David Schott, 53.77%; Candace
Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 51.59%; Leslie Deich and Mary Holmes, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Violet Makhija and Laurie Foster, 60.71%; Maryann
Szafran and Linda Milch, 58.33%; Usha Khurana and Mary Terrana, 53.97%; Paula
Rosen and Jim McClure, 53.57%; east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 57.94%;
Betty Metz and Joyce Greenspan, 54.76%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 52.78%;
David Schott and Henry Chudy, 48.81%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Jay Costello and Saleh Fetouh, 62.50%; Davis Heussler and Jim Gullo,
60.42%; Mike Ryan and Wilson McClaren, 54.17%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,550 game. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 55.63%; Laura and
John Houghtaling, 54.38%; Paula Rosen and Richard McGowan, 53.13%; east-west, Vic
Bergsten and Sushil Amlani, 58.13%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 56.88%; Judie
Bailey and Janet Frisch, 48.13%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. Jay Levy and Bud Seidenberg, 62.50%; Sharon Benz and Ten-Pao Lee,
59.52%; (tie) Bert Hargeshimer and Alex Kowal, Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 57.14%;
Judy Padgug and Jim Gullo, 51.79%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Sandi England and Paul Zittel, 64%; Joanne LaFay and Linda Zittel, 57%;
Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda, 49%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Richard
McGowan and Bill Rich, 63.89%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 60.19%; Jan O’Mara
and Walt Olszewski, 56.48%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 53.70%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon –
North-south, Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 55%; Edna and Ron Fill, 64%;
east-west, Nina Doran and Dan Blatz, 63%; Shirley Cassety and Angela Curtis,
62.7%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2022, to Aug. 31, 2022
5-20 Points – Maureen Saab, 4.40; Molly Morris, 3.63; Daren Liu,
3.32; Mary Luce, 3.15; William Donaldson, 3.12; Michel Dupuis, 3.03; Karen
Dearing, 2.90.
20-50 Points – Howard Epstein, 13 even; Maria Schory, 12.43; John
Houghtaling, 10.19; Jo Ann Smith, 9.98; Anne Slater, 9.20; Mary Ellen Cotter,
8.98; Gary Keenan, 7.31; Peggy Mead, 7.13; Fred Schweiger, 6.88; Jose
Justicia-Linde, 6.83.
50-100 Points – Jim Hassett, 27.04; Jennifer Epstein, 16.35; Cynthia
Tashjian, 11.08; Jim Greno, 10.43; Betsy Greno, 9.63; Candace Graser, 9.22;
Carol Licata, 8.82; Fran Schmidt, 7.87; Amy Habib, 6.73.
100-200 Points – David Schott, 35.61; Joanne Nover, 31.02; Judith
McDermid, 26.87; Kusum Phadke, 23.62; Maria Amlani, 21.13; Janet Desmon, 16.49;
Joan Ciszak, 12.18; Barbara Scott, 10.37.
200-300 Points – Pat Haynes, 24.34; Audrey Ray, 22.23; Carol Roth,
20.21; Bob Ciszak, 15.52; Margaret Zhou, 10.74; Laura Houghtaling, 10.19; (tie)
Judy Zeckhauser, John Scott, 6.61; Patty Porter, 5.54; John Fiegl, 5.42.
300-500 Points –Terry Hamovitch, 64.60; Bram Hamovitch, 63.22; Martha
Townson, 49.76; Violet Makhija, 49.55; Jasbeer Makhija, 48.66; Larry Himelein,
45.92; Bonnie Clement, 39.73.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 114.15; Vic Bergsten,
86.21; Jim Lanzo, 77.98; Marilyn Wortzman, 60.46; Joyce Frayer, 36.33; (tie)
Bill Rich, Sushil Amlani, 30.92; Paul Zittel, 27.01; Richard McGowan, 25.94;
Mary Ball, 25.44.
1,000-1,500
Points – Jim Easton, 60.46; Sandi
England, 42.69; John Bava, 41.49; Kamil Bishara, 20.28; Rajat Basu, 17.39;
Howard Foster, 14.62; Joanne LaFay, 12.32; Judy Kaprove, 11.79; Jean Macdonald,
11.22; John Marvin, 10.87.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 67.20; Gene
Finton, 57.44; Pinky Regan, 36.56; (tie) Shakeel Ahmad, Manju Ceylony, 25.94;
Elaine Kurasiewicz, 10.58.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) John and Martha Welte,
369.82; Ken Meier, 108.88; Allen Beroza, 59.92; Davis Heussler, 38.67; Fred Yellen,
29.05; Pat Rasmus, 20.36; Dale Anderson, 17.71.
3,500-5,000
Points – Mike Ryan, 76.48; John
Ziemer, 59.65; Judy Graf, 51 even; Judy Padgug, 42.46; Barbara Libby, 24.89;
Donna Steffan, 22.40; Jim Gullo, 13.71; Stan Kozlowski, 11.24.
Over 5,000 Points
– Saleh Fetouh, 42.71; Jay Costello,
39.44; Chris Urbanek, 29.86; Sharon Benz, 20.85; Bud Seidenberg, 20.35; Jay
Levy, 19.78; John Sinclair, 15.18; Bert Hargeshimer, 12.42; Christy Kellogg,
11.15.
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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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