The Buffalo
Regional Tournament continues today,
Saturday, Oct. 29, with games at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., and concludes with Swiss
teams at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, in the Buffalo Marriott Hotel, 1340
Millersport Highway, Amherst. For more info, click this link.
Next big competition
is the Niagara Regional Tournament, which will be held in the Holiday Inn and
Suites, 327 Ontario St., in St. Catharines, Ont., from Tuesday, Nov. 8, to
Sunday, Nov. 13. For info about that one, click this link.
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No in-person
games at the Buffalo Bridge Center today,
Saturday, Oct. 29, and Sunday, Oct. 30. The club room in the Boulevard Mall in
Amherst is closed during the regional tournament.
When the tournament
is over, the club will resume 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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The Lockport
Duplicate Club is no longer playing.
Face-to-face games in the Dale Center had resumed earlier this year but were
lightly attended.
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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
moved 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, including a Tuesday night Swiss teams match, 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
Buffalo Regional
Tournament – Buffalo Marriott Hotel,
1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst. Today, Saturday, Oct. 29, and 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 Oct. 17 to Oct. 23
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Jim Hassett and Terry Camp, 67.22%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
60%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 51.11%; (tie) Janet and David Desmon, Michel
Dupuis and Gary Keenan, 50.56%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 59.13%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Eastman, 58.73%; (tie) Violet Makhija and Laurie Foster, Jo
Nasoff-Finton and Betty Metz, 51.19%; east-west, Sue Neubecker and John Marvin,
65.02%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 60.98%; Linda Milch and Susan Cardamone,
55.89%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Chris Urbanek and Jay Levy, 58.33%; Judy Graf and Jim Gullo, 57.41%;
Fred Yellen and Bud Seidenberg, 52.78%; Howard Foster and Davis Heussler, 52.31%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,600 game. Pat Haynes and Audrey Ray, 60.32%; Paula Rosen and Jim McClure,
53.97%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 52.38%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. Jo Nasoff-Finton and Sue Bergman, 54%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 52%;
(tie) Bert Hargeshimer and Alex Kowal, Sandi England and Martha Welte, 50%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Linda Zittel and Bert Feasley, 60.42%; (3-way tie) Bill Feasley and Paul
Zittel, Pat and Dick Rasmus, Emily Tocheff and Dan Clark, 54.17%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Richard
McGowan and Bill Rich, 67.22%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 59.44%; (tie) Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 55%; Jan O’Mara and Walt
Olszewski, 52.22%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – Edna and
Ron Fill, 54%; Joe Huber and Fritz Schweiger, 53%; Ellen Lochead and Bill
Westley, 52.5%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Mike and Ed Rupp, 57%; Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 56.5%; east-west, Vince
LoJacono and John Steele, 60%; Anne O’Connor and Joan Stankiewicz, 57%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – Ed and Mike Rupp, 64%; Joanne Zavarella and Fritz Schweiger, 60%; Rose
Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 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 primarily 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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