The annual
meeting and game for Western New York
Unit 116 will be held next Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Main-Transit Fire Hall,
6777 Main St., Amherst. Meeting starts at 11 a.m., with lunch at noon and a
stratified pairs game at 1 p.m. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination required. Cost is
$15. Sign-up in advance recommended. Call Barbara Libby at 716-836-8303 or
email bplibby1@verizon.net.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall
in Amherst holds a pair of face-to-face games 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
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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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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Tournament
calendar
2022
District 5 Sectional
Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) –
Face-to-face at participating local clubs, no info about online status. Monday,
Dec. 5, to Sunday, Dec. 11.
2023
Cleveland Rock ‘n
Roll Regional – Embassy Suites Hotel,
5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 4, to Sunday,
Jan. 8. For info, click this link.
Toronto 0-750 NLM
Winter Regional – Sheraton Hotel, 123
Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Friday, Jan. 6, to Sunday, Jan. 8. For info,
click this link.
Toronto
January Sectional – Sheraton Hotel,
123 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Friday, Jan. 6, to Sunday, Jan. 8. For info,
click this link.
Buffalo
Winter Sectional – Sheraton Buffalo
Bridge Center, Boulevard Mall, 1227 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst. Friday, Jan.
20, to Sunday, Jan. 22.
St.
Catharines Sectional Tournament –
Holiday Inn and Suites, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 10,
to Sunday, Feb. 12.
Buffalo
Spring Sectional – Sheraton
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, March 31, to Sunday,
April 2.
Toronto
Easter Regional – Sheraton Hotel, 123
Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 4, to Sunday, April 9.
Cleveland
All American Regional – Embassy
Suites Hotel, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 23,
to Monday, May 29.
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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 Nov. 14 to Nov. 20
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 67.22%; Ruth Nawotniak and Michel
Dupuis, 66.67%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 63.89%; Cynthia Tashjian and
Candace Graser, 54.44%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 52.22%; (tie) Fran
Schmidt and Richard McGowan, Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 50.56%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,300 game. North-south, Joanne Nover and Larry Himelein, 68.65%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 61.11%; Usha Khurana and John Marvin, 59.13%; Zaza
Nohra and Richard McGowan, 50.40%; east-west, Margaret Zhou and Betty Metz,
50.40%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 50%; Henry Chudy and David Schott, 48.81%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. John Ziemer and Mike Ryan, 60.12%; Fred Yellen and Bud Seidenberg,
58.93%; Jay Costello and Saleh Fetouh, 55.36%; Judy Graf and Jim Gullo, 54.76%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. Joanne Nover and David Schott, 59.72%; Paula Rosen and Jim
McClure, 54.63%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 52.31%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Joan and Bob Ciszak, 60%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 58%; (tie) Linda and Paul Zittel, Donna Starnes and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 47%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Amita
Arora and Jim Lanzo, 67.59%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 62.04%; Richard McGowan
and Bill Rich, 59.26%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 55.56%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – (Tie) Edna
and Ron Fill, Jill and Bruce Brown, 63%; Joan Stankiewicz and Nancy
Wolstoncroft, 57%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – Ed and Mike Rupp, 60%; Rose Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 55%; Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 53.8%.
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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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