The
St. Catharines Sectional Tournament begins Friday, Feb. 10, in the Holiday Inn
and Suites, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont., and continues through Sunday,
Feb. 12. For info, click this link.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall
in Amherst is holding a "Roses Are Red, My Love" party Sunday with
refreshments at 11:30 a.m. and the game at noon. Pop and wine will be
available. Donations of snacks will be welcome. A prize will be given to the
player whose attire is the reddest. For partner, call Pat Haynes at
716-202-1155 or email phaynes508@roadrunner.com.
The club offers
face-to-face games at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday for players with fewer than 1,200
points and at 10:30 a.m. Thursday for players with fewer than 1,600 points. A new
series of lessons will begin following the games on Tuesdays next week, Feb. 7.
The club also holds two in-person games open to 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 virtual 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
in non-sanctioned clubs is offered at
the Tonawanda Senior Center on Wednesdays and at the Amherst Senior Center on
Monday and Friday afternoons. Games currently are in hiatus at the Tonawanda
Senior Center until March 1.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding
face-to-face games more than 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., offers
a mix of online games and 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, are played at 1 p.m. Monday. Wednesday has an open game
face-to-face at 1 p.m. 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. It’s
limited to players with fewer than 2,000 master points. For info, call Ed
Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
Congratulations to
Jay Costello, the overall master point winner at the Buffalo Winter Sectional
Tournament Jan. 20 to 22 in the Bridge Center of Buffalo. He collected 16.78.
Runners-up were
Saleh Fetouh with 13.29; Donna Steffan, 11.25; Bud Seidenberg, 11.18; and Davis
Heussler, 8.99. Also doing well were Dian Petrov, 8.03; Fred Yellen, 7.54;
Kamil Bishara, 5.68; Mike Ryan, 5.53; Chris Urbanek, 5.36; and John Ziemer,
5.34.
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Tournament
calendar
2023
St.
Catharines Sectional Tournament –
Holiday Inn and Suites, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 10,
to Sunday, Feb. 12. For info, click this link.
Buffalo
Spring Sectional – 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. For info,
click this link.
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 Jan. 23 to Jan. 29
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Phyllis Wilkinson and Gerry Hooley, 67.22%; Larry Himelein and
David Schott, 57.50%; Nancy Craige and Audrey Ercolini, 56.11$; Maria Schory
and Terry Camp, 55.56%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 53.89%; Jim and
Michael Hassett, 51.67%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 50.83%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,250 game. North-south, Joanne Nover and Laurie Foster, 59.52%; Carol Licata
and Betty Metz, 56.35%; Susan Cardamone and Jim McClure, 51.59%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-99 game. North-south, Jeannine Dupuis and Gini Sicignano, 55.85%; Shyam and
Sarmishtha Kumar, 48.77%; east-west, Jo Ann Smith and Lorey Repicci, 65.83%; Caryl
Brent and Marion Brush, 55.43%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. (Tie) Donna Steffan and Jim Gullo, Gay Simpson and Martha Welte,
55%; Judy Graf and Fred Yellen, 54%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,750 game. Joanne Nover and David Whitt, 65.28%; Pat Haynes and David
Schott, 59.72%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 55.56%; Sue Neubecker and
Janet Frisch, 51.39%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. Bud Seidenberg and Jay Costello, 60.42%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan,
56.25%; Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, 54.17%; Sharon Benz and John Marvin,
52.08%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 60.19%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 59.26%; Terry Camp and Bill Rich, 51.85%; Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 50%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 66%; Edna and Ron Fill, 53%; east-west, Joan
Stankiewicz and Judie Bailey, 54%; Tim Hartnett and David Young, 51%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 61%; Joan Stankiewicz and Rolene Pozarny,
55%; east-west, Elaine Wegrzyn and Bill Westley, 56.2%; Christine Whiting and
David Young, 55.6%.
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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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