Celebrating St.
Patrick’s Day with an “Erin Go Bragh”
game on Sunday, March 19, is the Buffalo Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall. It begins with refreshments at 11:30 a.m., followed
by a game at noon. Prize for wearing the most green. For more info, email Pat
Haynes at phaynes508@roadrunner.com.
A course in Bridge
Basics, including Stayman, transfers, strong openers and slams, begins
Thursday, March, 23, at the Bridge Center and continues for 10 weeks through
May 25. Classes are from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. Cost is $150. For
more info, call the Bridge Center at 716-280-6114 or Ruth Nawotniak at 716-949-7574.
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The Bridge Center has added “Kathy’s Snowbird Game,” an Online Limited
Game to accompany its live face-to-face game on Wednesdays. Starting time is 11
a.m. and Kathy Pollack is director. Designed to accommodate those who are out
of town, it's limited to players with fewer than 750 master points.
Those who have not
played face-to-face at the Bridge Center during the past three years will need
to click on the Competitive line on the Bridge Base Online website, then go to
All Tourneys in the lower left of the page and search for Buffalo. It will be
listed by 9:30 a.m. Those who have never played at the bridge center should
call Kathy Pollack at 716-310-4199 or email BridgeKat@gmail.com to be added to the list of eligible players.
The Bridge Center is
continuing to play its open game face-to-face on Wednesdays and, because the
online game is included in the calculations, the face-to-face contest will
award additional master points.
The club offers
other 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. The club also holds two in-person games every week that are open to all
players – at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Friday. In-person games also
are held occasionally on Saturdays and Sunday. For more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website or call
716-280-6114.
Other virtual games
hosted by the Bridge Center are offered at 7 p.m. Mondays for players with
fewer than 750 points. It also directs 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 Wednesday afternoons and at the Amherst Senior
Center on Monday and Friday afternoons.
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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.
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Tournament
calendar
2023
Buffalo
Spring Sectional – Buffalo Bridge
Center in the Boulevard Mall, 1227 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst. Friday, March
31, to Sunday, April 2. For info, click this link.
Toronto
Easter Regional – Sheraton Hotel, 123
Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 4, to Sunday, April 9. For info,
click this link.
Rochester
Spring Sectional – Gates Recreation
Center, 1605 Buffalo Road, Rochester. Saturday, April 15, and Sunday, April 16.
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. 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 March 6 to March 12
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 63.19%; Joyce Frayer and Ruth Nawotniak,
56.25%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 54.86; Betsy and Jim Greno, 52.78%;
Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 52.78%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,600 game. North-south, Zaza Nohra and Kamil Bishara, 64.68%; Ruth Nawotniak
and John Marvin, 59.53%; Violet Makhija and Laurie Foster, 55.95%; Joanne Nover
and Bonnie Clement, 54.76%; east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.16%; Pat
Haynes and David Whitt, 53.57%; Betty Metz and Carol Bedell, 51.59%; Gerry
Hooley and Brian Fleming, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-99 game. Jo Ann Smith and Dennis Daly, 60%; Jackie Simon and Bill Duax, 56.67%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Fred Yellen and Bud Seidenberg, 59%; Gay Simpson and Martha Welte,
55%; Donna Steffan and Jay Costello, 54%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
0-750 game. Audrey Ray and Carol Licata, 65.28%; (tie) Phyllis Staslowski and
Bill Noltee, Joyce Bess and Audrey Ercolini, 57.64%; (tie) Fran Schmidt and
David Schott, Jane Mitchell and Martha Cain, 54.17%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. Barbara Landree and Betty Metz, 53.75%; Bonnie Clement and Joanne
Nover, 47.50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning – Open
game. Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, 56.50%; (tie) Judy Graf and Mike Ryan,
Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, 52.50%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Mary Terrana and Gordon Crone, 62.50%; Bert Feasley and Dave Larcom,
60.12%; Joanne LaFay and Linda Zittel, 56.55%; Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda,
55.36%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Walt
Olszewski and Sushil Amlani, 67.59%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.56%; (tie)
Jim Lanzo and Madhav Deshmukh, Bob Ciszak and Bert Feasley, 53.70%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – North-south,
(Tie) Cindy Darone and Rich Kayton, Edna and Ron Fill, 54%; east-west, Anita
Fink and Freda Brummer, 53%; Betsy and Richard Heuer, 51%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Rolene Pozarny and Joan Stankiewicz, 59%; Edna and Ron Fill, 58%; east-west, Betsy
and Richard Heuer, 55%; Pat Truell and Pat Vershay, 53%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club and Tournament Play
Jan. 1, 2023, to Feb. 28, 2023
0-5 Points – Brian Fleming, 3.28; Anthony Girasole, 1.37; Ilene
Rothman, 0.75; Maxine Seller, 0.64; Elaine Rubinstein, 0.57.
5-20 Points – Zakie Nohra, 6.91; Mary Luce, 1.28; Karen Dearing,
0.88; (tie) Gini Sicignano, Jeannine Dupuis, 0.61.
20-50 Points – Jo Molly Morris, 8.63; Anne Slater, 4.64; Kathleen
Voigt, 3.94; Fred Schweiger, 3.52; Maria Schory, 3.20; Jo Ann Smith, 3.14; Jose
Justicia-Linde, 2.84.
50-100 Points – Carol Licata, 8.09; Jim Greno, 6.72; Cynthia
Tashjian, 6.11; Betsy Greno, 5.72; Candace Graser, 5.38; Susan Cardamone, 5.16;
Howard Epstein, 4.34; Susan Burns, 3.54.
100-200 Points – Fran Schmidt, 6.40; Judith McDermid, 3.48; Jim
Hassett, 3.47; Joan Ciszak, 2.84; Maria Amlani, 2.20.
200-300 Points – Kusum Phadke, 18.89; David Whitt, 17.54; Joanne Nover,
15.95; David Schott, 10.08; Gerry Hooley, 6.32; Pat Haynes, 6.19; Bob Ciszak, 4.53;
Laurie Foster, 4.04.
300-500 Points – Larry Himelein, 16.29; Jim McClure, 4.83; Ruth
Nawotniak, 4.78; Linda Milch, 1.55.
500-1,000 Points – Jim Lanzo, 16.67; Martha Townson, 15.07; Vic
Bergsten, 14.65; Betty Metz, 11.18; Joyce Frayer, 10.25; Marilyn Wortzman, 9.15;
Bonnie Clement, 6.98; Paul Zittel, 6.41; Henry Chudy, 5.27; Richard McGowan,
5.08.
1,000-1,500 Points – Kamil Bishara, 30.90; Amita Arora, 24.07; Howard
Foster, 9.21; Jim Easton, 9.15; John Marvin, 8.17; Mary Ball, 6.84; Bob
Kaprove, 6.11; Sue Neubecker, 4.63; Joanne LaFay, 4.51 Terry Fraas, 3.75.
1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 21.82; Sandi England, 19.29; John Bava,
15.76; Paula Kotowski, 8.60; Judy Kaprove, 4.65; Pinky Regan, 3.80; Walt
Olszewski, 2.85; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 2.58; Elaine Kurasiewicz, 2.12.
2,500-3,500 Points – Ken Meier, 24.53; Fred Yellen, 13.41; Allen Beroza, 6.74;
Bill Rushmore, 6.60; Art Morth, 5.29; Mike Silverman, 3.17; Dale Anderson, 1.10.
3,500-5,000 Points – Davis Heussler, 46.69; Mike Ryan, 24.40; Donna
Steffan, 21.67; Judy Padgug, 16.82; Chongmin Zhang, 16.54; John Ziemer, 16.15;
Barbara Libby, 15.52; Judy Graf, 12.10; Martha Welte, 9.15; Jim Gullo, 6.85.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 120.46; Dian Petrov, 44.49; Chris
Urbanek, 37.90; Jay Costello, 23.37; Bud Seidenberg, 17.38; Jay Levy, 11.45; Sharon
Benz, 5.96.
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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 nearly 2,950 master points and is still playing primarily online these
days. That doesn’t afford 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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