The
Buffalo Spring Sectional Tournament begins
Friday, March 31, in the Buffalo Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall in Amherst
and continues through Sunday, April 2. Pairs games will be held at 10:30 a.m. and
2:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Sunday will see Swiss teams starting at 10:30
a.m. For more info, click this link.
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The Buffalo Bridge
Center has added “Kathy’s Snowbird
Game,” an Online Limited Game to accompany its live face-to-face game on
Wednesdays in the Boulevard Mall, Amherst. 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 13 to March 19
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Phyllis Wilkinson and Gerry Hooley, 60.56%; Dee Jennings and Terry
Camp, 57.78%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 57.22%; Mary Holmes and Leslie
Deich, 55%; (tie) Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
51.67%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 51.11%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,600 game. North-south, Joanne Nover and David Whitt, 55.22%; Usha Khurana
and John Marvin, 53.13%; Betty Metz and Zac Reimer, 50%; east-west, Henry Chudy
and David Schott, 58.33%; Gerry Hooley and Brian Fleming, 53.33%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-99 game. Jeannine Dupuis and Gini Sicignano, 65%; Ilene Rothman and Joan
Nigrelli, 61.67%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Chris Urbanek and Gay Simpson, 56.25%; (tie) John Ziemer and Mike
Ryan, Donna Steffan and Jay Costello, 53.13%; Judy Graf and Jim Gullo, 52.08%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
0-750 game. David Schott and partner, 70.83%; Judy Zeckhauser and Violet
Makhija, 65.28%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 48.61%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,750 game. (Tie) Sue Neubecker and Judy Zeckhauser, Betty Metz and John
Marvin, 56.25%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 53.13%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning – Open
game. Donna Steffan and John Ziemer, 58%; Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, 56%;
Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 55%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Sunday afternoon –
Open game. North-south, Fred Zellen and Bud Seidenberg, 62.86%; Howard Foster
and Mike Ryan, 56.07%; Judy Gray and John Ziemer, 54.29%; east-west, Donna
Steffan and Jay Costello, 70.41%; Davis Heussler and David Colligan, 65.84%;
Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, 55.41%; John Marvin and Dave Larcom, 54.59%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Sandi England and Ed Morgan, 61%; Bert Feasley and Dave Larcom, 57%;
Joanne LaFay and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Maria
Schory and Michael Metzger, 57.41%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 54.63%;
Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 52.78%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 67%; Edna and Ron Fill, 52%; east-west, Joan
Stankiewicz and Judie Bailey, 67%; Ellen Lochead and Elaine Wegrzyn, 51%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday afternoon – North-south, Ed and Mike Rupp, 56%; Rose Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 54.8%; east-west, Al Miller and Paul Morgante, 57.1%; Kay Brinkman and edna Henrich, 52.4%.
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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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