The open game on Friday at the Bridge Center of Buffalo in the
Boulevard Mall, Amherst, will be by pre-registration only, beginning next week.
Players should call 716-280-6114 and leave a message, email Donna Steffan at wsteffan@aol.com or sign up at the club.
The Bridge Center has
begun a 10-week series of review lessons on Mondays with instructions by Fred
Yellen, Mike Ryan and Chris Urbanek. Lessons are all at 2 p.m., some of them on
Mondays, most of them on Wednesdays, and continue through June 28. Fee is $15
per session. Pre-registration required. Sign up at the club or call
716-280-6114.
“Kathy’s Snowbird
Game” is the latest addition to the schedule at the Bridge Center. Designed to accommodate those who are out of
town, it’s a Bridge Base Online game on Wednesday mornings for players with fewer
than 750 master points. Starting time is 11 a.m. and Kathy Pollack is director.
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 Sundays. The next one is Sunday, May 21.
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.
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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
Canadian Bridge
Championships – Crowne Plaza Hotel,
5685 Fallsview Ave, Niagara Falls., Ont. Friday, May 12, to Friday, May 19.
For more 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.
Niagara
Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Community Centre, 14 Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 2,
to Sunday, June 4. For players with fewer than 750 master points.
Rochester
Intermediate/Novice Sectional – Temple
B’Rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave., Rochester. Wednesday, June 7, and Thursday,
June 8. For players with fewer than 750 master points.
District
5 Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – Participating local clubs in Western New York, Western Pennsylvania
and Northeastern Ohio. Monday, June 12, to Sunday, June 18.
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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 April 17 to April 23
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 71.53%; Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan,
61.11%; Terry Camp and Jim Hassett, 54.17%; David Schott and Larry Himelein, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,600 game. North-south, Sue Neubecker and Anthony Girasole, 59.52%; Violet
Makhija and Laurie Foster, 55.16%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 54.37%;
east-west, Margaret Zhou and Ed Morgan, 64.29%; Henry Chudy and David Schott,
58.73%; Ilene Rothman and John Marvin, 53.57%; Betty Metz and Brian Fleming, 51.98%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Wednesday morning – Open game. Jay Levy and Fred Yellen, 62.50%; Sharon Benz and Nancy Wolstoncroft, 52.98%; (tie) Linda Burroughsford and John Ziemer, Sue Neubecker and Wilson McClaren, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-1,600 game. Larry Himelein and David Schott, 60.32%; Betty Metz and Dennis Daly, 59.52%; Joanne Nover and David Whitt, 57.94%; Pat Haynes and Sharon Wilcox, 52.38%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning – Open
game. Home style pairs. Donna Steffan and Jay Costello, 5 wins; Nancy
Wolstoncroft and John Ziemer, 4 wins; Tova and Andrei Reinhorn, 3 wins.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Mary Terrana and Gordon Crone, 59.52%; Pat and Dick Rasmus, 58.33%; Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda, 54.76%; Maureen Cancilla and John Fiegl, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 74.77%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 64.81%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 62.27%; Paul Zittel and Jim Lanzo, 55.56%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, Jill and Bruce Brown, 55%; Edna and Ron Fill, 54.3%; east-west, Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 63%; Anne O’Connor and Joan Stankiewicz, 60%.
Tonawanda Senior
Center Wednesday afternoon – Rose Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 69.8%; Kay Brinkman and Edna Henrich, 60.3%.
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Unit 116 Master
Point Leaders for Club and Tournament Play
Jan. 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023
0-5 Points – Brian Fleming, 7.16; Bill Rogers, 3.22; Ilene Rothman,
2.63; Anthony Girasole, 1.51; Maxine Seller, 0.64; Mary Holmes, 0.62.
5-20 Points – Zakie Nohra, 10.32; Mary Luce, 3.19; (tie) Gini
Sicignano, Jeannine Dupuis, 1.05; Karen Dearing, 0.88.
20-50 Points – Molly Morris, 8.85; Anne Slater, 6.10; Kathleen Voigt,
5.40; Fred Schweiger, 4.47; Maria Schory, 4.38; Jo Ann Smith, 3.76; Jose
Justicia-Linde, 3.34; Bill Donaldson, 2.93; Mike Metzger, 2.54.
50-100 Points – Carol Licata, 10.77; Jim Greno, 8.37; Betsy Greno, 7.37;
Cynthia Tashjian, 7.15; Candace Graser, 6.42; Howard Epstein, 6.38; Susan
Cardamone, 6.29; Susan Burns, 4.74; John Houghtaling, 4.32; Mary Ellen Cotter,
3.83.
100-200 Points – Fran Schmidt, 7.14; Maria Amlani, 6.07; Betty DeFeo,
5.61; Joan Ciszak, 5.04; Jim Hassett, 4.99; Judith McDermid, 4.47; Bill Noltee,
1.59.
200-300 Points – Kusum Phadke, 34.11; David Whitt, 22.41; Joanne Nover,
21.33; David Schott, 20.28; Pat Haynes, 14.55; Gerry Hooley, 8.51; Bob Ciszak, 7.53;
Ethan Xie, 5.50; Laurie Foster, 5.18; Laura Houghtaling, 4.32.
300-500 Points – Larry Himelein, 32.25; Bram Hamovitch, 26.53; Terry
Hamovitch, 24.40; Ruth Nawotniak, 9.69; Jim McClure, 8.97; Jim O’Hara, 7.02;
Judy Zeckhauser, 4.36; Linda Milch, 3.90; Audrey Ray, 2.35; Margaret Zhou, 1.42.
500-1,000 Points – Jim Lanzo, 26.16; Martha Townson, 22.59; Vic
Bergsten, 22 even; Betty Metz, 16.03; Joyce Frayer, 14.65; Marilyn Wortzman, 13.39;
Larry Abate, 11.37; Henry Chudy, 10.91; Ed Morgan, 10.52; Paul Zittel, 10.03.
1,000-1,500 Points – Kamil Bishara, 45.13; Amita Arora, 35.29; John Marvin,
18.36; Howard Foster, 17.27; Jim Easton, 13.39; Mary Ball, 9.26; Sue Neubecker,
7.34; Bob Kaprove, 6.96; Bert Feasley, 6.61; Joanne LaFay, 6.53.
1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 34.93; Sandi England, 31.47; John Bava, 23.83;
Paula Kotowski, 15.62; David Colligan, 14.12; Pinky Regan, 11.65; Nancy
Wolstoncroft, 11.01; Judy Kaprove, 6.37; Martin Pieterse, 5.48; Walt Olszewski,
4.99.
2,500-3,500 Points – Ken Meier, 47.17; Fred Yellen, 38.78; Mike Silverman, 14.08;
Allen Beroza, 12.67; Bill Rushmore, 6.60; Linda Burroughsford, 6.35; Art Morth,
5.29; Dale Anderson, 3.12.
3,500-5,000 Points – Davis Heussler, 80.94; Mike Ryan, 37.63; Donna
Steffan, 32.54; John Ziemer, 28.55; Judy Graf, 26.95; Chongmin Zhang, 24.53; Martha
Welte, 23.88; Judy Padgug, 23.81; Barbara Libby, 17.60; Kathy Pollock, 13.18.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 149.34; Dian Petrov, 60.67; (tie) Chris
Urbanek, Jay Levy, 52.98; Bud Seidenberg, 35.84; Jay Costello, 35.49; Sharon
Benz, 10.20.
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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.
