The Buffalo Summer Sectional Tournament begins Friday, July 11, in the Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St. off Exit 1 of the I-190, with pairs games at 10 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., followed by more pairs games at 10 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 12, and Swiss teams at 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 13, For more info, click this link.
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Congratulations
to Saleh Fetouh, who won the most master points among the Buffalo area players June
23 to June 29 at the All-American Regional Tournament in the Cleveland suburb
of Independence, Ohio. He earned 64.42 points and was tied for third overall.
Other local players collecting points at the
tournament included Jay Levy, 39.76; Dian Petrov, 7.17; and Linda Burroughsford
and Davis Heussler, both with 5.39.
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The Buffalo Bridge Center will
be holding its regular schedule of in-person and
online games Monday, July 7, through Thursday, July 10. The club’s next party
games are Sunday, July 27, and Sunday, Aug. 10. For
more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website or call 716-424-0014. Fee for games is $8 for members and $12 for
non-members. Membership is $80.
Don’t want to clean up the house for
kitchen bridge? The Bridge Center also hosts a social game in its lessons room
on Tuesday mornings during the regular 10:30 a.m. game. Players can go at their
own speed and style. Fee is $5 to cover expenses.
In-person games:
Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. For players
with fewer than 1,600 points. Simultaneous game for players with fewer than 99
points if there are enough tables. Free lesson at 10.
Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. Open to
all players. Simultaneous game for players with fewer than 99 points if there
are enough tables.
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Upgraded to
now include players with up to 2,000 points. Simultaneous game for players with
fewer than 99 points if there are enough tables. Free lesson at 10.
Fridays, 10:30 a.m. Open to all
players by pre-registration only. Call 716-424-0014.
Virtual games on Bridge Base Online:
Mondays, 7 p.m. For players with
fewer than 750 points.
Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Delaware
Wednesday game for players with fewer than 2,000 points. For info on this game,
call Ed Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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More access to virtual games on Bridge Base Online is being offered by
the Airport Bridge Club, which currently is not holding face-to-face games. It
has affiliated with a new group of clubs, the SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge
Collective, where most games are $5. For more info, click this link.
The Airport Club also continues
to be part of the Alliance 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.
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The East Aurora Bridge Club begins play 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 (BCON) in St. Catharines, Ont.,
offers face-to-face games five days a week at its club in Tremont Square
opposite the Pen Centre shopping plaza off Glendale Avenue:
Mondays, 1 p.m. Open and 499er
(fewer than 499 master points) games.
Mondays, 6 p.m. Beginner game,
fewer than 50 master points. Register at mon-eve@bcon.club.
Wednesdays, 1 p.m. Open game.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. 499er game. Register
at wed-eve@bcon.club.
Thursday, 1 p.m. 999er game.
Friday, 1 p.m. Open and 499er
games.
Saturday, 1 p.m. New 99er game
with mini lesson at noon.
Fees are $9 Canadian for members,
$12 Canadian for non-members. $9 Canadian for all players for Monday beginner
game. Membership is $65 Canadian for a year, beginning April 1. For more
information, visit bridgewebs.com/Niagara.
The club has just cut back to a
single virtual game on Bridge Base Online, the one for players with fewer than
750 points at 10 a.m. Tuesdays. Turnout for the other one, an open game at 7
p.m. Thursdays, had gotten too small. For more info, click here.
For online play, BCON recommends
going to the SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge Collective, which appears as “SE
Carolina” on Bridge Base Online. Games run throughout the day. A full lineup of
games can be seen at SE Carolina On-line Bridge.
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The Niagara-on-the-Lake Bridge
Centre plays in the
Community Centre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., on Anderson Lane off Mississauga
Street on the western end of the village. Open games are at 1 p.m. Tuesdays and
Fridays. Fee is $5 Canadian for members, $7 Canadian for non-members. Annual
membership is $20 Canadian. For more information, visit bridgewebs.com/niagaraonthelake.
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Face-to-face play in non-sanctioned clubs is offered
at the Tonawanda Senior Center at 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays and at the Amherst
Senior Center at 12:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays.
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Tournament calendar
2025
South Western Ontario Regional
– St. George Banquet
Hall, 665 King St. North, Waterloo, Ont. Today, Saturday, July 5, and Sunday,
July 6. For more info, click this link.
Buffalo Summer Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Friday, July 11, to Sunday, July 13. For more info, click this link.
Rochester Summer Sectional – Gates Recreation
Center, 1605 Buffalo Road, Gates. Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July 20.
For more info, click this link.
Niagara 499er Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Center, 14
Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Aug. 15, to Sunday, Aug. 17.
For more info, click this link.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional
– Greater Pittsburgh
Masonic Center, 3579 Masonic Way, Pittsburgh, Pa. Wednesday, Aug. 27, to
Monday, Sept. 1.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie,
Pa. Saturday, Sept. 6, and Sunday, Sept. 7.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Friday, Sept. 12, to Sunday, Sept 14.
Buffalo Regional – Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave.,
Cheektowaga. Tuesday, Oct. 21, to Sunday, Oct. 26.
Niagara Regional – Holiday Inn & Suites, 327 Ontario
St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 11, to Sunday, Nov. 16. For more info,
click this link.
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Bridge club websites:
Click names for links.
The Airport Bridge Club, which continues to be on hiatus, does not
have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.
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Duplicate scores from ACBL Live for Clubs
Week of June 23 to June 29
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Monday
evening – 0-750
game online. Ross Libby and Bob Yu, 71.67%; Leonard Re and Jim Hassett, 60%; Wendy
Zimman-Smith and Alman Mohammed, 56.67%; Carol Licata and Larry Himelein, 55%;
Maria Schory and Mike Metzger, 51.11%; Gary Keenan and Michel Dupuis, 49.44%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday
morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, Joanne Nover and David Schott, 65.87%; Bonnie Clement and
Larry Himelein, 59.13%; Jim Lanzo and Gene Giorgini, 54.37%; Betty DeFeo and
Phyllis Stasiowski, 48.02%; east-west, Adrian Figliotti and Audrey Ray, 58.33%;
(tie) Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 56.75%;
Betty Metz and Ruth Nawotniak, 55.16%; Linda Milch and Susan Cardamone, 47.62%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 58%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53%; (tie)
Donna Steffan and Jim Gullo, Julie Mitchell and Jay Costello, 51%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. Julie Mitchell and Walt Olszewski, 62.50%; Betty
Metz and Paul Zittel, 54.17%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 52.98%; (tie)
Audrey Ray and Adrian Figliotti, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 51.19%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 50.60%; Barbara Landree and Anthony Girasole, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Judy Graf and John Ziemer, 57.29%; Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara,
55.21%; Howard Foster and Mike Ryan, 51.04%; (tie) Jay Costello and Bud
Seidenberg, Donna Steffan and John Sinclair, 50%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Donna Starnes and Joe Miranda, 59.26%; Joanne LaFay and Linda Zittel, 57.41%; Mary Terrana and Gordon Crone, 56.94%; Sandi England and Walt Olszewski, 56.02%; Maureen Piasecki and Wilson McClaren, 54.63%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 51.39%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Edna and Ron Fill, 57%; Judie Bailey and Paul Orosz, 55%; east-west Jack Cukierman
and Mel Mesnekoff, 65%; David Young and Tim Hartnett, 58%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 62%; Angela Curtis
and Joan Stankiewicz, 54%; east-west, Mary and Jim Atwood, 60%; Shrikant Joshi
and Ron Helfman, 59%.
Tonawanda Senior Center
Wednesday afternoon – Judy White and Fritz Schweiger,
71.8%; Joanne Biondi and Ron Fill, 56.2%.
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The Duplicate Bridge column has been compiled weekly by Buffalo News
Staff Reporter Dale Anderson for more than 20 years. The print version stopped
appearing Saturdays in The 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, beginning at
5:30 p.m. Fridays. Another place to find it anytime 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 a career total of more than 2,990 master points. One of his New Year’s resolutions for 2025 is to write more regularly about his bridge adventures here.
