The Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament takes place next weekend in the Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St. off Exit 1 of the I-190. It begins with pairs games at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, and Saturday, Sept. 13, and concludes with Swiss teams at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 14. For more info, click this link.
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There’s also a tournament this weekend in Erie, Pa., the Great Lakes Sectional
at the Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave. There are pairs games at 10 a.m. and
2:30 p.m. today, Saturday, Sept. 6, and Swiss teams at 10 a.m. tomorrow,
Sunday, Sept. 7. For more info, click this link.
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Congratulations to Dian Petrov, the Buffalo area player
who earned the most master points at the Pittsburgh Regional Tournament Aug. 26
to Aug. 30. He won 26.61 points and was 28th overall.
Also bringing home points from
Pittsburgh were Linda Burroughsford and Davis Heussler, both with 25.28, and
Saleh Fetouh with 12.26.
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The Buffalo Bridge Center offers
a regular schedule of in-person and online games Monday
through Friday with party games once a month on weekends. Next party games are Saturday,
Sept. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 18. 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.
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, 9:30 a.m. New 99er
game.
Thursday, 1 p.m. 999er game.
Friday, 1 p.m. Open and 499er
games.
Saturday, 6:30 p.m. New open
game. Arrive by 6 p.m. if you need a partner.
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
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie,
Pa. Today, Saturday, Sept. 6, and Sunday, Sept. 7. For more info, click this link.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Friday, Sept. 12, to Sunday, Sept 14. For more info, click this link.
CANCELED: 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 Aug. 25 to Aug. 31
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,600 game. North-south, Jini and John Rubenstein, 57.94%; Jim McClure and Brian Fleming, 56.35%; Pay Haynes and Maryann Szafran, 55.16%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 64.68%; Carol Licata and Ilene Rothman, 59.92%; Betty Metz and Anthony Girasole, 53.17%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 59.72%; Joyce Greenspan and Audrey Ray,
56.94%; Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 54.17%; Martha Welte and Howard
Foster, 52.08%; John Ziemer and Mike Ryan, 51.39%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 59.43%;
Marilyn Wortzman and Murray Yost, 54.06%; Paula Kotowski and Walt Olszewski,
53.61%; Joanne Nover and Bonnie Clement, 53.30%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, 61%; Martha Welte and Larry Abate, 53%;
Donna Steffan and Jim Gullo, 51%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. (Tie) Joanne LaFay and Linda Zittel, Barbara Booi and Dave Larcom, 61.81%; Bert Feasley and Gordon Crone, 56.25%; Paul Zittel and Joe Miranda, 54.17%; (tie) Sandi England and Walt Olszewski, Jan and Carl Hasselback, 53.47%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Kathy Bourque and Ron Fill, 59%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 56%;
east-west, Joan Stankiewicz and Ellen Lochead, 59%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
58%.
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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 nearly
3,000 master points. One of his New Year’s resolutions for 2025 is to write
more regularly about his bridge adventures here.
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