The Rochester Spring Sectional Tournament
begins today, Saturday, April 5, with pairs games at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. in
the Gates Recreation Center, 1605 Buffalo Road, Rochester, and continues
Sunday, April 6, with Swiss teams at 10 a.m. and 749er pairs at 10 a.m. and
2:30 p.m. For more info, click this link.
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Congratulations to Bud Seidenberg, who won the most
master points among all players in the Buffalo Spring Sectional Tournament
March 28 to 30 in the Buffalo Bridge Center. He collected 17.24 points.
Also doing well were Saleh
Fetouh, 15.57 points; Chris Urbanek, 13.11; Davis Heussler, 12.75; Jay
Costello, 11.94; Mike Ryan, 10.95; Jay Levy, 10.03; Howard Foster, 9.63; Kathy
Pollock, 9.41; and Rajat Basu, 9.38.
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The Buffalo Bridge Center,
60 Dingens St. off Exit 1 of the I-190, offers a
regular schedule of in-person and online games five days a week, with special party
games on the weekends, usually one each month. Next party game is
Sunday, April 27. 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
Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen St. West,
Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 15, to Sunday, April 20. For more info, click this
link.
Finger Lakes Regional – Louis Wolk Jewish Community Center, 1200
Edgewood Ave., Rochester. Tuesday, June 9, to Sunday, June 14.
Cleveland All-American
Regional – Embassy Suites
Hotel, 5800 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, June 24, to Sunday, June
29. For more info, click this link.
South Western Ontario Regional
– St. George Banquet
Hall, 665 King St. North, Waterloo, Ont. Tuesday, July 1, to 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.
Niagara 499er Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Center, 14
Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Aug. 15, to Sunday, Aug. 17.
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.
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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 March 24 to March 30
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Monday
evening – 0-750
game online. Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 62.04%; Richard McGowan and Gary
Keenan, 61.11%; Leslie Deich and Fran Holmes, 57.41%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday
morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, JoAnne Nover and David Schott, 56.25%; Dennis Daly and Brian
Fleming, 52.50%; Joyce Greenspan and Andrei Reinhorn, 51.25%; east-west, Linda
Milch and Susan Cardamone, 59.38%; (tie) Pat Haynes and Judy Zeckhauser, Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 54.38%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Mike Ryan and Andrei Reinhorn, 60.71%; Linda Burroughsford and Davis
Heussler, 56.55%; Martha Welte and Howard Foster, 55.95%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 58.33%; (tie)
Linda Marsh and Art Ziller, Pat Haynes and David Schott, 56.94%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 52.78%; Betty Metz and Barbara Landree, 51.39%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Joanne LaFay and Linda Zittel, 61.46%; (tie) Sandi England and Paul Zittel, Kathy Donnelly and Dave Larcom, 56.25%; Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda, 51.04%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. Lynda Kuehn and Michelle Feeney,
62.04%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 56.48%; Michel Dupuis and Gary Keenan,
55.56%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 51.85%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – Miriam
Regnet and Connie Wilson, 60%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 54%; Jill and
Bruce Brown, 53%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday
afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 58%; Mike and Ed Rupp, 53%; east-west, Walt
Olszewski and Ed Drozen, 65%; Fritz Schweiger and Carol Neuhaus, 61%.
Tonawanda Senior Center
Wednesday afternoon – Ed and Mike Rupp, 63.8%;
Kathy Bourque and Paul Morgante, 56.9%; Midge Coates and Rob Buchanan, 52.7%.
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The Duplicate Bridge column is compiled weekly by Buffalo News
Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version stopped appearing Saturdays in
The News five years ago this weekend 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 a career total of more
than 2,980 master points. One of his New Year’s resolutions for 2025 is to
write more regularly about his bridge adventures here.
