The Bridge Center of Buffalo will hold a special game and going-away party for
David Hemmer at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 29.
In
May, the Bridge Center will introduce Dual Flight "Masterpoint
Explosion" Games on Tuesdays. There will be a new open game at noon, in
addition to the current non-life master game, with extra master points for both
sections. For details, visit BridgeCenterofBuffalo.com.
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Extra-point games will be offered at all games next week at Bridge Club
Meridian, the Bridge Center of Buffalo and the Airport Bridge Club. The Airport
Club has no extra fee.
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Bridge Club Meridan has moved from its longtime venue at the Zion Church
in the Town of Tonawanda to facilities at 209 S. Youngs Road, Amherst. Games
are held every Monday at 10:30 a.m.
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Congratulations to Jay Levy, the Buffalo area player who captured the
most master points last week at the Gatlinburg Regional Tournament in Gatlinburg,
Tenn. He earned 45.41.
Other
local players doing well in Gatlinburg include Linda Burroughsford and Davis
Heussler, both with 27; Ken Meier, 19.55; Sandi England and John Kirsits, both
with 17.27; Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, both with 16.02; and Kathy Pollock,
12.01. For complete tournament results,
click this link.
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Tournament calendar
Cleveland
All-American Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 22, to Monday, May
28. For info, click this link.
Ithaca Sectional – Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca. Saturday,
June 2, and Sunday, June 3. For info, click this link.
District
5 Spring Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – At local ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs. Monday, June
11, to Sunday, June 17.
Buffalo Non-Life Master Sectional – Bridge Center of Buffalo, 3362 Sheridan Drive,
Amherst. Saturday, June 30, and Sunday, July 1. For info, click this link.
Southwest Ontario Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention Centre, 425
Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 3, to Sunday, July 8. For
info, click this link.
Hamilton Sectional – Royal Canadian Legion, 435 Limeridge Road East,
Hamilton, Ont. Saturday, July 14, and Sunday, July 15.
Rochester Summer Sectional – Location TBA, Webster. Saturday, July 14, and Sunday,
July 15.
Syracuse
Regional – Holiday Inn, 441
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool. Monday, Aug. 13, to Sunday, Aug. 19. For info,
click this link.
Pittsburgh
Labor Day Regional – Monroeville
Convention Center/Doubletree Hotel, 209 Mall Plaza Blvd., Monroeville, Pa.
Tuesday, Aug. 28, to Sunday, Sept. 3. For info, click this link.
St. Catharines Regional – Holiday Inn Parkway Conference Centre, 327 Ontario
St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Sept. 4, to Sunday, Sept. 9.
Buffalo
Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire
Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 21, to Sunday, Sept. 23.
Rochester Fall Sectional – Location TBA, Webster. Saturday, Oct. 6, and Sunday,
Oct. 7.
Buffalo
Regional – Adams Mark Hotel, 120
Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 16, to Sunday, Oct. 21. For info, click this
link.
Finger Lakes Sectional – Location TBA, Canandaigua. Saturday, Nov. 10, and
Sunday, Nov. 11.
District
5 Winter Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – At local ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs. Monday, Dec.
3, to Sunday, Dec. 9.
2019
Cleveland
Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy Suites,
5800 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, to Sunday,
Jan. 20, 2019.
Buffalo
Winter Sectional – Main-Transit Fire
Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, to Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019.
Buffalo
Spring Sectional –Main-Transit Fire
Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst, Friday, April 5, 2019, to Sunday, April 7, 2019.
Rochester Spring Sectional – TBA. Saturday, April 13, 2019, and Sunday, April 14,
2019.
Toronto
Easter Regional – Sheraton
Toronto Centre, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 16, 2019,
to Sunday, April 21, 2019.
Ithaca Sectional – TBA. Saturday, May 4, 2019, and Sunday, May 5, 2019
Cleveland
All-American Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 21, 2019, to Monday,
May 27, 2019.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson
Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, May 31, 2019, to Sunday, June 2, 2019.
District
5 Spring Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – At local ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs. Monday, June
10, 2019, to Sunday, June 16, 2019.
Rochester Summer Sectional – TBA. Saturday, July 13, 2019, and Sunday, July 14,
2019.
Rochester Regional – TBA. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2019, to Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019.
Pittsburgh
Labor Day Regional – Hyatt Regency
Pittsburgh International Airport, 1111 Airport Blvd., Coraopolis, Pa. Tuesday,
Aug. 27, 2019, to Sunday, Sept. 2, 2019.
Buffalo
Fall Sectional – Main-Transit Fire
Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, to Sunday, Sept. 22,
2019.
Rochester Fall Sectional – TBA. Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, and Sunday, Sept. 29,
2019.
Buffalo
Regional – Adam's Mark Hotel, 120
Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, to Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019.
Toronto Fall Regional – Delta by Marriott Airport Conference Centre, 655
Dixon Road, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, to Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019.
Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, and Sunday,
Nov. 17, 2019.
District
5 Winter Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – At local ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs. Monday, Dec.
9, 2019, to Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019.
2020
Cleveland
Rock and Roll Regional – Wednesday,
Jan. 15, 2020, to Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020.
Buffalo
Winter Sectional – Friday, Jan. 25, 2019,
to Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019.
Buffalo
Spring Sectional – Friday, April 5,
2019, to Sunday, April 7, 2019.
Rochester Spring Sectional – Saturday, March 28, 2020, and Sunday, March 29, 2020.
Toronto
Easter Regional – Sheraton
Toronto Centre, 123 Queen St. West. Tuesday, April 7, 2020, to Sunday, April
12, 2020.
Rochester 199er Sectional – Friday, April 17, 2020, and Saturday, April 18, 2020.
Cleveland
All-American Regional – Tuesday, May
19, 2020, to Monday, May 25, 2020.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Regional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson
Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, May 22, 2020, to Sunday, May 24, 2020,
or Friday, June 5, 2020, to Sunday, June 7, 2020.
District 5 Spring
Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – At local ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs. Monday, June 10, 2019, to
Sunday, June 16, 2019.
Ithaca Sectional – Saturday, June 13, 2020, and Sunday, June 14, 2020.
Southwest Ontario Regional – Bingemans Conference and Convention Centre, 425
Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Tuesday, July 7, 2020, to Sunday, July
12, 2020.
Rochester Summer Sectional – Saturday, July 11, 2020, and Sunday, July 12, 2020.
Syracuse Regional – Holiday Inn Syracuse, 441 Electronics Parkway,
Liverpool. Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, to Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020.
Pittsburgh
Labor Day Regional – Monroeville
Convention Center/DoubleTree Hotel, 209 Mall Plaza, Monroeville, Pa. Tuesday,
Sept. 1, 2020, to Sunday, Sept. 7, 2020.
Buffalo
Fall Sectional – Friday, Sept. 20,
2019, to Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019.
Rochester Fall Sectional – Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, and Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020.
Buffalo
Regional – Adam's Mark Hotel, 120
Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, to Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020.
Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca County Office Building, 1 DiPronio Drive,
Seneca Falls. Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, and Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020.
Niagara Falls Sectional – Crown Plaza Hotel, 5685 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls,
Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, to Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020.
District
5 Winter Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) – At local ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs. Monday, Dec.
9, 2019, to Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019.
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Bridge club websites:
Click names for links.
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The
Duplicate Bridge column is compiled weekly
by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version normally appears in the
Life & Arts section in the Saturday edition of The Buffalo News.
If it’s not in its usual
place, Google “Duplicate Bridge” plus the current Saturday date,
which should bring up a link to it on buffalonews.com, the Buffalo News website.
Sometimes
the online version does not materialize on the Buffalo News website, at least
not in a timely fashion. Worse yet, columns from previous weeks currently
cannot be accessed on the News website. But all is not lost. They are available
in an appendix to Dale Anderson’s bridge blog at http://newsdupli.blogspot.com/
The
online version contains unabridged scores and a longer list of notices.
Deadline for submission of scores and notices is Tuesday night.
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A
Ruby Life Master since the ACBL
created that new ranking at the beginning of 2016, Dale Anderson recently
attained a career total of 2,350 master points. He blogs about his progress
toward Gold Life Master (2,500 points) and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate scores
Week of April 16 to April 22
Week of April 16 to April 22
ACBL Sanctioned Clubs
Airport Bridge Club Monday morning –
One winner. A: Nancy
Wolstoncroft and Alan Greer, 63.78%; B: Florence Boyd and Fenton Harrison,
59.61%; Bob Sommerstein and Allen Beroza, 58.33%; (tie) Eleanor Whelan and
Helen Panza, Barbara Libby and Ed Morgan, 54.81%.
Airport Bridge Club Tuesday morning – North-south, A/B: Barbara Sadkin and Paula Kotowski,
56.02%; C: Jan and Carl Hasselback, 54.17%; east-west, A/B: Sandy Scheff and
Joyce Greenspan, 62.96%; C: Barbara Multerer and Art Schumacher, 54.17%.
Airport Bridge Club Wednesday morning – North-south, Gladys and Ken Hardcastle, 62.50%; B:
Rita Sofia and Janet Frisch, 53.33%; June Feuerstein and Dale Anderson, 50%; C:
Pawan Matta and Bob Kaprove, 49.58%; east-west, A: Liz Clark and Alan Greer,
70.42%; B: Walt Olszewski and Martin Pieterse, 53.75%; C: Joyce Greenspan and
Bob Sommerstein, 53.33%; Ron Henrikson and Ed Morgan, 50%.
Airport Bridge Club Thursday morning – North-south, A: Barbara Libby and Alan Greer, 58.04%;
B/C: Sandy Scheff and Denise Slattery, 54.17%; east-west, A: Gladys and Ken
Hardcastle, 56.25%; Judi Marshall and Allen Beroza, 55.65%; B/C: Jan and Carl
Hasselback, 54.17%.
Airport Bridge Club Friday morning – One winner. A: Martha and John Welte, 69.44%; B: Rita
Sofia and Eleanor Whelan, 60.19%; Barbara and Martin Pieterse, 52.31%; Bob
Kaprove and Ron Henrikson, 51.39%.
Airport Bridge Club Saturday afternoon – One winner. A/B: Carolyn Siracuse and Gay Simpson,
59.22%; Nancy Wolstoncroft and Alan Greer, 55.92%; Shirley Cassety and Ross
Markello, 51.98%; Ron Henrikson and Cleveland Fleming, 50.19%; C: Denise
Slattery and Dale Anderson, 49.40%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Monday noon – 99ers. Victory Point Game. Louise Hayes and Chris
Hipp, 35 vps.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Tuesday noon –
Non-life masters. North-south, A: Mary Blanchard and Carol Roth, 67.82%; B: Pat
Haynes and Terry Camp, 58.63%; C: Betsy and Richard Heuer, 56.21%; east-west,
A/B: Linda Milch and Susan Cardamon, 62.84%; Jim Easton and Marilyn Wortzman,
58.21%; C: Paul Ziebarth and Pat Truell, 55.99%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Wednesday morning – One winner. Marilyn Wortzman and Jay Costello, 60.65%; Sharon Benz and
Nancy Wolstoncroft, 59.26%; Mary Ball and Art Morth, 58.80%; Bud Seidenberg and
Fred Yellen, 56.94%; Robert Padgug and Christy Kellogg, 56.48%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday noon –
0-750 game. One winner. A: Jim Easton and Marilyn Wortzman, 59.72%; Bill Rich
and Beena Deshmukh, 54.74%; Larry and Dorothy Soong, 54.56%; B/C: Guy Puccio
and Pat Rogers, 54.39%; Violet Makhija and Laurie Foster, 54.11%; Joel
Brownstein and Sol Messinger, 54.06%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Thursday evening – One winner. A: Chris Urbanek and Henry Chudy, 61.57%; B: Penny and
Peter Shui, 59.26%; C: Bob Sommerstein and Larry Abate, 50.46%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Friday morning – One winner. Claire Gareleck and Gay Simpson, 58.33%; Christy Kellogg
and Stan Kozlowski, 55.56%; Barbara Libby and Usha Khurana, 54.86%.
Bridge
Center of Buffalo Saturday noon – One
winner. Terry Fraas and Rajarshi Roy, 58.33%; Christy Kellogg and Bert
Hargesheimer, 56.94%; Elaine Universal and Cathy Majewski, 54.86%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday
morning – Joe Miranda and Joe Rooney,
66%; Jim Downing and Roger Dyer, 52%; (tie) Lance Crawford and Maureen
Cancilla, Pepe Justicia-Linde and Dave Larcom, 50%.
Bridge Club Meridian Monday morning – One winner. Terry Fraas and Dian Petrov, 63.19%;
Donna Steffan and Fred Yellen, 54.17%; Mike Ryan and Howard Foster, 53.47%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – Bill Rich and Henry Chudy, 61.9%; Sam Grossman and Art
Morth, 61.5%; Chuck Heimerl and Al Dickman, 56.7%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Tuesday
evening – North-south, Beena and
Madhav Deshmukh, 55.50%; Walt Olszewski and Sushil Amlani, 54.50%; Jim and
Paula Jones, 51%; east-west, Dian Petrov and Gabe Tannenbaum, 61.50%; Ed Harman
and Kathy Fenn, 52.50%.
Lockport Duplicate Bridge Saturday
afternoon – (Tie) Jim and Paula Jones, Ed Harman and
Sushil Amlani, 55.56%; Jasbeer and Violet Makhija, 54.86%; Dian Petrov and Bob
Lederhouse, 50.69%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday afternoon – North-south, Bill Rich and Marian Morber, 62%; (tie)
George Mayers and Chuck Heimerl, Jill and Bruce Brown, 53%; east-west, Fritz
Schweiger and Joanne Zavarella, 56%; Herb Falk and Marv Feuerstein, 55%.
Amherst Senior Center Thursday morning – North-south, George Mayers and Marian Morber, 65%;
Cindy Darone and Lorey Repicci, 58%; east-west, Chuck Heimerl and Joe Huber,
57%; Jeff Peters and Karen Synor, 55%.
Canterbury Woods Duplicate Wednesday – North-south, Meena Rustgi and Sukhanand Jain, 54.2%;
George Lee and Fred Nadel, 51%; east-west, Vera Arrison and Mary Kloepfer,
58.3%; Emily Wettlaufer and Iris Friedman, 55.2%.
Clarence Senior Center Thursday – North-south, Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 64%;
Susie Knorr and Bob Jorgensen 63%; east-west, (tie) Brigitte Hess and Ted
Shuman, Lata Maheshwari and Shyam Kumar, 55%.
Town of Tonawanda Senior Center
Wednesday – North-south, Rose
Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 60.7%; Thelma Frauenhofer and Edna Henrich, 54.4%;
Pat and Mike Weber, 50%; east-west, Dorothy and Ed Rupp, 68.2%; Marge Donovan
and Kay Brinkman, 53.2%; Marv Feuerstein and Fritz Schweiger, 52.5%.
