To allow a longer break for lunch, starting time has been moved ahead to 10:15 a.m. for the morning games at the Buffalo Spring Sectional Tournament next Friday, April 5, to Sunday, April 7, in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Afternoon start remains unchanged at 2:30 p.m. for pairs games Friday and Saturday. For more info, visit unit116.com.
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Two local
clubs will take part in the ACBL-wide Charity Game on
Wednesday, April 3. The game begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Bridge Center of
Buffalo and at 11 a.m. at the Airport Bridge Club. There will be hand analysis
and winners have a chance for extra points at the district level.
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The Airport
Bridge Club offers extra points at all its games next week at no
extra charge. Bridge Club Meridian also will award extra points at its 10:30
a.m. Monday game.
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The Delaware
Wednesday Club has moved its games to the Bridge Center of Buffalo,
3362 Sheridan Drive at Sweet Home Road, Amherst. Games at 7 p.m. each Wednesday
are invitational.
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Seniors are
invited to join friendly afternoon games of bridge at three
senior centers in the South Towns. Some experience in playing the game is
required, but players do not need to come with a partner.
Games are played at 12:30 p.m. Mondays in the Orchard
Park Senior Center, 70 Linwood Ave.; at 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the Hamburg
Senior Center, 4540 Southwestern Blvd.; and on Wednesdays in the West Seneca
Senior Center, 4620 Seneca St. For more info, call 316-9216 or email chetzler@roadrunner.com.
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Tournament calendar
2019
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 5, to Sunday, April 7. For
info, click this link.
Rochester Spring Sectional – Knights of
Columbus Hall, 70 Barrett Drive, Webster. Saturday, April 13, and Sunday, April
14. For info, click this link.
Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton
Toronto Centre, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 16, to
Sunday, April 21. For info, click this link.
Unit 112 199er Sectional
– Strathallen Hotel, 550 East Ave., Rochester. Friday, April 19, and
Saturday, April 20. For info, click this link.
Cleveland All-American Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 21, to Monday, May
27. For info, click this link.
Niagara-on-the-Lake Non-Life Master Sectional –
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ont. Friday, May 31, to Sunday, June 2. For info, click this link.
Ithaca Sectional – TBA.
Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2.
District 5 Spring Sectional Tournament at the Clubs
(STaC) – At local ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs. Monday, June
10, to Sunday, June 16.
Unit 166 Summer Regional – Delta Hotels
by Marriott Toronto Airport & Conference Centre, 655 Dixon Road,
Toronto. Tuesday, July 2, to Sunday, July 7. For more info, click this link.
Rochester Summer Sectional – Knights of
Columbus Hall, 70 Barrett Drive, Webster. Saturday, July 13, and Sunday, July
14.
Hamilton
Sectional – Royal Canadian Legion, 435 Limeridge Road East,
Hamilton, Ont. For info, click this link.
Rochester Regional – RIT Inn &
Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Tuesday, Aug. 5, to
Sunday, Aug. 11. For more info, click this link.
St. Catharines 299er Sectional – Bridge Centre
of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 17, and
Sunday, Aug. 18.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree
Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday, Sept. 3, to
Sunday, Sept. 9.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst, Friday, Sept. 20, to Sunday, Sept. 22.
Rochester Fall Sectional – TBA.
Saturday, Sept. 28, and Sunday, Sept. 29.
Buffalo Regional – Buffalo
Grand Hotel (formerly Adam's Mark), 120 Church St., Buffalo. Tuesday, Oct. 15,
to Sunday, Oct. 20.
Niagara Falls Regional – Crowne Plaza
Hotel, 5865 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 5, to Sunday, Nov.
10. For info, click this link.
Finger Lakes Sectional – Seneca
Falls. Saturday, Nov. 16, and Sunday, Nov. 17.
District 5 Winter Sectional Tournament at the Clubs
(STaC) – At local ACBL-sanctioned bridge clubs. Monday, Dec.
9, to Sunday, Dec. 15.
2020
Cleveland Rock and Roll Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, to
Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020.
Buffalo Winter Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, to Sunday, Jan. 26,
2020.
St. Catharines
Sectional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327
Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, to Sunday, Feb. 9,
2020.
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.
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 24, 2020, to Sunday, April 26,
2020.
Cleveland All-American Regional – Embassy
Suites, 5800 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 19, 2020, to
Monday, May 25, 2020.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson
Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, June 5, 2020, to Sunday, June 7, 2020.
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.
St. Catharines 299er Sectional – Bridge Centre
of Niagara, 6-2E Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont. Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020,
and Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional – DoubleTree Pittsburgh-Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Tuesday,
Sept. 1, 2020, to Sunday, Sept. 7, 2020.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Main-Transit
Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, to Sunday, Sept. 13,
2020.
Rochester
Fall Sectional – Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, and Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020.
Buffalo Regional – Buffalo
Grand Hotel (formerly Adam's Mark), 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.
Unit 255
Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson
Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, to Sunday, Nov. 15,
2020.
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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.
• • •
Now a
Gold Life Master, Dale Anderson reached a career milestone of 2,500
master points last month. He blogs about his quest for the next measure of achievement,
Emerald Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.
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Duplicate
scores
Week of March 18 to March 24
Week of March 18 to March 24
ACBL
Sanctioned Clubs
Airport
Bridge Club Monday morning – A: Linda Burroughsford and Alan Greer, 60.83%; Martin
Pieterse and Mike Silverman, 60.42%; B: Paula Kotowski and Bill Boardman,
57.08%; C: Denise Slattery and Bob Sommerstein, 55.83%.
Airport
Bridge Club Tuesday morning – North-south, A/B: Barbara and Martin Pieterse,
59.82%; Barbara Sadkin and Dale Anderson, 52.98%; C: Usha Khurana and Ron
Henrikson, 50.30%; east-west, A: Nancy Wolstoncroft and Alan Greer, 60.71%; B:
Art Matthies and Mike Silverman, 55.65%; Barbara Libby and Ed Drozen, 54.76%;
C: Jan Hasselback and Linda Zittel, 47.62%.
Airport
Bridge Club Wednesday morning – A: Alan Greer and partner,
59.44%; Martha and John Welte, 59.27%; B: Nadine Stein and Florence Boyd,
59.04%; Walt Olszewski and Martin Pieterse, 54.30%; June Feuerstein and Dale
Anderson, 50.36%.
Airport
Bridge Club Thursday morning – North-south, A/B: Ruth Wurster and Dale Anderson,
56.25%; C: Gay Simpson and Denise Slattery, 55.42%; east-west, A: Barbara Libby
and Alan Greer, 62.92%; B/C: Linda and Paul Zittel, 52.08%.
Airport
Bridge Club Friday morning – A: Sandi England and Ken Meier, 66.67%; B: Joyce
Greenspan and Nadine Stein, 52.78%; Nancy Wolstoncroft and Mike Silverman, 50%.
Airport
Bridge Club Saturday afternoon – North-south, A: Linda
Burroughsford and Davis Heussler, 66.25%; B: Dorothy and Larry Soong, 54.17%;
C: Florence Boyd and Chuck Heimerl, 49.58%; east-west, A: Nancy Wolstoncroft
and Alan Greer, 56.67%; B: Gay Simpson and Paul Zittel, 54.17%; Shirley Cassety
and Ross Markello, 53.33%; C: Dordy Donaldson and Cleveland Fleming, 50.42%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday afternoon – 99ers.
Victory point game. Jo Ann Smith and Edward Ziegenfuss, 41 vps; Gini Sicignano
and Joan Nigrelli, 35 vps; Cathy Hetzler and David Schott, 31 vps.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday afternoon – Non-life
masters. North-south, John Bava and Ed Morgan, 63.17%; Natalie Abramson and
Marge Plumb, 59.75%; east-west, Sandra Silverberg and Carol Neuhaus, 55.58%;
Carla Press and Agi Maisel, 54%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Wednesday morning – A: Saleh
Fetouh and Bill Rushmore, 60.37%; B/C: Stuart Caswell and William Castle,
59.26%; Carol Bedell and Gary Schmitt, 53.70%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday afternoon
– 999er game. North-south, A/B: Paula Rosen and Jim
McClure, 61.90%; Judy Zeckhauser and Chip Kean, 59.82%; C: Rose Ann Grimaldi
and Janie Polk, 49.40%; east-west, A/B: Ruth Nowatniak and Carol Neuhaus,
58.33%; Pat Kilbury and Jeff Oshlag, 57.44%; C: Joel Brownstein and Sol
Messinger, 51.49%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday evening – A: Pat
Rasmus and Bert Hargeshimer, 67%; B: Manju Ceylony and Shakeel Ahmad, 58%; C:
Edith Knaszak and Jan O’Mara, 55%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Friday morning – A/B: Bert
Hargeshimer and Alex Kowal, 56.25%; Jim Gullo and Bob Padgug, 55.21%; Judy
Padgug and Fred Yellen, 54.69%; C: Margaret Zhou and Ten-Pao Lee, 53.70%; Denise
Slattery and Bob Linn, 52.08%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Saturday afternoon – (Tie)
Manju Ceylony and Shakeel Ahmad, Pat Rasmus and Cathy Majewski, 59.52%; (tie)
Chris Urbanek and Ten-Pao Lee, John Sinclair and David Colligan, 54.76%.
Bridge Club
of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Paul Zittel and Ken Meier, 62%;
Joe Miranda and Sandi England, 59%; Barb Booi and Jane Larcom, 57%.
Bridge Club
Meridian Monday morning – Sharon Benz and Sue Neubecker, 65.19%; Helen Panza
and Rita Sofia, 58.52%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 57.78%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Terry Fraas and Rajarshi Roy, 62.5 %; Cathy Majewski
and Anne O’Connor, 60.4%; Jan O’Mara and Chuck Heimerl, 54.2%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Tuesday evening – Sushil Amlani and Jasbeer
Makhija, 62.50%; Roy Crocker and John Lewis, 57.50%.
Lockport
Duplicate Bridge Saturday afternoon – Walt Olszewski and Eleanor
Whelan, 68.75%; Miriam Regnet and Roy Crocker, 60.42%; David and Connie Wilson,
59.72%; John and Barbara Scott, 56.94%.
Other clubs
Amherst
Senior Center Monday afternoon – North-south, Shirley Cassety and
Sam Grossman, 74.2%; Marion Morber and Chuck Heimerl, 56.7%; east-west, Ellen
Lochead and Bill Westley, 71.7%; Herb Falk and Marv Feuerstein, 50.9%.
Amherst
Senior Center Thursday morning – North-south, Marv Feuerstein and
Herb Falk, 67%; George Mayers and Marian Morber, 51%; east-west, Ron Fill and
Mike Brown, 53%; (tie) Jeff Peters and Dave Stroud, Dave Young and Tim
Hartnett, 52%.
Canterbury
Woods Duplicate Wednesday – North-south, Dottie Potembski and Jerry Stange,
55.8%; Meena Rustgi and Carol Grieco, 52.5%; east-west, Dick Munschauer and
Nick Leibovic, 64.6%; Judith Nichol and Bob Kaiser, 54.2%.
Clarence
Senior Center Thursday – Linda Vassallo and Wilson McClaren, 63%; Kathy Borcik
and Bill Westley, 55%; Ellen Lochead and Bill Rogers, 53%.
Town of
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – North-south, Paul Morgante and
Marv Feuerstein, 59.2%; Rose Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 49.2%; east-west, Bob
Hilburger and Kay Brinkman, 55%; (tie) Joanne Biondo and Julie Albert, Sylvia
Keohane and Dorothy Massman, 51.7%.
