Western New York
Unit 116 hopes to be able to hold its
next two events face-to-face – the annual meeting Dec. 4 and the Winter
Sectional on Jan. 21 to 23. Both are planned for the Main-Transit Fire Hall,
6777 Main St., Amherst.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding
face-to-face games for quite some time now, the only ACBL sanctioned club in
the area to hold live competition. Play begins at 10 a.m. Wednesdays in the Aurora
Senior Citizens Center, 101 King St., East Aurora. Players must wear masks. For
more info, email director Dave Larcom at dmocral@verizon.net.
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In the meantime, players can earn ACBL master points in a variety of
games sponsored by local clubs on Bridge Base Online. Info can be found at acbl.org or bridgebase.com.
The Rust Belt
Bridge Group, which invites players
from Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to play on Bridge Base Online, has
novice games at 9:45 a.m. Monday to Saturday, with open games at 9:50. To visit
the group’s homepage, click this link. For
other info, call Dian Petrov at 688-1226 or email dpetrov@roadrunner.com.
The Airport
Bridge Club is linked on Bridge
Base Online with the Alliance Bridge Club, the ACBL’s largest 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
603-6943.
The Buffalo
Bridge Center offers games at least
three days a week – Monday, Tuesday and Thursday – on Bridge Base Online. Open
games often are added to the games for beginning players on BBO at 7 p.m.
Monday and noon on Tuesday and Thursday. Winners in the open games, which begin
a few minutes after the novice games, receive larger point rewards since they
are based on the total table count from both sections. For more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website, call 691-6201
or email acting club manager Terry Fraas at tmfraas@gmail.com.
The Delaware
Wednesday Club plays under auspices
of the Buffalo Bridge Center on Bridge Base Online at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For
info, call Ed Harman at 480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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Tournament
calendar
2021
CANCELED:
Niagara Falls Regional – Crowne
Plaza Hotel, 5685 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 9, to Sunday,
Nov. 14.
CANCELED: Unit
255 Sectional –
Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre, 14 Anderson Path, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ont. Friday, Nov. 13, to Sunday, Nov. 15.
District 5 Winter
STaC – Local clubs, if face-to-face
play has resumed. Monday, Dec. 6, to Sunday, Dec. 12.
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Bridge
club websites:
Click
names for links.
The
Airport Bridge Club does not have a website. For info, call 716-603-6943.
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The
Duplicate Bridge column is
compiled weekly by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version stopped
appearing Saturdays in The Buffalo 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. 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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Now a Gold
Life Master, Dale Anderson is
playing online these days and has a career total of more than 2,885 master
points. Online play doesn’t provide as much drama for his bridge blog as
face-to-face competition, but he still writes about his quest for the next
measure of achievement, Sapphire Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge
adventures here.
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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Oct. 4 to Oct. 10
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Jim Lanzo and Sushil Amlani, 69.33%; Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 56.87%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 53.63% Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan,
51.77%; east-west, Jim and Michael Hassett, 58.76%; Carol Licata and Stephane
Ronget, 56.87%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 54.86%; Karen Dearing and Judy
Zeckhauser, 51.74%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 65%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes,
64.75%; Amita Arora and Mel Simon, 57.50%; Linda Henschel and Martha Cain, 57%;
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 52%; east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 64%;
Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 58.25%; Rivona Ehrenreich and Carol Roth, 55%;
Violet Makhija and Judy Zeckhauser, 50.75%; (tie) Laura and John Houghtaling, Bill
Noltee and David Schott, 50.50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, 62.27%; Linda Henschel and partner, 60%; Joanne
Nover and Janet Desmon, 56.36%; (3-way tie) Jim Hassett and Bill Noltee, Laura
and John Houghtaling, Judy Zeckhauser and Pat Haynes, 52.73%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Larry Himelein and David Schott, 72.02% Rajat Basu and John Bava, 60.71%;
Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 54.76% Miriam Regnet and Jim Lanzo, 51.79%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Bill
Feasley and Paul Zittel, 56.25%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 54.17% Dan Clark and Dave
Larcom, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – (Tie) Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 57.64% Maria Schory and Richard McGowan, 56.94%; Beena Deshmukh and
Bill Rich, 54.86%; Kesum Phadke and Amita Arora, 52.08%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 74%; Mike and Ed Rupp, 58%; east-west, Jill and
Bruce Brown, 61%; Jackie Simon and Paul Ziebarth, 56%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – Sept. 30, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 18.35; Howard Epstein, 15.94; Michel
Dupuis, 9.65; Pat Pasculle, 8.40; Devon Marlette, 5.24.
5-20 Points – Gary Keenan, 27.82; Jennifer Epstein, 26.34; Cynthia
Tashjian, 23.50; John Houghtaling, 18; Maria Schory, 14.92.
20-50 Points – (Tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, 36.05; Jim Hassett, 34.86;
Candace Graser, 32.54; Amy Habib, 28.29; Fran Schmidt, 27.93; Carol Licata, 21.78.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 64.78; David Schott, 55.76; Janet
Desmon, 49.81; Martha Cain, 33.39; Maria Amlani, 25.44; Nancy Deneen, 22.44.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 167.47; Larry Himelein, 130.04; Joanne
Nover, 49.31; Carol Roth, 49.18; Pat Haynes, 26.58; Hannah Weinberg, 21.28.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 99.30; Audrey Ray, 56.36;
Agi Maisel, 49.40; Judy Zeckhauser, 30.67; Margaret Zhou, 28.36; Bob Ciszak, 25.77;
Patty Porter, 20.26; Maryann Szafran, 20.17.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 184.53; Vic Bergsten, 143.15; Violet
Makhija, 89.25; Bonnie Clement, 85.12; Jasbeer Makhija, 78.28; Joyce Frayer, 65.26;
Richard McGowan, 53.12; Jim McClure, 34.26; Paula Rosen, 27.49; Linda Milch, 22.81.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 139.51; Jim Easton, 97.26;
Marilyn Wortzman, 95.01; Bill Rich, 54.69; Mary Ball, 53.83; Sushil Amlami, 43.24;
Rajat Basu, 41.56; Brian Block, 41.43; Bob Sommerstein, 29.45; Paul Zittel, 27.56;
Ed Harman, 24.63; Bill Regan, 22.07; Ed Morgan, 20.61; Usha Khurana, 20.20.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 110.60; John
Bava, 79.58; Tova Reinhorn, 30.84; John Marvin, 29.86; Miriam Regnet, 23.18.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 111.82; Pinky
Regan, 50.29; Linda Burroughsford, 20.78; Walt Olszewski, 20.49.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) John and Martha Welte,
466.69; Ken Meier, 172.71; Allen Beroza, 100.60; Dale Anderson, 50.59; Davis
Heussler, 28.81; Bill Rushmore, 27.24.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 130.25;
Sharon Benz, 83.08; Judy Padgug, 65.02; Dian Petrov, 45.39; Kathy Pollock, 29.46.
Over 5,000 Points – Judi Marshall, 83.57; Chris Urbanek, 52.93; Christy Kellogg, 30.62; Bud Seidenberg, 23.31; Saleh Fetouh, 20.07.
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