Four candidates are in the running for four open seats on the Board
of Directors for Western New York Unit 116. All of them will win places on the
board, but what the balloting will decide is the length of their terms. On the
ballot form emailed this week to local ACBL members, votes can be cast for up
to three candidates. The two who get the most will serve for three years. The
others will take two-year seats. The candidates are Sandi England, Joyce Greenspan,
incumbent Barbara Libby and former board member Kathy Pollock.
Ballots can be mailed
to Gay Simpson, 119 Parkhurst Blvd., Tonawanda, NY 14223, by Nov. 20. Or they
can be cast in person at the annual Unit 116 meeting Dec. 4 in 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. 11 to Oct. 17
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Maria Schory and Richard McGowan, 68.06%; Carol Licata and
Stephane Ronget, 67.71%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 65.62%; east-west, Jim and
Michael Hassett, 64.93%; Phyllis Wilkinson and Gerry Hooley, 60.76%; Ruth
Nawotniak and Audrey Ray, 60.42%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. North-south, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 59.75%; Amita Arora and Jim
Lanzo, 59.25%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 59%; Cynthia Tashjian and
Candace Graser, 54.50%; Terry and Bram Hamovitch, 52.50%; east-west, Audrey Ray
and Sharon Wilcox, 68.25%; Susan Cardamone and Linda Milch, 59.75% Mary Ball
and Joyce Frayer, 55.25%; Hanna Weinberg and Judith Babat, 52.25%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – Open
Game. Martha and John Welte, 66.25%; Meg Klamp and Chris Urbanek, 53.75%; Judy
Padgug and Christy Kellogg, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 299ers.
Betsy and Jim Greno, 60%; Ann Thompson and Fran Schmidt, 59.52%; Judy Katz and
Natalie Abramson, 57.14%; (tie) Rose Ann Grimaldi and Betty DeFeo, Joann Nover
and Janet Desmon, 54.76%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
Game. Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.73%; Martha and John Welte, 56.35%; Usha
Khurana and John Marvin, 54.76%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 53.97%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat
and Dick Rasmus, 65%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 62%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 59%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Bev Hall and
Rosemary Healy, 59.44%; Ed Harman and Bill Rich, 58.89%; (tie) Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 56.67%; Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 56.11%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.56%.
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 Overall 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.
5-20 Points – Gary Keenan, 27.82; Jennifer Epstein, 26.34; Cynthia
Tashjian, 23.50; John Houghtaling, 18; Maria Schory, 14.92; Anne Slater, 10.51.
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, 186.59; Larry Himelein, 130.04; Joanne
Nover, 50.05; Carol Roth, 49.18; Pat Haynes, 26.58; Hannah Weinberg, 21.28.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 99.83; Audrey Ray, 56.36;
Agi Maisel, 49.40; Judy Zeckhauser, 30.67; Margaret Zhou, 28.86; Jim O’Hara, 26.67;
Bob Ciszak, 25.77; Patty Porter, 20.26; Maryann Szafran, 20.17.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 214.48; Vic Bergsten, 144.78; Bonnie
Clement, 91.69; Violet Makhija, 89.25; Jasbeer Makhija, 78.28; Joyce Frayer, 70.03;
Richard McGowan, 53.12; Jim McClure, 34.26; Paula Rosen, 27.49; Linda Milch, 22.81.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 168.97; Jim Easton, 107.04;
Marilyn Wortzman, 104.79; Mary Ball, 58.10; Bill Rich, 54.69; Sushil Amlani, 52.40;
Rajat Basu, 44.58; Brian Block, 41.70.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 110.60; John
Bava, 82.90; David Colligan, 60.75; Tova Reinhorn, 30.84; John Marvin, 29.86.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 111.82; Linda
Burroughsford, 53.93; Pinky Regan, 50.29; Walt Olszewski, 20.49.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) John Welte, Martha
Welte, 513.31; Ken Meier, 172.72; Allen Beroza, 101.60; Davis Heussler, 99.22;
Dale Anderson, 50.59; Bill Rushmore, 27.24.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 130.25;
Sharon Benz, 83.08; Dian Petrov, 68.27; Judy Padgug, 65.02; Kathy Pollock, 29.26.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 83.57; Chris
Urbanek, 54.82; Christy Kellogg, 30.62; Saleh Fetouh, 26.01; Bud Seidenberg,
25.20.
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