Western New York
Unit 116 will hold its annual meeting
and game next Saturday, Dec. 4, in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main
St., Amherst. Doors open at 9:45 a.m. A stratified open pairs game begins at
10:30. Meeting will follow. Cost is $12 for ACBL members, $14 non-members.
Proof of Covid vaccination required.
Ballots can be cast before
the meeting for candidates for the four open seats on the Unit’s board of
directors. They include Sandi England, Joyce Greenspan, incumbent Barbara Libby
and former board member Kathy Pollock. All of them will win places on the
board, but what the balloting will decide is the length of their terms. Members
can cast votes for up to three candidates. The two who get the most votes will
serve for three years. The others will take two-year seats.
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In-person games
are back at the Buffalo Bridge Center
– a 999er game at noon Tuesday with lessons at 11 and 11:30 a.m.; an open game
at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday; a 0-2,000 master point game at 11:30 a.m. Thursday,
and an open game at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Continuing on Bridge
Base Online are the club’s 0-750 master point game at 7 p.m. Mondays and
the Delaware Wednesday game at 7 p.m. Wednesday for players with fewer than
2,000 points. For more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website, call 716-691-6201
or email acting club manager Terry Fraas at tmfraas@gmail.com.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding
face-to-face games for quite some time now. 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 who aren’t comfortable with face-to-face
play or who are not vaccinated 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 716-688-1226 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 716-603-6943.
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 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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Tournament
calendar
2022
Cleveland Rock
and Roll Regional – Embassy Suites
Hotel, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 5, to
Sunday, Jan. 9. For more info, click this link.
Buffalo Winter
Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall,
6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 21, to Sunday, Jan. 23. For more info,
click this link.
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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 nearly 2,900 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 Nov. 15 to Nov. 21
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, (tie) Michel Dupuis and Gary Keenan, Carol Roth and Patty
Porter, 62.04%; Maxine Seller and Jeannine Dupuis, 53.24%; east-west, Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 76.85%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 55.56%; Amy Habib and Jane
Constantine, 49.07%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 67.46%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton,
63.49%; (tie) Larry Himelein and David Schott, Audrey Ray and Sharon Wilcox,
49.21%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Swiss
teams. vps.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 67.13%; Donna Steffan and Judy Padgug,
60.42%; Howard Foster and Mike Ryan, 56.94%; Elaine Kurasiewicz and Nancy
Wolstoncroft, 54.63%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – Open
game. Ruth Nawotniak and Richard McGowan, 71.88%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim
Easton, 59.38%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 53.13%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Friday afternoon – Open
Game. Judy Padgug and Mike Ryan, 65%; Bud Seidenberg and Jay Costello, 62.50%;
Donna Steffan and Bob Padgug, 52.50%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Bill
Feasley and Paul Zittel, 60%; Barbara Booi and Jane Larcom, 55%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 66.67%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 63.89%; Carol Licata and
Jim Greno, 55.56%.
Garret Club
Tuesday afternoon – (Tie) Judy Reich
and Linda Henschel, Cynthia Tashjian and Anne Slater, 58.98%; Michele Witt and
Pinky Regan, 54.35%.
Twentieth Century
Club Friday morning – Elaine
Kurasiewicz and Nancy Deneen, 67.71%; Pat Wolcott and Mary Ball, 63.54%; (3-way
tie) Donna Starnes and Sheila Hess, Elaine Idzik and Maureen Piasecki, Martha
Townson and Maureen Cancilla, 52.08%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 64%; Mike and Ed Rupp, 53%; east-west, Bill Westley
and Gus Alfano, 61%; Karen Synor and Jeff Peters, 58%.
