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 will be 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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Today, Saturday,
Nov. 20, is the deadline for local ACBL members to mail in their ballots for the Board of
Directors for Western New York Unit 116. Ballots, which were emailed to members
a couple weeks ago, should be mailed to Gay Simpson, 119 Parkhurst Blvd.,
Tonawanda, NY 14223. Need a little longer? They also can be cast in person at
the annual Unit 116 meeting Dec. 4 in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main
St., Amherst.
Candidates for the
four open seats are 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 will serve for
three years. The others will take two-year seats.
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Tournament
calendar
2021
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 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. 8 to Nov. 14
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 55.21%; Janet and David Desmon,
53.82%; Fran Schmidt and Maria Schory, 53.47%; Michael and Jim Hassett, 52.78%;
east-west, Phyllis Wilkinson and Gerry Hooley, 60.76%; Carol Licata and
Stephane Ronget, 58.68%; David Schott and Gary Keenan, 55.21%; Cynthia Tashjian
and Candace Graser, 51.04%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. Ruth Nawotniak and Richard McGowan, 76.39%; John Marvin and Paul Morgante,
55.56%; Maryann Szafran and Pat Haynes, 54.17%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Swiss
teams. Bonnie Clement, David Schott and Terry and Bram Hamovitch, 71 victory
points; Audrey Ray, Kusum Phadke, Gary Keenan and Jim Clark, 47 vps.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Jay Costello and Jay Levy, 67%; Davis Heussler and Kamil Bishara, 58%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday afternoon – 999ers.
Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 60%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59%; Pat
Haynes and Maryann Szafran, 52%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Friday afternoon – Open
Game. Bud Seidenberg and Jay Costello, 58%; Donna Steffan and Sue Neubecker, 52%;
(tie) Chris Urbanek and Sharon Benz, Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 51%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Dan
Clark and Dave Larcom, 64%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 61%; Kathy Donnelly
and Paul Zittel, 54%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Joyce Greenspan
and Richard McGowan, 64.81%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 63.89%; Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 62.96%.
Garret Club
Tuesday afternoon – Kathleen Voigt
and Anne Slater, 67.78%; Elaine Idzik and Cherry Searle, 61.67%; Candace Graser
and Cynthia Tashjian, 55.56%; Fran Schmidt and Phyllis Wilkinson, 55%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Edna and
Ron Fill, 60%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 57%; east-west, Ellen Lochead
and Bill Westley, 60%; Rajinder Puri and Bruce Brown, 57%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – Oct. 31, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 19.53; Howard Epstein, 16.93; Michel
Dupuis, 10.26.
5-20 Points – Jennifer Epstein, 29.35; Gary Keenan, 28.88; Cynthia
Tashjian, 26.36; John Houghtaling, 19.47; Maria Schory, 18.04.
20-50 Points – Jim Hassett, 48.03; (tie) Betsy and Jim Greno, 41.04;
Candace Graser, 35.40; Fran Schmidt, 31.15; Amy Habib, 28.29; Carol Licata,
24.74.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 67.67; David Schott, 59.68; Janet Desmon,
55.07; Martha Cain, 34.07; Maria Amlani, 30.72.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 195.03; Larry Himelein, 143.90;
Joanne Nover, 54.88; Carol Roth, 54.13; Pat Haynes, 31.20.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 106.47; Audrey Ray,
64.24; Agi Maisel, 51.68; Judy Zeckhauser, 33.24; Margaret Zhou, 32.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 233.53; Vic Bergsten, 165.47; Violet
Makhija, 96.37; Bonnie Clement, 97.98; Jasbeer Makhija, 86.47; Joyce Frayer, 76.36;
Richard McGowan, 62.07.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 178.84; Jim Easton, 122.84;
Marilyn Wortzman, 120.59; Mary Ball, 63.06; Bill Rich, 61.60; Sushil Amlani,
59.48; Rajat Basu, 48.33.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 120.58; John
Bava, 94.57; David Colligan, 61.99; John Marvin, 34.97; Tova Reinhorn, 31.68.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 125.65; Linda
Burroughsford, 57.95; Pinky Regan, 52.68; Walt Olszewski, 22.71.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) John Welte, Martha
Welte, 543.65; Ken Meier, 182.61; Davis Heussler, 105.97; Allen Beroza, 103.57;
Dale Anderson, 53.86; Bill Rushmore, 27.24.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 134.98;
Sharon Benz, 84.79; Dian Petrov, 75.09; Judy Padgug, 69.82; Kathy Pollock,
29.46.
Over 5,000 Points – Judi Marshall, 83.57; Chris Urbanek, 60.47; Saleh Fetouh, 44.30; Christy Kellogg, 33.90; Jay Levy, 32.85; Bud Seidenberg, 25.20.
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