First local
bridge event of 2022 will be the
Buffalo Winter Sectional Tournament, scheduled for Friday, Jan. 21, to Sunday,
Jan. 23, in the social hall of the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St.,
Amherst. For more info, click this link.
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In-person games
are available 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. Attendance is ranging from three
to five tables.
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.
Also resuming
face-to-face play is the Lockport Duplicate Club. Games begin at 1 p.m.
Saturdays in the Dale Center, 33 Ontario St., Lockport. For info, call Dian
Petrov at 716-668-1226.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding
face-to-face games for more than a year. Play begins at 10 a.m. Wednesdays in
the Aurora Senior Citizens Center, 101 King St., East Aurora. Players must wear
masks. Attendance is generally three or four tables. For more info, email
director Dave Larcom at dmocral@verizon.net.
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In-person games
also are held twice a week at the
Bridge Centre of Niagara, in a plaza at 2 Tremont Drive, St. Catharines, Ont.,
off Glendale Avenue across from the Pen Centre Mall. There’s an open game at 1
p.m. Wednesday and a 499er game at 1 p.m. Thursday. The Wednesday game has been
filling nine to 13 tables, while the Thursday game is seeing six to nine
tables. Proof of vaccination and masks required. Americans crossing into Canada
also will need an approved test to guarantee that they are virus-free. For
those who can’t attend, the club also hosts several games on Bridge Base Online
throughout the week. See the schedule at https://www.bridgewebs.com/niagara.
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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 Dec. 5 to Dec. 12
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Rosemary Galmiche and Bev Hall, 62.22%; Carol Licata and Stephane
Ronget, 60.18%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 50.18%; east-west, Carol Roth
and Patty Porter, 61.85%; David Schott and Larry Himelein, 58.61%; Linda Milch
and Paula Rosen, 53.98%; Jeannine Dupuis and Joann Keenan, 52.13%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 0-1,150
game. Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 69.44%; David Schott and Richard McGowan,
59.72%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 55.56%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello, 57.54%; Howard Foster and Mike Ryan,
56.18%; Judy Graf and Stan Kozlowski, 53.96%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday morning – 0-2,100
game. Larry Himelein and David Schott, 60%; (tie) Marilyn Wortzman and Jim
Easton, Betsy and Jim Greno, 53%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Friday morning – Open
Game. Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, 64%; Chris Urbanek and Sharon Benz, 59%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Linda
and Paul Zittel, 63%; Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda, 53%; Dan Clark and Dave
Larcom, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Amita Arora and
Jim Lanzo, 73.33%; Walt Olszewski and Sushil Amlani, 62.22%; Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 61.11%; Ed Harman and Bill Rich, 60%; Jeff Bender and Henry
Chudy, 50.56%; Terry Camp and Bob Ciszak, 50%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Joe
Huber and Ron Canestro, 56%; Raj Puri and Joshi Shrikant, 55%; east-west, Edna
and Ron Fill, 60%; David Young and Tim Hartnett, 49%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Shirley Cassety
and George Mayers, 60%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 56%; Karen Synor and Jeff Peters,
55%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – Oct. 31, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 20.48; Howard Epstein, 18.88; Michel
Dupuis, 10.86.
5-20 Points – Jennifer Epstein, 31.54; Gary Keenan, 30.37; Cynthia
Tashjian, 30.14; John Houghtaling, 19.47; Maria Schory, 19.12; Anne Slater,
14.92; Kathleen Voigt, 13.20.
20-50 Points – Jim Hassett, 50.67; Jim Greno, 43.85; Betsy Greno,
43.33; Candace Graser, 38.58; Fran Schmidt, 33.41; Amy Habib, 29.64; Carol
Licata, 26.39.
50-100 Points – Linda Henschel, 68.57; David Schott, 66.71; Janet
Desmon, 57.05; Martha Cain, 34.07; Maria Amlani, 31.20.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 197.35; Larry Himelein, 149.85; Carol
Roth, 59.35; Joanne Nover, 56.82; Pat Haynes, 38.53.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 115.80; Audrey Ray, 69.14;
Agi Maisel, 53.07; Judy Zeckhauser, 33.24; Margaret Zhou, 33.20.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 238.13; Vic Bergsten, 179.70; Violet
Makhija, 105.09; Bonnie Clement, 101.53; Jasbeer Makhija, 93.19; Joyce Frayer, 81.48;
Richard McGowan, 71.71.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 180.07; Jim Easton, 133.87;
Marilyn Wortzman, 131.62; Mary Ball, 68.62; Bill Rich, 62.99; Sushil Amlani, 60.53;
Rajat Basu, 51.69.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 122.86; John
Bava, 100.94; David Colligan, 64.46; John Marvin, 39.86; Tova Reinhorn, 31.68.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 139.18; Pinky
Regan, 58.15; Linda Burroughsford, 57.95; Walt Olszewski, 22.71.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) John and Martha Welte,
587.92; Ken Meier, 194.58; Davis Heussler, 112.43; Allen Beroza, 106.95; Dale
Anderson, 54.82; Bill Rushmore, 27.24.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 139.45;
Sharon Benz, 87.33; Dian Petrov, 78.39; Judy Padgug, 75.40; Kathy Pollock,
29.46.
Over 5,000 Points
– Judi Marshall, 83.87; Chris
Urbanek, 68.84; Saleh Fetouh, 53.04; Christy Kellogg, 36.86; Jay Levy, 35.29; Bud
Seidenberg, 32.54.
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