Face-to-face
games in the bridge clubs are closing
down because of Covid again. The Bridge Center of Buffalo has moved its game at
noon Thursday back to Bridge Base Online. Master point limit is 1,500. For the
moment, the club is continuing its other face-to-face games – a 999er game at
noon Tuesday with lessons at 11 and 11:30 a.m.; an open game at 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday; 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.
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Still on the calendar, pandemic permitting, is 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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The Bridge Centre
of Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont., has
stopped holding its in-person games on Wednesdays and Thursdays due to
Covid-19. All of the club’s games are back on Bridge Base Online. When will
face-to-face play return? The board of directors will discuss it next month.
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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.
Also back to in-person
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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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. 13 to Dec. 19
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Paula Rosen and Linda Milch, 73.68%; James and Michael
Hassett, 58.07%; Jo Ann Smith and Maria Schory, 53.04%; east-west, Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 59.92%; Ruth Nawotniak and Richard McGowan, 58.20%; Leslie Deich and
Mary Holmes, 56.75%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 50.13%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 0-1,150
game. (Tie) Pat Haynes and Audrey Ray, John Marvin and Sol Messinger, 56.25%;
Larry Himelein and David Schott, 51.25%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Swiss
teams. Bala Srinivasan, Georganne Mackaronis and partners, 97 victory points; Jim
Greno, David Taylor and partners, 80 vps; Terry and Bram Hamovitch, Bonnie
Clement and Agi Maisel, 69 vps.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 66.67%; Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello,
61.46%; Sharon Benz and Judy Graf, 47.92%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday morning – 0-1,500
game. North-south, Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 63.10%; Maria Schory and Jim
Hassett, 59.92%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 58.33%; east-west, Larry
Himelein and David Schott, 58.33%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 53.97%;
Rivona Ehrenreich and Judith Babat, 53.17%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Friday morning – Open
Game. John Ziemer and Vic Bergsten, 61.31%; Christy Kellogg and Stan Kozlowski,
60.12%; Bud Seidenberg and Jay Costello, 54.76%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pat
Maynes and Joe Miranda, 59%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 58%.
Delaware Wednesday
evening – North-south, Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 64.29%; Amita Arora and Martha Townson, 55.95%; Carol Licata and
Stephane Ronget, 54.37%; east-west, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 66.27%; Richard
McGowan and Bill Rich, 58.73%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 54.37%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Joe
Huber and Ron Canestro, 56.3%; Raj Puri and Joshi Shirkant, 55.6%; east-west,
Alicia Kolipinski and Shirley Cassety, 65%; (tie) Jill and Bruce Brown, Edna
and Ron Fill, 51%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Edna and
Ron Fill, 60%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 53%; east-west, Bobbi and Joe
Huber, 60%; Rich Kayton and Ted Kotlarz, 51%.
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