At least 40 players
have pre-registered for the Western
New York Unit 116 annual meeting and game today, Saturday, Dec. 4, in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst, unit president John Bava
reported in a recent email. Although walk-ins won’t get Firehouse submarine
sandwiches for lunch, they still can play. Doors open at 9:45 a.m. The
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. Masks
optional.
Ballots still 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. 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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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 Nov. 22 to Nov. 28
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 63.89%; Patty Porter and Carol Roth, 56.67%;
Bonnie Clement and David Schott, 55%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 54.44%;
Jim and Michael Hassett, 53.33%; Janet and David Desmon, 52.22%; Jennifer and Howard
Epstein, 49.44%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday afternoon – 999er
game. Ruth Nawotniak and Richard McGowan, 60%; Pat Haines and Agi Maisel, 57%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Swiss
teams. Terry Camp, Jennifer Epstein, Jim Hassett and Fran Schmidt, 56 victory
points; Paula Kotowski, Howard Epstein, Beverly Westheimer and Louise
Blankenship, 49 vps.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. (Tie) Donna Steffan and Jim Gullo, Howard Foster and Davis Heussler,
56.94%; Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 54.86%; Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello,
54.17%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Friday afternoon – Open
Game. Judy Padgug and Jim Gullo, 56.55%; Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 54.17%;
(tie) Chris Urbanek and Stan Kozlowski, Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 52.38%; Rajinder
Puri and Shrikant Joshi, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Jennifer and Howard
Epstein, 62.04%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 55.56%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer,
52.78%.
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