No results yet from last weekend’s Buffalo Winter Sectional
Tournament.
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Face-to-face games
in the bridge clubs continue to scale
back because of Covid. The Bridge Center of Buffalo now has moved its game at
noon Tuesday back to Bridge Base Online. Master point limit is 1,100. For the
moment, the club is continuing its other face-to-face games – 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, its 999er
game at noon Thursdays 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.
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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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 on Bridge Base
Online under auspices of the Buffalo Bridge Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For
info, call Ed Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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.
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Tournament
calendar
2022
GONE FROM THE
ACBL SCHEDULE: St. Catharines Sectional – Holiday Inn & Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St.,
St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 11, to Sunday, Feb. 13.
Buffalo Spring
Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall,
6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, April 1, to Sunday, April 3. For more info,
click this link.
Toronto Easter
Regional – Sheraton Toronto Centre,
123 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 12, to Sunday, April 17. For
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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A Gold Life
Master, Dale Anderson has
reached a career total of 2,900 master points. Playing exclusively online these
days 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 Jan. 17 to Jan. 23
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 73.26%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce
Frayer, 57.64%; Janet and David Desmon, 57.29%; Fran Schmidt and Richard
McGowan, 53.12%; east-west, Amita Arora and Martha Townson, 73.26%; Bonnie
Clement and David Schott, 63.19%; Phyllis Wilkinson and Gerry Hooley, 52.08%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,199
game. North-south, Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 62.50%; Sharon Wilcox and Audrey
Ray, 60.42%; (tie) David Schott and Terry Camp, Paula Rosen and Linda Milch,
52.08%; east-west, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 64.93%; Jim Hassett and
Bill Rich, 56.94%; Terry and Bram Hamovitch, 53.12%; Janet Desmon and Joanne
Nover, 52.78%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello, 56.94%; (tie) Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, Chris
Urbanek and John Sinclair, 54.63%; Donna Steffan and Judy Padgug, 51.39%; Davis
Heussler and Kamil Bishara, 50.46%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday morning – 0-1,500
game. North-south, Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, 66.50%; Richard McGowan and Bill
Rich, 62.75%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 58.25%; Candace Graser and
Cynthia Tashjian, 55.25%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 54.75%; east-west, Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 61.75%; Sam Pal and Rajat Basu, 60.25%; Agi Maisel and
Tova Reinhorn, 57.50%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 55%; Denise Slattery and
John Bava, 52.25%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Dan
Clark and Dave Larcom, 56%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 54%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 53%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – North-south, Richard
McGowan and Bill Rich, 66.67%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 61.57%; Jan O’Mara
and Walt Olszewski, 60.65%; east-west, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 65.28%;
Madhav Deshmukh and Sushil Amlani, 63.89%; Terry Camp and Ed Harman, 53.24%.
