Need silver
master points? They’re waiting for
the winners in the Buffalo Winter Sectional Tournament today, Saturday, Jan.
22, and Sunday, Jan. 23, in the social hall of the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777
Main St., Amherst. There’s a single session stratified open game beginning at
10:30 a.m. today and a Swiss team game Sunday that also starts at 10:30. In
compliance with current ACBL rules, all players must provide proof of
vaccination and wear masks in the playing area. For more info, click this link.
Silver points also
are being awarded in games at virtual clubs on Bridge Base Online, where Silver
Linings Week continues today and Sunday. For more info, visit or bridgebase.com.
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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
Buffalo Winter
Sectional – Main-Transit Fire Hall,
6777 Main St., Amherst. Today, Saturday, Jan. 22, and Sunday, Jan. 23. For more
info, click this link.
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 is celebrating
the new year by reaching 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. 10 to Jan. 16
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Bonnie Clement and David Schott, 65.28%; Michael and Jim
Hassett, 61.57%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 54.17%; east-west, Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 64.81%; Carol Roth and Patty Porter, 62.50%; Amy Habib and
Jane Constantine, 57.87%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 69.44%; Donna Steffan and Stan Kozlowski,
56.94%; John Sinclair and Kamil Bishara, 54.17%; Howard Foster and Davis
Heussler, 50%. .
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday morning – 0-1,500
game. North-south, Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 58.50%; Richard McGowan and Bill
Rich, 56.80%; (tie) Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, Larry Himelein and David
Schott, 54.08%; east-west, Janet Desmon and Joanne Nover, 65.31%; Gay Conner
and Gail Stanley, 60.54%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 54.42%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – North-south, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 59.72%; (tie) Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, Rosemary Healy and Richard McGowan, 62.50%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 53.24%; east-west, Sushil Amlani and Walt Olszewski, 63.89%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 58.33%; Ed Harman and Bill Rich, 49.07%; Amita Arora and Martha Townson, 48.61%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall Play
Jan. 1, 2021 – Dec. 31, 2021
0-5 Points – Donna Starnes, 21.46; Howard Epstein, 20.18; Michel
Dupuis, 10.86.
5-20 Points – Cynthia Tashjian, 32.95; Jennifer Epstein, 32.94; Gary
Keenan, 30.37; Maria Schory, 20.89; John Houghtaling, 19.57; Anne Slater, 15.52;
Kathleen Voigt, 14.86.
20-50 Points – Jim Hassett, 52.59; Jim Greno, 47.18; Betsy Greno, 45.98;
Candace Graser, 39.78; Fran Schmidt, 34.11; Amy Habib, 30.48; Carol Licata, 28.08.
50-100 Points –David Schott, 73.84; Linda Henschel, 70.37; Janet
Desmon, 57.05; Martha Cain, 35.33; Maria Amlani, 33.78.
100-200 Points – Martha Townson, 205.67; Larry Himelein, 164.90; Carol
Roth, 60.85; Joanne Nover, 56.82; Pat Haynes, 42.23.
200-300 Points – (Tie) Bram and Terry Hamovitch, 123.41; Audrey Ray, 71.29;
Agi Maisel, 55.87; Judy Zeckhauser, 33.74; Margaret Zhou, 33.62.
300-500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 250.56; Vic Bergsten, 193.08; Violet
Makhija, 113.03; Bonnie Clement, 103.55; Jasbeer Makhija, 100.63; Joyce Frayer,
85.09; Richard McGowan, 75.50.
500-1,000 Points
– Amita Arora, 188.03; Jim Easton, 142.03;
Marilyn Wortzman, 139.78; Mary Ball, 73.16; Bill Rich, 67.15; Sushil Amlani, 65.61;
Rajat Basu, 52.74.
1,000-1,500
Points – Sandi England, 124.78; John
Bava, 110.76; David Colligan, 86.61; John Marvin, 41.87; Tova Reinhorn, 34.28.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 147.88; Pinky
Regan, 67.01; Linda Burroughsford, 57.95; Walt Olszewski, 23.55.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) John and Martha Welte,
615.33; Ken Meier, 200.03; Davis Heussler, 143.84; Allen Beroza, 109.43; Dale
Anderson, 57.33; Bill Rushmore, 27.24.
3,500-5,000
Points – Barbara Libby, 144.56;
Sharon Benz, 93.28; Dian Petrov, 87.52; Judy Padgug, 78.35; Kathy Pollock, 34.10.
Over 5,000 Points
– Saleh Fetouh, 90.91; Judi Marshall,
83.87; Chris Urbanek, 75.86; Christy Kellogg, 43.10; Jay Levy, 35.29; Bud
Seidenberg, 34.02.
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