All virtual club
games today, Saturday, Feb. 12, and
Sunday, Feb. 13, on Bridge Base Online will offer double points, half red, half
black, for winners. They’re calling it a Valentine’s Weekend ACBL Virtual Club
Event. 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.,
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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Face-to-face
games in the bridge clubs continue to
be at a minimum because of Covid. The Bridge Center of Buffalo has 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.
Available on Bridge
Base Online are the club’s 0-750 master point limit game at 7 p.m. Mondays, a
1,200-point master point limit game at noon Tuesday, a 1,500-point 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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Tournament
calendar
2022
Rochester Spring
Sectional – Moose Lodge, 5375 W.
Henrietta Road, West Henrietta. Saturday, March 26, and Sunday, March 27. For
more info, click this link.
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.
Ithaca Sectional
– Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N.
Triphammer Road, Ithaca. Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15.
Cleveland All
American Regional – Embassy Suites
Hotel, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 24, to Monday,
May 30. 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. 31 to Feb. 6
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Joyce Frayer and Margaret Zhou, 66.98%; Jo Ann Smith and
Maria Schory, 54.94%; Gary Keenan and Michel Dupuis, 52.16%; Linda Burstein and
Tom Fahey, 51.54%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Grasere, 50.62%; east-west, Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 63.89%; Sushil Amlani and Jim Lanzo, 61.42%; Amita Arora
and Martha Townson, 60.49%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 57.72%; Betsy and Jim
Greno, 49.07%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,200
game. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 64.81%; Richard McGowan and
Jim McClure, 61.11%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 57.87%; Carla Press and Agi Maisel,
50%; east-west, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 63.43%; Carol Roth and Rivona
Ehrenreich, 56.02%; Amita Arora and Wendy Zimman-Smith, 54.17%; Laura and John
Houghtaling, 53.24%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Bud Seidenberg and Fred Yellen, 67.36%; Donna Steffan and Judy Graf,
54.86%; Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello, 54.17%; Howard Foster and Davis
Heussler, 53.47%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday morning – 0-1,500
game. North-south, Jennifer Epstein and Terry Camp, 59.52%; Amita Arora and Jim
Lanzo, 55.10%; (tie) Carol Roth and Audrey Ray, Pat Haynes and Judy
Zeckhausere, 53.74%; east-west, Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 55.44%; Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 54.76%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 52.04%; Janet Desmon
and Joanne Nover, 51.70%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pepe
Justicia-Linde and Peggy Meade, 55%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 52.50%; (tie)
Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda, Paul Zittel and Bert Feasley, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 62.22%; Jan O’Mara and Walt Olszewski, 58.33%; Madhav Deshmukh
and Jim Lanzo, 57.22%; Beena Deshmukh and Bill Rich, 55.56%; Violet and Jasbeer
Makhija, 55%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 54.44%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, %.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, %.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2022, to Jan. 31, 2022
5-20 Points – Mary Luce, 1.47; Molly Morris, 0.56; Michel Dupuis,
0.52; Karen Dearing, 0.43.
20-50 Points – Jo Ann Smith, 2.75; Howard Epstein, 2.32; Maria
Schory, 1.87; Mary Berlow, 1.35; John Houghtaling, 1.24.
50-100 Points – Jim Hassett, 4.57; Jennifer Epstein, 3.55; Betsy and
Jim Greno, 2.79; Candace Graser, 2.63; Cynthia Tashjian, 2.45.
100-200 Points – Judith McDermid, 7.03; David Schott, 6.51; Joanne
Nover, 5.37; Maria Amlani, 3.39; Janet Desmon, 2.47.
200-300 Points – Audrey Ray, 6.45; Carol Roth, 6.22; Margaret Zhou, 3.39;
Patty Porter, 3.09; Bob Ciszak, 2.41.
300-500 Points – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 18.84; Martha Townson, 17.29;
Larry Himelein, 8.55; Bonnie Clement, 8.48.
500-1,000 Points
– Jim Lanzo, 22.49; Amita Arora, 16.96;
Marilyn Wortzman, 14.29; Vic Bergsten, 13.18; Sushil Amlami, 7.76; Bill Rich,
6.57; Joyce Frayer, 5.76; Richard McGowan, 4.95.
1,000-1,500
Points – Jim Easton, 14.29; John
Bava, 4.48; Judy Kaprove, 4.08; Rajat Basu, 3.86; Sandi England, 3.45; Joyce
Greenspan, 3.30; Tova Reinhorn, 2.23.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 10.72; Gene
Finton, 10.44; Pinky Regan, 3.68; Elaine Kurasiewicz, 2.46.
2,500-3,500
Points – (Tie) John and Martha Welte,
60.37; Ken Meier, 29.67; Davis Heussler, 5.81; Allen Beroza, 5.50; Dale
Anderson, 4.39; Linda Burroughsford, 3.10.
3,500-5,000
Points – Mike Ryan, 7.56; John
Ziemer, 6.03; Donna Steffan, 3.26; Judy Padgug, 2.61; Judy Graf, 2.48; Barbara
Libby, 2.41.
Over 5,000 Points – Jay Costello, 5.38; John Sinclair, 4.32; Saleh Fetouh, 3.34; Chris Urbanek, 2.71; Sharon Benz, 2.68; Bud Seidenberg, 2.04.
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