The Bridge Centre
of Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont.,
will return to holding in-person games at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays
beginning March 2 following Ontario’s relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions.
Proof of vaccination and mask-wearing required. The club’s other regularly scheduled
games continue on Bridge Base Online.
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Face-to-face
games in the Buffalo bridge clubs may
become more frequent now that Omicron variant is subsiding. The Buffalo Bridge
Center has in-person open games at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Attendance is ranging from three to five tables.
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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.
Available on Bridge
Base Online are the Buffalo Bridge Center’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 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., will
return to holding in-person games at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning
March 2 following Ontario’s relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions. Proof of
vaccination and mask-wearing required. The club’s other regularly scheduled games
continue on Bridge Base Online.
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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.
NEW LOCATION: Buffalo
Spring Sectional – Airport Bridge
Club, 275 S. Cayuga Road, Cheektowaga. 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 Feb. 7 to Feb. 13
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 60.19%; Karen Dearing and Michael
Metzger, 55.09%; Jim and Michael Hassett, 52.31%; east-west, Margaret Zhou and
Joyce Frayer, 55.56%; (tie) Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, Bonnie Clement
and David Schott, 54.63%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace Graser, 53.70%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,200
game. Jim Hassett and Bill Rich, 65.97%; Sharon Wilcox and Audrey Ray, 61.81%;
Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 59.72%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 53.47%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Wednesday morning – Open
game. Saleh Fetouh and Jay Costello, 57.50%; Chris Urbanek and Fred Yellen,
52.50%; Donna Steffan and Stan Kozlowski, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday morning – 0-1,500
game. North-south, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 58.93%; Laura and John
Houghtaling, 56.55%; (tie) Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, Maria and Sushil Amlani,
51.79%; east-west, Seema Bhagwat and Beena Deshmukh, 69.05%; Richard McGowan
and Bill Rich, 58.93%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 54.76%; Usha Khurana and
Violet Makhija, 50.60%; Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Friday morning – Open
game. Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargeshimer, 65%; Donna Steffan and John
Sinclair, 53%; (tie) Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, Judy Padgug and John Ziemer, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Saturday morning –
0-1,500 game. Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 61.11%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo,
59.72%; Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan, 59.03%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
54.17%; Sharon Wilcox and Audrey Ray, 52.08%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Pepe
Justicia- Colleen Haynes and Joe Miranda, 62%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 55%;
Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 54%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – Ed Harman and
Bill Rich, 67.78%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 61.67%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
60%; Madhav Deshmukh and Jim Lanzo, 54.44%; Jim Hassett and Gary Keenan, 51.11%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Marian
Morber and George Mayers, 58%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 54%; east-west, Alicia
Kolipinski and Shirley Cassety, 61%; Elizabeth Parnlind and David Young, 59%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 65%; Mike and Ed Rupp, 57%; east-west, Pat Radtke
and Bob Leuthe, 59%; Bobbi and Joe Huber, 58%.
Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Overall 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; Joan Ciszak, 2.14.
200-300 Points – Audrey Ray, 6.45; Carol Roth, 6.22; Pat Haynes, 4.58;
Margaret Zhou, 4.51; Bob Ciszak, 3.36; Patty Porter, 3.09.
300-500 Points – Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 18.84; Martha Townson,
18.43; Larry Himelein, 8.55; Bonnie Clement, 8.48; Barbara Landree, 4.11.
500-1,000 Points
– Jim Lanzo, 23.63; Vic Bergsten,
18.45; Amita Arora, 16.96; Marilyn Wortzman, 14.29; Sushil Amlami, 7.76; Paul
Zittel, 7.53; Joyce Frayer, 6.88; Linda Zittel, 6.64; Bill Rich, 6.57.
1,000-1,500
Points – Jim Easton, 14.29; John
Bava, 6.98; Howard Foster, 4.36; Judy Kaprove, 4.08; Sandi England, 3.98; Rajat
Basu, 3.86; Sue Neubecker, 3.79; Joyce Greenspan, 3.30; Carol Bedell, 3.12.
1,500-2,500
Points – Gay Simpson, 11.67; 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, 26.32; Fred Yellen, 5.88; Allen
Beroza, 5.50; Dale Anderson, 4.39; Bill Rushmore, 3.85; Linda Burroughsford,
3.10.
3,500-5,000
Points – John Ziemer, 11.30; Mike
Ryan, 10.16; Donna Steffan, 6.41; Judy Padgug, 5.91; Kathy Pollock, 4.98;
Barbara Libby, 4.87; Judy Graf, 4.18.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 43.65; Dian Petrov, 31; Jay Costello, 13.24; Chris Urbanek, 11.75; Sharon Benz, 6.83; Bud Seidenberg, 6.44; John Sinclair, 5.41.
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