The Buffalo
Bridge Center, 3362 Sheridan Drive,
Amherst, will hold ACBL Longest Day games at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday, June
26. Lunch and a drawing will be held between games. Lunch and fun finger foods
appreciated. Proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Foundation. For partnerships and
information, call Jay Levy at 716-861-1056 or email jlevyb@aol.com.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center has regular in-person
open games at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m. Friday. Attendance is ranging
from three to five tables.
The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding face-to-face games nearly two years. Play
begins at 10 a.m. Wednesdays in the Aurora Senior Citizens Center, 101 King
St., East Aurora. Attendance is generally three or four tables. For more info,
email director Dave Larcom at dmocral@verizon.net.
In person games are
back at the Bridge Centre of Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont., at 1 p.m. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays, now that Ontario has relaxed Covid-19 restrictions.
Proof of vaccination required. Masks optional. The club’s other regularly
scheduled games continue on Bridge Base Online.
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Local clubs
offering virtual club games 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, which is limited to 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.
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.
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The Toronto
Summer Regional Tournament, in line with
ACBL policies for in-person games, will give a 20% upgrade in point awards for
winners, ACBL Unit 166 noted in an email this week.
The tournament,
which runs from Tuesday, July 5, to Sunday, July 11, in Delta Hotels by
Marriott Toronto Airport, 655 Dixon Road, has a separate schedule of games for
novice and intermediate players. There are no evening games. For more
information, click this link.
Players, staff and
volunteers all must be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 at least 14 days before
the tournament. Boosters are not necessary. Masks may or may not be required,
but “if a player at your table requests face masks be worn, please do so.”
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Tournament
calendar
2022
Toronto Summer
Regional – Delta Hotels by Marriott
Toronto Airport, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, July 5, to Sunday, July
10. For info, click this link.
Rochester Summer
Sectional – Moose Lodge, 5375 W.
Henrietta Road, Henrietta. Saturday, July 9, and Sunday, July 10. 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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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of June 6 to June 12
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 68.06%; Maria Schory and Gary Keenan,
59.72%; Jim Hassett and Terry Camp, 54.17%; Cynthia Tashjian and Candace
Graser, 51.39%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Joanne Nover and Janet Desmon, 65.65%; Hannah
Weinberg and Judith Babat, 56.80%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.72%;
east-west, Ruth Nawotniak and Violet Makhija, 62.59%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim
Easton, 58.84%; Susan Cardamone and Linda Milch, 54.76%; Bill Rich and Jim
Hassett, 51.02%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Kamil Bishara and Gene Finton, 65.48%; Saleh Fetouh and Jay
Costello, 55.36%; Fred Yellen and Bud Seidenberg, 51.79%; Jo Nasoff-Finton and
Betty Metz, 49.40%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. North-south, Fran Schmidt and Bill Noltee, 62.24%; Carol Roth and
Audrey Ray, 54.08%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.40%; Marilyn Wortzman and
Jim Easton, 52.04%; east-west, Rajat Basu and John Bava, 58.84%; Pat Haynes and
Judy Zeckhauser, 55.78%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 54.76%; Janet Desmon
and Joanne Nover, 50.68%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning – Open
game. Chris Urbanek and Jay Levy, 67.86%; Bud Seidenberg and Jay Costello,
53.57%; Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargeshimer, 52.98%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan,
50.60%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Pat Rasmus and Joe Rooney, 66.67%; Bert Feasley and Paul Zittel,
57.29%; Linda Zittel and Joanne LaFay, 54.17%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Ed
Harman and Bill Rich, 62.50%; (tie) Amita Arora and Kusum Phadke, Madhav Deshmukh
and Jim Lanzo, 56.94%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhijz, 54.86%; Sushil Amlani and
Walt Olszewski, 52.78%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Thursday – North-south, Marian
Morber and George Mayers, 63%; Fritz Schweiger and Joe Huber, 50%; east-west,
Edna and Ron Fill, 57%; Raj Puri and Shrikant Joshi, 54%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday – North-south, Edna and
Ron Fill, 59%; Judie Bailey and Anne O’Connor, 57%; east-west, Elaine Wegrzyn
and Bill Westley, 62%; Nina Doran and Dan Blatz, 57%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club and Tournament
Play
Jan. 1, 2022, to May 31, 2022
5-20 Points –William Donaldson, 6.86; Maureen Saab, 4.40; Molly
Morris, 3.63; Mary Luce, 3.15; Michel Dupuis, 3.03; Karen Dearing, 2.10.
20-50 Points – Maria Schory, 11.26; Fred Schweiger, 10.81: Jo Ann
Smith, 9.58; Howard Epstein, 9.12; Mary Ellen Cotter, 8.38; Anne Slater, 7.94; John
Houghtaling, 7.82; Peggy Mead, 7.13; Jose Justicia-Linde, 6.83; Gary Keenan,
5.37.
50-100 Points – Jim Hassett, 19.45; Jennifer Epstein, 14.84; Jim
Greno, 10.31; Betsy Greno, 9.51; Cynthia Tashjian, 8.88; Carol Licata, 8.34; Candace
Graser, 7.02; Amy Habib, 6.73; Fran Schmidt, 5.14.
100-200 Points – David Schott, 31.41; Judith McDermid, 20.68; Joanne
Nover, 19.14; Kusum Phadke, 13.49; Maria Amlani, 12.02; Janet Desmon, 11.59; Joan
Ciszak, 10.06; Linda Henschel, 7.19.
200-300 Points – Pat Haynes, 25.79; Audrey Ray, 16.73; Carol Roth, 14.99;
Bob Ciszak, 13.40; Margaret Zhou, 9.19; Laura Houghtaling, 7.82; Patty Porter, 5.54;
Judy Zeckhauser, 5.20.
300-500 Points – Martha Townson, 56.95; (tie) Terry and Bram Hamovitch,
49.58%; Violet Makhija, 45.17; Jasbeer Makhija, 44.92; Larry Himelein, 35.18;
Bonnie Clement, 29.42; Barbara Landree, 13.14.
500-1,000 Points – Vic Bergsten, 76.15; Jim Lanzo, 67.72; Amita Arora, 66.85;
Marilyn Wortzman, 53.73; Paul Zittel, 35.69; Joyce Frayer, 33.79; Linda Zittel,
27.18; Mary Ball, 24.48; Sushil Amlami, 23.31; Bill Rich, 22.49.
1,000-1,500 Points – Jim Easton, 53.73; John Bava, 39.07; Sandi England, 28.16;
Howard Foster, 20.85; Rajat Basu, 20.74; Kamil Bishara, 20.69; Jean Macdonald,
13 even; Judy Kaprove, 11.79; Paula Kotowski, 11.58; John Marvin, 10.21.
1,500-2,500 Points –Gene Finton, 52.67; Gay Simpson, 52.11; Pinky Regan, 28.41;
(tie) Shakeel Ahmad and Manju Ceylony, 23.24; David Colligan, 17.26; Elaine
Kurasiewicz, 9.10.
2,500-3,500 Points – (Tie) John and Martha Welte, 255.03; Davis Heussler, 182.19;
Ken Meier, 78.94; Allen Beroza, 34.14; Fred Yellen, 30.51; Linda Burroughsford,
28.60; Pat Rasmus, 14.83; David Millward, 14.13; Dale Anderson, 10.63.
3,500-5,000 Points – Mike Ryan, 77.40; John Ziemer, 50.45; Judy Padgug, 42.65;
Judy Graf, 40.03; Barbara Libby, 26.43; Donna Steffan, 22.41; Kathy Pollock,
18.76; Stan Kozlowski, 12.83; Jim Gullo, 11.14.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 290.50; Dian Petrov, 156.55; Jay
Costello, 92 even; Chris Urbanek, 52.84; Sharon Benz, 40.86; Jay Levy, 34.03; Bud
Seidenberg, 32.66; Bert Hargeshimer, 17.55; John Sinclair, 14.74; Christy
Kellogg, 11.33.
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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 career
total of more than 2,900 master points. Still playing exclusively online these
days, he hasn’t encountered as much drama for his bridge blog as there was in face-to-face
competition, but he occasionally 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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