Local players are
looking forward to a pair of upcoming
regional tournaments that are just two weeks apart.
The Buffalo Regional
Tournament is set for Tuesday, Oct. 25, to Sunday, Oct. 30, in the Buffalo
Marriott Hotel, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst. For more info, click this link.
Then, in St. Catharines,
Ont., the Niagara Regional Tournament will be held in the Holiday Inn and
Suites, 327 Ontario St., from Tuesday, Nov. 8, to Sunday, Nov. 13. For info,
click this link.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center is now playing
in-person games in its new clubroom in the Boulevard Mall in Amherst. To find
it, enter the mall through the doors next to TGIFriday’s. The BBC is at the end
of the corridor, where it meets the main concourse.
The club hosts a
pair of games there at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday – one for novices with 99 master
points or less and another for players with fewer than 1,200 points. A free
lesson with director Chris Urbanek is offered at 10 a.m.
On Thursdays, there
also are two games at 10:30 a.m. – one for 99ers and another for more
experienced players with fewer than 1,600 points. Free lesson at 10.
In addition, the
club holds two open in-person games for all players – at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday
and 10:30 a.m. Friday. For more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website or call
716-280-6114.
The Bridge Center
continues to offer a game on Bridge Base Online at 7 p.m. Mondays for players
with fewer than 750 points. It also hosts the Delaware Wednesday game online at
7 p.m. Wednesdays.
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The Lockport
Duplicate Club is no longer playing.
Face-to-face games in the Dale Center had resumed earlier this year but were
lightly attended.
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Face-to-face play
has resumed at the Tonawanda Senior
Center on Wednesdays. In face-to-face play at the Amherst Senior Center,
players have voted to stop playing their Thursday afternoon game and are
playing on Monday and Friday afternoons instead.
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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.
The Bridge Centre
of Niagara in St. Catharines, Ont., has
moved more of its online game schedule to in-person games at its club in Tremont
Square opposite the Pen Centre shopping plaza off Glendale Avenue.
Face-to-face games,
both open and 499er, will be played at 1 p.m. Monday. Wednesday has an open
game face-to-face at 1 p.m. and a 299er game moving to in-person at 7 p.m.,
pre-registration required. The in-person game at 1 p.m. Thursday is expanded to
include players with up to 750 master points. The club’s other regularly
scheduled games continue on Bridge Base Online. For more info, click here.
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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.
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Tournament
calendar
2022
Buffalo Regional
Tournament – Buffalo Marriott Hotel,
1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst. Tuesday, Oct. 25, to Sunday, Oct. 30. For
more info, click this link.
Niagara Regional
Tournament – Holiday Inn and Suites,
327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 8, to Sunday, Nov. 13. 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 Sept. 27 to Oct. 2
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Joan and Bob Ciszak, 68.06%; Michael and Jim Hassett, 60.42%;
Leslie Deich and Mary Holmes, 52.78%; (tie) Jennifer and Howard Epstein, Carol
Licata and Phyllis Stasiowsksi, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,100 game. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 67.50%; Violet
Makhija and Laurie Foster, 53.13%; Donna Pottle and Jim McClure, 51.88%;
east-west, Betty Metz and David Whitt, 56.88%; Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda,
52.50% Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 51.88%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Chris Urbanek and Jay Levy, 59.38%; Jay Costello and Saleh Fetouh,
57.29%; Judy Graf and Fred Yellen, 53.13%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. Betty Metz and Sue Neubecker, 61.11%; Audrey Ray and Pat Haynes,
59.72%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 56.94%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 65%; (tie) Donna Steffan and Audrey Ray,
Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, 55%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Joanne LaFay and John Fiegl, 65%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 58%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Walt
Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, 62.04%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 54.63%; Jim
Hassett and Gary Keenan, 50.93%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – Edna and
Ron Fill, 70%; Nina Doran and Dan Blatz, 56%; Shirley Cassety and Angela
Curtis, 53%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 64%; Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 58%;
east-west, Pat Radtke and Bob Leuthe, 59%; Joanne Zavarella and Fritz
Schweiger, 58%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – Al Miller and Paul Morgante, 65%; Joanne Biondo and Susan Lichtblau, 55%.
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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 primarily 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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