Western New York
Unit 116 will hold its annual meeting
and game Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St.,
Amherst. Meeting starts at 11 a.m., with lunch at noon and a stratified pairs game
at 1 p.m. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination required. Cost is $15. Pre-registration
by Nov. 25 suggested. To sign up, call Barbara Libby at 716-836-8303 or email bplibby1@verizon.net.
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Congratulations to Saleh Fetouh, the Buffalo area player who earned
the most master points at the Niagara Regional Tournament Nov. 8 to 13 in St.
Catharines, Ont. He won 53.81 points and was 14th overall. Other Buffalo area
players doing well in St. Catharines included Dian Petrov with 21.42 points,
Mike Ryan, 18.85; Davis Heussler, 18.84; and Chongmin Zhang, 15.19.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall
in Amherst holds a pair of face-to-face games 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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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, including a Tuesday night Swiss teams match, 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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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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Tournament
calendar
2022
District 5 Sectional
Tournament at the Clubs (STaC) –
Face-to-face at participating local clubs, no info about online status. Monday,
Dec. 5, to Sunday, Dec. 11.
2023
Cleveland Rock ‘n
Roll Regional – Embassy Suites Hotel,
5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 4, to Sunday,
Jan. 8. For info, click this link.
Toronto 0-750 NLM
Winter Regional – Sheraton Hotel, 123
Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Friday, Jan. 6, to Sunday, Jan. 8. For info,
click this link.
Toronto
January Sectional – Sheraton Hotel,
123 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Friday, Jan. 6, to Sunday, Jan. 8. For info,
click this link.
Buffalo
Winter Sectional – Sheraton Buffalo
Bridge Center, Boulevard Mall, 1227 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst. Friday, Jan.
20, to Sunday, Jan. 22.
St.
Catharines Sectional Tournament –
Holiday Inn and Suites, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 10,
to Sunday, Feb. 12.
Buffalo
Spring Sectional – Sheraton
Main-Transit Fire Hall, 6777 Main St., Amherst. Friday, March 31, to Sunday,
April 2.
Toronto
Easter Regional – Sheraton Hotel, 123
Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 4, to Sunday, April 9.
Cleveland
All American Regional – Embassy
Suites Hotel, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 23,
to Monday, May 29.
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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 Nov. 7 to Nov. 13
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 70%; Bonnie Clement and David Schott,
65%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 63.33%; Michael and Jim Hassett, 50.56%;
Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,200 game. North-south, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.50%; Jim McClure
and Richard McGowan, 52.50%; Judith Babat and Judy Zeckhauser, 51.25%; Paula
Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 49.38%; east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer,
65.63%; Henry Chudy and David Schott, 56.25%; Jane Roberts and Laura
Houghtaling, 45.63%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. (Tie) Chris Urbanek and Bud Seidenberg, Judy Gray and Wilson
McClaren, 57%; Judy Padgug and Davis Heussler, 54%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. Joyce Frayer and Mary Ball, 66.67%; Judith Babat and Rivona
Ehrenreich, 57.14%; Barbara Landree and Betty Metz, 54.76%; (tie) Paula Rosen
and Richard McGowan, Larry Himelein and David Schott, 53.17%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. %.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Donna Starnes and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 63%; Joanne LaFay and Linda
Zittel, 57%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 74.31%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 61.81%; Madhav
Deshmukh and Jim Lanzo, 54.86%; Walt Olszewski and Sushil Amlani, 49.31%; Henry
Chudy and Jeff Bender, 48.61%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – North-south,
Edna and Ron Fill, 66%; Joe Huber and Fritz Schweiger, 51%; east-west, Judie Bailey
and Joan Stankiewicz, 57%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 53%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
58%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – Al Miller and Paul Morgante, 63.9%; Ed and Mike Rupp, 58.3%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club and Tournament Play
Jan. 1, 2022, to Oct. 31, 2022
0-5 Points – Aditya Gupta, 4.49; David Taylor, 1.36; Chris-Elaine
Santilli, 1.18.
5-20 Points – William Donaldson, 9.87; Daren Liu, 9.39; Michel
Dupuis, 5.48; Julian King, 5.04; Margot Banta, 4.87; Molly Morris, 3.63; Karen
Dearing, 3.52; Devon Marlette, 3.35; Mary Luce, 3.15.
20-50 Points – Howard Epstein, 23.37; Maria Schory, 14.59; John
Houghtaling, 13.13; Jo Ann Smith, 12.40; Anne Slater, 11.28; Fred Schweiger,
10.81: Gary Keenan, 10.15; Darwin Skalski, 9.45; Peggy Mead, 9.40; Mary Ellen
Cotter, 9.33.
50-100 Points – Jim Hassett, 33.05; Jennifer Epstein, 26.72; Cynthia
Tashjian, 13.49; Jim Greno, 13 even; Betsy Greno, 12.20; Candace Graser, 11.63;
Fran Schmidt, 10.81; Carol Licata, 9.55; Amy Habib, 9.45; Bill Noltee, 6.67.
100-200 Points – David Schott, 57.72; Joanne Nover, 49.94; Maria
Amlani, 39.06; Judith McDermid, 30.43; Kusum Phadke, 28.02; Janet Desmon, 21.61;
Joan Ciszak, 17.48; Barbara Scott, 14.85.
200-300 Points – Audrey Ray, 45.38; Pat Haynes, 43.74; Carol Roth, 25.01;
Bob Ciszak, 24.40; David Whitt, 20.28; Margaret Zhou, 18.57; Laura Houghtaling,
15.10; Laurie Foster, 12.20; John Scott, 9.58; Judy Zeckhauser, 8.44.
300-500 Points – Terry Hamovitch, 86.56; Bram Hamovitch, 85.18; Martha
Townson, 68.48; Violet Makhija, 63.10; Larry Himelein, 62.52; Jasbeer Makhija, 57.88;
Bonnie Clement, 54.88; Jim McClure, 24.61; Barbara Landree, 21.95; Linda Milch,
20.26.
500-1,000 Points – Amita Arora, 172.10; Vic Bergsten, 133.95; Jim Lanzo,
114.46; Marilyn Wortzman, 88.19; Joyce Frayer, 61.41; Sushil Amlani, 55.89; Paul
Zittel, 51.94; Mary Ball, 44.22; Richard McGowan, 39.06; Linda Zittel, 38.86.
1,000-1,500 Points – Sandi England, 89.16; Jim Easton, 88.19; John Bava, 71.72;
Kamil Bishara, 56.29; Sue Neubecker, 39.55; Howard Foster, 37.41; Rajat Basu, 27.41;
Paula Kotowski, 24.67; John Marvin, 24.31; Bob Kaprove, 20.99.
1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 114.02; Gene Finton, 65.26; David
Colligan, 52.22; Pinky Regan, 48.74; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 30.71; (tie) Shakeel
Ahmad and Manju Ceylony, 23.24; Elaine Kurasiewicz, 21.61; Walt Olszewski, 10.52.
2,500-3,500 Points – Martha Welte, 471.55; John Welte, 468.07; Davis
Heussler, 308.58; Ken Meier, 145.26; Allen Beroza, 97.04; Fred Yellen, 64.09;
Linda Burroughsford, 32.70; Pat Rasmus, 30.42; Chongmin Zhang, 29.88; Dale
Anderson, 23.86.
3,500-5,000 Points – Mike Ryan, 169.61; John Ziemer, 110.36; Judy Graf, 85.40;
Donna Steffan, 76.83; Judy Padgug, 75.02; Barbara Libby, 60.89; Kathy Pollock, 37.42;
Jim Gullo, 33.85; Stan Kozlowski, 12.83.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 568.30; Dian Petrov, 291.13; Jay
Costello, 200.03; Chris Urbanek, 131.82; Jay Levy, 104.02; Glenn Milgrim, 91.59;
Bud Seidenberg, 80.78; Sharon Benz, 66.78; Bert Hargeshimer, 31.96; Christy
Kellogg, 19.73; John Sinclair, 16.27.
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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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