The Niagara
Regional Tournament starts Tuesday,
Nov. 8, in the Holiday Inn and Suites, 327 Ontario St., in St. Catharines,
Ont., and continues through Sunday, Nov. 13. Games are at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday to Saturday. Swiss teams on Sunday begin at 10 a.m. For more info, click
this link.
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Congratulations to Saleh Fetouh, the Buffalo area player who
collected the most master points at the Buffalo Regional Tournament Oct. 25 to
Oct. 30 in the Buffalo Marriott Hotel in Amherst. He won 56.39 points and was
tenth overall.
Other local players
doing well included Jay Costello, 46.42 points; Donna Steffan, 43.79; Chris
Urbanek, 31.89; Jay Levy, 28.54; Dian Petrov, 23.15; Jim Gullo, 19.78; Bud
Seidenberg, 17.25; Chongmin Zhang, 16.64; Vic Bergsten, 15.24; John Ziemer,
13.79; David Whitt, 13.64; Jo Nasoff-Finton, 13.37; Audrey Ray, 11.08; Sue
Neubecker, 10.95; Mike Silverman, 10.53; Jim Lanzo, 10.48; Sushil Amlani, 9.58;
and Davis Heussler, 9.43. In all, 177 players earned points. For a complete
recap of tournament results, click this link.
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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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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., will
be closed during the Niagara Regional Tournament. It 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, are 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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Tournament
calendar
2022
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.
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 Oct. 24 to Oct. 30
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 66.67%; Michael and Jim Hassett,
55.09%; Karen Dearing and Michael Metzger, 50%; east-west, Margaret Zhou and
Joyce Frayer, 62.50%; Michel Dupuis and Gary Keenan, 62.04%; Betsy and Jim
Greno, 53.70%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Bill Feasley and Paul Zittel, 64.06%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 54.69%;
(tie) Linda Zittel and Bert Feasley, Pat Rasmus and Emily Tocheff, 54.35%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Terry
Camp and Bill Rich, 64.81%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 57.41%; (tie) Betsy and
Jim Greno, Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 54.63%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – North-south,
Joe Huber and Fritz Schweiger, 60%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 51%; east-west, Nancy
Wolstoncroft and Pat Radtke, 60%; Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 52%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Edna and Ron Fill, 61%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 56%; east-west,
Rolene Pozarny and Joan Stankiewicz, 58%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 57%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – (Tie) Ed and Mike Rupp, Joanne Biondo and Ron Fill, 62.5%; Susan and
Harvey Lichtblau, 51.4%.
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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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