The Buffalo Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall in Amherst has announced that it will be closed this week through Friday, Dec. 30, due to the storm.
A new 10-session series of lessons on bridge basics will be offered at the Bridge Center on Thursdays from Jan. 5 to March 9. Afternoon sessions are at 2 p.m. Evening classes start at 6. Fee for the 10 lessons is $150. For more information, call the Bridge Center at 716-280-6114.
The club has a
special offer for the rest of this month for players new to its mall location –
play once and get a free game for a second visit. The club 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 virtual 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, are played at 1 p.m. Monday. Wednesday has an open game
face-to-face at 1 p.m. and a 299er game 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
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 – Buffalo Bridge
Center, Boulevard Mall, 1227 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst. Friday, Jan. 20, to
Sunday, Jan. 22. For info, click this link.
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. For info,
click this link.
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 Dec. 12 to Dec. 18
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 61.81%; Lorna Bultman and David
Schott, 59.72%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 59.03%; Jim and Michael Hassett,
57.64%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 52.78%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,400 game. North-south, Zaza Nohra and John Marvin, 58.33%; Usha Khurana and
Joe Miranda, 56.75%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 53.57%; Terry Fraas and
Gerry Hooley, 50.79%; Carol Licata and Jim McClure, 49.21%; east-west, Henry
Chudy and David Schott, 58.33%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.95%; Agi Maisel
and Pat Haynes, 48.81%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Donna Steffan and Jay Levy, 58.93%; Chris Urbanek and John Marvin, 56.55%;
(tie) Kamil Bishara and Bud Seidenberg, Judy Graf and Wilson McClaren, 50.60%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,500 game. Sue Neubecker and David Schott, 62.50%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim
Easton, 60%; Betty Metz and Brian Fleming, 51.25%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 71.88%; Chris Urbanek and Kamil
Bishara, 58.33%; Nancy Wolstoncroft and John Ziemer, 51.04%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Saturday afternoon –
Open game. Jay Levy and Saleh Fetouh, 58.33%; Martha Welte and Art Morth,
58.18%; Sharon Benz and Kamil Bishara, 55.83%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 55.46%;
Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 55%; Nancy Wolstoncroft and Mike Silverman,
54.09%; Howard Foster and Mike Ryan, 53.63%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Barbara Booi and John Fiegl, 59.02%; Joanne LaFay and Linda Zittel,
58.93%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 55.17%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Amita
Arora and Jim Lanzo, 65.97%; Nancy Counts and Vic Bergsten, 58.33%; Jennifer
and Howard Epstein, 56.25%; (tie) Walt Olszewski and Sushil Armlani, Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 51.39%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 50%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 56%; Cindy Darone and Rich Kayton, 53%; east-west,
Tim Hartnett and David Young, 57%; Ellen Lochead and David Westley, 54%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Mike and Ed Rupp, 55.4%; Anne O’Connor and Joan Stankiewicz, 55%; Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 54.6%; east-west, Bobbie and Joe Huber, 65%; Elaine
Wegrzyn and Gus Alfano, 55%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – Kay Brinkman and Dolores Bowker, 66.3%; Ed and Mike Rupp, 57.4%.
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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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