Happy New Year!
The Buffalo
Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall
in Amherst is beginning a new 10-session series of lessons on bridge basics
which will run 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 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. For info, click this link.
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. 19 to Dec. 25
Buffalo Bridge
Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 76.39%; Carol Licata and Cynthia Tashjian,
61.81%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 53.47%; (tie) Jim Hassett and Terry
Camp, Fran Schmidt, 50%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,400 game. Carol Licata and Richard McGowan, 70.36%; Betty Metz and Brian
Fleming, 56.89%; Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 55.57%; Zaza Nohra and Gerry
Hooley, 52.36%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 57%; Donna Steffan and Judy Padgug, 53%;
Fred Yellen and Bud Seidenberg, 51%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,600 game. Sue Neubecker and John Marvin, 56.25%; (tie) Jim McClure and Richard
McGowan, Linda Milch and Paula Rosen, 53.13%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Pat and Dick Rasmus, 66.25%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 54.79%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 53.13%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Ed
Harman and Bob Ciszak, 59.72%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 57.64%; Violet and
Jasbeer Makhija, 55.56%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 52.78%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – Edna and
Ron Fill, 62%; Elaine Wegrzyn and Jim Cook, 58%; Judie Bailey and Joan
Stankiewicz, 53%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday – Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 58.8%; Edna Fill and Rose Bochiechio, 57.5%.
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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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