The
Buffalo Winter Sectional Tournament continues
today, Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Buffalo Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall,
1227 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst, and continues through Sunday, Jan. 22. Pairs
games begin at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. today. A Swiss teams game Sunday starts
at 10:30 a.m. All players must be ACBL members and have Covid-19 vaccinations.
For more info, click this link.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center is extending its
special offer through January for players new to its mall location in the
Boulevard Mall in Amherst – play once in the club’s face-to-face games and get
a free game for a second visit.
The club offers
face-to-face games at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday for players with fewer than 1,200
points and at 10:30 a.m. Thursday for players with fewer than 1,600 points. The
club also holds two in-person games open to 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
in non-sanctioned clubs is offered at
the Tonawanda Senior Center on Wednesdays and at the Amherst Senior Center on
Monday and Friday afternoons.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club has been holding
face-to-face games more than 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., offers
a mix of online games and 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. 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. It’s
limited to players with fewer than 2,000 master points. For info, call Ed
Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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Tournament
calendar
2023
Buffalo
Winter Sectional – Buffalo Bridge
Center, Boulevard Mall, 1227 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst. Today, Saturday,
Jan. 21, and 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 – 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 Jan. 9 to Jan. 15
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 61.11%; Joyce Frayer and Ruth
Nawotniak, 55.56%; Karen Dearing and Michael Metzger, 54.63%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,400 game. North-south, Joanne Nover and David Whitt, 58.13%; Zaza Nohra and
John Marvin, 55%; Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 50.63%; east-west, Joyce Frayer
and Mary Ball, 55%; Brian Fleming and Gerry Hooley, 53.75%; Sue Neubecker and
Ruth Nawotniak, 48.75%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-99 game. Pat Doyle and Mary Jo Pfeiffer, 58.33%; Elaine Rubenstein and Mary
Jane Shields, 53.33%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Donna Steffan and Jay Levy, 59.38%; John Ziemer and Mike Ryan,
58.33% Betty Metz and David Whitt, 55.21%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,600 game. Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.73%; Joyce Frayer and Mary
Ball, 54.76%; Betty Metz and Barbara Landree, 53.17%; Pat Haynes and David
Schott, 51.59%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Friday morning –
Open game. Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, 65%; Sue Neubecker and Wilson
McClaren, 51%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 48%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Saturday afternoon –
Open game. Judy Padgug and Jim Gullo, 58.33%; Sue Neubecker and John Marvin,
57.08%; Laurie and Howard Foster, 54.58%; Zaza Nohra and Terry Fraas, 52.08%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Joanne LaFay and Linda Zittel, 72%; Bert Feasley and Paul Zittel, 71%;
Joan and Bob Ciszak, 52%; Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Joyce
Frayer and Mary Ball, 69.44%; Bill Rich and Ed Harman, 63.19%; Vic Bergsten and
Walt Olszewski, 59.72%; Marion Fox and Terry Camp, 50.69%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – North-south,
Joe Huber and Shrikant Joshi, 63%; Edna and Ron Fill, 56%; east-west, Rolene
Pozarny and Shirley Cassety, 59%; Dan Blatz and Gerry Hooley, 51%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and Jeff Peters, 58%; (tie) Anne O’Connor and Joan Stankiewicz,
Edna and Ron Fill, 57%; east-west, Ruth Nawotniak and Bill Rogers, 58%; Pat
Radtke and Bob Leuthe, 57%.
Tonawanda Senior
Center Wednesday – (Tie) Dolores
Bowker and Kay Brinkman, All Miller and Paul Morgante, 53.8%; Rose Bochiechio
and Edna Fill, 51.3%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club and Tournament Play
Jan. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022
0-5 Points – Zaza Nohra, 6.46; Aditya Gupta, 4.49; Mary Collins,
2.10; Mary Holmes, 1.86; David Taylor, 1.50; Chris-Elaine Santilli, 1.18.
5-20 Points – William Donaldson, 10.70; Daren Liu, 9.39; Michel
Dupuis, 6.15; Julian King, 5.04; Molly Morris, 4.92; Margot Banta, 4.87; Karen
Dearing, 4 even; Devon Marlette, 3.86; Mary Luce, 3.15.
20-50 Points – Howard Epstein, 27.68; John Houghtaling, 17.28; Maria
Schory, 15.92; Anne Slater, 14.55; Fred Schweiger, 14.42: Jo Ann Smith, 12.40; Kathleen
Voigt, 12.14; Gary Keenan, 11.85; Mary Ellen Cotter, 11.34; Darwin Skalski,
9.45.
50-100 Points – Jim Hassett, 35.88; Jennifer Epstein, 31.03; Cynthia
Tashjian, 17.23; Jim Greno, 15.35; Candace Graser, 15.16; Carol Licata, 14.33; Betsy
Greno, 13.71; Fran Schmidt, 13.47; Amy Habib, 11.70; Susan Burns, 7.73.
100-200 Points – David Schott, 70.54; Joanne Nover, 54.26; Maria
Amlani, 41.63; Judith McDermid, 37.85; Kusum Phadke, 33.66; Janet Desmon, 21.61;
Joan Ciszak, 20.88; Barbara Scott, 16.70.
200-300 Points – Audrey Ray, 50.18; Pat Haynes, 49.38; Bob Ciszak, 30.06;
Carol Roth, 25.01; David Whitt, 23.44; Margaret Zhou, 23.27; Laura Houghtaling,
20.07; Laurie Foster, 13.77; Judy Zeckhauser, 11.10; John Scott, 11.09.
300-500 Points – Terry Hamovitch, 108.91; Bram Hamovitch, 107.53;
Martha Townson, 82.31; Violet Makhija, 72.96; Larry Himelein, 69.26; Jasbeer
Makhija, 66.17; Bonnie Clement, 57.84; Jim McClure, 30.57; Linda Milch, 23.31; Barbara
Landree, 22.84.
500-1,000 Points – Amita Arora, 191.51; Vic Bergsten, 149.24; Jim Lanzo,
136.11; Marilyn Wortzman, 100.10; Joyce Frayer, 76.73; Sushil Amlani, 58.76; Mary
Ball, 55.74; Paul Zittel, 53.42; Richard McGowan, 47.35; Linda Zittel, 42.81.
1,000-1,500 Points – Jim Easton, 100.10; Sandi England, 96.35; John Bava, 81.76;
Kamil Bishara, 68.40; Sue Neubecker, 43.83; Howard Foster, 42.44; John Marvin,
32.03; Rajat Basu, 28.47; Paula Kotowski, 25.57; Bob Kaprove, 24.52.
1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 132.38; Gene Finton, 65.26; Pinky Regan, 61.44;
David Colligan, 54.63; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 36.42; (tie) Shakeel Ahmad and Manju
Ceylony, 23.24; Elaine Kurasiewicz, 22.49; Walt Olszewski, 11.02.
2,500-3,500 Points – Martha Welte, 480.79; John Welte, 468.07; Davis
Heussler, 335.13; Ken Meier, 151.75; Allen Beroza, 102.29; Fred Yellen, 66.41; Chongmin
Zhang, 47.17; Linda Burroughsford, 41.02; Pat Rasmus, 31.12; Dale Anderson, 30.27.
3,500-5,000 Points – Mike Ryan, 200.52; John Ziemer, 141.63; Judy Graf, 94.80;
Judy Padgug, 89.66; Donna Steffan, 85.94; Barbara Libby, 66.47; Kathy Pollock, 46.27;
Jim Gullo, 33.85; Stan Kozlowski, 12.83.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 721.31; Dian Petrov, 312.55; Jay
Costello, 206.64; Chris Urbanek, 149.74; Jay Levy, 119.82; Glenn Milgrim,
91.59; Bud Seidenberg, 90.09; Sharon Benz, 68.36; Bert Hargeshimer, 33.88; Christy
Kellogg, 20.29; John Sinclair, 18.25.
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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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