Congratulations to Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, who did the best
among the Buffalo players at the St. Catharines, Ont., Sectional Tournament
Feb. 10 to 12. They collected 16.91 points and were tied for eighth overall. Other
Buffalo area players doing well included Chongmin Zhang, 16.22; and Judy
Padgug, 7.43.
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The Buffalo
Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall
in Amherst 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. A new series of lessons will begin following the games on
Tuesdays next week, Feb. 7. 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. Games currently are in hiatus at the Tonawanda
Senior Center until March 1.
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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
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 Feb. 6 to Feb. 12
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan, 62.64%; Carol Licata and Stephane
Ronget, 58.47%; Michel Dupuis and Gary Keenan, 56.25%; David Schott and Larry
Himelein, 52.78%; Jim Hassett and Terry Camp, 50.14%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,500 game. Gerry Hooley and Brian Fleming, 63.49%; Jim Lanzo and Ed Morgan,
58.73%; Maria and Sushil Amlani, 56.35%; Joanne Nover and Zakie Nohra, 47.62%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-99 game. Paul Ziebarth and Bob Hilburger, 68.33%; Pat Doyle and Mary Jo
Pfeiffer, 58.33%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Chris Urbanek and Jay Levy, 65.63%; John Ziemer and Mike Ryan, 53.13%;
Betty Metz and David Whitt, 52.08%.
Buffalo Bridge
Center Thursday morning – 0-1,500
game. Sue Neubecker and Wilson McClaren, 72.22%; (tie) Joanne Nover and David Whitt,
Ed Drozen and Walt Olszewski, 55.56%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game.
Bert Feasley and Paul Zittel, 66.07%; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 64.88%;
Linda Zittel and Joanne LaFay, 51.79%.
Delaware Wednesday
evening – 0-2,000 game. Henry Chudy
and Jeff Bender, 61.67%; Richard McGowan and Madhav Deshmukh, 58.89%; Amita
Arora and Jim Lanzo, 58.33%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 54.44%; Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 53.33%; Gary Keenan and Jim Hassett, 52.22%; Beena Deshmukh and
Bill Rich, 50%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – Shirley
Cassety and George Mayers, 71%; Anita Fink and Freda Brummer, 54%; Jill and
Bruce Brown, 53%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Mike and Ed Rupp, 55.33%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 55.26%; east-west, Karen Synor
and Jeff Peters, 66%; Linda Vassallo and Walt Olszewski, 64%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club and Tournament Play
Jan. 1, 2023, to Jan. 31, 2023
0-5 Points – Brian Fleming, 0.85; Anthony Girasole, 0.61; Elaine
Rubinstein, 0.57; Maxine Seller, 0.46.
5-20 Points – Zakie Nohra, 3.08; Karen Dearing, 0.88; (tie) Gini Sicignana,
Jeannine Dupuis, 0.61.
20-50 Points – Jo Ann Smith, 3.14; Jose Justicia-Linde, 2.84; Maria
Schory, 2.61; (tie) Anne Slater, Kathleen Vogt, 2.54; Molly Morris, 2.31.
50-100 Points – Jim Greno, 5.09; Carol Licata, 4.74; Betsy Greno, 4.09;
Susan Cardamone, 4.04; Cynthia Tashjian, 3.59; Candace Graser, 3.26; Howard
Epstein, 2.66.
100-200 Points – Joan Ciszak, 2.28; Fran Schmidt, 2.15; Judith
McDermid, 1.18; Jim Hassett, 1.15.
200-300 Points – David Whitt, 9.81; Joanne Nover, 9.06; Kusum Phadke,
8.64; (tie) Pat Haynes, David Schott, 3.50; Bob Ciszak, 3.14; (tie) Gerry
Hooley, Laurie Foster, 2.29.
300-500 Points – Larry Himelein, 3.67; Jim McClure, 3.15; Ruth
Nawotniak, 2.15; Linda Milch, 1.55.
500-1,000 Points – (Tie) Jim Lanzo, Martha Townson, 10.34; Betty Metz,
7.85; Joyce Frayer, 6.60; Bonnie Clement, 6.34; Marilyn Wortzman, 5.72; Vic Bergsten,
4.65; Larry Abate, 4.16; Sharon Wilcox, 3.97; Dave Larcom, 2.44.
1,000-1,500 Points – Amita Arora, 16.15; Kamil Bishara, 8.95; Howard
Foster, 6.10; Jim Easton, 5.72; John Marvin, 5.54; Mary Ball, 4.55; Terry
Fraas, 3.75; Sue Neubecker, 3.40; Bob Kaprove, 3.36; Joanne LaFay, 2.54.
1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 12.25; Sandi England, 11.14; John Bava,
7.31; Judy Kaprove, 2.78; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 2.58; Elaine Kurasiewicz, 2.12.
2,500-3,500 Points – Ken Meier, 17.20; Fred Yellen, 9.40; (tie) Bill
Rushmore, Art Morth, 5.29; Allen Beroza, 4.04; Mike Silverman, 3.17.
3,500-5,000 Points – Davis Heussler, 43.65; Donna Steffan, 17.44; Mike
Ryan, 15.17; John Ziemer, 10.67; Barbara Libby, 10.43; Judy Graf, 7.90; Judy
Padgug, 4.62; Martha Welte, 4.40.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 76.65; Dian Petrov, 44.49; Jay Costello,
19.87; Bud Seidenberg, 13.22; Chris Urbanek, 10.27; Sharon Benz, 5.41; Jay
Levy, 4.29.
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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 2,940 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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