The Buffalo
Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall
in Amherst will hold an “Erin Go Bragh” game on Sunday, March 19, with
refreshments at 11:30 a.m. and a game at noon. For more info, email Pat Haynes
at phaynes508@roadrunner.com.
The Bridge Center has
started adding an Online Limited Game to accompany its live face-to-face game
on Wednesdays. Starting time is 11 a.m. and Kathy Pollack is director. Designed
to accommodate those who are out of town, it's limited to players with fewer
than 750 master points.
Those who have not
played face-to-face at the Bridge Center during the past three years will need
to click on the Competitive line on the Bridge Base Online website, then go to
All Tourneys in the lower left of the page and search for Buffalo. It will be
listed by 9:30 a.m. Those who have never played at the bridge center should
call Kathy Pollack at 716-310-4199 or email BridgeKat@gmail.com to be added to the list of eligible players.
The Bridge Center is
continuing to play its open game face-to-face on Wednesdays and, because the
online game is included in the calculations, the face-to-face contest will
award additional master points.
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The club offers other 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 every
week that are open to all players – at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and 10:30 a.m.
Friday. In-person games also are held occasionally on Saturdays and Sunday. For
more info, visit the Buffalo Bridge Center website or call 716-280-6114.
Other virtual games
hosted by the Bridge Center are offered at 7 p.m. Mondays for players with
fewer than 750 points. It also directs 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 have been in hiatus at the Tonawanda Senior
Center and will resume on Wednesday, 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 – Buffalo Bridge
Center in the Boulevard Mall, 1227 Niagara Falls Blvd., Amherst. Friday, March
31, to Sunday, April 2. For info, click this link.
Toronto
Easter Regional – Sheraton Hotel, 123
Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 4, to Sunday, April 9. For info,
click this link.
Rochester
Spring Sectional – Gates Recreation
Center, 1605 Buffalo Road, Rochester. Saturday, April 15, and Sunday, April 16.
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. For info, click this link.
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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. 20 to Feb. 26
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening – 0-750
game. Michael and Jim Hassett, 59.03%; (tie) Wendy Zinman-Smith and Nancy
Counts, Joyce Frayer and Ruth Nawotniak, 54.86%; Carol Licata and Stephane
Ronget, 54.17%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 52.08%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,500 game. North-south, Laurie and Howard Foster, 61.11%; Joanne Nover and
David Whitt, 58.40%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.60%; Betty Metz and
Carol Bedell, 55.16%; Zakie Nohra and Kamil Bishara, 50.73%; east-west, Mary
Ball and Joyce Frayer, 69.64%; Henry Chudy and David Schott, 54.70%; Paul
Zittel and Ed Morgan, 52.78%; Gerry Hooley and Brian Fleming, 52.71%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Wednesday morning – Open game. Chris Urbanek and Jay Levy, 69%; Judy Padgug and Bud Seidenberg, 54%; Donna Steffan and Jim Gullo, 53%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
0-750 game. Terry and Bram Hamovitch, 63.89%; Jim McClure and Richard McGowan,
63.19%; Audrey Ray and Carol Licata, 61.81%; Joanne Nover and David Schott,
54.17%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday morning – Open game. Home style pairs. (3-way tie) Mary Ball and Donna Steffan, Davis Heussler and Howard Foster, Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 2 wins.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. Linda and Paul Zittel, 61.31%; Sandi England and Ed Morgan, 60.12%;
Joanne LaFay and Bert Feasley, 58.93; Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 57.74%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Henry
Chudy and Jeff Bender, 60.42%; Walt Olszewski and Sushil Amlani, 56.94%;
Pauline Davidson and Terry Camp, 55.56%; Bill Rich and Richard McGowan, 54.86%;
Amita Arora and Jim Lanzo, 49.31%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 59%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 55%; east-west, %. Joan Stankiewicz and Rolene Pozarny, 63%; Ruth Nawotniak and Bill Rogers, 62%.
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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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