Congratulations
to Davis Heussler, who earned the
most master points at the Buffalo Spring Sectional Tournament March 31 to April
2 at the Buffalo Bridge Center in the Boulevard Mall in Amherst. He won 18.47
points.
Also
doing well were Fred Yellen, 12.09; Mike Silverman, 11.51; Chris Urbanek,
11.01; Jay Levy, 10.72; Saleh Fetouh, 10.18; Bud Seidenberg, 8.81; Kamil
Bishara, 7.92; Larry Abate, 7.21; Kathy Pollock and Chongmin Zhang, both with
7.13; and Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, both with 7.07.
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The Buffalo Bridge
Center has added “Kathy’s Snowbird
Game,” an Online Limited Game to accompany its live face-to-face game on
Wednesdays in the Boulevard Mall, Amherst. 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.
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 Wednesday afternoons 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
Toronto
Easter Regional – Sheraton Hotel, 123
Queen St. West, Toronto, Ont. Today, Saturday, April 8, and 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 March 27 to April 2
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Gary Keenan and Michel Dupuis, 68.75%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
68.05%; Carol Licata and Stephane Ronget, 54.86%; Jim and Michael Hassett, 52.08%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,600 game. North-south, Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 60%; Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 57.50%; Usha Khurana and Joe Miranda, 50.63%; east-west, Ed
Morgan and Paul Zittel, 63.13%; Henry Chudy and David Schott, 54.38%; Judy
Zeckhauser and Pat Haynes, 53.13%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-99 game. Jeannine Dupuis and Gini Sicignano, 63.33%; (tie) Mary Jean Shields
and Pat Sciandra, Jackie Simon and Bill Duax 51.67%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
Open game. Sharon Benz and Nancy Wolstoncroft, 60.12%; Donna Steffan and Fred
Yellen, 58.33%; Judy Graf and Bud Seidenberg, 54.17%; Mike Ryan and John
Ziemer, 52.98%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Wednesday morning –
0-750 game. Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 67.78%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce
Frayer, 62.78%; Betsy Heuer and Phyllis Stasiowski, 55%; Carol Licata and
Audrey Ray, 53.33%; Maria Amlani and Violet Makhija, 51.11%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Thursday morning –
0-1,600 game. Pat Haynes and David Schott, 61.90%; Ed Drozen and Walt
Olszewski, 61.11%; Zakie Nohra and John Marvin, 50.79%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Pat Haynes and Joe Miranda, 63.19%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 52.32%; Sandi England and Rob Hessel, 51.44%; Barbara Booi and Joanne LaFay, 50.24%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Violet
and Jasbeer Makhija, 68.75%; Paul Zittel and Jim Lanzo, 66.67%; Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 57.64%; Amita Arora and Paula Boyd, 52.08%; Henry Chudy and Jeff
Bender, 47.22%.
Buffalo Spring
Sectional Tournament Friday morning – A:
Davis Heussler and Fred Yellen, 65.38%; Nancy Wolstoncroft and Mike Silverman,
60.74%; B/C: Ruth Nawotniak and Bill Rogers, 60.10%.
Buffalo Spring
Sectional Tournament Friday afternoon – A:
Kathy Pollock and Chongmin Zhang, 68.29%; B: John Bava and Denise Slattery, 61.81%;
C: Henry Lee and Peter Louie, 49.77%.
Buffalo Spring
Sectional Tournament Saturday morning – A:
(Tie) Jay Levy and Fred Yellen, Davis Heussler and David Colligan, 63.46%; Mike
Silverman and Martin Pieterse, 62.88%; Martha Welte and Larry Abate, 62.31%;
Judy Padgug and John Ziemer, 61.36%; Saleh Fetouh and Bud Seidenberg, 59.09%;
Sharon Benz and John Marvin, 57.69%; B: Martha Townson and Jim Lanzo, 53.98%.
Buffalo Spring
Sectional Tournament Saturday afternoon – A: Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, 64.58%; (tie) Saleh Fetouh and Bud
Seidenberg, Kim and William Koski, 61.36%; Mike Silverman and Martin Pieterse, 59.85%;
Martha Welte and Larry Abata, 58.33%; B: Amy and Jessica Lin, 57.77%.
Buffalo Spring
Sectional Tournament Sunday morning – Swiss
teams. A: Ethan Xie, Jay Levy, Davis Heussler and Dian Petrov, 177 victory
points; Mike Ryan, Howard Foster, Judy Graf and Jim Gullo, 164 vps; Saleh Fetouh,
Bud Seidenberg, Chris Urbanek and Jay Costello, 146 vps; Kathy Pollock, Roger
Woodin, Sally Hill and Chongmin Zhang, 114 vps; B: Ed Morgan, Henry Chudy,
Joyce Greenspan and Sandi England, 91 vps; C: Pat Haynes, Dave Larcom, David
Schott and John Marvin, 85 vps.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, Mike and Ed Rupp, 64%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 51%; east-west, Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 58%; Joanne Zavarella and Fritz Schweiger, 57.8%.
Tonawanda Senior
Center Wednesday afternoon –
North-south, Rose Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 63.9%; Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 62.5%;
Ed and Mike Rupp, 58.3%.
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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 nearly 2,950 master points and is still playing primarily online these
days. That doesn’t afford 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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