Less
than two weeks away is the Buffalo
Fall Sectional Tournament, which returns for the first time in several years to
Knights of Columbus Hall at 2735 Union Road at William Street, Cheektowaga. It includes
pairs games Friday, Sept. 8, and Saturday, Sept. 9, and concludes with Swiss teams
Sunday, Sept. 10. For more info, click this link.
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The
Buffalo Bridge Center in the
Boulevard Mall in Amherst offers a regular lineup of face-to-face games and
online games. For more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website or call
716-280-6114.
In-person
games:
Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. For
players with fewer than 1,200 points. Simultaneous game for players with fewer
than 99 points. Free lesson at 10.
Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m.
Open to all players. Simultaneous game for players with fewer than 100 points.
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. For
players with fewer than 1,600 points.
Simultaneous game for players with fewer than 99 points. Free lesson at
10.
Fridays, 10:30 a.m. Open
to all players by pre-registration only. Call 716-280-6114.
Virtual
games on Bridge Base Online:
Mondays, 7 p.m. For
players with fewer than 750 points.
Wednesdays, 11 a.m.
Kathy's Snowbird Game for players with fewer than 750 points. For more info on
this game, call director Kathy Pollock or email BridgeKat@gmail.com.
Wednesdays, 7 p.m.
Delaware Wednesday game for players with fewer than 2,000 points. For info on
this game, call Ed Harman at 716-480-1666 or email eharmon@roadrunner.com.
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The East Aurora
Bridge Club was the first local club
to return to face-to-face games three years ago. 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.
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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
for all players are offered at 1 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. There’s also a
face-to-face game for players with less than 500 points at 1 p.m. Monday, a
face-to-face game for players with fewer than 750 points at 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays,
and another one for those with less than 100 points concurrently at 1:30 p.m.
Tuesdays.
The club also hosts
several virtual games on Bridge Base Online. There’s one for 499ers at 10 a.m.
Tuesdays, an open game for all players at 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays, a Swiss teams
contest at 7 p.m. Tuesdays (pre-registration required), an open game at 7 p.m. Thursdays,
a 299er game at 10 a.m. Fridays and an open game at 1:30 p.m. Fridays. For more
info, click here.
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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 Airport
Bridge Club, which currently is
not holding face-to-face games, 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.
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Tournament
calendar
2023
Pittsburgh
RONI Regional – Masonic Center North,
3879 Cemetery Lane, Pittsburgh, Pa. Wednesday, Aug. 30, to Monday, Sept. 4. For
more info, click this link.
Toronto
Labor Day Sectional – Delta Hotels by
Marriott-Toronto Airport, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ont. Saturday, Sept. 2, to
Monday, Sept. 4. For more info, click this link.
Buffalo
Fall Sectional – Knights of Columbus,
2735 Union Road at William Street, Cheektowaga. Friday, Sept. 8, to Sunday,
Sept. 10. For more info, click this link.
Great
Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Club,
1221 Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 16, and Sunday, Sept. 17. For info,
click this link.
District
5 North American Pairs Final – Erie
Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie, Pa. Saturday, Sept. 30, and Sunday, Oct. 1.
For info, click this link.
Rochester
Fall Sectional – Gates Recreation
Center, 1605 Buffalo Road, Rochester. Saturday, Oct. 7, and Sunday, Oct. 8. For
more info, click this link.
Pittsburgh
Fall Sectional – Greater Pittsburgh
Masonic Center, 3579 Masonic Way, Pittsburgh, Pa. Fri., Oct. 20, to Sunday,
Oct. 22.
Buffalo
Spooktacular Regional – M Hotel, 2040
Walden Ave., Cheektowaga. Tuesday, Oct. 24, to Sunday, Oct. 29. For more info,
click this link.
Niagara
Falls Regional – Holiday Inn, 327
Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 7, to Sunday, Nov. 12. For more
info, click this link.
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Bridge
club websites:
Click
names for links.
The
Airport Bridge Club, which continues to be on hiatus, does not have a website.
For info, call 716-603-6943.
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Duplicate
scores from Bridge Base Online
Week of Aug. 14 to Aug. 20
ACBL
Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo
Bridge Center Monday evening –
0-750 game. Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan, 55.56%; Jennifer and Howard
Epstein, 52.78%; (3-way tie) Jim and Michael Hassett, Margaret Zhou and Joyce
Frayer, Phyllis Stasiowski and Terry Camp, 52.08%; Cynthia Tashjian and Carol
Licata, 51.39%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Tuesday morning –
0-1,600 game. North-south, Richard McGowan and Jim McClure, 65.48%; Paula Rosen
and Maryann Szafran, 59.13%; Carol Licata and Cynthia Tashjian, 57.14%; Usha
Khurana and Joe Miranda, 53.57%; Andrei Reinhorn and Joyce Greenspan, 50.79%;
east-west, Shrikant Joshi and Raj Puri, 61.51%; Linda Milch and Susan
Cardamone, 60.32%; Margaret Zhou and Ed Morgan, 53.57%; Marilyn Wortzman and
Jim Easton, 52.78%; Jini and John Rubenstein, 51.88%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Wednesday morning – Open game. Judy Padgug and Donna Steffan, 61.11%; Fred Yellen and Bud Seidenberg, 57.30%; Judy Graf and Jim Gullo, 55.73%; Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 54.69%; Sue Neubecker and Tova Reinhorn, 51.05%; Martha Welte and Nancy Wolstoncroft, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-1,600 game. Bonnie Clement and Joanne Nover, 65.97%; Linda Milch and Paula Rosen, 62.69%; Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 60.85%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday morning – Open game. Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 61.90%; (3-way tie) Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, Dian Petrov and Kamil Bishara, Donna Steffan and Linda Burroughsford, 54.76%.
Buffalo
Bridge Center Sunday afternoon –
Open game. Chris Urbanek and Bud Seidenberg, 63.33%; Donna Steffan and Saleh
Fetouh, 61.48%; Terry Fraas and Betty Metz, 60.74%; Judy Graf and Mike Ryan,
58.15%; Linda Burroughsford and Davis Heussler, 55.56%; Barbara and Martin
Pieterse, 55.19%.
Bridge Club of
East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open
game. John Fiegl and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 57.74%; Joanne LaFay and Barbara Booi,
54.17%; Mary Terrana and Gordon Crone, 50.60%; Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 50%.
Delaware
Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Bill
Rich and Richard McGowan, 64.58%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 58.33%; Paul
Zittel and Ed Harman, 56.94%; Madhav Deshmukh and Jim Lanzo, 56.25%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior
Center Monday afternoon – North-south,
Fritz Schweiger and Joe Huger, 69%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 56%;
east-west, Jack Cukierman and Melvyn Mesnekoff, 61%; (tie) Nancy Wolstoncroft
and Ed Morgan, Jim Cook and Bill Westley, 52%.
Amherst Senior
Center Friday afternoon – North-south,
Mike and Ed Rupp, 58%; (tie) Linda Vassallo and Walt Olszewski, Ellen Lochead
and Bill Westley, 57%; east-west, Nina Doran and Dan Blatz, 56%; Carol Chudy
and Linda Hassett, 55%.
Tonawanda Senior
Center Wednesday afternoon – Ed and
Mike Rupp, 61.1%; Kay Brinkman and Jack Lang, 51.4%.
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Unit 116 Master
Point Leaders for Play in All Venues
Jan. 1, 2023, to July 31, 2023
0-5 Points – Brian Fleming, 20.06; Ilene Rothman, 8.80; Dennis
Daly, 7.09; Anthony Girasole, 5.48; Bill Rogers, 3.87; Maxine Seller, 2.98; (tie)
Fran Holmes and William Duax, 2.24; (tie) Melanie Skalski and Carol Li, 2.11.
5-20 Points – Zakie Nohra, 10.32; Mary Luce, 3.63; Gini Sicignano, 3.55;
Barbara Kaye, 2.90; Devon Marlette, 2.81; Jeannine Dupuis, 2.40; Karen Dearing,
2.02.
20-50 Points – Molly Morris, 13.28; Maria Schory, 11.65; Mike
Metzger, 10.96; Jo Ann Smith, 10.67; Anne Slater, 7.46; Phyllis Stasiowski, 7.34;
Kathleen Voigt, 7.19; Lorey Repicci, 6.47; Michel Dupuis, 5.74; Maxine Johnson,
5.47.
50-100 Points – Carol Licata, 21.40; Darwin Skalski, 16.91; Jim
Greno, 15.24; Howard Epstein, 15.03; Betsy Greno, 14.24; Susan Cardamone, 12.52;
John Houghtaling, 11.83; Cynthia Tashjian, 10.99; Candace Graser, 9.22; Gary
Keenan, 6.67.
100-200 Points – Maria Amlani, 24.28; Tiger Li, 17.32; Fran Schmidt, 11.78;
Jim Hassett, 11.11; Joan Ciszak, 9.82; Betty DeFeo, 9.70; Judith McDermid, 8.25;
Raj Puri, 3.41; Barbara Scott, 3.36; Bill Noltee, 1.84.
200-300 Points – David Schott, 57.22; Kusum Phadke, 53.72; Pat Haynes, 52.65;
David Whitt, 44.97; Joanne Nover, 43.63; Laurie Foster, 21.34; Bob Ciszak, 14.15;
Laura Houghtaling, 11.83; Gerry Hooley, 8.51; Ethan Xie, 5.50.
300-500 Points – Larry Himelein, 65.58; Bram Hamovitch, 47.65; Terry
Hamovitch, 45.52; Jim O’Hara, 26.99; Ruth Nawotniak, 22.12; Audrey Ray, 18.80; Jim
McClure, 17.41; Linda Milch, 16.06; Margaret Zhou, 12.38; Agi Maisel, 11.71.
500-1,000 Points – Jim Lanzo, 77.98; Martha Townson, 53.32; Bonnie
Clement, 53.06; Vic Bergsten, 47.85; Marilyn Wortzman, 38.46; Joyce Frayer, 37.82;
Betty Metz, 35.71; Violet Makhija, 35.64; Richard McGowan, 28.18; Jasbeer
Makhija, 26.22.
1,000-1,500 Points – Amita Arora, 106.63; Kamil Bishara, 57.13; Jim Easton,
40.17; Howard Foster, 34.60; John Marvin, 32.29; Sue Neubecker, 22.26; Mary
Ball, 20.22; Joyce Greenspan, 17.65; Bob Kaprove, 17.06; Joanne Lafay, 16.86.
1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 76.53; Sandi England, 64.26; John Bava, 44.21;
Pinky Regan, 28.69; Paula Kotowski, 27.38; David Colligan, 24.87; Nancy
Wolstoncroft, 20.30; Tova Reinhorn, 18.93; Walt Olszewski, 10.54; Judy Kaprove,
8.10.
2,500-3,500 Points – Ken Meier, 96.31; Linda Burroughsford, 83.04; Fred
Yellen, 76.93; Allen Beroza, 21.74; Mike Silverman, 17.39; Pat Rasmus, 15.79; Bill
Rushmore, 6.60; Art Morth, 6.06; Dale Anderson, 5.85.
3,500-5,000 Points – Davis Heussler, 258.15; Chongmin Zhang, 136.27; Mike
Ryan, 91.66; John Ziemer, 88.48; Donna Steffan, 71.91; Judy Graf, 57.33; Judy
Padgug, 52.63; Martha Welte, 41.52; Barbara Libby, 40.35; Jim Gullo, 22.53.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 309.13; Dian Petrov, 164.73; Jay Levy, 136.35;
Chris Urbanek, 116.94; Jay Costello, 78.78; Bud Seidenberg, 85.39; Sharon Benz,
24.50.
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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 a career total of almost 2,950 master points and is 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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