Duplicate Bridge: Oct. 7, 2023

 

More access to virtual games on Bridge Base Online is being offered by the Airport Bridge Club, which currently is not holding face-to-face games. It has affiliated with a new group of clubs, the SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge Collective, where most games are $3.50. For more info, click this link.

The Airport Club also continues to be part of the Alliance 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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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, which apparently is on hiatus until the snow flies. 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. On Friday, there’s a 299er game at 9 a.m. and an open game at 1 p.m.

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), and an open game at 7 p.m. Thursdays. 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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Tournament calendar

2023

Rochester Fall Sectional – Gates Recreation Center, 1605 Buffalo Road, Rochester. Today, 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.

Bridge Center of Buffalo.

Western New York Unit 116.

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 Sept. 25 to Oct. 1

ACBL Affiliated Clubs

Buffalo Bridge Center Monday evening – 0-750 game. Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 73.15%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 55.56%; Ruth Nawotniak and Joyce Frayer, 54.63%; Carol Licata and Larry Himelein, 51.85%.

Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,600 game. North-south, Violet Makhija and Laurie Foster, 63.27%; Maryann Szafran and John Marving, 58.33%; Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 55.56%; Ruth Nawotniak and Brian Fleming, 54.01%; Joanne Nover and David Schott, 51.23%; east-west, Sue Neubecker and Henry Chudy, 59.44%; Anthony Girasole and Richard McGowan, 55.83%; Joyce Greenspan and Andrei Reinhorn, 55.28%; Linda Milch and Susan Cardamone, 54.44%; Rajat Basu and Debashis Ghosh, 51.11%; Shirkant Joshi and Raj Puri, 50.56%.

Buffalo Bridge Center Wednesday morning – Open game. Mike Ryan and John Ziemer, 60.94%; (tie) Jay Levy and Jay Costello, 58.85%; Davis Heussler and Howard Foster, 55.21%; Donna Steffan and Jim Gullo, 55.21%; Chris Urbanek and Fred Yellen, 52.60%.

Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-1,600 game. Paula Rosen and Linda Milch, 65%; Sue Neubecker and Wilson McClaren, 55.63%; Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 54.38%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 53.75%; Rajat Basu and Raj Puri, 50.63%.

Buffalo Bridge Center Friday morning – Open game. Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, 67.71%; Donna Steffan and Mike Ryan, 52.08%; Sharon Benz and Kathy Pollock, 51.04%; (tie) Martha Welte and Larry Abate, Sue Neubecker and Jay Costello, 48.96%.

Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Linda and Doug McCalla, 73.21%; Ann and Joe Williams, 50%; Maureen Cancilla and Peggy Mead, 49.40%.

Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game. Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 57.41%; Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 56.48%; Marion Fox and Dershi Sexena, 55.56%; Maria Schory and Michael Metzger, 53.70%.

Other clubs

Amherst Senior Center Monday afternoon – North-south, Edna and Ron Fill, 60%; Judie Bailey and Joan Stankiewicz, 55%; east-west, Nancy Wolstoncroft and Pat Burns, 70%; Elaine Wegrzyn and James Cook, 50%.

Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, (tie) Edna and Ron Fill, Mike and Ed Rupp, 60%; east-west, (3-way tie) Rick Kayton and Ted Kollarz, Midge Coates and Rob Buchanan, Carol Neuhaus and Fritz Schweiger, 55%.

Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday afternoon – Ed and Mike Rupp, 67.1%; Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 57.1%.

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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 2,950 master points. He occasionally writes about his quest for the next measure of achievement, Sapphire Life Master (3,500 points), and other bridge adventures here.