The Buffalo Bridge Center holds its annual meeting and game today, Saturday, Jan. 27, in the club rooms at 60 Dingens St. off the I-190 at Exit 1. Meeting first, then an open game follows. It’s free for Bridge Center members. The meeting and game had been rescheduled for last Saturday, Jan. 20, but was postponed due to the snow.
Under normal circumstances, the
Bridge Center offers a regular lineup of in-person and online games five days a
week with special games on the weekends. As of Jan. 1, fee for face-to-face
games is $8 for members and $11 for non-members. Membership is $75 per year. For more info, visit the Buffalo Bridge Center website or call 716-
424-0014.
In-person games:
Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. For players
with fewer than 1,600 points. Simultaneous game for players with fewer than 99
points if there are enough tables. Free lesson at 10.
Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. Open to
all players. Simultaneous game for players with fewer than 100 points if there
are enough tables.
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Upgraded to
now include players with up to 2,000 points. Simultaneous game for players with
fewer than 99 points if there are enough tables. Free lesson at 10.
Fridays, 10:30 a.m. Open to all
players by pre-registration only. Call 716- 424-0014.
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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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 East Aurora Bridge
Club was the
first local club to return to face-to-face games more than 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. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. There is also
a face-to-face game for 499ers (players with less than 500 points) at 1 p.m.
Monday, a beginner game with a mini-lesson at 6 p.m. Monday, a game for 199ers at
1 p.m. Tuesdays, a 299er game at 7 p.m. Wednesday; a 999er game at 1 p.m.
Thursday, and a 299er game at 9 a.m. Friday.
The club also hosts several
virtual games on Bridge Base Online. There’s one for 499ers at 10 a.m.
Tuesdays, a Swiss teams contest at 7 p.m. Tuesdays (pre-registration required),
alternating with open games every other week, 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
2024
Niagara Sectional – Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference
Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont. Friday, Feb. 9, to Sunday, Feb.
11. For more info, click this link.
Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen St. West,
Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, March 26, to Sunday, March 31.
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St. off
the I-190 at Exit 1. Friday, April 26, to Sunday, April 28.
Cleveland All-American
Regional – Embassy Suites
Hotel, 5800 Rockside Woods Blvd., Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, May 21, to Monday,
May 27.
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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 Jan. 15 to Jan. 21
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center
Monday evening – 0-750
game online. Carol Licata and Larry Himelein, 65.74%; Jim and Michael Hassett,
53.70%; Gary Keenan and Michel Dupuis, 52.78%; Fay Greenholtz and David
Freimuth, 51.85%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Tuesday morning – 0-1,600
game. Canceled due to weather.
Buffalo Bridge Center Wednesday morning – Open game. Canceled due to weather.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Kathy’s
Snowbird Game. 0-1001 game online. North-south, Omar Meguid and partner,
68.98%; Maxine Seller and partner, 53.24%; Ilene Rothman and Carol Licata,
50.46%; east-west, Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 59.26%; Anne Slater and
Kathleen Voigt, 58.80%; Fran Schmidt and Phyllis Wilkinson, 52.31%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Thursday morning – 0-2,000
game. Canceled
due to weather.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Friday morning – Open
game. Canceled due to weather.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Canceled due to weather.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. North-south, Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 62.96%; Richard McGowan and
Bill Rich, 60.19%; Walt Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, 50.46%; east-west, Ilene
Rothman and Carol Licata, 58.33%; Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, 56.94%; Wendy
Zinman-Smith and Terry Camp, 53.70%.
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Unit
116 Master Point Leaders for Play in All Venues
Jan. 1, 2023, to Dec. 31, 2023
0-5 Points – Brian Fleming, 24.64; Ilene Rothman, 16.99; Anthony
Girasole, 14.66; Dennis Daly, 10.06; Shrikant Joshi, 8.64; Bill Rogers, 7.43; Bill
Duax, 5.86; Fran Holmes, 3.70; Mike Rupp, 3.54; Maxine Seller, 2.98.
5-20 Points – Zakie Nohra, 12.11; Gini Sicignano, 5.96; Jeannine
Dupuis, 4.90; Mary Luce, 4,56; Karen Dearing, 4.29; Devon Marlette, 4.06; Barbara
Kaye, 3.15.
20-50 Points –Maria Schory, 18.25; Mike Metzger, 15.98; Molly
Morris, 13.28; Jo Ann Smith, 12.97; Phyllis Stasiowski, 12.23; Pepe
Justicia-Linde, 11.88; Kathleen Voigt, 11.43; Anne Slater, 10.35; Donna
Starnes, 8.01; Maxine Johnson, 7.98.
50-100 Points – Carol Licata, 35.27; Howard Epstein, 28.97; Susan
Cardamone, 21.78; John Houghtaling, 18.67; Darwin Skalski, 17.33; Jim Greno, 17.30;
Betsy Greno, 15.61; Cynthia Tashjian, 15.13; Candace Graser, 12.09; Gary
Keenan, 10.10.
100-200 Points – Maria Amlani, 40.21; Fran Schmidt, 20.28; Judith
McDermid, 18.08; Tiger Li, 17.74; Jim Hassett, 17.17; Raj Puri, 13.90; Betty
DeFeo, 13.72; Joan Ciszak, 11.91; Barbara Scott, 6.99; Pam Righter, 5.92.
200-300 Points – David Schott, 96.05; Pat Haynes, 82.17; Joanne Nover, 70.98;
David Whitt, 61.26; Kusum Phadke, 56.46; Laurie Foster, 29.87; Bob Ciszak, 21.87;
Laura Houghtaling, 18.67; John Fiegl, 9.89; Gerry Hooley, 8.51.
300-500 Points – Larry Himelein, 121 even; Bram Hamovitch, 87.66; Terry
Hamovitch, 85.53; Audrey Ray, 38.97; Linda Milch, 35.72; Jim McClure, 32.80; Ruth
Nawotniak, 30.03; Jim O’Hara, 27.95; Margaret Zhou, 18.93; Agi Maisel, 17.02.
500-1,000 Points – Jim Lanzo, 161.24; Martha Townson, 116.47; Bonnie
Clement, 92.52; Vic Bergsten, 74.06; Joyce Frayer, 72.59; Richard McGowan, 66.17;
Marilyn Wortzman, 66.15; Violet Makhija, 60 even; Betty Metz, 57.87; Paul
Zittel, 55.56.
1,000-1,500 Points – Kamil Bishara, 120.10; Amita Arora, 106.63; Jim
Easton, 67.86; Howard Foster, 65.31; John Marvin, 62.50; Sue Neubecker, 58.16;
Mary Ball, 50.50; Joyce Greenspan, 39.07; Joanne Lafay, 34.94; Rajat Basu, 29.74.
1,500-2,500 Points – Gay Simpson, 153.63; Sandi England, 95.83; John Bava, 75.33;
Pinky Regan, 54.12; Tova Reinhorn, 53.65; Paula Kotowski, 43.46; David
Colligan, 37.06; Nancy Wolstoncroft, 32.28; Walt Olszewski, 22.70; Martin
Pieterse, 19.53.
2,500-3,500 Points – Linda Burroughsford, 218.85; Ken Meier, 129.54; Fred
Yellen, 124.74; Mike Silverman, 30.37; Allen Beroza, 27.58; Pat Rasmus, 22.45;
Bill Rushmore, 18.57; Dale Anderson, 12.81; Art Morth, 9.75.
3,500-5,000 Points – Davis Heussler, 415.01; Chongmin Zhang, 176.73; John
Ziemer, 168.32; Mike Ryan, 163.64; Donna Steffan, 137.95; Judy Graf, 102.89;
Martha Welte, 72.35; Judy Padgug, 68.34; Kathy Pollock, 67.90; Barbara Libby, 55.39.
Over 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 631.12; Dian Petrov, 262.40; Jay Levy, 238.19;
Chris Urbanek, 208.72; Jay Costello, 161.91; Bud Seidenberg, 144.96; Sharon
Benz, 51.02; Glenn Milgrim, 27.33.
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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 more than 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.
