The Niagara Sectional Tournament begins Friday, Feb. 9, in the Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Center, 327 Ontario St., St. Catharines, Ont., and continues through Feb. 11. Games are at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, with Swiss teams at 10 a.m. Sunday. For more info, click this link.
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The Buffalo 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 1.001 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. Games at the Tonawanda Senior
Center will be on hiatus for the entire month of February.
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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. 22 to Jan. 28
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center
Monday evening – 0-750
game online. Carol Licata and Howard Wolfish, 63.89%; Michael and Jim Hassett,
58.89%; Joyce Frayer and Ruth Nawotniak, 56.67%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija,
54.64%; Jennifer and Howard Epstein, 52.22%; Karen Dearing and Mike Metzler,
51.67%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Tuesday morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, Joanne Nover and David Schott, 62.58%; Pat Haynes and Joe
Miranda, 58.08%; Paul Zittel and Jim Lanzo, 49.25%; east-west, Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 59.50; Sue Neubecker and Sushil Amlani, 57.50%; Betty Metz and
Ruth Nawotniak, 55.60%; Maria Amlani and Brian Fleming, 54.60%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Wednesday morning – Open game. Donna Steffan and Jay Costello, 62.04%; Chris Urbanek and Fred Yellen, 61.11%; Howard Foster and Davis Heussler, 56.48%; Betty Metz and Terry Fraas, 53.24%; Tova and Andrei Reinhorn, 51.85
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Kathy’s
Snowbird Game. 0-1001 game online. Ilene Rothman and Brian Fleming, 72.22%;
Susan Levy and Bill Noltee, 63.89%; Sue Anderson and Glenna McNally, 62.05%;
Audrey Ray and Pat Haynes, 58.33%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Thursday morning – 0-2,000
game. Fida Mansour and Anthony Girasole,
69.45%; Walt Olszewski and Ed Drozen, 56.25%; Joyce Greenspan and Sharon
Wilcox, 53.26%; Paula Kotowski and Nancy Kessler, 50.32%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Friday morning – Open
game. Howard Foster and Mike Ryan, 65.63%; Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg,
59.38%; Donna Steffan and Fred Yellen, 52.08%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Saturday
afternoon – Open
game. North-south, Sharon Benz and Fred Yellen, 61.05%; Joanne Nover and David
Schott, 58.12%; Terry Fraas and Cathy Majewski, 57.70%; Chris Urbanek and Kamil
Bishara, 56.68%; John Bava and Ed Moran, 54.29%; east-west, Pat Haynes and
David Whitt, 60.80%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.61%; Tova and Andrei
Reinhorn, 52.93%; Linda Burroughsford and Davis Heussler, 51.49%.
Bridge Club of East
Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Home-style pairs. (3-way tie) Sandi England and
Ed Morgan, Linda and Paul Zittel, Maureen Cancilla and Kathy Donnelly, 2 wins.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. Debbie and Bill Nash, 63.89%; (tie)
Henry Chudy and Jeff Bender, Gillian Mouat and Wendy Zinman-smith, 57.78%; Bill
Rich and Richard McGowan, 57.22%; Beth Whelan and Terry Camp, 56.56%; Madhav
Deshmukh and Jim Lanzo, 54.44%; Gary Keenan and Jim Hassett 50.56%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center
Monday afternoon – North-south,
Jill and Bruce Brown, 62%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 56%; east-west,
Nancy Wolstoncroft and Pat Radtke, 58%; Edna and Ron Fill, 55%.
Amherst Senior Center
Friday afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 60.28%; Edna and Ron Fill, 59.72%;
east-west, Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 68%; Mary and Jim Atwood, 67%.
Tonawanda Senior Center
Wednesday afternoon – Rose
Bochiechio and Edna Fill, 86.3%; Midge Coates and Rog Buchanan, 62.5%.
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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.
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