The Buffalo Fall Sectional Tournament next weekend in the Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens
St. off Exit 1 of the I-190, features pairs games at 10 a.m. and 2:15 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 6, and Saturday, Sept. 7, and concludes with Swiss teams at 10
a.m. Sunday, Sept. 8. For more info, click this link.
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The Buffalo Bridge Center offers a regular schedule of
in-person and online games five days a week, with special games on the
weekends. Next special game is the Fall into Fall party on Sunday, Sept. 22,
with refreshments at noon and a game at 12:30 p.m. For partnerships, call Pat
Haynes at 716-202-1150 or email phaynes508@roadrunner.com.
Fee for face-to-face games is $8 for
members and $11 for non-members. Half-year memberships are now being accepted
for $40. For more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website or call 716-424-0014.
Don’t want to clean up the house for
kitchen bridge? The Bridge Center also hosts a social game in its lessons room
on Tuesday mornings during the regular 10:30 a.m. game. Players can go at their
own speed and style. Fee is $5 to cover expenses.
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 99 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, 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 $5. 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 begins play 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 open to 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 fewer than 500 points) at 1 p.m.
Monday, a beginner game with a mini-lesson at 6 p.m. Monday, games for 199ers
and players with fewer than 750 points 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 with pre-registration required.
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
Pittsburgh Roni Regional – Masonic Center North, 3579 Cemetery Lane,
Pittsburgh, Pa. Concludes today, Saturday, Aug. 31. For more info, click this link.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St. off
the I-190 at Exit 1. Friday, Sept. 6, to Sunday, Sept. 8. For more info, click
this link.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie,
Pa. Saturday, Sept. 14, and Sunday, Sept. 15. For more info, click this link.
Kitchener Local Sectional – Grand River Bridge Club, 2481 Kingsway
Drive, Kitchener, Ont. Saturday, Sept. 28, and Sunday, Sept. 29. For more info,
click this link.
District 5 NAP Final – Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie,
Pa. Saturday, Oct. 5, and Sunday, Oct. 6. For more info, click this link.
Rochester October Sectional – Gates Recreation Center, 1605 Buffalo
Road, Rochester. Saturday, Oct. 19, and Sunday, Oct. 20. For more info, click
this link.
Buffalo Spooktacular Regional
– Main-Transit Fire Hall,
6777 Main St., Amherst. Monday, Oct. 21, to Friday, Oct. 25. Also Saturday,
Oct. 26, online for District 5 players only. For more info, click this link.
Oakville Fall Regional – St. Volodymyr Cultural Centre, 1280
Dundas St. West, Oakville, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 5, to Sunday, Nov. 10. For more
info, click this link.
Niagara Sectional – NOTL Community Centre, 14 Anderson Lane,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Nov. 15, to Sunday, Nov. 17.
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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. 19 to Aug. 25
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Monday
evening – 0-750
game online. Claudia Doffing and Wilma Zieman, 64.81%; Cynthia Tashjian and
Candace Graser, 62.96%; Fran Schmidt and Richard McGowan, 56.48%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday
morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, Maryann Szafran and Betty Metz, 61.51%; Paula Rosen and Jim
McClure, 55.95%; Paul Zittel and Ed Morgan, 52.36%; (tie) Jini and John
Rubenstein, Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 49.60%; east-west, Linda Milch and
Linda Zittel, 53.97%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.57%; Sue Neubecker and
Dennis Daly, 51.19%; Laura and John Houghtaling, 48.41%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Linda Burroughsford and Jay Levy, 61.90%; Fred Yellen and Bud Seidenberg,
57.74%; Terry Fraas and Tova Reinhorn, 53.57%; Donna Steffan and Judy Padgug,
50.60%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Thursday morning – 0-2,000
game. Agi Maisel and Tova Reinhorn, 58.43%; Paula Rosen and Richard McGowan,
57.57%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 57.25%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer,
55.44%; Larry Himelein and David Schott, 55%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Judy Graf and John Ziemer, 60.71%; Linda Burroughsford and Davis
Heussler, 52.38%; (tie) Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara, Kathy Pollock and
Chongmin Zhang, 50.60%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Sunday
afternoon – Unit
116 picnic. Open game. North-south, Sandi England and Bob Kaprove, 64.08%;
Cathy Majewski and Terry Fraas, 59.49%; Sushil Amlani and Rajat Basu, 58.54%;
Linda Burroughsford and David Heussler, 57.30%; Judy Gray and John Ziemer,
49.05%; east-west, Jay Levy and Ethan Xie, 69.17%; Ann and Joe Williams,
57.89%; Joanne Kelley and Chongmin Zhang, 57.11%; Judie Bailey and Dale
Anderson, 56.34%; Kathy Pollock and Bert Feasley, 55.33%; Chris Urbanek and
Kamil Bishara, 53.21%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Joanne LaFay and Barbara Booi, 57.41%; (tie) Maureen Cancilla and Kathy
Donnelly, Mary Terrana and Gordon Crone, 56.48%; Ann and Joe Williams, 56.02%;
Ruth Wurster and Dave Larcom, 50.93%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. North-south, Jim Lanzo and Walt
Olszewski, 60.65%; Sue Manning and Sam Khayatt, 57.41%; Mary Ball and Joyce
Frayer, 54.63%; Jennifer Light and Mitch Grayson, 50.93%; east-west, Wendy
Zimman-Smith and Bruce Wachsman, 61.11%; Bill Rich and Richard McGowan, 57.41%;
Madhav Deshmukh and Sushil Amlani, 56.02%; Joanne Palmer and Lucia McCurdy,
51.39%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 70%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 48%; east-west,
Jack Cukierman and Bram Hamovitch, 60%; Ellen Lochead and Bill Westley, 57%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday
afternoon – North-south,
Edna and Ron Fill, 58%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 55%; east-west,
Midge Coates and Rob Buchanan, 58.4%; Bill Rogers and Dan Blatz, 58.1%.
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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 more than 2,970 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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