Starting time is moved up to
10 a.m. for the Buffalo
Spring Sectional Tournament, which is coming up Friday, March 28, to Sunday,
March 30, in the Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St., off Exit 1 of the
I-190. Previous sectionals started at 10:30. 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, usually one each month. For more info, visit the
Buffalo Bridge Center website or call 716-424-0014. Fee for games is $8 for members and $12 for
non-members. Membership is $80.
Winter should be over any
day now, but you never know. In case of heavy snow, the club does what the
Buffalo Public Schools do. If the schools close, the club will be closed.
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 (BCON) in St. Catharines, Ont.,
offers a in-person games at its club in Tremont Square opposite the Pen Centre
shopping plaza off Glendale Avenue.
Games open to all players are
offered at 1 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. There is also a 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, mentoring at 1 p.m. Tuesdays (register by
9 p.m. Sunday), a 299er game at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday (pre-registration
requested); and a 999er game at 1 p.m. Thursday. As of March 1, there also is a
game for 99ers at 1 p.m. Saturday. It will be preceded by a mini-lesson at
noon.
The club has just cut back to a
single virtual game on Bridge Base Online, the one for players with fewer than
750 points at 10 a.m. Tuesdays. Turnout for the other one, an open game at 7
p.m. Thursdays, had gotten too small. For more info, click here.
For online play, BCON recommends
going to the SE Club of Clubs Online Bridge Collective, which appears as “SE
Carolina” on Bridge Base Online. Games run throughout the day. A full lineup of
games can be seen at SE Carolina On-line Bridge.
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Face-to-face play in non-sanctioned clubs is offered
at the Tonawanda Senior Center at 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays and at the Amherst
Senior Center at 12:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays. The game at the Tonawanda
Senior Center, which had been on hiatus during the month of February, has now
resumed.
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Tournament calendar
2025
Buffalo Spring Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Friday, March 28, to Sunday, March 30. For more info, click this link.
Toronto Easter Regional – Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen St. West,
Toronto, Ont. Tuesday, April 15, to Sunday, April 20. For more info, click this
link.
Finger Lakes Regional – Louis Wolk Jewish Community Center, 1200
Edgewood Ave., Rochester. Tuesday, June 9, to Sunday, June 14.
Cleveland All-American
Regional – Embassy Suites
Hotel, 5800 Rockside Road, Independence, Ohio. Tuesday, June 24, to Sunday, June
29. For more info, click this link.
South Western Ontario Regional
– St. George Banquet
Hall, 665 King St. North, Waterloo, Ont. Tuesday, July 1, to Sunday, July 6.
For more info, click this link.
Buffalo Summer Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Friday, July 11, to Sunday, July 13.
Niagara 499er Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Center, 14
Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Aug. 15, to Sunday, Aug. 17.
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional
– Greater Pittsburgh
Masonic Center, 3579 Masonic Way, Pittsburgh, Pa. Wednesday, Aug. 27, to
Monday, Sept. 1.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie,
Pa. Saturday, Sept. 6, and Sunday, Sept. 7.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Friday, Sept. 12, to Sunday, Sept 14.
Buffalo Regional – Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden Ave.,
Cheektowaga. Tuesday, Oct. 21, to Sunday, Oct. 26.
Niagara Regional – Holiday Inn & Suites, 327 Ontario
St., St. Catharines, Ont. Tuesday, Nov. 11, to Sunday, Nov. 16.
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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 ACBL Live for Clubs
Week of Feb. 24 to March 2
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Monday
evening – 0-750
game online. Fay Greenholtz and Terry Camp, 68.06%; Fran Schmidt and Richard
McGowan, 54.17%; Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 52.78%; Bonnie Clement
and David Schott, 52.08%; (tie) Michael and Jim Hassett, Michel Dupuis and Gary
Keenan, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday
morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, Joanne Nover and Bonnie Clement, 66.88%; Mary Ball and Pat
Wolcott, 53.13%; Ilene Rothman and Carol Licata, 50.63%; east-west, Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 58.13%; Dennis Daly and Anthony Girasole, 56.88%;
Joyce Greenspan and Andrei Reinhorn, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Martha Welte and Howard Foster, 67.26%; Linda Burroughsford and John
Ziemer, 55.95%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 52.36%; Davis Heussler and David
Colligan, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. (Tie) Betty Metz and Julie Mitchell, Barbara
Landree and Anthony Girasole, 56.25%; Linda Milch and Jim McClure, 55.56%;
Joanne Nover and Pat Haynes, 54.86%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Linda Burroughsford and Davis Heussler, 59%; Howard Foster and Mike Ryan,
57%; Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 51%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Joanne LaFay and Barbara Booi, 54.17%; (3-way tie) Sandi England and Walt Olszewski, Joyce Greenspan and Ruth Wurster, Maureen Plasecki and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 53.47%; Linda Zittel and Bert Feasley, 52.08%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. North-south, Walt Olszewski and Sushil
Amlani, 69.05%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 53.57%; Susan Pretel and
Hermoine Balph, 53.17%; Richard McGowan and Bill Rich, 52.38%; east-west, (tie)
Sue Manning and Sam Khayatt, Alice Hartman and Tom Crouch, 59.92%; Leone
Garrett and Francis Wallis, 52.38%; Betsy and Jim Greno, 50.79%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – Mary
and Jim Atwood, 63%; Jill and Bruce Brown, 58%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 51%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon
– North-south, Rolene
Pozarny and Nancy Wolstoncroft, 57%; (tie) Shirley Cassety and George Mayers,
Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 56%; east-west, Walt Olszewski and Ed Drozen, 65%;
Mary and Jim Atwood, 57%.
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The Duplicate Bridge column is compiled weekly by Buffalo News
Staff Reporter Dale Anderson. The print version stopped appearing Saturdays in
The 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 2,980 master points. One of his New Year’s resolutions for 2025 is to
write more regularly about his bridge adventures here.
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