The Finger Lakes Regional Tournament begins Monday, June 9, and continues through Friday, June 13, in the Louis Wolk Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave., Rochester (actually Brighton). The tournament concludes virtually on Saturday, June 14, on Bridge Base Online. 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 party games on the weekends, usually one each month. Next
special game will be the annual ACBL Longest Day celebration on Sunday, June
22, with two games and extra features for players.
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.
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 face-to-face games five days a week at its club in Tremont Square
opposite the Pen Centre shopping plaza off Glendale Avenue:
Mondays, 1 p.m. Open and 499er
(fewer than 499 master points) games.
Mondays, 6 p.m. Beginner game,
fewer than 50 master points. Register at mon-eve@bcon.club.
Wednesdays, 1 p.m. Open game.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. 499er game. Register
at wed-eve@bcon.club.
Thursday, 1 p.m. 999er game.
Friday, 1 p.m. Open and 499er
games.
Saturday, 1 p.m. New 99er game
with mini lesson at noon.
Fees are $9 Canadian for members,
$12 Canadian for non-members. $9 Canadian for all players for Monday beginner
game. Membership is $65 Canadian for a year, beginning April 1. For more
information, visit bridgewebs.com/Niagara.
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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The Niagara-on-the-Lake Bridge
Centre plays in the
Community Centre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., on Anderson Lane off Mississauga
Street on the western end of the village. Open games are at 1 p.m. Tuesdays and
Fridays. Fee is $5 Canadian for members, $7 Canadian for non-members. Annual
membership is $20 Canadian. For more information, visit bridgewebs.com/niagaraonthelake.
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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.
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Tournament calendar
2025
Finger Lakes Regional – Louis Wolk Jewish Community Center, 1200
Edgewood Ave., Rochester. Monday, June 9, to Saturday, June 14. For more info,
click this link.
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. For more info, click this link.
Niagara 499er Sectional – Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Center, 14
Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Friday, Aug. 15, to Sunday, Aug. 17.
For more info, click this link.
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. For more info,
click this link.
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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 May 19 to May 25
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Monday
evening – 0-750
game online. Bonnie Clement and David Schott, 69.44%; Fran Scmidt and Richard
McGowan, 66.67%; Candace Graser and Cynthia Tashjian, 47.22%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday
morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, Jim McClure and Richard McGowan, 61.45%; Pat Haynes and
Maryann Szafran, 49.70%; Brian Fleming and David Daly, 49.48%; east-west, Agi
Maisel and Ruth Nawotniak, 58.79%; Linda Milch and Judy Babit, 58.38%; Gini Sicignano
and Joyce Frayer, 56.08%; Betty Metz and Paul Zittel, 54.58%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Donna Steffan and Bud Seidenberg, 63.19%; Tova and Andrei Reinhorn,
54.17%; Linda Burroughsford and John Ziemer, 52.78%; Chris Urbanek and John
Sinclair, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. North-south, Julie Mitchell and Brian Fleming,
74.38%; Sharon Wilcox and Paul Zittel, 58.75%; Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran,
50%; Barbara Landree and Anthony Girasole, 46.88%; east-west, Mary Ball and
Joyce Frayer, 56.88%; Audrey Ray and Joyce Greenspan, 55.63%; Betty Metz and
John Brennan, 49.38%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Davis Heussler and Mike Ryan, 57.18%; Martha Welte and Larry Abate,
57.06%; Tova and Andrei Reinhorn, 56.73%; Chris Urbanek and Kamil Bishara,
53.47%; Linda Burroughsford and Sushil Amlani, 52.90%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 61.81%; Maureen Cancilla and Kathy Donnelly, 54.86%; Joanne LaFay and Barb Booi, 54.17%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 52.78%; Paula Kotowski and Nancy Kessler, 51.39%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. (Tie) Bert Feasley and Paul Zittel, Walt
Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, 57.41%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 54.63%; Jim
Hassett and Terry Camp, 53.70%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Walt Olszewski and Ed Drozen, 58%; Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 54%;
east-west, Jill and Bruce Brown, 56%; (tie) Ellen Lochead and Joan Stankiewicz,
Jack Cukierman and Mel Mesnekoff, 54%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday
afternoon – North-south,
Edna and Ron Fill, 58%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 54%; east-west, Mary and
Jim Atwood, 60%; Shirley Cassety and Jeff Peters, 58%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday afternoon – JoAnne Biondo and Ron Fill, 67.5%; Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 48.5%.
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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 five years ago this weekend 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 2,990 master points. One of his New Year’s resolutions for 2025 is to write more regularly about his bridge adventures here.
