The Buffalo Summer Sectional Tournament continues today, Saturday, July 12, with pairs games at 10 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. in the Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St. off Exit 1 of the I-190, with pairs games at 10 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. It wraps up with Swiss teams competition at 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 13, For more info, click this link.
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Congratulations again
to Saleh Fetouh, who won the most master points among the Buffalo area players
at a regional tournament for the second week in a row. He followed up his third-place finish at the
All-American Regional Tournament June 23 to June 29 in the Cleveland suburb of
Independence, Ohio, by earning another 28.85 points at the South Western
Ontario Regional July 1 to July 6 in Waterloo, Ont. He was 21st overall. Other
local players collecting points in Waterloo included Davis Heussler with 12.15 and Mike
Meacham with 7.49.
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Coming up next Saturday,
July 19, and Sunday, July 20, is the Rochester Summer Sectional in the Gates
Recreation Center, 1605 Buffalo Road, Gates. More info at this link.
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The Buffalo Bridge Center
offers a regular schedule of in-person and online
games Monday through Friday with party games once a month on weekends. The
club’s next party games are Sunday, July 27, and Sunday, Aug. 10. 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
Buffalo Summer Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Today, Saturday, July 12, and Sunday, July 13. For more info, click
this link.
Rochester Summer Sectional – Gates Recreation
Center, 1605 Buffalo Road, Gates. Next Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July
20. 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 June 30 to July 6
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Monday
evening – 0-750
game online. Maria Schory and Mike Metzger, 62.82%; Carol Licata and Larry
Himelein, 54.32%; Margaret Zhou and Joyce Frayer, 53.09%; Candace Graser and
Cynhia Tashjian, 52%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday
morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, Betty DeFeo and Adrian Figliotti, 60.32%; Jim McClure and
Richard McGowan, 54.76%; Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 52.78%; Jini and
John Rubenstein, 52.38%; east-west, Agi Maisel and Pat Haynes, 69.05%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.54%; Julile Mitchell and Fred Hirsch, 50.79%; Linda
Milch and Susan Cardamone, 48.81%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 67%; Donna Steffan and John Sinclair,
56%; Davis Heussler and David Colligan, 52%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. Linda and Paul Zittel, 61%; Joyce Greenspan and Dave Larcom, 58%; Donna Starnes and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 54%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. Walt Olszewski and Jim Lanzo, 69.44%;
Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 54.17%; Marilyn Wortman and Jim Easton, 51.39%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 63%; Judie Bailey and Paul Orosz, 59%;
east-west, Elaine Wegrzyn and Jim Cook, 59%; Ellen Lochead and Joan
Stankiewicz, 58%.
Tonawanda Senior Center Wednesday afternoon – Judy White and Fritz Schweiger, 58.7%; Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 55%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Club Play
Jan. 1, 2025, to June 30, 2025
0-5 Points – Julie Mitchell, 9.37; John Brennan, 3.69; Maureen
Piasecki, 3.19; (tie) Walter Balon and Ellen Balon, 0.59; Mary Collins, 0.57; John
Eckis, 0.48; (tie) Linda Marsh and Arthur Ziller, 0.40; Jeanette Bockstahler,
0.33.
5-20 Points – Jeannine Dupuis, 0.57.
20-50 Points – Dennis Daly, 8.15; Anthony Girasole, 5.46;
Zakie Nohra, 5.15; Gini Sicignano, 3.72; Molly Morris, 2.31; Phyllis
Stasiowski, 0.67; Chris-Elaine Santilli, 0.57; Michel Dupuis, 0.26.
50-100 Points – Brian Fleming, 11.77; Donna Starnes, 6.49;
Ilene Rothman, 5.42; Susan Cardamone, 3.45; Jo Ann Smith, 2.16; Pepe
Justicia-Linde, 2.12; Maureen Cancilla, 1.97; Elaine Idzik, 1.29; (tie) Cherry
Searle, Susan Burns, 0.57.
100-200 Points – Carol Licata, 4.62; Mike Meacham, 4.49;
Betty DeFeo, 4.29; Joan Ciszak, 0.64.
200-300 Points – Judy Babat, 1.88; Ethan Xie, 1.60; Hannah
Weinberg, 0.80.
300-500 Points – David Schott, 22.12; Pat Haynes, 20.20;
Audrey Ray, 18.12; Joanne Nover, 17.03; Maryann Szafran, 12.11; Ruth Nawotniak,
10.37; Agi Maisel, 6.90; Linda Milch, 6.89; Carl Hasselback, 4.15; David Whitt,
3.65.
500-1,000 Points – Larry Himelein, 27.42; Linda Zittel,
21.13; Andrei Reinhorn, 20.54; Joyce Frayer, 19.06; Jo Nasoff-Finton, 13.94; Mary
Terrana, 12.72; Sharon Wilcox, 10.70; Gordon Crone, 10.29; Paula Rosen, 10.16;
Jim McClure, 9.84.
1,000-1,500 Points – Paul Zittel, 29.17; Betty Metz, 26.85; Mary
Ball, 24.73; Howard Foster, 23.63; Jim Easton, 17.48; Marilyn Wortzman, 16.35; Terry
Fraas, 16.08; Ed Morgan, 12.35; Joanne LaFay, 10.93; Larry Abate, 9.65.
1,500-2,500 Points – Kamil Bishara, 28.40; Pinky Regan, 26.86;
Joyce Greenspan, 19.90; Paula Kotowski, 18.31; Tova Reinhorn, 16.89; Sandi
England, 10.59; David Colligan, 7.92; Walt Olszewski, 7.37; Judy Kaprove, 5.30;
Rajat Basu, 3.23.
2,500-3,500 Points – Linda Burroughsford, 19.60; Dale Anderson,
13.56; Fred Yellen, 1.43; Art Morth, 0.67; Pat Rasmus, 0.51.
3,500-5,000 Points – John Ziemer, 32.26; Davis Heussler, 32.06;
Judy Graf, 27.69; Jim Gullo, 25.32; Martha Welte, 18.86; Donna Steffan, 17.40;
Allen Beroza, 1.35; Chongmin Zhang, 0.74; Brian Meyer, 0.60.
More than 5,000 Points – Mike Ryan, 41.52; Chris Urbanek, 34.14;
Jay Costello, 24.71; Bud Seidenberg, 23.53; Jay Levy, 10 even; Kathy Pollock,
0.75; Dan Gerstman, 0.60.
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The Duplicate Bridge column has been compiled weekly by Buffalo News
Staff Reporter Dale Anderson for more than 20 years. 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, beginning at
5:30 p.m. Fridays. Another place to find it anytime 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.
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