Summer Fun is the theme of this month’s party game Sunday, July 27, at the Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St. off Exit 1 of the I-190. It’s also a unit championship game, awarding extra master points. The game starts at 12:30 p.m. Refreshments and snacks at noon. Bring some to share. For partnerships, call Pat Haynes at 716-472-5189 or email phaynes508@roadrunner.com.
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Circle Saturday, Aug. 23,
on your bridge calendar. That’s the date for the annual Western New York Unit
116 picnic. Location and other details to be announced.
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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. 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, 9:30 a.m. New 99er
game.
Thursday, 1 p.m. 999er game.
Friday, 1 p.m. Open and 499er
games.
Saturday, 6:30 p.m. New open
game. Arrive by 6 p.m. if you need a partner.
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
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. For more info, click this link.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie,
Pa. Saturday, Sept. 6, and Sunday, Sept. 7. For more info, click this link.
Buffalo Fall Sectional – Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St.,
Buffalo. Friday, Sept. 12, to Sunday, Sept 14. For more info, click this link.
CANCELED: 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 July 14 to July 20
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Monday
evening – 0-750
game online. Terry Camp and Biswajit Chandra, 62.96%; Michel Dupuis and Gary
Keenan, 61.11%; (tie) Leslie Deich and Fran Holmes, Cynthia Tashjian and
Candace Graser, 50.93%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday
morning – 0-1,600
game. North-south, Jini and John Rubenstein, 67.06%; Jim McClure and Richard
McGowan, 58.73%; (tie) Barbara Landree and Betty Metz, Bonnie Clement and Larry
Himelein, 51.59%; east-west, David Schott and Dennis Day, 62.30%; Marilyn
Wortzman and Jim Easton, 57.94%; Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 53.97%; Ginger
Maiman and Marcia Wright, 50.79%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 57%; Davis Heussler and Howard Foster, 55%;
Chris Urbanek and John Sinclair, 52%; Linda Burroughsford and John Ziemer, 51%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. Paula Rosen and Judy Zeckhauser, 62.50%;
Joanne Nover and Bonnie Clement, 51.88%; Larry Himelein and David Schott,
51.25%; east-west, Julie Mitchell and Brian Fleming, 59.38%; Marilyn Wortzman
and Jim Easton, 53.75%; Barbara Landree and Anthony Girasole, 48.75%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Judy Graf and Mike Ryan, 63.54%; Martha Welte and Howard Foster, 58.33%;
Donna Steffan and John Ziemer, 55.21%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday morning – Open game. North-south, Donna Starnes and Pepe Justicia-Linde, 61.18%; Joan and Bob Ciszak, 55.08%; Joanne LaFay and Barbara Booi, 50.38%; Jan and Carl Hasselback, 50.06%; east-west, Nancy Kessler and Paula Kotowski, 55.07%; Linda and Paul Zittel, 53.82%; Ann and Joe Williams, 50.57%.
Delaware Wednesday evening – 0-2,000 game online. Madhav Deshmukh and Jim Lanzo, 62.50%;
Ed Harman and Bob Ciszak, 61.11%; Satinder Sundlass and Fay Greenholtz, 57.64%;
Mark Chasse and Jason Carter, 51.39%; Bill Rich and Richard McGowan, 50.69%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Nancy Wolstoncroft and Shirley Cassety, 59.2%; Julie Mitchell and Jasbeer
Makhija, 58.3%; east-west, Jack Cuikerman and Mel Mesnekoff, 61.1%; Joan
Stankiewicz and Ellen Lochead, 50.7%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 67%; Nancy
Wolstoncroft and Paul Orosz, 55%; east-west, Shrikant Joshi and Ron Helfman,
65%; Karen Synor and Jeff Peters, 54%.
Tonawanda Senior Center
Wednesday afternoon – Judy White and Fritz
Schweiger, 60.4%; Susan and Harvey Lichtblau, 56.2%.
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Unit 116 Master Point Leaders for Play in All Venues
Jan. 1, 2025, to June 30, 2025
0-5 Points – Julie Mitchell, 13.93; Maureen Piasecki,
4.77; John Brennan, 3.69; Joan Warren, 1.80; (tie) Walter Balon, Ellen Balon,
0.59; John Eckis, 0.48; (tie) Linda Marsh, Arthur Ziller, 0.40; Jeanette
Bockstahler, 0.33.
5-20 Points – Mike Rupp, 5.16: Fran Holmes, 3.17; Devon
Marlette, 1.80; David Taylor, 0.63; Jeannine Dupuis, 0.57.
20-50 Points – Dennis Daly, 12.82; Michel Dupuis, 9.34; Zakie
Nohra, 5.86; Anthony Girasole, 5.46; Molly Morris, 3.89; Gini Sicignano, 3.72; Maxine
Johnson, 2.57; Karen Dearing, 1.57; Maureen Saab, 1.34; Phyllis Stasiowski,
0.67; Chris-Elaine Santilli, 0.57.
50-100 Points – Brian Fleming, 26.67; Ilene Rothman, 13.38;
Amy Habib, 11.88; (tie) Mike Metzger, Gary Keenan, 10.68; Cynthia Tashjian, 8.99;
John Houghtaling, 8.24; Candace Graser, 8.05; Donna Starnes, 6.49; Elaine
Idzik, 5.29.
100-200 Points – Maria Schory, 12.78; Carol Licata, 12.01; Fran
Schmidt, 11.05; Mike Meacham, 10.86; Jim Hassett, 9.53; Jim Greno, 4.90; (tie) Betty
DeFeo, Betsy Greno, 4.27; Joan Ciszak, 1.06.
200-300 Points – Maria Amlani, 33.77; Ethan Xie, 9.02;
Laura Houghtaling, 8.24; (tie) Barbara and John Scott, 5.66; Judy Babat, 1.88; Patty
Porter, 1.55; Hannah Weinberg, 0.80.
300-500 Points – David Schott, 30.74; Pat Haynes, 26.65; Audrey
Ray, 24.26; Joanne Nover, 22.05; Ruth Nawotniak, 13.20; Maryann Szafran, 12.92;
Agi Maisel, 7.58; Linda Milch, 6.89; Carl Hasselback, 6.02; Kusum Phadke, 5.44.
500-1,000 Points – Larry Himelein, 46.13; (Tie) Terry and
Bram Hamovitch, 41.04; Joyce Frayer, 30.95; Linda Zittel, 28.46; Martha
Townson, 23.52; Andrei Reinhorn, 23.22; Sushil Amlani, 20.19; Richard McGowan, 17.11;
Mary Terrana, 15.19.
1,000-1,500 Points – Jim Lanzo, 70.38; Vic Bergsten, 54.87;
Paul Zittel, 36.56; Howard Foster, 33.26; Mary Ball, 31.86; Jim Easton, 30.96;
Marilyn Wortzman, 29.83; Betty Metz, 28.22; Terry Fraas, 20.39; Larry Abate, 16.30.
1,500-2,500 Points – Kamil Bishara, 75.03; Paula Kotowski, 35.15;
Pinky Regan, 29.09; David Colligan, 27.47; Walt Olszewski, 21.52; Joyce
Greenspan, 21.18; Tova Reinhorn, 21.08; Rajat Basu, 16.95; Sandi England, 13.49;
Nancy Kessler, 11.99.
2,500-3,500 Points – Linda Burroughsford, 78.77; David Turner,
27.56; Dale Anderson, 13.94; Fred Yellen, 4.38; Art Morth, 4.31; Elaine
Kurasiewicz, 3.90; Pat Rasmus, 0.51.
3,500-5,000 Points – Davis Heussler, 110.97; John Ziemer, 56.32;
Judy Graf, 38.02; Chongmin Zhang, 34.81; Martha Welte, 30.84; Jim Gullo, 28.09;
Donna Steffan, 23.07; Bill Rushmore, 5.23; Barbara Libby, 4.64; Ken Meier, 3.36.
More than 5,000 Points – Saleh Fetouh, 526.41; Jay Levy, 155.52; Chris
Urbanek, 127.69; Dian Petrov, 79.77; Mike Ryan, 66.67; Bud Seidenberg, 48.37;
Jay Costello, 44.25; Kathy Pollock, 39.66; Glenn Milgrim, 31.21; 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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