The Buffalo Bridge Center, 60 Dingens St. off Exit 1 of the I-190, offers a regular schedule of in-person and online games Monday through Friday with party games once a month on weekends. Next party games are Saturday, Sept. 27, and Saturday, Oct. 18. 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.
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. The Tonawanda Senior Center
game has be on hiatus for the past two weeks. Play will resume Wednesday, Sept.
3.
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Tournament calendar
2025
Pittsburgh Labor Day Regional
– Greater Pittsburgh
Masonic Center, 3579 Masonic Way, Pittsburgh, Pa. Today, Saturday, Aug. 30, to
Monday, Sept. 1. For more info, click this link.
Great Lakes Sectional – Erie Bridge Club, 1221 Grant Ave., Erie,
Pa. Next 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 Aug. 18 to Aug. 24
ACBL Affiliated Clubs
Buffalo Bridge Center Tuesday morning – 0-1,600 game. North-south, Bonnie Clement and Larry Himelein, 67.46%; Paula Rosen and Jim McClure, 66.67%; Pat Haynes and Maryann Szafran, 47.62%; Ruth Wurster and Joe Miranda, 47.22%; Jini and John Rubenstein, 46.03%; east-west, Mary Ball and Joyce Frayer, 63.10%; Adrian Figliotti and Richard McGowan, 60.71%; Carol Licata and Ilene Rothman, 48.41%; Ruth Nawotniak and Betty Metz, 46.43%; Marilyn Wortzman and Jim Easton, 46.03%.
Buffalo Bridge Center
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Donna Steffan and Bud Seidenberg, 62.50%; Julie Mitchell and Jay
Costello, 53.47%; Martha Welte and Howard Foster, 52.78%; (tie) Judy Graf and
Mike Ryan, Linda Burroughsford and John Ziemer, 52.08%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Thursday morning – 0-2,000 game. Larry Himelein and David Schott, 62.70%; Betty
Metz and Richard McGowan, 52.38%; Joyce Greenspan and Andrei Reinhorn, 47.62%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Friday
morning – Open
game. Judy Graf and John Ziemer, 58.50%; Howard Foster and Mike Ryan, 55.50%;
Jay Costello and Bud Seidenberg, 53.50%; Terry Fraas and John Sinclair, 52.50%.
Buffalo Bridge Center Saturday
afternoon – Unit
116 picnic and game. North-south, Jay Levy and Bud Seidenberg, 57.87%; Judy
Graf and Mike Ryan, 55.79%; Terry Fraas and Cathy Majewski, 54.08%; Elaine
Kurasiewicz and Jim Gullo, 53.50%; Betty Metz and Barbara Landree, 51.16%; Judy
Kaprove and Nadine Stein, 50%; east-west, Linda Burroughsford and Davis
Heussler, 64.49%; Judie Bailey and Larry Abate, 56.18%; Paula Kotowski and Bob
Kaprove, 54.86%; Julie Mitchell and Brian Fleming, 53.94%; Mary Terrana and
Gordon Crone, 53.65%; Tova and Andrei Reinhorn, 50.27%; Terry and Bram
Hamovitch, 50.03%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora
Wednesday morning – Open
game. Sandi England and Nancy Kessler, 59.72%; (tie) Pat Haynes and Joe
Miranda, Dan Clark and Dave Larcom, 57.64%; Ann and Joe Williams, 54.86%; Jan
and Carl Hasselback, 54.17%.
Other clubs
Amherst Senior Center Monday
afternoon – North-south,
Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 60%; Violet and Jasbeer Makhija, 57%;
east-west, Ellen Lochead and Joan Stankiewicz, 65%; Nancy Wolstoncroft and Jo
Nasoff-Finton, 57%.
Amherst Senior Center Friday afternoon – North-south, Shirley Cassety and George Mayers, 67%; Jill
and Bruce Brown, 55%; east-west, Shrikant Joshi and Ron Helfman, 68%; Mary and
Jim Atwood, 58%.
Third Thursdays – Individual game. North: Paula Salamone, 60.6%; Judie
Bailey, 54.4%; South: Debbie Korotkin, 63.1%; Judy McDermid, 56.2%; East: (Tie)
Joan Stankiewicz, Cynthia Helfman, 57.5%; Mary Ball, 56.9%; West: Diane Smith,
62.5%; JoAnn Smith, 54.4%.
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 nearly 3,000 master points. One of his New Year’s resolutions for 2025 is to write more regularly about his bridge adventures here.
