The strongest Kenilworth team ever to play in the U-700 Cup took on Banbury last night, on Brexit vote eve. Just like calling a people's vote, what could possibly go wrong? More or less everything it turns out... Still, at least the match did not last for two years (and counting.) I for one am keen to get this post done, such that we can all move on and talk about something else!
When you are lost after a dozen moves and are still only third to finish it does not generally bode well for the team. Unfortunately for Kenilworth our choices were generally as palatable as Theresa May's Brexit options... At least for me and for Dave, as things went from bad to worse and we both fell to terrible defeats.
I got my opening move order horribly wrong to leave myself suffering for several excruciating and chanceless hours against Mal. (My good weekend at the 4NCL seemed more like a mirage with every passing moment...) Disaster also struck Dave who blundered a Queen against Chris Evans when close to won (perhaps put off by the horrors on my adjacent board.) Jude battled well but also went down quite early. Phil and Bernard drew, but that hardly gave the evening a gloss of respectability.
So Banbury are in the final. Perhaps a re-match should be held? Did everyone know what they were truly getting themselves into when we set off on this path? A second people's semi-final might be the only way?? I fear it is not going to happen...
Still, at least we can go back to trying to wrap up Division 2. New games will follow. They can't possibly be as bad as these were. Dave and I can try and put things right in the Coventry League tonight, when we start with all our pieces back on sensible squares. Meanwhile Brexit ticks on. A game that cannot be won and never finishes...
Brexit must by now be almost be as painful for Theresa May as last night was for our U-700 team.
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