At least it was on Boards 3 and 4 of our Coventry League encounter with Rugby A on Tuesday, where neither Ben nor I had any reason to be happy about scoring half a point each against Martin Wilson and Dave Riley respectively. I'm fairly sure we were both winning at one stage, but I strongly suspect we were then both losing not long afterwards. So while relief was the order of the day, happiness was definitely nowhere to be seen. How could you be happy after playing like we did??
Thankfully, there were two rather more praiseworthy efforts going on higher up the board order, as Javi and Bruce each scored a full point, to see us comfortably home in the end with a 3-1 victory. Javi despatched Simon Turner on top board after trapping the White queen. Simon could only get two Black minor pieces in return, and the win for Javi followed soon after. Bruce had an exciting game against Tom Burgess on Board 2. He seemed to be well on top, and although things got a bit messy he picked up two knights for a rook. Black got some play with one of his rooks, but in trying to activate the other one he walked into a very decisive knight fork.
Anyone thinking this week's musical number might be Ken Dodd singing "Happiness" is going to be sadly disappointed. Believe it or not, I do still have some standards! I think this is much more acceptable.
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