Tuesday night's match for the E team away against Stratford B was of historical significance. With Deema and Steph in the line up, this was the first time in the history of Kenilworth CC that two women have played together in the same match.
Unfortunately, the match result did not reflect this auspicious occasion. The first blunder of the night was committed by me as I had communicated to the team that the venue was the Methodist church hall in the Old Town, as it was last year. When I arrived with Steph, we found only a yoga class in progress. As it became apparent that no-one would be there for chess, we checked the Stratford CC website to find the correct venue, Venture House. We were able to contact Deema to let her know, but could not reach Roy. We waited until 7:30 to see if he would arrive, but then we gave up and headed to Venture House, to find that Roy was already there.
Very sportingly, Stratford waited for us to arrive before starting the match. We were up against a very strong team, currently top of Division 3, and with an average rating 200 points higher than ours. I was not able to follow the other games, but in my own I thought I was in a reasonable position. The engine evaluation later showed that I had made a mistake, and my opponent was +2. But he was in serious time trouble, and with only around 20 seconds left on his clock, he blundered a rook, and then resigned immediately afterwards.
The final score was 3-1 to Stratford, but against such strong opposition I was not expecting much from this match. We reach the halfway point of the season in mid-table, with a record of W3, D1, L3.
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