Commer chess club, which is reported as based in Luton below, wasn’t terribly strong in the Bedfordshire league. That conclusion is true if, and only if, we rely on inductive reasoning (moving from specific to general) and use the match below as the primary example. However, as Dr. Richard Eales points out, it is not the task of the historian to make predictions, so let’s refrain from saying how good they were overall for now and focus more on what’s below. Here we do have reportage of them failing to start (a bit like their vans used to when they got old) a match properly against Bedford and getting trounced as a result. Tsk, tsk.
Aside, your author would like to point out that not long after leaving school I played V. Maluga in Luton (early in 1989) and beat him with the Ruy Lopez. I wore a yellow jumper and took ages over all my moves. It was a long game, and he complained afterwards that I took too long to move…I could say sore loser but I won’t!
Mark. J. McCready
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