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Grant, Luton Dear Ken, recently my team was whitewashed 5-0 in the Beds league. The reason this happened is three of the team members arrived several hours early at the social club we play in, and started off a massive drinking session. By the time the match had started, they had been dancing on the dance floor and were buying in rounds for everyone in the team, meaning that by half way in the match some of us were a bit tipsy and some of us hammered. One player fell asleep at the board and lost on time, another fell off his chair. How am I to discourage such debauchery on a match evening?
KEN: you don’t, you have a good knees up and a laugh. Forget about the chess, it’s not that important. I suggest you join in the rounds and have a proper session next time. Laddish culture and all that.
Grant, Luton but Ken, on the way home one team player took a taxi and it crashed, throwing him through the windscreen into some bushes and he has no recollection of it!
KEN: nice one my son!
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