small but mighty
The Wagar Women’s Knockout started this afternoon with ten teams playing head-to-head matches and a curious group of four in a round robin from which three will survive. Fourteen teams feels very small — perhaps dangerously small. I’m starting to wonder how long the league will support Women’s events when fewer and fewer women choose to play in them.
We’re ranked seventh in a field that is small but mighty, so find ourselves in the round robin. Judi and I sat down first thing this afternoon against the eight-seed (Phyllis Fireman and Shannon Cappelletti, Nevena Senior and Heather Dhondy, Migry Zur Campanile and Mildred Breed); we were down one after 16 boards and lost the match by four, so tonight we play the losers of the Hampton-Schaeffer match (Joyce Hampton and Jenny Wolpert, Sabine Auken and Daniela von Arnim, Benedicte Cronier and Sylvie Willard) — Lynne Schaeffer’s team (Lynne and Martha Katz, Bronia Jenkins and Suzie Miller and Ellasue Chaitt) for 32 boards and hope to survive.
As is my habit, I haven’t looked over the bracket sheets at all carefully and have no idea what should happen if we survive. My focus now is on the next sixteen boards, since I have to play them well if we are to qualify for tomorrow’s round of eight.
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