About 30 years ago I was a young high school student playing chess in the Baltimore chess league . We were the only junior team in the league and as far as I can recall the only high school players (Technically not entirely a high school team because we did have an adult local master on Board 1 but everyone else on the team was of high school age).

I recall one match in particular when we were playing another all adult team. We had an additional junior player to play in the match who was a good friend of mine and our opponent had an additional adult player as well who came to play. Well apparently this other adult player did not realize we were mainly an all junior team because when he saw his match would be against a kid he wasn’t very happy about it. I recall…