On Sunday morning at 8.05 am I was playing Roger Hooton for the first time. Helen arrived at around 8.30 am for the day's photoshoot because there were three different opponents that I would be playing during the day, as well as the Mayor of Boston who planned to arrive some time around 5.30 pm, after I had broken the record. In the three hours of play against Roger, I had four enjoyable and competitive games. At the end of our time, I came out slightly ahead on games won. Of course, as this was the first time for many years that I had seen some of these former pupils, I had to make sure I complied with the Guinness Company rules and restrict my conversations to a minimum. But chess is a game of concentration and everyone knew what the ultimate goal was, so complying was not too difficult. Just after 11.00 am I started my first game against Andrew Watson. I was particularly keen to play well against Andrew because I knew that he had travelled all the way over from Skegness to play...