I don't think I ever saw the 1955 movie "Bad Day at Black Rock", starring Spencer Tracy, in its entirety, but its title really impressed me and has stayed with me all these years. It's stark, bleak, and a huge understatement. I remember enough of the plot to know that it was nearly the worst of all possible days for the character Tracy played; most of the people in the town, if not all of them, were trying to kill him.
Last night, I had a bad day as Black. The chess.com software tries to ensure that it gives you as many White games as Black ones, and does well at this over the long run; however, sometimes one color predominates in the short term. Such was the case last night. In five games, chess.com assigned the Black pieces to me four times. I won just one of those games, and it was the only game I won. I felt like my penance for losing was to get the Black pieces again :-)
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