Mornington Crescent

[captain swoop]

My Start so


Embankment

[Sticks]

My Start so


Embankment

You really must learn not to fall into these pit trps

By using the Northern Line Shift, The obvious move is Mornington Crescent

linky (http://www.oxfordtube.com/assets/london/underground_map.jpg)

Can we reset

Using the West End convention where all west end stations are wild and any player going through more than 3 East end stations is in nip until they are leapfrogged.

Lets start at

Perivale

[Eric Vaxxine]

Hanwell

[Sticks]

For those colonials across the pond (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/pdfdocs/colourmap.pdf)

I see someone has used a Red Routemaster shift without knowing all the rules :naughty: , (which are so trivial that I will not bore anyone with them)

This calls for a central lateral dog leap

Shepherds Bush

[clop]

I'm going to play the little-known last-player home flush rule and say

West Jesmond.

Ha ha, someone's gonna be in spoon with this one if they're not careful.

clop

[Mellow]

He he he, nice try, but I looked up my boyhood Mornington Crescent annuals and in the historical Almanack section, I found the answer from a 1934 match. I'll simply invoke what is known as the Johnson-Allinson Half-Flop and say...

Goldhawk Road

[Sticks]

Pah!

Rank Amateurs

By the West End convention

Great Portland Street

[captain swoop]

Without knowing which version you are playing (and having forgotten to state with my opening move) I would venture

Mile End

[Eric Vaxxine]

May I suggest...

Stoke Poges

[Sticks]

May I suggest...

Stoke Poges

Only if you want to be in nip :eh:

[gwiz]

Invoking the Whittington-Smythe convention...

Colliers Wood

[Sticks]

Only one move from here

Elephant and Castle

[captain swoop]

Waterloo

[Eric Vaxxine]

Hungerford

[Roy Batty]

Well playing by the Deltic shunt conversion by-rules as I did in the previous thread (btw did anyone ever win that one?), I leap in at UPTON PARK (double secret probation bonus points if the Hammers win though:))

[Mellow]

Well playing by the Deltic shunt conversion by-rules as I did in the previous thread (btw did anyone ever win that one?), I leap in at UPTON PARK (double secret probation bonus points if the Hammers win though:))

.... away at Portsmouth.... a draw I'd say....

Pudding Mill Lane

[mahesh]

this is absolutely amazing...truly amazing....
like baseball, i can't make sense of this game either

have a nice day y'all

[clop]

.... away at Portsmouth.... a draw I'd say....

Pudding Mill Lane

Ha ha nice one. I thought Sticks had you there for a moment but Pudding Mill Lane is pure genius! And also hard to play on from. It took me about twenty minutes before I remembered that west stations are wild, so I'll use the circle loop and say

Paddington

:dance:

[Sticks]

From here in Canada

Farringdon

(Oh and plaese try and stay with LU otherwise we confuse the colonials)

[Mellow]

"You give me Farringdon, four in the morning" - Prefab Sprout

Anyway..... easy peasy this one... Everyone knows that on a Saturday only, Farringdon tooooo...

Dollis Hill

Of course, this move is illegal on a Monday.

[Eric Vaxxine]

this is absolutely amazing...truly amazing....
like baseball, i can't make sense of this game either

have a nice day y'all

Don't go Mahesh, just say something like ....

Greenwich ... (it's about time...!)

[mahesh]

Don't go Mahesh, just say something like ....
Greenwich ... (it's about time...!)

ha ha....vaxxine....you are funny...you made me chuckle my monday morning blues away!
have a nice day

can i say willesden green ...and get away with it?

[Sticks]

Baker Street

[Roy Batty]

Thanks Sticks, that allows my escape to Clapham Common (Westham lost, Upton Park currently in nip :()

[Mellow]

Ooh, erm, I don't play often enough, Baker Street to Clapham Common.... I'm stuck now, somone else will have to move for me.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Catford

[Roy Batty]

Ooh, erm, I don't play often enough, Baker Street to Clapham Common.... I'm stuck now, somone else will have to move for me.
Careful, people will think we are collaborating :)

Eric Vaxxine, what have you done? you've forced me out to Tottenham Court Road!

[Sean Clayden]

Russel Square

[Eric Vaxxine]

Kensington Gore !

[Sticks]

Leicester Square

[Mellow]

I was about to say Mornin... but the realised you can't from a Kensington-Leicester Sq right-hop since we went Metric... so, Goodge Street

[Sticks]

Sorry about this guys, but you just opened up another Northern Line clear run

Mornington Crescent :doh:

[clop]

Ha ha, he's right. The Northern Line is obvious. Mellow what on earth were you thinking? WD Sticks

clop

[Mellow]

I thought since it is Wednesday, "Northern-Line-Norths" were not allowed, perhaps I should update my 1972 Mornington Crescent for Boys rulebook.

[Arneb]

Please, folks, I can't stand not understanding this any more - Please give the ignorant rest of us the rules. PLEASE!!:eek::eek::eek:

[Sticks]

I thought since it is Wednesday, "Northern-Line-Norths" were not allowed, perhaps I should update my 1972 Mornington Crescent for Boys rulebook.

The rule was updated in the 2002 edition when Mornington Crescent Tube Station was re-opened (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_tube_station). The Wednesday rule was suspended in that edition.

[Sticks]

Please, folks, I can't stand not understanding this any more - Please give the ignorant rest of us the rules. PLEASE!!:eek::eek::eek:

The rules are so trivial that I did not want to insult your intelligence by re-iterating them.

but if you must (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_%28game%29)

[Roy Batty]

I was going to recommend NF Stovold's excellent rulebook, but I'm afraid it's out of print ....

[Arneb]

Well, I insisted because I was completely clueless how people would avoid the Kensingeton - Leceister Square right-hop. I'll keep qiet about it from now on. :silenced:

Thanks, Sticks, for the info.

Since Morningtonm Crescent has just been reached - how about starting at

Heathrow Terminal 4?

[Eric Vaxxine]

Gatwick, South Terminal.

[Sticks]

Victoria

[Eric Vaxxine]

Beckenham

[Sticks]

Tricky one, someone has made a Network South East Shift, not a good idea for the novice, the only way to recover is is the East London Line gambit

New Cross Gate

[mahesh]

this is making me dizzy!
i am outta here!

[Arneb]

Picadilly Circus. You are in knip now, Sticks :p

[gwiz]

You could try the poetry pun gambit. A rose-red city, half as...

...Golders Green.

[eburacum45]

Grange Hill!

[Arneb]

Tricky; Victoria would seem the next logical move, but gwiz could slam a Western sideway pass via Pimlico, and that would give him Mornington Crescent in two more moves.

Liverpool Street would free Sticks from nip. No go.

So....

Camden Town (don't try a direct pass at Mornington Crescent form here, Eburacum; mind the Southern Escape exclusion rule)

[mahesh]

Tricky; Victoria would seem the next logical move, but gwiz could slam a Western sideway pass via Pimlico, and that would give him Mornington Crescent in two more moves.

Liverpool Street would free Sticks from nip. No go.

So....

Camden Town (don't try a direct pass at Mornington Crescent form here, Eburacum; mind the Southern Escape exclusion rule)

Arneb :clap: are you for real? two days! most impressive, old chap!

[eburacum45]

Dollis Hill
(careful, now)

[clop]

Oooo...

[Sticks]

Dollis Hill
(careful, now)

Quite

You do realise that a Jubile - Northern Line Diagonal Cross Lateral reverses those in Knip with those who placed them so?

You didn't :naughty:

Arneb is now in knip and I am released. (This rule came in during the 2003 interntional held at Upton Wallop, I am surprised you did not keep up with this.

Any hue

By using the West End convention I will use a Network South East Dog leap and go to

Highbury and Islington

[Arneb]

Quite

You do realise that a Jubile - Northern Line Diagonal Cross Lateral reverses those in Knip with those who placed them so?

You didn't :naughty:

Arneb is now in knip and I am released. (This rule came in during the 2003 interntional held at Upton Wallop, I am surprised you did not keep up with this.

Any hue

By using the West End convention I will use a Network South East Dog leap and go to

Highbury and Islington

Aaargh - eburacum, please avoid the Northern line roundabout trap if you don't want this to end very soon. Having the match ended while anyone is in knip will cost both of us a three-move handicap in the next round. Sticks will not let us survive long with this kind of advantage.

[eburacum45]

eburacum, please avoid the Northern line roundabout trap if you don't want this to end very soon.
Why, getting nervous?
Anyway, I think this is the only one I can play at the moment.

Dollis Hill.

[Mellow]

Highbury and Islington - easy peasy..... what with the demise of "the library" we can always take the Prince Albert to Pimlico

[Mellow]

Oops, posted at he same time as eburacum45....

OK, Dollis Hill (Very near to the home of Sid and Doris Bonkers)

hmmmm...


erm..

wait..... er.. nooooo....

OK

Playing a "Cary Grant" we head North by Northwest to Harrow and Wealdstone

[eburacum45]

Well turned;
mind you, that means I miss a go.

[Sticks]

Hmmmmm

Oxford Circus

[Eric Vaxxine]

Cockfosters.

[Mellow]

Oooh tough..

Gants Hill

[Arneb]

Thanks, Mellow, for dragging me out of knip via the "Central Line two-step".

I'll try playing a sharp ball:

East Putney

[mahesh]

Hey Arneb......Happy Birthday, ol' bean !!...

[Mellow]

I used to work right next to East Putney...

a perfect storm..... Boston Manor

[Eric Vaxxine]

Hanwell

[Arneb]

uuh-huh, careful - no fast-tracking a Northern Line zone 4 gambit here.

Back to the central area: Trafalgar Square

[gwiz]

Back to the central area: Trafalgar Square
Or Charing Cross for Trafalgar Square, as it has been labelled these many years.

Meanwhile...Seven Sisters

[Eric Vaxxine]

Tooting Broadway

[Sticks]

That was a bit risky

I will play a safety shot here

Moorgate

[Eric Vaxxine]

Old Street

[Mellow]

Off the black, tucked in behind the yellow for a snooker...

Tower Gateway

[Arneb]

Melow, please! Stick's next move would have been a straight Northern Line breaker turnaround for Mornington Crescent.

Careful- let's not let this get out of hand...
O.K., defensive double-change crossover:
Surrey Quays

[gwiz]

As my grandfather was a merchant seaman, I can play the ancestral legacy gambit to

Cutty Sark

[clop]

Ha ha gwiz you missed the Yorkshire Tyke diesel siding "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" sub-rule, introduced in the Jubilee Year clarification and re-affirmed by the Stepney Bells & Hunslet Committee in autumn 2004.


Mornington Crescent

Chortle. Read it and weep fat boy.

clop

[mahesh]

Tickets, please!

[Arneb]

Wow, that was an elegant solution. Congrats, clop!

Let's not wait for the next round too long:
Rickmansworth
(That'll be fun....)

[Roy Batty]

Ok, using the 'cafe poetry' rule:

Arsenal

[Arneb]

Superb. Why not go a little bit more aggressively:

Ickenham

(clop is not going to like this, mwha ha ha ha)

[Eric Vaxxine]

Isleworth

[Sticks]

Wembly Park

I know, but not a lot of options to avoid being in knip

[Eric Vaxxine]

Kew

[Arneb]

I hope this is not another beginner's blunder....

Leceister Square

[Mellow]

Using my patented "Max the Oyster" move... Cockfosters

[Sticks]

Looks like a classic Piccadilly Dog leap with side straddle

South Kensington

[Roy Batty]

Fenchurch Street

by invoking the station conception (I thought it wise considering the narrow escape from Arsenal).

[Arneb]

(I thought it wise considering the narrow escape from Arsenal).

Absolutely. According to an analysis I read of the 2004 British Mornington Crescent Open finals, the only escape from Arsenal in a Picadilly Dog leap side straddle is indeed either Fenchurch Street (for the more cautiously-minded) or indeed the Boston Manor/South Ealing Grand Escape for those willing to risk an all-out assault on the Euston/Kings Cross stationary defense position.

Either way, it's easy now to put Roy in rucksack by moving forth to

Clapham South

(see the Northern line South Extension dilemma here ;) ? No use trying Vauxhall/Warren Street line break now, Sticks :p )

[Sticks]

No use trying Vauxhall/Warren Street line break now, Sticks :p )


What kind of novice do you take me for


Finchley Central

How is that for a risky move, oh and by the Northern convention of 2005 all southerly moves must involve a red routemaster lateral

Have fun!

[Arneb]

What kind of novice do you take me for

Finchley Central


Errm, sorry.

However, the "complex" form of the routemaster lateral does not allow for a Western circumnavigation escape sweep, so

Tottenham Hale

leaves you no other possibility than to side-track via the Victoria/District exchange if you want to avoid staleknip.

Should keep you busy for a few moves....

[Mellow]

Errm, sorry.

However, the "complex" form of the routemaster lateral does not allow for a Western circumnavigation escape sweep, so

Tottenham Hale

leaves you no other possibility than to side-track via the Victoria/District exchange if you want to avoid staleknip.

Should keep you busy for a few moves....

And indeed, the Victoria/District sidetrack exchange is exactly what I'm taking, adding a football derby gambit to....

Gunnersbury

<chuckle>

[Eric Vaxxine]

West Ealing

[Roy Batty]

Still waiting for a move that'll get me out of 'Rucksack'. It's damned crowded in here, the thermos snores and the AtoZ keeps shoving me!

[Eric Vaxxine]

The Cardinal points to the compass!

[Arneb]

Still waiting for a move that'll get me out of 'Rucksack'. It's damned crowded in here, the thermos snores and the AtoZ keeps shoving me!

Sorry Roy, but I won't let this happen... You'll follow me now to

Clapham Common.

For the (other) novices on the game, there are just three moves left now that will keep me from Mornington Crescent.

Achtung, everyone!

[Eric Vaxxine]

I think I don't understand, but is

Morden

any good to you?

[Arneb]

Why, of course! Morden, Kilburn Park and Wimbledon are the only stations to prevent a Morrison style upward mobility breakthrough via the Euston pedestrian tunnel. And you found it....:doh: !

O. K., I still have Roy in my rucksack. Risking to set him free, my next move is to

Hornchurch

[Eric Vaxxine]

crikey ...er .... it's gotta be

Upminster, then.

[Roy Batty]

Thank you Eric!!! :dance:Outstanding play, not only have you released me from rucksack, but you have contrived to put the rest of the players in Kilburn Park nip! (Nash-Croakspire 1959 rules). Did you intend that all along?:think:

With that, I can confidently move to:

Oxford Circus

[Mellow]

It's Sunday and my missus says I can't play M-C on a Sunday. See you in the morning...

[Sticks]

Thank you Eric!!! :dance:Outstanding play, not only have you released me from rucksack, but you have contrived to put the rest of the players in Kilburn Park nip! (Nash-Croakspire 1959 rules). Did you intend that all along?:think:

With that, I can confidently move to:

Oxford Circus

But those rules, as even the most inexperienced novice should know were revised in 1967

So by the Cross lateral Circus convention of 1978, a move from one circus to the other puts the previous player in pokey

So

Piccadilly Circus

(Sorry you are in Pokey unless 3 or more players can do a Central Zone dog straddle)

[Roy Batty]

Somebody is still reading the 1st edition as opposed to the latest 5th edition rules.

BAKER STREET :p

[Mellow]

Roy, I hope you used the proper method to arrive there, ie: you wound your way down...

[Roy Batty]

Yep, even I know that escalators & lifts are forbidden during a Pokey.

P.S. Yes, I was carrying my Saxamaphone too .... :)

[Mellow]

Woo Hoo,

It's Monday, so let's see where we can wind away from Baker Street to....

I'm going old school on the rules, from the George "Incapability" Wallington 1899 perfunctory conventions and rules pamphlet for the "correct employment of Mornington Crescent gambits and strategems for new players".

Whitechapel

[Arneb]

Dang, this is an uncomfortable time to be both in pokey and in knip. I suggest the rest of you try a triple Central zone dog straddle. Otherwise, this game will be over very soon as Sticks could get to Mornington Crescent in a zip via... ah, never mind. I'll just say the Jubilee hickup trail was reinstated during the 2005 M-C WorldCon...

[Sticks]

Euston Square

Fish in a barrel time

[Eric Vaxxine]

Near the Spamalot stage ...

Cambridge Circus

[Roy Batty]

Near the Spamalot stage ...

Cambridge Circus
Hey, I have tickets for that in 3 weeks (birthday prezzy & I can't wait!). So, I feel compelled to move to:

Leicester Square. Clip clop, clip clop, oh I'm feeling brave! :)

[Eric Vaxxine]

Bow

[Sticks]

London Bridge

Reckless I know, but what do I care

[Eric Vaxxine]

Aren't most of us in...

Deptford?

[Arneb]

hah! Free at last.
Big time lateral shift:

Heathrow Airport Terminal 1, 2, 3

[Sticks]

Ha ha ha

Acton Town

Being at a two way split puts the previous player in Quandry

:evil:

[Arneb]

That was risky as well as shrewd... Chapeau - but you are aware, of course, that bestowing quandry upon an opponent right after a pokey/knip escape was criticized as "facetious play " by last years World Cup oversight committee :razz:.

O. K., since you leave me no better choice: I exercise my quandry privilege with this move and go to

Angel

without having to risk knip at King's Cross/St. Pancras.

[Sticks]

OK


Finchley Central

:dance:

[Mellow]

Marvellous.......So I simply go South via the Northern Line (Charing cross branch) to.......

Tooting Bec?!!?

Darn... overshot! I slept through a certain stop whilst reading my copy of this mornings "Metro"... And I was distracted by hitting 1000 posts.

[Eric Vaxxine]

I used to work for Metro classified, but now I commute to:

Heathrow Terminal 5

[Arneb]

This threatens to become an Acton 1999-style merry-go-round. And you know who profited from that...

New directions...

Highbury and Islington
(Go, gunners!)

[Sticks]

Kentish Town West

[Arneb]

Ah, glad you didn't see my mistake...

Tottenham Court Road

[Mellow]

Eastcote

Can you figure out how I managed that one?

[Arneb]

Can you figure out how I managed that one?
Nice one, that! I haven't been in the game for too long, but I know a wag-the-dog sidey when I see one...

Still,
Fairtop
should put most of these issues to rest...

[Eric Vaxxine]

Theydon Bois!

[Arneb]

Tough...

Hackney Wick

[Sticks]

Only one move from here,

Highbury and Islington

[Arneb]

Highbury and Islington

Ouch, that from an old hand - forbidden repeat circle after a wag-the-dog sidey (cf. post 116 and following). That's a tight knip for Sticks.

Hmmmm, endgame approaching.
Seven Sisters!

[Sticks]

Unless you do a Newtwork South East Side Step connected with a Northern Line interterchage.

(See the details of the 2005 International finals held in Barnsley)

Mornington Crescent

You need to get up early to beat an old hand like me.

My invite to play on ISIHAC is only a mere formality, unless they are scared I will show them all up. :dance:

[Arneb]

Sticks, I have to give it to you - you do know the game's history. I concede the victory, but not without reminding you that the new developments of the 2005 Finals haven't yet been formalised in the Acta Morningtonia of the IMCF - According to old law, the Newtwork South East Side Step connected with a Northern Line interterchage is not possible after an illegal sidey with repetition error (no possibility of boxing the Side Step option before 2005). So this victory was a tad naughty :naughty:

Anyway, congrats!

We happily await your next starting point.

[Eric Vaxxine]

... and now for something, completely different! (cue Sticks)

[Sticks]

If you want a new start point try

Chesham

Please also remember rule 7b: All Egyptian moves are disallowed except crossovers and double takes.

[Arneb]

Ah, conventional opening. Good for the novice.
Embankment

[Mellow]

I lost my heart in San Francisco, but I stayed in the game at

Upney

[Arneb]

Nice, reminds me of Gunnison in the 2003 British Open Final.
Staying close to our transatlantic allies:

Boston Manor

[Eric Vaxxine]

is close to...

Brentford (methinks we live quite close...)

[Sticks]

Neasden

[Mellow]

For the sake of Sid and Doris Bonkers, I have to pop just up the road to..

Dollis Hill

[Arneb]

Hmmm, I see what you're aiming at...No thanks, not another night in knip.
Instead...

Perivale

[Sticks]

Bank!

[Arneb]

Of course...

High Street Kensington

[Eric Vaxxine]

Any one for

Wimbledon !

[Sticks]

Using a Network South East Shunt

Balham

[Arneb]

Tricky.... :think:

Kew Gardens

should spare me a South network escape knip

[Eric Vaxxine]

Richmond

[Arneb]

Belsize Park.

Don't you even dream it!

[Eric Vaxxine]

Pratts Bottom.

[Mellow]

Eric, I have to apologise for not knowing where on the tfl tube map Pratts Bottom is, luckily, I don't play Mornington Crescent on a Sunday.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Eric, I have to apologise for not knowing where on the tfl tube map Pratts Bottom is, luckily, I don't play Mornington Crescent on a Sunday.

Sorry, Pratt's Bottom is mainline.

Osterley

[Sticks]

Hmm

Tricky

play the wrong move and the next play can win, so I will plump for a safety shot


Green Park

[Eric Vaxxine]

Greenford convertible, with wide wheels and go faster stripes

[Mellow]

.....and I'm back with...

Croxley

[Arneb]

Ha!

Victoria.

:boohoo:

[Sticks]

Kings Cross St Pancras

[Mellow]

Greenford convertible, with wide wheels and go faster stripes

Eric, would that GreenFord have the Carlos Fandango Super Wide Wheels?

[Arneb]

Ahem gentlemen, ad rem!

Trying to break the gridlock of an uneventful Central Circle Roundabout:

Rickmansworth

Yeah, I know - but remember how Johnston played Kensal Green and was taken apart by Condorino in '87? :eek:

[Mellow]

Ahem gentlemen, ad rem!

Trying to break the gridlock of an uneventful Central Circle Roundabout:

Rickmansworth

Yeah, I know - but remember how Johnston played Kensal Green and was taken apart by Condorino in '87? :eek:

True, true, I have to say though, I always thought Condorino was a good case of style over substance. I'm a fan of the good old fashioned "Stick it up yer jumper and don't let them get the ball" style of playing.

Thus, in the style of Rupert "incapability" Brownlow we move to

Cyprus

It's how he would have moved had the DLR been in existence in 1924....

[Eric Vaxxine]

Swiss Cottage

[Sticks]

I'm going to regret this but

Waterloo

[Mellow]

I know this is a cheap shot (As our transatlantic friends would say) but.....

Mornington Crescain't where I'm going...

Borough

(can you see what I did there?)

[Arneb]

Actually, I can :mad: . Difficult to counter, that one.
O. K., simple block header overchange:
Elephant & Castle

[Sticks]

Living on the edge again, using the Thames Link Shift

Farringdon

[Roy Batty]

Forgive my late entrance using the little known comedy convention. I arrive at:

Billy Conolly (http://www.paulkerensa.com/gfx/tube_map3.gif) :)

[Sticks]

Ronnie Golden!!!


Sorry Mornington Crescent :dance:

[Arneb]

That was so predictable...
When was the last time we were told to avoid a comedy lateral in a critical Northern Line byway situation? :evil:

O. K. desn't help to bicker. Fresh start.
Iget the feeling Sticks is a tad les commanding in a Second-degree-roundabout medial settings, so

Lee Hurst

[Sticks]

Chambers & Nettleton

or if you prefer

Notting Hill Gate

[Eric Vaxxine]

Aldgate!

[Arneb]

Not to be lured to the periphery -

Bank

[Sticks]

Oxford Circus

[Arneb]

Tottenham Court Road :whistle:

Good to know the direct route to MC is blocked by the Euston Square/Warren Street overhang :p

[Eric Vaxxine]

Lancaster Gate

[Mellow]

And I walk to

Paddington

[Sticks]

If you are into walking

Hammersmith

[Arneb]

Easy.

Holborn

[Mellow]

Phaarrrp

Whitechapel

[Sticks]

Moorgate

[Arneb]

Not so fast!

Embankment

[Sticks]

You really need to study this game a bit more and a copy of the Lundon Underground map .

You just alowed a Northern Line Milk Run under the interchanging stations lines rule. This means A clear run straight to

Mornington crescent

Sorry about that, buit if I did'nt someone else would have had to have done so.

[Eric Vaxxine]

Mile End .... then!

[Mellow]

now, has anyone other than Sticks won a round?

Farringdon

[Arneb]

clop one a round early on - otherwise, not that I could remember. But what can we do? It's a highly competetive game, after all, and if he's the best, he's the best.

Willesdon Green

[Sticks]

Sorry, learned at the feet of the masters of the game, Graham Gardner, Tim Brook-Taylor and Barry Humphreys.

Any hue

West Hampstead

[Arneb]

Not falling into that particular trap...

Clapham South

[Mellow]

I know TB-T so will pass on a hello from you Sticks...

Hmmm... Ealing Broadway

[Arneb]

That safely blocks the Southern Roundabout Escape... Dang

Ruislip Gardens

[Sticks]

Ealing Common

(Now that will get you worried) :laugh:

[Arneb]

Yeah. Right.

That feels like being hunted down, but the British Rail gambit offers a good escape route.

Willesden Junction.

[Sticks]

Does it Really

:D

Kentish Town West

Loud oooohs from the studio audience

[Bongo]

Neasden !

[Arneb]

Does it Really

Well, good enough for me. Allows me to bide my time in

Finsbury Park

See? No chance of getting into knip here. Buit nice if you'd roll me a pokey ;)

[Bongo]

Seven Sisters

[Arneb]

Tricky - could lead to a difficult Eastern network collapse gambit. I'll play it safe again.

Arsenal

[Sticks]

At the risk of sounding as if I am on a certain other "game show"

Bank

[Arneb]

We would never associate you with that excremental production, really not! :)

And a bold move it was....:think: And the Eastern network gambit is more than insecure. Hmmm

Ah: Good old Russell Square

[Roy Batty]

Vauxhall

[Sticks]

Stockwell

[Mellow]

East Putney

Having a drink at the Price of Wales whilst I'm there...

[Sticks]

Edgeware Road

Having lunch in one of the pubs there

[Arneb]

Not that trap again please :evil:. Outta here, everyone!

Uxbridge!

[Bongo]

Hillingdon

[Arneb]

:think::think::think:
Hanger Lane

[Sticks]

Bond Street

Shaken not stirred

[Arneb]

Wembley Central

Do I look like I give a damn? :lol:

[Mellow]

Footy to Rugger

Richmond

[Arneb]

I've been waiting for that one: That's MC in three for me :razz:. See?

Notting Hill Gate

Next player can't go to MC directly because of the blocked Southern Roundabout escape... To secure Northern line admissibility (without which it would be MC right away for the next player), the only option is

Earl's Court.

That puts the next player in a tight place - two-front collapse imminent or a deep knip for move repitition with no hope of ever getting out of it anymore in this round. So,

Hammersmith, thus rolling me a pokey advantage (no use trying a Circle Line escape - see why?).

I take that advantage for a direct breakthrough to

Warren Street, and the rest, as they say, is trivial:

Mornington Crescent.

So sweet the fruits of victory. And for the first time. And against Sticks:dance::dance::dance:.

Not to keep you waiting for to long, next round starts in Londish Siberia at

Chorleywood.

[Sticks]

As that is a Step Free access station, this allows me to use the North London Accessibility Red Routmaster Shift. This means I can jump to

Harrow and Wealdstone as this is also a mainline station the previous player is in Knip until two or more players can perform a cross lateral dog leap.

[Arneb]

Gnnnf, that was one badly chosen starter....
Get me outta here, someone!

[Mellow]

Arneb - It was my clumsiness that let you in last time, so now help frpom me at the moment, I'll just limp on over to...

All Saints

And it's DLR so no getting out of Knip

[Arneb]

:doh:

[Eric Vaxxine]

Heathrow, terminals 1, 2 and 3!

[Arneb]

So that was one cross lateral dog leap :whistle:
Good to see you back, Eric - and with a very nice move at that!

[Eric Vaxxine]

It was my pleasure to help you, great to be home too.

Is there a Monument, at Monument?

[Sticks]

It was my pleasure to help you, great to be home too.

Is there a Monument, at Monument?

Yes it was errected to commemorate the great fire of London. I used to have a photo of it, but it has got lost now.(the photo that is)

BTW Farringdon

[Eric Vaxxine]

I used to gig at a pub in Monument.

Moorgate

[Sticks]

Kentish Town - whilst Arneb is still in knip

[Arneb]

All this waiting around becomes quite unbearable...

[Sticks]

All this waiting around becomes quite unbearable...

we used to call it the British Rail Experience :lol:

[Roy Batty]

We still do (collectively speaking:))

Clapham Junction

There, now I've out-platformed everyone :)

[Mellow]

Is it still the worlds busiest railway station?

onwards and upwards to...

Vauxhall

[Sticks]

Getting my passport ready

Pimlico (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041737)

:)

[Arneb]

Finally.... Let's see if I can still get a foot into the door.

Clapham Common

[Sticks]

London Bridge

[Arneb]

Uuugh, careful.

Canning Town

[Sticks]

Safety shot here

Tower Gateway

[Roy Batty]

Dollis Hill :silenced:

[Mellow]

Dollis Hill :silenced:

Who are playing away tonight to Neasden FC....

Now if the result is a score draw, then "Pevsners Axiom" means we can finish this game in one move.... however, dare I wait until the game ends.... .... ... ....

[Roy Batty]

Who are playing away tonight to Neasden FC....

Now if the result is a score draw, then "Pevsners Axiom" means we can finish this game in one move.... however, dare I wait until the game ends.... .... ... ....

Bad luck old chap, the man on the hatstand says they lost (Manager Ron Knee reportedly hospitalised;)). However you do seem to have opened up a possible intriguing Northern Circular escape route to:

Finchley Central ....

[Arneb]

Wow, this is a completely different match now. Let's do something out of the ordinary.

Rayners Lane

Headache, anyone? :p

[Sticks]

Euston Square

[Arneb]

Holloway Road

[Eric Vaxxine]

Highgate Hill

[Sticks]

Northern line southern route gambit here, from the nearest tube stop

leads to

Mornington Crescent


sorry:shifty:

[Arneb]

Aw, shucks. Rien ne va plus. A new game it is:

Wimbledon,

then.

[Sticks]

Remember this move? (http://www.bautforum.com/showpost.php?p=873422&postcount=202)

Using the counterpart South London Accessibility Red Routmaster Shift, I go Brixton

Guess who is in Knip until two or more players can perform a cross diagonal straddle. :D

[Roy Batty]

I'm not sure if this counts as a cross diagonal straddle (depends on whether Compton Effect rules apply) but it is definately a desperate Irons-Hammer anti-relegation manuevure to:

Upton Park

[gwiz]

Right, I'll try a reverse-Massingberd to:

Theydon Bois

[Arneb]

And there we have two cross diagonal straddles, and a pokey for Arneb. Thanks, gentlemen.

I exercise pokey privilege with this double move:

Harrow on the Hill
and
Ickenham,

thus barring the South London Accessibility Red Routmaster Shift and putting Sticks in rucksack. This will be the long, dark teatime of the soul for you....:evil:

[Roy Batty]

Nice one Arneb! :dance::clap: Teamwork without any actual, ah, teamwork hey!:)

[Mellow]

he he he, OK... off to

Parsons Green

[Arneb]

Well, thanks for your help, folks (mwhahaha)
fast now.

Ruislip Gardens

[Sticks]

Because you had to do a minor reverse direction due to the change from the District Line to the Central line after Earls Court, according to the 1998 Convention, confirmed at the international in Stow on the Wold in 2005, such a minor reversal nullifies all rucksacks.

Nice one

Don't you just love playing with amateurs :razz:

Euston Square

[Eric Vaxxine]

Victoria

[Sticks]

Green Park

[Eric Vaxxine]

Tottenham Hale

[Arneb]

Don't you just love playing with amateurs :razz:

Actually, I think I'll leave it here. My play is probably just not good enough.

[Mellow]

East Putney

[Sticks]

Drop off at the Science Museum

South Kensington

[Mellow]

since we are at a Museum

Marlborough Road

[Eric Vaxxine]

Earls Court

[Sticks]

Kings Cross St Pancras

[Eric Vaxxine]

Old Street

[Mellow]

Old Street... Old Street... I wondered about "Burlington Bunker" just to be obscure, but.... I notice it's a Monday with an even number, so an even number of escalator links at Euston and Kings Cross means I can almost walk to

Mornington Crescent

This thread had been quiet for too long....

I'll kick us off again with

Maida Vale

[Eric Vaxxine]

Warwick Avenue

[Sticks]

Marylebone

By straddling another mainline station, this means by the Walthstow convention, Mainline Station now reverse flow except when arrived at by an orthogonal leapfrog - so there :rasp: