Farringdon Road
Yes, i know i miss my next turn but i think it’s worth it in the long run of
ends justifying the means at the end of the day.
Not a legal move. Remember, you opened with South Harrow and today is an even-numbered day (April 24). Consequently, you can’t simply jump to any zone 1 station from the District line.
Earl’s Court.
Keeping in mind the new Monarch is a king, coupled with Cardigan’s questionable tactic (For gods’ sake, remember your Parslow-Parslow, man.) I see no choice but to go with
Holland Park
Wow, it seems that both the cruel and the cunning are on the hustings and in rambunctious moods today.
Might just be the sound approach to trouser every available token so Ealing Broadway for the Central and District bonus.
Actually, i’m in the UK which is 3 days ahead of the USA, so it is a perfectly
legal move. But i can’t be bothered to argue about it so …
Moorgate
I wish we had participants from New Zealand, where the pilot on landing said: “Welcome to New Zealand. Please set your watches three hours and twenty years back.” That would mess up those horological rules you seem to hold in such high esteem and serve us all right!
I stick to my guns: Arsenal
Arsenal, huh? Very well, Rydbeck Gambit accepted. Let’s test your nerves…Green Park
I laugh in the face of the Rydbeck Gambit! I thought everyone knew that Cadwallader comprehensively refuted it at the 2019 Isle of Dogs Open Championship.
Heathrow Terminal 4
Cadwallader’s move was ruled illegal upon further review. Am I the only one who keeps up with the journals?
Green Park
ISWYDT…
Pimlico
Pimlico? Pimlico!? Are you insane? You’ve just set up Cardigan to take Queensway in two moves, using Fink-nottle’s classic 1924 move: “The Blandings Double.”
I’ll see what I can do to salvage this:
Maida Vale
Don’t panic, Cardigan will end in Wales outside the game perimeter in no time, problem solved. In the meantime:
Wapping
(though Caledonian Road and Barnsbury was tempting, if risky. You know the appendix XXVIII b-d… ah, fine times those were!)
Well, this is a decided setback, blocked on three sides as it were. However, it would be well to remember what happened to Spode who deftly outmaneuvered his opponents in a very similar situation at Budapest in 2019. As was the case of Budapest, this is also an unsanctioned match, so the New 2019 Revised International Rules (appended) section XVII (a)(i) allow me in this particular circumstance to call…
Maida Vale
Ha !
Y’all fell right into my little trap !! …
Pimlico
(…and check Portlock & Watlingham section 3.41 before you start complaining)
Nice castling: A → B → C → B → A
I see how you reason and I appreciate it. Fine. This leaves me only one option that I see:
the Elephant & Castle, where I will down a much deserved indian pale ale.
Portlock & Watlingham was updated after the Auckland Invitational in 2018. Pimlico would have been legal, had Pardel-Lux not played Wapping. But they did, so…
West Acton
It is exasperating that you don’t honour my averting of a four-way castle by not Green Park’ing as it deserves: it could have easily become a Moebius castling if suitably twisted and who knows into what unchartered territory that could have led us. Never mind, have it your way: I’ll resort to the horological rules that I actually abhorr and jump to Greenwich to reset the clock and the score.
Nice use of the Blandings maneuver there, but as Sir Roderick put it at the 1962 Bristol Cup match, “Sometimes the River is a better bedfellow then the Swan.”
Canary Warf
I was not expecting that ! …
Putney Bridge
Given the intriguing and bellicose les esprits chagrins in play which has imparted on the early stages of the game a sense of hargneux, I think a return to the Isle of Dogs is merited, so Island Gardens.