As I’m entering the game late, and following the Jughashvili Intervention Ruling (Uckfield, 1987, I think), it seems I can help us all out while giving myself a rather nice little foothold.
How does Manor House sound? Worried much?
OB
Hmmmm, maybe, maybe not.
Lancaster Gate
HA!
PINNER!*
Incidentally,the Wikipedia entry for Pinner states at the end of the history section that the streets are paved with platinum.
Red card on Attack from the 3rd dimension for vandalising a public trust.
Meanwhile I’ll scramble everybody’s plans with the old favourite Dollis Hill.
I found it. I din’t do it.
Unless you mean paving the streets with platinum. I did do that.
Just returned from a week away, pleased to find I am still in the game. After full consideration of my options, I find that the best one appears to be: Dollis Hill.
Then henceforth to Chancery Lane
I see MC in 5 for one lucky oik
I remain to be convinced. Dollis Hill.
I don’t see any definite route to MC either. If you have one, Precambrian, please lay it out.
Gants Hill to block.
Sorry, folks, I’m afraid it has to be Dollis Hill again for me. A little help here?
It is Purbeck, Lime and Stones depositional play, I thought it had weathered the test of time well, but apparently not.
Chalk Farm
is the only place to go from here, and I still maintain someone is close.
Or I may be bluffing to draw out some rash defensive plays.
Or not
Or maybe.
Or not.
You were right earlier, it was just five moves away!
Mornington Crescent
Congratulations, well done.
Nice and sneaky.
That is a true brilliancy for the modern age - well struck, sir! I completely didn’t see that coming, being certain that until the Dollis Hill loop was not only broken but completely decommissioned, MC was not even possible, never mind likely. But of course I was forgetting the earlier elimination of the red tokens. I’ll have to check, but I think a similar incident occurred in the quarter-final of Bagguley’s famous world championship victory in 1974. Sadly, my copy of the relevant Mornington Crescent Gazette was damaged by a flood last winter, so I’ll need to go the British Library to find out for sure.
Wait a second. Let me check the sequence.
Double stirrups. One red token out.
Dollis Hill
Chancery Lane
Dollis Hill
Gants Hill
Dollis Hill
Chalk Farm (That got us on the Northen line after three stations on the Jubilee line.)
Mornington Crescent
I see nothing wrong here. Beautiful play, and congratulations to Tapioca Dextrin for seeing through the clutter.
Not the oik I was thinking of, but marvelous play Tapioca, hope you appreciated the Chalk Farm play, some of my ancestors were involved in developing that.
How many ancestors can a precambrian mollusc have? I thought you were nearly the beginning.
Sir, I object, surely you know that the 1916 Calcutta convention specifically barred a return to stations starting with D within 5 moves when double stirrups are in play?
By my calculations we need to step back 3 moves, put 2 green tokens into play and continue from where we were, of course thats taking into account the 1924 Peshawar amendment to the Calcutta convention.
So I say London Bridge, its the only sensible move from Dollis Hill when green tokens are in play.
You’ve obviously missed the retraction of Calcutta-1916. I’d hate a repetition of the proceedings here.
They did not go well. There was a fire.
Well if you’re playing by those retracted rules, sirs, I leave you to your own devices.
I don’t waste my time with philistines!