Denied, under the Queen Mother’s Revised MC - 1906.
I do get to re-declare stirrups with a swift transfer to Canada Water.
Bah! That’s done it for me then. I’m in an unwinnable position, so I have little choice really other than to declare Stibbins, forfeiting the game and re-distributing my remaining tokens to the upper quadrant players.
A jolly good game chaps, and I’m not at all ashamed to be bested by the likes of this fine representation of world-class athletes. I bow to you gentlemen. May the best man win!
Isamu, before you forfeit, I’d suggest you look up the Ramsbottom Variant in your Samuel Johnson’s Crescent World. I think you might find pp 567-569(sub-B footnote 11) especially enlightening.
That’s the expurgated version you’re referring to there, I think. The one without The Gannett, the famous move instigated by Aspidites et al back in the early 70s.
Of course. Despite it’s lamentable lack of The Gannett, I find Johnson’s MC too verbose and overly concerned with form. It’s awfully turgid in places, in my opinion. Coleridge’s 1799 Expurgation did wonders to clear up Johnson’s prose.
I find myself in complete agreement with Wargamer’s assessment of Jonhson’s. He does (Jonhson, that is), however, provide us with a few interesting cases of Victoria variants, some of which undoubtedly served as a great source of inspiration for Lien Fu and his rather aggressive form of play.
I have never favored the East-Asian variants much myself and shall choose quite a different mode of play. More solid, I would say, and entirely more in touch with today’s more careless continental style: Angel.
Canada Water, hmm. Well that means its time for a DLR redoubt at North Greenwich, reopening transfers for all points north of the river.
While the East Asian school has become much more popular in social circles, I feel that it lacks the fundamental flexibility required for late game play, often leaving a player with less than 40 or 50 possible moves on a turn.
I see that our plays have crossed each other, thus paving a way for one of those rare favorites of mine, the Jeu Parallax . I can hardly contain myself in my eagerness to find out what happens next!
I absolutely am floored by the opportunity here:
Kentish Town.
Although this play is directly from the Internationale Challenge, which falls into the Suspended Play category of MC, since the tourney was called off in the wake of the Velvet Revolution of 1989, Stanswick was in a postion to call MC in 17 until Hvelcek left to take over the Czech Comnmision on Sport, Culture, and Competition. So, the jury, so to speak, is out on this move (and has been for 20 years now).
Woolwich Dockyard
ArchiveGuy with the Spare Play. Well done sir, well done.
In the spirit of your play, I will merely add:
Rickmansworth.
And in a most unscientific move, I shall play Wimbledon because it’s the sort of thing everyone wants to say but usually don’t get to do, unless you’re Queen or good at Tennis…
Wigs!
Which, according to Claremont 1957b, means I can execute a Pantograph directly to Goodge Street. 
I’ll take a cornerkick-shunt @ Wembley Central.
I hope this isn’t too terribly bold for this group. I’ve rarely seen this move in large groups (except for that one tournament in Beckingham, 1987), so…
Bermondsey
TinG was that the game reported in the Commonwealth MC Reports, 3rd where Islelingham trounced the field with a Vittorian Gambit? Or am I misremembering?
Anyway, I’ll continue to pound away at the Actons by playing Acton Main Line.
Acton Main Line? Well, all I can say for sure is that one of us is seriously misinterpreting Conyngham vs The Durham Coal Miners Collective (1923) because my understanding (based largely on Conyngham’s own - admittedly somewhat jaundiced! - analysis of both his game and his time in the North-East *Black Lung, Blacker Hearts: A Gentleman’s Guide To Chastising the Lower Orders By Means Of The Noble Game *) is that this leaves Gunnersbury Park wide open. Which means that not only are yellow tokens now Widdershins but part-time stations are now open.
But I’m slightly worried that I’ve missed something…
Well I thought I was in kip, but if part-time stations are now open I’m tempted to attempt Lenin’s Gamble and drop a three-marker in the attic before proceeding. However, I think I’m going to go with a more conservative play and invert the prism, changing the RGB color model of all odd tokens to CMYK, thus clearing the downrange vector and allowing me to move to New Brunswick.
Gah! I told you my Acton play was weak, and here it is demonstrated before the world. And Omi no Kami really piles on the dirt with a superior move. Well, in for a pence, in for a pound -
North Acton.