Damn, Doris Hill Loop. You are correct, Brynda. [/gasp]
Could we get a ruling?
Sgt Schwartz
Surely you know not to ask. Dollis Hill. [sigh]Long[/sigh].
I’m going to play a cautious triple to Green Park with blocking on Picadilly stations between Gloucester Road and Holborn - my last play of this evening, I fear.
You’ve set things up nicely for a long session of deep-level tunneling, there. Bond Street.
There’s seems to be a bit of controversy here; i’m aware my own skills at the game are poor, and I’ll accept constructive criticism, so the only thing I fear about the efforts of some is that it may bring disrepute onto a noble and ancient game.
That said, I fear we’re back to Dollis Hill, short of a ruling.
Swiss Cottage
Ooooo! Then I can use the Jubilee Subduction and get to Stratford!
Cunning, but that puts the North London line into play, which opens up the DLR (we are going with Arkwright, aren’t we?)
Not to muddy up the game with facts, GorillaMan, but even I, as a self-admitted novice, am familiar with the Ardennes ruling. You should look it up.
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Also, it is in poor taste to refer to tunneling. Good play of the DLR, but invalid, I am afraid.
Sgt Schwartz
I think you’ll find I’ve played a station with conveniences already.
Then Prince Regent it is, and before 5pm local, I believe.
And that is exactly my point. Ardennes stated HAS NOT entered into conveniences. Unless you try to use the argument that Grange Hill is not classified as such in June. Bunce tried that and was taken to task as he stated in his autobiography.
Sgt Schwartz
I know it’s going to provoke people, but I stand by Grange Hill. You can’t blame me for the subsequent failure to relieve the situation with a Park Royal.
Sure, whatever. Heathrow 1-2-3.
Good use of termination principles. Epping.
Are we playing faulty elevators wild?
I shall invoke Krabett’s law and play Elephant and Castle. Note the clever use of a double platform loop there.
For more information you can try The Encyclopaedia Morningtonia.
More variations on the standard rules can be found here.
By the way the original rules were laid down by the International Mornington Crescent Society.
Only fauly escalators, or planned closures? If the latter, Hyde Park Corner. If not, then your decision will make clear your opinion on the situation regarding Hainault.
In that case, given that Hainault has just been played whilst I was typing (Quite clever, GM, but not quite clever enough!), I would not be the least hesitant to play Mudchute.
Oh, BTW, are we taking the optional “reversal when time is called at the local” rules as a given, or is it strictly BYOB?
Not a noob-like question at all; the question was definitively answered at the Winchester Conference in February '47, where it was held that rules should retain their names as applied at time of introduction. I haven’t got my copy of Mind The Gap: The Official Journal of The International Mornington Crescent Society nearby, but I recall the decision was made after the great Basil Hamlyn- inventor of the Hamlyn two-step and the instigator of Hamlyn Rules in their entirety- changed his name on a bet to “Ramesses Nibblick III Kerplunk-Kerplunk Whoops, Where’s My Thribble?”
To re-name all the strategies and rules he had developed as a result would have been unfeasible, and so the current agreement was reached.
This is, for example, why you’ll still see some advanced players using the Colonial Office Rules if they find themselves faced with a Sticky Wicket.
My next play, however, is King’s Cross Station, as per the East India Company ruling and Fosbury’s subsequent validation thereof in the Cabinet game played in '43, which Sir Winston himself was said to have observed with some interest.
I’m not sure that King’s Cross Station was the best play.
I know that not as many people play as aggressively as I do, and I know that some are put off by my reliance on mid 80’s Soviet play. However, even though the Cold War DID render the 1978-85 Lenin Cups invalid for the purposes of international records, they were played strictly according to rules, at least up until the Amsterdam Revisions of 1982 (We all know why they were implemented, and I will speak no more of them). Therefore, the strategies devised between 1978 and 1981 are very much legal for our purposes, and it’s not my fault if you lot can’t get hold of any of those materials.
Hence, if King’s Cross Station is the play, am I correct? And faulty escalators are wild, diagonals are still out, correct?
I will therefore remove the controversy over planned closures, and invoke the Pitchfork-Smoking Peat Rule in playing Anatoly Maximoff’s Tri-Line Cross, a move which had great political significance, won him the Order of the Socialist Republics, and nearly caused a conventional-weapons staredown in Siberia, by playing Baker Street.
Oh yeah?
Think I’m too aggressive? Too bad.