At last! A chance to play my favourite station name!
Mudchute!
Now top that one!
According to Wikipedia, Pontoon Dock opened in 2005 – it’s on the branch for the City Airport. You really do need to keep your Tube map up to date.
You’re right, as usual! I think you and I have corresponded before on the problems / complications associated with Earl’s Court and cyclic slides. I have never willingly opted for this combination in formal play, and I doubt that I ever will. Anyway, ‘split the difference’… yep, sounds good to me!
You’re right. My mistake. Trying to do to many things at once! Apologies to all concerned.
For the sake of the beginners, I am going to play Jubilee in response to Mudchute. While I realize this is far from optimal play, it helps move the game away from it’s current progression toward Biggsby Strategy, pretty adavanced as we all know. I believe that should help all the newbies get back into the swing of things.
Tazara does indeed exist. Tazara, was not played, however, as matt_mcl posted before I did, making it a moot point. As a point of order, I must ask has the Bonham option been enacted or not. If you turn to page 146, Chapter 5, para 20-13 (2nd footnote)
Bolding mine
I must say that as I interpret the rules, Tazara would have been a legal move.
Sgt Schwartz
I know I may regret this, but I’m going to jump off Jubilee and make Great Portland Street my next move (citing the Lewes-Woolf addendum of 1955).
Not as a currently active station on the London Underground. And that’s what matters, as you are well aware! I’m all for a bit of fun when we play MC, but please… at least play legal moves.
Mornington Crescent!
I can’t believe you all fell for the old Lampett’s pause-shift-pause-strike play. I had that one up my sleeve since the first quarter shuffle, but I can’t believe you let my orbital stalk attack go unnoticed
And I can’t believe you’d play that so early in a beginner’s game. Like a good cricket match, a game of Mornington Crescent should go on for weeks or months (or at least seem to do so, which is much the same thing).
Well, perhaps, but there should also be grace in defeat. Remember we’re playing an educational game here, so surgical ruthlessness also has its place.
Hold on!!! Mangetout played Mornington Crescent at 12 minutes past the hour. And according to the very recent Coddington’s interpretation (Coddington, of course being the recently elected Master Rules Arbiter, representing the Third District) of the Hartford rules variant (which we are clearly playing under)…DIMENSION REVERSAL! (I am sure the newbies can appreciate the rarity of such an event)… the game continues! Hopefully somebody can confirm this, but I believe this is pretty much identical to the Cape Town match that the decision was based on.
Barbican
Come now. That’s hardly a precedent for this game. You’ll have to demonstrate a consensus of three or more ruling bodies - not just Hartford.
Mangetout was certainly entitled to declare MC, and his play was perfectly within both the spirit and the letter of the rules. I thought he played well, actually, showing excellent mid-line strategy and some smart and perceptive applications of inverse zone theory. And while I do agree that a longer game might have been more satisfying, all credit to Mangetout for showing some stylish and inventive play.
Gangster Octopus - sorry, but although your rebuttal has some merits, it is nonetheless the case that Mangetout was entitled to play as he did, Coddington notwithstanding. For one thing, your analysis overlooks the fact that we have had at least two straddle moves without declaration, which renders quite a lot of Coddington irrelevant at best.
Now that we’ve all enjoyed a beginner’s / instructional game, may I suggest a more considered game exclusively for the advanced players?
OK, I certainly yield to those more knowledgable in the game than I. I was relying on Wikipedia, always a dubious decision. Very lazy of me.
I’ll admit I (quite inadvertently) set it up for him perfectly–might as well’ve put it on a tee!
(Do they have a cricket version of T-ball?)
You are very gracious.
Thanks guys. It was a nicely-paced game, even if a little short. I’m exhausted though, so I might sit out if you’re playing a second round.
Mornington…… wait, what? The game’s over? Fuck!
What? It’s over?
I just got through with my Yellow Hobson’s (an experience that put me in bad for a day), and was all ready to twist the laterals and invert diagonals during a reverse shunt, or whatever it is you do, and… it’s over?