Canada Water.
Since Baker Street was played before move 100, I’ll take the grey flag! Did no one else remember the 5th variation to Jamison Rule? It was fucking key in Harrington’s win against the Bainbridge Four in last year’s Mornington Crescent Day Of New Albany Latter Day Saints “hamburger” tournament.
Anyway, sine I was in Manhattan today, I’ll play Borough.
Oh thankyou thankyou.
I will then take a slide over to Chalk Farm which will allow me to play an ancestor based token transfer and off load Wargamers tokens to the Cassava based carbohydrate player. Nothing personal Wargamer, but frankly they were starting to smell funny.
Swiss Cottage, and that’s the end of the Stirrups (Ranjitsinghi Invitational, Brahmaputra 1913, game 3… ah, the last hurrah before the Great War. Where is their like today? 
). I think that puts me comfortably ahead on the clock, but there are still plenty of parallels in play for those of an adventurous turn of mind, and really, who wants to be stuffy about it in a commemorative game?
Isn’t Canada Water on the DLR? Very underhand. Desperate times call for desperate measures - Bayswater.
I assume you’re expecting the usual Chancery Lane here? You may not be aware of the latest research, it was only published last week after all, but Tottenham Court Road, counter-intuitively, would seem to give the best chance of an outright win. So, Tottenham Court Road it is.
What?! No, of course it’s not! It’s on the Jubilee Line and East London Overground, thank you very much, and just for that, Mile End.
(DLR indeed.)
Sorry - I am trying to play my first 20 moves without a map, as I believe this will qualify me for the repechage later on, regardless of how many negative tokens I acquire. A strange strategy, you may think - and you’d be right, but it could work out well in the long run.
Although your last puts me in knip, I am still able to play Colindale, thanks to Kieswetter’s Clarification in the 1932 regional finals.
Curse your Colindale. You’ve stuck me in the District line. But (as per pfinch-pfennings 1952) I can claim Jamaika a jamaikaiaké’s grey flags, acquire 3 green tokens, and one chit.
Cannon Street
Since Maus Magill has picked up both green tokens AND a chit on the same turn (see Huntsworth '83), that opens up a Boggs-Phelps manuever. I play Moorgate and claim all available grey flags, as well as the extremely valuable Transit Token.
It would be appropriate to mark the opening games of the games with a slighty “showboating” move , as the first games were womens football with a highly international flavour, it has to be
Fulham Broadway
Blue and White tokens recinded.
Aaaaand here they are back again as I deke over to Theydon Bois just in time for tea. Also, I claim subknip for an unstaffed station.
Hmm, I can see no-one wants to make the first post-opening ceremony move. Given my somewhat shaky structure though, I’m going to have to risk it. Vauxhall.
What with the swimming results it has to be
Waterloo
Reverse the lines.
If you don’t know the ruling , then I suppose you just don’t know.
Dead Cat, point of order! In your OP you mentioned:
“…I propose we stick to the ruleset extant at that time - namely, Brunswuthers’ 6th Edition (including post-war updates) of 1946.”
Now, are you referring to Brunswuthers’ 6th Edition in the English translation, or in the original Welsh with Lakota marginalia? There are a few significant differences between the two! (and I must say that I personally favour the original version, abstruse as it might be in places). I want to know exactly which version we are dealing with before venturing in what appears to be an exciting game of Olympic Mornington Crescent!
It’s got to be the English edition. Surely, everyone is aware the original was written under heavy opiates. In some places, it makes the Original D&D rules look coherent.
Whitechapel
A fair point. In response I refer you to Laggard’s commentary to the 6th edition, which I regard as definitive. From the introduction: “While some of the subtleties of Brunswuthers’ original Welsh are very interesting, and can lead to exciting play in the late-middle-endgame, so many inconsistencies were removed and clarifications added by the English translation (which also collated the marginalia and - quite correctly in this author’s view - confined them to an appendix), that this must [original emphasis] therefore be the version used by any serious tournament player.”
While I appreciate this particular game is not part of a tournament as such, modern convention is that any game other than the most casual affair should use tournament rules where possible, so I would like to follow Laggard here. Maus Magill is therefore quite correct.
On with the game - the last move has rather painted me into a corner. I can only proceed by sacrificing several hands of cards and making an outpost at East Finchley. I don’t think I’m giving anything away (not to my closest challengers anyway) by announcing MC in 473 from here - and that’s with best play by the defence.
You’ve pinned yourself. The question is, have you pinned anyone else?
South Harrow.
I my goodness, that dammed Brunswuthers’ 6th, again. Catching me on the codices once in a game is embarrassing, twice is just downright infuriating. It wouldn’t be so bad if that tanked lush had not tried to provide a transparent homage to John and Hughes, but noooooo, he had to go and pretend to implement a half arsed Applegate reversal just to cover up the flubbed Ringwald transform in Reno. My uncle was just down the hall in the Michael vs Tony game that really didn’t get the attention it deserved, anyway during that session and by all accounts, Brunswuther was well into the “candy” if you know what I mean, even if he did try to buck the trend of convivial breakfast time play that was in vogue at that time. The correct way out of this mess would be Heathrow over ground train route to Vauxhall, but as I am pinned and it appears my knowledge of that soak Brunswuthers could be put to shame by a sixteen year old, I’ll just sit here watching the candle burn down and hope someone has some odd and unusual knowledge to get me out of this rather pregnant pause in the proceedings.
God I hate Brunswuthers, it is like sense took a day off when the 6th was released.
Hmm, I assume everyone is too pre-occupied with the Olympics themselves to properly work out their next move. Or are you all stuck on the Northern Line, without internet access?
Fortunately, I have an abbreviated version of Brunswuthers’ to hand for just this situation, and while it’s always risky to play without being in possession of the full appendices, my position is so hopeless that it can hardly make things worse. I will take a cross-ruff to Morden which means I can also take Charing Cross - yes, I know that sort of doubleplay is normally illegal, but may I remind you that it is now after 6pm on a Friday during Ramadan? You’re welcome.