I’m trying to swallow my ire and pretend it’s just good sportsmanship I feel.
I concede the win.
But I must say that this is why Internet-hosted games are regarded as a poor-man’s substitute, and why you find so few Internet resources for the game. Has it ever occurred to you, for example, to wonder why we don’t have a web-based move calculator? Why we don’t have Thornton’s, or MC Quarterly, or, hell, even Renaldi’s on line?
In a live game, the timing issue that Dead Cat used you pull off a concededly brilliant McGoohan’s Convergence would have been obvious to all. There would have been a large clock on the wall, and perhaps even an obvious wait or giveaway glance to inform the competitors of the significance of the hour and minute being equal. Most especially, we would have had all competitors be equally able to assess that because all would have been in the same time zone.
I don’t fault Dead Cat – to the contrary, had I thought of it, I would have played it myself, perhaps starting my setup when Edgware Road and the straddle were played. But I think I’d ask for an agreement, in a future Internet game, that all agree to a single effective time zone for the play.
Whacking good play, DC. My bitterness will last only a little longer, I promise. 