Hold up, are we playing Oysters? I thought we were on one of the classic variations. If that’s the case, then Cockfosters and I pick up three tokens.
–Cliffy
And from Cockfosters the almost mandatory: Blackhorse Road and block token use southbound.
Damn you, Maus.
Euston, with purple tokens acquired on platform.
Decent set-up attempt, but I must foul it up, I’m afraid.
Clapham Common, and one token revoked. 
Damn. Foiled again.
Tokens Null! Ha!!!
You can’t declare tokens null without a move to a qualified declaration destination.
Canada Water.
Nice move, matt_mcl. That switch over to Jubilee is yet another foil for lynn-42.
Finchley Road
Full tokens. Double-Ha!!
Can so! I opened with Paddington and then full-handed it. See Parmington vs Parmington Jnr, Wiltshire Masters, 1947, as recorded in Mornington Crescent Openings (2nd Ed.) p. 231.
Caledonian Road.
Yes, but in that sequence, Ravenscourt Park was played as a follow-on, a station that has unused platforms. (District Line station w/ Piccadilly Line platforms unused in normal service). Here, while ianzin mentions that same station, he does so as an aside, not as a play. So your comparison to the famous Parmington family dispute is simply not applicable.
Tokens are not null.
Yet.
Caledonian Road, and full tokens in play.
I may be hoist by my own petard here. Rats.
At least I can hold inter-zone fare changes with Maida Vale.
Wembley Central, switch to nonpeak riderships, green tokens voided.
(For those of you following at home - see pp. 316-319 of The Idiot’s Guide to Mornington Crescent, 1998 version. It’s most enlightening.)
Great play.
So let’s see. Everything on the south of Maida Vale on the Bakerloo line is blocked to me. Everything north of Wembley Central is blocked thanks to you.
And if I play any line other than Bakerloo I set up a Haskin’s Heartbreak-type situation.
Clever clever. So it’s bad, worse, or worser for me.
I think I’ll choose bad: Willesden Junction. Vulnerable.
Oxford Circus
Ok. Canary Wharf, and Tramlink connection stations blocked.
Oh, that was just COLD, Bricker. It took me two hours to run a sim of our current game state (using West London Unabridged ruleset, spring 2010) and so far there is NO sequence of moves under 4,000 that leads to a win. Off with your head!
As to which, Tower Hill. Everybody pay one token.
And back to Willesden Junction to institute The Loop.
Well, not necessarily. By the Anticongruency Principle, which was ratified at the Henley-on-Thames Interzonal back in March 2008, it’s definitively established that one mandatory loop is voided by the commission of another. So off to Dollis Hill we go, and as if by a miracle… we’ve also dealt with Scuba Ben’s little problem.
(Did you miss the minutes, Scubey? They were in the West Crunge Clarion & Dubious Advertiser - not exactly a mainstream publication, but their circulation figures do actually qualify; you have to watch those committee members though, if it hadn’t been for a late night fish supper I’d have missed that one myself and I shouldn’t be surprised if there was some jiggery-pokery going on there, slipping it into a provincial free-sheet on the quiet!)
Late to this thread, had to do a LOT of reading up on MC strategy, but think I’ve finally got it. Brilliant plays here, folks. Thoroughly enjoying it!