**Goodge Street is so often the final stepping stone before MC in professional games, but that would be quite invalid after the most elegant twin shuffle played by mcms_cricket; I’ll play the triple-line hop to Barbican.
Barbican prepares us for Aldrantrian’s Old Street trap, or worse the Liverpool Street stalemate (thankfully only in existence due to the contiuing game somewhere in Maryland).
Euston
Skirting to Kings Cross St Pancras
You left Hammersmith as an obvious escape. I presume you don’t know about the escape tunnel…
Damn! That’s some slick play GorillaMan - the rest of the game is pretty much a formality from here on in - I don’t see how I can do much more than play to minimise losses.
Marble Arch
No way. We’re going to get mired in Piccadilly Circus, if we ever turn the corner of Regent Street. That’s what the whole 1967 kerfluffle was about. Now, it’s a wild card. This game is far from over.
Wait and see; I don’t know how many moves ahead or sideways you’re looking, but I have to tell you, I think GorillaMan will have to fumble is pretty badly to lose from here.
Someone who shall remain nameless informed me that Drayton Park would be a foolish move of the First Order. Can I get an opinion on that?
Under most circumstances it would be foolhardy, yes, but it depends largely on the moves with which you follow it - when two or more lines crossing the central octagon are wild, Drayton Park can set your opponents off-guard and form the opening sacrificial move for a spectacular implementation of the Hibbert’s Surprise Crease manoeuvre. But I probably shouldn’t have told you that.
Can we allow Fleet Line preferences to stand, avoiding the notorious 1982-4 Jubilee Line stalemate? If so, I’ll take Bond Street.
Notting Hill Gate (Saints preserve us from the JLS!)
Ah… i think I see where this is heading…sorry to derail you, pun intended…
Putney Bridge
Isn’t that impossible, except for if there’s a signal failure at Earl’s Court?
No, of course it’s not illegal. Don’t you have the updated Rules? Look again at page 1123, sub-section 2, paragraph b.
OK, trying to make the best of a bad situation - Bethnal Green
The 1996 unified rules (under the December Oslo convention) allow Earl’s Court signal failures to be bypassed by means of recursive distancing through abandoned stations such as Blake Hall. I’m sure this is what Kymodoce had in mind.
Actually, although Mangetout’s theory is spot on, I was thinking more of the Three-Day Travelcard appendix which was rather controversially introduced during Red Ken’s days at the GLC.
If GLC decisions are taken as standing, my only option is Westminster
Blackfriars, the long way around.
I don’t have a move, just wanted to say this has to be the longest MC game this board has ever seen!
Well, if you’re going to invoke the Three-Day Travelcard appendix (the use of which, I’ve always felt, was cheating) and then go through Westminster and Blackfriars, then you probably think there aren’t any options left. BUT, then I’ll raise the stakes:
West India Quay