Berkley Square [sic]?? Hmmm - I think I'll pass on this one and spend some time examining the latest Underground map. PP - I hereby challenge your move!
Challenge my move? I think you'll find that it's perfectly legitimate if preceeded by two shams in a row! This was quite effectively deployed in the anniversary match of '22 whereby the player went on to win the game with a beltane twist!
As the song of the London Underground Railway Planning Sub-Committee tells us: That certain night, the night we met, There were projects abroad in the air; There were navvies digging up the roads [an early reference to the 'cut-and-cover' technique] And a station was planned for Berkeley Square.
I may be right, and I may be wrong But I'm perfectly willing to swear That those present voted by eight to three to cancel the plans for Berkeley Square.
So Chalky's challenge is perfectly valid - sorry, PP.
Thank you Wol :-) ... wonderful singing, by the way. OK PP - I don't want to come over all patronising-like but have you been playing the game called Mornington Crescent for very long?
Years actually. Of course i did come into the middle of this game and may have miscalculated the set of rules you are using. If the Stanislaus Basic rules are being used then I believe, despite Wol's eloquent and lyrical singing, that I am perfectly correct. If however, you are using the Kaminski revision of 1893, then I would be wrong, in which case I shal revise my move to Mudchute
Jolly good show. In my experience these Long Games often fly on the face of strict and rigorous adherence to one nominated ruleset. As the excitement unfolds then so does the action drift, organically, as it were, from one ruleset to the other. For instance, Kaminsski revisionists had their day back in June this year. For now, Stanislaus Basic appears to be driving this train, albeit tweaked by that Watling Street Variation which was forced through on the 11th anniversary of Black Wednesday as recently as September. Damn nearly caught me out, I can tell you! OK - now for a move. I'm still sporting an extra eyebrow, so I shall attempt to be rid of it by exploring that Quex lateral, hence a cautious Bethnal Green.
I am afraid I cannot let that superficially cautious (but in reality audacious), move go unchallenged. You know as well as I do that the Quex lateral can only be explored when Grebblings' Impulse Function is at a sine value of minus 1. Putting things right with Colindale. Tsk!
Aaaaagggggghhhhhh! If it wasn't for the signalling problems at Finchley Road station (correct at time of going to press) I could have put you in Nid, Chalky with a dashing move to Baker Street. That would have taught you a lesson for the reckless trumping you have been doing. As it is I shall have to respond with a Royal leap to Victoria
Tsk!Tsk! ZK I fear that you have missed the point and fallen into PP's simple but fiendishly cunning trap.I believe, however, that I can retrieve the situation by using the Faraday Lightning Strike. (It's an old trick but it just might work). Onward to Bethnal Green
I shall answer that with the Kaminski's Repost, raising his missing two fingers and going to Uxbridge on the diagonal. Handy as it has disabled access!
widey]welcome to the great game, however if I could just nudge yoou into putting a couple of 'tags' around your moves <b> to make them bold </b> , I must show no preference to any player but please accept these four blue tokens.
[Widey] And it would also be sort of nice if you moved to an actual station, or location. Indeterminate locations are all very well as a gimmick, but entirely confusing when used as a standard strategy, not least to the player who is playing them...
You think that can hold me? Me???!!! I shall come back with the three step, cross reversal. Brent Cross, Charing Cross and Kings Cross This will put Angus back in knid an LotUS in spoon and me free to roam where I will!
[nights] my father did buy property in the 70's, in Belgravia actually, my mother dined with Romanian dictators and Japanese warlords and I'm currently number 2 in the Hit Parade.......*bows head*.actually this is a soggy tissue of lies, really Amersham.
[nights] It's not. Being a seasoned player, I'm sure you're aware you do not have to restrict yourself to stations. Graham Garden famously played Quex Road (and Willy Rushton went on to win from there), earning a 10 for using Q & X. I shall now play Yeoman's Row, taking one of your onyx podumes for asking obvious questions.
[comus] surely you realised you were offside then? Never play a Crescent after Scotch Corner after all.....Ealing Broadway to move us past the fourth parallelogram