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Mind the Gap

 
  

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RiffRaff
04:17 / 28.06.02
Since it seems to be mainly UK folks on this board, I'll go out on a limb: anyone for a game of Mornington Crescent? Standard Chalk Farm rules (including the '88 Amendments), no inverse shunting on the diagonals?
 
 
RiffRaff
04:18 / 28.06.02
(whoop - this is probably better suited for the Conversation area. Mea culpa.)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
07:04 / 28.06.02
Ah, but will we be using Jenkinson's unabridged Green guide to the Chalk Farm rules, or the condensed Blue?
 
 
RiffRaff
07:17 / 28.06.02
Hmm. I'm a bit rusty (it's so hard to get a good game on this side of the pond), so I'm inclined to say Blue because of its simpler scope (its lack of Zone 2 crosshatching, for example), but on the other hand, the Green offers so much more in the way of lateral strile calculation and south-of-the-river Clamping derivation...

Heck with it. Let's use the Green version - might as well jump in with both feet, right? I'll start:

Pimlico

(A fairly pedestrian opening, but like I say, it's been a while - I'll warm up as we go.)
 
 
Rev. Orr
07:57 / 28.06.02
Holburn - I like to play the Svensonn strategy against an unknown opponent.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:16 / 28.06.02
Yeah, but you want to be careful with that or you'll end up at Aldwych, and we all know what that means.

Whitechapel
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:21 / 28.06.02
Inverse Capiolina. Interessssting.....

But.

Shadwell.

Hah! Suck it up! Suck it! Hah! Hah! Didn't think I'd dare, did you?
 
 
Rev. Orr
08:32 / 28.06.02
Pitiful, my old friend. You still using that tired strategem? You really should keep up with modern thinking, particularly with reference to the use of the southern Piccadilly loop and the reverse Circle shunt.

Debden.

Stitch that, wordy.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:47 / 28.06.02
See - you think that'll get you out of gaol, but you're wrong... this is where tactical pincer movements come in very handy:

Plaistow.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
08:50 / 28.06.02
We're playing Green, you simpleton. For that you must proofread Direct Mail.

(That to Orr, obviosuly, although Kit-Kat has now created a cyclonic variant)
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:53 / 28.06.02
That hurts...

Better go back to Ealing Common in that case. Sorry chaps.
 
 
Rev. Orr
08:59 / 28.06.02
Watch for the Haus, he like to effect a reverse-stibbling and you'll lay yourself open to nefarious plans unless you close off your off-side flanks and open up a shunt channel to the postal quarters.

Sudbury Hill.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:16 / 28.06.02
Neasden.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:37 / 28.06.02
Hmm.... let me think.

Arnos Grove.
 
 
RiffRaff
17:15 / 28.06.02
Wow! I may be out of my league here, but...

Morden.

And that's you in Knip I believe, Orr.
 
 
Rev. Orr
17:25 / 28.06.02
Damn you, RiffRaff, but you haven't bested me yet. I shun your Knip with a widdershins yardgarble.

Becontree.

And I trust that we are acknowledging the '97 Grebe ammendment on off-peak frottage and angle-poising...
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
17:36 / 28.06.02
Ah, but your hasty 'Luxemburg Shift' of course leaves me open to declare the controversial, yet legal:

Euston Road
 
 
RiffRaff
06:14 / 29.06.02
And I trust that we are acknowledging the '97 Grebe ammendment on off-peak frottage and angle-poising...

Drat! I broke my slide-rule!

Pass
 
 
Tamayyurt
03:11 / 02.07.02
What the hell does Mind the Gap mean anyway?
 
 
Rev. Orr
07:37 / 02.07.02
It's a chant for mildly irritated, middle-aged, middle-class protesters who object, theoretically, to overt consumerism and the corporate take-over of society, but do find pastels, khakis and cashmere pullovers soothing and just so damn stylish.

cf "MacDonalds - it doesn't taste that good", "Starbucks - you could make it at home for less" and "Whither Microsoft?".

Mansion House
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:07 / 02.07.02
Tezcatlipoca - Euston Road? Shurely shome mishtake - I think you'll find that the Doppelganger manoeuvre can only be performed after the double Luxembourg shift. Tsssk. Still, we must take what we are given...

Swiss Cottage
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:20 / 02.07.02
(imp: The dreaded Gap is the space between the tube-train and the edge of the platform. It is a gaping maw of death for the unwary.)

Hmmm....

Bounds Green
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
12:01 / 02.07.02
Soooo tempting to set it up here, but I won't...

Aldgate
 
 
Rev. Orr
14:43 / 02.07.02
Ok, safety first, what with people ganging-up to box me onto the diagonals.

Osterley

And let's hope that opens the game out a bit.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
16:38 / 02.07.02
It does indeed, and thank-you Orr:

Goodge Street
 
 
grant
21:30 / 02.07.02
impulsive: What the hell does Mind the Gap mean anyway?

In England, all the trains are magical trains, and all the trains can talk, and the magic words you can sometimes hear them say are "Mind the Gap."
It is rumored that by reciting the names of certain stations in order, you can become a master of the trains, and they will begin speaking to you and telling you their secrets. And the trains of London have many secrets.....
 
 
grant
22:02 / 02.07.02
Oh, and just in case anyone's offended at my off-topicness, I'll take a stake in, let's say... Maida Vale, which (if I'm remembering the rules right) is a legal move using the Fitzmartin clarifications. (...which we used as standard when I was playing way back when.)
 
 
RiffRaff
01:36 / 03.07.02
Hmm. I've always been a bit leery of the Fitzmartin Clairifications (particularly after it was revealed that he misspelt "Blackfriars" as "Morden" throughout the text), but I suppose it shouldn't cause too much of a problem here... and anyway, I don't want this to degenerate into a lot of pedantic rules-mongering, like that terrible display between Adam McMasters and Wu Chang-Li at the '92 tournament in Brussels. So, I'll let it go.

Bank (taking the escalator to Monument)
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:14 / 03.07.02
I don't think you can DO that...
 
 
Rev. Orr
09:24 / 03.07.02
Hmm, after the infamous Barry Cryer/Willie Rushton incident of '79 opinion is divided. Meeker in his seminal work "Synchronicity, the DLR and anomalous station spacing" comes down on the side of permitting the move, but purists still frown on such an unsporting gesture. Personally I regard it as legal but not in accordance with the spirit of the game. In the interests of maintaining a harmonious atmosphere I suggest that we permit RiffRaff's tactic to stand, but impose a crowding delay of seven LU 'minutes' to allow the other players to adjust their strategies accordingly. Further shady practise, particularly use of service replacement buses, should be met with derailing and the removal of travelcard privileges.

And we continue:

Dollis Hill
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
11:46 / 03.07.02
I saw you change that mid-go, you lowdown cheating get. Grrrr. I'll have you for that.

Pimlico.

Ha!
 
 
grant
14:53 / 03.07.02
Inspired by RiffRaff's quibble with Fitzmartin, I will shunt to Victoria.

And for the record, Chang-Li was in the right. McMasters blew it when he overlooked the rules on platform maintenance closures limiting play. He should never have left the central ring.
 
 
Rev. Orr
15:25 / 03.07.02
What? I never! Honest, Kit-Cat, I was just...LOOK OVER THERE

slips across to Surrey Quays

Er, KCC, that appears to be your good self in a reverse-Knip with partial tunnel closure. How did that happen?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
15:32 / 03.07.02
Cheeky beggar. Reverse knip my foot - well, perhaps it is a reverse knip, but I am damned if I'll be caught in it. Sooo... using the Non-High-Days and Holidays Off-Peak slow service rule (elifgible, I believe, under the Green Code) and a cunning side slip, I lea\ve you at

Mudchute
 
 
Rev. Orr
15:51 / 03.07.02
You're just making this too easy...

Crossharbour and London Arena

...which leaves you with but two options I fear.
 
  

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