Here's to Humph

[snoopy369]

While Duke resolves his Benington Paradox with Cort Haus and Solomwi being in Nid next door, I'll employ the Darnington Maneuver and slip over to King's Cross St. Pancras and block Krill from his quick strike.

and yes, a nice article indeed

[Krill]

But because of the recently upgrade St. Pancras in to Dec. 2008 update, I am allowed to shunt you backwards a station of my choice: St. Pancras International

[snoopy369]

You must have forgotten about the Marquis de Loynsee ruling that prevents a player from being shunted into Nid from a position that is already in Nid (as I am due to Solomwi)

[Imran Siddiqui]

Mornington Cre... uh... nevermind.

I see you are not using the 1873 International Standard Rules. Shame. I thought those were agreed upon now. I guess I'll have to play your game and hope I can master it as Lucasz Feyoriz did in the 1984 Warsaw Bloc Skins Game.

I'll have to shift to:

Stanmore

And hope the Gazza Nisbit (named that way, of course, because it looks like a drunkard is playing) is open in a few turns.

[duke o' york]

Very true, and an excellent knowledge of the more bizarre variants of the rules snoopy.

My calculations show that Krill is now at King's Cross, but I refrain from bolding it until you can confirm the numbers precisely. I'll send you my spreadsheet outlining the calculations if you'd like.

[Edit - darn, a crosspost (usually giving a few brown tokens, but on the internet this doesn't apply) - and don't take the Gazza's name in vain Imran! I saw him in his Toon pomp and doubt I'll ever get to see the like again!]

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hey, I didn't name it!

Blame Lord Fussymouth Palsington, which is, of course, the nom de guerre of 5 time European Champion, Liam Dicfor (who got tired of the obvious jokes).

[duke o' york]

Well I am tempted to initiate a variant on the Farthington Manoeuvre and call it the "Au revoir Zog gambit", leading me to Bank, reversing the usual escalator direction (just to confuse the commuters - not that there are as many any more), and netting me a couple of puce tokens I shall be looking to use next turn.

[snoopy369]

I'll leave it to Krill to state the obvious, while I spend the turn in Nid.

[Solomwi]

Ahh, lovely! Per the Umbridge Lactating Progression, Duke's trip to Bank lets me out of Nid and allows me to mimic Sir John Pemberton's winning setup from the 1937 Munich International Pairs Tourney by taking Green Park.

[snoopy369]

I wonder if Solomwi will notice that he let me out of Nid as well by the same rule, and thus I am able to jump over to Camden Town ... setting up an endgame eerily similar to the 1962 Havana Masters. Hopefully the tension will not cause the same result this time as it did then...

[Cort Haus]

I'm struggling to come up with any kind of strategy from this position, so I shall retreat, disconsolately, to Hillingdon.

[Krill]

And I shall attempt to exploit some of the new vacated premises by moving towards Camden Town Also, and thus placing both both me and Snoopy into Nid as per the Sir Humphrey Bablington joint movement rules so that he can't win quite as easily.

Good luck Cort

[duke o' york]

This game seems to be moving towards a team contest, however unofficial, and while this is something I may be able to use to my advantage, I shall segue (not one of those stupid electric motorbike things - I doubt they're allowed on the Tube) to Morden, and look to take things to an arpeggio next turn.

[Spiffor]

With Solomwi and Krill being so much close to winning, I feel I must do a conservative move to Holborn

At least they won't make the final move so easily now

[Imran Siddiqui]

So we are playing defense now?

Oh, I feel like the great Frenchman Pierre LeFromage in the 1949 West German International! Hopefully we can equal his defensive plan, ironically called the "Maginot Line Shunt".

North Acton