Clean and open Game

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The current state of play is:

• Ian H: Grenwhich - via Foot tunnel from Island Gardens - to try and bring us nearer groung level (move #93)
• Jonathan: Pushing Hammersmith to Level three with a shunt to Willis Road. (move #94)
• Kev: Nasty. Blackhorse Road, taking the Northern Line up to seven. (move #95)
• Steve: Morden bringing it back down (move #96)
• Ian H: Mudchute - Pushing jons stack to a critical point (move #97)
• Jonathan: As inverting the stack is a no-no with Mudchute played, I will have to pop Finsbury Park from the stack by playing Wood Green. (move #98)
• Kev: But, er, Finsbury Park hasn't been played, so you can't pop it off the stack. Can you? (move #99)
• Jonathan: Aaah, that is where you are wrong. This is a double-ended stack (move #100)
• Eristophanes: Surely the double-ended stack was outlawed in the 1993 amendments? Shadwell anyway. (move #101)
• Steve: I thought that even though it had been outlawed in the 1993 amendements the 1994 appendix made it possible to invoke double ended stacking once someone has entered the DLR area which Island gardens presumably does, therefore double ended stacking is allowed. (move #102)
• Eristophanes: Oh. (move #103)
• Ian H: Does that count even in the event of a foot tunnel move?? (move #104)
• Kev: Interesting point. Doesn't a foot tunnel move put the stack back to single-ended? If you played such a move south of the river, it would actually close off the top of the stack, which would make for an intriguing game... (move #105)
• Steve: Good point (move #106)
• Jonathan: I feel that Ian's apparent obsession with the foot tunnels is unhealth anyway. He spends all his money on tube tickets to Greenwich, by all accounts. (move #107)
• Steve: Would anyone care to make a move? (move #108)
• Ian H: What would i possibly want to go to greenwich for anyway???? at this point i feel that Liverpool street is called for (move #109)
• Richard: Why go to liverpool street when Baker sterreet is more sexy (move #110)
• Steve: Baker sterreet??? Well then I'd have to go Elephant and Castle. (move #111)
• Ian H: yes elephant and castle is the most fashionable move from there ... but it wasnt actually forced was it? (move #112)
• Clauss: A quick Tottenham Court Road (move #113)
• Kev: South Acton (move #114)
• Alasdair: East Acton (move #115)
• Ian H: North Acton - the Barnerby Colchester Triple Acton Fanking manouver, this deadly move raises the determinant substantially (move #116)
• Doug: At last! Blimey, Jonathan, that Fosbury Defence nearly turned into a haymaker for me there. If only the Jubilee line extension were open! Anyway, there's an easy (well, fairly easy) and obvious (if you have the right type of brain) Out-fanking manoeuver I can play here: Ongar. (move #117)
• Kev: Very cunning. Acton Central. (move #118)
• Ian H: Actually that should have been flanking shouldnt it?? (move #119)
• Ian H: Never mind, anyhow that final move completed the four actons folly made so famous by the early games at the turn of the century has left me with a wide open space, thus i extend to Pinner, hereby preventing any stacking or shunting for a further 7 moves (move #120)
• Doug: No no, flanking play is quite distinct from fanking play. The latter is one l of a lot less bother. (wince) After that wonderfully beautiful Four-Acton Folly, I think the time is ripe for a stroll over to St James' Park. (move #121)
• acb: Cockfosters (taking advantage of the north/south juxtaposition) (move #122)
• Alasdair: Ravenscourt Park. (move #123)
• Steve: I offer Oulds inclination with, Brixton (move #124)
• Alasdair: Has Mr. Ould retracted his bann on unauthorised use of the Inclination (see Game 25)? (move #125)
• Ian H: Unsure - if so it could be curtains to steves strategy (move #126)
• Dave: I remember that he definitely wasn't very happy the last time someone used it without permission. (move #127)
• acb: I think it is allowed in this case, given the IMCS Stewards' Committee ruling on double banking. But nonetheless, it's not all that wise an idea, as it leaves the Northern line unprotected and Ealing Broadway unclaimed, allowing me to take advantage of Whitgate's imbroglio and: (move #128)
• acb: Mornington Crescent

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  (move #129)
• acb: (Winner's Comments) : This was a very good game; everyone played exceptionally well. When Doug moved to St. James's Park after the Four-Acton Folly, the situation became precarious, and Ould's inclination left it wide open. (Almost the same thing happened in Kilburn vs. De Maas, 1967, only with Aldwych) (move #130)
• Jonathan: Comments: What, you mean they had a lurker's victory too? What do you mean, everyone played exceptionally well? You played one sodding move. I would not expect this from a player of your standing. (move #131)
• : (move #132)

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Last updated 05-October-2005 by Dunx (dunx@dunx.org)