Reverse Game

This is just the last 40 moves. You can see more moves, or the whole game.

The current state of play is:

• Rob: Oh, honestly. Reverse Games must be so much easier on Usenet or the mail list, at least you can blame your amazing foresight on a slow feed or something! (move #55)
• Alistair: Hold on a moment. Nobody specified _which_ Bow (Road, Church or Bromley). That means that I'll have to tie them all together. Fortunately moving to Marble Arch from Pimlico does just that. (move #56)
• Steve: I think I'll move from Monument to Pimlico (move #57)
• Clauss: Comment: This is a backwards game, stop commenting on future moves. (move #58)
• Ian H: Quite right you cant comment about what people have allready played because it hasnt technically happened yet. Tower Bridge to Monument (move #59)
• Eristophanes: From Goodison to West Ham and thence to Monument, technically both a reversed and non-reversed Cottee hat-trick. Clearly illeagal in this game, so it will have to be my first move. (move #60)
• Referee: Oh, that's just the nature of the space-time continuum. (move #61)
• Charles: What I want to know is this. How can Clauss comment on a move that Steve made before Steve made it? And how can I comment on two moves that are going to be made in 4 moves time? (move #62)
• Kate: Goodison from Baker St. I don't understand is why Eristophanes hasn't made a move yet. (move #63)
• Rob: I feel that I should warn people that comments upon comments are also out in a reverse game, since you can't really do that unless you know what the other comment is about to be. I would ask players to refrain from commenting on future moves, and only to comment on previous ones you won't have seen yet in the reverse game. (though I have this gut feeling I am about to be ignored completely!) (move #64)
• Ref: Sorry, I don't see how you could make that comment James, since you didn't know about the move yet. (move #65)
• George: Baker St. from Liverpool St. (move #66)
• James: Hmmm, excellent, Baker Street should open things up nicely. (move #67)
• Charles: We seem to be getting stuck a little, what with all this District line nonsense. (move #68)
• Clauss: Stepney Green from Sloane Square. I just can't stand another Barbour Jacket. (move #69)
• acb: Is that legal? I do not recall Liverpool St.->Baker St. being grounds for a Moore's Discontinuity. (move #70)
• Dave: Why can't people like Dick appreciate that this is a reverse game, so you can't criticise moves earlier in the list as they haven't happened yet? By the way, can there be an end to this game? We've already been to MC, so the only win I can see happening would be if someone made the first move, and then the win wouldn't be detected, as it wouldn't be MC. Help? (move #71)
• Dick: Surely Clauss' move to Stepney Green from Sloane square contravenes the double side straddle involved in George's move of Baker St from Liverpool St.? (move #72)
• acb: unless one counts Chapple's Paradox, in which two mutually self-contradictory composite moves can be registered as each of them is said to not have happened whenever the other is taken into account. This is clearly legal, counting Baker St.->Goodison (Kate), but will collapse as soon as anyone does, say, Amersham->Knightsbridge (the person who moved before them (after in a normal game) will be said to have won). (move #73)
• acb: Unless, of course, either Amersham, Knightsbridge or Gallions Reach is round or pointy at the time; then it's merely a Whitby impasse and incurs a +5 penalty. (move #74)
• Ian H: Sloane Square from Wimbledon ( Wombledon commoning free... the wombles of wimbledon common are we ). (move #75)
• acb: Wimbledon from St. James's Park (allowed because of the 1958 Apostrophe Rule) (move #76)
• Ian H: St James Park from Blackfriars (move #77)
• Dave: Well done Clauss, that was a lovely triple back shunt. Mills and Burke would have enjoyed it do much. It's such a shame that it took so long for the IMCA to ban the full-contact version of the game. (move #78)
• Clauss: St James Park (Watch out for the Geese) from Mansion House, a move made popular some decades ago by Mills and Burke (1942), when raised tempers prompted them to start fighting. The fighting then became traditional following this very move, and many people would deploy it during along game in order to stretch their limbs (often literally). Unfortunately the maiming of three players from the Tunbridge Wells Womens Institute Team at the Munich International MC festival in 1971 led to fighting being banned in subsequent games involving this move. (move #79)
• Mystic Meg: I'd like to point out to Clauss and Dave that any more face-to-face collusions such as the one they have just perpetrated may lead other players to doubt your existence as separate people. I, of course, can see into the future, so reverse rules (move #80)
• Mystic Meg: are locally suspended (see H Beam Piper, 1954). (move #81)
• James II: I've just been e-mailed by someone claiming to be myself. He/I said that he was sorry, he was from the future and that I would just have to trust him, and that unless someone put a stop to the very subtle negative time pattern that Clauss was playing, th (move #82)
• James II: Mornington Crescent

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  (move #83)
• James II: (Winner's Comments) : Too late!!!!! (move #84)
• James II: Comments It's like the Time Bandits never happened. (move #85)
• Dave: Comments Just as well that that one's been finished. People kept treating the space-time continuum in a way that I'm sure it doesn't enjoy. (move #86)
• Clauss: Comments: Just like to point out that dave and I are seperate beings. (move #87)
• Dave: Comments : And indeed we are. It makes me SO happy. (move #88)
• Ian H: Comments - Blimey theres a turn up for the books (move #89)
• Ian H: Comments - shouldnt james have made opening move comments rather than winners comments?? (move #90)
• Eristophanes: Whatever happened to Mills and Burke? There was that violent game in '67 with Rubenstein, then absolutely nothing? (move #91)
• Dave: Comments: As far as I know, Mills, Burke and Rubenstein are actually in perfect health still. THere was a bit of trouble when they couldn't agree whether the Barrage is meant to have take-ins or take-outs, but I think it all ended amicably. (move #92)
• Eristophanes: I always thought it was a sort of 42ish thingy with lots of orbits. I think this is becoming a bit of an in joke Dave, but it's OK, cos no one else is watching. (move #93)
• Dave: I don't speak siteswap very fluently, but that sounds about right. Basically mills with constant take-ins. I've just tried to explain it on RJ with a small amount of success. (move #94)

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This game is closed for further play, what with this being an archive and all.

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