Not Arsenal AGAIN?

This is the whole game.

The current state of play is:

• Mike: ARSENAL! (move #1)
• Steve: Tottenham court road. (move #2)
• : (move #3)
• Kev: Rickmansworth (a bid to stop the game becoming tediously linear) (move #4)
• Jonathan: West Ham (Cottee Manouvre) (move #5)
• Rob: Goldhawk Road. (Not exactly out on a limb, but it does concentrate the play a little) (move #6)
• Stephen(Note the p, the h, the n and the lack of even one v.: Warwick Avenue. (move #7)
• Kev: Perivale (move #8)
• Steve ( That's a Steve with a v, no p h or n as above): It's interesting that he should play Warwick as that's where I am but anyway back to the game. Green Park (move #9)
• Doug: Aha, aha, aha - Hammersmith! (move #10)
• Doug: (which nicely locks off Zones 1 and 2 - Hammersmith is on three lines, remember. (move #11)
• Jonathan: What is so big aOh you big man. What makes you think that is so great eh? A schoolboy block. Easy to reverse with Dollis Hill. (move #12)
• Jonathan: Followed by Dollis Hill. (move #13)
• Jonathan: Then Dagenham and Redbridge to keep up the Cottee factor. (move #14)
• Kev: Debden (move #15)
• James: My Dad came from Debden. But not that one. A different one, with no tube station. Therefore I should play Thaxted. But I realise this would cause the usual outcry, so I won't. Instead..... Chigwell. (Barrington Elbow) (move #16)
• acb: Gare du Nord (Dollis Hill twice opens continental stations) (move #17)
• Doug: Latimer Road. It was a lock, not a block, Jonathan - check R vs Whigfield, 1968 World Championships. (move #18)
• Kev: Blackhorse Road (move #19)
• Steve: Southfields brings Becks coefficient down to 0.67 (move #20)
• Simon: Aha! With Beck's coefficient below 0.72, I can play Metro stations. So: Pelaw. (move #21)
• Simes: A classic situation, as first seen in the groundbreaking Freda vs Grimsby Town championship. Clearly, there can be but one move: The triple-underhand bluff, leading obviously to Southfields. (move #22)
• Doug: Now look - this is getting foolish. Farringdon. (move #23)
• Kev: Quite right. Kensal Rise. (move #24)
• Eristophanes: Stratford, I've always been quirky after Kensal Rise. (move #25)
• Steve: Surely Mornington Crescent, unless I'm very much mistaken.

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  (move #26)
• Steve: (Winner's Comments) : While Gare du Nord was an inspired move, after Farringdon was played the game was weakened. However an excellent game. Well done all players and Thank You. (move #27)
• Simon: STRATFORD??????????? (move #28)
• Jonathan: Incidentally, Stratford is this server's first ever -4 indexed move. A dubious honour. (move #29)
• Eristophanes: Whoops, sometimes I'm inspired, sometimes, well, you can see for yourselves. (move #30)
• Jonathan: Still, don't fret. The lowest move ever indexed, as far as I can tell, was by Niddry, against Tukesbury in the London Open of 1974. He played Finchley Road despite forty seven Highbury Blocks being in force, thus gaining -3 for each block, and a grand total of -141. Of course, you could argue that indexes mean little, as do the league tables they are used for, and you would have a fairly strong argument. However, while indexes remain the benchmark for world MC, they will have to stand. (move #31)
• Alice Alice: kp2 to kp4 (move #32)
• Tim: Very good Alice, but, I fear you may be playing the wrong game (but it's nice to see such a stong opening move) (move #33)
• P.J.: (move #34)

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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)