Mornington Crescent - GAME 1

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It's really hard to play a solid Z1C strategy when a novice keeps playing irrationally (seemingly random, albeit quite cleverly so)...

Countering both South Wimbledon and Ladbroke Grove is really hard - but I think a superconnected move like this will do for now:

King's Cross St. Pancras !!
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I wasn't expecting Ladbrodke Grove. I'd have had my mortgage on Ealing Broadway.

Well, at the risk of invoking knip ... Gloucester Road
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Tubeguru, you're right! It must have been years since I saw Ladbroke Grove played this early in a game. Interesting though!
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tubeguru wrote:Well, at the risk of invoking knip ... Gloucester Road
Sorry – I thought we were playing to NF Stovold’s Third edition rules (the ones using the pre-1972 map). If we are then that looks like a Reverse Badgering.

If we are using the Second edition then Gloucester Road looks a bit cheeky, and I'll go for...

...Adwych
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I like a good Badgering every now and then.

Blake Hall

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Cunning move. Probably.

Borough.
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Borough!?
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No. Posted that without realising Aldwych and Blake Hall had been posted. I take that back.

North Greenwich.
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BOROUGH??!!?!?!
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tubeguru wrote:BOROUGH??!!?!?!
See above.
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Blake Hall? That was banned in the fifties after the triple murder that took place when the subsequent player played M...n C...t! Anyway I'm not falling into that trap. I simply go for:

Aldgate East
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New Cross Gate.
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Turnham Green
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Am I allowed to say Mornington Crescent yet?
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hwolge wrote:Blake Hall? That was banned in the fifties after the triple murder that took place when the subsequent player played M...n C...t! Anyway I'm not falling into that trap. I simply go for:

Aldgate East
Oh come off it - was it heck!

It was South Acton. I shall write to Mrs Trellis.

However, to preserve the flow of the game I'll go with Aldgate East and say:

Ruislip Gardens
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