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Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:30
by hwolge
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 !!

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:37
by tubeguru
I wasn't expecting Ladbrodke Grove. I'd have had my mortgage on Ealing Broadway.

Well, at the risk of invoking knip ... Gloucester Road

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:42
by hwolge
Tubeguru, you're right! It must have been years since I saw Ladbroke Grove played this early in a game. Interesting though!

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:42
by PFW
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

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:43
by tubeguru
I like a good Badgering every now and then.

Blake Hall

*gasps around the room*

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:46
by TheFatBuoy
Cunning move. Probably.

Borough.

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:48
by PFW
Borough!?

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:49
by TheFatBuoy
No. Posted that without realising Aldwych and Blake Hall had been posted. I take that back.

North Greenwich.

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:50
by tubeguru
BOROUGH??!!?!?!

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:50
by TheFatBuoy
tubeguru wrote:BOROUGH??!!?!?!
See above.

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:51
by hwolge
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

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:52
by TheFatBuoy
New Cross Gate.

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:54
by PFW
Turnham Green

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:54
by TheFatBuoy
Am I allowed to say Mornington Crescent yet?

Posted: 14 Sep 2005, 13:54
by tubeguru
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