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Post by pchallinor on Dec 14, 2010 14:31:34 GMT
Who's up for it, then?
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 2, 2011 21:37:39 GMT
Me
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 2, 2011 23:39:35 GMT
Shall we try Ledbeatter's Variant, for starters, or would you prefer something a little less demanding?
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Post by lefthanded knitter on Jan 3, 2011 11:34:01 GMT
Being a newbie and all, I am ignorant about the rules of Ledbeatter's Variant. Do you have a copy I can look at or is there information on the internet that I can bone up on the what to dos and what not to dos, so I don't make a complete fool of meself?
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 3, 2011 16:33:08 GMT
Boning up beforehand? Do you argue with umpires and cheer when you've won as well?
I am content with Ledbeatter's Variant, so long as it includes the bidirectional Monument for Bank transition.
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 3, 2011 20:07:15 GMT
I am ignorant about the rules of Ledbeatter's Variant. Do you have a copy I can look at or is there information on the internet that I can bone up on the what to dos and what not to dos, so I don't make a complete fool of meself?
Sigh. Ledbeatter's Variant is merely an elementary ratcheting based on the Clenchwater Code. It is essentially a convenient means of enabling players to moderate their game while winching is in progress, particularly although by no means uniquely when subject to nip while straddling the Metropolitan Line, and hence avoid the sort of specialised couplings which can cause unnecessary blockages on the diagonals and risk overextension and (on the "professional" circuit) weeks or months of highly profitable tedium. If you follow the play carefully there should be few problems understanding it, or at least none that can't be ameliorated by a few months in a darkened room with no sharp edges. the bidirectional Monument for Bank transition Oh, I am quite content with this. If you want to risk double-shunting at the points when the grabs are in after a semi-thrust up the Arsenal during a Rushton's Parallel Manoeuvre, then on your own head be it. Would you care to start?
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 4, 2011 0:14:46 GMT
Thank you. Rushton's Parallels are void under Whitehouse twists. Lancaster Gate
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 4, 2011 6:25:37 GMT
Bond Street.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 4, 2011 8:01:55 GMT
Sneaky
Baker Street
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 4, 2011 8:11:18 GMT
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
West Brompton.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 4, 2011 8:35:23 GMT
Mainline stations are wild, Mr Challinor.
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Post by lefthanded knitter on Jan 4, 2011 8:44:32 GMT
I am ignorant about the rules of Ledbeatter's Variant. Do you have a copy I can look at or is there information on the internet that I can bone up on the what to dos and what not to dos, so I don't make a complete fool of meself?
Sigh. Ledbeatter's Variant is merely an elementary ratcheting based on the Clenchwater Code. It is essentially a convenient means of enabling players to moderate their game while winching is in progress, particularly although by no means uniquely when subject to nip while straddling the Metropolitan Line, and hence avoid the sort of specialised couplings which can cause unnecessary blockages on the diagonals and risk overextension and (on the "professional" circuit) weeks or months of highly profitable tedium. If you follow the play carefully there should be few problems understanding it, or at least none that can't be ameliorated by a few months in a darkened room with no sharp edges. the bidirectional Monument for Bank transition Oh, I am quite content with this. If you want to risk double-shunting at the points when the grabs are in after a semi-thrust up the Arsenal during a Rushton's Parallel Manoeuvre, then on your own head be it. Would you care to start? Ah, thanks for that. The rules are as clear as the morning sky on a cloudy winter's day so I'll just get stuck right in. Colliers Wood.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 4, 2011 9:21:44 GMT
With Mr Challinor derailed, I shall make the next move.
Avoiding LHK's attempt to set up a direct diagonal
Piccadilly Circus
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 4, 2011 9:41:07 GMT
Well, of course mainline stations are wild. That's the whole point.
Since Colliers Wood has been played, I can now take advantage of Gwinnie's being forced to make that extra move. Stratford would be an efficient if somewhat obvious means of embrocating the Circle Line and laying both my opponents open to a South Neasden in three to five; but on balance I prefer to keep my horizontals lubricated in case there's any dirty work in store at Osterley. Hence, clearly:
Mile End.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 4, 2011 14:42:28 GMT
Well, of course mainline stations are wild. That's the whole point. Yeeees, which means that by moving from Baker Street to West Brompton you infracted three rules, namely 1(6) and 34(2) Stovold Classic Edition, and importantly regulation 6 of Ledbeatter's Variation. Heathrow Airport (Terminal 4)
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Post by lefthanded knitter on Jan 4, 2011 15:02:08 GMT
As Heathrow Airport (Terminal 4) is clearly an attempt at a shunt, I will cut you off at King's Cross with the Heinz 57 Manoeuver. (I could have cut you off at Cockfosters but felt that was too cruel a trick to play.)
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 4, 2011 15:13:23 GMT
Oo, someone's full of beans all of a sudden. Methinks there be a ringer abroad. With apologies to Mr Challinor for setting him up for an inexorable Nid but I have no other option than to counter LHK's King's Cross with Euston Square
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 4, 2011 19:49:13 GMT
by moving from Baker Street to West Brompton you infracted three rules, namely 1(6) and 34(2) Stovold Classic Edition, and importantly regulation 6 of Ledbeatter's Variation Quite true. Fortunately, we are playing Ledbeatter's Variant, which was designed to obviate this very problem after thousands of specialists in the Baker to Brompton Gusset Trap Sequence, annoyed by the perceived distortion of Stovold's rules implied by Regulation 6 of the Variation, lined up outside Ledbeatter's house and pelted it with an unmentionable substance. All of which, as LHK points out, reduces your last move to a fairly simple shunt, thus comprehensively voiding your Nid. Therefore: Notting Hill Gate.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 4, 2011 22:09:58 GMT
Hmm, I do recall an amendment in 1992 of a typo on page 3 that would cast doubt on your interpretation but I will let it pass in the interests of tripartism.
Whitechapel
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 5, 2011 0:37:45 GMT
Farringdon.
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Post by lefthanded knitter on Jan 5, 2011 10:31:04 GMT
I will counteract your move with a centred double decrease with a contrasting colour to
Waterloo
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 5, 2011 16:14:16 GMT
With Mr Challinor and LHK tied up in a diversion of knots, that leaves me free to move to
Bayswater
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 5, 2011 17:10:32 GMT
Which means I can now spring my trap.
Knightsbridge.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 5, 2011 17:15:59 GMT
(Ha! The Knightsbridge metriculated leap doesn't work when the Harrods January sales are on!)
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 5, 2011 17:28:39 GMT
If you are unable to tell a metriculated leap from a meticulously co-ordinated triple doohickey with reverse-end tacketing, I can only counsel you to watch your slipstream. And pity you, of course.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 5, 2011 18:15:52 GMT
I look forward to your demonstration of said manoeuvre with great interest and anticipation, Mr Challinor. Meanwhile, tightening up the laterals at Green Park
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 5, 2011 19:30:03 GMT
Not quite tight enough.
Caledonian Road.
Your discombobulation is ever more manifest, I fear.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 5, 2011 20:53:15 GMT
Puh
Piccadilly Circus
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Post by pchallinor on Jan 5, 2011 21:33:56 GMT
Hendon Central.
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Post by gwinnie on Jan 5, 2011 22:10:08 GMT
Covent Garden
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