Time for another game of Mornington Crescent

[tectonicplates]

I'm going to start with High Street Kensington. A classic start, if I do say so myself.

So in the space of 24 hours we seem to have had the closed lines rule, the Elizabeth line rule and now the Airtrack rule and the tram rule. Four rules in one day has not been seen since the ill-fated Prague tournament in 1997. The look on the Major's face at the time was a picture.

I think to calm down our thoughts a short move to Kent House before Sunday lunch will suffice.

What a great memory you have @ForalltheSaints!

I too, remember that previously unheard of Four Rules in One Day. And not just the look on the Major's face but the unmerciful screams coming from the Prague audience. *
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So in memory of that fateful game, I will play Seven Sisters.

I think someone played Tottenham Hale early on in that tournament, long before the four rules were played. So I will too honour the memory.

So for the sake of north London sporting balance (as agreed at the Convention in ‘32, and what a weekend that was) it has to be

Arsenal

Other north London clubs are available to move to, and so I move to Leyton for a short walk to Brisbane Road.

This is my lucky day - those moves set me up perfectly for an asymmetric unmatched counter-shunt without crossing a diagonal, so not only do I move to

Dagenham Heathway

but if this fall out the way I expect, I could win in five moves!

I think not, D^3.

St Albans

Sneaky, Maud. So, OK, that pushes out my winning path a little, but I think that just means I can do it in five moves from your play, although I'll take a bit of a risk with

Waterloo East

A move that is almost not a move- Waterloo underground

A move to Bank via the Waterloo and City line.

Mornington Crescent.

I win!

but I think that just means I can do it in five moves from your play,

unless some clever person does it in four...

Very impressive, tectonic. I am bit dubious that a gyration over two diagonals when in a semi-hexagonal configuration is possible, but there may be something in the Madrid rules about the Knightly-Fox technique on that. Maybe we could have an adjudication from someone with more expertise - I'm a laughably ignorant amateur.

And I've just realised that you've not played since your OP - that's a sneaky bit of lurking on your own thread.

Well I never. Tectonicplates certainly played the long game there. Reminds me of the closing moves at the Budapest playoffs in ‘64, and what a controversy they caused.

Shall we pause to recover our strength and then start a new game?

I think that the final move may be invalid under the 1997 rules. Where the final move has to be outside drinking hours.

So Old Street

Sorry, Saints, that section of the 1997 rules was relaxed after the reform of alcohol licensing regulations. I can't see any objection to tectonic's win from that angle. Maybe you could start the new game?