Good grief, I turn my back for a day and there's a rush of play the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 1987 Armitage Shanks charity bowl amateur semi-final (indeed, I get the feeling several of you must have also been following that one rather closely).

All this talk of Peyton and Rigby & Peller pretty well closes off all avenues save for the Lucan Gambit:

Bingham Place


(Fans of the Scottish variant, Morningside Crescent, should beware, for while the same move exists, the effect is normally radically different and often exposes the laterals.)

No wonder the local libray is stripped bare of these titles. Tou erudite chaps have started something that it may be hard to stop. Meanwhile



Embankment

The '87 semi...Ah, legendary. Wasn't that the one where Doddsy had the unfortunate incident after the fish supper and Belhaven and had to walk at the end of day three?

Rotherhithe. Bold I know, after a Lucan but this is no time for faint hearts. Peyton and Dorothy send you all their best by the way. (She's still working in magazines, although in features now).

Hopefully I've done enough to protect my laterals...

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Originally posted by Christopher_M:
The '87 semi...Ah, legendary. Wasn't that the one where Doddsy had the unfortunate incident after the fish supper and Belhaven and had to walk at the end of day three?

Indeed it was.

Rotherhithe. There's no way I can follow that at this time of night, I shall have to sleep on it!

In the memory of Ian Dury....

Plaistow

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Plaistow

Sticking with classic game play Kensington Olympia should logically follow that move in order to deal with that particularly sneaky manoevre. Do you think I was born yesterday?!!

Hmm. Without wanting to be in knip by playing the lateral or diagonals in accordance with Palfrey's second rule, then it'll have to be a sneaky....

Hounslow Cental

St John Wood

Sneaky I know, but two MCCs for the price of one.

Arnos Grove, just to be northish

Jono

Jono, I don't want to queer the pitch over this but Ian has already played Arnos Grove in this round, nothing wrong with that per se, but he was playing the diagonal.

Rigby & Peller, in their classic 1987 treatise on the game that I refered to earlier, stipulated that straight up and downs were preferable from St John's Wood. Anyway, I've never yet had cause to doubt them in these situations. But don't take my word for it, why not check their very helpful website?

I feel we need clarification here and perhaps others will agree that maybe Tam could adjudicate. Consequently I'm holding back from my next move. Unless you want to play Fowler's, although what Tam will say to that, well, put it this way, I'd rather you than me.

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Originally posted by Christopher_M:
I feel we need clarification here and perhaps others will agree that maybe Tam could adjudicate.

Not really.

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Consequently I'm holding back from my next move.

More fool you!

You left yourself wide open and I'm taking the opportunity.....

Mornington Crescent

And I don't care if it's outside the spirit of the game, I'm playing to win!

Mark

I guess that kindof renders adjudication a moot point!

Splutters!!!!.....Yes, but I didn't think Jono was playing the diagonal. But credit where it's due, Mark's move was audacious.

bugger.

Jono

So depressing. Totally outplayed again.

And I was just about to suggest Blake Hall!!

Perhaps we should pay a round with handicaps to level the playing field and use the simplified Monte Cristo rules.

With my 3 under par, I'll advance Bethnal Green.


regards, Tam

Tam, I salute you, Ravenscourt Park.

Well, if we are playing with handicaps then I shall have to suggest Totteridge and Whetstone to kick off my game.

I shall simultaneously play Oglethorpe's second Metropolitan gambit and my joker. I can do this having checked in Stovold's page 42 para 6(b).

Rickmansworth