"The Long Game"

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• Software: Sadly falling off the edge and surfacing in the Dollis Hill loop.
• PaulWay: Excellent, I haven't missed it at all then. Dollis Hill, ramping up the helical stress to 3.8 Brians.
• Kretschmar: [JLE] help! Can you work your magic again? Dollis Hill :(
• Parky: Cripes. How did that happen? I don't have the LV to get close to breaking out so Dollis Hill it has to be.
• Herr Bratsche: It's all my fault, i'm afraid. I'm low on tokens, so Dollis Hill it has to be.
• Lurpak: I'm going to try a Hitchcock Manoeuvre, and play Dollis by Dollis Hill.
• JLE: Nah, can't manage that again. Haven't got the LV to reach that far. I'm still locked out of the usual Ongar denial, worse luck. Of course I could try the Ruttsborough Escape at Barons Court, which would work for me, but that would only make things worse for everyone else in there. Which would be good if this wasn't a Long Game, but under Long conditions it won't do me much good being outside. So I guess it'll just have to be the hard way, an iterated spiral LV gain over several turns. Dollis Hill, round and round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows...
• PaulWay: Dolllllllllllllis Hilllllllllllllllllllll, increasing temporal dilation with helical stress up to a record 179.6 Brians.
• Zinnwald: Oh dear - I feel decidely queasy - I think I'm going to have to *pa..... Dollis Heugh erggh ergh errh - sorry, hope I didn't splash anyone..
• JLE: And, just in time, Carmarthen, taking advantage of the excess L's to escape to Wales.
• Parky: Bzzzzzztttttt [JLE] How can you have enough L's to escape to Carmarthen when you don't have enough LV to do something as straightforward as an Ongar Denial? Barons Court, breaking out as getting my Hampton Court woudl be painful.
• Kretschmar: [Parky] Remember L's double up in Wales - another cunning JLE ploy! Earls Court declaring possums wild. Might do some good...
• Si: Despite missing lots of sticky Dollis Hill-ness, I'm still going nowhere fast, and pegged against my will in Q3, which ties me to the District Line. Richmond
• Software: Disloyalty at Turnpike Lane may fix this one.
• Parky: [Kretschmar] Afer all this time, I still can't get the concept of "L's" straight in my head. What is the relationship between "L" and "LV"? Uxbridge to mull things over. Oh, and BTW, all exposed yellow podumes were scooped into my bag as I passed. Heheheh...
• JLE: [Parky] LV is Line Velocity. L's are a verbal construct and my move was non-linear.
• Kretschmar: [Parky] So there you are? Personally I wouldn't have gone for yellow podumes so soon after [Zinnwald's] 'queasiness'. Ongar doubling. [JLE] Have you been confirmed as the next editor of the 'Guide', yet?
• Parky: [JLE] LV is clear, I understand the complex series of equations. Well, understand is a bit of misnomer; perhaps "appreciate" would be a better word. I've looked up "L" in all the back issues of Storvolds without success. I don't have the 1928 edition, but then who does?
• PaulWay: Loughton
• Software: Pinner
• Zinnwald: Swiss Cottage
• JLE: [Parky] Like I said, consider the many ways of non-linear moves (that is, moves in which speed and direction are not considered because one is not, in point of fact, travelling on rails.) Even the common "strile" is one such.

  Althoguh in the case of my move, I suppose you could consider it an alphabetically-based form of pickering, but that's a matter for much more recent - of course it's not going to be in the 1928 edition. Favisham, of course, was the great expert, but never published most of his research: and much of what was found has been variously misunderstood, ignored, or simplified to the point of inanity. Of course, since he himself never actually won a major tournament, the question "how did he get THERE from HERE" was frequently followed by "is it going to help him anyway?" and the answer "probably not". The description of this particular shift was only actually found three years ago - a full 50 after his death - and the circumstances under which it could be used are pretty limited at the best of times.

  (Actually the most recent expert work on pickering was done independently by Baryshnikov after he retired from competitive play, but the translation from Russian only came out last year and I honestly can't understand even most of the English translation.)

• JLE: Oh. A move? Newport, and that move IS linear from the previous position...
• Parky: It's good to see someone using some really advanced play here from time to time. Sometimes, as with this sequence, I believe we are truly standing on the shoulders of giants. Ongar, humbly.
• PaulWay: Manchester Piccadilly, allowing pseudo-BR long-distance interchange rules.
• Lurpak: Runcorn
• Zinnwald: Oh dear - WCML on a bank holiday weekend! Rather you than me... Weston-super-Mare?
• Software: Oh, dear. Everything seems to be going west. Fishguard.
• Parky: WCML = West Coast Main Line...
• PaulWay: Rhayder, Ffording.
• Kretschmar: Ummm.... Didcot when I'd rather hoped for Paddington
• Herr Bratsche: Abergavenny/Y-Fenni, bilingually.
• Blob: Oh for pity's sake - this is what happens when I don't play fpr a few months ! I will try to restore a little order with Tamworth High Level / Tamworth Low Level
• Si: Oh! I can reunify that immediately at Smethwick Galton Bridge, thankfully.
• Parky: Truro in a possibly vain attempt to pin down the Western End. C'mon - you've got to at least give me some credit for trying!
• Herr Bratsche: Oh hell, this is all getting a tad chaotic. A counterbalance is desperately needed, so Grosmont ought to do the job.
• Si: [HB] Thank you thank you thank you! I can get back into London, and am no longer trapped, knipped or half-tipped on the Aldeleigh Diagonal! Cannon Street
• Zinnwald: Safety? Blackfriars?
• Parky: Careful.....
• PaulWay: Tottenham Court Road, avoiding Aldwych.

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