HW: Hawk help / OFF Mornington Crescent

[Mike Coleman]

>Richard Lockwood writes:
>
>> > > BTW - if anyone fancies playing a bit of online Mornington Crescent,
>> >
>> > Does it do both Standard Rules and the Chiswick Rules (Amended) Game?
>>
>> > Yep - and takes the Finsbury Option as Standard.  There's also built in
>> > functionality for the Holland Park 2000 ruleset.
>>
>> I've always wondered: how does this treat the Eurotunnel link?
>>
>> Ignored, unless overground lines - including Silverlink - are specifically
>> allowed or brought into play.  Then it counts as a standard line in quadrant
>> 4 until the actual tunnel, which is the extent of the allowable moves.  A
>> standard token weighting of two red applies, and a Becks coefficient of at
>> least three is generally regarded as the safest minimum to avoid the
>> possibility of putting yourself in spoon or wrench.
>
>That's most interesting. However Garden, in his 1998 exposition of the
>Paddington Gambit, argued that the downside risk could be mitigated by a
>blocking move at Camden South supported by a feint at the Angel. It's
>undoubtedly true that even limited availability of the Chunnel Link in
>overground games (and to a certain extent Docklands Light Railway) has
>destabilised conventional approaches to aggressive strategy to the
>extent where a whole new approach may be required. What's needed is an
>experienced attacker with a theoretical bent to provide the basics of
>this. Unfortunately there seems to be no player of Garden's reknown
>who's willing to make a start at such a worthy endeavour. It's quite
>criminal that no National Lottery funds have been allocated to supported
>local clubs playing the Great Game.
>
>If this drift continues, mark my words, we'll be overtaken by some
>bastardised American variation based on the "Subway" and it'll be
>Rounders all over again.
>
>> Rich.
>
>FoFP

 hello Michael "Friend oFP"
Bastardized American