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Whaa? I'd better try to say what I mean without bad rhymes. I see a great amount of material in your forum, including lots on the Rc2 lines. I admit I don't currently know whether the whole line is just bad for Black (in which case GMAN surely won't risk it), or whether there are survivable endings in there (this seems possible) or even the counter-attack chances I was worried about before (this now looks less likely).

At some point, depending on vote numbers etc, we should try to slide the forums forward - with a separate forum for each line after Qg5, as you suggested yesterday.

I'm still not sure when the best time to do this is. Ideally, everyone available should take on a post-Qg5 line, but it'd mean changing everything around while the vote was still live.

In those dying days of paper, scalpels and glue, Ernst and Heartfield/Herzfeld were big influences. And lots of manifesto-mania.

"Now that machines do our thinking we can put our brains to a better use", sort of thing.

There's some very good short poetry about politics. There's this anonymous gem found in the British embassy files from 1945 went as follows:

<In Washington Lord Halifax
Once whispered to Lord Keynes:
"It's true they've all the moneybags
But we've got all the brains">

As pertinent a comment on the Anglo-American 'special relationship' as one could wish for.

There's also yer man Clement Attlee, my favourite British Prime Minister ever, who composed this little autobiographical ditty:

<Few thought he was even a starter,

There were who many thought themselves smarter,

But he ended PM,

CH and OM,

While you're in the vicinity *dons forum-runner cloak*... at some point we should rework the forums to cover the lines after Qg5 - going by RV's lines, we'll probably need everyone available. Any thoughts on when this shift should be made - and are you free to host one of the blighters? Ta.

*wriggles out of cloak* Hmm... can't beat R.Burns in this context, tho' I may have to adjust the spelling:

O' lordling acquaintance ne'er boast,
Nor Duke that ye dined wi' yestreen;
A crab-louse is still but a crab,
Tho' perched on the queynt o' a Queen.

I'm fine hosting any forums in - I don't really do much but sit back and watch anyway, if I'm honest. It's already clear that Qg5 is going to be our next move, so maybe we should work on the new round of forums on the RV blueprint soon as.

Sheesh, you *would* have to go and mention Johnny C. Clarke, wouldn't you? "We walked out, tentacle in hand, you could sense that the earthlings did not understand... they went nudge-nudge when we got on the bus... saying, 'it's extra-terrestrial... not like us. And it's bad enough with another race, but @#$% me, a monster from outer space!'"

Re4 and Re6 are ditto but less likely to transpose into the above. I have Re6 up provisionally but think it would be better to lump Re4 along with it. Orders?

As a precocious brat nipper, I correctly identified a bust of Disraeli in A Lady's Home, much to the astonishment of the owner of said bust. I've never actually got around to reading his novels, though.

I'm not so certain about transpositions. Yes, they can happen between various lines - but mainly if he throws both rooks into the fray, as in the rooks-of-death line.

I think we might as well start preparing to switch over. Or, to begin with, two new forums - <madhair> and <mack> devoted to lines after Qg5.

jep's R1f2 forum should probably stay alive a little longer, just in case.

I'll nominate <stevens> forum as a repository for <all other moves 31 by white> when you two abandon h4, Qf4 and Rf7. But keep any stuff you've got on them, for the record.

<mack> can you take 31.Qg5 Re2

and
<madhair> 31.Qg5 Re6

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<Ohio> other 31.Qg5 lines, for now...

and
misc move 31 now at User: Stevens