Mornington Crescent
I think the Cellar is ready for this. I know that there are some experienced players out there, SundaeGirl has it in her genes, Steve Dallas is surprisingly knowledgeable, Labrat is reading up on the rules, and I'd be very surprised if CycleFrance is not a regional champion ...
I hereby open the inaugural round of Mornington Crescent in the Cellar. In deference to the presumed number of novice players I suggest we play by the simplified Cardew/Fordyce conventions, as amended in 2006, this amendment subsequently annulled in Janaury 2007 by the Hainault (via Newbury Park) regulation.
I'll open play with a generous move ...
[SIZE="4"]East Finchley[/SIZE].
I'm sorry, I admit I've not play under the Hainault regulation. But was there not some talk of a change to make the Cardew/Fordyce convention more in line with the Islington Protocols, thereby removing the need for such regulations in the first place?
Canary Wharf (Steve that was done away with in the third revision)
Uh, I think I've got the basic notion down.
"Russell Square"
Is that OK?
does Stoke-on-Trent count?
This is hysterical to someone who doesn't know how to play. Please continue.
Hmmm..... I'm going to have to say..... Dollis Hill.
(Steve that was done away with in the third revision)
Thanks, I had forgotten about that revision.
Glatt, feel free to jump in and make a move, once you've read and undertstood all the rules.
(It's too bad you can't play Mao via bboard...)
As a Yank, I'm at a distinct disadvantage here. My only exposure with this is from an uncle's, er . . . longtime companion who was a master player. He used to get us playing Acacia Avenue, but I'm sure this group is far too advanced for that. As he grew older, he grew funnier, and used to yell, "no inverse crossings!" at us when we cut across his backyard. Alas, he is no more, as he was fatally stung by a mating platypus while "on holiday down under" as he had put it. However, he willed me his battered (and rather smelly) copy of the annotated Finsbury rules, so I hope you will allow this variation in play.
In his honor, I'm going to make an obverse play and say --Vauxhall.
Ooof. Didn't see that move coming.
I'm delighted to see that this has got off to a flying start, but I'm afraid your move, Cloud, of Vauxhall, puts you in huff and has to be disallowed, especially in view of the Islington Protocol about which I had totally forgotten (thank you Steve).
I therefore counter with
[SIZE="4"]Island Gardens[/SIZE].
I downloaded the PDF of the amended rules from the second international congress and am only about halfway through, but I think I've discovered a weakness in the standard strategy. This may be a foolish mistake, but I'm moving straight to King's Cross.
Please have mercy on me.
A very crafty play, glatt. It seems that both you and UT (who also seems to have an excellent grasp of the rules) are born exponents of the game. I may have been mistaken in giving such a generous opening move ...
does Stoke-on-Trent count?
Don't think that no-one noticed your ingenious move to Stoke on Trent, barefoot serpent; you almost put UT in knip.
Okay, I've had to cheat a little, and get help from my grandson, since my copy of the Finsbury rules has a big--unidentified--stain obscuring the section on permissible counters to knips, and loops, which I need.
They are teaching his class MC as a memory and strategy aide, based on a text called, "Let's Play Morningstar Crescent: Simplified American Standard." Based on his help (he's 7):
Shepherd's Bush to block.
Okay, I've had to cheat a little, and get help from my grandson.
Grandson? GRANDSON? I need to see picture proof you're old enough to have a grandson.
Preferably nekkid picture proof.
Oh Mornington Crescent? Hmmmm
Shepherd's Bush was ruled PG13 and as such is unacceptable in the basic verion of the game. I believe that puts you in Knip and offers me the opportunity to sneak in a quick World Trade Center :eek: I sense an Aldwych coming on.....
I beg your pardon, Monster, but I believe your interpretation of the rules is incorrect. Certainly, I'm older than 13 (with FIVE and 3/4 grandchildren, no less), so Shepherd's Bush should be a perfectly acceptable move.
However, in the spirit of cooperation, and given that most of us are still learning the ins and outs, I'm going to ask for someone to offer me a trade-up play, in return for a--I think it's called a one-over?--so I can get myself out of knip, thank you very much.
some help from the more experienced players might be nice. Show us newbies how it's done!
Could we compromise with World Trade Center but no Knip and I'll protect you against Aldwych?
(There are no newbies -Limey was just trying the sucker-punch)
That's sounds fair. As I understand it, two players can cooperate on a one-over, as long as there are no loops in play. I suck at games, sorry.
except for Trivial Pursuit. I kick ass at Trivial Pursuit! not the music version, though.
In the recent definitive match of Smy vs. Smye manouevres like this were brought into question, though I think that was quite understandable as there were only two players in the game.
This game is developing along an interesting trajectory, with the translatlantic stamp certainly making a difference to the moves chosen - I'll venture into new territory myself and suggest advancing to [SIZE="4"]Greenwich Village [/SIZE]...
Am I a novice or is that a disqualification?
Assuming your advance is an actual play, rather than a "suggestion," Limey, I believe that introduces a North-South vulnerabilty. Therefore, my next move will be to:
Walthamstow Central.
Am I a novice or is that a disqualification?
You are right, UT, I shouldn't have presented the move as a "suggestion". I am sure that you have referred to the reports of the 1826 friendly transatlantic tournament between teams from Horse Springs (USA) and Altrincham (UK) in which this matter was clarified in a friendly manner. I stand corrected and will make no more suggestions, only actual moves.
Phew... I'd hoped I wasn't speaking out of turn.
Well clearly the only sensible move to be made from Wathamstow is direct to Grange Hill -the Bronson Memorial Manoover (sic). Get out of that one!
You've got it backwards I'm afraid... the Bronson Memorial Manoover, if that's really what you want to do, would require you to move to Cockfosters.
You've got it backwards I'm afraid... the Bronson Memorial Manoover, if that's really what you want to do, would require you to move to Cockfosters.
I think you're a little confused -that's the Brisley Maneuver, also known as the Brown Line Detour.
I have a great deal of experience with the Brown Line Detour, and I assure you that's not it.
I bow to your greater knowledge, but stand by Grange Hill as the next stop.
I know myself. I'm going to get my feelings hurt if I continue to play, so I think I'm going to withdraw. If anyone needs to consult the Finsbury rules for any reason, just let me know.
Play fair!
I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. But I do want to play Barking. I feel strongly about it. Barking Barking Barking!
I'll take the bait, UT - [SIZE="4"]Isle of Dogs[/SIZE]!
Can we please move out of East London as I see them as stations rather than moves... There's a wonderful Italian ice cream shop in Barking...
Anyway.
As Barking is wild - being a mainline station - I move Barking to West Ham to Stratford- two to three privilege sacrificing Plaistow (as this is where my ex used to live so I'm glad to be rid of it).
I can't believe the opportunity for this classic move presented itself so readily! Playing as a veteran of many years standing, since before the Jubilee and The Oyster existed, I give you
[CENTER]Camden Town.[/CENTER]
Time for an east-west Joker - via the Circle Line jug handle which isolates Earls Court (I have a feeling that might be about to be played - could be wrong though - bit of nail-biter) - so it's High Street Kensington with a compulsory northbound intervention.
I think that closes the Canus Gambit.
Warren Street
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="Silver"]I knew Cyclefrance was of championship ability ...[/COLOR][/SIZE]
I think you're a little confused -that's the Brisley Maneuver, also known as the Brown Line Detour.
Isn't it the Ball-Sac Binding Maneuver?
You're getting too close to Hampton Court introducing the Ball Sac Binding Manoeuvre (and that can be painfull - as well as being overground)
But I think I have time to slip in a Shepherds Bush while you're not looking...
I'm beginning to see that radio broadcasts that I've heard have been heavily edited.
But I think I have time to slip in a Shepherds Bush while you're not looking...
I'm going to queer your crafty pitch for Shepherds Bush with a little Swiss Cottag[SIZE="1"]ing[/SIZE].
Speaking of which - Hamstead
Hampstead I presume?
At which point you lay yourself wide open for the classic blocking manouevre:
[SIZE="6"]Euston[/SIZE]
(try & get back to Mornington Crescent from that one! HA!)
Hells teeth! And I was poised to leap en passent to MC from there.
OK and don't say you weren't warned.
[CENTER][SIZE="3"][COLOR="Blue"]ANGEL[/COLOR][/SIZE]:worried: [/CENTER]
Well that's just backwards! I'm rolling a nine on that one and moving to Marylebone.
Hokey Dokey.
Really elegant reversal there Monster, and to be sure Marylebone does challenge the 1926 ruling on High Church traversal, at least with four or more players. Interesting precedent in (I believe) 1953 due to its being Coronation year of course. Thought provoking. Anyway I digress. [SIZE="6"]OVAL[/SIZE]
Hardly cricket CZ! And I'm sure the 1926 ruling was amended by the d"Oyly Carte variant of 1936 covering odd-numbered players on weekdays. Add to this the Festival of Britain appendix (Skylon mark 3 revision) and I am left with no choice other than to play ST. JAMES'S PARK. Not very good-spirited, I admit, but my hands are tied, as I am sure you will appreciate.
Almost certainly a feint by CF to bring on a cascade (Parks and Gardens in this case) as referred to in the Wheatstone Memorial Game currently ongoing elsewhere in the ether ... There is , of course, the possibility of a Hagiographic Strategem as perpetrated in the Vatican City Mornington Crescent Tournament of 1933 ... hm... which to choose ... better be quick before someone blocks me ...
[COLOR="SandyBrown"][SIZE="4"]St Pancras[/SIZE][/COLOR]!
Zounds B-Limey, you'll have to get up a little earlier if you think you're going to slide that one past us. Pretty reminiscent of the famous Ruskin-Redgrave manouvre of 1932 if I'm not mistaken. Before our time admittedly but re-enacted by Garden v. Rice at Chichester during the Summer festival of 1976, the year of the great drought and silver jubilee. I am surprised at you but nevertheless impressed!
In the spirit of Brooke-Taylor, Kew Gardens.
Damn'ee CZ - you know horticulture 's my weak point, but it's not the end of the line yet you know... unless.....
[COLOR="Magenta"]MORDEN[/COLOR]
Simply because I'm a new player, I'm not afraid of the controversy:
Heathrow Terminal 4
*sharp intake of breath over the teeth*........
Tower of London, please. And I claim the dozen scones (heh heh)
Tonchi I think perhaps you meant Tower Hill where the District and Circle skim west just before the old Tower itself, unless yours was a devious ploy to liberate the stone=scone under cover of playing the game...? Deeply sneaky.
Out at Terminal Four Ut, pretty wild and wily, we must watch you very closely.
My work today took me into the lives and loves of Bedlam so partly in their honour I give you [COLOR="Sienna"]LAMBETH NORTH[/COLOR]
If you stop at Tower Hill first, the ravens will see you coming and block the scones nicking. Tower of London manoever was taught to me by a Chilean refugee from the Pinochet regime in 1974, and I feel it only fair to mention it only works outward bound. Carry on.
Speechless Tonchi. A first!
Ho hum... [SIZE="4"]Baker Street [/SIZE] I presume :rolleyes:
This is all getting way to stressful. I think we need to make the next stop [COLOR="Sienna"]Mudchute[/COLOR] for a little R&R and some more brown line jokes.
Mudchute inner city farmI say, mind if I have the rest of your chips? Me moggie's still hungry.
I say, mind if I have the rest of your chips? Me moggie's still hungry.
Your pussy is peckish? I suggest the faggots would be more to it's taste.
I think Mudchute has you all in spoon, so I'm invoking the Perthow-Greene ten hour timeknip, after which I think I can legitimately move straight to MC for a decisive victory.
Wow, I have no clue what you people are talking about.
I am challenging the Perthew-Greene timeknip Monster, 21.25 in Somerset! Phew, unless you have bumped onto MC from the Kings X side...?
I suggest a sojourn at [COLOR="SlateGray"][SIZE="5"]Neasden[/SIZE][/COLOR] in the grey light of dawn.
Shawnee there are several goodish sites but
this one seems as good as any I think. Just whatever you do don't ask the rules, you'll start an incident!
He is blocked from making that manoever anyway, because somebody on the 18:00 to Virginia Water trod on J.K. Rowling's toes and she sent the train through a wormhole to East Newark. Can't get them back until next week, you see.
I am challenging the Perthew-Greene timeknip Monster, 21.25 in Somerset! Phew, unless you have bumped onto MC from the Kings X side...?
I suggest a sojourn at [COLOR="SlateGray"][SIZE="5"]Neasden[/SIZE][/COLOR] in the grey light of dawn.
You got lucky there, I was late back because there was the wrong type of snow on the line.
However, the delay gave me time to reflect at length upon this game and I believe my sacrificial move to
[COLOR="Purple"]Maida Vale [/COLOR]will actually make it Mornington Cresent in two.
I am invoking the 'Holland Park Fool's Mate' employed by 'The Unknown Anorak' 1996 and I trust you are aware of the dangers inherent in playing [COLOR="Purple"]Maida Vale[/COLOR] after [COLOR="SlateGray"]Neasden[/COLOR]............?
Fingers in my ears then, Chalk Farm :worried:
I'm most appreciative that you did that, since I was prepared to resort to Ammendment Nine (Book 9, pub. 1938 in Edinborough), which states that pyrotechnic devices are permitted so long as they can be concealed under your mac.
[FONT="Arial Black"][SIZE="4"][COLOR="DarkOliveGreen"]Shepherd's Bush[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT], then. Dare get into that, would ye?
Shepherd's Bush is an illegal move at this point (see Chemeck vs Gany vs Smith 1988), however it doesn't hinder me and in fact prevents CzinZumerzet putting me in huff, so i'm going to let it ride and go for Kentish town.
MC in 1 unless......
[applause at Tonchi's Shepherd's Bush]
Beg pardon, it is NOT illegal; this case is still in the courts. No doubt players who do not bother to keep up with the dockets believe that just because two players from the Harrods team and a spectator were inadvertently killed when the manoever was last performed by Sherrill Vanderhooven of Johannesburg (Meerkats, est. 1969) it should not be playable but I assure you that is not the case. Cit: The Sun, Thursday August 22, 2002, back page; and The Underground Holocaust by Ardsley Wilson Snipe, ed. 2003.
Now that you are straight on that play, I will have to inform you that the Kentish Town terminal is closed for the filming of Trainspotting IX and you will be rerouted to Wapping on the East London until the sanitation crew is finished inspecting. Meanwhile, I shall double you by way of [SIZE="4"][FONT="Century Gothic"][COLOR="Red"]Arsenal[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE].
Right, and definitely a challenging ruse but this provides us with an inverted diagonal possibility . I am going with the Mayfair Gambit whick allows for a change of rules as it's Sunday and Chinese New Year.
I have roast pork and Cider waiting for me at the pub so this is a rushed move but one which should keep you thinking for a bit longer.
I'm making an oblique to [COLOR="Lime"]Embankment[/COLOR] and the clue is in the colour...
By Jove, an excellent choice since one might otherwise have to skip dinner due to the time zone change. I am having to make do with my trusty hip flask :3_eyes:
If anyone is still confused about the rules, perhaps this video would be helpful.
[youtube]o5tVOs2zdcI[/youtube]
Aha! Thanks for the reminder...
Mornington Crescent.
The Kentish Town Diversion Inversion gets them every time!
Congratulations Monster and well done you for spotting the Kentish Town Diversion Inversion. Great playing!
What bit of the UK are you from? If you have already dealt with the question on another page I apologise for going over old ground. Have you been gone long?
I know its bad luck to kick off a new game within a segment which shares the 'prinking' cross over from Kings X to Chalk Farm, no need to take risks. Even if it's post inversion.
Once again, lovely example of oblique shunting! I didn't see that coming! :cool: Super Cool!
Childhood near Stockport with a bit of allover thrown in for good measure, 10 years in Birmingham as an adult, then shipped over here to convert the heathens ;)
You think we need a new thread for a new game then? I'm unfamiliar with the superstitious side of the game -I find it hinders my use of the archaic rubrics of the pearly kings.
No need for a new thread really, I think I was just creating a diversion waiting for the unbearable closure of Regents park to be lifted but it's not to be. Makes one wonder what is going on down there... :worried:
Anyway, I give you [COLOR="Red"][SIZE="3"]Chancery Lane[/SIZE][/COLOR] for entirely sentimental reasons. For many years I had a flat in Leather Lane which runs paralel to Hatton Garden and connected High Holborn to Clerkenwell. It was the heart of the Italian quarter & fantastic restaurants & leatherworkers. Chancery Lane was our street corner station.
I don't know your old stomping ground at all but most of Brum retires down here to Weston Super Mare and end up running pubs and small businesses. The new Bullring though...that is serious shopping to die for.
as an ex-brummie, I do indeed know weston well.....spent many a holiday on the mud-fla......beaches of weston.....
Now in cheshire for the last 15 years, but went back to Brum last year for a look round and my how it's changed! Almost wants to make me move back there.....
and speaking of moves......
BANK
Has to be....Tottenham Court Road
Aaah, do I detect a musical bias infiltrating the gameplay - in that case
WATERLOO
Oh now I love this challenge!
I was always and remain a fan of Squeeze, and their song Piccadilly from East Side Story. So, Piccadilly Circus
That, of course, will take me back to the
[SIZE="4"]Old Kent Road[/SIZE]! [SIZE="1"](I hope you all will forgive me for mimicking the manoevre that nearly lost the game for Ghandi when he played against the entire British Civil Service in India as an example of civil action causing civil service inaction, but we all know what happened next!).[/SIZE]
Oh yes! Me me me please!
[CENTER][COLOR="DarkGreen"]WESTMINSTER[/COLOR][/CENTER]
using the Diana inverse sideline to get to Pimlico
Protocol demands a following glissade toward the west, so more in hope than anything else,
[CENTER][COLOR="Red"]Bond Street[/COLOR][/CENTER]
Now that creates an interesting dichotomy. Should we think of the aristocracy in which case there can only be one other choice of court.... but wait, perhaps the court referred to is one of play (would that be in, or out, I wonder - definitely 'in' according to American thinking) which would lead us in a southerly direction... but there is of course another, so I will play
TEMPLE
As tribute to La Mirren and to HM I offer, of course:
[CENTER][COLOR="Purple"][SIZE="4"]QUEENSWAY[/SIZE]:queen: :queen: [/COLOR][/CENTER](2 queens this morning)
A timely yet bold introduction of the inspired double regal move so seldom witnessed at such an advanced stage of the game - not something I would have undertaken myself. I think PERIVALE is probably the best of the very few responses available.
Oh now you've done it! According to my calculations, there are only two ways I can possibly prevent you from reaching MC next stop. If I use the Kline-Hope-Kline Jr. move that's going to get us stuck in the loop for a long time, but the alternative to Willesdon Junction is just so risky I don't think I'd dare try it, even with the anonymity of the internet. Nope. Sorry, it's got to be Dollis Hill.
Aha!!! Mornington Cre--
--
No. I'm sorry, I was... anticipatory.
My actual move is the rather pedestrian Barbican
hmm.
British public transport and British public etiquette, eh? A bad mix.
Once again, I was waiting for someone else to jump into the fray, and whilst I was busy being so British, the last train on the line out of the loop sped through the station so I have to say....
Dollis Hill.
(sorry)
Aha!!! Mornington Cre--
--
No. I'm sorry, I was... anticipatory.
My actual move is the rather pedestrian Barbican
Oh UT, you so nearly scooped it there. I must say that I've been bowled over by the talent here in the Cellar (though of course I shouldn't have been surprised) both from people whe I knew were bound to be MC experts and from newcomers alike. This game is so enthralling ... the twists and turns, the erudite references to precedent, the asides, sidings and, junctions and points .... just fabulous.
But since Monster has put us through the Dollis Hill double, that does open up the rarely available possibility of taking a swerve round to [SIZE="4"]Hangar Lane [/SIZE]...
...and the swerve curves into the great swoop seldom attempted without grave risk to the following podumes. Seriously though, and without frightening the horses, I am lead to [SIZE="4"][COLOR="SeaGreen"]Galleons Reach [/COLOR][/SIZE]as a compromise move.
pfft... seriously cz think before the play, that's no closure.
Aldwych
Aldwych? Are you for real? Is it my birthday? I want cake.
Baker Street. :D
Barking Barking BARKING!
[SIZE=1]I go by "Barking Toad" sometimes when "Undertoad" is taken. Extra marks to anyone who gets the reference.[/SIZE]
oooh, nice recovery there, UT. I will remember that. Very neat.
Hmm.
Vauxhall.
Did you know that the Russian for "station" is вокзал (vokzal) because when a Russian was being shown Vauxhall station he asked "What is this place called?" and was given the reply "Vauxhall". This anecdote gives me the opportunity to make a move only introduced since the end (discuss, in no more than 500 words) of the Cold War and introduce a(nother) international element ....
[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"]Алексеевская[/COLOR] (Alekseyevskaya) ...[/SIZE] (way out east).
[SIZE="5"][COLOR="Red"]Cockfosters![/COLOR][/SIZE]
I'm flying I'm flying..!!
you're derailing, more like....
Marylebone
Yes well...it was Friday and tonight's lunar eclipse is causing some unusual luna-type excitement. We lead terribly quiet lives down here at the winter seaside of Weston On The Mud. However, from Marylebone to MC is but a shortish hop via the darkely Holmsian depths of [COLOR="DarkRed"][SIZE="5"][COLOR="Sienna"]Baker Street[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR], Elementary finish from here...?
It may be elementary to you, CZ, but in my book after playing Baker Street it's only when you have eliminated everything else that what remains must be the........ Eughhh...! Oh, my god, I've been murdered!
No, I haven't, only joking, but really we haven't eliminated everything else – that clever play by Monster demonstrates this superbly – from my side I think the time is ripe and route-full for SOUTHWARK, a relatively new arrival, but nevertheless permissible under the Lyttleton-Brooke-Taylor memorandum of 27 October 2006 - but I admit that we are getting closer to a crescential climax with every move, naturally….
[CENTER]Mornington Crescent![/CENTER]
After a long drawn out silence, it was undoubtedly just sitting there waiting to be plucked out of the ether. Or soot actually. Sunday last I went to lunch at the V&A, having walked from High Street Ken on the [COLOR="Green"]District Line[/COLOR] (by the by, the roast lamb & trimmings at the V&A is exceptional and one of the best I have had...yum at the memory) and the soot still collects up ones nose. Not to put to fine a point on it. Reminds me of one of the reasons I left London, but not permanently. Digression. It has to be MC.
I was hoping the silence meant you hadn't noticed that. Poo. Well Done, nicely finished. Barry Cryer would be proud of you.
Okey Dokey, third time lucky. I think you'll agree that -whilst unusual- [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Seven Sisters [/COLOR]will make for an interesting opening move.
O thank you Monster. It was just hanging there wasn't it. There is something quite spooky about your opening (something the bishop might have said ?) and countered by a double twist to see what came up - it was [COLOR="Sienna"]Harrow-on-the-Hill[/COLOR]
[CENTER]WEMBLEY PARK[/CENTER]
Gotta be, [SIZE="4"]East India[/SIZE]
So I've been thinking about this all day. I know it's a dirty move and the moral guilt has weighed heavily on my mind throughout my board meeting tonight (so much so that I agreed to do way more than I intended to -a form of penance, I guess), but -after consulting the Brooke-Taylor-Brandreth-Deayton tome "How to win MC and infuriate people" for legality issues, I have to be true to my competitive streak and say [COLOR="Purple"]Embankment[/COLOR].
Barking ------ side! Barkingside!
(did i fool you? aw cmon)
[COLOR="Purple"]Happy International Women's Day[/COLOR], by the way.
Oh Monster I confess to very slight envy at you determination to weave - zig and zag - through the entrails of justification by Brooke Taylor et al. Humph would groan! Humph groans a lot though, but I salute your daring.
Ut almost had us fooled, almost... woof woof.
And so I grasp the nettle and give you Pudding Mill Lane ;)
[COLOR="Purple"]Happy International Women's Day[/COLOR], by the way
I considered another intenational leap to a station bearing a woman's name, in honour of the day, but I think that my move in tribute to John Inman who died today in [COLOR="Magenta"]Paddington[/COLOR], is more likely to get me to MC before you.
Plus he was known internationally and was very effeminate, so it's almost appropriate that way too :)
I'm free.
R.I.P. Mr Inman, in your honor I move Queensway
A touching tribute, Mr. Toad. :sniff:
The only response can be Tooting Broadway. :D
So sad.
Wendy Richards, Miss Brahms of Grace Bros was talking about John Inman on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, yesterday morning. It is the programme without which my day simply cannot begin, anyway as usual I digress.
She said about him that his humour and his jokes were of the 'self-cleaning' variety, to which no-one could really take offence. Interesting way of describing him and so true. He was unique and will be terribly missed especially as Christmas panto dame, to which he brought sheer magic.
On with the motley and I give you [COLOR="Blue"]COVENT GARDEN[/COLOR][COLOR="Blue"][/COLOR]
I happened across this tournement on the way to the IOTD, and was elated to find the beutiful game being played right under my very nose. As a long time lurker/first time poster I feel it fitting that my first post be on a game of Mornington Crescent, (Or Mornis as we call it in Yorkshire).
I am going to take the unusual step of explaining my move, to aid those more inexperienced players. My initial thought after seeing Covent Garden was to mimic Monster and CzinZumerzets moves of Baker Street, but this time changing from the pink to the brown, but that would leave the way open for a Kasparczec Bypass to MC on the next move (admittedy only for the more experienced player, but you never know.)
Shooters' Hill would be the obvious choice, as it is a clear run up from Covent Garden, without any opportunity for other players to Chip, Chunk, Dip or Wipe me out of the game, but I thought that was too easy.
I settled on taking a move from a classic game (Puzzom V Wankowski from the 3rd annual Seniors tournament in Gibralatar, 1926) but renaming it to conform with the 21st Century game board naming structure, and have gone for a crafty [COLOR="Lime"]Millennium Dome[/COLOR]!
Enjoy.
Welcome to the cellar, Ogwen.
I'm going to pass on this turn as something has come up which require my full mental attention. I can see you are a seasoned pro at this and I shall be giving your move some deep thought as I swim my laps this morning (provided I haven't been arrested for using physical force to resolve the "issue" I must attend to first :mad: )
A second welcome to the cellar Ogwen. Another Brit in the cellar is sooooo welcome:rolleyes:
So you are a player, so you will have gathered that we are not actually adhering to any of the modern tournament rules employing instead more of a creative schema which could I suppose be said to mirror quite closely the British Antarctic Survey system (ii) designed obviously to encourage the circulation as opposed to actual movement. Passion not Perambulation. Sorry:)
However, I feel sure you will agree that Millennium Dome does present an aesthetic problem in view of its proximity to The Royal Observatory and 'that line...'. So not to put too fine a point on it, and being just a little bit scared of Monster's worrying reference to 'physical force' I am therefore playing a classic Saturday move or 'purl' to the west with [COLOR="Yellow"]MONUMENT[/COLOR] on the Circle. Thereby ends the clue!
Just realised that the yellow is losing the letters for MONUMENT but the circle is the issue.
HAHAAAA that leaves you wide open for me to take a [COLOR="Lime"]BANK[/COLOR]
Quell Fromage! Employing 'Bal-Ham, Gateway to the South' as a Sellarite (geddit geddit?) precedent, WATERLOO and may I remind players that the City Link is temporarily off limits.
Ya know, it's just gotta be Wembley Park
CASCADE OPENING!!!!
Green Park
Caramba...and [COLOR="Green"]St James Park [/COLOR]Ola!
Fools! bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa.........
Mornington Crescent.
:D
<ROLL END CREDITS>
I finally got to post in this thread!!! I'm so happy!
I don't believe it, I simply don't believe it!
Fab move Mon utterly and Absolutely Fabulous. Well done you.:)
Bags I start the new one.
[COLOR="Sienna"]Paddington[/COLOR]
sorry, just needed a little R&R after that exciting coup-de-grace.
Time to up the ante: Embankment.
So I'm thinking you must all want to see me playing with myself? this ain't an image thread, you know....
Canary Wharf, just because I like to see you squirm!
Oooh, sneaky, but begs Blackwall
Whitechapel, and clocks Spring forward tonight, another hour lost forever:neutral:
Ours went forward a couple of week ago. :rolleyes: [COLOR="Green"]North Greenwich[/COLOR], of course.......
Stratford, and I'm missing that hour already:zzz:
Ha! Kings Cross.
I'm thinking there must have been flooding on the line and you had to lie on the roof and paddle? Quicker to leave the train behind and swim, I would have thought.... :p
Holborn
No earthquake here in the west, imagine being in [COLOR="DarkRed"]Baker Street[/COLOR] when the earth shook...:eek:
And the Snoozing Fare-Dodger move gets me to....
Mornington Cresent.
:p
CONGRATULATIONS! WE HAVE A WINNER, LAYDEEZ AN' GENNLEMEN!
Good show, monster - I never saw it coming!
The long and winding road that leads to your door,
Will never disappear,
I've seen that road before. It always leads me here,
leads me to your door.
Another bump in case people missed the other thread I bumped.
Humphrey Lyttleton (host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - the Radio 4 show that featured the Mornington Crescent Game) died yesterday aged 86, following heart surgery.
I'm in Mournington.
Oh no :(
There must be something wrong my my reception of the ISIHAC mailng list.. nothing came through about it.
[alisonmoyet]
We all nee-eed thread resurrection......
[/alisonmoyet]
Chigwell.
Oh. Interesting move. I'm going to have to ponder that one.
[eta] Oh hang on.., would Leytonstone be a legal move from there?
Can't see a legal problem with it. Not a move i would have made, though.
Embankment.
Oh bugger, I walked right into that one.
Let's go old school: Sloane Square
Don't you have some papers to mark or something?
:/
...
Angel.
Invoking Rule 43 of the Edingstone Convention handbook, 3rd edition (revised 1987), I say Kennington.
Sent by thought transference
I'm not entirely sure that Kennington is a legal move.
Because of the unsanctioned consonant progression listed in the annotations of the Maybry Protocols.
Fourth Edition.
Fourth Edition? What a racket! They just came out with the third edition two years ago. I guess old Professor Slopwith had to pay for his vacation to the Mull of Kintyre. How are we supposed to keep up with this stuff if he changes it just as you finish reading the damn thing?
Well, you could subscribe to the Compendium.
[Size=1]Amateur.[/Size]
AHA! Mornington Crikey is that a kookaburra? Cockfosters.
How can you liver with yourself after pulling that stunt?
Waterloo. you forced my hand. :mad:
Mudchute.
Sent by thought transference
I see where you're going with this .....
Cockfosters.
Ah, now see, we're round in circles. I'm going to try something unconventional: Kew Gardens
I'll see your Kew Gardens and raze you a Burnt Oak. (Two can play at this game)
oh, brillig.
you're a fucking natural, foot.
These brits get so convoluted with their inverted crossings and hybrid juxtapostions and what not... I dunno. I just love how direct that move was. no fucking around... no mamby pamby apologist crap. just a good old smash mouth Burnt Oak. Right in the gut.
In the same spirit, I'll set the ball again and drop a Paddington Greene like it's hot. Let's show them how we do this shit in the US, bro.
Word.
The Balham's in their court now. Let's see what Acton they take next.
Oh oh, the colonials are at it with a vengeance. That opens up the possibility of using a manoeuvre from the Hetherington Protocol. Hyde Park.
Sent by thought transference
That's more like it.
Oldie but a goodie, monstah.
Of course I do have to give my stop right back to you.
Missed Stop!
Finally! Now I can play one.
St. John's Wood
*snicker*
Lol. You should have waited until morning for that one!
Well, we have already had Cockfosters...twice!
With a nod to the west ... (Port) Richmond!
*snort* As if.
[Size=1]Richmond, pfft.[/Size]
Get those dogs baying, and take a step to the left, it's Hounslow!
(where I'll be on the 8th of next month :P)
Comin for to carry me.....
To Ogelsby Pincushion.
lotta pricks there these days.
Jim you sweetie.
You left that one wide open.
Am happy to slide in with Hatton Cross.
And yes, you can leave your hat on...
...They don't know what love is
Yeah, I know what love is...
Cockfosters
And that's that.
Mornington Crescent.
That almost felt like cheating, foot.
3 cock fosters in one game. Never seen it before.
But then Blankenship's rule is only a decade or so old....
Who's next?
3 cock fosters in one game. Never seen it before.
There was this one time, in band camp...
You just got a lot sexier
Not possible, is it?
Dana, were you able to place them permanently?
Muffington Downs*
*Included via The Muffington Clause, Section 12, Subsection L, Sidebar 17, Paragraph 5.
[Size=1]Published by Dunder-Mifflin[/Size]
Ha! Change of century sidetrack for you! :p:
Stoppit, stoppit, stoppit!!!!
You're making things up now. Ruining the game.
Royston Vasey.
So there.
Spitalfields, and lets remember we are 21st century players, and (cant believe this is happening twice..) clocks spring forward this weekend.
I repeat, SPITALFIELDS and the clue to progression..? Mount Pleasant. HA!
I was at the fabled station just ten minutes ago and didn't see you there, Jim. Didn't alight though.
Camden Town
Sent by thought transference
Tch. I was just avin a kip on a bench. Or maybe I was in the WC?
Anyway, I was dressed as a tall asian woman. You probably wouldn't have recognized me anyway.
Poliwog Crossing
Sent by thought transference
My math says you posted that around midnight your time, Limey. It's only 10pm here, so..... Mornington crescent :p: I win!
Limey dahling that's lovely.
But what I really want is a photo of one of the Lost Stations of the Underground.
Yes, I know you can't get one from a Tube - they're dark. They're lost after all.
Neil Gaiman makes wonderful use of them in various short stories.
When I win the Lottery... :blah: ... I will organise a Dwellar party in London's original cellar. How's an abandoned Tube platform for the setting of a great horror movie? When few of us really know eachother IRL? And that lovely charismatic guy/ girl who joins just in time to join the party?
You seen Creep, right? Not a great film, but for those of us who've taken the last Tube home it has resonance. Specially if you look like Franka Potente, like what I do.
PS - Unfair use of time difference there Monster.
You're sentenced to a round of the Circle Line.
...Did I just catch sight of Caz zooming through Spitalfields?
Yup you did Dana, sweaty face pressed up against the window of a Northern Line train in the rush hour as it whistles through Mornington Crescent and some of those crushed in alongside think '...oh thats that place ...'
Oh again!! Just as I typed that someone on the radio announced Richard Griffiths death, the wonderful teacher on the moped in The History Boys and all the other great parts. Oh.
Well I believe we might have time for one more round, so I'll start us off with Tooting Broadway. Open season, all established variations may be played except the Chumley-Warner.
all established variations may be played except the Chumley-Warner.
Is this aimed at me? I'm upset that you would go there. I'm going to have to sit this round out if you are excluding Chumley.
yes, well, you should never have attempted the Wimbledon reverse maneuver when poor old CF was trying to change lines carrying his bike -not cricket at all.
I will play [COLOR="Red"]Barking[/COLOR] for olde tyme's sake, remembering the reindeer games we used to play
[size=1]I was formerly unaware of the Belle and Sebastian song "Mornington Crescent" which is excellent[/size]
Hainault, via Newbury Park.
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sneaky..... but I think you'll find that may be your Waterloo! (via Angel). get out of that!
I will play [COLOR="Red"]Barking[/COLOR] for olde tyme's sake, remembering the reindeer games we used to play
[size=1]I was formerly unaware of the Belle and Sebastian song "Mornington Crescent" which is excellent[/size]
Good times.
I miss Herbie and Yukon Cornelius.
Next time we're up that way, I'll be sure to drop a North poke Station in.
For now, though, Chalk Bottom will have to do.
In that case...
Hampton Court. (Which is not as painful as it sounds).
I thought you had me for a moment there, but after a cuppa I realized..... I could "just say no" with Grange Hill!
I didn't see that one coming. You play a mean game ma'am.
I was saving this for later, but needs must...
Baker Street. (Circle Line - Westbound, that is).
I'm not sure "Westbound" is legal, it's certainly not moral; but I'm not going to argue it, because it makes this counter move possible: [COLOR="Red"]London Bridge[/COLOR].
:eek: hmmm..... I need to go do some research
Open season, all established variations may be played except the Chumley-Warner.
In that case Arnos Grove is wild so I play...
[COLOR="Red"]Shadwell.
[/COLOR]
Well, it's only fair. How else could I follow London Bridge without the possibility of getting into Nidd?
Of Course! Shadwell/Knightsbridge conversion: [COLOR="Indigo"]Piccadilly Circus[/COLOR]
Tricky.
I have no option but to play Renshaw's Gambit, in the vain hope I don't get stuck in the Dollis Hill loop for all eternity.
Anyway, here goes:
[COLOR="Red"]Chalfont & Latimer[/COLOR]
dirty! Dollis Hill (sorry Caruthers, but there are a couple of possible exit routes I see, as long as you don't mind the tea in first, so to speak)
footer should be DQd according to chapter 3 of the Brooks Simplified Handbook; and I feel he should be banned from the site, but this time I'll make it the Moderators' call.
Oh and bloody [COLOR="Red"]Hounslow Central[/COLOR], if that wasn't way too obvious
let's just send him to Coventrycoventrycoventry. Which makes me want to play [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Covent Garden[/COLOR], which I think I can get away with because of that earlier Hampton Court...
A fair point, monster, which forces me to go out on a limb with...
Becontree.
Something of a rash move I know, but it's Thursday and therefore legal if not all that ethical.
footer should be DQd according to chapter 3 of the Brooks Simplified Handbook; and I feel he should be banned from the site, but this time I'll make it the Moderators' call.
If Samantha were here she’d have something to say.
Probably
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If Samantha were here she’d have something to say.
Probably
I'm surprised that Mrs Trellis of North Wales hasn't commented yet.
I'm surprised that Mrs Trellis of North Wales hasn't commented yet.
But the postal deliveries are delayed because of the Pandemic.
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Ah, sod it! [COLOR="Purple"]Embankment[/COLOR]. Sorry, Carruthers
Embankment and Mornington Crescent are both on the Northern Line, but as the former is also on the Bakerloo Planck's Variable comes into play. Under the circumstances I'm forced to go for...
Rayner's Lane.
Planck should have called it a day after he sorted out his constant.
It's always the yanks isn't it? Embankment again...... :neutral:
It's not going to yank itself now, is it?
possible, but I think you'll find that you are perhaps in Nidd. Hence my apology to Carruthers who will find it hard to get around you (as the bishop said to the actress)
Under the circumstances a reverse diagonal is the only way forward so...
Morden
Well! I am forced to apply Fotherinhaye’s Contingent Manouevre, I’m afraid, bringing demised stations into play as an Extreme Tactic under Tutt’s Rules and say York Road.
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Sharp practice there, limey.
The convention is that you only do that in conjunction with a vertical shunt at Kensington High Street or, at the very least, Brompton Road.
However, we'll let that one pass.
Fairlop.
I'm going to invoke the "Former Colonist's Exclusion Addendum" to Tutt's Rules (par. 784 sub. 27f) and say Crote Spokeham.
"Doin' the horizontal shunt", that's dirty
That guy who visits least used stations, and once travelled to one with Sundae's brother Steve, points out that [COLOR="Red"]Roding Valley[/COLOR] is the least-used underground station and so that is my play this morning
[YOUTUBE]u2iS-eVOWrc[/YOUTUBE]
leading naturally to [COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Chad Valley[/COLOR], where the Chavs Dally (for a bit of early seasonal cheap toy shopping)