# A friendly game of Mornington Crescent **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 29, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179 "2020-12-29T14:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/201 "2023-04-24T18:30:29Z")
**Farringdon Road** Yes, i know i miss my next turn but i think it’s worth it in the long run of ends justifying the means at the end of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/202 "2023-04-24T20:13:44Z")
Not a legal move. Remember, you opened with South Harrow and today is an even-numbered day (April 24). Consequently, you can’t simply jump to any zone 1 station from the District line. **Earl’s Court.** ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/203 "2023-04-24T21:10:57Z")
Keeping in mind the new Monarch is a king, coupled with **Cardigan’s** questionable tactic (For gods’ sake, remember your Parslow-Parslow, man.) I see no choice but to go with **Holland Park** ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/204 "2023-04-24T21:58:09Z")
Wow, it seems that both the cruel and the cunning are on the hustings and in rambunctious moods today. Might just be the sound approach to trouser every available token so **Ealing Broadway** for the Central and District bonus. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/205 "2023-04-25T10:49:22Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > and today is an even-numbered day (April 24). Actually, i’m in the UK which is 3 days ahead of the USA, so it is a perfectly legal move. But i can’t be bothered to argue about it so … **Moorgate** ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/206 "2023-04-25T12:15:41Z")
I wish we had participants from New Zealand, where the pilot on landing said: “Welcome to New Zealand. Please set your watches three hours and twenty years back.” That would mess up those horological rules you seem to hold in such high esteem and serve us all right! I stick to my guns: **Arsenal** ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/207 "2023-04-25T13:47:28Z")
Arsenal, huh? Very well, Rydbeck Gambit accepted. Let’s test your nerves… **Green Park** ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/208 "2023-04-25T14:08:52Z")
I laugh in the face of the Rydbeck Gambit! I thought everyone knew that Cadwallader comprehensively refuted it at the 2019 Isle of Dogs Open Championship. **Heathrow Terminal 4** ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/209 "2023-04-25T19:43:49Z")
Cadwallader’s move was ruled illegal upon further review. Am I the only one who keeps up with the journals? **Green Park** ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/210 "2023-04-26T11:46:42Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Green Park ISWYDT.. **Pimlico** ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/211 "2023-04-26T13:20:50Z")
Pimlico? Pimlico!? Are you insane? You’ve just set up **Cardigan** to take Queensway in two moves, using Fink-nottle’s classic 1924 move: “The Blandings Double.” I’ll see what I can do to salvage this: **Maida Vale** ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/212 "2023-04-26T16:16:38Z")
Don’t panic, Cardigan will end in [Wales](https://www.omio.com/trains/london/cardigan) outside the game perimeter in no time, problem solved. In the meantime: **Wapping** (though Caledonian Road and Barnsbury was tempting, if risky. You know the appendix XXVIII b-d… ah, fine times those were!) ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/213 "2023-04-26T17:57:05Z")
Well, this is a decided setback, blocked on three sides as it were. However, it would be well to remember what happened to Spode who deftly outmaneuvered his opponents in a very similar situation at Budapest in 2019. As was the case of Budapest, this is also an unsanctioned match, so the New 2019 Revised International Rules (appended) section XVII (a)(i) allow me in this particular circumstance to call… **Maida Vale** ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/214 "2023-04-26T20:40:01Z")
Ha ! Y’all fell right into my little trap !! … **Pimlico** (…and check Portlock & Watlingham section 3.41 before you start complaining) ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/215 "2023-04-26T20:49:03Z")
Nice castling: A → B → C → B → A I see how you reason and I appreciate it. Fine. This leaves me only one option that I see: the **Elephant & Castle** , where I will down a much deserved indian pale ale. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/216 "2023-04-26T20:51:13Z")
Portlock & Watlingham was updated after the Auckland Invitational in 2018. Pimlico would have been legal, had **Pardel-Lux** not played Wapping. But they did, so… **West Acton** ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/217 "2023-04-26T21:04:48Z")
It is exasperating that you don’t honour my averting of a four-way castle by **not** Green Park’ing as it deserves: it could have easily become a Moebius castling if suitably twisted and who knows into what unchartered territory that could have led us. Never mind, have it your way: I’ll resort to the horological rules that I actually abhorr and jump to **Greenwich** to reset the clock and the score. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/218 "2023-04-27T17:01:50Z")
Nice use of the Blandings maneuver there, but as Sir Roderick put it at the 1962 Bristol Cup match, “Sometimes the River is a better bedfellow then the Swan.” **Canary Warf** ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/219 "2023-04-27T20:45:11Z")
😲 I was not expecting that ! … **Putney Bridge** ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/220 "2023-04-27T21:51:14Z")
Given the intriguing and bellicose _les esprits chagrins_ in play which has imparted on the early stages of the game a sense of _hargneux_, I think a return to the Isle of Dogs is merited, so **Island Gardens.** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179.md?page=12)