# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/401 "2025-08-15T15:45:12Z")
With **Kentish Town West** played and Quarters in countdown, I am going to rush over to **Willesdon Junction** to try to open things back up again. This might be introducing too much chaos at this point, but I am trying to emulate Tiffton’s (early) playstyle a bit. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/402 "2025-08-17T13:49:23Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > I am trying to emulate Tiffton’s (early) playstyle a bit I’m sticking to Threepwood’s. It looks like it’s working as no one’s posted for 2 days now .. Ok. Let’s put the cat among the can of worms with .. **King’s Cross & St. Pancras International.** ---
**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:** [August 18, 2025, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/403 "2025-08-18T09:19:15Z")
Ah, you just must appreciate the sheer chutzpah of an august MC Master to deploy a malaphor at the mission critical stage of the game. As the sacred cows have obviously come home to roost with a vengeance, I’m playing **Caledonian Road** to set up a dinky run to Camden and glory. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/404 "2025-08-18T19:41:23Z")
So **Gospel Oak** it shall be, and not for lack of faith! Looks like a tiny step in the wrong direction, but allows a jumping redirection invoquing again the Whereas Clause 7 (b) iii of the third post-conciliar Carolingian Amendment (it sounded better in Latin, granted, but such are the times). ---
**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:** [August 19, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/405 "2025-08-19T11:44:03Z")
Right. I’m going to invoke Carruthers’s high-relevance gambit as used by the great @Novelty_Bobble and call … **Mornington Crescent** Thank you for you attention to this matter. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/406 "2025-08-19T12:31:37Z")
Oh, well done. It’s been coming for a while but I, amongst others, couldn’t nail the opportunities as presented. That’d be right up there with the best recoveries from Nid I have played against. _Salute_’ ---
**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:** [August 19, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/407 "2025-08-19T14:14:47Z")
I knew I should have blocked… aw, never mind. Well played, sir! You got to take your chances when the oponents present them to you on a plate. Time to gift my remaining tokens to charity. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/408 "2025-08-19T14:22:36Z")
Huh. Looks like Tiffton let me down. In hindsight, I should have reviewed the finals of the New Dehli Invitational 1972, and maybe I would have seen that Carruthers move coming. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179/409 "2025-08-19T16:08:31Z")
Thanks all. It was a good game; I’m quite proud of the fact that I used my nidment to my advantage - without it I would probably have created a zonal occlusion between Green Park and Gloucester Road which would have lasted for at least 8 moves. See you all in another 2 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179.md?page=20)