Well you surely don’t expect us to take seriously the comments of someone who takes the 1916 Calcutta pre-retraction findings seriously. They tried to drive a bus through the double stirrups traslational play rules to satisfy a greco-austrian team dispute. Do you support token exchanges for secondary Nidd entanglements as well?
The 1923 Novy Sibersk world Championships were played under the 1916 Calcutta convention. Are you seriously trying to claim that Dr Ivorsk’ double translation to Brixton and then the reversal while Double Stirrups was up wasn’t one of Mornington Crescent’s finest hours?
Surely you’re not referring to Dr Boris “Firebug” Ivorsk?
I say, those allegations were never proven! Lies, foul lies and slander I say!
Well, it was, at the time. But things have moved on somewhat since then - since the abolition of the death penalty in Britain, it was felt that a double translation to Brixton was rather against the spirit of the game, and it fact this was codified by the 43rd meeting of the International Mornington Crescent Rules Association in 1973. It’s now not allowed in any tournament game, and if you tried it in a friendly I think the reaction would be distinctly frosty, to say the least.
Come on. The man wrote The Arsonists’ Guide to Mornington Crescent. How much more proof do you need?
Yes, well in my opinion the only true version of Mornington Crescent survived in the colonies. Britain lost their nerve after the London Blitz and never recovered it.
Yeow, you had to bring that one up. 200 moves per hour, every match, the Blitz led to the early retirement of everybody on the UK national team, even the coach and the pissboy. No sane tournament organizer has used the Blitz format since then.
The insane organizers, on the other hand, love the format. I had been trying out for the North Virginia team for a local Blitz, when I had to withdraw due to wedding planning taking all of my time. (The wedding was awesome, BTW. The tourney, on the other hand, I understand turned into a clusterfuck when the beer ran out in the quarterfinals and the MoCo (MD) team forced triple stirrups.)
Wasn’t that the match where John Scarley had the infamous “fork” incident?
Possibly. Or maybe it was the Rotterdam Blitz. I’d have to go back and look it up.
Well at least no one could accuse this particular game of following the blitz format.
Ivorsk was a cad of the highest order, a quick review of his play style at the Ipminster and Undercroft friendlies tells one everything one needs to know about his character. His sequence at the '23 MC WC was an ersatz Chomuldsy play that divereged unacceptably from the Neu Boathaus zeitgeist.
Now I feel a need to go and take a shower.
Are you taking Sven or Samantha?
It’s Tuesday, I would rather have thought the answer would be obvious. Besides the Birch twigs have lost some of their spring time suppleness.
I say, we in the colonies beg to defer. As everyone knows the only surviving copy of “The Arsonists Guide to Mornington Crescent” were destroyed in a fire in 1936 in Upminster. With that in mind the authorship can never be proven.
A true gentleman, scholar and master of Mornington Crescent in my opinion.
I suppose we will have to agree to disagree.
Either way looking forward to the Karratha pre seasonals, quite the line up they have there.