# Let's play Mornington Crescent! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139 "2005-07-12T06:14:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/41 "2005-07-12T12:30:56Z")
**Dollis Hill** (There’s a chance, here!) ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/42 "2005-07-12T12:31:51Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/43 "2005-07-12T12:33:00Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > **Dollis Hill** > > (There’s a chance, here!) Not that I can see. I have to play **Kilburn** or **Kingsbury** again. Doesn’t matter. Whichever one I don’t do this time has to be done the next time. So, **Kilburn**. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/44 "2005-07-12T12:34:17Z")
You didn’t spot it! The diagonal! **Dagenham Heathway**!!! Now we should have some exciting open play ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/45 "2005-07-12T12:42:01Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > You didn’t spot it! The diagonal! I thought the 1998 Kensington Open decision was against the diagonal play out of the Dollis Hill loop until there were an odd number of transversals. Has there been a subsequent ruling? And what is it? > [@](#): > > **Dagenham Heathway**!!! > > Now we should have some exciting open play So **Regent’s Park** should be playable, yes? We never closed the cut-back sequence on Bakerloo. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/46 "2005-07-12T12:45:56Z")
Yes, after the stalemate at the Canberra qualifiers, even traversals are permitted - but only to surface stations. Leaving Bakerloo open could help with future Sunday operation predicaments, so I’ll go for **Surrey Quays** ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/47 "2005-07-12T12:48:57Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > **Cunctator** never did get the hang of the game. It’s understandable that not everybody progresses beyond the initial moves within the first few years of study. > > Never mind…are reverse angles being forfeited, with double entrances? If so, **Swiss Cottage**. The real shame of it is that he could have called Mornington Crescent right then and there and ended all this before it really got off the ground. But nooooo … Oh, and, ummm … Well, it’s obvious and I’m sure I’ll regret it, but: **Gloucester Road**. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/48 "2005-07-12T12:51:04Z")
Yes, I could have called it then - but such behaviou just wouldn’t be cricket. **Barons Court** ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/49 "2005-07-12T12:52:21Z")
**Mudchute**. Earns a snigger or two from the schoolboy-humoured among us, but who cares? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/50 "2005-07-12T12:59:38Z")
**Cockfosters** Quiet at the back, please ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/51 "2005-07-12T13:02:49Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > **Mudchute**. Earns a snigger or two from the schoolboy-humoured among us, but who cares? > [@GorillaMan](#): > > Cockfosters And we’ve played the Hainult route out, so… **Richmond** ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/52 "2005-07-12T13:08:28Z")
Can I go for **Northolt** , or does that transgress the Middlesex bias? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/53 "2005-07-12T13:09:25Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Can I go for **Northolt** , or does that transgress the Middlesex bias? Northolt is open. **Covent Garden** ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/54 "2005-07-12T13:17:03Z")
When I visited London last year, the London Dopers mentioned that the 2002 amendments were still caught up in committee. Did those amendments finally pass? If so, **Tower Gateway**. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/55 "2005-07-12T13:20:59Z")
Yes, they certainly did. The complications of the full and equal status of the DLR are still being ironed out, so I’ll play safe with **Poplar**. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/56 "2005-07-12T14:04:37Z")
That may have been an error. I think I can now force Mornington Crescent in four moves, using the Runnymeade Cravat (Simplified). **Hampstead** ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/57 "2005-07-12T14:09:31Z")
The Cravat? You amateur? I’ll put you in the long grass (metaphorically, of course - I wouldn’t want to sully the reputation of Lord Grangewitch-Ashbocking) with **Wembley Park** ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/58 "2005-07-12T14:15:23Z")
Kindly explain how Wembley Park is a remotely legal move. Neither Shoredith, Whitechapel, or Shadwell have been played. We have not agreed upon any locus-point variances. There isn’t a Bank Holiday exception. And if you’re going to bring up the Johannesburg Concordats, I remind you that they were revoked following the unpleasant business with Lord Entwhistle and that fifteen-year-old “niece” of his. I believe you are in error, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Ruckinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@Ruckinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruckinge)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/59 "2005-07-15T08:23:48Z")
I had not expected you to do so unambitious a move. Luckily, the Terminal moritorium act of 1978 conveniently left out long backhands. Ealing Broadway ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139/60 "2005-07-15T15:22:37Z")
> [@Ruckinge](#): > > I had not expected you to do so unambitious a move. Luckily, the Terminal moritorium act of 1978 conveniently left out long backhands. > > Ealing Broadway From Hampstead to Ealing Broadway. OK. Then I will invoke the Alternate Interior Rule, and choose **Lancaster Gate**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-mornington-crescent/312139.md?page=4)