Mornington Crescent Game (Beginners welcome)

Damn, I’m running badly behind - I’ll retract but take the opportunity to void diagonals.

ianzin, I have to ask for a ruling here. According to the Circumlocution rule, I believe Dorris Hill Loop must be played at least once, if the month has the letter e in it. Given that this is June, I think all of the answers must be voided.

Sir, I am going to send you a fruit basket.

I could not have PAID you to set me up any better.

Dark in Greenwich; Old Street as the last play, and YOU just voided diagonals.

Provided none of these newbies, or “neubys” as they are called on the Continent, messes the flow of my game, and provided none of the more experienced players have the Newberrry’s Strategy Supplement to Proper MC Play (which was only available by mailing in fifty Weetabix box tops back in aught-three), I have MC in five moves.

Ph34R my 1337 MC skillz!

Autolycus, watch carefully. Re-read Lasker’s Third Edition Mornington Crescent Gambits for the Uninitiated, Fifth Folio, Third Leaf, and you may catch on.

The rest of you, gasp in amazement as I play…
Fulham Broadway!

On a Sunday? Canada Water!!!

Damn, I have to go to work. And at such a controversial moment too.

When my turn next comes about, could I play Rotherhithe? Just to sort of keep my hand in?

I’m into the second glass of wine, so I’m happy to talk about the Post-Substantial Stabilisation Reorganisation Triumvirate if you really want :smiley:

No. Diagonals?

I thought diagonals were voided?

Bermondsey?

With a waxing crescent moon? Hardly. That gambit was ruled null and void at the last International Conference in Cheswick, just last month. Haven’t you been keeping up with the journals?

Bermondsey is the last legal play, IMO. Which takes us to Gants Hill.

Exactly. Rotherhithe would conflict.
Morden.

All this time and trouble and not one poster has been whooshed. :stuck_out_tongue:

never mind.

Not before the third glass, you don’t! :stuck_out_tongue:

Too late - Liverpool Street

According to Bentwick’s rotary notation, all players are currently spaced at Viennese lengths. I believe this permits me to enter the game as a new player and stake out Tottenham Court Road. Any objections?

Not exactly ethical, but I suppose it’s legitimate. Chancery Lane is the best I can make.

London Bridge

Thank you, Mangetout, with your insertion into the game, I can invoke the “two to tango” rule that players cannot enter sole. This would make me eligible for the next turn and, as was noted in the Malta Regionals in 44, 46, and 51:

Therefore, I shall contribute Meadowlands. :eek:

Sgt Schwartz

ETA: I checked the journals and found no indication of a change to the Kingsly Act.

I am playing under protest as the Dorris Hill Loop imbroglio has not been settled, but assuming ianzin rules against me, I will go for…

Finsbury Park

You’re searching the online version of Kingsly, aren’t you? You won’t catch the typo in the printed version, of ‘missattribution’ of travelcards.

I’ll place distance between myself with Grange Hill.