# Mornington Crescent Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832 "2004-09-30T13:08:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ithaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Ithaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ithaka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/41 "2004-10-01T10:09:13Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > I though the Jubilee Line was out of bounds Only the extension, so Swiss Cottage stands. And leads us, via a Buckminster sphere shift, to Cyprus. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/42 "2004-10-01T10:12:20Z")
Ooh good place. I had forgotten Cyprus. Roding Valley ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/43 "2004-10-01T10:12:43Z")
Mile End ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/44 "2004-10-01T10:13:45Z")
Limehouse High Street ---
**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/45 "2004-10-01T10:14:10Z")
Chalfont & Latimer, and I invoke Slam-Door convention 4. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/46 "2004-10-01T10:21:40Z")
Good move. Hmmmmmmmmm. Ealing Broadway. ---
**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/47 "2004-10-01T10:26:36Z")
Whilst it may not be totally worrying that a substantial portion of my lowly post count is given over to the Game To End All Games, I feel it’s time to make what our cousins across the water call an end-run, I believe… Dagenham Heathway Better to go down in a blaze of glory than never to have Played at all… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/48 "2004-10-01T10:45:33Z")
Hah! you’ve totally overlooked Lambert’s Transposition! Finchley Road - blocking rectangular shifts for the next six moves and invoking Bullworth’s gambit - District Line is wild. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/49 "2004-10-01T10:49:23Z")
Wild! It’s livid. Meh. Monument ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/50 "2004-10-01T10:50:22Z")
Amateur move, if I may say so. Cockfosters. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it! ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/51 "2004-10-01T11:00:13Z")
If the District’s wild, then the old Etonian moves are the obvious option. So I won’t use them. Wimbledon. ---
**Author:** ![Ithaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Ithaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ithaka)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/52 "2004-10-01T11:01:13Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Cockfosters. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it! Umm, I’d rather not thanks. I think it should be up to the OP to ace this. So I set **Iceland** up with Snaresbrook. Do it, son . . . ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/53 "2004-10-01T11:07:04Z")
Leyton!! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/54 "2004-10-01T11:11:17Z")
> [@Ithaka](#): > > So I set **Iceland** up with Snaresbrook. . . Team play? You realise you miss a move now. And why not Seven Sisters which looked like the obvious move? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/55 "2004-10-01T11:13:53Z")
Seven Sisters constrains you, following Similioczek’s principles. Angel. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/56 "2004-10-01T11:18:08Z")
You’re bluffing! Tottenham Court Road. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/57 "2004-10-01T11:24:48Z")
Victoria. Invoking Strahanian diagonals, with triple stages. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/58 "2004-10-01T11:27:22Z")
Yes!Yes!Yes! You’re trapped. I play Seven Kings Whatever move you play(there are only six left) I can go back to MC ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/59 "2004-10-01T11:30:48Z")
You fell for it!! I said _triple_ stages!! Mornington Crescent!!! ---
**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/60 "2004-10-01T11:32:23Z")
That was truly excellent! I am in awe… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=4)