# 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:** 5
**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, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/81 "2004-10-01T14:47:18Z")
Honestly **Mangetout** , the firts rule of the game is that you don’t talk about the game. Did the great Rushton teach you nothing? 😃 ---
**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, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/82 "2004-10-01T14:49:01Z")
Isn’t it about time we had an umpire? **Mangetout** just enabled mirrored diagonals, I’m pretty sure that’s incompatible with the bi-laterals in the OP (or are we back to normal now we’re on round two?) ---
**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, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/83 "2004-10-01T14:53:49Z")
Since **Mangetout** has let it out that it’s a game (isn’t that obvious anyway/) No need for the spoiler box **Ghengis Bob**. The tube system _is_ the basis of the playing field (as it were). This can be expanded to include the Docklands Light Railway, and under some rules parts of the overland rail system. Trains as such only figure in as much that for some moves the timetable is a factor. ---
**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, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/84 "2004-10-01T15:04:05Z")
Excellent. Do we get a move or does Linkern’s Time-Out For Move Failure be brought into effect? ---
**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, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/85 "2004-10-01T15:07:24Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > Isn’t it about time we had an umpire? **Mangetout** just enabled mirrored diagonals, I’m pretty sure that’s incompatible with the bi-laterals in the OP Not as long as the proposals encompassed by Grubb’s twist (1998) are observed - I’m pretty sure this is accepted as canon now. ---
**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, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/86 "2004-10-01T15:14:13Z")
So as not to invoke Linkern… Alexandra Palace ---
**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, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/87 "2004-10-01T15:19:04Z")
There’s no way I’ll get away with this, but… Edgware Road. ---
**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, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/88 "2004-10-01T15:23:24Z")
Has anyone read the accounts of the epic game of '34? There’s a wonderful deconstruction of the winning 184-move Shluman attack… if I can find a link, I’ll post it. Here’s a little something I picked up from watching Dr Gardens moves over the years… **Northwick Park** And, on preview… {chuckle} No, Mangetout, no way will we let that stand! ---
**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, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/89 "2004-10-01T15:25:33Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > There’s no way I’ll get away with this, but… Whoo boy! **Iceland** catch you off balance? Don’t wait so long next time. Ref! Ref! For **Ghengis Bob** ’s sake would people like to explain some of their moves? (the simpler ones) ---
**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, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/90 "2004-10-01T15:37:53Z")
> [@Kymodoce](#): > > Has anyone read the accounts of the epic game of '34? There’s a wonderful deconstruction of the winning 184-move Shluman attack… if I can find a link, I’ll post it. Oh, yes, that’s a classic. On a good day I can see maybe 10-15 moves ahead, but that Shluman was a master. The vision that took from North Wembley, round the Central Line northen loop, tranferring south of the river avoiding the Greenwich tunnel paradox and then back up to MC in 184 pre-planned stages just has to be seen to be believed. I’d love to see the analysis link. Oh, and I think I can do a Hertzdigger bump to take us to **Heathrow Terminal 4**. Careful now . . . ---
**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, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/91 "2004-10-01T15:43:08Z")
Dammit! Cornered! Kensal Green, since it’s the only move possible from a Willikins obverse cluster. ---
**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, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/92 "2004-10-01T16:02:12Z")
Cross-hatched interchanges, allowing for closing at weekends, leads me to St Pauls. ---
**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, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/93 "2004-10-01T16:05:10Z")
Ah ah - the cathedral circuit. Westminster. ---
**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, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/94 "2004-10-01T16:07:03Z")
Cutty Sark ---
**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, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/95 "2004-10-01T16:09:09Z")
**Burnt Oak** … I think. If I have miscalculated, please ignore me… I have always had trouble dividing by 7 in my head. And it IS nearly time to go home. ---
**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, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/96 "2004-10-01T16:11:48Z")
> [@Kymodoce](#): > > And it IS nearly time to go home. In which case we must go South again. **Balham** please. ---
**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, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/97 "2004-10-01T16:44:40Z")
Typical . . . No-one wants to go South of the River. :mad: ---
**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, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/98 "2004-10-01T16:51:14Z")
Well, guv, I was just on me way home… but I can offer you a mildly tricky **Kennington** to speed you on your way. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/99 "2004-10-01T16:54:29Z")
If District Line is wild then **Turnham Green** seems to be the only way to avoid the Spielmann gambit. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/100 "2004-10-01T17:03:58Z")
I’ll mosey on over to **Angel** and declare Broken Escalator! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=6)