# 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:** 8
**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 4, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/141 "2004-10-04T21:11:38Z")
\*\*Goodge Street is so often the final stepping stone before MC in professional games, but that would be quite invalid after the most elegant twin shuffle played by **mcms\_cricket** ; I’ll play the triple-line hop to **Barbican**. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/142 "2004-10-04T22:37:27Z")
Barbican prepares us for Aldrantrian’s Old Street trap, or worse the Liverpool Street stalemate (thankfully only in existence due to the contiuing game somewhere in Maryland). Euston ---
**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 4, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/143 "2004-10-04T22:47:59Z")
Skirting to **Kings Cross St Pancras** ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/144 "2004-10-04T22:52:14Z")
You left Hammersmith as an obvious escape. I presume you don’t know about the escape tunnel… ---
**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 4, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/145 "2004-10-04T23:30:04Z")
Damn! That’s some slick play **GorillaMan** - the rest of the game is pretty much a formality from here on in - I don’t see how I can do much more than play to minimise losses. **Marble Arch** ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/146 "2004-10-05T00:19:03Z")
No way. We’re going to get mired in Piccadilly Circus, if we ever turn the corner of Regent Street. That’s what the whole 1967 kerfluffle was about. Now, it’s a wild card. This game is far from over. ---
**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 5, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/147 "2004-10-05T00:34:48Z")
Wait and see; I don’t know how many moves ahead or sideways you’re looking, but I have to tell you, I think **GorillaMan** will have to fumble is pretty badly to lose from here. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/148 "2004-10-05T01:07:05Z")
Someone who shall remain nameless informed me that **Drayton Park** would be a foolish move of the First Order. Can I get an opinion on that? ---
**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 5, 2004, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/149 "2004-10-05T08:22:15Z")
Under most circumstances it would be foolhardy, yes, but it depends largely on the moves with which you follow it - when two or more lines crossing the central octagon are wild, **Drayton Park** can set your opponents off-guard and form the opening sacrificial move for a spectacular implementation of the Hibbert’s Surprise Crease manoeuvre. But I probably shouldn’t have told you that. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/150 "2004-10-05T11:15:41Z")
Can we allow Fleet Line preferences to stand, avoiding the notorious 1982-4 Jubilee Line stalemate? If so, I’ll take **Bond Street**. ---
**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 5, 2004, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/151 "2004-10-05T12:04:37Z")
**Notting Hill Gate** (Saints preserve us from the JLS!) ---
**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/152 "2004-10-05T12:48:09Z")
Ah… i think I see where this is heading…sorry to derail you, pun intended… **Putney Bridge** ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/153 "2004-10-05T13:03:10Z")
Isn’t that impossible, except for if there’s a signal failure at Earl’s Court? ---
**Author:** ![mcms\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mcms\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcms_cricket)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/154 "2004-10-05T13:17:09Z")
No, of course it’s not illegal. Don’t you have the updated Rules? Look again at page 1123, sub-section 2, paragraph b. OK, trying to make the best of a bad situation - Bethnal Green ---
**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 5, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/155 "2004-10-05T13:20:05Z")
The 1996 unified rules (under the December Oslo convention) allow Earl’s Court signal failures to be bypassed by means of recursive distancing through abandoned stations such as Blake Hall. I’m sure this is what **Kymodoce** had in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Kymodoce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@Kymodoce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kymodoce)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/156 "2004-10-05T13:24:31Z")
Actually, although Mangetout’s theory is spot on, I was thinking more of the Three-Day Travelcard appendix which was rather controversially introduced during Red Ken’s days at the GLC. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/157 "2004-10-05T13:25:49Z")
If GLC decisions are taken as standing, my only option is **Westminster** ---
**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 5, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/158 "2004-10-05T14:34:01Z")
**Blackfriars** , the long way around. ---
**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 5, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/159 "2004-10-05T16:06:00Z")
I don’t have a move, just wanted to say this has to be the longest MC game this board has ever seen! ---
**Author:** ![mcms\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mcms\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcms_cricket)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832/160 "2004-10-05T16:12:03Z")
Well, if you’re going to invoke the Three-Day Travelcard appendix (the use of which, I’ve always felt, was cheating) and then go through **Westminster** and **Blackfriars** , then you probably think there aren’t any options left. BUT, then I’ll raise the stakes: **West India Quay** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-thread/266832.md?page=9)