A Conversation for The Mornington Crescent Appreciation Society

Beginners' Game

Post 61

Simetra

Is anyone playing this game at the moment, if not can I make the next move?


Beginners' Game

Post 62

Chainsaw_Dan

As long as you are a beginner and don't employ Zaitsevs trigger then yes.


Beginners' Game

Post 63

Simetra

well to be fair I'm not a beginner and know the Nid rule and the 221b rule so I wont play unless invited


Beginners' Game

Post 64

bunnyfrog will never die

Why not? I'm playing. But since mine was technically the second to last move I can't drop one in yet smiley - sadface


Beginners' Game

Post 65

Simetra

OK since nobody else seems to be playing on this post lets proceed, how about Anagram Rules

Mork Opra


Beginners' Game

Post 66

royalleothelion (thingite guard of the kings potty)

No because that contrevenes the full house patent rule of 1930


Beginners' Game

Post 67

Simetra

so it's taken you three weeks to check that rule


Beginners' Game

Post 68

bunnyfrog will never die

Its worse than that Jim, hes awakened years old games further down the list


Beginners' Game

Post 69

Simetra

I believe somewhere in vault in Broadcasting House there is a whole batch of M C games deemed too dangerous to be continued.

Belsize Park


Beginners' Game

Post 70

Keseral - lost...

being a compleate newcomer, I will just butt in here with

Highbury and Islington.

I was afraid it might contravene the special circumstances for non-rainy non-sunday evenings (instated in 1537 after a particulay horrific incident with a small brown daffodil), however, I have checked thougherly and it is exempt because of the recently-revived 1720 sub-clause amounting to precisly the opposite occurance.


Beginners' Game

Post 71

YalsonKSA - "I'm glad birthdays don't come round regularly, as I'm not sure I could do that too often."

Hello!

Another relative newcomer to the game, here, but I've been reading up on the theory. I believe that there was a game between Doggett and Kraussman, the great Swede, sometime back in the twenties in which he used what he called a 'triple boomer' around Highbury and Islington and damn near took the roof off the place! I won't try that, I'll just sneak in a sliding steam pan to:

Chancery Lane

Tally Ho!

smiley - bubbly


Beginners' Game

Post 72

Keseral - lost...

hi!

hmm, darstardly sneaky move there, avoiding the amendment to the 5th law of sidestepping, especially in triplicate, passed after said game between Doggett and Kraussmen to avoid any later occurances of of the booms and what they could mean for london. ...but how about

Canada Water.


Beginners' Game

Post 73

YalsonKSA - "I'm glad birthdays don't come round regularly, as I'm not sure I could do that too often."

Oh crikey.

Errrm..... well that's torn it.

I may have to try something somewhat sneaky and arcane.

Wapping.


Beginners' Game

Post 74

Keseral - lost...

I say! how sneaky and Arcane can you get?!?!

hmm, reffering to the 1846 july eposode of episodic looping, I will go for the circular

High Street Kensington.


Beginners' Game

Post 75

YalsonKSA - "I'm glad birthdays don't come round regularly, as I'm not sure I could do that too often."

This is a very tactical game.

Ooh, hang on. Oh surely not! Yes, it's.....

MORNI.....

Oh no. I see what you've done there. Very clever. Used the 1811 West London subset of Rule 221b to cut off the points. Sorry. Schoolboy error on my part.

I'm going to have to use the street-level diversion to get to

Neasden

Your clever feint left me well out of position there.

smiley - bubbly


Beginners' Game

Post 76

Simetra

I'll just slip in with a quick

Goodge Street - favourite move of Mr Rushton


Beginners' Game

Post 77

YalsonKSA - "I'm glad birthdays don't come round regularly, as I'm not sure I could do that too often."

Indeed. I remember when he used it in a game once which had to be abandoned shortly afterwards because a piano fell on the assistant referee. The French said it had been put there deliberately, of course, but I can't see it. A piano could fall on you at any station. random act of God, if you ask me.

Where to go from Goodge Street?

It's too close for a Kennington loop. The thing would be molten scrap by the time it got to Bank.

I'll bank it off and roll it to

Swiss Cottage

A containing safety, I think you'd call that.

smiley - bubbly


Beginners' Game

Post 78

Simetra

I'll open the game up leaving vertical options for transverse adjustments

Westminster (District or Jubilee depending on the busker)


Beginners' Game

Post 79

YalsonKSA - "I'm glad birthdays don't come round regularly, as I'm not sure I could do that too often."

It's that dope-addled madman with the glass eye and the swanee whistle who always tries it on with me because he thinks I'm some deity or other. I'm not habing around here.

Mansion House

smiley - bubbly


Beginners' Game

Post 80

Simetra

tempted with Temple but I think you are a ringer and not just a beginner and would use Cryer Fall Over move to win from a broken Chad violation on the ticket so I am going to play a safety move with

Mudchute


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