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Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 13th, 2018, 1:08 am
by PinkDalek

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 14th, 2018, 12:17 pm
by moorfield
PinkDalek wrote:http://boards.fool.com/lets-start-with-a-standard-game-old-rules-12668180.aspx

Just sayin'.


A rarely seen opening move PD.

Putney Bridge.

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 14th, 2018, 1:44 pm
by AleisterCrowley
Standard rules here, or Berne Convention II ?
If the former, Royal Oak.
BC-II would allow a half-return with a Kondratiev shift to West Brompton

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 14th, 2018, 2:51 pm
by moorfield
AleisterCrowley wrote:Standard rules here, or Berne Convention II ?


I had assumed from PDs post, the former.

Which suggests the safety shot obviously, so let's get that out of the way:

Latimer Road

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 14th, 2018, 3:18 pm
by AleisterCrowley
This is a variation on the classic Corsican defence

Kensal Green...

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 14th, 2018, 6:25 pm
by PinkDalek
The simplest rules possible would be good, never having played before. Maybe Lyttelton’s Tudor Court version would be apt, which I imagine permit a change of rules during the journey, and, in any event, would fit the standard game old rules classification in the OP.

With that in mind, “Monument” must be the choice.

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 14th, 2018, 9:06 pm
by AleisterCrowley
Trying to box us in, eh?
In which case;
Chancery Lane

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 14th, 2018, 9:27 pm
by kiloran
I can see we have a bunch of amateurs playing this game, so let's up the stakes and invoke the devolution rules....

.... Sauchiehall Street

--kiloran

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 14th, 2018, 11:40 pm
by moorfield
kiloran wrote:I can see we have a bunch of amateurs playing this game, so let's up the stakes and invoke the devolution rules....

.... Sauchiehall Street

--kiloran


Erk. A Schoolboy Error. And after only 8 posts. There are no amateurs here!

PinkDalek wrote:Maybe Lyttelton’s Tudor Court version would be apt, which I imagine permit a change of rules during the journey, and, in any event, would fit the standard game old rules classification in the OP.


Lemon Fool Conventions apply, I would have thought :geek:

Great Portland Street.

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 15th, 2018, 10:34 am
by stewamax
Goodge Street - and before anyone whinges that two successive diagonal moves without an intervening Russell Square are illegal, this is a classic example of Lyttelton's fianchetto that is allowed when there is a bishop present

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 15th, 2018, 9:42 pm
by AleisterCrowley
Since there are no bishops under my sofa, I fear this is the only move;
Parsons Green

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 2:15 pm
by stewamax
Parsons Green

Hmm... invoking the C of E Parsonages Measure 1938 I. Clever.
But under the First Fruits and Tenths Measure 1926, all tithes from Parsons Green have to go to (in order) Hornchurch and thence to CANONS PARK!

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 2:32 pm
by PinkDalek
stewamax wrote:
Parsons Green

Hmm... invoking the C of E Parsonages Measure 1938 I. Clever.
But under the First Fruits and Tenths Measure 1926, all tithes from Parsons Green have to go to (in order) Hornchurch and thence to CANONS PARK!


That's all very well but Canons (formerly Cannons) Park has a car park and is near to St Lawrence, Little Stanmore. Not to be confused with Great Stanmore, which is near Little Stanmore. The church includes an organ once played by Handel.

The nearest tube station to Handel Street appears to be Russell Square.

Am I on the correct line(s)?

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 3:21 pm
by AleisterCrowley
an organ once played by Handel.
Sounds awkward.


Would Handel > Brook St > Bond St Tube work?

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 4:30 pm
by stewamax
organ once played by Handel

You're thinking of Cockfosters...

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 6:07 pm
by PinkDalek
stewamax wrote:
organ once played by Handel

You're thinking of Cockfosters...


Glad to see you both readily noticed the intended double intendre. After all, that's what LoOTP used to be about and your Cockfosters meets that criteria.

Wordsworth was originally from Cockermouth. I've no idea if he visited London in search of yet more daffodils but he may have been pleasantly enchanted with:

Regents Park

PD

PS The First Fruits and Tenths Measure 1926 was repealed in 1993. Are you sure you are playing to the rules?

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 10:04 pm
by stewamax
Are you sure you are playing to the rules?

Definitely: vide Chapter 9 Section 288a (ii) "Tithing variants" where they even mention Whitechapel but this is now regarded as non-PC and discriminatory. Temple is of course illegal.

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 17th, 2018, 10:07 pm
by AleisterCrowley
The obvious move is to a Royal Peculiar
Westminster.

(Hampton Court would be tactically preferable, but only allowed in extended play, during Lent)

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 18th, 2018, 10:37 am
by stewamax
The obvious move is to a Royal Peculiar - Westminster

Definitely not. A better Circular move is KING'S CROSS (opened in 1761 by George III; sometimes cross but always a little peculiar, caused by prickly hawthorne in SHEPHERD'S BUSH)

Re: Mornington Crescent is closed

Posted: April 21st, 2018, 11:02 am
by MrCPFG
Hang on! I was there just the other day! I even alighted there, just for the win, even though it was Camden Market I was headed!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92631779@N03/41340403192/in/dateposted/