Mornington Crescent

[Hey 3]

Having had a night out at Hainault, we head to Stratford International, by taking the Central line and DLR

 

[Loppylugs]

After yet another home defeat for my football team, I've decided to opt for some spiritual guidance for them and spend Sunday morning at Bow Church.

 

[A Challenge]

St Pauls is my choice

 

[318266]

Unfortunately, a direct move from Bow Church to St Pauls was outlawed in the 1976 Glaisdale Handbook, due to a requirement that no 2 places that are a place of worship may be moved between in one turn. As such, as the Handbook requires after an illegal move in section B of the 87.2 area, we must immeadiately contact the London Borough of Hounslow for a move to Osterley.

 

[Peter C]

I contacted the London Borough of Hounslow but seeing as they just have the one telephone in the whole borough, and it being a Sunday, no-one answered; however, their answer-machine said a move to Mill Hill East would be best in the current climate.

-Peter

 

[Hey 3]

After Mill Hill East, we walk along the disused railway to Mill Hill Broadway to catch a northbound Thameslink train

 

[DerekC]

I am afraid that walking on a line, even a disused one, is contrary to the forty-third stricture of the great player Judd, so the move is unlikely to be validated when it gets to committee. A subtle and unexpected move is called for to distract the Chairman's attention. Phipps Bridge should do the trick.

 

[Loppylugs]

Phipps Bridge, my old home town area. I propose a move even closer to mecca at Dundonald Road.

 

[DerekC]

Old Dundonald was a drinking partner of Stovold and it's said that they wrote the Almanac together after a heavy night in the bar of The Camel at Bethnal Green. That's probably why the syntax is a little eccentric.

 

[Spamcan81]

If we're bringing ale drinking into the equation then I'm off - spiritually - to the Black Friar via Blackfriars.

 

[Hey 3]

At Blackfriars, we want more alcohol and go to Elephant & Castle with Thameslink.

 

[Loppylugs]

Orfull hebavior all this aclohol. Tried going up on down esclator at Pidacilly Circuitous. (hic)

 

[A Challenge]

We get on an Eastbound Piccadilly line train and fall asleep, waking up as we arrive into Hillingdon.

 

[Hey 3]

At Hillingdon, we get a bus to Hayes & Harlington Station

 

[Hey 3]

We get on an Eastbound Piccadilly line train and fall asleep, waking up as we arrive into Hillingdon.

And didn't you mean westbound

 

[Spamcan81]

Time to be bold and dash to Chalk Farm.

 

[A Challenge]

And didn't you mean westbound

Eastbound was intentionally the opposite way to actually getting to Hillingdon, as we were asleep through Cockfosters and all the way back (see the thread on long overcarries, not sure this particular example but similar has happened whereby people wake up having gone through both termini and are heading in the correct direction but further away from their intended destination after two reversals)

 

[Hey 3]

Time to be bold and dash to Chalk Farm.

I decided I'd had enough of animals, and and took the tube to St Pancras to board the Eurostar

 

[A Challenge]

Given that through the Caerdydd Convention, use of the Eurostar is prohibited concurrently with important Welsh events such as St David's Day, we will have to go to Paddington (H&C) instead of getting on the Eurostar

 

[Spamcan81]

Given that through the Caerdydd Convention, use of the Eurostar is prohibited concurrently with important Welsh events such as St David's Day, we will have to go to Paddington (H&C) instead of getting on the Eurostar

Keeping to the St. David's therme, I will go and (virtually) celebrate with London Welsh RFC at Richmond.

 

[Hey 3]

Keeping to the St. David's therme, I will go and (virtually) celebrate with London Welsh RFC at Richmond.

At Richmond, I eat some sausages and hop on an SWR to Hampton Court

 

[Spamcan81]

At Richmond, I eat some sausages and hop on an SWR to Hampton Court

Are you absolutely sure you wish to play that move? This has opened up the possibility of getting to MC in no more than 25 moves so I will skedaddle off to Burnt Oak in preparation.

 

[Hey 3]

Ah, I had enough of being lonely in a forest, so I get a bus to Elstree and Borehamwood station to catch a Thameslink train

 

[backontrack]

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

(This has been disallowed by VAR. Sorry.)

Post last edited by Ombudsman at 20:05 01/03/2021.

 

[najaB]

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

According to what rule book? That move definitely isn't allowed by the 1899 Rule Book, and a quick scan of the February 2021 Simplified Rules (which are no longer a temporal anomaly) doesn't turn anything up either.

 

[Peter C]

MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

A bold move - good work! I believe this is the first time that such a move to Mornington Crescent has been made after a tri-octahedral reversed swap from Elstree and Borehamwood - discounting, of course, the unrecorded games which were played by the Victorians shortly after the travel version of the game had been made especially for those on penny-farthings.

According to what rule book? That move definitely isn't allowed by the 1899 Rule Book, and a quick scan of the February 2021 Simplified Rules (which are no longer a temporal anomaly) doesn't turn anything up either.

I've done a quick search through the stone monoliths of east London and I've found an example of where this move could be legal; however I'll need the help of a translator able to go between English and rock to be sure. The 1899 rules were amended in 1903, remember - although whether this could solve this issue I don't know.

-Peter

 

[backontrack]

According to what rule book? That move definitely isn't allowed by the 1899 Rule Book, and a quick scan of the February 2021 Simplified Rules (which are no longer a temporal anomaly) doesn't turn anything up either.

Sorry, my fault. It seems that Samantha was eating one of Sven's fabled sausage sandwiches at the time, and it turns out that an unfortunately-timed jet of salad cream had obscured the date on her rulebook. Apologies.

 

[backontrack]

A bold move - good work! I believe this is the first time that such a move to Mornington Crescent has been made after a tri-octahedral reversed swap from Elstree and Borehamwood - discounting, of course, the unrecorded games which were played by the Victorians shortly after the travel version of the game had been made especially for those on penny-farthings.

Ahh, thank you! Sadly you are correct insofar as records do not exist to extemporise games pre-1902. Apparently the only reliable, credited authority on these matches is no longer with us - the late Nicholas Parsons, who had barely entered his dotage when the first penny-farthing was constructed.

I've done a quick search through the stone monoliths of east London and I've found an example of where this move could be legal; however I'll need the help of a translator able to go between English and rock to be sure. The 1899 rules were amended in 1903, remember - although whether this could solve this issue I don't know.

-Peter

Sorry, Peter. I only speak pebble.

 

[Peter C]

Ahh, thank you! Sadly you are correct insofar as records do not exist to extemporise games pre-1902. Apparently the only reliable source on these matches is no longer with us - the late Nicholas Parsons, who had barely entered his dotage when the first penny-farthing was constructed.

You're very welcome - it's important to help others out in these matters. I think the Royal Society may have some damaged records of old Mornington Crescent games, but they are very poor and so your comment about Nicholas Parsons is correct.

Sorry, Peter. I only speak pebble.

Ah: that's a shame, but understandable considering pebble is much more common than rock - especially on the coast.

-Peter

 

[backontrack]

You're very welcome - it's important to help others out in these matters. I think the Royal Society may have some damaged records of old Mornington Crescent games, but they are very poor and so your comment about Nicholas Parsons is correct.


Ah: that's a shame, but understandable considering pebble is much more common than rock - especially on the coast.

-Peter

No trouble at all.

I suppose it is, although most people expect me to have a bit more of a chalk accent down these parts.

In any case, seeing as we appear to have reached an impasse, it might be wiser for me to punt things into the long grass. North Greenwich it is.