07-07-2002 03:50									#1
	Mornington Crescent: Northern League Version Put an end to popups!

Join me once again, my friends, to play the game that never ends. Until someone reaches Mornington Crescent.
This month, we shall be playing the Northern League Variation of the standard rules (2002 update of course); the outline of which can be reviewed here, and the details can of course be referred to in the International Mornington Crescent Society rulebook, a Bible for regular players. If for any reason you do not have the handbook (newbies ) you can order a concise version online here.

For those who do not have the map on their PCs () that is
here.

I shall open with the location of the 'Poly meet, as it may be the closest I get.
Leicester Square

	07-07-2002 03:58									#2
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I think I'll counter that with a classic Scandinavian Brain Boggler... Ruislip. Leicester to Ruislip, I think Benny Johansson in the 3rd Edition Championship Games of 1955 at Bergen used the same variant. In the opening game against Yuri Ketorin, if I recall correctly.

	07-07-2002 04:01									#3
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Could someone explain me the rules for that?

	07-07-2002 04:10									#4
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search 'Poly for past MC threads.

	07-07-2002 04:12									#5
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no.

	07-07-2002 04:13									#6
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quote: I think Benny Johansson in the 3rd Edition Championship Games of 1955 at Bergen used the same variant. In the opening game against Yuri Ketorin, if I recall correctly.

You recall correctly. But then you will also remember that Ketorin countered with Maida Vale... Johansson was never to be heard again of...

	07-07-2002 04:15									#7
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Honestly, guys, there's no need for a complicated opening. I'm just going to go for the straightforward Notting Hill Gate which means I'm not prone either of Freud's 1999 double-shunt manoevres...

	07-07-2002 04:19									#8
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true, but you are vulnerable to a Circle nisbit steal from Greenford

	07-07-2002 04:19									#9
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Yes but dear Hueij, Johansson didn't go underground permanently, he resurfaced in the 1964 games after eight years of meditation in Tibet. He returned, and won two consecutive World League tournaments before dying of cardiac arrest in 1965. Many say he would have become the world's greatest player had he not perished prematurely.

But now, I'll quit rambling and play Kensall Rise, using the Elk-Fjord Ellipse, another one of Johansson's brilliant first-quarter moves.

	07-07-2002 04:21									#10
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Seems like you are leaving me no options, but to open with Shuttney manouver circa '76 with Woodford

	07-07-2002 04:33									#11
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I declare Golders Green as home, and now move Grange Hill. All those pesky schoolkids should put paid to the Circle Nisbit steal...

	07-07-2002 04:35									#12
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I'll have a try.

I'm at Mornington Crescent. Have I won the game now?

	07-07-2002 04:37									#13
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What's the penalty for declaring a false Mornington Crescent? Four turns or expulsion?

	07-07-2002 04:37									#14
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No you haven't, since you failed to call out "Storstarvlax" before doing so.

	07-07-2002 04:38									#15
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que?

	07-07-2002 04:38									#16
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End: Wouldn't that be five? Or am I talking about the South African 2nd Edition?

	07-07-2002 04:38									#17
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Is beheading still a valid punishment in current rules?

	07-07-2002 04:40									#18
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I now see that any rules for that game are mere nonsense. It's just about shouting out station names.

London Bridge?

	07-07-2002 04:40									#19
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They got rid of death penalties (exempting heinous forgery situations) in 1995.

	07-07-2002 04:42									#20
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Ecthelion, be quiet. We are trying to solve a punishment for you.

He's a newbie, after all, how about that four turns?

	07-07-2002 04:43									#21
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Yes, 4 turns sounds appropriate. Unless he is wearing a bowtie, which would make it 5.

	07-07-2002 04:44									#22
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Don't be silly. Better explain the rules, and please to a mor edetailed extent than "since everyone knows the rule I'll only say this: get to MC and prevent your opponents from getting there". So I won. You're all just jealous.

	07-07-2002 04:48									#23
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You're missing something here. A game of MC can not be won. Now be quiet for four turns.

Now let's pick up from where we left.

Chesham.

	07-07-2002 04:50									#24
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Kensall Rise
Let the Cloistering begin.

	07-07-2002 04:51									#25
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Mornington Crescent.

	07-07-2002 04:54									#26
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Quiet there in the corner E. You are still on penalty.

At times like this I wish the death penalties were still in use.

	07-07-2002 04:55									#27
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London Bridge

	07-07-2002 04:55									#28
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Ecthelion, if you keep doing this crap we will have to ignore you completely.

Perivale , since Kensall Rise had already been mentioned some while ago, according to the newest rules, I can show my tongue at a selected player. Though Ec is not a player for 3 more turns, I select him.

Ecthelion:

	07-07-2002 04:56									#29
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Weird.

Hillingdon.

	07-07-2002 05:04									#30
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That's it. I'm sure everyone can agree that we'll extend Ecth's ban until this game is over ( ), or we decide to remove it for some very good reason.

Last edited by Kassiopeia on 07-07-2002 at 05:25