07-07-2002 05:20									#31
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Paddington. There's a cute bear with that name.

	07-07-2002 07:24									#32
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Well you know what they say; Mornington Crescent is a game of sixteen halves.

Anyway, I shall deploy my opening shunt and play Mile End. In true Canzano fashion

	07-07-2002 11:36									#33
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Pfew... What a relief... First thing I saw when I got out of bed was that the last move was made by PH. I was ready to throw the towel, we all know that a PH at his best is unbeatable. But then I noticed the time of his post. And since nothing good ever came out of Hull in the wee small hours of Sunday morning, here is my Amersham

About Andz, we should be glad he didn't say something like Berlin Zoo or something...

	07-07-2002 11:46									#34
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To get to Berlin Zoo he'd have to go through the Paris exchange. No hope of doing that in less than 5 or 6 moves...

Anyhow, I'm going to churl starting at Moorgate.

	07-07-2002 13:11									#35
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Darn that cheating Ecthelion. Doesn't he know that the Wilberforce Addition is still in force?

Anyway, Kensall Rise.

	07-07-2002 13:53									#36
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Mornington Crescent

	07-07-2002 14:04									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Ecthelion Mornington Crescent

Somehow I wished that Ming or MtG played MC. Don't know why...

But, back on tracks: Cockfosters

	07-07-2002 14:07									#38
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Quit whining and explain the rules instead.

	07-07-2002 14:17									#39
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Check the links IW provided when he started this game, or do a Google search. When I started to play I had to do the same, so why shouldn't you?...

	07-07-2002 14:19									#40
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Because I'm too lazy?

I've actually had a link sent by both IW and IL. Guess what the rules are? 1. Get to Mornington Crescent. 2. Prevent your opponents from getting there. Since that is all, I win the game by being at Mornington Crescent.

	07-07-2002 15:04									#41
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I shall shunt your slipslods with a deployment at Baker Street.

	07-07-2002 15:23									#42
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We are witnessing the Anschluss Paradox.

A German cannot play MC without attempting to annex the game on every other move.

Right, you're all being a big bunch of poofs so far. King's Cross..

Have some of that, you slags.

	07-07-2002 15:27									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Ron Jeremy We are witnessing the Anschluss Paradox. A German cannot play MC without attempting to annex the game on every other move

I thought it was called the "Polish Lemma".

Anyhow, the obvious counter is Finchley Road

I'm beginning to think that you're slipping in your old age...

	07-07-2002 15:29									#44
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I hear tell that Hitler, in his bunker, was heard to cry out just before he shot himself: "Eastwards, Westwards, they've blocked all my nesbits".

If only he'd never heard of this fateful game...

	07-07-2002 15:33									#45
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But that leads your flank wide open through the Waterloo gambit.

	07-07-2002 15:41									#46
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse I hear tell that Hitler, in his bunker, was heard to cry out just before he shot himself: "Eastwards, Westwards, they've blocked all my nesbits". If only he'd never heard of this fateful game...

I know it's not done but I have to:

Hm...
King's Cross-->Finchley Road-->Waterloo...

This calls for a desperate counter but since it's not 13.00 GMT yet I think I have a chance: Covent Garden

I bet you didn't see that one coming...

	07-07-2002 15:57									#47
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You and your silly nesbits.
I'll have perform a Cross Blocker by claiming Green Park.

	07-07-2002 18:36									#48
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I think it is time to deploy a 3-station shunt transstational tranferification and play Ealing Broadway. I would expect this would block any of RJ's dreams of a metropolitan circumnesbit accumulation...

	07-07-2002 18:41									#49
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I find it fascinating the number of ways that nisbet/nesbit/nisbit is spelt. Of course the word originates from aramaic from niz-put meaning candelabra and through a very convoluted process worked it's way into the English language, thought to be around the time of the third crusade. However there was some confusion about the correct pronunciation of the word. However the translation of the Rosetta Stone by Champollion revealed the true pronunciation and spelling was supposed to be 'nisbet' but by this late point in MC history, the camps were firmly entrenched and all pronunciation methods were accepted. And for extra confusion, the Azerbaijani form of the word is 'nesbet'

	07-07-2002 18:46									#50
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It's also a corruption from the original Indo-European root that gives rise to the Middle English "nysbett". However seeing as that phrase is used to name the foreskin of an adolescent otter we must assume that it's a stratagem of the game now lost to antiquity.

So in memory of that, I'm going to play the "Chaucer's Saucie Erse" opening and plant my feet firmly on Piccadilly.

	07-07-2002 19:04									#51
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Intriguing...I shall play Camden Town

And I would like to echo the concerns of the International Mornington Crescent Committee about people using computer AIs to play Mornington Crescent. This is considered cheating. And besides, no computer conceivable within the next 200 years would be able to handle the sheer complexity and depth of strategy with any degree of success. This isn't a simpleton game like chess you know! So if you do, it is at your peril!

	07-07-2002 19:58									#52
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Come on PH, no one uses a computer AI... Remember IBM's pathetic tries to come up with a MC computer during the late 80's-early 90's? Never heard from them again...

But I see Bugs is meaning business, so Holloway Road it's going to be!

	07-07-2002 20:08									#53
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I think I will have to use the Hollingworth rebuttal and play Turnpike Lane

	07-07-2002 20:26									#54
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You really want Bugs to win, don't you But that won't happen, I have invested too much in this game already...

My bookmaker's advice: the Angel bypass to Old Street

	07-07-2002 20:49									#55
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Well I am going to play Brixton and call a Tooting Bec...

	07-07-2002 22:05									#56
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Unless anyone objects, I propose that the gameplay shifts to tertiary settings now. I can't stand those boring and drawn-out endgames.

Maida Vale.

	07-07-2002 23:10									#57
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Midlothian Crossing.

	08-07-2002 00:30									#58
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Very stylish, mindseye. However, fictitious tube stations only score when the preceding player declares a Dadaist quarter.

	08-07-2002 01:32									#59
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Very good move, mindseye, you almost achieved a Bizzard! However, I must claim Arsenel for my move, under the 1967 Jazaluski match contention, and remember players, under that same contention, any move to Croxley is null with a penalty of 6 wickersnaps!

	08-07-2002 01:51									#60
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quote: Originally posted by Ecthelion I've actually had a link sent by both IW and IL. Guess what the rules are? 1. Get to Mornington Crescent. 2. Prevent your opponents from getting there. Since that is all, I win the game by being at Mornington Crescent.

I stated very clearly that those were the simplified rules. You can't go straight there, as MC is currently being defended (to some extent or other) by about 5 players, all of whom have significanlty more powerful nisbit-spurs than you would have after the same amount of play. try the beginners league at yahoo games.

Well, I'm with Bugs on the slow end-games

Since Kendal Rise has been played (twice. Ignorance... tut tut), it should be more interesting, what with it allowing the commencing of Cloistering.

And I would also like to declare Ron Jeremy Trappist (see the rules). His next two moves to be taken by PM to his partner in play.

And I shall move to West Acton.

edit: sorry, Kendall Rise has been played [b]three[/i] times. Is nobody paying attention?? Stefu, for shame