Mornington Crescent?

[louiselux]

Anyone fancy a game of Mornington Crescent?

Trondheim rules, but with the 1976 Bovington paradox, which I think we'll find adds quite a bit of excitement to the game!

I'll go first. I'm going to play, hmm: Colindale

Comments

[cutselvage.livejournal.com]

If I may join in: Blackfriars, using the 1996 Yaxley Amendment for reversible positioning.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Kentish Town. (Oh, come on. Did you expect me to follow a Yaxley Blackfriars with anything else?)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Are you using the Kettering double-toed pincer manoeuvre? It looks like it, so, seeing as it's October, I'm playing Oxford Circus!

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Ha! It may be October but! It's October in the year preceding a leap year, which means I can invoke Ashbury's Conclave of 1833 and go straight to MORNINGTON CRESCENT!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

... That was masterful.

[cutselvage.livejournal.com]

Impressive indeed!

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

I was reading Lyttelton's biography of Ashbury on the way to work this morning, so it was in my head. *g* I'd never have remembered otherwise.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course. That's a wonderful biography of one of our most daring and exciting players! I've always loved the chapter on the Vladivostok years - an inspiration to us all, I think you'll agree.

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely. I loved the anecdote of how he played with the Tsar and refused to let Alexander win!

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was very cool. Madam, I salute you.