Mornington Crescent: Northern League Version

[Hueij]

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...

[Ignorance]

You and your silly nesbits.
I'll have perform a Cross Blocker by claiming Green Park.

[Provost Harrison]

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...

[Provost Harrison]

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'

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

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.

[Provost Harrison]

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!

[Hueij]

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!

[Provost Harrison]

I think I will have to use the Hollingworth rebuttal and play Turnpike Lane

[Hueij]

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

[Provost Harrison]

Well I am going to play Brixton and call a Tooting Bec...

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

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.

[mindseye]

Midlothian Crossing.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Very stylish, mindseye. However, fictitious tube stations only score when the preceding player declares a Dadaist quarter.

[gopher]

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!

[Immortal Wombat]

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