OFF Mornington Crescent (please)

[iain ferguson]

Folks,

can you re-title your subject line please. I'm downloading stuff that has
nought to do with Hawkwind help. or Hawkwind.

many thanks
iain

M Holmes wrote:

> Richard Lockwood writes:
>
> > > > > BTW - if anyone fancies playing a bit of online Mornington
> > > > > Crescent,
>
> > > > Does it do both Standard Rules and the Chiswick Rules (Amended)
> > > > Game?
>
> > > > Yep - and takes the Finsbury Option as Standard.  There's also
> > > > built in functionality for the Holland Park 2000 ruleset.
>
> > > I've always wondered: how does this treat the Eurotunnel link?
>
> > > Ignored, unless overground lines - including Silverlink - are
> > > specifically allowed or brought into play.  Then it counts as a
> > > standard line in quadrant 4 until the actual tunnel, which is the
> > > extent of the allowable moves.  A standard token weighting of two
> > > red applies, and a Becks coefficient of at least three is generally
> > > regarded as the safest minimum to avoid the possibility of putting
> > > yourself in spoon or wrench.
>
> > >That's most interesting.  However Garden, in his 1998 exposition of
> > >the Paddington Gambit, argued that the downside risk could be
> > >mitigated by a blocking move at Camden South supported by a feint at
> > >the Angel.  It's undoubtedly true that even limited availability of
> > >the Chunnel Link in overground games (and to a certain extent
> > >Docklands Light Railway) has destabilised conventional approaches to
> > >aggressive strategy to the extent where a whole new approach may be
> > >required.  What's needed is an experienced attacker with a
> > >theoretical bent to provide the basics of this.  Unfortunately there
> > >seems to be no player of Garden's reknown who's willing to make a
> > >start at such a worthy endeavour.  It's quite criminal that no
> > >National Lottery funds have been allocated to supported local clubs
> > >playing the Great Game.
>
> > Mrs Trellis perhaps?
>
> Well, while she's quite brilliant, she's unconventional when not
> actually eccentric. While she certainly has the experience (I've heard
> she plays as many as 5 games every day with her maiden aunt) I'm
> unconvinced that she has the aggressive streak necessary to develop a
> new attack theory. Conversely, having developed her own variation on the
> game (though quite shockingly not following purist traditions) she
> clearly has the passion and intellect necessary, as well as the spare
> time denied to us armchair fans.
>
> > Garden's theories have always been fascinating -
> > but remember, this is referring to Holland Park 2000, which obviously
> > was only in a very early draft in 1998, and wasn't at that stage
> > greatly different from the Chalk Farm 1984 ruleset, with which Garden
> > was far more familiar.
>
> Well quite.  This is of course why I believe that the game will move
> forward only through encouragement to draw in younger players.  Sadly,
> with the decline of the Daily Game on the wireless, I have to wonder if
> today's teenagers will even have heard of Mornington Crescent.  Soon
> they'll start to believe that it's just another Tube Station that's
> always closed at weekends.
>
> FoFP