Mornington Crescent

[Pengi]

Late stage of the game? We've only just started.

Upney

(a term for a self-defence move when attacked by hooligans)

[Mustermark]

I believe i read some stats that the average amateur MC game lasts 31.2 moves. I didn't fully understand the 0.2 of a move, but maybe that is Embankment to Charing Cross where it is almost quicker to walk.

The professional average is over 200 moves, but very much depends how you calculate it and which games you include.

We are a fair way past the 31.2 moves now, so i can feel us moving towards the end of the middle, if not the beginning of the end. I believe it is considered rude to Dollis Hill until at least after the end of the beginning, and preferably after the beginning of the middle. You probably have the mathematical formula for appropriateness of Dollis Hill plotted against the ratio of move number to middleness factor in your copy of Stovold and Steinsson (2004). The red line bisecting the blue sigmoidal curve is the rudeness index of a Dollis Hill.

Queensway.

[REGP]

Samantha just suggested Kingsway might be more appropriate.

[SymonC]

Obvious next move then

Prince Regent

[Mustermark]

King's Cross!

[Pengi]

Waterloo East

Thumbing through the anals of history, I have discovered that there were several 'battles of Waterloo'.

The latest took place when a gang of Stagecoachers (insurgents from the South West that indulge in gorilla warfare) tried to take over the strategic bridgehead between Waterloo and Waterloo East. Their aim being to remove any traces of French rule from the Southeastern area and restore it to full UK control. They were repelled before the ticked gateline by hordes of 'yellow, blue and whites'. An attack on the Satchell street entrance was similarly handbagged.

The Stagecoachers have also launched an assault on Victoria's 'green and white' brigade to secure control of the Thameslink and regain a presence in Brighton (from which they were driven out in the last decade)

[Mustermark]

Interesting Pendy. And if you listen carefully to the Abba song, you will hear that history alluded to. It has been a long running and rather sordid bit of British history that I think was rather swept under the carpet in the Thatcher years.

Finchley Rd and Frognal

[Pengi]

Mornington Crescent!

You thought I was being serious when I said we had only just started this game when in fact the sequence of moves meant we were only a few moves away! And the sequence of 'above the line' moves meant that only Mornington Crescent could be declared.

[REGP]

Sneaky but I like it.

[Mustermark]

Oh well done Pendy! Superb play. I think it was obvious in hind sight, but distracted by your double bluff and my own distraction into researching the theories behind the Dollis Hill move, it still took me by surprise.

Super stuff. And well played.  Some stout defence but most impressive avant-garde movements both at the baseline and above the line.

I think it is you to play to start us off again.

[Pengi]

Southampton Central

[Mustermark]

  

Brockenhurst

[Mustermark]

The theory around the Dollis Hill move and its likelihood to cause offense has been in much debate for centuries.  Steinsson earned a PhD from Girton College Cambridge in 1954 entitled "The Dollis Hill Move: Impressive or Outrageous". In her 780 page tome of a thesis, she explores the relationship between where in the game the Dollis Hill move is played, and the degree of outrage of the other players. It is considered very rude to play the move early in a game, but, as Steinsson explains, one does not know how long the game will last until long after Dollis Hill is played.

She explores the application of Schrodinger's theory but dismisses it because no cat was found to be outraged.  However, application of Dirac's quantum theory suggested that the players would be both outraged and impressed until MC is called, at which time the position in the game of the Dollis Hill move is determined and the outrage level is resolved.

She later extended this using a theory of eigenstates to Steinsson's Uncertainty Principle; that the position in the game and the moment of outrageousness of a Dollis Hill move cannot both be known while the game is in motion.

For her genius she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for eliminating much of the outrage from the game of MC across the globe.

Steinsson was also a magnificent MCer herself but sadly rarely ever played due to her intensive research activities.  There is one recorded game that i believe is on either mcTube or BBC mcPlayer.  There is no truth to the rumour that McDonalds have negotiated a contract to sponsor mcTube.

[OwL]

I wish I had a clue what was going on I know it has been explained already but I still dont get this game

I feel like the 'smelly kid' left out in the corner of the play-ground

[Pengi]

Fascinating, I had no idea about the particle physics behind the Dollis Hill move. Steinsson is a very strange quark indeed

I understand that a new sub-atomic particle, the Higgs Bosham, has been identified in West Sussex

But I'm going for the place that no-one knows exactly how to pronounce it's name

Cosham

which borders the Cosham Triangle where trains go in and some come out and some do not. All a bit spooky really