English Sports for the Non-English

[d_Guy]

As a Dang Foreigner I found the following video gave me a sound understanding of the basics:

[fsn]

Mornington Crescent ... that's a proper English Game.
Many a happy evening spent at a family Christmas, though my ex-wife loved to play Cockfosters a bit too much.

Original Modern rules ... to get you started

Congestion charge zones only ... but an explanation of the rules

Then there's the local variants ... here's the Standard Essex Protocols which is quite a simple variant

International French version - Mornington Croissant

Classic from 1981 to show how it used to be played when I was a lad.

Expert level - lots of huffs in this version, with a triptych declared!

Hope this clarifies.

[Leman]

As a Dang Foreigner I found the following video gave me a sound understanding of the basics:

Yet another of Phil Barker's quick to grasp games.

[d_Guy]

Completely transparent,fsn,thanks!
I'm not sure how the play sequence, Hoxton - Warren Street - Mornington Cresent should have been allowed, however.

Mrs. Trellis, an example of wisdom of the Welch

Wasn't there a card in the original "Kingmaker" - "Percy to Cockermouth" and would THAT be allowable?

Leman, is Phil Barker a sports color analyst for BBC5?

[Last Hussar]

Wasn't there a card in the original "Kingmaker" - "Percy to Cockermouth" and would THAT be allowable?

Are we playing the Ancient modern rules, or the Modern ancient rules

Also, no diagonals on a Tuesday.

[d_Guy]

Late pre-modern or early post-ancient with the Sanborne variants. Either is suitable.

With respect, the no diagonal rule applies to all days that contain the letter "T" (but "t" is OK). Here in the States on "Thanksgiving", double flyovers are allowed (but usually we are watching actual football so it usual doesn't matter).

It coming home!

[fsn]

...but usually we are watching actual football so it usual doesn't matter)*

Do you mean actual foot-ball when the objctive is to use the foot on the ball, or that spectacle played on the left hand side of the pond in which the ball spends more contact time with armpits that it does feet? Where armoured behemoths run around aimlessly for 15 seconds and get winded so they have to have a huddle and emotionally validate each other and someone comes on from the sidelines and reminds them that they're supposed to be taking a rugby ball for a walk and then they can do their funny dance and in the meantime pretty girls are chanting incantations and throwing each other around in an effort to inject some entertainment into an overlong production which makes a Pinter play seem like a Jet Li film.**



*you are deliberately baiting us!  Well done.
** in only 11 minutes out of 3 hours 12 minutes is the ball actually in play in an average professional game.  

[Leman]

I think Percy to Cockermouth is definitely illegal in some states.

[Techno]

Stop it, Andy ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The second wiffle was obviously flat turned!

[d_Guy]

  Lemon, I think that was a yellow card.


Fsn, your description is apt but misses the more cerebral aspects (which are the body of the game!)
Much like a wargame, what you see is akin to the die roll. The bulk of the game is played in the mind in a series of moves and counter moves where players are positioned and repositioned, tables are consulted, and a vast array of deceptions, tactics, and exhortations are winnowed through. The 11 minutes are the die roll, the rest of the three plus hours are the actual game.  

As to baiting you (all) - I try but am deeply handicapped by understanding less that 12% of the references!

With kickoff in less than an hour, I say again, "It's coming home"

[d_Guy]

The second wiffle was obviously flat turned!

This is in reference to the “Hoxton - Warren Street - Mornington Crescent” gambit or Leman’s conjecture?

[Leman]

Queen Victoria: I have to attend the opening of a new mine in Cleckheaton. It can be terribly cold up north.

Lady-in-waiting: Wear the Fox hat, your majesty.

Queen Victoria: It's somewhere in Yorkshire I believe.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

This is in reference to the "Hoxton - Warren Street - Mornington Crescent" gambit or Leman's conjecture?

Actually, the second board repositioning on the original video!

[d_Guy]

  Gad, two in a row, Leman.