On Tue Oct 29 20:33:39 2002, Greg McCarroll wrote: > > Ah, so you will be bringing a solid stick with you then to deal with > the dreaded Gapps on the underground and perhaps during the evening > you meet London.pm you can use your knowledge of the tube system to > participate in a game of Mornington Crescent, its a cross between the > travelling salesman problem and Go with one or two additional rules.
Those "additional rules" you speak of are not part of standard MC. They were developed by Matthew Grange in 1993 and, I believe, are really only used online; traditional games tend to avoid them because of the effort required to calculate the A³ ((for those without UTF-8 or suitable conversion) AAA or Ambulatory Alternative Area). (Using Latin1 or Unicode, can I call home at Russell²?) > A classic british game, beloved by even the late queen mum, god bless > her, in fact it was her that introduced the rule of "Die stinkende Kuh > spielt in der Ecke", the naming was due to the obvious germanic > connection. I think that's another famous MC myth: she did popularise the rule, but I have seen transcripts that show the rule first played against her by WhiteMonk (pseudonyms being common in royal games). -- Marty
