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- Subject: Diplomacy game openings!
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 21:42:30 PST
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- *****************************************************************************
- I am looking for players for a no press gunboat game!
- I am looking for players for a regular game!
- *****************************************************************************
-
- I need people who would like to standby in weird variants. In particular,
- the following games could use standbys:
-
- LOEB9 RULES (9 players) Spain and Scandinavia are added as extra players.
- GREAT BRITAIN RULES (7 players) Britain starts with 6 SC's but all armies!
- 1898 RULES (7 players) Regular map. Each player starts with only his capital.
- YOUNGSTOWN RULES (10 players) Extended map including Asia and Africa.
- ELEVEN PLAYER RULES (11 players) An 11 player game with extra countries.
- SLOW WARP (7 players) Regular game with turns every three days.
- WIN91 (7 players) Regular game with players who have either won or have been
- in 2-way draws
-
- ====================================================================
- Remember to give me your home phone number, work phone number, fax
- phone number, home address, and list all seven countries in order of
- preference when you sign up for my waiting list. Also include a
- list of your e-mail addresses.
- ====================================================================
-
- I am organizing games #253+ of Diplomacy, (EP# 204 is reserved.)
- I am currently looking for GMs (for regular and variant games in both
- my electronic and postal zines), GM standbys, player standbys, scribes,
- and players. If you would like to help out in a bureaucratic position,
- let me know. I have plenty of paper shuffling jobs that need to be
- filled! Also if your game ever has problems, PLEASE CONTACT ME! Also
- let me know if there are any mistakes in this game opening message.
-
- If you don't own Diplomacy, you can buy it at your local hobby store
- or from Avalon Hill directly. Avalon Hill's prices are $25.00 for
- the game, or $10.00 for the mapboard, $5.00 for the rules, $2.00 for
- the basic rules sheet, $5.00 for the game pieces, and $3.00 for a set
- of 7 conference maps. They also sell a Gamer's Guide to Diplomacy
- which I think is great for $8 + $3.00 shipping. Their phone numbers
- are 1-800-999-3222 and (301) 254-5300. Address is 4517 Harford Road,
- Baltimore, MD 21214. Postage and handling is $4.00/$5.00 for U.S,
- $8.00/$10.00 for Canada and $12.00/$15.00 for anywhere else with the
- first number being for orders $10.01 to $25.00 and the other number
- being for orders from $25.01 to $35.00. Also, there is a neat IBM
- compatible Diplomacy program named Judge. To get it send $30.00
- US/Canadian to DataNet Systems, Box 5241 Ottawa, Ontario, K2C 3H5,
- Canada. Judge is fantastic for GMing!
-
- Other programs of similar quality are avaiable for free:
-
- "Diplomacy Adjudicator" by Ken Lowe (jdr@u.washington.edu) is
- a program which accepts Diplomacy orders in a file or my electronic
- mail and computes and mails the results. A very sophisticated
- program. Is written in C.
-
- "Diplomat Interface" by Danny Loeb (loeb@geocub.greco-prog.fr) is a
- program in LCS design for the Diplomacy Programming Project moves are
- entered in Suntools or X windows or by other computer programs, and
- the results are returned in the same way. Is written in LCS and is
- designed for use by automatic diplomacy playing programs.
-
- **
- Please indicate whether you have any preference in regards to
- participating in a regular diplomacy game where the GM is assisted by
- an automatic adjudicating program. Your moves would then have to be
- written in a certain format, but your results would come out quicker
- and be more accurate. For more information, send the message HELP to
- judge@u.washington.edu.
- **
-
- REGULAR Diplomacy game waiting list:
-
- All these players can immediately get into a game by sending
- the command "signon ? password" to judge@u.washington.edu.
- If this doesn't work they should send the command "HELP".
- Actually, Judge isn't accepting any more game openings. Anyone
- have an alternative Judge that is accepting game openings?
-
- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu/Joel Furr
- 430-6519@mcimail.com/David W. Ploch (observer)
- arun@gene02.med.utoronto.ca/Arun Mehra
- 71034.1617@CompuServe.COM/John J. Jordan III
- mmcfadde@panama-emhl.army.mil/Michael McFadden
- skrishna@ai.mit.edu/Sarath Krishnaswamy
-
- WARP NO PRESS GUNBOAT YOUNGSTOWN DIPLOMACY:
-
- None.
-
- This is a variant of Youngstown Diplomacy. Youngstown is described
- later on in this message.
-
- WORK Diplomacy game waiting list:
-
- tomh@tellabs.com/Tom Huber
-
- This is a regular diplomacy game for people in the U.S. who have
- access to Usenet from their work place.
-
- BORN Diplomacy game waiting list:
-
- karl@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de/Karl Dotzek (Germany)
- jrb@unssun.scs.unr.edu/John Becker (Germany backup)
- sadun@math.utexas.edu/Lorenzo Sadun (Italy)
- schwartzman@envnet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Russia)
- ukdex@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu/Steve Williams (England)
- nousek@astro.psu.edu/John A. Nousek (Austria)
-
- This is a regular diplomacy game where you play the country you
- were born in or where your parents were born.
-
- CHAOS Diplomacy game waiting list:
-
- None.
-
- Every supply center is played by a different player (and builds
- are not restricted to "home" centers). We need 34 players!
- To get rules, send GET INFO.CHAOS to judge@u.washington.edu.
-
- The ongoing Chaos games need standbys. To be a standby, contact both
- me and jdr@u.washington.edu/Ken Lowe.
-
- REGULAR French Diplomacy waiting list:
-
- None. But a standby is needed.
-
- This is a game where all negotiations and press announcments are done in
- French. Let me know if you are also willing to do variants in the French
- language.
-
- REGULAR Dutch Diplomacy waiting list:
-
- fdebruin@isoux3.estec.esa.nl/Frank de Bruin (cf)
- louis@mbfys.kun.nl/Louis Lenders (cf)
- daniel@cs.kun.nl/Daniel Tuijnman (cf)
- muts@fys.ruu.nl/Peter Mutsaers (cf)
- andre@duteina.tudelft.nl/Andre Verweij (and will GM the next Dutch game) (cf)
-
- This is a game where all negotiations and press announcments are done in
- Dutch.
-
- REGULAR German Diplomacy waiting list:
-
- karl@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de/Karl Dotzek
- hottenro@informatik.tu-muenchen.de/Bertrand Hottenroth
- Thorsten_Kitz@mk.maus.de/Thorsten Kitz
-
- This is just a partial list for a German game that is about to get
- started, if you want to join in a German game, let me know now!
-
- This is a game where all negotiations and press announcments are done in
- German.
-
- REGULAR Latin Diplomacy waiting list:
-
- mccarthy@jezebel.wustl.edu/John McCarthy
- arc@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU/Andrew Conway
- norrish_m@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz/Jamie Norrish
-
- This is a game where all negotiations and press announcments are done in
- Latin.
-
- REGULAR Swedish waiting list:
-
- None.
-
- This is a game where all negotiations and press announcments are done in
- Swedish. Note that Per Westling probably has some players on his waiting
- list for this game.
-
- ELEVEN Player variant waiting list:
-
- randy@ms.uky.edu/Randy Appleton
- stamos@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu/Bill Stamos
-
- To get the rules send the command GET INFO.CROWDED to
- judge@u.washington.edu.
-
- 1898 waiting list:
-
- None.
-
- The difference is that the game starts in Winter 1898 with each
- country having one unit. Each country must capture its other
- home centers before it can build in them.
-
- 1914 waiting list:
-
- None.
-
- The 1914 variant of Diplomacy is based on an article in The General.
- (The General is published by the manufacturer of Diplomacy to give
- you an idea of how good this variant must be!) This game is much
- more realistic than regular Diplomacy, you even can get bombers
- starting in Winter 1917.
-
- ROUND-ROBIN GUNBOAT waiting list:
-
- 6, need 1 more.
-
- This is where you play in 7 different no press gunboat games,
- playing as a different country in each game.
-
- GUNBOAT waiting list:
-
- None.
-
- In this variant, you don't know who the other people are and can
- only communicate through press.
-
- To get the rules send the command GET INFO.GUNBOAT to
- judge@u.washington.edu.
-
- NO PRESS GUNBOAT waiting list:
-
- 4 people. Need a GM!
-
- In this variant, you don't know who the other players are and
- you can't even communicate to them through press.
-
- NO PRESS GUNBOAT WARP waiting list:
-
- 4 people. None of these people have been confirmed yet.
- You should remind me that you want to be in this game if
- you haven't heard from me.
-
- NO PRESS GUNBOAT WITH NO RESTRICTIONS waiting list:
-
- 5 creatures, need 2 more. Sign up now - I have a GM for this game!
-
- In this variant, players are not restricted to the human race.
-
- BLIND DIPLOMACY waiting list:
-
- * I need more players for this game! *
-
- TMS139@psuvm.psu.edu/Timothy M. Snyder
- paulg@frith.egr.msu.edu/Greg Paul (in Jan (cf))
- tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu/Tom Tedrick
- stamos@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu/Bill Stamos
- pinky@vipunen.hut.fi/Tomi Kaartama
- yali@bnr.ca/Yawar Ali (cf)
- cheng@milton.u.washington.edu/Cheng Chi Ku (cf)
- skrishna@ai.mit.edu/Sarath Krishnaswamy (cf)
-
- In this variant, the locations of all pieces are secret. You
- discover the locations of enemy pieces when you attack them or are
- attacked by them. You also discover the location of enemy pieces by
- spying. Each country begins with 2 spies, in any home centers. You
- lose a spy if you lose your capital, and both spies if you lose all
- your home centers. Spies that are destroyed are replaced each year
- in any home territory provided that you have enough home centers to
- support them.
-
- Each spy may: move, hold, or counter espionage. Spies themselves are
- completely invisible -- they may move through any space regardless of
- the presence of other units. Spies are never dislogded, and can only
- be destroyed by counter espionage. A spy performing conter espionage
- kills all enemy spies in the area. If two spies both CE the same
- area, both die. If a spy survives, it provides complete information
- on the unit occupying the area and its actions in the just completed
- turn.
-
- WARP BLIND DIPLOMACY waiting list:
-
- akuo@scam.berkeley.edu/Augie Kuo
- dm8sstaf@miamiu.bitnet/Douglas M. MacFarlane
- murphy@dg-rtp.dg.com/John Murphy
-
- This is blind Diplomacy with one or two day turns.
-
- CLASSIC DIPLOMACY waiting list:
-
- rnlee@sdcc6.ucsd.edu/Roderick Lee
-
- In this game we follow the original rulebook and board from the 1958
- edition of Diplomacy. In this game you actually place armies on top
- of fleets to convoy them (at the rate of one unit per turn) and have
- neat places such as Mesopotamia and Persia. My favorite change is
- that Switzerland is a neutral supply center!
-
- WARP DIPLOMACY waiting list:
-
- wcollins@eniac.seas.upenn.edu/Walter J. Collins, III
- sanctuary@maple.circa.ufl.edu/Matthew D. Galer
-
- Turns will be either every day or every other day, majority vote.
-
- SLOW WARP DIPLOMACY waiting list:
-
- None.
-
- Turns will be every three days
-
- WIN92 waiting list:
-
- ROGER@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu/Roger Safian (cf! will get in game if other 7 cf!
- don't enter game)
- sullivan@erim.org/Richard Sullivan (cf!)
- bbeutel@beagle.Colorado.EDU/Bruce A. Beutel (lost e-mail access)
- wcollins@eniac.seas.upenn.edu/Walter J. Collins, III (cf)
- gary@chema.ucsd.edu/Gary Samad (cf)
- jmodonne@owucomcn.bitnet/Jason M. O'Donnell (bounced)
- wkm@mti.sgi.com/Keith Mortensen (cf!)
- patp@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov/Patrick Plaisted (cf!)
- bohman@math.rutgers.edu/Thomas Bohman (cf!)
- ceroburn@Athena.MIT.EDU/Charles Roburn (Observer)
- cebulad@physics.orst.edu/Dave Cebula (cf!)
- sbest@clasic.nsc.com/S.Christopher Best (cf!)
- xll0pfg@uccpua.BITNET/Paul Glenn (cf!)
-
- This is a regular Diplomacy game for people who have won previous
- e-mail games or have participated in 2-way draws. There will be
- just one game this year, with the cream of the crop. We almost got
- started but one player dropped out at the last moment. I need one
- more player before I do a roll call as I doubt all these people
- are still interested.
-
- ULTIMATE SHAMBLES waiting list:
-
- djb6@midway.uchicago.edu/Dennis Brennan
- dagibbs@quantum.on.ca/David Gibbs
- c9106225@alinga.newcastle.edu.au/Matt McLeod
- Bryden@acs.ucalgary.ca/John Bryden
-
- In this variant, everyone gets 4 supply centers randomly assigned
- in the first turn, and then gets 3 builds the following turn. The
- game proceeds normally from there. If you consider having your units
- spread all over the place normal. This game requires much more
- Diplomacy than normal since everyone is your neighbor!
-
- DISBAND VARIANT waiting list:
-
- stamos@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu/Bill Stamos
- pl436000@brownvm.bitnet/Jamie Dreier
- fqoj@cornella.bitnet/Roger Jagoda
- tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu/Tom Tedrick
-
- In this game you can voluntarily disband units.
-
- YOUNGSTOWN waiting list:
-
- bcanning@reed.edu/Benjamin Canning
- randy@ms.uky.edu/Randy Appleton
- djb6@midway.uchicago.edu/Dennis Brennan
- traynor@fnal.fnal.gov/Mike Traynor
-
- Youngstown is a 10 player game on a map that includes the countries
- of Japan, China, and India and double the number of provinces and
- supply centers.
-
- For rules, send GET INFO.YOUNGSTOWN and GET YOUNGSTOWN.PS to
- judge@u.washington.edu.
-
- Other Variants
- --------------
- Judge@u.washington.edu also has the following info:
-
- Great Britain variant - GET INFO.BRITIAN
- 9 player variant - GET INFO.LOEB9 and GET LOEB9.PS
- Machiavelli - GET INFO.MACHIAVELLI and GET RULES.MACHIAVELLI and
- GET MACHIAVELLI.PS
- Pure - GET INFO.PURE
- Grey and Black press - GET PRESS
-
- ********************************************************************
- POSITIONS
- ********************************************************************
- Player standby list
- -------------------
- loeb@geocub.greco-prog.fr/Daniel E. Loeb (1 or 2 unit positions or WIN91)
- paulg@frith.egr.msu.edu/Greg Paul (ultimate shambles)
- sun!uunet.uu.net!tnc!m0103/David Breeding (blind, reg, no warp
- copeland@mssun3.msi.cornell.edu/Scott Copeland (reg)
- arc@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU/Andrew Conway (French)
- dotzek@ds0lilog.BITNET/Karl Dotzek (German)
-
- GM standby list
- ---------------
- pl436000@brownvm.bitnet/Jamie Dreier (For Judge games only)
- loeb@geocub.greco-prog.fr/Daniel E. Loeb (For Judge games only)
- durrell@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu/Bryant Durrell (Prefers Judge games)
- burgessj@gar.union.edu/Jim Burgess (reg)
-
- A standby takes over a game that has lost its GM. If I run out of GMs,
- I will also use standby GMs to start games.
-
- Scribes
- -------
- cmmjr@flight-sim.gatech.edu/Cliff McKeithan
- loeb@nestor.greco-prog.fr/Daniel Loeb (Diplomacy articles only)
-
- A scribe types articles so I can reprint them in this zine. I will
- supply xeroxes. Let me know how many pages you wish to type. Let's
- keep my wrists brace-free!
-
- Judge EP# Master
- ----------------
- nick@sunburn.waterloo.edu/Nick Fitzpatrick
-
- This person is authorized to give out EP#s to moderated games run
- on Judge. This is an extremely powerful and respected position.
- Hopefully, all this power won't corrupt our humble Nick. We have
- a special cheer for him:
-
- "Boom! Boom! Boom!
- EP numbers are hard to assign.
- Boom! Boom! Boom!
- But Nick has given out ninety-nine."
-
- Suggestions for better cheers would be welcomed.
-
- E-mail Wizards
- --------------
- swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/Steve Buffum
- andre@hern.stonemarche.org/Andre' Wood
- eisen@cs.jhu.edu or eisen@jhuigf.bitnet/Hal J Eisen
- wcw27974@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu/Bill Wendling
-
- An e-mail wizard helps people with e-mail problems. If you can't
- get mail to someone, contact an e-mail wizard.
-
- Variant Wizards
- ---------------
- amt5man@sun.leeds.ac.uk/Mark Nelson
-
- A variant wizard helps people with variant questions. If you need
- information about a variant, contact a variant wizard.
-
- Chapter Checkers
- ----------------
- None.
-
- A chapter checker helps makes sure that a chapter is running smoothly.
- I.e. that it is being published and that the games in it are also
- being published.
-
- Guest Publishers
- ----------------
- irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu/John Smith (Chapter Two)
-
- A guest publisher takes the results of about 5 games and publishes
- them in a chapter, twice a week.
-
- Archivers
- ---------
- jlitvin@hfglobe.intel.com/John Litvin
- nick@sunburn.waterloo.edu/Nick Fitzpatrick
- judge@u.washington.edu - Receive summaries of games by asking for
- SUMMARY <name-of-game> or histories of the game by asking for
- HISTORY <name-of-game>.
-
- An archiver stores on disk one or more chapters of the zine. This
- very important position will allow me to recreate records of games
- in case their GMs abandon them. You may also ask for past issues
- from an archiver. REMEMBER to include your e-mail address in any
- messages sent to an archiver.
-
- GM waiting list
- ---------------
- niekd@cs.kun.nl/Niek van Diepen (Dutch)
- loeb@geocub.greco-prog.fr/Daniel Loeb (French, WIN92, and No Restrictions)
- claudius@leland.stanford.edu/Nelson Lu (Latin)
- Greg_Pearson@ub.cc.umich.edu/Greg Pearson (Eleven Player Ultimate Shambles)
- pl436000@brownvm.bitnet/Jamie Dreier (no press round-robin gunboat)
- starkey@netcom.com/Sean Starkey (blind)
- karl@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de/Karl Dotzek (German)
- nick@sunburn.waterloo.edu/Nick Fitzpatrick (Warp no press Youngstown)
- dagibbs@quantum.on.ca/David Gibbs (no press gun, reg gun)
- casmacin@atlas.cs.upei.ca/Sean MacIntosh (reg)
-
- *-*-*-* MORE INFO ABOUT GAMES *-*-*-*
-
- AN INTERNET GUIDE TO THE GAME OF DIPLOMACY Issue 7.0 Nov 1992
- By Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca)
-
- Contents
-
- THE DIPLOMACY ADJUDICATORS
- * Washington, USA
- * Australia
- * Durban, South Africa
- Setting up one's own judge
- ELECTRONIC PROTOCOL
- *USENET (rec.games.diplomacy now exists!!!!!)
- DIPL-L
- *DIPLOMACY-L
- HALL OF FAME
- FTP SITES
- Washington, USA
- Berlin, Germany
- Marburg, Germany
- VARIANTS
- HOW TO GET POSTSCRIPT MAPS
- DIPLOMACY AT CIX
-
- * indicates alterations since last edition
- | in text shows changes
-
- THE DIPLOMACY ADJUDICATORS
- --------------------------
- The Diplomacy adjudicators are computer programs that moderate,
- and assist in the moderation of Diplomacy games. All moderated
- games on the judges are eligible for inclusion in Electronic Protocol.
-
- Washington, USA
- ---------------
- The primary judge is judge@u.washington.edu, it is kept by Ken Lowe
- (jdr@u.washington.edu).
-
- To register with the judge send the command
- help
- in the body of a mail message (not the subject) to judge@u.washington.edu
- and follow the registration instructions that arrive in the mail.
-
- For a list of ongoing games, and openings, send the command
- list
- to the judge.
-
- To join the next available standard moderated game, send the command
- signon ? password
- to the judge (after registering).
-
- The judge presently supports the following variants; Standard, Youngstown,
- Loeb9, Chaos, 1898, Crowded, Machiavelli, Britain and Pure. Press and
- no-press gunboat versions of all these games are available.
-
- Ken is presently working on the A/F module for the Deluge variant, and
- is considering adding Blind and Youngstown XII. (Though he reports the
- work is slow, and he is planning a vacation)
-
- Judge Status in Washington
- --------------------------
- | May 23 Jun 20 Jul 16 Aug 17 Sep 15 Oct 15 Nov 11
- |Registered Players ~650 ~675 713 776 858 956 1096
- |Standard Games ~70 ~70 69 74 85 88 100
- |Youngstown Games ~20 20 20 22 26 23 22
- |Other Games ? 17 17 15 15 18 25
- |Version 10.4 10.5
- |
-
- Notes: Players are registered even if inactive.
- There are other non-listed games ongoing (at least 6)
-
-
- Australia
- ---------
- In August 1992 a new judge was announced at the University of Western
- Australia. This is another full fledged installation of Ken Lowe's
- program. The address is
- judge@gu.uwa.edu.au
- and the operator is David Bennett (ddt@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au)
-
- Judge Status in Australia
- -------------------------
- | Oct 15 Nov 11
- |Registered Players 57 59
- |Standard Games 6 6
- |Youngstown Games - -
- |Other Games 2 2
- |Version (Washington) 10.0 10.0
-
-
- Durban, South Africa
- --------------------
- A full fledged judge is running in Durban, South Africa. The
- address is
- judge@shrike.und.ac.za
- The operator is Russel Vincent (vincent@cc.und.ac.za)
-
- |Judge Status in South Africa
- |----------------------------
- | Oct 15 Nov 11
- |Standard Games 1 2
- |Youngstown Games 1 1
- |Other Games - -
- |Version (Washington) 9.0 10.0
-
-
- Setting up one's own judge
- --------------------------
- It is fairly simple to install your own judge. The source code is
- available (in C) from the Washington FTP site (see below). The instructions
- are explained in detail in a README file. Version 10.0 is presently
- available, it was released in September 1992. I set up one myself once,
- so I know what I am talking about, it took less than half an hour.
-
-
- ELECTRONIC PROTOCOL
- -------------------
- This is an electronic magazine devoted to Diplomacy. The main editor
- is Eric Klien, (Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com). This 'zine is divided into
- 2 chapters, each covers certain games. Eric personally publishes chapter 2,
- which is distributed through rec.games.* on Usenet, and through DIPL-L.
- Eric also keeps a waiting list for players, and substitutes, for all sorts
- of obscure variants!
-
- The games from the two judges are published in Chapter 2, by
- Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca). It is published about
- once a fortnight, and is also distributed through Usenet, and DIPL-L.
-
-
- |USENET
- |------
- |Diplomacy finally has its own newsgroup, rec.games.diplomacy
- |People are requested to restrict discussion to this group, and also
- |if possible to cross-post interesting stuff to bit.listserv.dipl-l (even
- |if you don't receive it at your site, it will still get there). This is
- |an offical Usenet group, so if your site does not get it, please complain
- |to your system administrator.
-
- There is also the group bit.listserv.dipl-l This group is a full Usenet
- group, and relays messages to and from DIPL-L. (see below)
-
-
- DIPL-L
- ------
- DIPL-L is a listserv mailing list hosted at mitvma.mit.edu (mitvma.bitnet).
- It is moderated by Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca). This
- relatively low volume mailing list is designed to be a forum for discussion
- of the game of Diplomacy, the judges, and for distribution of
- Electronic Protocol. To add your name to the mailing list, send the command
- subscribe dipl-l John Smith
- where John Smith is your name to:
- listserv@mitvma.mit.edu (listserv@mitvma.bitnet).
-
- DIPL-L is gatewayed to Usenet as the newsgroup
- bit.listserv.dipl-l If you don't recieve it, complain to your sys-admin.
-
- A collection of old letters from DIPL-L is available from Marburg by FTP.
- (see below). The files are dipl9203.Z, through dipl9210.Z
-
-
- |DIPLOMACY-L
- |-----------
- |There is another Diplomacy list, hosted at gu.uwa.edu.au, for
- |discussion of Diplomacy at the Australian judge. To subscribe
- |send
- | subscribe diplomacy-l John Smith
- |where John Smith is your name to:
- | listserv@gu.uwa.edu.au
- |
- |It is rather a quiet list!
-
-
- HALL OF FAME
- ------------
- The hall of fame is also kept by Nicholas Fitzpatrick
- (nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca). It currently contains results of standard,
- 1898, chrowded, Loeb9 and Youngstown games completed on the Washington judge
- up to Oct 1992. It may eventually be expanded to other variants, to EP games
- and to some really old judge games from 1988-1990. It is available by request
- from Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca), from anonymous FTP
- from the Diplomacy FTP site in Marburg Germany (see below).
-
-
- FTP SITES
- ---------
- Certain material is available by anonymous FTP from various Diplomacy
- archives around the world.
-
- Washington, USA
- ---------------
- There are a few files kept in the machine
- milton.u.washington.edu
- in the public/misc sub-directory. Here is a list of them.
-
- -rw-r--r-- 255255 Sep 11 17:29 dip.tar.Z Source code for judge
- -rw-r--r-- 128294 Apr 16 1991 dipmap.ps Postscript map
- -rw-r--r-- 134502 Apr 16 1991 loeb9.ps Loeb9 postscript map
- -rw-r--r-- 23454 Sep 6 1991 machiavelli.ps Machiavelli ps map
- -rw-r--r-- 124883 Nov 20 1991 youngstown.ps Youngstown ps map
-
- Berlin, Germany
- ---------------
- There is an ftp site in Berlin. The machine is
- FTP.FU-berlin.DE (130.133.4.50)
- This machine is a little slow, so it is a good idea to know exactly what
- you want! Here is an index of what was available in Sept 1992 (courtesy
- of Heiko Schlichting):
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/:
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Mai 14 01:29 classic/
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Mai 14 01:30 dipl-l/
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Jun 13 23:06 general/
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Jun 10 06:50 hall-of-fame/
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Jun 13 23:08 loeb9/
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Jun 13 23:08 machiavelli/
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Jun 13 23:16 other-variants/
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Jun 13 22:53 source/
- drwxr-sr-x 2 ftp 512 Jun 13 23:18 youngstown/
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/classic:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2172 Apr 24 1991 map.ascii.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2501 Mai 22 1991 map.info.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 34076 Mai 22 1991 map.ps.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2291 Apr 7 1991 rules.classic.Z
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/dipl-l:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 6789 Apr 24 1991 convoys.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 8557 Apr 24 1991 dipcon.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2513 Apr 24 1991 email-dip.intr.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 1919 Apr 24 1991 example.game.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 12176 Apr 24 1991 france.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 5662 Apr 24 1991 germany.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2741 Apr 24 1991 greek.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2034 Apr 24 1991 mediterranean.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 3100 Apr 24 1991 musical.dip.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2140 Apr 24 1991 stab-stab.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 4850 Apr 24 1991 stalemates.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 639 Apr 24 1991 top.ten.lies.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2951 Apr 24 1991 winning.dip.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 22767 Apr 24 1991 zine_list.Z
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/general:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2176 Jun 13 23:06 changes.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 4211 Jun 13 23:06 deadline.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 1301 Jun 13 23:06 form.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 5504 Jun 13 23:06 index.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 4471 Jun 13 23:06 info.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 4364 Jun 13 23:06 master.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 3242 Jun 13 23:06 press.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2291 Jun 13 23:06 rules-changes.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 16010 Jun 13 23:06 rules.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 2750 Jun 13 23:06 syntax.Z
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/hall-of-fame:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 10744 Aug 09 02:36 hall-of-fame-1.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 19809 Jun 10 06:52 hall-of-fame-2.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 25857 Aug 09 02:15 hall-of-fame-3.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 29563 Sep 03 22:29 hall-of-fame-4.Z
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/loeb9:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 1510 Jun 13 22:59 info.loeb9.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 35505 Mai 22 1991 loeb9.ps.Z
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/machiavelli:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 1366 Jun 13 22:59 info.machiavelli.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 11253 Jun 13 22:51 machiavelli.ps.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 14174 Jun 13 22:59 rules.machiavelli.Z
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/other-variants:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 481 Jun 13 22:59 info.1898.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 459 Jun 13 22:59 info.britain.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 934 Jun 13 22:59 info.chaos.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 550 Jun 13 22:59 info.crowded.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 724 Jun 13 22:59 info.gunboat.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 450 Jun 13 22:59 info.pure.Z
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/source:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 245789 Jun 13 22:51 diplomacy-adjudicator.tar.Z
-
- /pub/misc/diplomacy/youngstown:
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 3145 Jun 13 23:19 info.youngstown.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 5842 Jun 13 23:19 map.young.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 596 Jun 13 23:19 report.young.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 52113 Jun 13 23:19 youngstown-DINA4-1PAGE.ps.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 52050 Jun 13 23:19 youngstown-DINA4.ps.Z
- -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp 51922 Jun 13 23:19 youngstown.ps.Z
-
- Marburg, Germany
- ----------------
- The address is
- sg1507.chemie.uni-marburg.de (137.248.151.12).
- All material is in the pub/incoming/Ep-Chapter sub-directory. Presently
- most the old copies of Electronic-Protocol are there. (in either files
- called turnXXX or XXX, where XXX is the issue number). Issue
- 100 is missing! Most of these are UNIX compressed (a .Z extension).
- There is also a file called biblio.Z which contains the EP index from
- issue 1 to 10?.
-
- Also in the archive is a copy of the hall of fame (called hallfame) and a
- collection of old letters from DIPL-L called dipl9203.Z to dipl9210.Z
-
-
- VARIANTS
- --------
- Mark Nelson <amt5man@ECUSUN.LEEDS.AC.UK> is the god of variants, and is
- the best person to ask questions. There are variant banks around the
- world.
-
- If you live in North American and you want to find out more about
- diplomacy variants then you should write to:
-
- Lee Kendter Jnr, 376A Willowbrook Drive, Jeffersonville, PA 19403, USA
-
- Lee is North American Variant Bank Custodian and can answer your
- questions + supply copy of rules/maps for cost. You can also order
- a copy of the NAVB catalogue from him. This lists some 1200 or so
- dip variants.
-
- Mark can answer questions on many of these if you want to ask before
- buying them (his own variant collection is about 600 strong). Many dip
- variants are not particularly interesting or playable...
-
-
- HOW TO GET POSTSCRIPT MAPS
- --------------------------
- There are two methods. There are files with a .ps extension available by
- anonymous FTP to milton.u.washington.edu in the public/misc subdirectory.
- (see above) These files are laser ready, so just send it to your favourite
- post-script printer. (The youngstown map defaults to printing on 4 pages,
- but if you read the comment lines at the top of the file, you will be able
- to see how to easily alter it to print on 1 (or 2).
-
- If you cannot FTP, you should be able to get it from the judge
- (judge.u.washington.edu) by sending the command
- get youngstown.ps
- The file will come back in the mail, so you would have to trim it down to the
- %!
- at the beginning of the Postscript stuff.
-
-
- DIPLOMACY AT CIX
- ----------------
- CIX is the primary commercial server in the UK, with the national
- branch of the more expensive Compuserve running it a close second.
- There are far fewer hobby users of servers in the UK, because phone
- charges are far more expensive than the North America, with even
- local calls attracting abusive rates. This means a much lower
- density of players, which is why CIX will only have a couple of
- games or so running in the Diplomacy conference. These games are
- moderated by hand. At the time of writing (July 1992), the tenth
- game (known locally as 7thgame) is running. Anyone joining CIX should
- watch diplomacy/general for announcements of gamestarts.
-
- CIX's internet email links are not particularly good, which is why
- Cixen rarely get involved in inter-server email diplomacy. I do not
- mind a stab failing because the victim out-thought me; I do object
- when the ally does his bit, the victim listens and goes the other
- way, and CIX loses contact with the rest of the world for a week.
-
- No effort is made to formalise results of games, mainly because
- players seem to know each other, happily misguiding allies when
- they're not editing UK computer magazines. There has been some effort
- to formalise the results and send them off to the great diplomacy
- statistics collection, but this was abandoned when it was realised
- that it involved work.
-
- (Courtesy of Dylan Harris)
-
- ------------------------
- I will try to post this to usenet and DIPL-L on a semi-regular basis, please
- feel free to send me corrections and additions.
-
- Thanks to Mark Nelson, Heiko Schlichting and Dylan Harris for some of
- the information contained here.
-
- Nicholas Fitzpatrick nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca
-