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Humor
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Instruction
Interviews
Master Class
Newbie Reflections
Openings
Peeriblah's Potpourri
Play Formats
Player Information
Pouch Deposits
Press and NoPress
Puzzles
Reference
Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Diplomat
Szykman's World (Simon Szykman)
Variants
About The Diplomatic Pouch (The Publisher)
About The Zine (The Main Poop)
Spring 1995 Movement Issue
Spring 1995 Retreat Issue
Fall 1995 Movement Issue
Fall 1995 Retreat Issue
Winter 1995 Adjustment Issue
Spring 1996 Movement Issue
Spring 1996 Retreat Issue
Fall 1996 Movement Issue
Winter 1996 Adjustment Issue
Spring 1997 Movement Issue
Spring 1997 Retreat Issue
Fall 1997 Movement Issue
Fall 1997 Retreat Issue
Winter 1997 Adjustment Issue
Spring 1998 Movement Issue
Spring 1998 Retreat Issue
Fall 1998 Movement Issue
Winter 1998 Adjustment Issue
Spring 1999 Movement Issue
Spring 1999 Retreat Issue
Fall 1999 Movement Issue
Fall 1999 Retreat Issue
Fall 2000 Retreat Issue
Spring 2002 Movement Issue
Spring 2002 Retreat Issue
Fall 2002 Movement Issue
Winter 2003 Adjustment Issue
The Big Dipper (Pitt Crandlemire)
The Big Dipper Looks at The Black Sea
The Big Dipper Looks at Shift Variants
The Big Dipper Looks at the Payola Variant
The Big Dipper Looks at Switzerland
The Big Dipper Looks Back at World DipCon VI
The Big Dipper Looks Back at the Asia Variant
The Big Dipper Looks at Face-to-Face and E-Mail Play
Blast From The Past (edited by Mark Nelson)
How Many Openings Are There? (Loeb, Selhammar, Green, and Hand)
Dropouts and Orphaning (Mark Nelson)
A Study in Non-Orphaned Games (Mark Nelson)
The Endgame (Nelson, Shoham, et al.)
The Lepanto Opening (Edi Birsan)
The Invention of Diplomacy (Allan Calhamer)
Designing Maps For Diplomacy Variants (Stephen Agar)
Caissic Analysis
Lawyer/Diplomat
Caissa at the Diplomacy Table
Chainsaw Diplomacy
What's Your Point?
Caissa Annotates a No-Press Game
Caissa Finishes Annotating a No-Press Game
Geography Is Destiny
The New World Order
Persuasive Illogic
Convention Information
The Pouch and WDC VI (Stephen Beaulieu)
World DipCon VI Reports (Crandlemire, Hand, McQuinn, Peery, and Szykman)
The Search for the American Continent (Roland Isaksson)
The Black Side of the Snow (Larry Peery)
World DipCon VII Report (Larry Peery)
Report from AvalonCon '97 (Rick Desper)
AvalonCon '97 Musings (Ray Setzer)
World DipCon VII (Manus Hand)
Discovering the Religion
of 'Donism' (Brandon Clarke)
The Australian Diplomacy Championchip [sic] (Dougal Ure)
The New Zealand Diplomacy Championship (Brandon Clarke)
World DipCon 8 Article Collection (Eddy, Martin, McQuinn, Mlinar, Morris, Peery, Szykman, and Willis)
The New Zealand Diplomacy Champs (Brandon Clarke)
WDC IX Report in Pictures (Emeric Miszti)
WDC IX Report From The Outgoing Champ (Chris Martin)
Dip Down Under in 2002 (Brandon Clarke)
The Mysterious and Secretive Victorian Diplomacy Championships (Rob Stephenson)
Diplomo, Ergo Sum (John Quarto-vonTivadar)
WDC IX at Namur, Belgium (Larry Peery)
Tempest in a Teapot (Tim Richardson)
Reflections from Downunder (Edi Birsan)
WDC X: A Report From the Hammered Position (Tim Miller)
The Cult of Cubisology (Brandon Clarke)
The North American DIPCON XXXVI Report (Edi Birsan)
Euro DIPCON XI Report (Larry Peery)
DIPCON 2004: Portland, Oregon (Larry Peery)
WORLD DIPCON 2004: On the Road to Brum (Larry Peery)
Convoys and Their Paradoxes
On Convoy Path Specification (Allan Calhamer)
Eliminating the Paradox In Diplomacy (Szykman and Hand)
The Diplomacy Academy (Dan Shoham)
The Games CutThroat and CareBear
The Game Fresh
The Game Chopin
The Game HGWells
The Game Vanier
The Game Fools
The Game Barney
The Game Gnat
The Game Troi
The Diplomacy Programming Project (Danny Loeb)
Challenges in Multiplayer Gaming by Computers
Openings by Computer
The Observation Module
Computer Interpretation of Diplomacy Openings
What You Don't Know Can Help You
The Combinatorics of Retreats
The Combinatorics of Adjustments
Game Master Information
Under Control (Stephen Beaulieu)
Rules for Excellent Mastering (Stephen Beaulieu)
In Control -- The Penultimate Guide to Being a GM (Dean Gordon)
Assigning Powers to Players in Diplomacy (Tarzan)
Humor
1901: A Diplomatic Odyssey (Danny Loeb)
North Sea to Picardy (Manus Hand)
The Face to Face Variant (Danny Loeb)
Diplomacy 2000 (Nic Chilton)
Juggernauty (Clinton Wolf)
No Holds Barred (Amos Anon)
Father Bill (Clinton Wolf)
Songs for the Season (Various)
Seven Little Dudes (Rob Addison)
The Pouch Salutes The Chairman of the Board (Manus Hand)
The Wrath of the Diplomacy Gods (Cameron Moser)
The MANSA Charter (Bjorn von Knorring)
ABBA Plays Diplomacy (Jack Rudd)
Innovations
Variable Length Tournament Diplomacy (David Norman)
A Rating System for Diplomacy (Anthony Nichols)
Scoring Draws (David Norman)
Tournament Tie Breakers (Robert Steinke)
Instruction
Running Newbie E-Mail Games (Jamie Dreier)
The Diplomacy Survival Guide (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
For English Native Speakers Only? (Bjørn Tore Sund)
On The Greatness of The Game (Manus Hand)
"Yours Truly," The Diplomatic Signature (David Cain)
Tips From the Masters (Regittko, Dreier, and Schwarz)
An Annotated No-Press Game (Doug Massey)
Diplomacy and International Relations Theory (David Rosen)
Diplomacy and Game Theory, part 2: Rational Choice (David Rosen)
On Diplomacy (parts I through IV) (Joseph Wheeler)
On Diplomacy (parts V and VI) (Joseph Wheeler)
When the Iron Curtain Falls: Maintaining the Mass Alliance (John Pearson)
Go Fasta Go Fasta Go Fasta: Winning as Italy (Leif Bergman)
The Ethics of Playing a Mercy Position (Mike Lease)
Strategy for Colonial Diplomacy (Greg Dingle)
Wielding Too Much Power: Early Leader Syndrome (Derek McLaughlin)
The Unkindest Cut of All: The Introduction (Tim Richardson)
The Unkindest Cut of All: Getting a Handle on Your Knife (Tim Richardson)
Concealing Your Identity in Gunboat Games (Wes Makin)
Lawyer/Diplomat (Paul Windsor)
Playing the Key (Tony Swinnerton)
Super-Alliances in the Modern Variant (Theo Kermanidis)
Diversification (Bobby Somebody)
Caissa at the Diplomacy Table (Paul Windsor)
Using Integrative Complexity to Predict Stabs (Brahm Dorst)
True Blue (Vaughn Ohlman)
Concerning Stabbing (Thaddeus Black)
Chainsaw Diplomacy (Paul Windsor)
Like a Rubber Ball - Bouncing in Diplomacy ("Murky" (Mark B))
What's Your Point? (Paul Windsor)
Diplomatic Tactics (Tom Woodhouse)
Are You Man Enough? (Tom Potocki)
How To Win Tournament Diplomacy (Revisited) (Chris Martin)
The Unrelenting Eye, Part 1 (David Hertzman)
The Unrelenting Eye, Part 2 (David Hertzman)
Caissa Annotates a No-Press Game (Paul Windsor)
The Grand Alliance (Roger Yonkoski)
The Way of the Warrior (David Cohen)
Caissa Finishes Annotating a No-Press Game (Paul Windsor)
Avoiding Stabs 101 (Simon Szykman)
Growing Up (Brandon Clarke)
Martin on Diplomacy: Play to Win (Chris Martin)
Winning With Italy (Steve Ray)
The Six Traits of the Advanced Diplomacy Player (Joshua Randall)
So You Think You're a Diplomat (Joe Brennan)
Winning With France in Colonial (B. Hester)
Interviews
Interview with Ken Lowe (Nick Fitzpatrick)
Interview with Douglas Kent (Manus Hand)
Interview with Andrew England (Mark Nelson)
Interview with Manus Hand ("Tarzan")
Interview with Fred C. Davis, Jr. (Mark Nelson)
Interview with Larry Peery (Mark Nelson)
Hasbro Interactive Speaks (Interview with Bill Levay of H.I.) (Simon Szykman)
Meyer/Glass Speaks Too! (Interview with Todd Hurley of M/G) (Manus Hand)
Master Class (Jamie Dreier)
The Lack of Opening Theory in Diplomacy
The Endgame
The Endgame II
The Endgame III
Play Against The Average Player
Results of Playing The Average Player
Newbie Reflections
Incoming: Spring 1995 Movement Issue (Stephen Lepley)
Incoming: Spring 1995 Retreat Issue (Stephen Lepley)
Incoming: Fall 1995 Movement Issue (Stephen Lepley)
Incoming: Fall 1995 Retreat Issue (Stephen Lepley)
Incoming: Winter 1995 Adjustment Issue (Stephen Lepley)
Incoming: Spring 1996 Movement Issue (Stephen Lepley)
Incoming: Spring 1996 Retreat Issue (Stephen Lepley)
Incoming: Fall 1996 Movement Issue (Stephen Lepley)
Baby Steps (Jared Flesher)
Observations of a Renewbie (Hassan Lascelle)
What I've Learned In Three Months (José Torres)
What is a Newbie (Joe Brennan)
Reflections of a Born-Again Diplomacy Player (J.T. Fest)
Openings (see also the sections on Press/No Press and Variants)
The Diplomacy Openings Library (Loeb and Hand)
Openings by Computer (Danny Loeb)
How Many Openings Are There? (Loeb, Selhammar, Green, and Hand)
Openings by Computer (Danny Loeb)
Computer Interpretation of Diplomacy Openings (Danny Loeb)
The Lack of Opening Theory in Diplomacy (Jamie Dreier)
1995 Opening Custodian's Report, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
1995 Opening Custodian's Report, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
1995 Opening Custodian's Report, Part 3 (Mark Nelson)
The Sealion Opening (Edi Birsan)
The William and Mary Opening (Maarten Oosten)
The Sealion Opening in Action (Bif Smithson)
Playing the Key (Tony Swinnerton)
The Lepanto Opening (Edi Birsan)
Ruling Scandinavia as Germany (Tony Swinnerton)
The Sealion At Rest (Ron Artigues)
A Statistical Look at 1901 ("The Scribe")
Openings Revisited (Dann Fuller)
German Army to Silesia (Greg Brown)
Centrifugal Force (Clinton Wolf)
The Newly Redesigned Western Triple (Simon Szykman)
The Bismarck Opening (Theo Kermanidis)
The Blue Water Lepanto (Manus Hand)
Eye of the Storm (Clinton Wolf)
The Sweden Situation (Andrew Goff)
The Rocky Lepanto (Brendan McClure)
The Blue Water Lepanto Revisted (Derek Pillie)
Peeriblah's Potpourri (Larry Peery)
Mona Lisa's Eyes
XENOGOGIC
XENOGOGIC II
Diplomacy: A Matter of Real Estate
Location, Location, Location... Sold!
The Diplomacy Emotion Survey
Seven Embassies for Seven Dippers
Dippers Are What They Eat
The Doctor of Diplomacy Program
Is it Time for a Diplomatic Pouch Chat Room?
Yes, It's Been A Long Hot Summer
A History of World DipCon
Play Formats
Community Backstabbing (David Cain)
I'll Remember You (Ray Setzer)
The Auckland Diplomacy Club (Brandon Clarke)
All About Cat23 (Caitlin Glasson)
E-Mail Diplomacy Without a GM ("Murky" (Mark B))
Out Of My Depth (Richard Horton)
The DPjudge (Manus Hand)
Why We See Things The Way We Do (David Norman and Brandon Clarke)
Discussion of the Location of WDC in 2003 and Beyond (David Norman and Brandon Clarke)
Tournament Practices: Contrasts in Extremes (Edi Birsan)
Team Tournaments (Edi Birsan)
Player Information
Through the Looking Glass, Spring 1995 Movement Issue (Mark Nelson)
Through the Looking Glass, Fall 1995 Movement Issue (Mark Nelson)
The Internet Diplomacy Survey (Nic Chilton)
Who's Playing Internet Diplomacy? (Matthew Self)
The Hall of Fame
The Great Diplomacy Poll (Paul Davidson)
The Diplomacy Skill Index (Conrad Minshall)
The World Wide Web of International Intrigue (Szykman and Hand)
Results of the Diplomatic Pouch Survey (Simon Szykman)
Results of the Diplomacy Emotion Survey
Pins and Magnets (Scott Kauzlarich)
The Smell of the Copy Toner (Mark Kinney)
Cheating Yourself (Mark Kinney)
A Cheater's Confession (Anonymous)
Reflections of a Teenage Zine Publisher (Heath Gardner)
Oops! I Didn't See That Coming! Now What? (Richard Mulholland)
A PBEM Tournament Survey (Matt Shields)
We'll Inherit the Earth (Richard Adams)
The Rannestad Convention (Tim Miller)
A Sneak Peek (At Hasbro Interactive's Computer Diplomacy) (Manus Hand)
Announcing the Diplomatic Corps (Edi Birsan)
How To Run A Diplomacy Tournament (Brandon Clarke)
User's Guide to the JDPR (David Degville)
Pouch Deposits (The Publisher and the Readership)
Spring 1995 Movement Issue
Spring 1995 Retreat Issue
Fall 1995 Movement Issue
Fall 1995 Retreat Issue
Winter 1995 Adjustment Issue
Spring 1996 Movement Issue
Spring 1996 Retreat Issue
Fall 1996 Movement Issue
Winter 1996 Adjustment Issue
Spring 1997 Movement Issue
Spring 1997 Retreat Issue
Fall 1997 Movement Issue
Fall 1997 Retreat Issue
Winter 1997 Adjustment Issue
Spring 1998 Movement Issue
Spring 1998 Retreat Issue
Fall 1998 Movement Issue
Winter 1998 Adjustment Issue
Spring 1999 Movement Issue
Spring 1999 Retreat Issue
Fall 1999 Movement Issue
Fall 1999 Retreat Issue
Winter 1999 Adjustment Issue
Spring 2000 Movement Issue
Fall 2000 Movement Issue
Winter 2000 Adjustment Issue
Spring 2001 Movement Issue
Fall 2001 Movement Issue
Spring 2002 Movement Issue
Spring 2002 Retreat Issue
Fall 2002 Movement Issue
Fall 2002 Retreat Issue
Winter 2002 Adjustment Issue
Spring 2003 Movement Issue
Winter 2003 Adjustment Issue
Press and NoPress
Communication in No-Press Diplomacy (Simon Szykman)
An Annotated No-Press Game (Doug Massey)
White Partial Press, Introductory Article (Tim Miller)
White Partial Press (Tim Miller)
White Partial Press, Part 2 (Tim Miller)
White Broadcast Press (Tim Miller)
Grey Broadcast Press (Tim Miller)
Thoughts on No-Press Opening Theory (M. J. Yatchman)
Other Thoughts on No-Press Opening Theory (Brandon Clarke)
Further Thoughts on No-Press Opening Strategy (Brandon Clarke)
Still More Thoughts on No-Press Opening Strategy (Brandon Clarke)
Caissa Annotates a No-Press Game (Paul Windsor)
The Lapland Southern Draw (José Luis Fernández Valoni)
Puzzles (See also Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Diplomat, below)
Supply Centers, Anyone? (Simon Szykman)
A Diplomatic Cryptic (Gary Kennedy)
DipSticks (Simon Szykman and Manus Hand)
Solutions to Puzzles in W1997A (Szykman, Hand, and Kennedy)
Diplomacy Cryptic II (Tony Nichols)
Grid For Diplomacy Cryptic II (Tony Nichols)
A Cryptic Postcard -- A Black Spy Story (Brian Kielsich)
Diplomacy Cryptic Answers (Tony Nichols)
Solution to the Cryptic Postcard Puzzle (Brian Kieslich)
Diplomacy Boardgame Trivia (Simon Szykman)
Reference
Library of Diplomacy Tactics (Matthew Self)
Stalemate Lines Again? (Matthew Self)
Boardman and Miller Numbers (Nick Fitzpatrick)
Diplomacy Paradoxes (Andy Schwarz)
What is njudge? (Millis Miller)
Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Diplomat (Various Contributors)
The Double Elimination Conundrum (John Woolley)
The Hunt for The Venison Camper (Szykman and Hand)
More Venison Camper Clues (Szykman and Hand)
The Solution to The Venison Camper (Manus Hand)
The Riddle of the Mirrored Openings (Graeme Ackland)
Solution to The Riddle of the Mirrored Openings (Chuck Carroll)
The Case of the Missing Border (Graeme Ackland)
Solution to The Case of the Missing Border (Jonathan McCue)
The Dead-Letters Affair (Manus Hand)
Solution to The Dead-Letters
Affair (Eric Wagoner and Derek McLachlin)
The Case of the Suwati Refugee (Graeme Ackland)
Solution to The Case of the Suwati Refugee (Graeme Ackland)
The Great Disarmament Conundrum (Graeme Ackland)
Solution to The Great Disarmament Conundrum (Graeme Ackland)
The Strange Case of the Confederation of Neutral States (Graeme Ackland)
The Cultural Exchange Puzzle (Graeme Ackland)
Solution to The Strange Case of the Confederation of Neutral States
Solution to The Cultural Exchange Puzzle
Reindeer Games (Brian Kieslich)
The Case of the Absent Professor (Graeme Ackland)
Solution to the Case of the Absent Professor (Graeme Ackland)
The Case of the Lethal Alliance (Eric Pederson)
Clues for The Case of the Lethal Alliance (Eric Pederson)
The Missing Master's Mystery (Manus Hand)
Clues to The Missing Master's Mystery (Manus Hand and Eric Mead)
The Curious Case of the False Start (Manus Hand)
Solution to "The Missing Master's Mystery" (Eric Mead)
Death at the Calhamer Club (David E Cohen)
First Solution to "Death at the Calhamer Club" (David E Cohen)
Second Solution to "Death at the Calhamer Club" (David E. Cohen)
Solution to "The Curious Case of the False Start" (Manus Hand)
Begone And Back: A Basic Conundrum (Manus Hand)
Begone And Back: A Basic Conundrum Deciphered (Manus Hand)
Begone And Back: A Basic Conundrum Deciphered Entirely (Manus Hand)
A Challenge from Devonshire (Manus Hand)
Szykman's World (Simon Szykman)
Dedicated to the Game
Diplomacy: An Historical Perspective
The Art of Diplomacy in The Art of War
Communication in No-Press Diplomacy
Bridging the Gaps Between Diplomacy Communities
Maintaining the Status Quo (the aborted DP logo)
Conspiracy Theory
Risk-Taking Experiment (Survey)
Results of the "Risk-Taking" Experiment
Updated Results of the "Risk-Taking" Experiment
Another Analysis of the "Risk-Taking" Experiment (Marc Leotard)
An Application of the "Risk-Taking" Experiment (Brahm Dorst)
Avoiding Stabs 101
Variants
1900: A Diplomacy Variant (B.M. Powell)
Switzerland in the 1900 Variant (B.M. Powell)
1900: Austria-Hungary (B.M. Powell)
1900: Britain (B.M. Powell)
Arpiesse Diplomacy (Simon Szykman)
The Big Dipper looks at the Asia Variant (Pitt Crandlemire)
The Backseat Driver Variant (Simon Szykman)
Cantabrigia (Alex Churchill)
Strategy for Colonial Diplomacy (Greg Dingle)
Crystal Ball Diplomacy (Joe Carl)
Escalation Diplomacy (Edi Birsan)
Federation Diplomacy (Theo Kermanidis)
Problems in Fantasy Variant Creation (Agar and Nelson)
Elric of Melnibone: The Young Kingdoms Variants (Nelson and Agar)
Heptarchy: Britain at War (Geoff Bache)
Hundred (Schwarz, Coffey, and Eldred)
...It Came From Outer Space! (Dan Percival)
Towards a Machiavelli Hall of Fame (Neil Barr)
The State of the Art of the State (Bruce Duewer)
What Every Young Tyrant Should Know (Bruce Duewer)
Design of a Variant: Maharajah's Diplomacy (David E. Cohen)
Missing Man Diplomacy (Manus Hand)
Modern Times (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
Modern English (Britain) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
Alexandria Rises Again (Egypt) (Mous-Harboesgaard and Desper)
The Fifth Republic (France) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
The Fourth Reich (Germany) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
Forza Italia (Italy) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
Five Down, Five to Go (New Openings) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
The Pole Position (Poland) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
From Russia with Love (Russia) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
The Spanish Armada (Spain) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
A Turkish Delight (Turkey) (Vincent Mous-Harboesgaard)
Super-Alliances in the Modern Variant (Theo Kermanidis)
Payola Diplomacy (Manus Hand)
The Big Dipper looks at Payola (Pitt Crandlemire)
A User's Guide to the Payola Variant: The Basics ("Tarzan")
A User's Guide to the Payola Variant: Advanced Bribery ("Tarzan")
Overheard at the Ministry of Finance (Frank Mayer)
Tricks of the Trade (Stimpson J. Cat)
Why Aren't You Playing Payola? (José Torres)
The Big Dipper looks at Shift Variants (Pitt Crandlemire)
Touch Diplomacy (Andy Schwarz)
Diplomacy Royale (John Pitre)
Heptarchy and Bretwalda: Twin Variants Based on Ancient Britain (Geoff Bache)
The Sail Ho! Variant ("Tarzan")
Migraine: A Diplomacy Variant (Stephen Koehler)
Designing Maps For Diplomacy Variants (Stephen Agar)
The Exchange Variant (Bruce Duewer)
Devolution Diplomacy (Jack Rudd)
The Power of the Purse (Bruce Duewer)
Three Variants Reviewed (Simon Szykman)
The Lotus Blossom (B. Hester)
Card Diplomacy (Edi Birsan)
1900: The Franco-German Alliance (Chris Dziedzic & Bill Leake)
Overheard at the Ministry of Finance: II. Powers of Payola -
Some Comparisons with Diplomacy (Frank Mayer)
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