Internet Guide to Game of Diplomacy From: nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca (Nick Fitzpatrick) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:43:34 +0000 Archive-name: diplomacy-guide Last-modified: 1992 09 15 Version: 5.0 AN INTERNET GUIDE TO THE GAME OF DIPLOMACY Version 5.0 Sep 1992 By Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nick@sunburn.waterloo.edu) Contents THE DIPLOMACY ADJUDICATORS * Washington, USA * Durban, South Africa * Australia * Setting up one's own judge *ELECTRONIC PROTOCOL DIPL-L *HALL OF FAME *USENET 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 |Registered Players ~650 ~675 713 776 858 |Standard Games ~70 ~70 69 74 85 |Youngstown Games ~20 20 20 22 26 |Other Games ? 17 17 15 15 | Notes: Players are registered even if inactive. There are other non-listed games ongoing (at least 6) Durban, South Africa -------------------- A full fledged judge is running in Durban, South Africa. The address is judge@shrike.und.ac.za |It is presently running one game (world) and is forming another youngstown |game (asia). It is maintained by Russell Vincent (Vincent@cc.und.ac.za) | 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, and is operating similarily to the ones in Washington and |Durban. It is presently running 3 standard game and forming 1 more. The address is judge@gu.uwa.edu.au and the operator is David Bennett (ddt@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au) 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 is presently available, |it was released in September 1992. | 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 8 chapters, each covers certain games. Eric personally publishes chapter 8, 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.waterloo.edu). It is published about |once a fortnight, and is also distributed through Usenet, and DIPL-L. | DIPL-L ------ DIPL-L is a listserv mailing list hosted at mitvma.mit.edu (mitvma.bitnet). It is moderated by Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nick@sunburn.waterloo.edu). 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, dipl9204.Z, dipl9205.Z, dipl9206.Z, dipl9207.Z and dipl9208.Z. HALL OF FAME ------------ The hall of fame is also kept by Nicholas Fitzpatrick (nick@sunburn.waterloo.edu). It is still under-development, and currently |contains results of standard, 1898, chaos and Youngstown games completed |on the Washington judge up to Sept 1992. It will 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.waterloo.edu), from anonymous FTP from the Diplomacy FTP site in Marburg Germany (see below). USENET ------ There is some discussion of Diplomacy in the Usenet groups rec.games.pbm (pbm=play by mail) and rec.games.board. I try to encourage people to use rec.games.pbm, as there is less traffic. Occasionally people also use |rec.games.misc. There is presently an RFD (request for discussion) for |the creation of rec.games.diplomacy. This is expected to go to a vote in |October. | There is also the group bit.listserv.dipl-l This groups is a full Usenet group, and relays messages to and from DIPL-L. (see above) 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 dipl9204.Z dipl9205.Z, dipl9206.Z, dipl9207.Z and dipl9208.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.waterloo.edu nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca Up