Diplomacy game openings!

From: Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com

Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1992 23:13:14 +0000

If you are responding to the following, let me know what conference you
                                   saw it in.

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                       I need regular standbys!
                 I need one player for a French game.
                               I need GMs!
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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

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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.
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Game #161 has been organized, it is a regular game.  GM is
jdr@u.washington.edu/Ken Lowe.

Players are:

Austria:       Jacob Ring      S2DW2@starburst.uscolo.edu
  England:       Greg Bean       bean@ra.cgd.ucar.EDU
  France:        Ben Kowing      as610@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
  Germany:       Russ Carpenito  ALASKA@MITVMA.BITNET
  Italy:         Greg Dilworth   rgd3729@tamsun.tamu.edu
  Russia:        Niklas Persson  t89npe@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
  Turkey:        Mike Harley     MHARLEY%UOTTAWA@acadvm1.uottawa.ca

I am organizing games #162+ of Diplomacy, 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 Les Casey, 33 Nestrow Dr., Nepean, Ontario, K2G 4M2,
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.

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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.
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REGULAR Diplomacy game waiting list:

djb6@midway.uchicago.edu/Dennis Brennan
jcoleman@bcm5b03.attmail.com/Mike Grimm
iraloff@jupiter.nmt.edu/Ian J. Raloff (after Mar 18)
gsbg9079@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu/G. Scott Braley
gsinghma@romulus.reed.edu/Gaurav Prakash Singhmar
jrawles@leland.stanford.edu/Jody Rawles
rmk@fusion.ph.utexas.edu/Rodney Kinney (after Feb 19)
Anders.Dessmark@dna.lth.se/Anders Dessmark
kucera@cs.ucdavis.edu/George W. Kucera
set1@cec1.wustl.edu/Scott Edward Topper
Citation_-_Insurance@cup.portal.com/Doug Waidhofer
rgd3729@tamsun.tamu.edu/Greg Dilworth
celovine@COLBY.EDU/Chris Lovine
j$m@fccj.bitnet/Eddie Brown
hrs000@atl.cecafi.unam.mx/Hector Augusto Sosa Rojas

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)
sadun@math.utexas.edu/Lorenzo Sadun (Italy)
genesch@envnet2.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gene Schwartzman (Russia)

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:

Waiting list held by GM.

Just one more is needed!  Sign up today!

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:

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:

dotzek@ds0lilog.BITNET/Karl Dotzek (cf)
hottenro@informatik.tu-muenchen.de/Bertrand Hottenroth

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.

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:

* SIGN UP -- THIS FIVE PLAYER GAME IS ABOUT TO GET OFF THE GROUND *

cubranic@usmcp6.bitnet/Davor Cubranic (cf)
BUMP@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu/Jon Rothstein (observer)
paulg@frith.egr.msu.edu/Greg Paul (cf) (or will GM)
jmike@mathworks.com/J. Michael Hammond (cf)
randy@ms.uky.edu/Randy Appleton (cf)
haha@vipunen.hut.fi/Harri Haanpaa (observer)
claudius@leland.stanford.edu/Nelson Lu (observer)

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:

5, need 2 more.

This is where you play in 7 different no press gunboat games,
playing as a different country in each game.

GUNBOAT waiting list:

10 people.  I have sent a message to these people, the first 7
who respond get in.  If anyone else sends me mail before the game
is filled they can also get in.

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:

8 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.  I obviously
could use a GM for this game!

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! *

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
cheng@milton.u.washington.edu/Cheng Chi Ku (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:

None.  (I may have one opening in a brand new game, so send me e-mail
if you'd like to get in it ASAP.)

Turns will be either every day or every other day, majority vote.

SLOW WARP DIPLOMACY waiting list:

randy@ms.uky.edu/Randy Appleton
turner@alessia.dei.unipd.it/Andrea Viscovich (cf)
jrb@tahoe.unr.edu/John R Becker (cf)
germain@asylum.utah.edu/Jim de St. Germain (cf)

Turns will be every three days

WIN92 waiting list:

wcollins@eniac.seas.upenn.edu/Walter J. Collins, III
gary@chema.ucsd.edu/Gary Samad
jmodonne@owucomcn.bitnet/Jason M. O'Donnell
keithm@mips.com/Keith Mortensen
cebulad@physics.orst.edu/Dave Cebula

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 next year, with the cream of the crop.

ULTIMATE SHAMBLES waiting list:

* I need one more player for this game! *

cheng@milton.u.washington.edu/Cheng Chi Ku (cf)
mckibbim@grin1.bitnet/Michael A McKibbin (cf)
roger@nuacc.bitnet/Roger Safian (cf)
swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/Steve Buffum (cf)
ccm007@deneb.ucdavis.edu or jvbanagan@ucdavis.edu/John Banagan (cf)
greg@cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Greg James (cf)

I am currently making sure all players are interested as I think
I have a GM for this game.  There is a good chance I'll be short a
player, so now is a very good time to sign up for Ultimate Shambles!

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:

randy@ms.uky.edu/Randy Appleton

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
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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

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Player standby list
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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
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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@union.bitnet/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
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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!

E-mail Wizards
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swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/Steve Buffum
andre@hern.stonemarche.org/Andre' Wood
eisen@cs.jhu.edu or eisen@jhuvms.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.

Chapter Checkers
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norrish@rata.vuw.ac.nz/Michael Norrish (Chapter One)

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.  Having some chapter checkers is critical for this
zine's long term health.  For the record, Michael has been my first
competent chapter checker.  Three cheers for Michael!  Cheer!  Cheer!
Cheer!

Guest Publishers
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uunet!cti1!rlister or rlister@cti.com/Russ Lister (Chapter One)
loeb@geocub.greco-prog.fr/Daniel E. Loeb (Chapter Two)
mad-2@kub.nl/Constantijn Wekx (Chapter Three)
vacant (Chapter Four)
vacant (Chapter Five)
barry@brahms.udel.edu/Barry Fausnaugh (Chapter Six)
vacant (Chapter Seven)

A guest publisher takes the results of about 5 games and publishes
them in a chapter, twice a week.  I NEED another guest publisher!  This
is my most important position.

Archivers
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jlitvin@swtec1.intel.com/John Litvin
judge@u.washington.edu - Receive summaries of games by asking for
SUMMARY <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
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niekd@cs.kun.nl/Niek van Diepen (Dutch)
wsbusr1@urc.tue.nl/Boudewijn Wayer (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)
thorinn@diku.dk/Lars Henrik Mathiesen (blind or shambles)
starkey@netcom.com/Sean Starkey (blind)
karl@adler.philosophie.uni-stuttgart.de/Karl Dotzek (German)

*-*-*-* SPECIAL NOTICES *-*-*-*

To get an updated list of the (non-unlisted) games on the JUDGE,
send the message "LIST" to JUDGE@U.WASHINGTON.EDU

References

Diplomacy Zine -- Chapter Eight EP #268
Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com
Thu, 20 Feb 1992 06:51:49 +0000