The Zine
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About The Diplomatic Pouch
The Big Dipper
Blast From The Past
Caissic Analysis
Convention Information
Convoys and Their Paradoxes
The Diplomacy Academy
The Diplomacy Programming Project
Game Master Information
Humor
Innovations
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)