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The Courtroom
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History Lessons
Humor
Innovations
Instruction
Interviews
Last Man Standing
Machiavelli
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Newbie Reflections
Openings
Peeriblah's Potpourri
Play Formats
Player Information
Pouch Deposits
The Pouch Project
Press and NoPress
Puzzles
Reference
Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Diplomat
Szykman's World
Variants

About The Diplomatic Pouch (The Editor)
  • 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
  • Winter 2014 Adjustment Issue
  • Spring 2015 Movement Issue
  • Spring 2015 Retreat Issue
  • Fall 2015 Movement Issue
  • Fall 2015 Retreat Issue
  • About The
  • Christmas 2015 Special Issue
  • Winter 2015 Adjustment Issue
  • Spring 2016 Movement Issue
  • Spring 2016 Retreat Issue
  • Fall 2016 Movement 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
  • The Big Dipper Looks Down Upon Us from between the Stars (To Pitt Crandlemire)
  • The Big Dipper Looks Back at World DipCon VI (1996 reprint)

    • 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)
  • On Matters of True and Everlasting Diplomacy (Conrad von Metzke)
  • Diplomacy and Networks — Part II (Mark Nelson)
  • The Art to find the Mind's Construction in a Face (Stephen Agar)

    • Book Reviews
  • Book Reviews for Diplomats and Diplomates (Larry Peery)
  • Book Reviews for Diplomats and Diplomates in the Far-East (Larry Peery)

    • 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)
  • 2014: The Diplomacy Year In Review (Larry Peery)
  • FDC XXXI: A Very Special Tournament (Emmanuel du Pontavice)
  • FDC XXXI: A Video Blog (Samuel Anavoisard)
  • Impressions from DipCon (1998 reprint) (Buz Eddy)
  • The First Swedish Diplomacy Invitational On Video (Nils Bryntesson and Björn Thalén)
  • The First Swedish Diplomacy Invitational — A Game Review (Björn Thalén)
  • World Diplomacy Championship Recap (Chris Martin)
  • WDC 2016: The Italian Job (Jim O'Kelley)

    • Convoys and Their Paradoxes
  • On Convoy Path Specification (Allan Calhamer)
  • Eliminating the Paradox In Diplomacy (Szykman and Hand)

    • The Courtroom (Mario Huys)
  • Predicting conflicts and conflicting predictions (with Larry Peery)

    • 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)

    • History Lessons
  • The Zimmermann Telegram (Kevin Burt)
  • Crypto: The Alchemy of Diplomacy (Kevin Burt)

    • 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)
  • Diplomacy Limericks (Harold Reynolds)
  • Diplomacy By The Letters (Harold Reynolds)
  • Diplomacy by the Letters, Part II — The Great Powers (Harold Reynolds)
  • Newspaper Editorial Cartoons from World War I (Larry Peery)
  • Yes, Virginia! (Kevin Burt)
  • The Frog and the Scorpion (Kevin Burt)
  • Let's go! (Kevin Burt)
  • Blue Christmas (Kevin Burt)
  • Stab (Mario Huys)
  • Silent Friend (Manus Hand)
  • I'll be in Rome by Christmas (Kevin Burt)
  • Ding Dong Mario's on High (Larry Peery)
  • 2016 Astrological Projections for Diplomacy Players (Sibyl Astromancer)
  • A Holiday Poem (Harold Reynolds)
  • Switzerland for Novices (Norm de Guerre)
  • A Diplomacy Haiku (Harold Reynolds)
  • Diplomericks (Harold Reynolds)
  • All Zombies Must Die A Second Time! (Charles Roburn)

    • 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)
  • 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)
  • Alas, Damn Warwick (Rick Leeds)

    • 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)

    • Last Man Standing (Mario Huys)
  • Operation Berlin
  • Operation Moscow
  • Operation Rome
  • Operation Vienna
  • Operation Paris

    • Machiavelli
  • 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)
  • Money Money Money Money (Bruce Duewer)
  • Tactical Toys for Young Tyrants (Bruce Duewer)
  • The Power of the Purse (Bruce Duewer)
  • Money Management in Machiavelli (W. Narhi)
  • Machiavelli: The Crash Course (Stephen Knewston)
  • The Art of Peace (Bruce Duewer)
  • Money, Money, Money — Must be Funny (Bruce Duewer and Sergio Lidsell)
  • Condottieri — A Site for Playing Machiavelli (José Antonio Martin Prieto)
  • A Little Bag o'Tricks for Aspiring Tyrants (Bruce Duewer and Sergio Lidsell)
  • Hitting the Ground Running (Jon Ashman)
  • Machiavelli Loan Repayment JavaScript Application (Jon Ashman)
  • Spending Like There is No Tomorrow (Sergio Lidsell)
  • The Princes (Kevin Burt)
  • Ménage à Machiavelli (Kevin Burt)
  • The Italian Ayatollah (Kevin Burt)
  • The Mama Mias Dynasty (Larry Peery)
  • A Most Moral Man (Kevin Burt)

    • Master Class
  • The Lack of Opening Theory in Diplomacy (Jamie Dreier)
  • The Endgame (Jamie Dreier)
  • The Endgame II (Jamie Dreier)
  • The Endgame III (Jamie Dreier)
  • Play Against The Average Player (Jamie Dreier)
  • Results of Playing The Average Player (Jamie Dreier)
  • Austria for Experts (Toby Harris)
  • England for Experts (Toby Harris)
  • France for Experts (Toby Harris)
  • Germany for Experts (Toby Harris)
  • Italy by Experts, Part 1 (Toby Harris)
  • A Fine Line (Larry Peery)
  • Body Language in dip&DIP (Larry Peery)
  • Italy by Experts, Part 2 (Toby Harris)

    • 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)
  • Tuscan Openings (Z. Tuscan Chicken)

    • 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
  • Alfred and Brian — The Harvard Years
  • Modern Real World Real Women Diplomats
  • A Peerispective on Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger (with Martin Burgdorf)
  • Reviews of Henry Kissinger's "World Order", Part II
  • Diplomacy at the Watergate
  • Diplomacy for the 21st Century
  • Growing the Hobby VII — December 7 2015, A Day to Celebrate
  • Austria and Germany, a Panoramic Peerispective
  • The Hawk and the Dove — Songs of World War I
  • Bataclan, Waterloo and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
  • The Congress of Vienna - Part I
  • The Badass and the Egghead: LeMay and Schriever
  • The Congress of Vienna — The Little Fries Get Fried
  • Peeriblah Goes Down to Defeat
  • The Diplomate who became a Billionaire

    • 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)
  • What is njudge? (Millis Miller)

    • 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)
  • RoboDip and Robodots (Larry Peery)
  • International Diplomacy Hall of Fame (IDHOF) Election Results (Larry Peery)
  • Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Stabbed (Melinda Holley)
  • A Roundtable Discussion of Diplomacy and Game Theory (Kent, Hunter, Desper, Burgess, Abbott and Peery)
  • Is It Time To Revive the Hobby's Fotobank? (Larry Peery)
  • Diplomacy in the Far East (Zhang Fang, Dorian Love and Larry Peery)
  • Buz Eddy: In Memoriam (Various friends)

    • Pouch Deposits (The Editor 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
  • Winter 2014 Adjustment Issue

    • The Pouch Project
  • Beginning the 21st Year (Chris Babcock)
  • Not Walking Kai (Rick Leeds)
  • The Postal Section of the Pouch, 20 Years On (Jim Burgess)
  • Harold Reynolds, Diplomacy Laureate (Larry Peery)
  • The Five Best Articles From Past Issues of The Pouch (Peter McNamara)
  • The State of the Art and Science in Diplomacy (Chris Babcock)
  • Befriending Diplomacy (Chris Hughes)
  • The Embassy (Rick Leeds)
  • A Call to Arms (Kevin Burt)

    • 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 (Jos� Luis Fern�ndez Valoni)
  • 50 Shades of Grey Press (Norm de Guerre)
  • Grey Press in Black and White (Norm de Guerre)

    • 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)
  • The Year in Trivia (Larry Peery, Kevin Burt and Mario Huys)

    • Reference
  • Library of Diplomacy Tactics (Matthew Self)
  • Stalemate Lines Again? (Matthew Self)
  • Boardman and Miller Numbers (Nick Fitzpatrick)
  • Diplomacy Paradoxes (Andy Schwarz)
  • Cutting To The Chase — A Review of TribeNet (Larry Peery)

    • 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 and Mario Huys)
  • 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)
  • The Costly Case of the Last Man Standing (Mario Huys and Manus Hand)
  • Solution to "A Challenge from Devonshire" (Mario Huys)
  • Answers to the Devonshire Solution Puzzles (Mario Huys)
  • Moriarty's Misgivings (Mario Huys)
  • Unraveling Moriarty (Mario Huys)
  • The Curious Case of the False Start (reprint) (Manus Hand)
  • Solution to "The Curious Case of the False Start" (reprint) (Manus Hand and Mario Huys)
  • Addendum to "The Curious Case of the False Start" (Mario Huys)
  • The Suwati Portage Conundrum (Mario Huys)
  • Solution to The Suwati Portage Conundrum (Mario Huys)
  • The Best of Sherlock Holmes (Ackland, Hand and Huys)
  • The Last Theorem of Suwat (Mario Huys)
  • Solution to The Last Theorem of Suwat (Mario Huys)
  • The Costly Case of the Last Man Standing, Part 1 (reprint) (Mario Huys and Manus Hand)
  • Solution to The Costly Case of the Last Man Standing, Part 1 (Mario Huys)
  • The Costly Case of the Last Man Standing, Part 2 (reprint) (Mario Huys and Manus Hand)
  • Revelation of The Costly Case of the Last Man Standing, Part 2 (Mario Huys)
  • Solution to The Costly Case of the Last Man Standing, Part 2 (Mario Huys)

    • 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)
  • Design of a Variant: Maharajah's Diplomacy (David E. Cohen)
  • Missing Man Diplomacy (Manus Hand)
  • Modern Times (Vincent Mous)
  • Modern English (Britain) (Vincent Mous)
  • Alexandria Rises Again (Egypt) (Mous and Desper)
  • The Fifth Republic (France) (Vincent Mous)
  • The Fourth Reich (Germany) (Vincent Mous)
  • Forza Italia (Italy) (Vincent Mous)
  • Five Down, Five to Go (New Openings) (Vincent Mous)
  • The Pole Position (Poland) (Vincent Mous)
  • From Russia with Love (Russia) (Vincent Mous)
  • The Spanish Armada (Spain) (Vincent Mous)
  • A Turkish Delight (Turkey) (Vincent Mous)
  • 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? (Jos� 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)
  • 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)
  • A Modern Look at 'The Troubles' (Mario Huys)
  • In Defense of 1900's France, Part III (Baron Powell)
  • A Possible Change to the 1900 Map (Baron Powell)
  • The Modern Art of War (Mario Huys)
  • Milan Diplomacy — A Variant Review (Toby Harris)
  • Slovenia in the balance (Mario Huys)
  • Two-Thirds Diplomacy (Zachary Jarvie)


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