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  • The 34th Issue (Editor Edward Hawthorne)
  • Winter 2003 Adjustment Issue
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  • Winter 2015 Christmas Special
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    • Pouch Deposits (The Editor and the Readership)
  • Spring 1995 Movement Issue
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  • The 34th Issue
  • Winter 2003 Adjustment Issue
  • Winter 2014 Adjustment Issue
  • Spring 2015 Retreat Issue
  • Fall 2018 Movement Issue
  • Spring 2020 Movement Issue

    • The Pouch Project
  • From the Interim Editor (Larry Peery)
  • 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)
  • A Call to Arms (Kevin Burt)

    • Game Commentary
  • An Annotated No-Press Game (Doug Massey)
  • Caissa Annotates a No-Press Game
  • Caissa Finishes Annotating a No-Press Game
  • Meetup Diplomacy — Layers of Los Angeles, Game #2 (Jay Be, Paul Bessemer, and Adam Silverman)
  • 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 2016 Recap (Chris Martin)
  • World Diplomacy Championship 2017 Recap (Mario Huys)

    • 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

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

    • The Great War (Larry Peery)
  • The Hundred Last Days — Introduction, Teasers and Sneak Previews
  • The Hundred Last Days — Part 1, August 1918 — The Great War
  • The Hundred Last Days — Part 2, September 1918 — The War to End All Wars
  • The Hundred Last Days — Part 3, October 1918 — The War to Make the World Safe for Democracy
  • The Hundred Last Days — Part 4, November 1918 — The War of the Nations

    • 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
  • A Patron Saint for Diplomacy Players
  • Machiavelli's The Prince Turns 500!
  • Mona Lisa, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Filippo Lonardo — The Inscrutable Smiles That Conquer All
  • WACcon 2014, Predicting the Winners a Week in Advance
  • WACcon 2014, Seattle Washington —Was It The Greatest Dipcon Of All Time?
  • Who Invented Diplomacy, Anyway? (with Kristian Bonnici)
  • Sometimes The Biggest Triumphs Are The Smallest Ones
  • WWI — A Hundred Years Old, and Still With Us
  • The Milano Cookie Variant, Something You Can Really Sink Your Teeth Into!
  • Alfred and Brian — The Harvard Years
  • Modern Real World Real Women Diplomats
  • A Peerispective on Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger (with Martin Burgdorf)
  • Diplomacy at the Watergate
  • Growing the Hobby VII — December 7 2015, A Day to Celebrate
  • War, diplomacy and Diplomacy (with Reynaldo V. Sylvestre)
  • 14 Life Lessons I've learned from Diplomacy
  • How Many Diplomacy Sets Do You Own?
  • Where Dippers (& Dippers) Live, Work, and Play — Then and Now
  • The Hawk and the Dove — Songs of World War I
  • Austria and Germany, a Panoramic Peerispective
  • 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
  • Saving Diplomacy World
  • Man vs. Machine: Redux
  • The Handshake Felt Round Diplomacy
  • Zero Sum Games
  • The Big Ten dip&Dip Stories of 2017
  • Diplomacy Art: The Brosius Allan B. Calhamer Diplomacy Map
  • Estate Sale
  • The Greatest New Year
  • Xenogogic 2: The Last Column

    • Humor
  • 1901: A Diplomatic Odyssey (Danny Loeb)
  • North Sea to Picardy (Manus Hand)
  • The Face to Face Variant (Danny Loeb)
  • Diplomacy 2000 (Nic Chilton)
  • No Holds Barred (Amos Anon)
  • Seven Little Dudes (Rob Addison)
  • The Wrath of the Diplomacy Gods (Cameron Moser)
  • The MANSA Charter (Bjorn von Knorring)
  • Newspaper Editorial Cartoons from World War I (Larry Peery)
  • Yes, Virginia! (Kevin Burt)
  • The Frog and the Scorpion (Kevin Burt)
  • 2016 Astrological Projections for Diplomacy Players (Sibyl Astromancer)
  • Switzerland for Novices (Norm de Guerre)
  • Diplomacy Board Puns (Harold Reynolds)
  • Trump World (Mario Huys)
  • Dem World (Mario Huys and Luiz Neto)

    • Songs and Poems
  • Juggernauty (Clinton Wolf)
  • Father Bill (Clinton Wolf)
  • Songs for the Season (Various)
  • The Pouch Salutes The Chairman of the Board (Manus Hand)
  • ABBA Plays Diplomacy (Jack Rudd)
  • WACcon 2014, Going Out on a High Note (Larry Peery)
  • Diplomacy Limericks (Harold Reynolds)
  • Diplomacy By The Letters (Harold Reynolds)
  • Diplomacy by the Letters, Part II — The Great Powers (Harold Reynolds)
  • The Night Before DipCon (Harold Reynolds)
  • 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)
  • A Holiday Poem (Harold Reynolds)
  • A Diplomacy Haiku (Harold Reynolds)
  • Diplomericks (Harold Reynolds)
  • All Zombies Must Die A Second Time! (Charles Roburn)
  • A Game with a Twist (Harold Reynolds)
  • In Memoriam (Harold Reynolds)
  • Stabbing Bells (Harold Reynolds)
  • Hark! the Herald Dipper Cries (Harold Reynolds)
  • Deck the Board (Harold Reynolds)
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Dipper (Harold Reynolds)
  • Smooth Operator (Harold Reynolds)
  • I Need an Ally (Harold Reynolds)
  • Christmas Carols (Harold Reynolds)

    • Innovations
  • Variable Length Tournament Diplomacy (David Norman)
  • A Rating System for Diplomacy (Anthony Nichols)
  • Scoring Draws (David Norman)
  • A Sneak Peek (At Hasbro Interactive's Computer Diplomacy) (Manus Hand)
  • The DPjudge (Manus Hand)
  • Tournament Tie Breakers (Robert Steinke)
  • What is njudge? (Millis Miller)
  • Big Plans, Small Files (Mario Huys)
  • RoboDip and Robodots (Larry Peery)
  • Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal (Vlad Niculae)
  • A Brief Study of Vulnerability in Diplomacy (Jorge Zhang)

    • 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

    • Instruction
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Ethics of Playing a Mercy Position (Mike Lease)
  • 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)
  • Playing the Key (Tony Swinnerton)
  • Diversification (Bobby Somebody)
  • Using Integrative Complexity to Predict Stabs (Brahm Dorst)
  • True Blue (Vaughn Ohlman)
  • Concerning Stabbing (Thaddeus Black)
  • Like a Rubber Ball - Bouncing in Diplomacy ("Murky" (Mark B))
  • 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)
  • The Grand Alliance (Roger Yonkoski)
  • The Way of the Warrior (David Cohen)
  • 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)
  • Why Turkey Should Let Russia Have the Black Sea in 1901 (Alex Hartl)
  • Army Smyrna to Syria — Or Should It Be Army Syria to Smyrna? (Peter-Paul Koch and Larry Peery)
  • Diplomacy, A Video Introduction (Harold Reynolds)
  • A Fine Line (Larry Peery)
  • Body Language in dip&DIP (Larry Peery)
  • Alas, Damn Warwick (Rick Leeds)
  • The Attacking Retreat (Jacob Lambach)
  • The Man in the Arena (Mario Huys)

    • Blast From The Past
  • 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)
  • Putting the Dreikaiserbund Into Practice (Mark Fassio)
  • Block and Parry — Avoiding a Stab (Jack McHugh)
  • Balance of Power — A Problematic Strategy (Paul F Glenn)
  • A Hun Having Fun in the Sun (Stan Johnson)
  • On Matters of True and Everlasting Diplomacy (Conrad von Metzke)
  • May the Sun Never Set — Eternal England (Stan Johnson)
  • Diplomacy and Networks — Part I (Mark Nelson)
  • Diplomacy and Networks — Part II (Mark Nelson)
  • The Art to find the Mind's Construction in a Face (Stephen Agar)

    • Caissic Analysis (Paul Windsor)
  • 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

    • Convoys and Their Paradoxes
  • On Convoy Path Specification (Allan Calhamer)
  • Eliminating the Paradox In Diplomacy (Szykman and Hand)
  • The Elimination of the Convoy Paradox in Diplomacy (Torsten Bille)
  • The Elimination of the Convoy Paradox Comment (Torsten Bille)
  • All About Convoy Paradoxes (Torsten Bille)
  • Szykman has won (Lucas Kruijswijk)

    • The Courtroom
  • A Roundtable Discussion of Diplomacy and Game Theory (Larry Peery)
  • Predicting conflicts and conflicting predictions (Mario Huys)

    • The Embassy (Rick Leeds)
  • The Embassy
  • How To Play Diplomacy

    • 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)
  • Go Fasta Go Fasta Go Fasta: Winning as Italy (Leif Bergman)
  • Stabbing — How To Do It Well, And Why You Shouldn't (Andrew Goff)
  • 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)
  • Italy by Experts, Part 2 (Toby Harris)
  • Russia for Experts (Toby Harris)
  • Turkey for Experts (Toby Harris)
  • The Infinity Stones of Manipulation (Umble The Heep)
  • Mastery in Diplomacy (Chris Aanstoos)

    • 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)
  • In Defense of A Smy H (Peter-Paul Koch)
  • Thoughts On Opening With France (Alex Hartl)
  • Russian Spring in Silesia (Alex Hartl)
  • Tuscan Openings (Z. Tuscan Chicken)
  • The Morean Opening (Luiz Neto)
  • The Livonian Landing (Luiz Neto)
  • Is Greece Worth It? (Umble The Heep)
  • S2021M/Zhang/yserfront.html">The Yser Front Opening (b)
  • The Yser Front Opening (Jorge Zhang)

    • 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

    • The Video Academy (Chris Martin)
  • Unintended Antagonism
  • A/I & Tempo
  • The Next Conversation
  • Negotiating from a Position of Weakness

    • Map Variants
  • 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)
  • The Big Dipper Looks Back at the Asia Variant (Pitt Crandlemire)
  • Diplomacy Royale (John Pitre)
  • Heptarchy and Bretwalda: Twin Variants Based on Ancient Britain (Geoff Bache)
  • Strategy for Colonial Diplomacy (Greg Dingle)
  • The Sail Ho! Variant ("Tarzan")
  • Migraine: A Diplomacy Variant (Stephen Koehler)
  • Designing Maps For Diplomacy Variants (Stephen Agar)
  • Cantabrigia (Alex Churchill)
  • Devolution Diplomacy (Jack Rudd)
  • Three Variants Reviewed (Simon Szykman)
  • Winning With France in Colonial (B. Hester)
  • The Lotus Blossom (B. Hester)
  • Design of a Variant: Maharajah's Diplomacy (David E. Cohen)
  • Federation Diplomacy (Theo Kermanidis)
  • Milan Diplomacy — A Variant Review (Toby Harris)
  • Two-Thirds Diplomacy (Zachary Jarvie)
  • Retrofit (Tahseen Hasan)
  • Variant Overview: Canton (Luiz Neto)
  • Legacy of Versailles (Luiz Neto)

    • The Calhamer Map
  • Denmark (William Attia)
  • Tunis (Ali Baba)
  • Sweden (Nathan Barnes and Dan Miller)
  • Trieste (Andy Bartalone)
  • EDInburgh (EDI Birsan)
  • Liverpool (Jim Burgess)
  • Rome (Jim Burgess)
  • Bulgaria (Jim Cheaney)
  • Rumania (Yann Clouet)
  • Spain (David E. Cohen)
  • Holland (Bruce Duewer)
  • Paris (Rick Desper)
  • Smyrna (Jay Furr)
  • Budapest (Eric Goodman)
  • Norway (Edward Hawthorne)
  • Berlin (Sascha Hingst)
  • Kiel (David Hood)
  • Munich (Eugene Hung)
  • Sevastopol (Eric Hunter)
  • Ankara (Karen Hunter)
  • Greece (Glenn Ledder)
  • Marseilles (Jeremiah Lee)
  • Brest (Andy Marshall)
  • London (Chris Martin)
  • Belgium (Doug Massey)
  • Livonia (Brendan McClure)
  • Portugal (Millis Miller)
  • Warsaw (Timo Müller)
  • Venice (Larry Peery)
  • Constantinople (JC Ravage)
  • Serbia (Jon Saul)
  • Naples (Ray Setzer)
  • Vienna (Dr. Cyrille Sevin)
  • Moscow (Matt Shields)
  • St Petersburg (Dan Shoham)

    • The Modern Map
  • 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)
  • A Modern Look at 'The Troubles' (Mario Huys)
  • The Modern Art of War (Mario Huys)
  • The Modern Art of Love (Mario Huys)
  • Modern Art of War — Why Slovenia Isn't a Space in the Modern Variant (Vincent Mous)
  • Slovenia in the balance (Mario Huys)
  • The Modern Art of Travel (Mario Huys)

    • The 1900 Map
  • 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)
  • 1900: The Franco-German Alliance (Chris Dziedzic & Bill Leake)
  • In Defense of 1900's France, Part I (B.M. Powell)
  • In Defense of 1900's France (Baron Powell)
  • In Defense of 1900's France, Part III (Baron Powell)
  • A Possible Change to the 1900 Map (Baron Powell)

    • 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)
  • Announcing the Diplomatic Corps (Edi Birsan)
  • How To Run A Diplomacy Tournament (Brandon Clarke)
  • User's Guide to the JDPR (David Degville)
  • International Diplomacy Hall of Fame (IDHOF) Update (Larry Peery)
  • Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Stabbed (Melinda Holley)
  • International Diplomacy Hall of Fame (IDHOF) Election Results (Larry Peery)
  • Is It Time To Revive the Hobby's Fotobank? (Larry Peery)
  • Diplomacy in the Far East (Zhang Fang, Dorian Love and Larry Peery)
  • Diplomacy and diplomacy (Edi Birsan)
  • Diplomacy Resources (Jorge Zhang)
  • The Game of Knife (Oliver Lugg)
  • Join the Academy of Creative Destruction Today (David E. Cohen)

    • Game Master Information
  • Running Newbie E-Mail Games (Jamie Dreier)
  • 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)

    • Incoming (Stephen Lepley)
  • 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

    • Newbie Reflections
  • 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)
  • Diplomacy, A Video Introduction (Harold Reynolds)

    • 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))
  • The DPjudge (Manus Hand)
  • What is njudge? (Millis Miller)
  • Diplomacy — The Rubicon Brigade of Play-by-Mail (Charles Mosteller)
  • Growing the Hobby — Is Meetup the Tool We Need? (Larry Peery)
  • FtF and Internet Play — The Dipperence (Rick Leeds)

    • Portraits
  • Italian Diplomacy Masters (Fulvio De Persio)
  • Buz Eddy: In Memoriam (Various friends)
  • The Big Dipper Looks Down Upon Us from between the Stars (Alliance of friends)
  • In Memoriam (Harold Reynolds)
  • The Ewok Who Played Diplomacy (Various friends)
  • WDC 2017 Photos (James Brooks)

    • 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)
  • WDC 2017 Interviews (Mario Huys)
  • Interview with Andrew Goff (Amby)

    • Puzzles
  • 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)
  • Sam Spade, Diplomat Detective — The Double Eagle (David P. Smith)
  • The Year in Trivia (Larry Peery, Kevin Burt and Mario Huys)
  • The Ghug Gambit (Markus Zijlstra)
  • On New Year's Resolutions (Kevin Burt and Mario Huys)
  • The Artillery Arms Scenario (Markus Zijlstra)

    • Last Man Standing (Mario Huys)
  • Roll Call
  • Uppercuts
  • Countdowns
  • Operation Berlin
  • Operation Moscow
  • Operation Rome
  • Operation Vienna
  • Operation Paris
  • Operation Ankara
  • Operation Liverpool
  • Operation Peking
  • Operation Saigon
  • Operation Munich
  • Operation Warsaw
  • Operation Venice
  • Operation Marseilles

    • 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 Last Theorem of Suwat (Mario Huys)
  • The Best of Sherlock Holmes (Graeme Ackland, Mario Huys, and Manus Hand)
  • Solution To The Last Theorem of Suwat (Mario Huys)
  • 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" (in part) (Mario Huys)
  • Solution to "The Costly Case of the Last Man Standing, Part 2" (in full) (Mario Huys)
  • The Stirring Case of the Double French (Mario Huys)
  • Solution to "The Stirring Case of the Double French" (Mario Huys)
  • The Chain-Links Case (Manus Hand & Mario Huys)
  • Solution to "The Chain-Links Case" (Manus Hand & Mario Huys)

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

    • Book Reviews
  • The Art of Diplomacy in The Art of War (Simon Szykman)
  • Reviews of Henry Kissinger's "World Order", Part II (Larry Peery)
  • Book Reviews for Diplomats and Diplomates (Larry Peery)
  • Book Reviews for Diplomats and Diplomates in the Far-East (Larry Peery)
  • Book Reviews for Diplomats and Diplomates at Home (Larry Peery)
  • Book Reviews for Diplomats and Diplomates at the Library (Larry Peery)
  • Book Reviews for Diplomats and Diplomates: Biographies (Larry Peery)
  • Book Reviews for Diplomats and Diplomates: Best Books of 2018 (Larry Peery)

    • Rule Variants
  • Missing Man Diplomacy (Manus Hand)
  • The Backseat Driver Variant (Simon Szykman)
  • Touch Diplomacy (Andy Schwarz)
  • ...It Came From Outer Space! (Dan Percival)
  • Arpiesse Diplomacy (Simon Szykman)
  • Crystal Ball Diplomacy (Joe Carl)
  • Escalation Diplomacy (Edi Birsan)
  • The Exchange Variant (Bruce Duewer)
  • Card Diplomacy (Edi Birsan)
  • Diplomacy 1901, A Variant (Larry Peery)
  • The Communist Manifesto, A Variant (Graeme Ackland, Manus Hand, and Mario Huys)
  • The Milano Cookie Variant, Something You Can Really Sink Your Teeth Into! (Larry Peery)
  • Diplomacy for the 21st Century (Larry Peery)
  • Surrender (Tahseen Hasan)

    • 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 Back at World DipCon VI (reprint)
  • The Big Dipper Looks Down Upon Us from between the Stars (Alliance of friends)

    • 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)
  • Condottieri — A Site for Playing Machiavelli (José Antonio Martin Prieto)
  • Variations on a Theme — Machiavelli, Part IV (Bruce Duewer & Sergio Lidsell)
  • Money, Money, Money… — Machiavelli, Part V (Bruce Duewer and Sergio Lidsell)
  • Machiavelli's The Prince Turns 500! (Larry Peery)
  • A Little Bag O' Tricks (Bruce Duewer & Sergio Lidsell)
  • Hitting the Ground Running (Jon Ashman)
  • Machiavelli Loan Repayment JavaScript Application (Jon Ashman)
  • Spending Like There Is No Tomorrow — Machiavelli, Part VII (Bruce Duewer & 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)

    • Payola Diplomacy
  • 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)
  • Overheard at the Ministry of Finance: II. Powers of Payola - Some Comparisons with Diplomacy (Frank Mayer)

    • Press and NoPress
  • Communication in No-Press Diplomacy (Simon Szykman)
  • 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)
  • The Lapland Southern Draw (José Luis Fernández Valoni)
  • Grey Press in Black and White (Norm de Guerre)
  • 50 Shades of Grey Press (Norm de Guerre)
  • The Drop of a Pin (Rick Leeds)

    • Tournament Reports
  • Report from AvalonCon '97 (Rick Desper)
  • AvalonCon '97 Musings (Ray Setzer)
  • The Mysterious and Secretive Victorian Diplomacy Championships (Rob Stephenson)
  • Diplomo, Ergo Sum (John Quarto-vonTivadar)
  • Out Of My Depth (Richard Horton)
  • Tempest in a Teapot (Tim Richardson)
  • 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)
  • WACcon 2014, Seattle Washington —Was It The Greatest Dipcon Of All Time? (Larry Peery)
  • Italian Diplomacy Masters (Fulvio De Persio)
  • Meetup San Diego Gets Its First Winner (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)
  • Cascadia Open 2019 (Mario Huys)
  • Bill Hackenbracht Wins GUD Con 2020 (Jorge Zhang)
  • Virtual DixieCon 2020 (Edi Birsan and Chris Martin)
  • Virtual World Diplomacy Classic 2020 Recap (Mario Huys)
  • The Champion's Corner (The Editors of The Diplomatic Briefing)
  • Bouncing Back in Style (Mario Huys)

    • Diplomacy Down Under (Brandon Clarke)
  • The Auckland Diplomacy Club
  • Discovering the Religion of 'Donism'
  • The Australian Diplomacy Championchip [sic] (Dougal Ure)
  • The New Zealand Diplomacy Championship
  • The New Zealand Diplomacy Champs
  • How To Run A Diplomacy Tournament
  • Reflections from Downunder (Edi Birsan)
  • The Cult of Cubisology

    • Tournament Setup
  • Dip Down Under in 2002 (Brandon Clarke)
  • 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)
  • The End — WACcon Diplomacy Tournament, 2003-2014 (Nathan Barnes and Mark Zoffel)
  • WACcon 2014, Predicting the Winners a Week in Advance (Larry Peery)
  • WACcon 2014, Going Out on a High Note (Larry Peery)
  • All Roads Do Lead to Rome — Stop at EDC 2014 Along the Way! (Larry Peery)
  • Upcoming Face-to-Face Diplomacy Events (Peter McNamara)
  • A Peericon In July (Larry Peery)

    • World DipCon
  • 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)
  • World DipCon VII (Manus Hand)
  • World DipCon 8 Article Collection (Eddy, Martin, McQuinn, Mlinar, Morris, Peery, Szykman, and Willis)
  • WDC IX Report in Pictures (Emeric Miszti)
  • WDC IX Report From The Outgoing Champ (Chris Martin)
  • WDC IX at Namur, Belgium (Larry Peery)
  • WDC X: A Report From the Hammered Position (Tim Miller)
  • When I Say Milano, You Say Cookies! About WDC 2015 in Milan, Italy (Larry Peery)
  • World DipCon 2015 in Milan, Italy (Toby Harris)
  • World Dipcon 2015 in Milan, Italy — Organizer's Report (Davide Cleopadre)
  • World DipCon 2015 in Milan, Italy — Convention Results (Larry Peery)
  • Impressions from DipCon (1998 reprint) (Buz Eddy)
  • World Diplomacy Championship 2016 Recap (Chris Martin)
  • WDC 2016: The Italian Job (Jim O'Kelley)
  • World DipCon VII (reprint) (Manus Hand)
  • World Diplomacy Championship 2017 Recap (Mario Huys)
  • WDC 2017 Photos (James Brooks)
  • WDC 2017 Interviews (Mario Huys)
  • Predictions for the Final Two Top Boards WDC 2018, Washington, D.C. (Larry Peery)
  • My WDC 2018 Experience (Brian Lovelace)
  • Interview with Andrew Goff (Amby)


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