Diplomacy is a game which I enjoy playing alot. The game of Diplomacy was invented by Allan Calhamer over a period of years, taking its final form in the mid- to late 1950's. Mr. Calhamer marketed the game privately for a time, and then through various game companies. Hasbro, Inc. now holds the rights to the game.

It is a turn based game, in the standard form allowing seven players to control the countries of Europe, Austria, England, France Germany, Italy, Russia and Turkey. They communicate to each other, form alliances and move units, fleets and armies on the board. Their ultimate goal is to control 18 supply centres. For each supply centre owned you may have a unit, thus for every supply centre you capture, you get to build a new unit. The game was converted to Internet play in the early '90's, being the first Internet game! Games are hosted on judges, which contain all the necessary programming.

I currently am playing in the following games:

Hereitis  as   RUSSIA          Usef Judge.    [email protected]
Eustace  as    ITALY           Chorn Judge.  [email protected]
Arron     as    TURKEY       Usef Judge.    [email protected]


If you are interested in playing Diplomacy By E-mail, I would strongly suggest you look at the following links.
The Diplomatic Pouch: www.diplom.org    probably the most useful site in the world.
Map of the standard board: ftp://ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu/pub/diplomacy/Maps/ColorMaps/standard.2.GIF

Message lists to get into games: [email protected]  e-mail here for real time diplomacy, very good, especially at weekends.
http://www.acronet.net/~mczet/   Cat23 home. Another list, but also help etc. Good page