Diplomacy Rules Summary

I want to do this thing methodically, so the logical place to start would seem to me to be the game rules. So in this post I will go over the rules of Diplomacy in my own words. I'll follow it up soon with a post covering the basic types of negotiations that occur in a typical game.

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Hi all, and welcome to my little corner of the interweb. My name is Marcus Lund, and I live in the city of Melbourne in Australia. I'm an experienced software developer who specialises in agile management and loves refactoring. I also have two young daughters who keep me very busy outside of work.

I have always had a strong amateur interest in artificial intelligence and game theory, which I guess started in earnest after studying a Cognitive Science unit at university and spending lots of my time playing MUDs (multi-player online virtual worlds). I peruse the occasional academic article online, and have read a book or three on the subject too. My particular interests tend towards intelligent agents, emergent behaviour and generic algorithms.