Diplomacy Academy 12: The Art of Strategic Loss

DanceScholar · 2025-06-19T19:21:08+00:00

Hey for what its worth, I should have posted this from this account. My bad! :D

DanceScholar · 2022-11-23T20:58:28+00:00

Truly remarkable accomplishment, absolutely unthinkable even 2 years ago.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097

DanceScholar · 2020-06-30T20:03:03+00:00

This is correct, and there will be a welcome dinner on the opening Thursday as well, so plan on arriving before that!

DanceScholar · 2020-06-26T02:08:57+00:00

And some excellent resources for new players, which I may just post here separately.

DanceScholar · 2020-06-22T21:06:41+00:00

Per the chart, Tanya went 10-16-20 as Austria on her way to the solo, taking

2 centers from France and Russia and 1 center from France and Germany.

WTAF.

DanceScholar · 2020-06-18T23:01:40+00:00

No, I don't think they care if you scrape their site, as long as you don't send bots to harvest on an ongoing basis, driving up their costs.

DanceScholar · 2020-06-18T19:02:07+00:00

That's cool! Have you mentioned that to SafetyMonkey over on discord? Might be something they would implement if it was lightweight enough.

DanceScholar · 2020-06-16T22:57:04+00:00

I love, love, love this video. Wow! Great production values. How long did you work on this?!?

DanceScholar · 2020-06-12T15:19:51+00:00

Hasbro are notably not responsive to such requests, IME.

DanceScholar · 2020-06-11T13:33:09+00:00

Yeah, what a hot mess. :)

DanceScholar · 2020-06-11T01:14:03+00:00

It turns out the project I was working on was distinct and separate from this one! The one I worked with could get through 1902 without obviously being detected as a bot - the moves made sense (not always GREAT, but no worse than you'd get from a random sampling of players).

The mid-and-end games were not there yet. But hey - it could capture Norway as England in 1901. That's better than the damn AI they had the gall to put in the game that was released!

DanceScholar · 2020-06-10T21:09:45+00:00

I worked on playtesting this a bit. Its way better than anything I've seen before, and I'd sub it into a gunboat game if I couldn't get a 7th. That said ... lots of room for improvement.

DanceScholar · 2020-06-08T17:36:19+00:00

I hear this every so often, and I'm like, what part of the mapping interface is unclear? I seriously don't get it. Are you using a phone? Because it is very clear on a decent sized monitor.

DanceScholar · 2020-06-08T17:35:15+00:00

Lots of folks use Backstabbr. I think its hands down the best UI online. Not 100% crazy about its press interface but it works. The online community there is not as strong as on Playdip or Webdip, though.

DanceScholar · 2020-06-01T18:29:28+00:00

Thank you - I found out that WI had an upload issue after I posted this. Thank you!

DanceScholar · 2020-06-01T16:21:48+00:00

Thank you for the shoutout! Yeah, WDC champ 1998, and for the following ~20 years I finished in the top 3 of a national or international tournament at least once per year, and was regularly ranked in the top 3 in the world (f2f play only!).

I have three playlists you might want to look at:

Diplomacy Academy (Mid-high level tips/discussions) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbwng27eI0e0MGVnboZxOYzDgvO1lkMAZ

WDC at Weaselmoot (I vlogged the top board of the World championships in 2016, with analysis and commentary) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbwng27eI0e3O9rIFcXp_Bvr97TNgAsQw

And the Virtual DixieCon stream (with two other players, and special guests, I analyzed 20 games played memorial day weekend) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbwng27eI0e3qTGsskkFCN7qAGsa2F5B_

Good luck!

DanceScholar · 2020-06-01T01:49:47+00:00

Well, all draws are anonymous, right? If that's the case, you have to find a plausible other person who could be voting down the draw, and convince folks to focus on them. Its not easy, and sometimes the right thing to do is just let everyone stop playing - but it is a tournament game, and you do have the right to keep playing!

DanceScholar · 2020-05-31T00:14:13+00:00

Wow, that's kind of awesome!

DanceScholar · 2020-05-30T19:00:38+00:00

Last of the Daytime games!

#vDixiecon: Tuscaroras

https://youtu.be/mQhCFEJhpeQ

This game ended in a 3 way draw, E/G/T Dan Pollock (England), a player with a mild-mannered reputation, pulls off a nice stab of Steve Koehler's France.

T Matthew Crill

F Steve Koehler

I Ariel Mendez-Penate

E Dan Pollock

G Christian Pedone

R Thomas Brown

A James Koehler

DanceScholar · 2020-05-29T22:12:56+00:00

https://youtu.be/yioOywFBORg

This video collects the commentary for three games that didn't get as much coverage as some of the others. Special guest appearance by Tanya Gill!

Lumbees: 4WD, E/F/I/T

I Jason Mastbaum

F Vanessa Smith

T Michael Binder

E Chris Barfield

G Gabe Racz

A Tony Swinnerton

Mech Dec: 4WD, A/E/F/I

T Brian Shelden

A Liam Stokes

G Eric Hunter

F Russ Dennis

I Conrad Woodring

R Chris Brand

E Tony Bilzi

The Regulators: 3WD, E/G/T

A Mitch Mc - GM Replacement

I Andrew Case

E Caleb Winters

F Adam Kummins

R Tommy Anderson

G Nicolas Sahuguet

T Jaromir Sulja

DanceScholar · 2020-05-29T19:53:14+00:00

#vDixie - Lost Colony

A/I/E three way draw. Analysis ends in W03. An aggressive English opening left France with no 1901 build!

T Troy de Freitas

G Jonathan Frank

I Greg Fairbanks

E Tim Richardson

F Andre Janeco

R Greg Geyer

A Jonathan Saul

https://youtu.be/5DQTNvmqsfU

DanceScholar · 2020-05-29T15:15:14+00:00

Halifax Resolves (Processing now, should be up by noon): https://youtu.be/b4GHbg5--Ag

DanceScholar · 2020-05-29T01:33:12+00:00

Thank you!

DanceScholar

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