Re: Diplomacy generation gap

"al evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Wow, any documentation of this!?  I'd always heard that there were
some games of Diplomacy conducted on early ARPANET connections,
but this predates the earliest proof, which was a game that 
Steven Knight conducted over ten years later.

Glad to hear you're jumping back in!  Hope your health conditions
work out OK, historically people like yourself play VERY very well,
against us "busy people".

Jim-Bob

>In the late sixties, when I was in school, we played an extended game of
>Diplomacy over a computer system which was connected to the defense
>department. It was part of an honors history class whith emphasis on world
>politics. Ah those sixties...
>Anyway, now at 50, I am out of work for a year for a series of surgeries,
>and am finally getting back into the game, another thirty five year
>interegnum.
>"David E. Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> I'm sure that FTF-PBEM gap is fairly common, but yours may well be
>> longer than most.  Before I discovered PBEM, I hadn't played for more
>> than 15 years.
>>
>> "Andy Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> > "Chris Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> > > Jim-Bob wrote:
>> > > >But I always thought that the Judges were full of much
>> > > younger people, perhaps I was wrong,
>> > >
>> > > That's my impression as well... when reviewing the player
>> > > information in my games, it seems that I, at 47, am nearly
>> > > always the oldest fogie in the bunch.
>> >
>> > I didn't even discover PBEM until I was 47. (Before that, I'd played a
>few
>> > FTF games at the age of 17-18, then none at all for very nearly 30
>years!)
>> >
>> > Andy