Has played in several postal games and been GoH at numerous conventions. See Personalities (KW).
She is an avid player of standby positions, has outstanding record in postal play and has always been a prolific, and entertaining, press writer. In the early 1980s she had articles and letters published in scores of zines on a wide variety of subjects and ran two subzines, Kathy's Korner in Whitestonia and Kathy's Kode in Coats of Arms. For many years she ran Kathy's Korner, which started out as a subzine to Whitestonia, which was renowened for its distinctive letter column (based described as gossippy sillness) which is heavily based on Kathy's unique eye for wacky nicknames which all regular contributors were required to have or a contest would choose one for them.
It currently is running down to a fold after a decade of publication and 180
issues. In the mid 1980's she was actively involved in Hobby politics, in
particular the Great Feud. No other female has made as big a contribution as
Kathy has to the hobby. Passed away August 18, 2002, leaving behind a great
number of Hobby members, sadder for her loss, but glad that they had had the
opportunity to know and play with her.
See Personalities (KW).
After the demise of the NGC the CGS was `revived' by Richard Hucknall.
Players, usually novices, would apply for a
gamestart and when the organizer had seven names
he would send this gamestart to any editor that wished to run a CGS game. The
aim was to provide a quick, and easy, way for a novice to enter into a
Diplomacy game without worrying as to which zines were good zines to play in
since the organizer could filter out 'poor' zines by not sending them CGS games.
The line of custodians is: Richard Hucknall, Malcolm Brown, James O'Fee and
finally Richard Hucknall again. At some time Tom Tweedy became custodian, who
passed it onto Nick Kinzett. Kinzett abandoned the CGS circa 1986, by which
time it had become impossible to run: Most people entering the hobby at this
time had no qualms about deciding which zine they wanted to play in and didn't
seem to mind playing against more experienced players. The demand for the CGS
had dropped to such a small extent that in order to fill games at anything like
a reasonable speed, experienced players were being drafted in to make up
numbers --- defeating one of the main reasons for the existence of the CGS. The
demise of the CGS resulted in the birth of _Springboard_, but that is another
entry...
These are all American zines except for: Runestone, Fol Si Fie,
Passchendaele (Canadian) and Brobdingnag (started off as an American zine and
then a Canadian took over). [Since all are zines, none have the _x_ format.]
The first 8 issues of Chapter Two were actually called Chapter Eight (at
this time there were, in theory, seven other Chapters being pubbed), but then
Danny was instructed to devalue the Chapter Number. Issue 290 (August 17th
1992) was the last one produced by Danny, issues 291 to 301 were produced by
Nick Fitzpatrick. Nick passed on the editorship
because of general overload.
Joshua Smith became publisher of Chapter Two
with issue 302 (January 27th 1993) and instigated a new editorial policy for
the running of Chapter Two.
"EPC2 is distributed in four separate sections. Section Zero will provide
administrative information about EPC2. Section One will contain articles
written about Diplomacy in general or electronic Diplomacy in particular.
Section Two will chronicle some of the discussions about Diplomacy taking place
on rec.games.diplomacy, the press channels of games on the various Judges, and
via e-mail. Section Three will report on the status of the various Diplomacy
Adjudicators, and will include end-of-game reports and other game-related
information." (Chp2, January 1993.) See also
Zine Names (KW).
Editor Issues.
See also Diplomacy Statistics (KW) and Dolchstoss Games.
See also Diplomacy Statistics (KW).
(2) [MN:Apr92] SUB is short for subscription.
In the 60's, Dan Alderson and Tony Pandin both started programs which were
never completed (the latter led to the discovery of Pandin's
Paradox).
The first game to be computer GMd in the British Hobby was ran in
_Hopscotch_ (the game ran from 1984 to 1986), the only game of diplomacy to be
run in that illustrious zine! The program was written by Nicholas Clifton and
ran on a BBC micro.
Costaguana has been one of the most influential dipzines the hobby has
seen, not because it ran many games, not because the games it did run were well
run and not because it contained stacks of articles on the game, but because of
the masterly writing appearing in it.
Costaguana was probably the first `fannish' zine, almost certainly the
first zine to be read because of the pleasure in reading it. Although by the
early 1970's it was widely circulated and the mailing list was a Who's Who of
the American Hobby, it exerted little influence on how American zines
developed; it was more influential in the UK and it has been claimed (by Pete
Birks) that it influenced the style and content of _Ethil The Frog_
and through Ethil Richard Sharp and Pete Birks, and
through these individuals the whole of the British Hobby.
Relaunched in the 1980's to critical acclaim, winning the
Runestone Poll in consecutive years and
dominating the US Hobby of the time. Twenty years on little had changed in
Conrad's approach to producing a zine but the American Hobby had changed
sufficiently for Americans to appreciate the quality of the writing and the
quality of the zine. For more information read Pete Birks' article "Costaguana"
which appeared in Greatest Hits 142 (September 1988). See also Zine Names (KW).
An example. France: F(Bre)-ECH, F(MAO) SF(Bre)-ECH; ENGLAND: F(IRI)-MAO,
F(ECH) SF(IRI)-MAO. The French support from MAO is cut by the English unit
attacking from IRI. The English support from F(ECH) is cut by the French fleet
in BRE. Result: no unit moves.
If ENGLAND had ordered F(IRI) SF(ECH)-MAO, F(ECH)-MAO then the adjudication
would have been different. England now has two units attacking MAO (no unit
cuts the support from IRI) and so the French fleet is dislodged. France has
one unit attacking ECH (remember that the French fleet in MAO has been
dislodged so its support is cut) but since England had vacated ECH then the
F(BRE) moves there unopposed.
2001 - Fred Hyatt
2002 – Richard Sharp
2003 – None Awarded
2004 – Don Turnbull and Buz Eddy
See Hobby Awards (KW).
Danny Loeb : 1 (June 14th 1991) to 290 (17th August 1992).
Nick Fitzpatrick: 291 (26th August 1992) to 301 (26th November 1992).
Josh Smith : 302 (January 27th 1993) to 303.4 (11th Febuary 1993).
Richard Shipley : 304 (June 3rd 1993)
Wins 2-way 3-way 4-way 5-way 6-way C. Points %C. Points
Austria 80 29 25 43 10 --- 115.58 11.72 6
England 73 34 42 54 8 1 119.27 12.10 5
France 108 46 52 60 12 1 165.90 16.83 =1
Germany 119 35 55 41 11 1 167.45 16.98 =1
Italy 67 29 35 53 9 1 106.10 10.76 7
Russia 126 29 37 44 11 1 166.20 16.86 =1
Turkey 97 34 54 37 9 1 143.22 14.53 4
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Totals 670 118 100 83 14 1 986.00
Wins 2-way 3-way 4-way 5-way 6-way C. Points %C. Points
Austria 36 9 14 15 4 2 50.050 10.93 6
England 47 12 27 18 3 1 67.267 14.69 =2
France 53 13 23 19 3 2 72.850 15.91 =2
Germany 47 15 16 14 3 2 64.267 14.03 =2
Italy 34 7 19 13 1 1 47.450 10.36 7
Russia 69 10 22 11 3 2 85.017 18.56 1
Turkey 51 14 23 18 3 2 71.100 15.52 =2
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Totals 337 40 48 27 4 2 458.000
986 UK postal games in the 1960's, 70's and 80's;
802 North American postal games in the 1960's and 70's;
583 North American postal games in the 1980's and 90's;
458 Continental postal games in the 1970's, 80's and 90's;
565 Judge e-mail games, mostly in the 1990's;
91 hand-adjudicated e-mail games.
avg points wins 2 3 4 5 6 7 losses win%
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-8.0 Austria -27840 269 112 169 150 50 13 4 2718 7.7%
+1.7 England +6054 287 161 258 182 51 15 4 2527 8.2%
+8.9 France +31086 341 156 269 188 64 17 4 2446 9.8%
-0.1 Germany -498 314 135 202 128 63 16 4 2623 9.0%
-15.2 Italy -53089 213 111 160 139 59 15 4 2784 6.1%
+10.9 Russia +38135 427 121 173 119 55 13 4 2573 12.3%
+1.8 Turkey +6152 310 138 251 146 53 13 4 2570 8.9%
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+-2.1 3485 games 2161 467 494 263 79 17 4 62.0%
std dev
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