{"id":461,"date":"2006-02-18T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T12:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2006-02-18T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T12:04:43","slug":"survival-of-the-fittest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Survival of the fittest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as it&#8217;s half-term, I didn&#8217;t have any youth club to run this evening. So the usual suspects gathered at Ally&#8217;s and out came the Diplomacy board!  I was hoping I&#8217;d get to play a country away from the Balkans, as that area is a nightmare. Alas, I drew Austria-Hungary out of the bag! So much for avoiding the Balkans. Anyway, I made tentative alliances with Italy, Turkey and Russia, and a pact of mutual interest with Germany. I watched to see how each country developed its policies, and strengthened and broke alliances as was necessary. Before I knew it, I&#8217;d carved up Turkey between Italy and myself, and shared Russia with England and Germany. I&#8217;m not sure who was the more crafty of the players, but Germany and England made an interesting alliance for the others to contend with! As with all games of Diplomacy I&#8217;ve ever played, we never actually finished it, but there was ample interest in the mechanics of the game, and in the interactions of the players, that this didn&#8217;t matter. The state of play at the close of play left three main powers, England, Germany and Austria-Hungary vying for domination. There&#8217;s more to some people than meets the eye!<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/distinctionjacket.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"     lNyhDWIuN QqQn t J IT zqEP\"><!--      lNyhDWIuN QqQn t J IT zqEP --><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as it&#8217;s half-term, I didn&#8217;t have any youth club to run this evening. So the usual suspects gathered at Ally&#8217;s and out came the Diplomacy board! I was hoping I&#8217;d get to play a country away from the Balkans, as that area is a nightmare. Alas, I drew Austria-Hungary out of the bag! So&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=461\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}