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• Balkan Gambit
  The Balkan Gambit is any opening sending Trieste to Albania and Budapest to Serbia. The gambit here is that Richard Sharp's name for the opening F Tri-Alb, A Bud-Ser, A Vie-Boh. Also known as Fisher's Folly.
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• Manche Openings
  ...pening that sends the fleet into the English Channel is known as a Menache Opening or English Attack. These openings account for about one quarter of all Fre ...it is unlikely to result in a centre gain for France (unlike the Atlantic Opening's F Bre-MAO), and compromises an assault on England by most likely pinning
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• Western Opening
  ...ilds a fleet in Liverpool and overwhelms France with seapower. The Western opening is extremely risky, and only undertaken with complete trust in the German,
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• The Iberian Gambit
  ..." opening A Mar S A Par-Bur, and the other is known simply as the Burgundy opening with A Mar-Spa. Both these openings offer defense against a German strike i ...pening provides A Mar-Spa, F Bre-Mid, and A Par-Pic, known as the "Picardy Opening." This is subtly pro-German, as it hints to an accomodation over Burgundy w
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• The Sealion Opening
  ...hat make the opening work. This is even more so in the case of the Sealion Opening names after the German invasion plans of England in World War II. ...he Italians going on a long slow road to the East, hopfully a Lepanto type opening. he also wants to see the English go down like a rock and is willling to ta
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• Roadhog
  Any Austrian opening that orders Trieste to HOLD and Budapest to Rumania.
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• Northern Opening
  '''NORTHERN OPENING (THE YORKSHIRE OPENING)''' Richard Sharp's name for the opening F Lon-NTH and F Edi-NWG. There are four named variations:
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• French Openings
  ...m. In general, a valid French strategy is to get Spain and Portugal in the opening, even at the price of losing a home center. For France, such a loss is freq *[[An Introduction to French Opening Strategy]] by [[Richard Hucknall]]
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• Blue Water
  ...z (a.k.a. the Italian Attack) is recognized as a variant of the Blue Water Opening. '''BLUE WATER OPENING, VON METZKE BLITZ'''
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• Atlantic Openings
  Any opening sending the Brest fleet to the Mid-Atlantic Ocean. There are a many named v *[[Atlantic Openings#Maginot Opening|Maginot Opening]]
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• Split Opening
  Richard Sharp's name for the opening F Lon-ENG and F Edi-NWG. There are three named variations: the Edinburgh, t
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• Tyrolese Gambit
  Richard Sharp's name for the opening: F Tri-Alb, A Bud-Tri, A Vie-Tyr.
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• The Fiafranchetto
  An opening to remember or regret by ...eeded. If Germany, moves to Burgundy and England moves to the Channel, the opening will fail horribly…..but France can still recover if he has the wits and
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• Naming the Openings
  ..., "Defence" or "Gambit", as the case might be; everything else was simply "Opening". Here are some examples with the frequencies taken from New Statsman. ...5%), but if the army goes elsewhere the fleet moves constitute the Belgian Opening, with the usual Edinburgh and Yorkshire Variations (0.9% and 20.3%).
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• Italian Openings
  *Austrian Attack Opening (A Rom-Ven, A Ven-Tri)
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• North Sea Opening
  Richard Sharp's name for the opening in which England orders A Lvp-Yor, sends one fleet to the North Sea and doe
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• Norman Openings
  Any French Opening sending the fleet to Picardy. The typical intent is a pro-English occupatio
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• Berlin Defense
  Any German opening in which Berlin is ordered to HOLD. These openings guard against a Russian
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• The Octopus
  This is the name I give to the opening I regularly play as Russia, which is very little favoured by anyone else - (1) Turkey's best chance of winning, and most active opening, is A(Con)-Bul, F(Ank)-BLA, A(Smy)-Arm - it's also by far the most popular,
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• Is The Alpine Chicken A Tasty Bird
  Richard Sharp christened the Italian Opening A(Ven)-Pie, A(Rom)-Ven, F(Nap)-ION as the Alpine Chicken "Because it shows The stats show that the Chicken is the third most common Italian opening, used overall 11.64% of the time. However, that figure masks a 70’s popul
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• The Hedgehog: An Asset or a Liability for Austria
  ...oned and I now consider that except for certain circumstances, it is a bad opening. For the benefit of novices, the Hedgehog is F(Tri)-Ven, A(Vie)-Gal, and A( .... Far better for Austria to try to convince them not to attack and make an opening that will result in Gre and Ser being taken in 1901 and this is not as diff
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• German Variations
  .../Sil or A(Ber)-Sil/Pru. I once attempted a combination of both of these by opening F(Kie)-Den, A(Mun)-Sil, A(Ber)-Pru. But I failed to gain Warsaw and my offe More recently we had the opening which later went on to become a zine in its own right. The Bohemian Rhapsod
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• The Sealion Opening in Action: The Moves
  [[The Sealion Opening in Action|BACK]] to [[The Sealion Opening in Action]] [[The Sealion Opening in Action|BACK]] to [[The Sealion Opening in Action]]
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• The Lepanto Opening
  ...e Southeast is an alliance between Austria and Italy which uses an unusual opening by the Italians to quickly secure the fall of the Turks. The principal prob ...s, as the army in Apulia could be used for other things, as such a Turkish opening usually means that the Austrians are in for a lot of trouble from the Russi
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• The Italian Attack Against France
  ...oing to stab Austria by moving to Tyrolia and Trieste in the Autumn.) This opening is not without its uses, however, as you can often stop France getting a bu ...t seems to have better prospects against France, and is more flexible. The opening proceeds as follows:
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• The Iberian Indecision
  As France you have the option of opening with the Iberian Indecision. The S01 orders are A Par-Gas, A Mar-Spa, F Bre The single largest objection to this opening is the supposedly weakened defensive position it leaves France in. In fact,
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• The Jutland Gambit
  ...n interesting set of German moves in the North. The use of the traditional opening gains time for the German player as it allows him to determine if anything [[Category:Opening]]
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• An Introduction to Austrian Opening Strategy
  ...Russia and Turkey usually view Austria as very easy meat and so this ideal opening is often difficult to arrange. The standard Lepanto opening - Italy convoying A(Tun) to either Smy or Syr via F(ION) & F(EMS) - is of c
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• An Introduction to French Opening Strategy
  ...stal wins and has the best record for draws. However when I see the French opening set up it fails to fire me with the interest that both Austria and Russia s ...of non-aggressive ways but should England, Germany or Italy attack in the opening year then France can defend fairly well but will have to be content with on
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• An Introduction to Turkish Opening Strategy
  Perhaps Turkish opening moves require less diplomacy than any other country. A(Con) should always g ...s arguably the best as Turkey wins most of his postal games following this opening. It immediately puts pressure on Russia even assuming there has been a stan
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• The Koniggratz Freakout
  ...cides to try. That is, this is not a prescription of the "best" or optimum opening for all occasions, but a specific solution to a tactical problem given a se [[Category:Opening]]
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• The Lapland Lurch
  "F(StP)sc-GoB? is the only reasonable opening for that unit." - Rod Walker, The Gamers Guide to Diplomacy ...n openings. But opening moves exhibit tremendous variety and the "correct" opening depends on a myriad of circumstances. The word "always", with one exception
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• The Hedgehog
  ...ll and I discovered that we had both, independently, invented the same new opening for Austria. I had gone one better and also given it a name, the Hedgehog. By far the most popular Austrian opening is the fatuous A(Vie)-Tri, F(Tri)-Alb, A(Bud)-Ser. Why fatuous? because it
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• An Introduction to English Opening Strategy
  ...le opposition and that is F(Edi)-NWG, F(Lon)-NTH and A(Lpl)-Yor. With this opening he can take Norway in the Autumn even in the face of Russian opposition fro Despite the limitations of opening moves, England must conduct a lot of diplomacy prior to the first moves bas
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• Dutch Boy Openings
  ...The Dutch Boy is also useful in combination with a Russian Northern System opening. With a Russian army in St. Petersburg after Spring of 1901, and with press
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• Sacrifice Openings
  ...would recommend, and concludes in general that we are short on theoretical opening knowledge and furthermore rather an unadventurous crowd, uninterested in wi ...sition his units better in 1902. An extreme example, called the anti-Tunis opening for reasons which will appear, is this: in Spring 1901, Italy decides to at
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• The German Attack
  The Russian opening A(War)-Sil is comparatively rare, but provided the right factors are in pla ...rican Diplomacy scribe, offered no more than this: "This is an anti-German opening." Richard Sharp, author of The Game of Diplomacy wrote, "Russia's most prom
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• The Lisbon Leapfrog
  .... That’s an impressive array and can be well worth the price paid for this opening. ...o argue that France shouldn’t be allowed to occupy the Mid Atlantic in the opening game. It’s very much like asking England not to leave a fleet in the Nort
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• The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
  The other option from this opening is F(NWG)-Nwy, A(Edi) E F(NTH), A/F(NTH)-ENG, A(ENG) D Bre or Bel. the late ...knock a country out early due to the fact that supply centres vanish. This opening gives you Wales in 1902 so it is not that bad.
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• The Turkish Hedgehog
  ...h I hove seen happen before now) there is in fact another sensible Turkish opening. It is: A(Can)-Bu1, A(Smy)-Arm, F(Ank)-Con. I like to call it the Turkish H
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• Russias Northern Offensive
  ...on one front or the other. Before putting forward the option of a northern opening I want to preface this article with some observations of a general nature: The most common northern opening is F StP(sc)-GoB?, A Mos-StP, followed in the fall by F GoB?-Swe, A StP-Nwy
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• Opening Strategy Part I - Philosophy
  ...s the name of the article suggests), the information is specifically about Opening Strategy (meaning the first year). Please do not forget this important cave ..."philosophy" pointers I think in general will get you through a successful opening for every country.....
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• Rumanian Gambit
  The Warthog is Richard Sharp's name for the rarely-used Austrian opening (0.87%): F Tri-Alb, A Vie-Gal and, A Bud-Rum. Richard writes that it is "a
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• Opening Strategy Part III - Noteworthy Points and Summary
  ...ur trek's original course. Thankfully, I am only contracted to write about opening scenarios. That helps reduce the infinite number of possibilities by at lea Unfortunately, there are no great answers when things get tough in the opening game, but there are options. Truthfully, I cannot say I am confident that a
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• On Strengthening the hand of Austria-Hungary
  ...agreement has been reached with Italy to vacate Trieste and Venice on the opening move. It has invariably failed due to a double cross by Italy. The new idea
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• An Introduction to Italian Opening Strategy
  One cannot discuss Italian opening strategy without mentioning the Lepanto Opening. This involves F(ION) convoying A(Apu) to Tun in 1901 then building a F(Nap
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• The Three Build Opening
  .... NADA. The Kaiser closed the deal zero of eight games after a three build opening. This tells us that Germany, more than any other country on the board, is s
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• Burgundy 1901
  ...French opening to this province, or to a French announcement that such am opening is in the offing even if it doesn't materialize.
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• The Sealion Opening in Action
  ...s. Therefore, I was very interested to read [[Edi Birsan]]'s [[The Sealion Opening]] in the Spring 97 Movement issue. [[The Sealion Opening in Action: The Moves#Spring 1901|Spring 1901]]
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• Opening Strategy Part II - Regarding Fellow Players
  ...y country you may play. In part one, we learned ways to present oneself in opening diplomacy, in order to optimize one's chances for future success. Part two, ...s sequence will get involved with more peripheral points regarding general opening strategy. I plan to make it a short topic and then tie in all three parts o
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