Diplomacy Opening explorer

Game theory · Spring 1901

Opening matchups.

Treat two countries’ most common Spring openings as a two-player game. Each cell’s payoffs are the mean final scores from games where that exact pair of openings was played.

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Against the historical mix

If the other country keeps choosing openings as often as players historically did, how much could this country gain by always playing its single best reply?

Payoff table

Mean final scores for each pair of openings