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      <p>Welcome to the Diplomacy AI Centre.  Here you will find a wealth of
      information relating to the development of computer programs designed to
      play the board game Diplomacy.  For those with a theoretical leaning,
      you'll find academic papers and articles that are relevant to Dipomacy.
      If you just want to dive in there and play with the state-of-the-art AIs,
      you'll find them in the download section.  If you're serious about
      writing your own AI then there are various toolkits and libraries that do
      a lot of the legwork for you, leaving you to the interesting parts.</p>

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