 Why are you here? Why have you flown across the world? Yes, it seems, I mean, I've been last year to the World Championships in Berlin, and it was very nice. I mean, it was obviously more close by for me, from Holland. But, well, I mean, the atmosphere was great. I liked the competitiveness and the endurance of every game, of five rounds or six rounds here, diplomacy. And I just love the game. I think it's important to keep the hobby alive. And I think I'm one of the young players that, well, the next generation to keep diplomacy alive and kick me. So I think it's important to do that internationally. And I am currently the lead editor for the Diplomatic Pouch Online Zine. The Diplomatic Pouch is a very big website that has lots of resources for diplomacy. So it has, for example, a variant bank, which lists all sorts of variants that are available for the game. It has a huge amount of strategic and tactical advice. And five times a year we also publish new issue of our online magazine. And until now, most of the games I've played have been online, basically by email. Because that's another thing that the Diplomatic Pouch has. It has the DP Judge, the Diplomatic Pouch Automatic Judge. Which is basically a computer program that lets you play diplomacy automatically. You just have to send in certain commands through the internet interface, or by email. And it will adjudicate everything for you. So you just get seven people to sign up for a game. And you can set the timing however you want. And it's very different from a face-to-face experience here. This is actually, in spite of the fact that I've been playing diplomacy on and off for 25 years. This is the first time that I've actually attended a diplomacy tournament. And it's a very different experience from online play, I can tell you that. How so? Well, the thing about online play is that you basically have as much time as you want to put into it. So you can send emails to all the other players. Hopefully they'll respond. You have a lot of time to think about your strategy and to react. Whereas what I'm finding here is that you have 15 minutes to talk to everybody and to get your orders down. And there are actually people who on occasion have failed to get the right orders down or made mistakes that they wouldn't if they had more time to look at it. And that actually goes back to the play I'm finding. So is there a preference? Do you prefer online or live? Yeah, well I seem to be better at online so far, so I like that. But yeah, we'll see. It's exciting anyway. And it's a lot of fun to get to meet all the people here. Especially because I know many of them. They recognize their names and they just turn on their diplomatic powers. So there's a lot of people online that are here in person? Yes, there are lots of people who have written articles for us in the past. And just whose names I recognize. I spend a lot of my time writing to people, begging them to write stuff for us. And a lot of them are here so I get to know them in person. Are the games on your site membership or anyone can just get seven people together? Anybody can sign up. You just have to have an email address. How long does an online game take? It depends. You can set the deadlines however you want. Usually they'll be, say, a two or three day deadline for every movement phase. And then a one day, say, for every retreat and adjustment phase. As in you're going to explain what those mean. Compared to 15 minutes here while you're live? Yes, but as I say, you can set it up however you want. Usually online, when you're playing an online game, there's a specific person who acts as a game master of your strengths. Who isn't playing, but who just sort of oversees everything. And sets the terms of the game when it comes to timing or if there are any special rules you want to use. Any closing words you want to give anybody? Oh, what can I say? It's the best game created this century and possibly six checks in my opinion.