Please tell me if you want me to put you on the mailing list for future reports. I hope you decide to join us, and possibly write a program for use with the project. C program which takes a position and diplomatic constraints, and finds the best moves for all players. May have bugs. Play is based mostly on strategy finder.
Work is needed mostly on negotiation and long term strategy.
A group of Israelis have written a diplomat based mostly on negotiation. Plays well, but has not been tested much since it is based on hardware that is no longer available, and is incompatible with the Diplomat Interface . Source code not publically available. Also, available at Stanford . Stanford Reportedly Roger Schank and Chris Riesbeck did some work in the 1970's.