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<p>or a monster.</p>

<p><big>History</big></p>
<p>The earliest play-by-mail games developed as a way for geographically separated gamers to compete with each other using <a href="page.php?w=postal_mail">postal mail</a>. <a href="page.php?w=Chess">Chess</a> and <a href="page.php?w=Go_%28game%29">Go</a> are among the oldest examples of this. In these two-player games, players sent moves directly to each other. Multi-player games emerged later: <a href="page.php?w=Diplomacy_%28game%29">Diplomacy</a> is an early example of this type, emerging in 1963, in which</p><p>
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