LaGrange Park mailman who invented board game Diplomacy is dead at 81

[Sherman A1]

Updated: March 5, 2013 2:03PM
To people in LaGrange Park, Allan B. Calhamer was the guy who delivered the mail.

But to those who have played “Diplomacy” — the popular board game he invented while a law student at Harvard — Mr. Calhamer, who died last week, was a geek god.

Back in the Fortran era, the game was a sort of board-game version of TV’s “Survivor” set in pre-World War I Europe, with its shifting alliances, deception and back-stabbing,

A favorite with politicians, it has a spot in the Hall of Fame ofboardgamegeek.com, where gamers from around the world are mourning Mr. Calhamer’s passing.
He died at Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital. He was 81

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