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You can also easily find people to play against on the multiplayer forum. If you make a thread suggesting a game you will almost always get someone willing to play pretty fast (oddly enough the number of multiplayer games seems to be limited by the number of people starting new threads to organise games, rather than the number of people signing up to play in them).

Hope you enjoy the game when you get it! It is, in fact, brilliant. Bit of a learning curve though.