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Old Hnefatafl Master tournament 2019 started April 1st.
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Old Hnefatafl 11x11, starting April 1st 2019. The winner is Old Hnefatafl Master 2019.
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Sea battle tafl 9x9 (Imperial Contest), starting April 15th 2019
Simple Tafl 11x11, starting May 1st 2019
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  04-21/08:17 Hagbard:  @ChaolAibhne: It was tested as an experiment. a9 was captured by a8 and b9, but not a8 by a7.
The rule was active for a period in many games, and it turned out to be superfluous; because in all the games corner pieces never occured to be captured this way.
There is in real games no need for a rule detail like this, so for simplicity the idea was dropped:
http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=38&p=1108#p1011

  04-20/13:15 ChaolAibhne:  The summary for Sea Battle 9*9 (Imperial Contest) games says that a piece can be captured "on a corner square", but I see no mention of this in the rules. Does it mean that a piece on a9 can be captured by a8 and b9, or that (as in brandubh) a8 can be captured by a7?

  04-18/19:29 Khan Asparukh:  @Bogd Khan:would you share identical moves that have been so far in previous games? Edmond Dante thinks you're making a mistake with that? you may need to rethink the rules of the varieties.

  04-18/08:20 Hagbard:  The bug is not an easy one but it must be fixed.

  04-18/00:44 Bogd Khan:  This happens to me for third time...will this rule continue in the future?

  04-17/21:02 Khan Asparukh:  :)

  04-16/21:00 branan:  @Hagbard: thank you for putting the pdf I've translated on your website!

  04-16/07:30 Hagbard:  The move is not correct. It is as you write. The commander did not capture and so should stop after the one move, the jump.

  04-15/20:39 Khan Asparukh:  the commander does not move like a king.we do not comment on the king.in this case we do not have a berserker move because the commander does not capture and is
 not entitled to a second move

  04-15/20:33 Khan Asparukh:  @Hagbard:I did not understand your position on this case? Is the move correct or not?

  04-15/11:21 Hagbard:  David Zolli, France, translated the Brandubh rules into French for print.
Zolli writes: "I'm a french Brandubh player and I took some time to translate and annotate the rules you put online in a single printable page (attached bellow)."
Thank you very much!
http://aagenielsen.dk/regles_brandubh.pdf

  04-14/22:00 Hagbard:  @Khan Asparukh: Sorry, there must be a bug in the program. The commander did not capture, only jumped, and so should not move again.
The same with the king: if the king captures a piece, and then in the next move can go for the win in corner, he can move again.

  04-14/16:11 Khan Asparukh:  read slowly, understand it, and then give a logical answer if you have one

  04-14/16:08 Khan Asparukh:  @Bogd Khan:I'm afraid you did not understand and comprehend the writing

  04-14/15:40 Bogd Khan:  In my case this is a winning move. The same way the King can jump and finish to the edge. I saw this many times in Berserk Hnefatafl games...nothing new

  04-14/13:41 Khan Asparukh:  only the king can continue the movement without capturing,in a jump only to a corner square

  04-14/13:37 Khan Asparukh:  @edmond-dantes:want to ask you,because he does not have access to the forum,he argues that the capture of the king in  Berserk game  jrton80 / Bogd Khan is not the rules.
for there to be a berserk move there should be a snatch of a piece.in this case the commander J4 does a jump but there is no capture and no right of a berserk move?????

  04-14/13:09 Khan Asparukh:  .

  04-12/23:10 Bogd Khan:  Skål 🍻

  04-12/08:14 OdinHimself:  Bulgarian Vikings, unite! :)

  04-12/00:36 Hagbard:  Congratulations to Bogd Khan, who won the Old Hnefatafl Master tournament.

  04-11/18:33 OdinHimself:  Thanks brother! :)

  04-11/18:01 Steiger:  @OdinHimself: great video and photos!

  04-11/13:44 OdinHimself:  Skål brother! 🍻

  04-11/11:10 Agmundr:  @OdinHimself: That's a deal! I'll sail my longship around the coast and meet you in Biorgvin with barrels of mjød! 🍻

  04-11/10:33 OdinHimself:  @Agmundr: Here is my offer for you viking: Next time I'll come ahead and take some new tafl-photos at the realms of Blashyrkh, near Bergen, Norway. You'll bring the mjod and we'll set a bonfire, have some meat and I'll take my big sounding horn and my jaw harp as well. We must have also Steiger with us, this is obligatory! I think this is going to be the beginning of the new Tafl Viking Age! :)

  04-11/08:39 Agmundr:  @OdinHimself: Nice pictures and a beautiful taflboard in it's natural environment. You should had a bonfire and some mjød to! :) Skål Viking warrior! 🍻

  04-11/08:38 OdinHimself:  Ho ho ho... :)

  04-11/08:10 Hagbard:  - the photos added in the gallery.

  04-10/23:27 Hagbard:  Lucho Panchev tells today that he received the 2nd prize from Russia and sent 12 photos, soon to be in the gallery.

  04-10/08:32 Hagbard:  Very wild people, both videos -

  04-10/08:15 OdinHimself:  @Steiger: This is Bulgaria. The so called "Kukeri". Similar to the Austrian "Krampus". It is believed, that they scare, hunt and keep away the evil spirits from people's houses and lifes. I'd recommend you to take a look at the "Nestinari". The people who do the "Fire dance" on a glow. They are highly devouted and well-trained to walk on the living fire of the wooden coals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJBTtjXyyQ8

  04-09/18:44 Steiger:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjm5o0ZxLyg

  04-06/08:01 Hagbard:  x2 timing = all timing parameters x 2. That is, twice as much time for the game.

  04-05/22:28 ChaolAibhne:  Does the x2 timing for a game mean that you have to play twice as fast or that you get twice as long for a move? I've created game invitations assuming the former (having seen mention of options for quick play), but thought I'd better check.

  04-05/18:29 OdinHimself:  Ur askan ett rike!!! Drink the Bragarfull till bottom!

  04-05/16:31 Agmundr:  Good luck to all joining the Old Hnefatafl Master tournament! May it be many spectacular battles and a victorious warrior master will rise up from the ashes of the battlefield! The Valkyries will watch over and make sure the dead warriors will dine by Odins table in Valhalla! Skál warriors! 🍻 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/51/6c/b9/516cb9d0f642cb2a7b0f45fdbf23a7e1.jpg

  04-05/11:59 Hagbard:  For the large forum it's necessary to register separately. New registering is usually blocked, because of amazing spam robots which can do anything and register like piece of cake.
When requested, like now, new registering is opened for some days.
So please try again now and register for the large forum.

  04-05/11:53 Hagbard:  Yes that's it. The file should probably be rebuilt showing the other timestamp instead, to be more useful.

  04-05/11:25 Hnefihunter:  @Hagbard: Thanks, I've got it) The search  in a game archive based on  on  start date of game. But there is end date in a file with openings.  Why can’t I login the large forum?

  04-05/10:24 Hagbard:  Found it:
mmagari / tonythebook. Historical Hnefatafl 7x7 (Irish Brandubh), 23 moves, 2017-01-25 09:59:19, white won (mmagari)

  04-04/17:10 Hnefihunter:  @Hagbard:  I tried to find a particular game based on timestamps in games archive. It turned out, timestamps in file with openings and games archive don’t match. For example, 51 (Irish Brandubh) last session: d2-e2/c4-c2/d7-c7/c2-b2/, 23, white won, 2017-02-05 17:45:14. There are no games in games archive on this date. How does it work?

  04-04/07:57 Hagbard:  There is a file with openings of all games. You could search in the file for "b5-b3/d5-d6", and you'll find the timestamps of all games with this opening:
http://aagenielsen.dk/tafl_openings.txt

  04-03/15:21 Hnefihunter:  @Hagbard: Is it possible to add a search the openings in order to improve the user friendliness of games archive? For instance, for search good game from Saami Tablut user would just type b5-b3 d5-d6 or another opening.

  04-01/12:43 Hagbard:  Congratulations to Animals, who won the Brandubh Master tournament.
#2: Steiger. #3: Hnefihunter

  03-29/06:55 Hagbard:  A user requested the large forum here opened for new registering, it's open for some days.

  03-28/20:00 tuireann:  Registration is closed at this time. The site isn't even fully functioning yet.

  03-28/13:53 ChaolAibhne:  @tuireann I couldn't find contact details on beta.playtaflonline.com. Can I get in touch about my attempt to register there?

  03-27/22:31 Bogd Khan:  Thank you Hagbard and OdinHimself

  03-27/21:19 Hagbard:  Part of Trelleborg Viking Fortress will be reconstructed:
https://www.slagelse.dk/nyt-og-presse/nyheder/2019/marts/trelleborg-faar-15-millioner-kroner-til-at-genskabe-borg

  03-27/16:56 OdinHimself:  Hail Bogd Khan, great Bulgarian warrior!!! :)

  03-27/11:33 Hagbard:  A report about northern light:
https://www.dmi.dk/fileadmin/Rapporter/TR/tr08-08.pdf

  03-26/19:29 Hagbard:  Congratulations to Bogd Khan who won the Fetlar Master tournament!
#2: Kllimm. #3: Jrton80

  03-26/08:02 Hagbard:  Fetlar, Bogd khan / Kllimm:
White built a draw fort at the board edge. The software might not detect it, in which case the game is ended by both players offering a draw.

  03-24/12:50 OdinHimself:  @Hagbard: It looks more like sunset, but it's beautiful. :)

  03-24/09:39 Hagbard:  Much like this photo, which someone took at an earlier occasion:
https://cdn.simplesite.com/i/71/6c/284008258383932529/i284008264512082788._szw1280h1280_.jpg

  03-24/08:05 Hagbard:  Saw it for the first time in my life; I've been very annoyed for the many times the news afterwards informed that it was there and I missed it.
The sight was not like your pictures, though, because it's distant seen from Denmark. The sight was like sheet lightning in summertime (silent blinks from distant lightning). A brilliant, colored light (yellowish-reddish) covered part of the sky in the northern horizon; not blinks but a steady, brilliant light for 5-10 seconds and then fading away. Then a pause, then returning.
Never seen it before. TV had in the early evening informed that there was a chance.

  03-24/07:14 OdinHimself:  @Hagbard: You should add to the Code of conduct also "irritating material". lol Teasing people who don't have the chance to see Aurora Borealis is slightly dirtily. :)

  03-23/22:48 Hagbard:  Seen distant northern light tonight!

  03-18/08:15 Hagbard:  Since a week passed without objections, FM/CM is added.

  03-17/17:28 OdinHimself:  Thanks Hagbard

  03-17/16:20 Hagbard:  Info:
Because of old problems with spam robots, which can automatically register and spam even a non-standard forum like the chat forum, and unserious surfers-by who click all buttons and never are seen again, it has been necessary to have a simple threshold for entry to some functions:
A new player with 0 games completed: can invite for games and join games.
A player with 1 game completed: can write in the chat forum and join tournaments; no limitations.
Lucho Panchev told about a new Ukrainian player, who has attempted to join the tournaments. He's now credited with 1 game and can do so.

  03-14/05:46 OdinHimself:  @Hagbard: Yep, it was mine.

  03-13/07:11 Hagbard:  40 meters Viking longhouse found from space:
http://nyheder.tv2.dk/lokalt/2019-03-13-40-meter-langt-hus-fra-vikingetiden-fundet-paa-google-earth

  03-11/19:12 Hagbard:  I'd like to introduce the FM/CM!
http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17&p=1160#p1160

  03-10/18:00 chuck ward:  Now I'm educated lol Thanks Hagbard

  03-10/17:17 Hagbard:  In the Chuck Ward / Jrton80 game white actually did capture two blacks before building the center fort. Chuck Ward played here when the capture-two-blacks was used and was understandably not aware of the change now. The difference is half a point, but let's see how the tournament goes.

  03-10/16:54 Hagbard:  Many years back Tim Millar and Adam Bartley found a flaw with the Fetlar rules which they baptized "The Monstrous Two-Moves Draw Fort". To block for this thing we introduced special rules only valid for Fetlar, like "white must capture two black pieces before building a draw fort".
But the general surrounding takes care of the whole problem in a simple way:
http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24&p=1047#p1044

  03-10/15:57 chuck ward:  @Hagbard - When was the surround rule implemented in Fetler? I was not savvy to that.

  03-10/08:13 Hagbard:  ok

  03-09/23:45 jrton80:  @Hagbard - the surround rule does work there, which is what I was waiting for

  03-09/18:39 Hagbard:  @Chuck ward and Jrton80: in your Fetlar tourn. game white obtained a draw fort. It's not implemented for the software to detect it, so the way to end the game is that both of you offer a draw.

  03-09/10:11 Hagbard:  Sea Master tourn.: #2 Ded Fomich and Hagbard.

  03-09/07:04 Steiger:  Congrats, brothers of tafl! Well done!\m/.

  03-07/09:23 Hagbard:  Congratulations to Casshern who won the Saami Master tournament!
#2: Ded Fomich. 3#: Steiger.

  03-05/16:26 OdinHimself:  Yes, Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode by Alan Bliss and J. R. R. Tolkien. The legend...

  03-04/20:02 Hagbard:  Beowulf?

  03-04/17:36 OdinHimself:  "When the young prince Haelfdane Hnaef, brother of Hildeburh and thus brother-in-law of king Finn, stayed at the stronghold of king Finn in Frisia for the celebration of Yule, a first fight broke out between the Danes and the Frisians."

  03-04/11:26 Ded Fomich:  Mordor! LOL

Yanko Tsvetkov is a funny guy!

  03-04/11:24 Ded Fomich:  https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/1*GVtiOLMmIj1Q56qCBmbaxQ.png

  03-04/11:24 Ded Fomich:  @OdinHimself Vodka, matryoshka, balalayka and bears! =)

  03-04/07:43 Hagbard:  Good joke!

  03-04/07:29 OdinHimself:  @Hagbard: Yes. One of Europe and one of Bulgaria itself. https://i.postimg.cc/L4bpr6b2/43f5b6fd2996191a247b7a145e2eaf36.jpg and https://i.postimg.cc/vB8yd1yH/dfe5e13cffe8cef2ff4bb34335033ba1.png It's a joke of course!

  03-03/20:29 Hagbard:  Is there a Bulgarian map?

  03-03/20:13 Hagbard:  The person who drew the map seems to know some Danes well -

  03-03/20:10 OdinHimself:  Do we have an Iceland vikings here? https://i.postimg.cc/pd3fXQjV/46949335-1912421858833342-8366412480892633088-n.jpg Vodka! lol

  03-03/20:05 OdinHimself:  Hagbard, is this really true? lol Europe according to the Danes https://i.postimg.cc/vmrrTwHD/53303555-10216356016511470-5097383623456194560-n.jpg

  03-03/10:43 OdinHimself:  @jrton80: We used to give hard times not only to the Byzantines. You should take a look at this article when you have some free time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bulgaria

  03-03/07:54 jrton80:  @OdinHimself: I never will forget: I was smoking a cigarette, reading my book which annoys me to no end when this rather lovely Bulgarian girl (too young for me even at the time) was being rather a bit if a bitch started talking to me, when I said, after she told me she was Bulgarian, "Ah, yes, the Bulgars, they use to give the Byzantines a hard time, now, didn't they" The look of amazement on her face, is impossible to describe, but it is funny how well we got along after that

  03-03/07:45 OdinHimself:  @jrton80: By the way today (03.03.) we celebrate exactly 141 years of freedom. On this day - 03.03.1878 Bulgaria has been liberated. Today is a National Day for Bulgaria. It is a very complicated topic.

  03-03/07:35 OdinHimself:  @jrton80: 1018-1185 - years of Byzantine slavery. 1396-1878 - Ottoman slavery. Bulgaria has had two enslavements. Unfortunately...

  03-02/23:20 jrton80:  @OdinHimself: I have read your comment on the Ottomans a couple of times, but the memory I have of the Bulgars in history is constance cycle alliances and rebellions against the Byzantines - I just think 500 years is too small a number, from about the 11th Century, I think, the first time the Byzantines conquered Bulgaria but I have never been very good with remembering exact dates.

  02-28/15:28 Hagbard:  The quadrathlon score is calculated, and the result is:
#1: Casshern, #2: Khan Asparukh, #3: Hagbard.
If the triathlon score is calculated instead (excl. Berserk), the result is the same.
Congratulations to Casshern who keeps the QUAD trophy!

  02-26/18:08 Hagbard:  Casshern won the Sea Master tourn. and keeps the SEA trophy!

  02-23/07:12 Hagbard:  If no objections, Simple 11 and Imperial could be used next year.
To get more experience of their working, after the Master rounds now could come:
April 15th, Imperial ordinary tourn.
May 1st, Simple 11 ord. tourn.

Planning to next year take Berserk out of the quadrathlon and turn it into a triathlon with the three basic king types, which would then be
Copenhagen (WTC) + Sea Imperial 9 + Simple 11.
Already now the triathlon scores can be calculated for 2018 and 2019 as well.

  02-23/01:06 casshern:  @Hagbard: I think an Old Hnefatafl tournament would be great. Though I know I wont play, I have no objection. I have very much enjoyed the tournaments these last few months, going back to the WTC last fall. However, there are 2 more variants that I long for, Simple Tafl and Imperial Contest. Might I suggest these 2 variants for next year’s Quadrathlon?

  02-22/07:51 Hagbard:  From March 1st we find again a Fetlar Master. Last time was seven years ago in 2012, and the winner was then Tim Millar ("crust").
The "Old Hnefatafl" rules have been used in Russia, fx. in a tournament at The Middle Ages Festival in Staraya Ladoga 2010, organized by the St. Peterburg Varangian club Ulfgard. Would it be an idea to also find an "Old Hnefatafl" Master?

  02-19/10:43 OdinHimself:  Congratulations to this Bulgarian player, even though he's anonymous. 🍻

  02-19/08:24 Hagbard:  Congratulations to Khan Asparukh, who won the Historical Master tourn. and the HIST trophy!
#2: casshern. #3: OdinHimself.

  02-18/08:06 Hagbard:  I'm sure. The bridge is built by volunteers, many volunteers.

  02-18/05:39 OdinHimself:  @Hagbard: Can I join? :)

  02-17/22:49 Hagbard:  Building of a 700 metres Viking Bridge:
http://nyheder.tv2.dk/lokalt/2019-02-17-verdens-laengste-vikingebro-tager-form-paa-vestegnen

  02-16/16:26 OdinHimself:  @Hagbard: Wow!!! Amazing! :)

  02-16/07:33 Hagbard:  Building of the Royal Viking Hall in Lejre, Denmark:
http://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2019-02-16-kaempe-vikingehal-udfordrer-nutidens-byggeri-vi-springer-over-hvor-gaerdet-er

  02-14/10:23 Ded Fomich:  N. B. PTO is alive! The beta site is available for playing (beta.playtaflonline.com). It still needs fixes, but it’s reanimated. It’s not supporting Safari browser now, but works well using Firefox on Apple devices.

  02-12/09:28 Hagbard:  New:
Photo series in the gallery from Danish Classic Board Game cafe and from game board of Chuck Ward.
New topic in the large forum: Tafl in Sápmi.

  02-11/17:20 Mihkkal:  Crash course and free playing of Saami Tablut and South Sámi Dablo in Umeå, Sweden on March 6th. Venue: Västerbottens museum, 18:00-21:00.

http://www.sahkie.se/event/spela-gamla-samiska-bradspel/

  01-27/19:28 Agmundr:  @Hagbard: Gratulerer verdensmestere! Det beste laget vant i dag! 🍻

  01-27/18:59 Hagbard:  God kamp!

  01-27/16:45 Steiger:  Thank you, Mihkkal, for such detailed and deep comments.

  01-26/21:34 Mihkkal:  Final note on the Skyruk post: it's an impressive piece of work, but when it comes to the section on Sáhkku it suffers from some lacking knowledge about Sámi history and culture that leads to some dubious conclusions. Regarding historical development: if the "tâb family" did originate in the Middle East, I think the geographical distribution of Sáhkku and Daldøs makes it more likely that "Tâb games" came through Novgorod to Sápmi and was in Sápmi turned to the Sáhkku games, whereas Daldøs has a separate connection to the Tâb family.
Regarding the rules, all I can say is that research has marched on, and that the revitalized Sáhkku games currently played in the north use other rules than those presented here. They can be found in the Daabloe network's group (https://www.facebook.com/daabloe) in various languages.

  01-26/21:23 Mihkkal:  More on the Skyruk post: 
- There's a misunderstanding here about the hats. The four-corner hat is also a hat for men. Some female sáhkku warriors do have hooked tops though, and these symbolize the ladjogahpir hooked hats for women.

  01-26/21:14 Mihkkal:  ...even more on the Skyruk post.
- That the Sámi are/were not sailors is also a statement that betrays lacking knowledge. Medieval Norse sources describe the Sámi as sought-after boat builders, and Sámi participated in the settlement of Iceland. Most of the Sámi population has always been coastal "Sea Sámi".
- Sáhkku was still in play to the 1960s according to published articles, despite efforts by evangelists. (Yet-unpublished research material I have, show it was some places in play until the 1990s - but of course this is somethibg Skyruk cannot know).
- Earliest clear written reference to Sáhkku: 1840s, not 1870s. Possible mention also 1600s.
- Sámi " c" is pronounced "ts" and not "k". So "pirttsu" and not "pirkku".
- The idea of "princes" in Sáhkku is a speculation from the researcher Itkonen. It has no support in any source.
- Regarding rules: please note that Sáhkku is a family of games, not one game. There were different variants in different parts of Sápmi.

  01-26/21:02 Mihkkal:  Continued on Skyruk's post:
- "Arab game in the North Pole" is a phrase coined by a French researcher in the 2000s. Locally, sáhkku has always been known as a Sámi game.
- That the "Vikings" brought the game to the north is very speculative. 1) It is not known that the Vikings did play tâb-type games. 2) The Danish-Norwegian Daldøs is exclusively known from the extreme southwest of Scandinavia. This is far, far away from the central-northern-eastern part of Sápmi where Sáhkku is traditional. There should be a tâb-type gaming tradition in between if Sáhkku comes from Daldøs or the other way around. It is more likely that the two games share a common ancestor.

  01-26/20:51 Mihkkal:  More on Skyruk's post:
- He's very much wrong about sáhkku being limited to coastal parts of Sápmi. The earliest possible reference to the game is by an author from the inland, in the 1600s. The earliest certain reference is from the Lule Sámi inland during the mid-1800s. The game is also known from the north coast and east coast+inland. 
- To say that Sámi culture is "homogenous" (odnorodnaya) betrays little knowledge about us. We have ten different languages, for one thing. And as for our traditional board games: each district has had its own unique variants of those games. Traditional Sámi board game culture is *very* heterogenous.
- Sáhkku was very much "invented by the Sámi" in the sense that Sáhkku is a unique sub-family of games in the larger "Tâb family" of games, and that this sub-family is only found among the Sámi.
- Again, all statements on how "Tâb style" games have travelled and "mutated" are speculations.

  01-26/20:32 Mihkkal:  When it comes to the Skyruk blog: interesting, but some critical notes.
- There's no written or archeological source linking Daldøs to the Vikings. The game is known at the earliest from an 1870s' book. The story of the book is set in the 1600s. It could of course be older but there's no evidence.
- Daldøs is obviously related to the other games in the "Tâb family". How and when these games have spread and changed, and where the first " Tâb style" game was invented... No certain knowledge, just theories

  01-26/14:32 Hagbard:  Held og lykke til Norge også, Tyskland var flot klaret.

  01-26/14:26 Agmundr:  @Hagbard: Vi møtes igjen i Boksen! Håper det blir en spennende kamp! Lykke til! 🍻

  01-26/14:20 Hagbard:  Norge og Danmark mødes i VM-finalen i morgen!

  01-26/14:12 Hagbard:  The way of singing is somewhat similar to traditional Norwegian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRT8_m8aoow

  01-26/12:52 OdinHimself:  Do you know that Bulgaria has been under Ottoman slavery for 500 years? During this period there were many uprisings. Men became rebels and went to the mountains to fight the oppressors from there. Songs have been made for the most fierce of them. One of the most famous songs about such man is "Came out rebel Delyo". It's a Bulgarian folk song from the central Rhodope Mountains about Delyo, a rebel leader who was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The song is most famously sung by Valya Balkanska, a 1977 recording of which was included on the Golden Record carried on board the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes in space.
"Came out rebel Delyo;
rebel true grit;
with fellow Dumbovtsi and Karadjovtsi clans;
asking Delyo warning;
the opressors and the tyrants:
-I have two aunts in the village;
don't you dare convert them (in Muslim)
don't make me come for you;
your mothers will mourn you;
and more so your wives.
Gulsum (his beloved) cautions:
Listen Delyo, be wary;
for they collude, Delyo;
the opressors and brazen-faced tyrants;
casting silver bullet for your demise;
-Gulsum, my love;
not yet is born a man who could kill me;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahluybb0T0A

Bulgaria has roots...

  01-25/09:16 Mihkkal:  A session of Tablut and other old board games in Tromsø this week: 
https://tinyurl.com/ybjkrvto
Once there was a Tromsø Tafl Laug, does that still exist?

There will be a course/game evening featuring Tablut and Dablo im Umeå (Sweden) as part of the Sámi Week festival in early March.

  01-23/10:39 Steiger:  @Semargl: Yes, it is not excluded - quite possible.

  01-23/10:30 Semargl:  @Steiger: I think Skyrk is mistaken about many things. When he is excited, he add his own style.

  01-23/07:10 Steiger:  @Semargl: https://skyruk.livejournal.com/288965.html

  01-22/20:17 Semargl:  Is Ad Elta Stelpur game really Scandinavian historical or modern? I found the rules only in French.http://www.abrabadaboum.fr/nos-locations/jeux-en-bois/article/ad-elta-stelpur?fbclid=IwAR38kMgJvHlBof2OL6OtMWIsQRN89zZ0LJtejpRm3xHio9-4kVDZMeJv664

  01-22/20:07 Steiger:  @Volkenpuk: I'm glad you like it.

  01-22/19:28 Volkenpuk:  @Steiger, that is a good station I did not know about, good recommendation.

  01-22/14:59 sqAree:  Is it that rare? It seems to happen in like every game where black wins. It's super easy to force two adjacent edge squares as white and that's just for prolonging the game by hundreds of moves.

  01-22/11:33 Steiger:  Danheim Radio (Live Viking Music Radio - 24/7) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHtDgnOE3Kw

  01-22/06:19 Hagbard:  The position in the game Siegfried/sqAree is very very rare. Even when 7b is not possible in that game, black will win anyway.

  01-22/04:32 Volkenpuk:  Some music I listen to, on occasion. I'm new by the way and excited to play many games with you all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRg_8NNPTD8

  01-21/21:39 sqAree:  Regarding rule 7b:

It's not really a rule but a shortcut to let clear games end faster. Is it possible to change the rule in such a way that it also detects black encirclements with "holes" with a maximum of two adjacent edge squares? Because even then it's clearly impossible for white to win, the smallest edge fort needs three adjacent edge squares.

  01-21/12:12 Hagbard:  The Berserk Master tourn. finished. #2: Khan Asparukh. #3: Hagbard.
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