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World Championship Tournament 2024 starts Sep. 15th:
Tournament page 2024.

Last year's tournament page.

Play against humans.
Тавлеи против людей.
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09-09/20:09 brave-frog: Registers for the WTF Race Games tournament.

09-09/20:08 brave-frog: Registers for the WTF Sea Battle tournament.

09-09/20:08 brave-frog: Registers for the WTF Hist.Hnef. tournament.

09-09/20:08 brave-frog: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen tournament.

09-08/06:16 Hagbard: One week till start of tourn.; these players from last year have not registered:
Platypus, Ramzi, Lalli The Hunter, Sybil, casshern, floki, arcrue, mrcrow, Gingie339, jilles, OdinHimself, ekve2, fiji270, konrad7890

09-07/17:07 xerxes: Thanks Aage

09-07/10:31 Hagbard: fixed

09-06/20:58 Hagbard: thank you, that sounds very unfortunate. I'll try to fix it tomorrow

09-06/19:18 xerxes: Aage - I think I've discovered a bug in Sahkku (unless it is a feature I did not know about which might contribute to me losing all the time !).  In my game as White against Chaolaibhne in T832 I have thrown X, 2, and 4.  Some of my men have yet not started and the next to start abuts the King, which is currently Black.  I have discovered that if I use the X on the unstarted man beside the King he starts, but the X remains an option, and I can therefore start all of my remaining unstarted men before continuing with the three moves of X, 2, and 4.   I have cancelled the move in case you want to have a look at it.

09-06/18:17 Hitchcock: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen tournament.

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Kievan Rus'.

Alexander Steiger Dis' game set up in the Royal Hall in Lejre, Denmark. (Click on the image)

Train your brain like a viking. Science Days in Norway Sep. 27th 2020. (Click on the image!)

Hnefatafl is also known by the names Nefatavl, The King's Table, The Viking Game, Viking Chess, Tablut or simply Tafl.
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Viking word of wisdom: The Hávamál.
(Havámál på dansk).

World Championship Tournament 2023.

Здесь можно играть в тавлеи против людей. Можно использовать кириллицу.

Many thanks to Tim Millar ("crust"), Adam Bartley ("Adam"), John C. Ashton, Nicolas Cartier, Jonas Lööf ("conanlibrarian"), Olli Salmi, Damian Walker ("cyningstan"), Rasmus Holbroe, Thore Nissen, Lucho Panchev ("OdinHimself"), Corey Hart ("Brench"), Alexander Steiger Dis ("Steiger"), Dmitry Pashkov, Delray Curtis ("jrton80"), David Zolli ("branan"), Luk Martens ("Masterluke"), Marian Luck ("themightyglider"), Mikkel Berg-Nordlie ("mihkkal"), Alessandro Arzani ("Abbas Agraphicus") and all players who contributed to this site and to the photo gallery. And not least the more than 600 players the world over who played here 50,000 real tafl games humans against humans and created a vast, practical experience with this intriguing, historical board game.