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Updated information about the Hull Hnefatafl tournament 17th June 2017:
Hull's First Hnefatafl Tournament Has a Winner!
Congratulations to David Lonsdale ("Animals"), Peterborough, UK.
Replay the final games here (tournament 84).

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06-27/12:13 Hagbard: Newspaper today: The Danish word "hygge" is registered in the new edition of Oxford English Dictionary: http://www.bt.dk/danmark/hygge-er-nu-et-officielt-engelsk-ord 06-27/11:42 Hagbard: July 1st will be opened for registering for the World Championship Tournament 2017, tournament to start Sep. 1st. Registering through July and August, by and large you can register up till the last moment before Sep. 1st, but of course planning is easier when the names are known earlier. The plan is to run the tournament like this: http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4&start=40#p893 and besides that to run certain other regular tournaments after this scheme: http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4&start=50#p896 06-27/09:44 OdinHimself: Tangail in Sindarin or Sandastan in Kuenian dialect means Shieldwall. For Tolkien fans who love Copenhagen hnefatafl... like me. :) 06-26/19:11 Steiger: :-) 13th riddle is good too! 06-26/17:55 Hagbard: Good riddle! I couldn't have guessed it; I googled the answer. 06-26/17:50 Hagbard: Thanks! Icelandic language. 06-26/16:16 Steiger: @Hagbard: it's 12'th riddle of Gestumblindi from Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks: Hverir eru þeir þegnar, er ríða þingi at sáttir allir saman; lýða sína senda þeir lönd yfir at byggja bólstaði? 06-26/15:55 edmond-dantes: Hello everyone I had a small problem with the forum but now everything is fine 06-26/15:53 edmond-dantes: .. 06-26/13:50 Hagbard: An update in the forum about upcoming World Tournament. 06-26/13:49 Hagbard: Where is the verse from? 06-26/07:28 Steiger: Who are those thanes who ride to the thing, peaceful together? Across the land they send their men to seek a home for themselves. 06-25/15:59 OdinHimself: Today me and Lubo (edmont dantes) played two games of Hnefatafl Copenhagen at the local town park Hisarlaka. This was the first time I played live against tafl player who wasn't just introduced to the game and have had some experience. We used the big board with the hand made wooden pieces and the feeling was great. It had an atmosphere that can't be felt infront of the computer screen. Lubo officialy agreed and became the first active member of Hnefatafl sporting club "Odin"! Cheers!!! 06-23/20:09 Steiger: Oh! thank you very much, I'm glad to know it =) 06-23/18:56 OdinHimself: Steiger is one I'm proud of!!! 06-23/12:03 Hagbard: New in photo gallery: Hnefatafl set of Steiger. New in link page: PixMedia interview with Lucho Panchev ("OdinHimself"): http://pixelmedia.bg/%D0%BB%D1%8A%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2-%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%8F%D1%82-%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%85-%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B8/ 06-23/12:02 Hagbard: Tuireann won the Brandubh throneless test tournament. 06-22/23:50 Hagbard: Registering for the forum open for three days. Edmont Dantes, please try again. 06-22/18:50 OdinHimself: Hagbard could you please check why edmont dantes is not able to post in the forum. He allerted me about some problem with his pasword and nickname. Thanks. 06-22/01:55 Casshern: Just a quick thought regarding the World Championships. I like poker and I follow the world series of poker every year. Like talf, there are many different poker games (variants). So for 1 month during the world series of poker they have 50+ tournaments of different games/variants, culminating with the Main Event, which is always texas hold'em. I would say that Copenhagen is our Main Event. But it would be nice to have tournaments of other popular talf games. Copenhagen, Tawlbwrdd, Sea Battle, Fetlar, Berserk, Tablut, Ard Ri, etc. Each tournament can be run at different times depending on number of players and number of rounds. At the world series of poker, the player who does the best overall is named the Player of the Year. The winner of Copenhagen would be the World Champion and we could have a triathlon winner, similar to player of the year. This is just a thought that I had. Some players may enjoy playing other variants more that Copenhagen, however I think that Copenhagen should decide the World Championship. 06-21/21:31 Steiger: or I can carved a portable (20x20 cm) board with an simple pawns absolutely for free ;-) and a Lucho's board will be a prize for the next year championship (with my pawns, of course - 'till the next year I can carved them for free) 06-21/19:56 OdinHimself: Interesting indeed. Aside of topic, but still connected to the upcoming tournament, I would like to discuss something with all of you tafl players. Probably most of you have been awared of my idea for providing a worthy prize for the winner - a brand new hand-made wood-carved tafl board for the next world champion. But what would be if we make it even better - a complete set including the pawns?! This is going to be an outstanding reward for the winner and a great stimulus for every contestant. But! We need money to make this dream comes true. Being more specific we will need 450 USD for the set and also some funds for delivering costs. What I'm going to do now is asking everyone of you to donate. Once we get this amount of money I'm going to design and purchase the board and Steiger will do the pawns for himself. Good ol' casshern was the first one who is willing to donate 100 USD, thank you viking! If you like the idea please lets consider it and decide whether we'll have a prize for the winner or not. Or we can do the board only without the pawns which will cost 200 USD w/o delivery. Please, think about it and thanks in advance! 06-21/19:44 Hagbard: @xerxes: thanks, tourn. 84 is corrected. 06-21/17:42 Hagbard: @xerxes: About the championship, an answer came out somewhat lengthy, so I put it in the large forum: http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&p=894#p894 06-21/13:14 xerxes: I think it is a pity that we are reverting to two rounds of Copenhagen for the World Championship - which should perhaps be renamed the World Copenhagen Championship. If it is going to continue as a purely Copenhagen format, perhaps we could also have an annual triathlon type championship to find the World Champion across the different formats ? This could be run in the spring so as not to interfere with the September championship. 06-21/12:51 xerxes: @Hagbard: Ref Tournament 84, I was White in the game vs Kevin_Alby. Also, the two games displayed between Animals and me are actually the same game, in which I was White. 06-21/08:30 Hagbard: - and strong players would probably perceive Round 1 as ten easy games. 06-21/06:23 sqAree: Great rule proposition. With these conditions I would join the tournament this year if I have time. 06-20/21:26 Hagbard: Now four games from the Hull tournament Saturday can be replayed ("tournament 84"). 06-20/19:30 Hagbard: Top two last year. But last year Round 1 was a different variant (Tawlbwrdd). To reduce the risk of qualified Copenhagen players not making it to the final, two proceeded from each group, and eight players in all. Now with the same variant used for both rounds, one from each group can proceed to the top final. The top final will then be easier to manage for the strong players, only about 10 hard games this year, but 14 last year. 06-20/19:05 OdinHimself: Only one player of each group will qualify for the final round? There were top two before... 06-20/10:51 Hagbard: New in the large forum: Proposition for tournament rules for the World Tafl Federation Championship 2017. 06-20/10:27 Hagbard: New in gallery: photos from Staraya Ladoga, Russia. 06-20/10:18 Hagbard: @OdinHimself: Thanks for clarifying; the text is changed. 06-19/14:14 OdinHimself: Congrats! 06-19/10:12 Hagbard: Congratulations to Animals for winning the Hull tournament! 06-18/20:48 OdinHimself: Hagbard, seems like there is some misunderstanding. I only made the designs for my boards, I personally didn't carve these, professional carvers did. But I call them my boards, because they really are mine, my ideas, I paid for them, but I didn't make them, but still the boards are mine. Could you please change the info under my photos, tahnks in advance, I'm sorry once again for misunderstanding my friend. :) 06-17/18:58 cyningstan: A brief report on today's live tournament in Hull are available: http://tafl.cyningstan.com/post/1839/hulls-first-hnefatafl-tournament-has-a-winner. The report includes the final match. Congratulations to David Lonsdale! 06-17/02:51 Bigwurm91: Man looks like we in the Americas have some practicing to do. Looking forward to the rematch! 06-16/11:18 OdinHimself: Go Europe go!!! 06-16/09:39 Hagbard: The America-Europe final is completed! And the winner is Europe with the scores: Europe 14 points. America 4 points. 06-11/22:21 Ded Fomich: @edmond-dantes Добре дошли, граф Монте-Кристо! =) 06-11/21:28 Hagbard: Welcome to Edmond-Dantes! 06-11/19:02 xerxes: @Hotfudge: Have played some games with your 'Force Mechanic' proposal and have a few questions, which I have put on the Large Forum. 06-11/15:48 OdinHimself: We have a new player from my town! edmond-dantes, Kyustendil, Bulgaria! Welcome! 06-10/08:41 OdinHimself: lol. They insisted to show them the Wall of fame section as a proof I won the European tournament. Don't get me wrong guys, I do not parade with this title, to be honest I kept it in secret, only my family and friends knew about it, but now I realize it helped me a lot when came in public. Media got interested in this news and I obtained a very good chance to present Hnefatafl to society, that's what I want most. Titles come and go, but the game is the true gem! Shortly after reportage got emitted a 13 year old boy contacted me on my Facebook account eager to learn Hnefatafl. He said he is a former chess player and I invited him to taflonline to teach him the rules first (Hagbard, please don't get me wrong, I just don't want to scare him with the big sharks around here! :)) and once he gets into the rules and the game strategy I'll show him aagenielsen and let him fight. I hope he doesn't lose interest, I know kids do things like that. 06-09/23:58 altti: I liked the program too, especially the part where I could see my name. TY for the international exposure. it is true we Americans are narcissists. 06-09/23:53 Hagbard: Good work! 06-09/16:34 OdinHimself: Yes. Yesterday we shot another video with a different crew of the Bulgarian national television. They would like to present the game in at least 4-5 minutes long interview in their morning blog. I hope it works, it all depends of the editors. Then I asked them to put me in a half an hour long regional broadcasting called "On a glass of wine" where I can speak free and show how the game is played. They asked me a lot about the WTF activity, tournaments, prizes etc. I think things slowly work out. :) 06-09/16:15 Hagbard: Wonderful program! I like that, thanks! And your beautiful game boards are in, too. I can hear that you have a good chat with the journalist about the game and about the championships! 06-09/14:00 OdinHimself: http://btvnovinite.bg/article/bulgaria/regionalni-novini/balgarin-e-evroshampion-po-vikingski-hah.html Hagbard, you can see your site on the television now... :) 06-08/13:41 OdinHimself: Skal! Live long and prosper! 06-08/12:16 Hagbard: "Play Tafl Online", USA tafl site, celebrates today its one year birthday. Big congratulations! 06-04/19:17 OdinHimself: lol I'm not depressed P, I'm not that kind of guy. More like I'm self-critical and often angry of my mistakes, I hate my nonconceptual periods which lead to no progress and lack of ingenuity. That's it. Oh, and I doubt there are plenty of people who might boast with series of victories against you, so I won't be sitting all alone in the cell of broken and scattered by you opponents. :) 06-04/18:28 Plantagenet: Something which can stop your depression. 06-04/16:24 OdinHimself: Thank you brothers, fellow warriors! I'll post the video on my Hnefatafl sport club's page, I know for most of you it will be incomprihensible, because it's in Bulgarian, but you can watch the frames at least. This is my mission, to bring nefatavl back to the light of the Balkans and give the world a new generation of sparked and perspective tafl players. One for all, all for one!!! 06-04/13:18 altti: wonderful news, Lucho! 06-04/08:07 Steiger: Great work, Lucho! 06-04/07:50 OdinHimself: Finally! My efforts for making Hnefatafl popular in Bulgaria achieved some success! I was inetrviewed by journalists for a short reportage, which will be broadcasted on national air in one of the two biggest media in Bulgaria. And I have their promises for future 25-30 minutes regional broadcasting about Tafl games. Also more and more people show interest in the game and contacting me for information. Skal!!! 06-01/19:25 OdinHimself: I think I hit the bottom of the non-creative-ideas swamp in the tafl land... Maybe it's time to do something else? 06-01/15:37 OdinHimself: Cool! I envy you noble 06-01/09:47 Adam: This weekend I am prestenting Hnefatafl at the Tønsberg Medieval Festival in Norway, this year we have a tent with medieval board games, so the Tafl family will be in good company! 05-29/18:50 Hagbard: casshern won the Sea battle 9x9 (Imperial Contest) tournament. 05-28/13:41 Hagbard: casshern won the Ard Ri-1 friendly-throne 7x7 test tournament. The variant could do with some more testing, though. 05-26/18:07 OdinHimself: Medieval yes. Last year I think was set the beginning of medieval markets in Bulgaria. I'll try to visit some of them this year. http://calendar.badamba.info/ I know it is in Cyrillic, just click on the links to see some photos. 05-26/17:26 Hagbard: Medieval markets then? 05-26/15:43 OdinHimself: @Hagbard: Unfortunatelly we don't have Viking markets in Bulgaria... Sad, but true. I could design and craft tafl boards for everyone who shows interest, but that's it. No markets... And I have plenty of ideas for beautiful new boards, just don't have funds for accomplishments... I really like to create one board as a prize for the next World tafl champion, but as I said I don't have free money for this project. Bulgaria is far from Wonedrland and it's quite hard for developing my ideas. Anyway I'm glad my boards are welcomed and liked. :) 05-26/09:43 Hagbard: @OdinHimself: So do you sell your wonderful tafl boards at your Viking markets? In the Trelleborg Viking Market, Denmark, there was a booth with also very fine carvings, German I believe. 05-26/08:44 Hagbard: Registering for the large forum is now opened for three days. 05-25/18:31 Steiger: nice job, Europe!) 05-25/15:30 Hagbard: Europe won against America, but still 6 games left to finish. 05-23/16:32 Hagbard: He most certainly is. Thanks. 05-23/15:13 xerxes: @Hagbard. In the Brandubh Throneless comp, I would have thought the King could be captured by two players if he is on the centre square (see my game as Black vs Jrton80). 05-20/17:07 OdinHimself: Wise! 05-20/10:49 Steiger: As told me my grandfather: под лежачий камень вода не течёт 05-20/10:17 Steiger: A powerful formula for growth! 05-20/10:04 OdinHimself: Havamal! :) 05-17/20:50 Steiger: Word from word gave words to me, Deed from deed gave deeds to me \m/. 05-17/18:30 OdinHimself: \m/ \m/ Both Alexanders \m/ \m/ We also became friends, never mind we started as opponents. It's being a pleasure knowing you guys and playing against each other without malice, just the contrary - we help each other and improve not only our knowledges, but tafl's Renaissance! I think the tafl world has now raised a very strong generation, we've grown as united and friendly community and this rejoices my heart! Let's bring Hnefatafl to the world brothers!!! 05-17/18:12 Steiger: I'm glad to hear that is Crust are fine too! 05-17/17:49 Steiger: @Ded Fomich, Thanks for your support, kumpel! 05-17/17:45 Ded Fomich: I also have a great Tablut board made by Steiger, it rocks too! \m/ Thanks a million, Sanya! In our community we have not only strong players, but great carving masters too. You are real heroes of hnefatafl renaissance (© Tim Millar), my friends! 05-17/17:39 Ded Fomich: By the way, I'm a proud owner of Tablut board designed by OdinHimself, it rocks! \m/ I will never stop thanking you for it, Lucho! 05-17/17:36 Ded Fomich: @xerxes Thank you for the good news about Tim, it makes us happy to hear that. 05-16/20:09 OdinHimself: Oh, I forgot to thank you for liking my boards xerxes! I appreciate it! :) 05-16/20:07 OdinHimself: Second that! I miss Tim. He was the first opponent I played against. And he always has been nice to me, a real gentleman! 05-16/15:49 xerxes: By the way, one or two players have been asking after 'Crust' (Tim). Adam tells me that Tim is well and is just currently taking a break from the online tafl world. Hopefully we will see Tim back on here before too long. 05-16/15:49 xerxes: A lovely set of boards Lucho. I'd say more than 'cool' ! 05-16/11:36 OdinHimself: Thanks Hagbard! Cool! 05-16/08:36 Hagbard: New in gallery: OdinHimself's tafl boards! 05-15/11:25 Hagbard: The "Choose opponents" lists players rated from 300 below till 600 above. But perhaps this limit should be adjusted. Open invitations can be accepted by anyone, however. 05-15/09:56 Plantagenet: In that case, how did I do to play against certain players? I ask this question because, as Plantagenêt, I can only invite mmagari, herjan, Odinhimself, casshern, altti, siegfried, fjorlag, animals, sqaree and Ded fomich and not all the other players. 05-15/06:15 OdinHimself: Thank you Hagbard! :) 05-14/21:55 Hagbard: @Plantagenet: Some players such as Helfrich are much against duplicate aliases. 05-14/21:53 Hagbard: @OdinHimself: AT = '@' and DOT = '.' 05-14/20:52 OdinHimself: hnef_aagenielsen.dk? 05-14/20:34 Plantagenet: @Hagbard: Why am I in the inability to create a secondary account? 05-14/16:39 Hagbard: hnef AT aagenielsen DOT dk 05-14/15:56 OdinHimself: Thanks Hagbard! But when I click the Email-address link nothing happens. I mean I can't see the address. 05-14/09:20 Hagbard: @OdinHimself: Certainly, I'll be glad to! You could mail the photos to my email address written at the bottom of this page. 05-14/08:34 OdinHimself: Hello Hagbard, would it be possible for you to post some photos (1 or 2) of my tafl board in the Gallery section? If it's not too obtrusive of course, if you have some privacy site policy I can understand. 05-13/15:49 Hagbard: casshern won the Skalk Hnefatafl 11x11 test tournament. Thanks for your patience with this variant; summary in the forum: http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=870#p870 05-09/20:24 xerxes: Thanks Hagbard 05-09/18:22 Hagbard: @xerxes: Thanks! The bug is corrected, and the two-step move is removed. 05-09/17:58 xerxes: @Hagbard: Ref the new Ard Ri tournament. I think there is a bug. In my game as Black vs Jrton80, Jrton80 has just moved his king 2 squares (D4-B4). 05-08/07:55 Hagbard: test tournament, there's one more chance with Ard Ri: Ard Ri-1 friendly-throne. King armed, moves only one step, wins on edge, captured from 2 sides, but the throne is friendly 05-05/17:35 Hagbard: Attention! May 17th there is a Board Game Studies Colloquium in Copenhagen with participating historical board game university researchers from many countries. If anyone here has thought of some clever question about tafl, which these people possibly could shed light on, please tell. 05-01/22:20 Hagbard: The Imperial Contest is probably our best Sea Battle 9x9 configuration. The king moves limitation is a clever way of adjusting the game balance, and such an adjustment is probably needed for the 9x9 board; but not needed for the larger boards where adjusting can be done through the setup of pieces. 05-01/22:00 Tuireann: I have always wanted to try the Imperial Contest rules. The limiting of the king to 4 space moves is an interesting limitation for a strong king on edge escape. 05-01/13:46 Hagbard: Test tournament: Imperial Contest. This game was produced 1855 in the UK by Jaques of London and was named "Imperial Contest", the first commercial hnefatafl game sold. NB the cargo ship moves max. 4 squares per move. (Hat tip Damian Walker). 04-29/08:50 Hagbard: Info: the timing limits are tightened a little bit: exceeding 15 days is a long game, and exceeding 30 days is a very long game. 9 out of 10 games will never notice. Still, when no time buffer left, you've always 1.5 days for current move before timing out. 04-28/12:02 OdinHimself: Happy birthday Altti! Live long and prosper! :) 04-28/07:52 Hagbard: congratulations to Altti on the birthday and good luck in the final! 04-28/00:20 altti: starting on my birthday. 04-27/16:14 Hagbard: The European team is ready: 1 Odinhimself, 2 Animals, 3 Sqaree, 4 Hagbard, 5 Steiger, 6 Kratzer, 7 Thanir, 8 Xerxes, 9 Arevidar The America-Europe final can begin tomorrow! 04-20/12:58 Hagbard: casshern won the Ard Ri-1 7x7 test tournament. Thanks to all participants in the Ard Ri test series for your patience! It has been a long process. 04-20/10:03 Hagbard: casshern won the Copenhagen cluster 17 test tournament. 04-17/22:42 Hagbard: New registering for the large forum is opened for 3 days. 04-17/22:07 sqAree: It will still take a while to finish the European tournament thanks to me. :D Sorry for that. 04-17/21:52 animals: Thanks. Next stop Europe vs Americas. 04-17/11:31 altti: Congrats Animals! 04-17/10:07 xerxes: Yes, congratulations to Animals ! 04-17/08:47 OdinHimself: Congrats! 04-16/23:35 Hagbard: Congratulations to animals for winning the English National Championship 2017 in West Stow today! 04-16/08:54 OdinHimself: Thanks! We will meet plenty of times I think. :) Good luck! 04-16/01:48 Casshern: Thank you Odin! And congrats on your victory in the Europeon tournament! I was hoping we would met in the America-Europe challenge but Altti still reigns supreme on this side of the pond. 04-15/19:37 OdinHimself: Congratulations casshern! 04-15/11:03 Hagbard: casshern won the Ard Ri-1 test tournament. Even if a few moves are left of the last tournament game, the Ard Ri's can be summed up: http://aagenielsen.dk/hnefataflforum/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=861#p861 04-11/19:25 Hagbard: Skalk rating suspended during the test tournament. The balance is not known well enough. 04-10/21:16 Hagbard: ok, 9*2 games, and 18 points to share then - 04-10/14:17 animals: Suggested points for America vs Europe would mean an overall win if just the top three players won, which seems a bit too focused on the top. 04-10/12:29 Hagbard: Each pair one black and one white game. 04-10/11:05 xerxes: @Hagbard - Ref the America-Europe Challenge, my view would be a point for each game. I assume each pairing will play one Black and one White game ? 04-09/23:53 Hagbard: Suggestion for America-Europe final round points: No. 1 game 9 points, no. 2 game 8 points etc. and no. 9 game 1 point. 04-09/08:29 Hagbard: - and repetitions are forbidden as usual. 04-08/22:56 Hagbard: @xerxes: Correct. It's a tablut with win in corner. No Shieldwall Capture and no Edge Fort. But you can do the win by black completely surrounding white. 04-08/21:58 Casshern: @Hagbard: Thank you. 04-08/18:47 xerxes: @Hagbard: I assume no Shieldwall Capture and Edge Fort in Skalk ? 04-08/18:07 Hagbard: @Casshern: Skalk Hnefatafl: If the king is on a square next to a corner, he can be captured by one black. 04-08/15:58 OdinHimself: Thank you Altti! :) Viking/folk metal, pagan/folk metal and folk/black metal! \m/ 04-08/12:30 altti: @OdinHimself: congrats fellow international champion. \m/. FOLK METAL! 04-07/07:38 Hagbard: Test tournament: "Skalk Hnefatafl 11x11" was the version advocated by museums in Denmark and Scandinavia for 20 years (1992-2012), and it's still the version you meet in books. (King armed, captured from 2 sides, wins in corner). Can you win as white? 04-07/00:50 Tuireann: The latest episode of 'The Last Kingdom'(S02E04) shows Alfred the Great and his daughter playing a Tafl game using the classic History Craft 'Viking Game'. :P A little immersion breaking knowing I have an identical set not 2 meters away... But awesome to see a Tafl game featured in a TV poduction! 04-06/17:18 OdinHimself: Thank you xerxes. Both you and your brother were a very tough opponents. \m/ 04-06/17:14 xerxes: @OdinHimself: Congratulations on a well-deserved win. 04-06/16:56 Steiger: Yeah, man!\m/. 04-06/16:28 OdinHimself: ...Brothers of metal will always be there, standing together with haaaaaands in the air! \m/ 04-06/16:22 Steiger: We Are Fighting With Power And Steel Fighting For Metal, Metal That's Real ;-) 04-06/15:54 OdinHimself: @Steiger: Thanks brother! In the name of metal!!!!! \m/ \m/ 04-06/15:51 Steiger: @OdinHimself: Congrats, brother!\m/. 04-06/15:41 Hagbard: @OdinHimself: Good idea. 04-06/14:17 OdinHimself: @Kratzer Thank you for your reply my friend. @Hagbard Yay you made my day!!! Shall I announce this on my Hnefatafl Odin facebook page? 04-06/10:04 Kratzer: @OdinHimself: Same here. I could not reach him via FB. Hope he is alright. 04-06/09:47 Hagbard: OdinHimself won the Beowulf Trophy Match! Congratulations! The tournament covered all Europe, Asia and Australia, and thus OdinHimself is our second International Tafl Master. 04-06/07:36 Hagbard: The American team is ready: 1 Altti, 2 Casshern, 3 Fraech, 4 Bigwurm91, 5 Brench, 6 Tuireann, 7 Fairland, 8 Waegn, 9 Imaxuncut 04-06/07:24 Hagbard: Adam won the Alea Berserk 19x19 test tournament. 04-04/18:26 OdinHimself: Has anyone heard something about Tim (crust)? He just disappeared and I lost contact to him. 04-01/04:55 Fairland: Oh alright, thanks! 03-31/11:14 Hagbard: @Fairland: I use the diagrams. Fx. the diagram of Cluster 17 shows that a black and a white move were done, the opening we test now.

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Congratulations to English National Champion 2017, David Lonsdale ("Animals"), Peterborough, UK.
Junior: Oliver Wilson, UK.
(West Stow April 16th 2017)

European Hnefatafl Championship tournament 2017.
The Beowulf Trophy match
For tafl players not living in North- and South-America.

The tournament starts March 1st 2017.

Rules: Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11.
There will be one round, all against all.

12 registered participants by February 28th:
xerxes, OdinHimself, Steiger, sqAree, AreVidar, animals, Marcin, Hagbard, Thanir, Kratzer, Anto2016, tankred

(Finally there will be an America-against-Europe tournament among the nine top players from each side, the Ragnarökr Trophy match.
European team for the final:
1 Odinhimself, 2 Animals, 3 Sqaree, 4 Hagbard, 5 Steiger, 6 Kratzer, 7 Thanir, 8 Xerxes, 9 Arevidar
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Congratulations to European International Master 2017, Lucho Panchev ("OdinHimself"), Kyustendil, Bulgaria!

American Hnefatafl Championship tournament 2017.
The Vinland Trophy match (hat tip: Steve Lonsdale)
For tafl players living in North- and South-America.

The tournament starts February 1st 2017.

Rules: Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11.
There will be one round, all against all.

10 registered participants by January 31st:
altti, Fairland, theexplorer135, bigwurm91, Waegn, Casshern, Fraech, imaxuncut, Brench, Tuireann

(March 1st there'll likewise be a European tournament including all tafl players outside North- and South-America, and finally an America-against-Europe tournament among the nine top players from each side, the Ragnarökr Trophy match.
American team for the final:
1 Altti, 2 Casshern, 3 Fraech, 4 Bigwurm91, 5 Brench, 6 Tuireann, 7 Fairland, 8 Waegn, 9 Imaxuncut
)

Congratulations to American International Master 2017, Altti Piirsoo ("Altti"), New York, USA!

World Tafl Federation Hnefatafl Championship tournament 2016.

The tournament starts September 1st 2016.

There will be two rounds:
1. Welsh Tawlbwrdd 11x11 (Bell).
2. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11.

33 registered participants by September 1st:
HELFRICH, altti, Tuireann, Steiger, Teondrae, xerxes, animals, Kratzer, Patterson, Hagbard, BigWurm91, Gjallarhorn, crust, Adam, AreVidar, Mykle, vonraider, sybil, RBerenguel, GavinBegbie, herjan, TheBloodyJarl, Waegn, Ded Fomich, Aluric, Fraech, tonythebook, Chalhub, OdinHimself, Fellhuhn, Agmundr, Sigurd, fairland

The players come from
12 countries (USA, Ukraine, UK, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Australia, Russia, Ireland, Brazil, Bulgaria)
11 USA states (West Virginia, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, California, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Louisiana, Pennsylvania)
4 continents (Europe, North- and South America, Australia - if Drzhbe in Novosibirsk, Russia, had joined, we would have had Asia in, too)

If you weren't to make it to the Valhöll Final, no worries, you'll have the Round 2 in As-, Mith- or Utgarthr.

NB! Round 1 time buffer 7 days only!!

Congratulations to World Tafl Federation Champion 2016, Leo Kolassa ("Herjan"), Formby, UK!

Hnefatafl is also known by the names Nefatavl, The King's Table, The Viking Game, Viking Chess, Tablut or simply Tafl.
History of this site.
Comments on Hnefatafl.
The origin of the Viking board game Hnefatafl and the Berserk rules.
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Viking word of wisdom: The Hávamál.

Можно здесь играть в тавлеи и против компъютер и против людей. Можно использовать кириллицы.

Many thanks to Gary and Christa (Germany), Ludovic Antoine, Nikolas Lloyd, Sten Helmfrid, Olga Mudrichenko, Dmitrij Polovinkin, John C. Ashton, Tim Millar, Adam Barkley, Nicolas Cartier, Gregory Binns, Fabio Capello, Rene Gralla, Damian Walker and Olli Salmi for their contribution to this site. And not least the more than 1000 players the world over who played here more than 13000 real tafl games humans against humans and thus created a vast, practical experience with this intriguing, historical board game.

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