Hnefatafl forum

Generally white begins or black begins? In start of our tests and practising the Hnefatafl game here from 2010, we chose to have the attackers (black) begin the games. (Before 2010 there was only the AI opponent to experiment against.) Now from a balancing point of view, accidentally most game vari...

Which board sizes, game types and variants have been more popular during the latest year? updated 2.5.2025 Board sizes. Other 3346 games 11x11 1526 7x7 371 13x13 331 9x9 307 17x17 81 15x15 76 19x19 8 5x5 4 Game types: Other games 3346 games Weak king 1317 Strong king 1223 Unarmed king (Sea battle) ...

About quick timing of race games. Oct. 15th 2024 Steve Lonsdale ("Xerxes") sent this mail: I’ve been thinking about the race games. My view is that they should be played quickly, say 10 seconds per move, 5-6 moves per minute, so a game of 50 moves per person (most matches are shorter) should only t...

The Commanders in the Thor game can short jump over both enemy and own men (but not over officers like the king or other commanders). I wonder if the Variegated Men should be considered officers also, or just considered to be normal men who change side all the time. The Commander jumping any normal ...

Evaluation of WTF World Champion tournament 2024:
https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturneval2024.php

Overview of the Martens variants. There are 22 Martens variants. All of them have: weak king no special squares berserk moves Variant number 133, Alea Berserk 17x17 (Martens 0) The variant has Commanders, Variegated men and immortal Guards. The idea of immortal Guards was left. 5.2.2025 renamed to ...

I see that x5 is not enough.

It's changed to x10 now, which should be plenty of time.

It's a good idea, that you and Sqaree usually choose "x10 + no rating", which gives even more time.

I expect x10 to be ok. But if it should turn out to still be too little then more can be done -

Idea for change of setup for the normal tournaments here, inspired from the World Champ.'s Battles of Brothers : Until now, all normal tournaments have been Round Robins, i.e. every new player has started up with games against everybody. This could be changed into kind of Battle of Brothers: A new p...

The WTF finalists got extra 10 days as we ran into Christmas, and it's remarkable what they did with the extra time . The final games are impressing. I wonder if it would be an idea to time all games between the very top players (IM and GM) with 10x (not race games). Or simpler, when both players ar...

There's a point!