Hnefatafl forum

Sorry for the late notice - I was absent for quite some time. It highly depends on what you are looking for. I mainly play on simple traveling sets as I call them, they basically consist of glass nuggets of the corresponding colors (I prefer black for black, white for white and red for the king) and...

I think the prefixes are actually to short to say things definitely, but I am intrigued that there's something happening here. I'd love some top level player discoursing about openings. I personally think (even though I pushed an promoted that move when there where little to none composed openings) ...

Regarding the championship itself I'd like to have a final (I suggest at least two matches e.g. four games) between a challenger and the world champion. They can also run paralell (with for example 10 days offset). We could generate the challenger as the winner of a mass tournament like we did this ...

Your suggestion for ties is a good idea. That should be more fair. I like also your idea of smaller groups for the preliminary rounds. What kind of system do you suggest exactly? I think it is kind of interesting to make groups out of 5-7 players with a focus on five (13 players a group of 6 and a g...

Even in the preliminary rounds? If we are unlucky player A, E, I are in the same group, 2 players should advance, but player E and I both got for example 8 points and both won the black game against each other. I suggested this 1. points (he archived this round) 2. direct comparison (skip this for w...

I still can't see the huge advantage of black. I agree blacks position looks strong, but it's far beyond my ability to make it to a certain win. I guess the reason is also psychological. If we loose with black we usually see how white crushed us down and what defending moves we missed. We instantly ...

That's nearly my fist suggestion. Just the algorithm of contributing the players to the groups differs. We should keep the algorithm clean, but you might be right that it is better if we use the rating for distributing the players over the groups. I suggest that kind of creating the rank: 1. points ...

It is. It also covers the game between altti and me last tournament (that's the reason I didn't agree the draw), but it seems hard to test, because you have to retrace the whole game if you want to test whether the rule matters. But I would suggest to change it to "white have to find another move". ...

Perhaps just as well go the whole length and use a 20 day-limit for all games of a championship tournament. That double the needed time. If we have to many participants, that take a lot of time. If matches which were carried out already in the first round, were to be repeated in the second round, t...

The Vikings had much less opportunity to compare good strategies then we have today. I like to draw back a line form the vikings, but I have to admit that want also promote Hnefatafl as a game itself and not only as a nice to know as part of the Vikings. And most assumptions that are made so far doe...