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Probability of tie in a match of two games of Copenhagen Hnefatafl, when the players are equally strong. Copenhagen game balance +1.50 means probability of white win: 60% black win: 40% The match is a tie if both players win as black or if they both win as white. Probability for this to happen is 6...

This is my bid for an evaluation of the Championship Tournament 2017: As usual my bid will look much like last year. What worked well. 2.5 months of signing in before the tournament (July, August and half September) with an Are-You-Sure. That everybody can join. We had several new names again, who ...

November 12th 2017 the ancient games club 'Gral'nij Majdan' in Kiev, Ukraine, had their first meeting. Photo series from the evening: https://www.facebook.com/events/135395350451158/permalink/136384050352288/ Vogneslav Zmijovich and Valentin Kolontay kindly informed me about which rules were used: T...

nath wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 01, 2017 3:57 am

the search in the Games archive doesn't seem to work for games from 2014 and earlier. Is there a way to search for them explicitly?

You can use this link:
http://aagenielsen.dk/visallespil_soeg_nath.php

Nath has started a project to investigate deeper into the mysteries of tafl games. For use by the project is introduced the option "No Timing + No Rating". Project discussion has been going on in the small forum for a while, here's a copy of the discussion: 10-20/15:40 nath: Here's the last part: On...

Yesterday I brought with me the Hnefatafl game to a family birthday party. All the guests were very unaquainted with Hnefatafl, only four or five even ever heard about it. http://aagenielsen.dk/tawlbwrdd4_r.png I invited three of the guests for a game of Hnefatafl and decided to use the Tawlbwrdd 1...

Distribution of tafl move times. 100000 tafl moves drawn from games since 2015 were analyzed for move times. The diagram shows that this site has fast players! http://aagenielsen.dk/traektider.png 8000 tafl games since 2015 were analyzed for game times (time length of the games): http://aagenielsen...

Will there be an updated activity diagram for this website? http://aagenielsen.dk/taflaktivitet_2017.png This diagram shows the tafl gaming activity of the latest seven years of this site, measured as number of tafl moves done per week. Throughout 2012 the gaming activity growth was exponential, bu...

Damian Walker has a translation of the Alea Evangelii text:
http://tafl.cyningstan.com/page/167/alea-evangelii-text

Variants like the hammer-only, capture from 3 sides and one-step-per-
move are shelved for now.

Theory:
Those variants are probably earlier attempts by people who had
problems with rules which wouldn't work.