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Splitting the triathlon. The triathlon tournament 2015 took 148 dage = 5 months to finish. And 5 long months it was with the same group of 14 players where others could not join in after the combined tournament had started. The internet seems not a very suitable place for a complex event like this,...

At the colloquium Dr. Jorge Nuno Silva, Portugal, gave an interesting lecture, and he cited from a book of his, how to tell if an abstract game is a good game. The authors of the book are: Dr. João Pedro Neto. B.Sc. in Computer Science; M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning); Ph.D. in N...

Corey Hart ("Brench") says in an educational video (time 6.00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cr2fZXKoW8 That's not as balanced as chess. But real game balance is very diffucult in an asymmetric game, and given that the asymmetry is part of the charm of this particular game ... that kind of game ...

Probability of tie in a match of two tafl games as consequence of game balance. Game balance 1.00 (perfect) means probability of white win: 50% black win: 50% The match is a tie if both players win as black or if they both win as white. Probability for this to happen is 50% * 50% + 50% * 50% = 50.0...

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...