Hnefatafl forum

Damian Walker gives on his internet site "Hnefatafl - the Game of the Vikings" a translated extract of an Irish poem describing Brandubh: [link not working] Allow me to repeat the Damian Walker note here in full: Abair riom a Eire ogh. An Irish poem attributed to Maoil Eoin Mac Raith throws much lig...

Through experience from thousands of tafl games some general rules for all tafl variants have emerged. Board. Always quadratic, the width an uneven number of squares. Used are 7x7, 9x9, 11x11, 13x13, 15x15 and perhaps 19x19. Pieces. Always one king, and number of attackers = 2 * number of defenders....

The Brandubh variant is really the good old Skalk game, which was discarded as useless on board 11x11 and not too good on board 9x9. Now at last perhaps the Skalk rules can come into use. The Skalk Hnefatafl 11x11 game, which is a Tablut corner 11x11, was stated in the book "Bræt og brik, Spil i jer...

Various sources have proposed initial orderings for tawlbwrdd 11x11 (no throne) which have been combinations of Defenders' ordering: Diamond or cross. Attackers' ordering: T-ordering . . b . . b b b b b Bell . b . b . b b b b Lewis b b b b b b These formations can be combined in 5 ways, and the meas...

Olli Salmi sent this mail: Jag kollade lite var Linné var när han skrev reglerna. Han var på färden tillbaka till Umeå från Rørstad i Norge men ännu i fjällen. Han använde vägvisare och tolkar, så det här från Wikipedia måste vara fel: "His description, in Latin, was incomplete, as he did not speak ...

Is the black piece in e13 a black knight? There's also some special piece in j13? The two special pieces could be reverse pieces? Knights are usually white, but there's one black knight? And commanders are usually black, but there's one white commander? A GO board is 19x19, so the ideas can be teste...

This is my bid for an evaluation of the Championship Tournament 2014: What worked well. A month of signing in before the tournament. Tournament start at September 1st, which is after summer holidays. Splitting the tournament into a Preliminary Round 1 and a Final Round 2, and splitting Round 1 into...

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 ... If we let advance the upper half rounded down As an average game length is 60 moves, each prel...

Sonneborn-Berger is a clever principle. So: 1. points scored in this round in case of a tie: 2. direct comparison of the games of the tied players (for this round) 3. Sonneborn-Berger score calculated for this round in case of still a tie: 4. preliminary round: both players proceed. Final: new round...

If players in rating order are A, B, C, etc., the grouping is 1 2 3 4 A B C D E F G H I J K L . . . . . . . . In the preliminary games with one day per move, player A would pay special attention to games against players E and I, because most likely one of these players proceeds to the final. In the ...