Hnefatafl forum

Christian Busch blogged about a new tafl game of his: http://pimpmyboardgame.com/?p=1948 Interestingly, the leather board from The Merry Merchant is decorated with burnt in Viking ships for starting positions of attackers. On the present site we have sometimes discussed that the tafl game might simu...

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They're creating three clubs in Ukraine for Medieval games and firstly Hnefatafl. The idea of Medieval Games clubs with Hnefatafl as one of the games could be fruitful, attracting a larger public than merely Hnefatafl clubs. Solely Hnefatafl clubs were tried in Tromsø, Norway, and in Burnsall, UK, ...

The event Scandinavian Night was held May 20th 2017 in the National Museum of History in Kiev. One of the popular events of the evening was demonstration and playing of Hnefatafl, and more than 14 very interested young Ukrainians attended. The rules used were "Old Hnefatafl", which has traditionally...

May 22nd, Jarl Herjan on Facebook, photo of a fine tawlbwrdd board 11x11 with throne and no corners, and diamond-Bell setup, just as we recommend it here. But also with a dicebox and six dice, and the comment This is my new Tawlbwrdd (Welsh Tafl) which I had designed. In addition I have come up with...

The University of Copenhagen held a most successful BGCXX May 17th-21st 2017. A two-storey auditorum full of amiable board game enthusiasts, mostly high level university people - researchers, PH.D's, professors; about 55 participants from Australia, Europe and USA; much of the time parallel lectures...

22.5.2017 "Tuireann" and "Fishbreath" has an interesting discussion about Alea Evangelii 19x19 on the Play Tafl Online forum (http://www.playtaflonline.com), the full discussion copied here: Tuireann : So, I don't think Alea Evangelli is a tafl game anymore at all. I have been doing some translation...

April-May 2017 we had another go at testing Skalk Hnefatafl 11x11. The game balance measured from this test tournament alone was -4.00 (30 games). March 2013 we had a first test tournament of Skalk 11x11, resulting in a measured game balance of -3.97 (72 games). Calculated from all Skalk 11x11 games...

Hagbard wrote:In a few weeks I'll set up a test tournament, asking players to start with the cluster 17 two moves.

A test tournament of the Copenhagen Brench cluster 17 was done with 5 players, 20 games.
Brench predicted 83% white wins, and the test came very close to that: 75% white wins!

Are there any alternative browsers for java and the applet. The Java tafl applet on this site was written in 2002. At that time the general wisdom in Denmark was that Hnefatafl was "Skalk Hnefatafl" 11x11 and 9x9. So these are what the applet does, and later extended with "Old Hnefatafl 11x11". Now...