Hnefatafl forum

I try to avoid js like the plague. ;) Yeah, I get that a lot. :) It doesn't bother me because I don't like standard OO and JS has lambda expressions, GC, and is easily extensible. But I'm still surprised that a language that isn't even fully compiled (yet oo-ish) survived that long (at least in bro...

I would think that Tafl might be easier to razor than chess, because in the chess the tactics are so sharp a game can seem to completely turn around with one bad (or brilliant) move; that seems to be less the case in tafl (but I'm a beginner). For example, an important metric in tafl is how many mov...

That sounds like fun, unfortunately I'm just a hobbyist programmer, I've avoided C like the plague. I'm working on a javascript webapp to play brandubh. To compensate for the slowness of the platform (<2000 nodes per minute ) I'm trying to write a decent position evaluator. I think I may be able to ...

"the player who choose to end the game prematurely by repetition is basically a coward, which would have been unthinkable between vikings" Interesting point, but after all, white's goal is simply to escape , not defeat black on the field, and escaping is pretty cowardly. "I think the player who can ...

"I have a wacky but fast movegen sitting at my desk. "

Are you a hardware guy? Is the movegen specifically designed for hnefatafl? That would be Awesome.

Right, my idea was to have a Master title instead of GM or IM.

Why the rush to award GM titles? Why not start with the Master title?

... The king threatens to exit and a muscovit is moved in between to block. The king then moves to another square and threatens to exit here as well. The same muscovit has to be employed to block this time too. The king moves back to the first square and the muscovit is also moved back to block. Wh...

Since last month I notice that the balance has changed, it's now at +1.22 overall (+1.31 when compensated for better players). That's not bad, but I've compared it to the game on Dragonheels' Lair that uses my old rules. Of 314 games, there were 144 white wins against 166 black, with 4 draws. Using...