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- Tue Jan 05, 2016 3:32 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Classic game books
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9011
Re: Classic game books
What precisely do you want to know? I have both. Murray's full description is nine pages long, but I can give you his introductory paragraph that contains the gameplay. Scandinavia and Iceland: Tafl, hnefatafl (HC. 445); Pre-conquest England: Tafl; Wales: Tawlbwrdd (F. R. Lewis); Ireland: name unre...
- Sat Dec 26, 2015 11:57 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Classic game books
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9011
Classic game books
Does someone know about the precise hnefatafl descriptions of Murray and Bell?
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:21 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Copenhagen Hnefatafl
- Replies: 153
- Views: 274688
Re: Copenhagen Hnefatafl
The shieldwall rule. Does somebody know the origin of the hnefatafl shieldwall rule? The rule is explained in this German page: http://www.hnefatafl.net/englisch/ehnefatafl.html#Schildwall The Shieldwallrule Shieldwallrule means the application of the double trap and the capture of the king on the ...
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:17 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Sea Battle Tafl
- Replies: 37
- Views: 95909
Re: Sea Battle Tafl
Summary on the Sea Battle Tafl:
http://aagenielsen.dk/seabattle_summary.php
http://aagenielsen.dk/seabattle_summary.php
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:15 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Copenhagen Hnefatafl
- Replies: 153
- Views: 274688
Re: Copenhagen Hnefatafl
Summary on the Copenhagen Hnefatafl:
http://aagenielsen.dk/copenhagen_summary.php
http://aagenielsen.dk/copenhagen_summary.php
- Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:08 am
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Saami Tablut
- Replies: 57
- Views: 162983
Re: Saami Tablut
Summary on the Saami Tablut:
http://aagenielsen.dk/tablut_summary.php
http://aagenielsen.dk/tablut_summary.php
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:01 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: General rules
- Replies: 39
- Views: 113055
Re: General rules
Yet some general reflections. Balance. It's often been claimed that game balance is not that crucial, because any size of unbalance can be overcome by always playing two games, one of each color. Reductio ad absurdum, this argument would be equally valid for a perfectly unbalanced game: white always...
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:36 am
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Unarmed tafl
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14199
Re: Unarmed tafl
Then perhaps Welsh tafl is the simplest pedagogical variant, and simpler not needed.Adam wrote:I've taught 11x11 hnefatafl to classes of six and seven year olds in five minutes
- Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:23 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Unarmed tafl
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14199
Unarmed tafl
As a beginners' first tafl, I wonder if there is a tafl to be found with all pieces unarmed and king wins on edge?
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 9:20 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Tafl in Denmark
- Replies: 8
- Views: 55024
Re: Tawlbwrdd 11x11
Did they enjoy the games? Do you think they'll play again? They did enjoy the games, and so did I. They were immediately ready to play the game and without having to think much about the rules. Not like earlier times when I with other beginners tried Skalk 11x11, Fetlar 11x11, Tablut 11x11 (Fetlar ...