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- Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:19 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
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Re: Alea Evangelii 19x19
marc0 wrote: Could you please post the links to the two online versions you mentioned? http://aagenielsen.dk/tafl_humans.php Invite for a new game. More variants. Choose "Hnefatafl edge 19x19", "Sea battle tafl 19x19" or "Tablut 19x19". Thank you Hagbard! It occurred to me that (if I understand cor...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:48 am
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Sparse set ups
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Sparse set ups
Damian Walker deduced a formula for the usual number of tafl game pieces p as a function of board size w: Many layouts conform to a simple formula: p = 6w - 29, where p is the number of pieces and w is the width of the board, in playing spaces. This gives a ratio of pieces to empty space of approxi...
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 11:29 am
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
- Views: 123754
Re: Alea Evangelii 19x19
marc0 wrote: Interesting discussion! The Alea Evangelii set up can be tried in the online games with weak (tablut) king and unarmed king, and in both cases the defending side seems hopeless. Strong king might have a chance to get through to the edge. But the Alea Evangelii board has marked corner s...
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 5:40 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
- Views: 123754
Re: Alea Evangelii 19x19
Interesting discussion! The Alea Evangelii set up can be tried in the online games with weak (tablut) king and unarmed king, and in both cases the defending side seems hopeless. Strong king might have a chance to get through to the edge. But the Alea Evangelii board has marked corner squares, so the...
- Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:43 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
- Views: 123754
Re: Modern Alea Evangelii
plantagenêt wrote: About the Alea Evangelii Tablut, I offer this variant that it seems to me to be an amelioration: _ _ A _ _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ A _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ N _ N _ A _ _ _...
- Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:35 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
- Views: 123754
Re: Alea Evangelii
17x17 Alea Evangelii? Marco wrote: In her book L’enluminure et le sacré [link not working], Dominique Barbet-Massin presents the following argument (p.360): Le dessin du damier tel qu'il est représenté, montrant des pions disposés autour d'un pion “unitaire” au centre, ou défendant les quatre cases...
- Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:01 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
- Views: 123754
Re: Alea Evangelii
Marco wrote: I just received from the library a copy of L’enluminure et le sacré by Dominique Barbet-Massin: a scholarly book (in French) which includes an extensive discussion of Alea Evangelii and MS 122. I also found an online source ( The Irish Invented Chess! By Brian Nugent) which provides a ...
- Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:02 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
- Views: 123754
Modern Alea Evangelii
plantagenêt wrote: I offer creating a new Alea Evangelii variant with the following rules: King has to reach one of the four corner squares to win, all pieces have the same positionning as Alea Evangelii Tablut (and Sea Battle), the king has at his disposal 20 common warriors and 4 guards who're pl...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:59 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
- Views: 123754
Re: Alea Evangelii
Marco wrote: Michael Lapidge has identified the author of the Alea Evangelii text and diagram with “Israel the Grammarian”. Only a few fragments are known about the figure of Israel. From them, Lapidge has assembled this tentative biography in his 1992 paper Israel the Grammarian in Anglo-Saxon Eng...
- Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:36 pm
- Forum: Rules
- Topic: Alea Evangelii 19x19
- Replies: 47
- Views: 123754
Re: Alea Evangelii
Marco wrote: Thanks Marc0, that clarified things for me. So, my main angle for looking again at Alea, is that the presently accepted proposed set up for the game leads to a dull game where white is hopelessly surrounded from the start. Hello Adam, given the limited information we have about this ga...