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edmond_dantes wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:56 am

Does the site have a mechanism to monitor this?
Yes for the creation. Can you make moves from the same IP on two different accounts. Does this control? I do not care about me, rather for security reasons I ask

Yes, but it can be monitored for check.

edmond_dantes wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 29, 2017 11:35 pm

Is it allowed to play two accounts from the same IP address? ... Does the site have a mechanism to monitor this?

No, only one user name is allowed from the same IP address. Not only for the tournament but also generally.
It's automatically not possible to create a second user name.

I would like to know what is the most used way to learn and practice the game. - With friends - Online - Local Against an AI Is there any good program you use to test or look for strategy ? Since noone else has answered yet, I'll try and give my bid on this one. This is just my personal experience ...

Copied from small forum: I prefer the Knock-out system. It's better to play a single game against one person until the final round. In 2016 we were 33 players. Two rounds and the winner was found after 80 days. This year the timing is tightened a bit, and the winner is expected after 70 days, that i...

This email came about AI-participants: Hello, I registered for the World Tafl Federation Hnefatafl Championship tournament 2017. I would like to know if people can enter with an AI or it is really restricted to human ? Regards Arnaud It's important that our World Champion is a human. But also it's i...

The "Nielsen"-setups of tawlbwrdd 13x13 and 15x15 were tournament tested. They did not work so well as do the "David Parlett" 13x13 and "Damian Walker" 15x15 setups, but I think there is a lesson to be learnt from the experiment. The "Nielsen"-setups are nothing ingenious, they are just the simplest...

On game balance in favour of attackers or defenders. If a game setup favours the attackers and another setup equally favours the defenders, are the two setups then to be considered equally well working, or is one to be preferred over the other? Playing attackers or defenders are two very different ...

If we run out of Round 1 group names, here are some Eastern European Old Norse locations:
Gàrtharíki = the Kievan Rus' state
Kønugarthr = Kiev
Hólmgarthr = Novgorod
Miklagarthr = Konstantinopel (close to Bulgaria)
Jomsborg in Poland
Aldeigjuborg = Staraya Ladoga
Eysysla = Øsel, Saaremaa

Hagbard wrote:Berserk.
One round of Berserk.
The tournament could run every year around January 1st.
Winner is Tafl Berserker 2018 etc.

The Berserk tournament could also be right after the World Championship Tournament like last year.
After the tough World Championship, running berserk is good relaxation.

Copied from the small forum: Great rule proposition. With these conditions I would join the tournament this year if I have time. I think it is a pity that we are reverting to two rounds of Copenhagen for the World Championship - which should perhaps be renamed the World Copenhagen Championship. If i...