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Proposition for a small change of tournament rules for the World Tafl Federation Championship 2016: only one player from each preliminary group proceeds to the final. there's only one final group: Asgarthr with the tournament winner and new world champion. Players who don't qualify for Asgarthr have...

I am Aage Nielsen; a work career of scientific work, project management, systems programming and systems administration. Born into interest for history in the countryside Lejre, the cradle of Denmark; when we worked in the fields we would find Stone Age tools in the soil. I accidentally met the boar...

I see. The shield wall rule only applies when it is closed from either end as the last piece in the shieldwall, i.e. next to a board edge. That's right. Crust (Millar) explained the shieldwall thoroughly here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1637222823214092.1073741840.1464975820438794&ty...

hrafnblod wrote:Also is there a junior section?

There's no junior section, unfortunately. The youngest tafl player of known age here, besides your son, is 19 years old.

Sigurd wrote:Proposal for 'Short' Tafl Games'

Implemented.

The Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11 was outlined April 2012 and has ever since been brought to good use at World Championships on this site and at several live tournaments in UK. The Copenhagen game includes the "Old Hnefatafl" and the Fetlar Hnefatafl and is merely an extension of these (better working,...

Proposal for 'Short' Tafl Games Thanks for the draft of a "short game" concept, very good thinking! The first two years of online-gaming here (2010-11), all games were real time, no correspondence mode available. Sole time limit was that each move must be done within 5 minutes, and by this simple m...

A test tournament showed that the Sea Battle circle 9x9 setup (balance +1.46):

is as balanced as the Sea Battle T 9x9 setup (balance +1.55):

10/2/2014 Hagbard wrote: I referred to the former - none of the edge squares are patterned. I see what you mean, peg holes are visible to the left, where a wooden border was attached. And you were right about the horizontal line of fracture - the two parts do fit together. The carved lines in the l...

8/2/2014 Hagbard wrote: I've attempted to deduce logically what can be seen in the Oslo board fragment. Here's my interpretation of the Oslo board: Premises. 1. The board is size 15x15 and has no marked corner squares; it has no marked edge squares at all. 2. More than a quarter of the board is vis...