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Which board sizes, game types and variants have been more popular during the latest year? Updated Dec. 27th 2022. Board sizes. 11x11 2170 games 9x9 837 7x7 496 13x13 214 5x5 120 15x15 111 Other 2256 Game types: Weak king 2381 games Strong king 1294 Unarmed king (Sea battle) 273 Other games 2256 Var...

Dimetr wrote in the small forum: You know Robert ap Ifan’s manuscript, about Tawlbwrdd (Peniarth Manuscript 158). Linnaeus Diary was published long time ago But it’s still not possible to see Robert ap Ifan’s manuscript Maybe you will write to The Nation­al Library of Wales? Could they send the scan...

The Single-Elimination format test has till now resulted in a final between Draganov, Dimetr and Asther-Kane, which is very reasonable. For World Championship use, however, it is rather clear that coincidence might become a too big factor by Single-Elimination. Some time it could be interesting to t...

Copied from the small forum Feb. 2022: sqAree: I just wanna mention that "shortest game length" is a terrible criteria to decide draws (or anything at all, in the first place). Why do we still have something like that in the tournament rules? Hagbard: The shortest game length tells which of the play...

Inspired from the current Single Elimination tournament test, I had another look at the similar Double Elimination used in the Copenh. World Champ. tourn. 2021. The Copenh. World Champ. tourn. 2021 was a big tournament with 21 players. Many players were of equal strength, and therefore there were v...

Comparison of the World Champions by max ratings, longer list.

Tawlbwrdd & Tablut max rating.
2083 Casshern
1908 Crust
1907 Draganov
1875 Ded Fomich
1823 Jilles
1751 OdinHimself
1739 Chaolaibhne
1723 Plantagenet
1684 Herjan
1563 Adam
none Schachus
none Nath

Thank you for the new Tawlbwrdd pieces, they're added!

Comparison of the World Champions from another angle: their max ratings. All Jarlar are world champion material, so OdinHimself and Jilles are added. Copenhagen & Fetlar max rating. 2297 Casshern 2003 Plantagenet 1991 OdinHimself 1962 Herjan 1944 Schachus 1943 Crust 1939 Nath 1938 Draganov 1829 Adam...

The standard here is used: Black wins.