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Jan. 22nd 2024 came this follow-up mail: Hi how are things? My name is Egoitz. I am the president of the Basque association of Oware and Strategic Games. We play to several games and now we would want to play to tafl or tablut. We could buy 5 boards to organize our tournaments, including the Basque ...

Dec. 23rd 2020 I received this mail from the Basque Country: Hi, how are you? My name is Egoitz and I am the president of the Basque Association of Strategic Games. We are a group of 16-24 players that we meet twice a month to play to several games, most of them are abstract, and we would like to jo...

There has not been an Honorary Hnefatafl Master since Peter Kelly 2014 ten years ago. Presuming you can have such a title also when alive, I would now propose for Honorary Hnefatafl Masters : Tim Millar ("Crust"), Somerset, UK. Adam Bartley ("Adam"), Tønsberg, Norway. - the three of us worked togeth...

Tonythebook wrote: I've just played Freach in Berserk, 175 moves, a game worth highlighting. I started as Tafl and he looked dead, then he used Berserk tactics and wiped my defence, then it became a true battle... Maybe you can share it somehow as a demo? The game is: Fraech / Tonythebook. Tournamen...

The Daldos variants are now tested for a year starting with 3 awake pieces as in Sahkku. The haphazardness of the race games are measured to Sahkku: 32% Daldos14: 57% Daldos16: 57% Daldos12: 85% These numbers show that The Sahkku winner is determined much more by skills than by luck of dice. It requ...

I believe it must be accepted that "correspondence" format games last a long time. Thank you for the thoughts! It's a dilemma. All players, with a few exceptions, want quick games, and in reality it's not possible because of time zones etc. The x1 timing (2 hours per move, buffer 2.5 day) was found...

Quick timing is a big problem. Compare fx. Los Angeles and Sofia. In Los Angeles leisure time after work 17 o'clock until 22 o'clock when time to turn in corresponds to Sofia 3 o'clock at night until 8 o'clock morning. In theory the two players will never meet live and can only exchange one move ea...

This is my bid for an evaluation of the Championship Tournament 2023: The tournament used the same format as last year, described here (revised): http://aagenielsen.dk/diagonalformat.php Changes from last year: The Diagonal Tournament Format was revised. The timing was revised. What worked well: Th...

WTF tournament duration and number of opponents. The WTF tourn. 2023 lasted 81 days, and each strong player met at most 8 opponents totally, and only 2 at a time. This is the shortest tourn. duration since 2013. And the three years of Diagonal Tournament Format have the smallest number of opponents...

National Champions 2023. 2013-2017 was in UK organised every year a UK Hnefatafl Championship tournament. 2017 and 2020 were national championship tournaments run on this website. On occasion of the 25 years anniversary I'd propose that we have again national champions 2023. Counting the games only...