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World Tafl Federation Championship 2026 - Sign Up from July 1!

The annual World Tafl Federation Championship is back!
This year's tournaments include Copenhagen Hnefatafl, Historical Hnefatafl, and Race Games.
Test your skills against players from around the world and fight for the championship titles!
Sign-up opens on July 1, 2026.
Deadline for registration: August 31, 2026.
Full tournament details here: Tournament Page 2026.
We look forward to seeing you in the tournament!

Play against humans.
Тавлеи против людей.
Rasmus Holbroe vikings

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2026-09-28 19:25 gulo: That’s fine with me :)

2026-09-28 18:25 Hagbard: Comment:
Alex Hnefatafl made the first move in Historical Round 2.

2026-09-28 18:22 Hagbard: Even in the sheath, the sword must be sharp.

2026-09-28 15:16 Hagbard: Notice:
All players of Historical Round 2 are now known; only one game is left of Round 1: ChaolAibhne / Gulo, Would it disturb you if we start Round 2 tonight?

2026-09-27 22:00 Hagbard: Attention:
Historical Round 2 could start rather soon

2026-09-25 14:57 Hagbard: Comment:
Potapych is first to finish Race Games Round 1.

2026-09-24 11:13 Hagbard: Comment:
Dimetr is first to finish Historical Round 1 with all games won.

2026-09-21 20:29 Draganov: @Rosk, I tried practically every possible setup for the Copenhagen variant. I think the setup you proposed will favor the blacks too much. At first it seems like the blacks are in a bad position. However, if we examine the position, we will see that the corners are almost covered. So, I think with this setup the blacks will win almost every single game.

2026-09-21 08:53 rosk: Hello everyone! Did you play such an arrangement of the pieces?
https://imgdb.io/i/A8Fr29I.jpg

https://imgdb.io/i/A8Fr29I.jpg

2026-09-20 00:20 Black Raven: It works now! Thank you!

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Alexander Steiger Dis' game set up in the Royal Hall in Lejre, Denmark. (Click on the image)

Train your brain like a viking. Science Days in Norway Sep. 27th 2020. (Click on the image!)

Hnefatafl is also known by the names Nefatavl, The King's Table, The Viking Game, Viking Chess, Tablut or simply Tafl.
History of this site.
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Comments on Hnefatafl.
The origin of the Viking board game Hnefatafl and the Berserk rules.
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Tafl Shops.

Viking word of wisdom: The Hávamál.
(Havámál på dansk).

World Championship Tournament 2025.

Здесь можно играть в тавлеи против людей. Можно использовать кириллицу.

Many thanks to Tim Millar ("crust"), Adam Bartley ("Adam"), John C. Ashton, Nicolas Cartier, Jonas Lööf ("conanlibrarian"), Olli Salmi, Damian Walker ("cyningstan"), Rasmus Holbroe, Thore Nissen, Lucho Panchev ("OdinHimself"), Corey Hart ("Brench"), Alexander Steiger Dis ("Steiger"), Dmitry Pashkov, Delray Curtis ("jrton80"), David Zolli ("branan"), Luk Martens ("Masterluke"), Marian Luck ("themightyglider"), Mikkel Berg-Nordlie ("mihkkal"), Alessandro Arzani ("Abbas Agraphicus") and all players who contributed to this site and to the photo gallery. And not least the more than 600 players from all over the world who have played 65,000 real human-vs-human tafl games here, creating a vast body of practical experience with this intriguing historical board game. (And lately, AI - namely ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini - has helped with some things.)