11-05/19:31 Hagbard: One's back is vulnerable, unless one has a brother.

11-05/09:49 Draganov: @All, I am thinking of a new great Grand Masters tournament. In 2014 Schachus, Crust and Nath played against each other in such a tournament with Nath winning the tournament. I propose something similar but little bit bigger as a tournament. It is obvious that in Copenhagen variant there are top 5 players who are equally strong (except Casshern who is little bit ahead). These players are Casshern, Draganov, Alex Hnefatafl, OdinHimself and Cacreal. I think it will be great if we manage to organize a tournament where these 5 players are playing in round-robin format playing 4 games against each other (16 games per player for the whole tournament). The games could be distributed in 2 rounds. In each round a player is playing 2 games (black and white) against each of the other players (8 games per round in total for each player). I think playing 8 games it will not be too much for each of the players.

11-05/09:22 Hagbard: Most active Hnefatafl countries on this site Oct. 2024:
1. USA
2. Bulgaria
3. UK
4. Germany
5. Russia
6. Canada
7. Moldavia
8. France

11-03/00:25 Hagbard: Oftentimes it is not numbers that wins the victory, but those who fare forward with the most vigor.

10-29/10:36 Hagbard: *** Info ***
When possible some day soon, Hist. and Sea round 4 will start at about 18 o'clock Danish time.

10-26/19:47 xerxes: I've been talking to Aage re a 'blitz' Daldos competition - say 8 or 10 players playing each other in two games simultaneously with a maximum time of 60 or 90 minutes for all the games, so 18 games on the go for each player.  Unfinished games would be won by the player who has used the least time in that game.  It will take a bit of setting-up, and we may have to test it with an unofficial tournament once the World Championships are over.  Could be fun ?

10-26/10:10 Hagbard: Just a small comment on the balance thing.

As the case is with the Dimetr2 game, the slight positive balance can be a basis for better games.
Because white is rewarded for being inventive. The slight positive balance helps white to succeed with the good ideas.
Whereas if white is not inventive enough, then white is doomed even with the positive balance.

And such a constructive positive balance we have in
Copenhagen: +1.33
Dimetr2: +1.29
Sea 13 Nielsen: +1.31
and some others.

10-26/09:24 Draganov: Then, we can have a blitz champion like in chess where we have world blitz championship.
I am also thinking of a Copenhagen with whites starting first. I think it is worth to test such a variant too.

10-26/09:23 Draganov: @Cacreal, thanks for playing Copenagen blitz with me. It was fun and both games were nice examples of good play with the blacks. I think the only way to have blitz games at the moment is when both players agree for a starting time and play fast. Maybe a good idea is to have the possibility to start a game with just 1 hour time for thinking or even less (20 minutes no time added, 1 minute protected time minimum) just for blitz games. A tournament of this kind could be organized with a pre-arranged time that is good for everyone with an additional rule. The game starts only when both players made 1 move. If the game timeout without the second player start playing, then this game must be restarted on the next day at the same time.

10-26/04:36 cacreal: @Draganov - thanks for the blitz games of copenhagen it was fun and it would be nice to have that variation available similar to chess.com site for a speed game