Play Hnefatafl Online. The Viking board game.

04-20/07:46 WillieBGoode: Thank You Hagbard !!  Much appreciate your insight towards a newbie!

04-20/07:28 Paca: Прошлые варианты, где первым ходит чёрный надо удалить и обновить теорию на сайте. Теперь в историческом Хнефатафле первыми всегда ходят белые. И разночтений на эту тему быть не может.

04-19/19:37 Hagbard: * the change to white begins for some games is to improve the game balance.
* yes, I'd recommend to start with the simpler games: Simple Tafl, Tablut, Tawlbwrdd. Sea Tafl looks simple on paper, but is not played much.
* "Old Hnefatafl" and "Fetlar Hnefatafl" are the simpler strong-king games.

04-19/19:30 WillieBGoode: Hello,
I’m new to both this website and Hnefatafl and its variations.

I’ve been scouring the website and the rules for Simple Tafl and Twalbwrrd .  I’ve noted the both rule sets indicate than Black(attackers) go first but I’ve noticed the the games in the current tournament archive have WHITE (Defenders) going first???

Why?
Are you just testing this change?
Or, does this make the games more balanced?

Secondly, since I’m new, I’m focusing on learning Simple Tafl, Tawlbwrrd,some Sea battle (for mid game) and some Irish Brandubh.  Does this seem like a good plan to become reasonably proficient?

Lastly. When I graduate to Corner Escape. Should I follow Old Hnefatafl or Copenhagen?  To be honest, the rules for Old Hnefatafl makes sense to me but it looks like many more games are played using Copenhagen (but I’m not really sure why). Copenhagen at first glance seems slow and prodding

Thanks to everyone who helps this rookie out
Hopefully I posted in the correct spot

04-16/21:49 Hagbard: For non-race games in everyday tournaments, games are set up for the four players nearest in rating. Fx. the rating difference from cacreal to one of the missing opponents is 900!

04-16/12:15 cacreal: @Hagbard - in tournamnet 946 - two sets of my games didn't start - can they be added (EF & brave Frog)

03-26/10:46 Draganov: @Hagbard, another useful feature would be if we have a button called something like 'Increase opponent's time' and by clicking it we can give our opponent additional 24 hours on his time buffer.

03-26/09:12 Hagbard: @EF, du er kommet til at klikke paa Opgiver

03-25/18:18 EF: @Hagbard something strange happened with Tournament 944, Historical Hnefatafl 7x7 (Irish Brandubh 2) Paca /Ef. I somehow won the game before it had ended...

03-23/22:23 Draganov: @EF I think it will be better to just start two games as a rematch and if you want you can cancel one of the games in two clicks. For me it will be useful if we have the opportunity to start a certain number of games against an opponent in one click. For example, when I started a 10-game match against some players I need to manually invite the player 5 times in order to have 10 games against him. It will be much convinient for me if I could invite a player and set up the number of the games that I want to play. Imagine a button invite for a 4-game match or buttons like 'invite for 6, 8 or 10' game match.