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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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2026-09-07 11:09 Attila-F: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.

2026-09-07 10:19 Hagbard: Thank you! Corrected

2026-09-07 08:44 Потапыч: Why am I not in the tournament bracket for Historical Hnefatafl 9x9 (aka Saami Tablut)

2026-09-06 07:33 Hagbard: The Historical tournament starts tomorrow at about 18 o'clock Danish time. Please check that you're on the list:
Alex Hnefatafl, Ailill, gulo, Hagbard, Tonythebook, Pavlo, Potapych, Dimetr, Draganov, MasterLuke, saxon, Zugwykor, Paul7, LuckyScoundrel, Finneon7, brave-frog, Casshern, Askeladd, brave-frog, ChaolAibhne

Deadline for registering for the Historical line: tomorrow at 12 o'clock Danish time.

2026-09-04 17:43 Hagbard: Comment:
Hattusili is first to qualify for Round 2

2026-09-04 14:24 Waclaw: I got the joke :) But the king is also ridiculous, all the white pieces are misaligned. Just noticed it recently. Now my eye twitches whenever I look at it :)

2026-09-04 13:39 Floki: @Waclaw The reason must have something to do with the fact that the white soldiers do not pledge allegiance to their king, who is centred !

2026-09-04 07:13 Hagbard: The Historical tournament starts in 3 days. Please check that you're on the list:
Alex Hnefatafl, Ailill, gulo, Hagbard, Tonythebook, Pavlo, Potapych, Dimetr, Draganov, MasterLuke, saxon, Zugwykor, Paul7, LuckyScoundrel, Finneon7, brave-frog, Casshern, Askeladd, brave-frog, Casshern, ChaolAibhne

2026-09-02 17:52 Waclaw: In the new token design for Copenhagen and Brandubh, the black tokens are perfectly centered, while the white ones are shifted to the right of the square. How do I unsee this now? :)

2026-09-02 16:45 Hagbard: Warning:
Each move must be done within 3 days.
Therefore SuruRada and Zinedine80 have timeouts coming in 24 hours.

... messages three months back ...

Rus'.

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.
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Viking word of wisdom: The Hávamál.
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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.)