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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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2026-08-28 19:43 gulo: Very random: I just moved to the small town called Slangerup in Denmark. Now I read in the local newspaper that a guy in the same town is starting up a new online platform for old board games, including hnefatafl and other games we play here. He’s arranging an “opening weekend” tomorrow. Unfortunately he didn’t include the historical variants. Anyone here heard about this before now?
https://taflgildet.dk/

https://taflgildet.dk/

2026-08-28 09:45 Hagbard: @fermillyc: If you join the Copenhagen WTF tournament, which time zone will be valid for you? It may be important for the timing.

2026-08-28 09:28 Hagbard: Info: It looks like the Copenhagen tournament this year may well be as many as two rounds shorter, because elimination is again after 4 lost games rather than 5.

2026-08-28 08:29 Casshern: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.

2026-08-28 08:29 Casshern: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.

2026-08-28 08:15 Hagbard: The Copenhagen tournament starts in 3 days. Please check that you're on the list (Draco has no games yet):
25 players: Alex Hnefatafl, Waclaw, Black Raven, Ailill, SuruRada, Hagbard, Jrton80, Tonythebook, Murray7, sqAree, Pavlo, Potapych, Hattusili, Fraech, Draganov, saxon, Paul7, Zinedine80, LuckyScoundrel, Luizz, cacreal, Askeladd, Finneon7, brave-frog, fermillyc

2026-08-28 03:10 Draco: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.

2026-08-27 21:39 fermillyc: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.

2026-08-27 12:03 Hagbard: and the boy who won 2025 looks like his son?

2026-08-27 11:33 Mihkkal: On the video, that's Dag Broch, who's behind the Unjárga World Championships and who has won cups both in Unjárga and Oslo

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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.
History of this site.
Art on this site.
Comments on Hnefatafl.
The origin of the Viking board game Hnefatafl and the Berserk rules.
Links to more information about the Viking board game Hnefatafl.
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.)