2025-11-11 16:51 Hagbard: Info: OdinHimself has a timeout coming in 10 hours. SqAree has a timeout coming in 20 hours.
2025-11-10 07:34 Dimetr: Hello! Yes, of course I will join testing. This year we tested the rule: -The throne blocks black but not white- but, I didn't notice the difference, black was still much stronger. So we should also try to add rule -the throne is hostile to black but friendly to white- I hope this helps the whites
2025-11-08 19:11 gulo: Sounds good! I hope @Dimetr will join the testing. Afaik he initiated the previous test with attackers blocked by the castle.
2025-11-08 18:32 Hagbard: It may be worth looking into after the tournament. That would probably be with a variant that goes all the way: – the throne blocks black but not white, – the throne is hostile to black but friendly to white, – the king can, as usual, return to the throne.
2025-11-08 18:14 gulo: The rules for the throne/castle of the king (“arx regia”) are the least clear generally. We know that it restricts movement in some way, as “nobody can enter”. There’s doubt whether that includes the king when he has left it, and also whether pieces can move through. We also know that it is hostile in some way. Rule 14 doesn’t specify whether the castle acts entirely as a separate (“third”) piece, both blocking and attacking, or whether it is only hostile but can be passed through, nor whether this applies to all pieces. We can add clarifications, but there’s no certainty. We can use logic arguments like “it makes sense that the king can return to the king’s castle”, and it makes sense that said castle allows friendly troops to pass through, and protects their flank, while being hostile and closed off to the king’s enemies. Others might bring just as sound arguments contrary to mine here.
2025-11-08 17:52 gulo: Though they could correspond privately with others in any case. I see the point.
2025-11-08 17:52 Hagbard: Regarding Tablut: Does Linnaeus’s journal support a variant where – the throne blocks black but not white, – the throne is hostile to black but friendly to white?
2025-11-08 17:47 Hagbard: Regarding the visibility of the games: there is a risk that other players might give advice, therefore the games are hidden until they are decided.
2025-11-08 17:43 Hagbard: ( - I can’t help but add: Just imagine how much the Vikings of that time would have laughed if they heard this — that Odin with his ravens in 2010 was supposed to be a lady.)
2025-11-08 17:37 gulo: Would it be possible to see the final games of the WTF? As there are only two players left I can’t see a reason to keep the games private.
2025-11-08 09:26 gulo: Touché.
2025-11-08 08:59 Hagbard: Piet Hein's gruk is: Vil du med rette have ry som lærd, så tag det lette og gør det svært.
2025-11-08 07:54 Hagbard: Info: Luizz has a timeout coming in 11 hours.
2025-11-07 21:52 gulo: Possibly even blocking and hostile towards attackers, but passable by and friendly towards defenders.
This might also justify why the one exception is there when a defender can be caught with the centre square as anvil (when all other sides of the centre square are occupied by attackers).
2025-11-07 21:27 gulo: It seems that the consensus about tablut is leaning towards it favouring attackers slightly now. The briefly tested blocking of attackers by the centre square doesn’t appear to help king side. An idea if we want to test further options: I wonder whether Linnaeus’ rule 14 might bear an interpretation that the centre only be hostile towards attacking pieces? This might ease development for king side slightly.
2025-11-07 20:06 Hagbard: I don’t know the exact locations where the items were found, except that it’s all from Gammel Lejre — the royal seat.
2025-11-07 19:41 gulo: Hahaha!
Were the regular pieces found in the same context as the Odin figure?
2025-11-07 18:37 Hagbard: (Was it Piet Hein who once said something along the lines that could here be translated as: You have to study at university for many, many years to develop a mind that sees a precisely carved figure of Odin on his high seat with his two ravens — as a lady in a dress... )
2025-11-07 18:14 Hagbard: I’ve wondered whether the beautiful figure was the Lejre King’s amulet, the head of a staff, or a decoration on the high seat — or what else it could be. But after reading the article about the discovery of king pieces, the idea suddenly seems very likely — and it makes the mystery so simple.
The figure is the same size as the magnificent king pieces found elsewhere and shown in the article, and Odin is seated on his high seat, just like the king is on several of the king pieces. The figure has a square shape, matching the square fields of a game board.
That the Lejre King should have his own lavish Hnefatafl king piece with Odin as the motif is more than natural! The figure shows that the Lejre King is no petty king — just like the great Royal Hall does.
Ordinary Hnefatafl pieces are also on display at the Lejre Museum — perhaps from the rest of the set. The pieces are fairly large and would fit well with the king figure.
2025-11-07 17:10 gulo: Yeah, I thought exactly the same thing! Most scholars have been more preoccupied with the “dress” though, for some reason.
2025-11-07 10:04 Hagbard: - and Odin From Lejre could likewise be a Hnefatafl king piece?
2025-11-07 09:54 Hagbard: Comment: The Holmganga in the Historical Hnefatafl is underway; it's between Casshern and Alex Hnefatafl this year!
2025-11-06 20:09 Hagbard: Very interesting article and photos!! The Hnefatafl king pieces have so much personality that they resemble portraits — perhaps of the kings they were carved for?!
2025-11-04 12:02 Hagbard: Info: sqAree has a timeout coming in 10 hours.
2025-11-04 07:47 Hagbard: Comment: the last Tawlbwrdd game finished.
2025-11-04 07:35 Hagbard: Fear not death, for the hour of your doom is set, and no one can escape it.
2025-11-03 06:35 Hagbard: Info: OdinHimself has a timeout coming in 8 hours
2025-11-01 21:45 gulo: Started posting pictures of my hnefatafl creations and some neat hnefatafl and other board game objects from the museum where I work. Shamelessly sharing here: https://www.instagram.com/gustafl90 (also some videos in “reposts”)
2025-10-28 09:06 Hagbard: It's complicated, and a risk to mess with the database during the big tournament
2025-10-28 08:44 Draganov: Is it possible to recover the two timeout games with Adam?
2025-10-28 07:14 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has three timeouts coming in 10-22 hours. OdinHimself has a timeout coming in 22 hours.
2025-10-28 07:12 Hagbard: - I was not home yesterday
2025-10-27 20:16 Draganov: @Hagbard, could you add some additional time on the time buffer of Adam for both our games. We are currently testing Copenhagen variant with allowed repetitions. I will appreciate it if you make the time buffer of our two games to be timing x10 game rated.
2025-10-27 12:38 Hagbard: No it didn't take long. Actually the bottom of this page shows the status currently: https://aagenielsen.dk/turnoversigt.php?alt=1
2025-10-27 10:20 xerxes: @Hagbard - I hope that did not take too long to work out ! A 2025 Race Games Tournament winner would be good (though obviously at this point I am biased !).
2025-10-27 08:51 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has a timeout coming in 10 hours. Luizz has a timeout coming in 18 hours.
2025-10-26 12:17 Hagbard: 10000 perhaps?
2025-10-26 11:27 Hagbard: Comment: the last Copenhagen round 1 game finished
2025-10-26 08:48 Zubin: Do we know roughly how large the global tafl playerbase is? ~100? ~1000? ~10000? More? It seems that we are a smaller community, but I imagine there are more players in total across other sites ...
2025-10-26 08:01 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has two timeouts coming in 20-23 hours. OdinHimself has a timeout coming in 22 hours.
2025-10-26 07:43 Hagbard: Here are the point totals for the Race Games tournaments 2025:
At New Year, we can tally up who has won the most tournament games in 2025 and is also the Race Games Master 2025?
2025-10-25 18:19 xerxes: I agree with Draganov re the use of F1 points - I think they only work if there are a significant number of individual tournaments contributing to the final result. Perhaps for the race games we could have a WC tournament every month and use the F1 points over the year (say 6 Saami Sakhu, 2 Daldos 12, 2 Daldos 14 and 2 Daldos 16).
2025-10-25 09:18 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has a timeout coming in 11 hours. SqAree has a timeout coming in 17 hours.
2025-10-24 21:49 Потапыч: Thank you for the second place.
2025-10-24 20:14 Draganov: I think F1 points are not suitable for the race tournaments. And according the rules of the championship and F1 pointings, Hagbard will have an advantage over Potapych but combining the points from the two rounds Potapych will be the winner. So, in my opinion a shared title would be the most logical outcome.
2025-10-24 20:12 Draganov: Congratulations to Aage and Potapych and Jilles for the great performance! It is nice that we have a completely new top. Last years Holidayinnes, Xerxes and I were the best performed race players but now all of us were surpassed by you guys. This is a proof how intriguing the race championship is.
2025-10-24 20:04 casshern: Congratulations Aage!!
2025-10-24 12:52 Hagbard: thank you -
2025-10-24 11:32 gulo: Well done!
2025-10-24 11:01 xerxes: Congratulations to Hagbard, who has won the 2025 World Tafl Federation Race Games Championship, with Potapych in second place and Jilles third.
2025-10-24 08:28 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has three timeouts coming in 12-21 hours. OdinHimself has a timeout coming in 21 hours.
2025-10-23 22:07 Hagbard: Comment: the last Sahkku game finished
2025-10-23 22:07 Hagbard: It's a peculiar IP-address, but it's opened now
2025-10-23 19:46 sqAree: @Hagbard: I've sent you a mail about my accessing the website problem.
2025-10-23 07:41 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has two timeouts coming in 10-15 hours
2025-10-22 08:36 Hagbard: Comment: the last Tablut game finished
2025-10-21 16:53 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has three timeouts coming in 9-15 hours
2025-10-21 09:30 Brave-frog: Please make it manually, if Rosk don't mind, thanks!
2025-10-20 21:06 Hagbard: Sorry for the missing button; I can make it a draw manually
2025-10-20 18:21 Brave-frog: Hello, Hagbard! Please check a Frisian Dablo game with Rosk and I. We are in a draw position, but there is no draw button in the interface, and some of us should resign to end the game.
2025-10-20 12:46 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has four timeouts coming in 15-23 hours
2025-10-20 09:31 Hagbard: May Odin give you knowledge on your path.
2025-10-19 09:48 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has three timeouts coming in 11-22 hours. Adam has a timeout coming in 14 hours. Paul7 has two timeouts coming in 17 hours.
2025-10-18 20:22 Hagbard: Comment: the last Daldøs game finished.
2025-10-18 15:16 Hagbard: Info: Adam has a timeout coming in 10 hours. Draganov has two timeouts coming in 20 hours.
2025-10-18 11:06 Hagbard: No better burden does a man bear on his road than great courage.
2025-10-17 08:20 Hagbard: Info: Adam has 4 timeouts coming in 13-22 hours. Draganov has a timeout coming in 18 hours.
2025-10-16 10:12 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has 3 timeouts coming in 11-21 hours
2025-10-15 09:02 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has 4 timeouts coming in 13 - 20 hours
2025-10-14 09:11 Hagbard: Info: Casshern has a timeout coming in 16 hours
2025-10-12 21:41 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has 5 timeouts coming in 13-23 hours. SqAree has a timeout coming in 9 hours.
2025-10-11 17:29 Hagbard: Comment: Draganov won the first white game by a double guillotine Waclaw won first white game by an attack on two corners and guillotine
2025-10-10 17:13 Hagbard: Comment: the first Sahkku game finished
2025-10-10 15:51 Hagbard: Even in the sheath, the sword must be sharp.
2025-10-09 11:35 Hagbard: Does the phone work now?
2025-10-09 07:42 Hagbard: @sqaree, you can call this webpage with your phone to find its IP-address: https://checkip.amazonaws.com/ Please mail me the IP-address; I need it to make certain that there's access from your phone.
2025-10-08 21:36 Hagbard: I suppose that you get a 403-message. At the top of it is the number xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, that I would like to know
2025-10-08 20:34 sqaree: Still not. And idk about my IP address
2025-10-08 19:39 Hagbard: And now, does it work?
2025-10-08 19:25 Hagbard: You probably don't know the IP address of the phone?
2025-10-08 19:21 sqaree: Still not. I'm currently using wifi to send this msg but soon I'll rely on mobile data for a few days..
2025-10-08 19:18 Hagbard: Does it work now?
2025-10-08 19:02 Hagbard: Do you by any chance know his IP address?
2025-10-08 18:26 Luizz: Sqaree is getting a 403 forbidden response when accessing the website over mobile data. I‘m writing on his behalf, can you have a look into it @Hagbard?
2025-10-07 09:06 Hagbard: Comment: DLC won first white game by a double attack on two corners
2025-10-07 08:59 Hagbard: Comment: Casshern won first white game by a massive corner attack
2025-10-06 16:09 Hagbard: Info: sqAree has two timeouts coming in 5 hours!
2025-10-06 08:43 Hagbard: Info: sqAree and Draganov have timeouts coming in 12 hours
2025-10-05 11:10 Hagbard: Thank you! Corrected
2025-10-05 02:46 ChaolAibhne: @Hagbard In my Saami Tablut-w game as white against Ailill I found by accident that I was allowed to make an illegal move (move 31), whereby I could jump my king over a black piece on to the throne square. I've submitted the move to prove this. But I will resign on the next move, which I was about to do anyway.
2025-10-04 17:27 Hagbard: Where wolves hunt, there gather the crows.
2025-10-04 13:49 Hagbard: Info: Draganov has a timeout coming in 22 hours
2025-10-04 07:35 Hagbard: Comment: OdinHimself won first game as white with a double attack on edge and corner
2025-10-04 07:31 Hagbard: Info: Tonythebook has timeouts coming in 16 hours
2025-10-03 17:16 Hagbard: @Zugwykor, the big forum is open for new registering
2025-10-03 12:41 Hagbard: Comment: sqAree won with an edge castle
2025-10-02 13:37 Hagbard: Comment: Jrton80 won with an edge castle
2025-10-01 08:11 Hagbard: It's the 11.6 hours. Parenthesis text corrected.
2025-10-01 03:17 sqaree: In one of my games it says 2.4 days till timeout in the text in parantheses but the red text says timeout in 11.6 hours. Which of the two is true?
2025-09-30 20:15 Hagbard: Info: Tonythebook has timeouts coming in 22 hours
2025-09-30 18:30 Hagbard: Comment: Potapych won first white game with the guillotine
2025-09-29 19:23 Hagbard: Info: sqAree has a timeout coming in 13 hours
2025-09-29 16:46 Black Raven: @Draganov, now that I think about it, you are right. This rule is very unlikely to take into effect, and even if it does, it'd most likely only shorten the game by a few moves, so it'd be superfluous. Sure, let's test out Copenhagen with White draws!
2025-09-29 10:55 Draganov: @Black Raven, I think we don't need a rule forcing blacks to lose when they have fewer pieces than the whites. In such a situation (practically in each variant) the whites will simply win by escaping. Moreover, if still there is a situation in which the black can capture the king with fewer pieces left (maybe in some weak king variants), then such positions deserve to be won by the blacks because they did something incredibly difficult. I invited you to 10 Copenhagen games with mixed colors in order to test my idea for allowed white repetitions. We just need to agree that when some of the sides can force repetitions the game must ended with a draw.
2025-09-29 06:22 Hagbard: Info: Fraech and Taiga442 are added to round 2 when they advance.
2025-09-29 06:14 Hagbard: May Thor grant you strength and courage on your way!
2025-09-29 05:44 Waclaw: Я тоже вставлю 5 ржавых копеек. Почему бы просто не добавить белым фигуру берсеркера, который может прыгать. Таким образом белые смогут разрушать защиту черных и не будут давать черным уходить в оборону. Здесь можно проверить, как вариант: или при прыжке убивается черная фигура, или просто перепрыгивает. При этом нет правила берсерка. Просто тот же Копенгаген, но у белых 1 фигура прыгает.
2025-09-29 04:08 Black Raven: Alex Hnefatafl does bring up a good point, however. To be more realistic, Black will probably retreat if they lose too many of their pieces relative to White, thus breaking the siege and removing the need for White to escape to the corners in the first place. I think, however losing 8 or 12 pieces is not enough for Black to lose. Realistically, if Black had 12 pieces remaining and White had just the King remaining, the Black pieces would probably not retreat. I think if we want to implement some rule like this, a more practical choice would be either:
1) Black loses if the number of Black pieces is fewer than the number of remaining White pieces (and Black cannot immediately capture the King on the next turn) 2) Black loses if there are fewer than 4 Black pieces remaining.
2025-09-29 04:00 Black Raven: I have to agree with Draganov here; this seems like a very arbitrary rule, and White will then just try to trade as many pieces as possible instead of focusing on escaping. I do not see any reason why Black should lose if they still can potentially capture the King. With that being said, I still believe that White should lose with repeated repetitions. If we allow repetitions in Copenhagen, then it will most likely favor White even more than in Fetlar, and then we'd be better off just playing Fetlar. I am willing to try out this option with you, however, Draganov, but I am pretty sure almost all the games will result in draws.
2025-09-28 21:33 Draganov: I have mentioned many times before what will make the Copenhagen game well-balanced and vivid. We just need to allow repetitions for the whites that lead to draw. Simple as that. This will open a huge door for interesting games and results, will make winning a tournament more strategic and will keep the whites alive for a longer period of the game (practically until the end, while now the whites can often resign after 50 moves because the corners are blocked, however, they make 50 additional meaningless moves before losing the game). I am open to test my proposal of the rules (Copenhagen with allowed repetitions leading to draw) against everyone. We can open a standard Copenhagen game and agree that when the whites can force repetitions, both sides must agree for a draw.
2025-09-28 21:28 Draganov: In my opinion, these suggestions of Alex will only make the blacks to play even more cautiously in order to protect their pieces. I can mention many brutal and interesting games in which the blacks with only 12-14 pieces left, managed to block the whites in a creative way and won the game. If the proposal of Alex is implemented, then the whites will need just to exchange pieces (giving even 12 of their white pieces for 8 of the blacks) and make some maneuvers with the king surviving a couple of moves and winning the game. It is not good for the game at all.
2025-09-28 17:35 Waclaw: 👇🏻 Все три сообщения ниже - это Alex Hnefatafl сказал…
2025-09-28 17:34 Waclaw: 3) С игровой точки зрения эти изменения вкупе с первым ходом белого сделают баланс равным на профессиональном уровне и для белых, и для чёрных. Хнефатафл приобретёт законченный вид и будет готов к тому, чтобы конкурировать с такими играми как Го, шахматы, международные шашки.
2025-09-28 17:33 Waclaw: 2)После потерь убитыми половины личного состава, ни одна армия не сможет сохранить боеспособность в условиях когда от неё требуется инициатива и активные действия. Это при том, что раненых статистически всегда больше, чем убитых. Белые загнаны в угол, и чёрные, потеряв половину своих просто обратятся в бегство. Такова логика реальной &#
2025-09-28 17:32 Waclaw: Alex Hnefatafl: 1)Когда чёрные теряют более 7 фигур, они уже не могут создать сплошную цепь из фигур, полностью закрывая при этом оставшиеся два угла. На этом этапе игры как правило партия очень сильно затягивается. Нужно стимулировать чёрных играть активнее и идти на риск, ломать свой строй, создавая более сложные комбинации. (Alex Hnefatafl)
2025-09-28 13:13 Luizz: What a random idea
2025-09-28 08:15 Draganov: What Alex proposed about the number of black pieces in a nonsense in my opinion. He said this because he is losing some casual games against me in which I have only 12 black pieces. He used to said the whites must lose if they cannot escape, so how they should win the game if they just captured pieces but couldn't escape to the corner? It contradicts his previous opinion.
2025-09-28 05:50 Waclaw: Alex Hnefatafl просил написать: Копенгаген нужно дополнить правилами: 1. При потере 12 фигур черный проигрывает 2. При потере 8 фигур черному дается некоторое количество ходов на поимку короля
2025-09-27 16:12 Hagbard: Race tournament starts tomorrow evening some time after 18 o'clock Danish time. Please check that you're on the list: 16 players: Hagbard, xerxes, Colophonius, brave-frog, tonythebook, Pokshtya, Jrton8, rosk, jilles, Alex Hnefatafl, Potapych, holidayinnes, ChaolAibhne, Draganov, floki, paul7
2025-09-27 06:55 Hagbard: Info: Brave-frog has five timeouts coming in 9 hours
2025-09-26 14:31 Waclaw: 😅🤝👍
2025-09-26 14:31 ChaolAibhne: @Hagbard Waclaw has generously offered to continue the game, on condition that I don't take too long over my moves!
2025-09-26 14:18 Waclaw: Ну, мы ведь веселимся 😁 Абсолютно плевать на рейтинг. Вы только не затягивайте с ходом!!!
2025-09-26 14:13 ChaolAibhne: @Waclaw Это очень щедро с вашей стороны
2025-09-26 14:00 Waclaw: Я готов переиграть. Но при условии, если хотя бы раз в сутки будете ходить
2025-09-26 13:02 ChaolAibhne: @Hagbard Does the "My current games" page no longer show imminent timeouts? I've just had my Saami Tablut-w game with Waclaw appear to have timed out without any warning being shown on the page.
2025-09-26 07:42 Hagbard: Info: Brave-frog has a timeout coming in 14 hours
2025-09-26 00:46 Hagbard: Comment: Jrton80 is first to win as white with an edge fort
2025-09-25 22:56 Hagbard: Comment: sqAree won first white game by corner attack from two sides
2025-09-25 22:50 Hagbard: Info: ChaolAibhne has three timeouts coming in 14 hours
2025-09-25 14:55 Waclaw: У меня пока крайне неудачно складывается. Я думаю: если нет ума, то вязанная шапочка викинга удачу не приносит😂😂😂
2025-09-25 10:59 Hagbard: Info: There's still time to register for the Race games. They are started 28th Sep. evening (Danish)
2025-09-25 10:01 Hagbard: Comment: Jrton80 won as white by double attack on edge and corner. Ailill won as white by double attack on two corners.
2025-09-24 18:26 Hagbard: Comment: Cynewulf won first white game by creating an empty 2. line
2025-09-24 12:45 gulo: I made a couple of new suggestions for a balanced historical 15x15 variant in the rules section of the large forum.
2025-09-24 11:57 Hagbard: Comment: Floki won first white game by a heavy corner attack
2025-09-24 10:51 Hagbard: Info: Sqaree has three timeouts coming in 20 hours
2025-09-24 07:26 Hagbard: Comment: Taiga442 won first white game by creating an empty 2. line
2025-09-23 08:59 Hagbard: Удалено
2025-09-23 08:49 paul7: The first two games of the Historical championship were won by Hagbard in a dynamic style :)
2025-09-22 19:54 Waclaw: @Hagbard, удалите пожалуйста аккаунт waclawЪ. Далее буду играть только с аккаунта waclaw. Спасибо!
2025-09-22 13:07 Hagbard: When men meet foes in fight, better is stout heart than sharp sword.
2025-09-22 08:58 Hagbard: Comment: Paul7 won as white with a shieldwall capture. Paul7 and Black Raven won as white by creating an empty 2. Line.
2025-09-22 08:56 Hagbard: Comment: Tonythebook won first white game with the guillotine. Alex Hnefatafl won first white game with a massive corner attack. Luizz won first white game with a two-corner attack.
2025-09-22 07:18 Hagbard: Info: Sqaree has a timeout coming in 13 hours
2025-09-21 20:53 Hagbard: Info: This morning by accident a full mug of coffee was poured into my keyboard. Now it is dried up all day but behaves very strangely... So I'm sorry that it is not possible to start the Historical round 1 this evening as it should be. It will be delayed until tomorrow.
2025-09-20 15:55 holidayinnes: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-09-20 07:51 Hagbard: The Historical tournament starts tomorrow evening some time after 18 o'clock Danish time. Please check that you're on the list: 16 players: gulo, Waclaw, Hagbard, Alex Hnefatafl, MasterLuke, Ailill, Dimetr, brave-frog, tonythebook, Ben C. Walkowiak, Potapych, ChaolAibhne, casshern, Draganov, paul7, Zugwykor
2025-09-19 18:18 Hagbard: Info: Luizz has a timeout coming in 20 hours
2025-09-19 15:46 Hagbard: Comment: Jrton80 won his first white game with an alternative form of edge guillotine
2025-09-19 08:23 Hagbard: Comment: Juhan won his first white game with the guillotine
2025-09-19 01:42 Zugwykor: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-09-18 20:52 Zubin: @ Hagbard the error is gone, thank you!
2025-09-18 20:41 Hagbard: @Zubin, please try again
2025-09-18 20:33 Hagbard: Comment: Black Raven won his first game as white with the guillotine
2025-09-18 20:17 Zubin: In my current game as white against Jrton80, I am trying to make either the move d9c9 or the move d9b9, and both are giving me an error message. The error message is: " Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function logfil() in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/klasse_braet.php:525 Stack trace: #0 "
2025-09-18 11:16 Hagbard: Comment: Zubin won his first white game with a corner castle.
2025-09-18 09:20 Hagbard: Info: There's still time to join the Historical Tournament.
2025-09-18 09:16 Hagbard: Comment: Fraech won his first white game with the guillotine.
2025-09-17 21:26 Draganov: It is very good that a former world champion like Adam joined the championship.
2025-09-17 09:26 Hagbard: Info: To ease the burden on the server, the "My Current Games" page does not calculate and show the time left till timeout. To see this, click on Enter at the bottom of the "My Current Games" page. To be sure that it's not overlooked, I'll mention that Tonythebook has three games with timeout in 14 hours.
2025-09-17 07:40 Hagbard: Comment: Ailill won the first black game.
2025-09-16 17:37 Hagbard: Comment: Paul7 won his second game as white, in elegant style.
2025-09-16 16:56 Hagbard: Info: Some players have not started the tournament yet, and tomorrow evening (in 31 hours) 3 days have passed and they're marked as no-shows: Pavlo, Brave-frog, Tonythebook
2025-09-15 21:58 Hagbard: Comment: The first WTF game already finished after 22 hours. Paul7 won as white in elegant style.
2025-09-15 16:24 WaclawЪ: Желаю каждому игроку по красивой валькирии. А лучше по две😅 Поехали🐺🐺
2025-09-15 13:47 Luizz: Loki is already doing its job – is shows 2024 instead of 2025 ok the WTF games
2025-09-15 12:54 Adam: And may our kings, as Olaf Tryggvason, fight valiantly 'gainst many numbered foes on all sides surrounded, and then bravely run away!
2025-09-14 23:43 Hagbard: May Loki give you laughter as you go!
2025-09-14 10:18 Paul7: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-09-14 10:18 Paul7: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-14 10:18 Paul7: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-09-14 10:07 Adam: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-13 13:42 Hagbard: The Copenhagen tournament starts tomorrow evening (Danish). Please check that you're on the list: 22 players: Waclaw, DLC, Hagbard, Luizz, Alex Hnefatafl, Ailill, sqAree, Zubin, brave-frog, Fraech, tonythebook, Juhan, Black Raven, Jrton80, Cynewulf, Potapych, Pavlo, casshern, OdinHimself, taiga442, Draganov, floki
2025-09-13 13:22 floki: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-09-13 13:21 Floki: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-12 18:40 Draganov: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-12 18:39 Draganov: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-09-12 18:38 Draganov: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-09-12 14:43 Hagbard: The tournament page of last year is modified to show, how the tournament of this year will be documented: https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturnering2024.php
Notice especially the new countings page, which will show the status of points and eliminations: https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturnering2024_tael.php
2025-09-12 10:04 Hagbard: NB: When the tournament games begin, remember to make your first move within 3 days — otherwise, it's a sign of a no-show, and the player will be removed.
2025-09-12 09:50 taiga442: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-12 09:48 gulo: Nowhere in the Old Icelandic texts are these terms you mention used. I do not see the need to create artificial Old Norse terminology. We can use what we have (hnefinn for the king for example). We can also translate a few words from later sources. I agree for example that the so called throne should properly be called the castle of the king (arx regia from Linnaeus).
2025-09-12 09:41 Hagbard: Info regarding the WTF Copenhagen tournament: The games will be started already in the evening of 14 September, sometime after 18:00 Danish time! (That way, they'll be ready by 00:00 on 15 September.)
2025-09-12 09:34 Hagbard: Here is a challenge for someone who reads the Icelandic sagas in the original language...
2025-09-12 08:45 Hagbard: Alex Hnefatafl: Давайте определимся с общей терминологией в Хнефатафле. На древнескандинавском языке главная фигура обозначается словом konungr. Дружина — это hird. Дружинник — это hirdman. Белый — это hvitir. Белые — hvitingar. Чёрный — svartur. Чёрные — это svertingar. Стена щитов — это skjalborg. Белая крепость (White fort) — это Hvita Borg. Остаётся придумать слова на древнескандинавском языке для: - Приёма для побега у угла доски (гильотина) (veidifell?). Я думаю лучше найти перевод слов ловушка, западня, капкан. - Обозначения угла и края доски. - Слова для рубки вражеских фигур. - Также нужен дословный перевод фразы ,,угроза побега'', которую можно сказать, когда конунг вышел на открытую линию. - Перекрытие открытой линии. - Двойное или тройное взятие фигур за один ход. - Нужен дословный перевод словосочетания ,,смерть конунга''. - Повторение ходов - Форсированный побег - Темповый ход, темповый удар.
2025-09-12 08:17 Waclaw: Облегчили вход🤝🤝🤝🤝
2025-09-12 08:17 Waclaw: Спасибо!!!
2025-09-11 18:47 Hagbard: @Waclaw, информация: Создан идентичный псевдоним Waclaw = WaclawЪ, который используется в турнире WTF.
2025-09-11 16:40 OdinHimself: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-11 13:28 Hagbard: Some info: - The setup has been updated: https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturnering2025.php - Nobody benefits when players time out. A useful tool could be an overview like this: https://aagenielsen.dk/wtftidsfrister.php
2025-09-09 15:56 WaclawЪ: Подозрительно мало народа регистрируется. Особенно мало лучших игроков из списка ТОП. Я не одобряю такое. Прошу всех зарегистрироваться!!! Это ведь крайне занимательная игра. Купил себе вязаную шапку викинга😁 Буду ее на онлайн чемпионат надевать, когда буду играть⚔️🗡️🪓💂♂️
2025-09-09 10:02 Hagbard: The three cases should be fixed
2025-09-09 07:20 casshern: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-09-09 07:19 casshern: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-09 00:56 Jrton80: I keep getting the same thing going into and out of Saami Sahkku 3x15 games
2025-09-09 00:35 Plantagenet: Why does this message appear when I want to invite for a new game?: Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/hnefatafl_weblive.php:42 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/hnefatafl_weblive.php(42): mysqli_stmt_execute(Object(mysqli_stmt)) #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/hnefatafl_weblive.php on line 42
2025-09-09 00:19 ChaolAibhne: @Hagbard My Hex game as black is waiting for me to play the first move, but has a broken image for the board, preventing me from selecting my move
2025-09-09 00:13 ChaolAibhne: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-09-09 00:12 ChaolAibhne: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-09-08 03:48 holidayinnes: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-09-06 23:06 Pavlo: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-09-06 23:06 Pavlo: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-05 14:30 Потапыч: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-09-05 14:29 Потапыч: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-09-05 14:29 Потапыч: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-09-03 11:40 Hagbard: Indeed there is. The weblive-page loads every few seconds, and it is expensive machine time to every time check all buffers, only to almost always find that nothing is critical. Instead on the weblive-page, please once in a while click the Enter at the bottom, to see all buffers of yourself and your opponent.
2025-09-03 10:55 Luizz: So there is currently no way of knowing how much time I got left in a game right? Please at least implement a timer when clicking on a game, it’s a real bummer to not be able to see it
2025-09-02 16:38 Hagbard: Alex Hnefatafl: Я думаю для Марио и Драганова прошлый чемпионат стал пыткой. В морском бою игры между мной и Марио были особенно тяжёлыми. Поняв, что в исторической номинации он физически не сможет отыграться на 13 доске, Марио сдался и в финале против меня остался только Драганов. Чемпионат занимает слишком много времени и не каждый в состоянии уделять его игре в таком количестве. Только заочный формат и отсутствие игр в реальном времени — это фатальная недоработка. Если бы этот сайт поддерживал игры с коротким контролем времени, аудитории было бы в несколько раз больше.
2025-09-02 14:33 Luizz: Sad that so many strong players seem to be missing this year…hope some of them will still register until it starts
2025-08-31 08:15 Hagbard: Two weeks to go until the WTF World Championship Tournament 2025! Registered so far:
2025-08-30 16:25 gulo: Good news. Hnefatafl is being highlighted by the National Museum of Denmark currently on SoMe and through Danish national media. Among other things featuring kingly haircuts and me dressed as a viking ;)
2025-08-29 19:24 Black Raven: Oh, okay, I see. Thanks!
2025-08-29 18:23 Hagbard: that's right. The change has been necessary, because the live-page loads every 5 seconds, there can be many games, and the time calculation is heavy on machine resources
2025-08-29 17:52 Black Raven: @Hagbard, starting today in all of my games I'm seeing "Time use not calculated" and am unable to see timeout warnings unless I click the button to "Show my games and time buffers."
2025-08-29 13:22 Cynewulf: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-08-27 21:11 Hagbard: True. Time zone for Night Pause
2025-08-27 20:24 Black Raven: I am pretty sure the z refers to time zone.
2025-08-27 17:16 Luizz: What are those „z“ in the player list? For example „-7z“ or „2z“?
2025-08-26 17:30 Hagbard: Plantagenet's two invitations are for rating difference 200
2025-08-26 13:39 Tonythebook: Hi Aage, I've an offer from Plantagenet but it won't let me accept or via my tonyfromformby user, which is basically for daldos so I get to practice
2025-08-25 11:32 Hagbard: Setups as they would be now: https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturnering2025.php
2025-08-25 08:28 Hagbard: We attended the Air Show yesterday. The Red Arrows from UK were excellent!!! So perfect!
2025-08-25 07:23 Hagbard: About the tournament pairing restrictions
Any player is always welcome to play anyone else via direct or open challenges.
The pairing limitations in tournaments are primarily designed as a protection of the players: – You don’t suddenly end up with 30 tough Copenhagen games; you’re limited to around 8. – In many cases, extreme rating mismatches are avoided (e.g., 1300 vs. 2000).
This is intended to keep participation attractive for both strong and weaker players.
That said, there’s something to be said for the points raised here. We could try removing the pairing restrictions from the tournament format?
2025-08-24 23:02 Draganov: For example Rosk has never played against Casshern in Copenhagen. Fraech is here from more than a decade and he has played only 6 times against Casshern. Xerxes is another player with a long history on this website and has played only 4 games against Casshern back in the 2017. I think this is not normal. We need to make the strong player available at least in the tournaments where they cannot avoid the weaker players.
2025-08-24 22:01 xerxes: @Hagbard: I think Plamen is right - weaker players might benefit, and if they don't think they are getting anything out of it they can always resign. And there is always the hope they might win. In the very old days I had an unlikely victory against a much better player, so it is possible.
2025-08-24 12:57 Luizz: I think „weak“ players benefit more by playing against slightly better opponents, not necessarily the top players. Like, 100 chess matches against an equal opponent will probably teach me more than 100 games against Magnus Carlsen or Stockfish. However, from time to time it’s definitely good to see how your own playstyle can get dominated by a much stronger player, see what their approaches and perspectives are…
2025-08-24 07:46 Hagbard: When the weak player struggles his way to the top ...
2025-08-24 00:20 Draganov: I think the weaker players will only benefit by playing against the top players. Moreover, by reducing the games between players with huge rating difference, we prevent the chance of surprise and upsets. Don't think a couple of more games will be difficult for the stronger player but I do think they will help the weaker player to improve. Moreover, there are players who will never accept a game against a weak player. When the weak players will have the chance to play against them?
2025-08-23 23:38 Hagbard: The two games are Draganov rated 2044 against Rosk rated 1321. It is a waste of time for the 1321-player, and it is fair to assume that the 2044-player wins, so we just add 2 points
2025-08-23 22:43 Draganov: @Hagbard, why I my games against Rosk in the Copenhagen Hnefatafl Bell tournament didn't start? I think it is because of the rating difference but it seems unfair to have less games than the other players. Could you add the two games to the tournament. I think we need to get rid of the idea of uneven number of games in tournaments with round-robin format.
2025-08-23 11:06 Hagbard: should be fixed now
2025-08-23 01:55 Black Raven: Another bug I'm noticing is that sometimes (about 20% of the time) when I hit the button to check my games or make a move, I get this message: Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/hnefatafl_weblive.php:40 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/hnefatafl_weblive.php(40): mysqli_stmt_execute(Object(mysqli_stmt)) #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/hnefatafl_weblive.php on line 40
2025-08-21 12:55 Hagbard: fixed
2025-08-20 16:42 Hagbard: strange. I'll have a look tomorrow
2025-08-20 12:23 Luizz: @Hagbard, can you check my white game against Juhan? If I play h11 to perform a shieldwall capture, the black pieces are not shown to be captured. Can you check if your shieldwall logic is still working?
2025-08-20 00:14 jilles: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-08-19 20:02 Hagbard: This is how the 2025 tournament is planned to be documented: https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturnering2024.php https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturnering2024_tael.php https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturnering2024_taelmere.php
2025-08-18 10:02 Luizz: To join in on the bug reporting: When making a move I still get:
Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/klasse_braet.php on line 1805
2025-08-16 15:57 WaclawЪ: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-08-14 22:05 rosk: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-08-14 20:14 Ben C. Walkowiak: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-08-14 18:59 Hagbard: These games have timing x10: If both players are rated > 1900. Or if one of the players is Casshern, Sqaree, Luizz or Brave-frog
2025-08-14 17:27 Plantagenet: I cannot challenge without "Timing x10".
2025-08-14 15:49 Hagbard: should be fixed. I'm sorry, there's been quite a general update, and it's been difficult to test all corners
2025-08-14 15:11 Jrton80: I am now getting: "Warning: Undefined variable $denneFilNavn in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/daldoes/daldoes.php on line 404
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/daldoes/daldoes.php:404) in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/daldoes/daldoes.php on line 404" but only on double X moves
2025-08-14 13:53 Hagbard: I found 8
2025-08-14 10:46 Hagbard: Название не влияет на архивирование.
2025-08-14 10:45 Hagbard: Alex Hnefatafl: Хагбард, ты переименовал исторический Хнефатафл 11×11. Из архива исчезла часть партий. В частности мои игры с Торфином.
2025-08-14 09:08 Hagbard: fixed
2025-08-14 01:52 Jrton80: all my games are getting errors, I got to click the bookmark to get back
2025-08-14 01:51 Jrton80: Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/beskeder.php:140 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/beskeder.php(140): mysqli_stmt_execute(Object(mysqli_stmt)) #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/beskeder.php on line 140
2025-08-13 22:18 xerxes: Not fixed for me Aage - but it only appears to happen when I move against Jrton80 ! Weird.
2025-08-13 19:02 Hagbard: it should be fixed now
2025-08-13 17:16 Jrton80: Same here, I just lost a 2 X move
2025-08-13 16:34 xerxes: And I'm now getting it for every move I make !
2025-08-13 16:08 xerxes: Though having gone back in I see the move has been made!
2025-08-13 16:06 xerxes: Aage - in my game against JRton80 (Black) in the Saami Tournament, when I attempt to move I get the message "Warning: Undefined array key "aliaspwx" in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/daldoes/daldoes.php on line 70" Could you have a look [lease. Thanks
2025-08-12 22:47 Plantagenet: @Hagbard Thanks.
2025-08-12 21:49 gulo: Perhaps historical 15x15 would work better for king side if we set it up like 13x13 Dimetr2, just adding one defender to each cross arm, and two attackers each side forming a 2x5 block (similar to the Lewis cross attacker setup).
2025-08-12 21:05 Hagbard: - and sqAree added
2025-08-12 20:55 Hagbard: should be fixed now
2025-08-12 19:23 Plantagenet: When I try to invite to play, I gives: Warning: Undefined variable $stmt in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/startnytspilpar.php on line 32
Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: mysqli_stmt_close(): Argument #1 ($statement) must be of type mysqli_stmt, null given in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/startnytspilpar.php:32 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/startnytspilpar.php(32): mysqli_stmt_close(NULL) #1 /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/startnytspilpar.php(148): hentaliasdata('') #2 /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/netspilstartmange.php(190): startnytspilpar('Plantagenet', '', '191', 0, false, '2') #3 {main} thrown in /var/www/aagenielsen.dk/public_html/startnytspilpar.php on line 32
Also I am unable to return automatically to my games when I clicked on one of them.
2025-08-12 19:12 sqAree: Hagbard can you check why I am not on the play list for the Championship although I clearly registered?
2025-08-12 19:01 Jrton80: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-08-12 19:01 Jrton80: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.
2025-08-12 15:20 Hagbard: please try again
2025-08-12 13:34 Hagbard: The reason is that you've an active tournament already
2025-08-12 13:32 Hagbard: Alex Hnefatafl: Почему я не могу открывать турниры?
2025-08-12 10:32 Tonythebook: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-08-12 10:31 Tonythebook: Registers for the WTF Historical Hnefatafl Tournament.
2025-08-12 06:57 Pokshtya: Registers for the WTF Race Games Tournament.
2025-08-11 09:07 Black Raven: Registers for the WTF Copenhagen Tournament.