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World Tafl Federation Championship 2025 - Sign Up from August 1!

The annual World Tafl Federation Championship is back!
This year's tournaments include Copenhagen Hnefatafl, Historical Hnefatafl, Sea Battle Tafl, Berserk, and Race Games.
Test your skills against players from around the world and fight for the championship titles!
Full tournament details here: Tournament Page 2025.
We look forward to seeing you in the tournament!

Note: This recruitment text was written with the assistance of ChatGPT.

Play against humans.
Тавлеи против людей.
Rasmus Holbroe vikings

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2026-03-04 08:24 Murray7: Does anyone have any good suggestions of Copenhagen Hnefatafl fortress games to look at from the archive?

2026-03-03 18:33 gulo: Mhm?

2026-03-03 08:18 Hagbard: Alex Hnefatafl: Я нашёл как играть на 15 доске

2026-03-01 19:47 gulo: I answered that: Cheers! Yes, it might, though currently 11x11 seems to be more in favour of the defender. From that point of view it is not needed. Then again, the larger the board, the smaller the impact on balance from the change.

2026-03-01 09:33 Hagbard: A user question was somehow in the logfile:
Павло: I have a question for you: are the same rule changes as for Tablut Gulo relevant for the historical Gnefatafl 11×11? Thank you.

2026-03-01 09:22 Hagbard: Info: sqAree has two timeouts coming in 14 and 18 hours.

2026-02-25 16:28 gulo: Hæhæ

2026-02-25 09:35 Hagbard: Rettelse:
Claude og Gemini oversatte perfekt!
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok og Mistral Le Chat kan ikke.
Oversæt lige fra vestjysk til rigsdansk: "Æ ø i æ å æh ække ståhr"

2026-02-24 20:38 Hagbard: - jeg gav AI udfordringen at oversætte din vestjyske sætning, og AI gav op!

2026-02-24 20:30 Hagbard: ja der har været nogle problemer med tegnsættene, det er en klassiker -

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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 on the Viking board game Hnefatafl.
Tafl Shops.

Viking word of wisdom: The Hávamál.
(Havámál på dansk).

World Championship Tournament 2024.

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 the world over who played here 50,000 real tafl games humans against humans and created a vast, practical experience with this intriguing, historical board game.