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About quick timing of race games. Oct. 15th 2024 Steve Lonsdale ("Xerxes") sent this mail: I’ve been thinking about the race games. My view is that they should be played quickly, say 10 seconds per move, 5-6 moves per minute, so a game of 50 moves per person (most matches are shorter) should only t...

The Commanders in the Thor game can short jump over both enemy and own men (but not over officers like the king or other commanders). I wonder if the Variegated Men should be considered officers also, or just considered to be normal men who change side all the time. The Commander jumping any normal ...

Evaluation of WTF World Champion tournament 2024:
https://aagenielsen.dk/wtfturneval2024.php

Overview of the Martens variants. There are 22 Martens variants. All of them have: weak king no special squares berserk moves Variant number 133, Alea Berserk 17x17 (Martens 0) The variant has Commanders, Variegated men and immortal Guards. The idea of immortal Guards was left. Variant numbers 134,...

I see that x5 is not enough.

It's changed to x10 now, which should be plenty of time.

It's a good idea, that you and Sqaree usually choose "x10 + no rating", which gives even more time.

I expect x10 to be ok. But if it should turn out to still be too little then more can be done -

Idea for change of setup for the normal tournaments here, inspired from the World Champ.'s Battles of Brothers : Until now, all normal tournaments have been Round Robins, i.e. every new player has started up with games against everybody. This could be changed into kind of Battle of Brothers: A new p...

The WTF finalists got extra 10 days as we ran into Christmas, and it's remarkable what they did with the extra time . The final games are impressing. I wonder if it would be an idea to time all games between the very top players (IM and GM) with 10x (not race games). Or simpler, when both players ar...

There's a point!

Hi Gustaf. I also nowadays prefer tafl boards without special squares marked, and then if needed mark them with coins. One tafl board for playing more sizes like 7x7, 9x9 and 11x11 sounds like a good idea; as you surely already know, boards have been found for 9x9 & 11x11 on the same board. Very int...

We investigated various setups of the Ard ri game; here's a summary of the result: https://aagenielsen.dk/ardri_summary.php The best one found then, was actually the cross variant. But the game balance is +1.71 from 264 games, and we use to only keep setups with balance better than 1.50 The name "Ir...