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Measured tafl game lengths.

Tafl variant All games
moves
White won
moves
Black won
moves
Ratio
Historical Hnefatafl-w 13x13 (Dimetr 2) 52 41 63 1.5
Total Hnefatafl 11x11 63 49 76 1.6
Sea battle tafl 13x13 (Nielsen) 53 44 61 1.4
Market Hnefatafl-w 9x9 33 32 34 1.1
Historical Hnefatafl 9x9 (Saami Tablut-w) 36 34 38 1.1
Hist. Hnef. Lewis cross-w 11x11 44 39 48 1.2
Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11 64 49 78 1.6
Berserk Hnefatafl 11x11 65 51 78 1.5
Historical Hnefatafl 7x7 (Irish Brandubh 2) 25 23 26 1.1
Simple Tafl-w 11x11 32 27 38 1.4
Saami Daabloe 11x9 81 80 83 1.0
Frisian Dablo 11x9 71 67 75 1.1
Frisian Dablo0 11x9 50 48 52 1.1
Saami Sahkku 3x15 (Kaafjord) 44 44 43 1.0
Daldos 3x14 48 47 49 1.0
Daldos 3x16 43 43 43 1.0
Daldos 3x12 40 39 40 1.0
Brandubh 7x7 (Walker) 22 21 23 1.1
Sea battle-2526 9x9 35 28 41 1.5
Sea battle T cross 11x11 48 40 54 1.4
Tyr 11x11 52 42 60 1.4
Odin 15x15 60 53 67 1.3
Sea battle tafl 15x15 (Walker) 67 49 81 1.7
Tyr 15x15 75 62 87 1.4
Odin 17x17 76 54 92 1.7
Loki 17x17 86 80 92 1.2
Alea Berserk 19x19 (Bartley) 85 73 98 1.3

The table shows for each game variant the quadratic average of the number of moves for all games, for games alone where defenders (white) won and games alone where attackers (black) won.

Some of the variants come out very steady, in that it almost doesn't matter to the gamelength whether white or black wins.
Such variants are suited for use of a chess clock.


Updated 5.5.2025
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