[Ansteorra] Hnefatafl tournament/competition

[Elizabeth Crouchet]

So this game could be played with a regular checker board?

Claire

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner <
burgborrendohl at valornet.com> wrote:

> Where is the site?
> Ismet
> deboramarzec at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I will be hosting a Hnefatafl, or King's Table, tournament at Bjornsborg's
>> Ursae Lyon the weekend of 16-18 October. The early rounds of the tournament
>> will take place in between scheduled events culminating with the final
>> taking place in the Tavern Saturday evening after Court. I will be making a
>> Game Board as a prize for the winner.
>>
>>
>>
>> The tournament will use the 11x11 board and will be played according to
>> World Championship rules, with one exception. The exception being that the
>> King can be captured by 3 opposing pieces and the edge of the board. The
>> World Championship is only 2 years old and they are still the the process of
>> determining which rules best represent the game.
>>
>>
>> The Laws as devised by the Fetlar Hnefatafl Panel.
>>
>> The Game.
>>
>> There are two sides.
>> The attackers (in dark colour) and the defenders (in light colour).
>>
>> There are two types of piece.
>> The king and the warriors.
>>
>> The aim of the attackers is to capture the king.
>>
>> The aim of the defenders is to help get the king to a refuge square at the
>> corner of the board.
>>
>> Moves are the same for all pieces.
>>
>> A warrior may move horizontally or vertically but not diagonally.
>>
>> The warrior may move one or more squares or until it is stopped by the
>> presence of another piece or the edge of the board. (or in the corners the
>> king refuge squares. It may cross the central king refuge square but may not
>> stop on it).
>>
>> The king moves are the same as the warriors, but only the king is allowed
>> on the five refuge squares. These are the central square and the four corner
>> squares. Warriors can cross the central square as long as they stop
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> Starting. The attackers have the first move.
>>
>> Taking is by sandwiching a warrior between two opponent warriors.
>> (squashing.)
>>
>> A warrior can move between two opposing warriors into a sandwiched
>> position and is not taken. (One of the opposing warriors would have to move
>> away and back again to take it.)
>>
>> It is possible to move a warrior or the king so that it causes more than
>> one opposing warrior to be squashed. In this case more than one opposing
>> warrior has been taken. (In theory-up to three warriors can be taken in one
>> move.)
>>
>> A warrior or king may be where one move would capture it but the player
>> whose turn it is to move need not make that move.
>>
>> Taking is also possible by squashing an opposing warrior between one
>> warrior or king and a refuge square.
>>
>> Taking the king is by surrounding him, that is, sandwiching him in both
>> directions. The king must be forced from the edge of the board in order to
>> do this. It is permitted to squash the king when he is on the central refuge
>> square. (i.e. one warrior on each of the four sides).
>>
>>
>>
>> For those wishing to learn the game I will be at Jagarmeister and LPT with
>> boards and happy to teach. On a side note the lady won won the first year
>> had only learnt the game 45 minutes before the World Championship began.
>>
>>
>>
>> YIS.
>>
>>
>>
>> HL.Debora of Durham
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