World Championship Tournament 2023 started Sep. 15th: Tournament page. |
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04-21/08:03 Hagbard: F1 points test round 1 Sahkku: #1 25 points: Holidayinnes #2 18 points: Tonythebook, Hagbard, Colophonius #5 10 points: Rosk, Draganov #7 6 points: Potapych #8 4 points: Nikolai hristov, Cacreal, Jilles > #10 0 points: Xerxes, Brave-frog, Jrton80, Thorfin 04-19/21:23 Draganov: Another interesting match for me would be a 'strong king challenge'. 10 games of Fetlar, 10 games of Old Hnefatafl, 10 games of Copenhagen, 10 games of Copenhagen Bell, 10 games of Total Hnefatafl. I am open to play such a marathon against everyone. 04-19/21:18 Draganov: I am open to play matches of 10 Copenhagen games only against Casshern and Herjan. I tried to challenge Plantagenet and Nath but they both refused. Nath seems to be done with tafl and Plantagenet is willing to play only in his own variant which is still in progress. Maybe Alex Hnefatafl and I should play a match because he is in good shape and came close to becoming a champion. However, we played 200 games against each other and I am not interested to play him again. However, I will challenge him if the tafl community wants to see such a match again. I consider you as a very strong player, potentially the next world champ. Probably we can make something interesting. What about triple duel... Cacreal vs Draganov vs Alex Hnefatafl. Each one of us plays 10 games against the other two players. The winner is the player with the most points gained from the 20 games. What do you think about such a 3 players tournament? 04-19/21:03 Draganov: Cacreal, the Total Hnefatafl allows repetition and if you repeat the position three times, it finishes as a draw. Respect the rules of the variant, please. I am more concerned about Total Hnefatafl because I proposed this variant and I am advocating for allowing repetition leading to draw. I do believe that this is one of the few ways to make the game balanced and to give the whites equal chance even on top level playing. I refused to play against you in Copenhagen because I am bored of playing Copenhagen. I haven't been playing Copenhagen recently except 2 games against Herjan because I really like his playing style and chatting with him. I am still not sure if I am going to continue playing Copenhagen. I will probably join the next world championship but only because it is my duty as a champion to defend the title. I am focused on exploring new variants especially those that have been considered imbalanced. However, I would play Copenhagen again only in matches that I consider interesting and motivating for me (the problem of being a champion is the lack of motivation). 04-19/20:54 Hagbard: Yes I called the draw. Draganov invented the rules, and the game did reach the eternal repetition we saw so often in the Fetlar. The IM/FM is just because of a game balance adjust. 04-19/20:40 cacreal: Thorfin vs cacreal the repetition was stopped and @hagbard you manually made it a draw? I thought this was a viking game and not a Draganov political forum. Also it seemed like I was a IM and now am not. Did I miss something else on a message board? Draganov refused my challenge in Copenhagen so I joined the total tournament to play a game against him, Thanks for the games. Skol 04-19/19:51 xerxes: Yes - congrats to Holidayinnes. I expect he has won most of them too ! 04-19/19:23 Hagbard: Du kom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fWyXV4gVw Op al den ting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmQV-unQARg Må din vej https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0r62JoM8VM Lyse nætter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4NXA_69GVohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fWyXV4gVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmQV-unQARg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0r62JoM8VM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4NXA_69GVo 04-19/12:53 Colophonius: Congrats to Holidayinnes for the 4600th game! 04-17/17:11 Hagbard: Then only I can do it manually, I'm afraid |
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