Monday 16 March 2015

Hnefatfl (that's not just a random combination of letters)

Henfatfl is another ancient board game and its known as the viking game. Its actually not that bad the objective of the game is for the black pieces to capture the white pieces king I would imagine they probably want to kill him or throw him a tea party not too sure just yet. To do this this attacking player has to surround the defending player and prevent him from reaching a corner square. the board layout has all the white pieces in the middle with four groups of black pieces surrounding them and is played on a 9x9 or 11x11 board. Its a good game but it suffers from one thing, Its really hard to lose as the defending player. You would have to go out of your way to get caught seeing as for the king to get caught he needs to get surrounded by enemy units. and you can pretty much avoid this by just always moving your king. Here is a website where you can play the. game http://aagenielsen.dk/index_tab.html

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