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sabato 30 maggio 2015

Copenhagen Hnefatafl : Plantagenêt vs crust 2015


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Dall'archivio della World Tafl Federation http://aagenielsen.dk/ presentiamo una recente partita  tra il n°1 e il n° 2 dell'attuale Top 10.

White:  Plantagenêt, Champagne-Ardennes, FR
Black:  crust, somerset, UK
Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11
White won.
2015-04-29

hnefatafl board 10

hnefatafl board16


hnefatafl board 22


hnefatafl board30


hnefatafl board 37

whiteblack
1.
k8-i8
2.     g7-j7     i8-j8-j7 x    
3.     f7-j7     j6-j3    
4.     f6-f7     k4-i4    
5.     e7-e9     i4-i7-j7 x    
6.     f7-b7     f10-b10    
7.     b7-c7     a8-c8    
8.     e9-c9-c8 x     a7-a9    
9.     c9-b9     b10-c10    
10.     c7-c1     b6-b1    
11.     c1-c9     f2-c2    
12.     b9-b10     a9-a10-b10 x    
13.     c9-a9-a10 x     c10-a10    
14.     a9-b9     a10-b10    
15.     e5-c5     d11-c11    
16.     b9-b2     a4-a2    
17.     d6-d2-c2 x     d1-c1    
18.     d2-d3     a5-a3    
19.     b2-k2     resigned  

Una tazza di tè

 
19th century go players ...

Nan-in, un maestro giapponese dell'era Meiji (1868-1912), ricevette la visita di un professore universitario che era andato da lui per interrogarlo sullo Zen.

Nan-in servì il tè. Colmò la tazza del suo ospite, e poi continuò a versare.

Il professore guardò traboccare il tè, poi non riuscì più a contenersi. «È ricolma. Non ce n'entra più!».

«Come questa tazza,» disse Nan-in «tu sei ricolmo delle tue opinioni e congetture. Come posso spiegarti lo Zen, se prima non vuoti la tua tazza?».

http://www.101storiezen.com/1-una-tazza-di-te.html

Chess! Book - Andersen

Book    --    Andersen
Warsaw 1935     1-0     C71

1.e4 e5 2.Cf3 Cc6 3.Ab5 a6 4.Aa4 d6 5.c4 f5 6.d4 fxe4 7.Cxe5 dxe5 8.Dh5+ Re7 9.Axc6 Dxd4 10.De8+ Rd6 11.Ae3 Dxc4 12.Cc3 Ag4 13.Td1+ Axd1 14.Dd7# 1-0

Il Backgammon nell'arte incisiroria


Printed by Heinrich Petri
A fool and a female figure playing backgammon at a table at left; children playing cards by the window at right; illustration to a Latin edition of Sebastian Brant's 'Ship of Fools', probably that printed by Petri in Basel in 1572.
http://lj.rossia.org/users/marinni/407151.html

Fetlar Hnefatafl : Curious Positions! 2













docbullen vs altti - 118 moves
Fetlar Hnefatafl 11x11
2015 05 26



mercoledì 27 maggio 2015

Backgammon in miniature


A bored-looking French couple plays a particularly dull game of backgammon in the bottom margin of a Book of Hours, c. 1460. Walters Art Gallery, Ms W 269, f. 16r.

martedì 26 maggio 2015

Brandub ( Brandubh )

Un doveroso ringraziamento al sito CYNINGSTAN, http://www.cyningstan.com/ per averci permesso la pubblicazione del seguente contributo.



Brandub is a game of the hnefatafl family, played by the Irish. It is the smallest known hnefatafl game. A king and four defenders face eight attackers on a board of seven rows of seven points. The king must escape to one of the corner squares, while the attackers must capture the king. All pieces move in straight lines like the rook in chess, and capture an enemy by surrounding it on two opposite sides.

History of Brandub

A diagram of the tenth-century brandub board found at Ballinderry in Ireland.
A diagram of the tenth-century brandub board found at Ballinderry in Ireland.

Ireland is one among many countries to which the Norse raiders and settlers took their arms, their culture and their game of hnefatafl. There has been confusion about what the Irish called this game, but literary evidence settles on the name brandub, or brannumh, which means, inexplicably, “black raven”.
While the size of hnefatafl boards varied from place to place, archaeological finds show that the Irish had a preference for the smallest of the boards, 7 squares by 7. Boards found at Downpatrick, Waterford, Antrim, and a famous board from Ballinderry, are all of this size. Poetry also suggests that they played with 13 pieces: a branan, or chief, with 4 guards against 8 attackers.
The game may have been played in Ireland by the 9th century. It was certainly played by the 10th, when the Ballinderry board was made. Some of the poetry dates from the admittedly vague period of 1200-1640, showing the game was enjoyed in Ireland for at least 300 years, possibly as much as 800. In all probability, the coming of chess to Ireland would have eventually put an end to brandub’s popularity.

Rules for Brandub

Initial layout of a game of brandub.
Initial layout of a game of brandub.

Nowadays, the game is often played on the squares of a board of 7 rows of 7 squares. The layout here is shown with the game played on the lines instead. Either design of board is equally valid.
Most of the popular books have been unusually reluctant to propose a set of rules for playing brandub. The rules proposed here are based on the poetic and archaeological information from an article by Éoin MacWhite in the journal Éigse, from 1946.
1. Brandub is played by two players, on the points or intersections of a board of 7 lines by 7, using 13 pieces: a king, four defenders and eight attackers. The central and corner points of the board are marked, as shown in the diagram.
2. The pieces are placed with the king in the centre, the defenders adjacent to him, and the attackers beyond, all forming an orthogonal cross reaching to the edges of the board, again as in the diagram.
3. The attackers make the first move, followed by the king or defenders, play alternating thereafter until the game is finished.
4. A player may move a piece by sliding it along a line in any direction to another point, as far as the player pleases, providing that it does not turn a corner or jump over another piece.
5. Only the king may come to rest on the central point or one of the four corners, though other pieces may pass the centre.
6. An enemy is captured by surrounding it on two opposite sides, along a marked line, by two of one's own pieces. The enemy is then removed from the board.
7. The king may act with a defender in making captures, and may himself be captured by two attackers, or two defenders may take an attacker.
8. If a piece simultaneously traps two or three enemies in different directions, all of the trapped enemies are captured.
9. A piece may move between two enemies without harm. One of the enemies must move away and back again to capture it.
10. Either side may capture an enemy by trapping the enemy between one of its own pieces and a marked corner square. The central square does not have this effect.
11. The king and defenders win the game if the king reaches one of the marked corner squares.
12. The attackers win the game by capturing the king.
13. If play becomes repetitious, if one player has no legal move, or if the players otherwise desire it, then a draw may be declared.

Strategy in Brandub

In larger versions of hnefatafl, the attackers try to construct a fully-enclosed blockade around the defenders. But in brandub this is all but impossible. So instead the attackers must try to restrict the defenders' movement in other ways. Partial blockades can be constructed, often such that defenders can break out but not without loss.
Defenders need to try to get outside the attackers' formation in order to attack it from the rear, as in other versions of hnefatafl. In brandub, however, the small number of pieces means that losses cannot be so easily be borne by the defenders.
It is easy to assume that brandub will be the easiest hnefatafl game, from the smallness of the board and the paucity of pieces. This couldn't be further from the truth. Fewer pieces means that each must take on a greater responsibility, often doing double duty both in attacking the enemy and defending comrades. Short-term tactics like the pin and the fork are more devastating in this game than in larger variants.

Brandubh


Non è difficile ottenere un tavoliere e una muta di Brandubh....

 
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lunedì 25 maggio 2015

Kovalevskaya vs Khotenashvili

Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (2450)    --    Khotenashvili, Bela (2527)
16th European Individual Women's Chess  (6.5)   Chakvi, Adjara
2015.05.24     1-0     B10

1.e4 c6 2.Cc3 d5 3.Cf3 Cf6 4.e5 Ce4 5.Ce2 Db6 6.d4 e6 7.Cfg1 f6 8.f3 Cg5 9.exf6 gxf6 10.f4 Cf7 11.Cf3 Ca6 




12.Cg3 Ae7 13.c3 Ad7 14.Ad3 O-O-O 15.De2 c5 16.O-O c4 17.Ac2 Cc7 18.Rh1 Tde8 19.Ch5 Ad8 20.b4 Cb5 21.De1 Cbd6 22.a4 a6 23.Cg7 Te7 24.Ch5 Ce8 25.b5 axb5 26.Aa3 Cfd6 27.Ac5 Dc7 28.axb5 Axb5 29.Ta8+ Rd7 30.Dh4 Tf7 31.f5 Cxf5 32.Axf5 exf5 33.Cf4 Cd6 34.Dh5 Ac6 35.Ce5+ fxe5 36.dxe5 d4 37.Axd6 Axg2+ 38.Cxg2 1-0

Rating Top 10 players, May 2015 World Tafl Federation

Dal sito della WTF

May 2015 

http://aagenielsen.dk/

 

Ratings

2078    Plantagenêt, Champagne-Ardennes, FR (294)
2035    crust, somerset, UK (2244)
1970    nath, Berlin, Germany (277)
1961    Schachus, Berlin, Germany (69)
1949    Adam, Tønsberg, Norway (569)
1877    Jurgenson, St. Petersburg, Russia (121)
1872    altti, ny, usa (726)
1807    arne64, Hamburg, Germany (466)
1806    Hagbard, Copenhagen, Danmark (1905)
1786    sqAree, Berlin, Germany (101)

( i numeri tra parentesi si riferiscono alle partite giocate. NdR ) 

 

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giovedì 21 maggio 2015

Copenhagen Hnefatafl : crust vs Adam 2015



Dall'archivio della World Tafl Federation http://aagenielsen.dk/ presentiamo una recentissima partita di particolare interesse tra due dei più qualificati esponenti dell'attuale Top 10.

I Diagrammi da noi scelti riguardano la fase dell'apertura, decisamente combattuta. Sotto è riportato il testo per esteso.

White:  crust, somerset, UK
Black:  Adam, Tønsberg, Norway
Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11
White won.
2015-04-25

hnefatafl board 8


hnefatafl board 10


hnefatafl board16


hnefatafl board 18


hnefatafl board20

whiteblack
1.
h1-h3
2.     f8-i8     k4-i4    
3.     g7-g10     h11-h10-g10 x    
4.     g6-g10     e11-e9    
5.     i8-i10-h10 x     e9-g9-g10 x    
6.     h6-h11     k7-i7    
7.     f7-h7     a8-f8    
8.     h7-h10     j6-h6    
9.     f6-g6     g9-g7    
10.     h10-g10     k8-g8    
11.     h11-h7     g8-h8-h7 x    
12.     g10-g8-g7 x     h8-j8    
13.     g6-g7     h6-h8-g8 x    
14.     e7-e9     g11-g9    
15.     g7-b7     f10-b10    
16.     e5-b5-b6 x     a7-a9    
17.     b7-c7     a4-c4    
18.     c7-c11     b10-b11    
19.     e9-e11-d11 x     c4-c10    
20.     d6-d9     c10-c5-b5 x    
21.     c11-c10     b11-b10    
22.     c10-c11     b10-b11    
23.     c11-c6     b11-b6    
24.     f4-c4-c5 x     d1-c1    
25.     c6-c11     b6-b11    
26.     c11-c9     b11-b9    
27.     i10-b10     resigned


Chess Blitz : Blondes - Brunettes - Bogumil - Gunina 2014

Shatranj in a Persian miniature

 
This illustration from a Persian treatise on chess, possibly dating from the 14th century,

lunedì 18 maggio 2015

Brandubh Tournament 39 WTF

Risultati immagini per brandubh

La World Tafl Federation da il via ad un nuovo torneo di Brandubh... (Tablut corner) 7x7

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domenica 17 maggio 2015

Copenhagen Hnefatafl :Adam vs docbullen 2015



 
Dall'archivio della World Tafl Federation http://aagenielsen.dk/ presentiamo una partita recente e didatticamente interessante.

Ricordiamo a tutti gli amanti di giochi strategici che iscrivendosi gratuitamente alla World Tafl Federation http://aagenielsen.dk/ è possibile giocare con appassionati di tutto il mondo ai giochi della Famiglia Tafl...di cui troverete l'elenco completo nella sezione
Rules ( Regeln / Règles / Regler / Правила ) del sito della WTF:http://aagenielsen.dk/

E' davvero istruttivo per i neofiti studiare la modalità con la quale Adam crea i presupposti per un'invasione del lato Nord-Est, per poi realizzarla e trarne infine la vittoria...

White:  Adam, Tønsberg, Norway
Black:  docbullen, formby, Merseyside
Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11
White won.
2015-02-25

hnefatafl board 10 move


hnefatafl board 16 move


hnefatafl board 19 move


whiteblack
1.
h1-h3
2.     f8-i8     k8-j8    
3.     g7-g10     e11-e10    
4.     f7-j7     f10-f9    
5.     i8-i9     k5-j5    
6.     g6-g9     k4-i4    
7.     e7-e9-f9 x     a7-i7-j7 x    
8.     g10-j10     b6-b9    
9.     f6-f10     e10-c10    
10.     f10-i10     resigned  

Chess... Super Blitz! : Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Alexandra Kosteniuk


Ian Nepomniachtchi
www.chess.com


GM Ian Nepomniachtchi vs GM Alexandra Kosteniuk Chess Blitz Tal Memorial Round 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEY1d391tCQ 

mercoledì 13 maggio 2015

Copenhagen Hnefatafl : - Curious Positions! 3













docbullen - crust. 101 moves.


hnefatafl board  Luciano - Fairland. 219 moves.













 mmagari - meersburg. 86 moves.

Persian manuscript from the 14th century