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The small Shetland island of Fetlar will be staging the World Quickplay Hnefatafl Championship on August 2nd. Hnefatafl, translating as Kings Table, is an ancient Viking board game. In it, each of the two players tries to capture or block the opposing king. Fetlar, already claiming to have the highest concentration of Hnefatafl players in the world among its 50-strong population, nevertheless hopes that the tournament will raise its profile.
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Dear Community,
with regard to the great game of HNEFATAFL, I am herewith glad to communicate to you that me, the German journalist Rene Gralla who writes on gaming and travel, I have succeeded in publishing a feature on the REVIVAL OF HNEFATAFL ON FETLAR at ChessBase.de, the German-language edition of the most popukar website on chess and chess news world-wide. Herewith the link where you will find my feature:
http doubled dot slash slash chessbase dot de slash nachrichten dot asp?newsid=10758 !
That is a German-language feature, however, but I do hope that my feature is pretty self-explanatory, last not least because of many photos.
Greetz, Rene
Dear Community,
with regard to my feature on the REVIVAL OF HNEFATAFL ON FETLAR (please see my post in the foregoing!), I try to insert the exact link in the following – http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=10758 – maybe the great machine right here and Mr. Webmaster will accept that (since that is CHESS!, Folks, just CHESS!!, that is NO SPAM!!!), hopefully that will work … :-)
Cheers, Rene