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	Fidchell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fidchell (also called fidhcheall or fithchill) is a board game from Early Ireland which is often compared to, but distinct from, Chess.
		Fidchell is mentioned quite often in ancient Celtic legends and lore, but the exact form of the game is open to speculation, due to the lack of detail on the rules, playing pieces, and even the board, to some extent.
		The legends describe Fidchell as a game played by royalty, and perhaps even the gods, as it was supposed to have been invented by Lugh, the Celtic god of light, and was played very skillfully by his son, the hero Cuchullainn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fidchell (670 words)

	Chess - Fichella - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Both fidchell and brandub are frequently mentioned in the saga literature of the Ulster cycle, and fidchell is mentioned in the Laws, which would bring us back to the seventh century at least.
		It was a board game (fidchell) with the figure of a hag at one end and the figure of a girl at the other.
		Concerning fidchell there seem to be two rather incompatible pieces of evidence; namely (1) that it was won by alternate players and (2) that the sides were equal.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=218798 (3687 words)

	Games of the Gods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In the 'Settling of the Manor of Tara', fidchell- playing is ascribed as being especially popular in Munster.
		Splashing the blood of his wife's lover on the king's fidchell board breaches guest law, and earns Celtchair the onerous duty of ridding Ireland of three plagues.
		Fidchell translates as "Wood Knowledge", a curious name for what looks at first glance like a battle strategy game.
	ipc.paganearth.com /diaryarticles/history/games.html (716 words)

	Fidchell: a chess variant
		Fidchell was invented by Gary Gygax, best known for his co-authorship of the original Dungeons and Dragons game and subsequent authorship of countless titles related to role-playing games.
		There elements of his Avillonian culture and a native game of fidchell were fused into Great Chess, and the result spread through his world.
		Of course I do noy pretend that the fidchell game presented is anything but a fantasy chess variant supposedly played on a parallel earth.
	www.chessvariants.org /large.dir/fidchell.html (2027 words)

	Midir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This provoked Fuamnach's vengeance against the young new wife, causing her a number of disgraces, until after several transformations Étain married Eochaid Airem, at that time the High King of Ireland.
		Far from giving up, Midir made an attempt to bring his wife back home, going to see the king and challenging to a gameof fidchell.
		Midir won and asked a kiss from Étain as his prize, but Eochaid refused, breaking his word and banishing Midir from Tara.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Midir (283 words)

	Hnefatafl - the Strategic Board Game of the Vikings
		Hence, there were 16 pieces on the white side, 8 pieces on the king's side, and one king, consistent with the size of the forces that were used in tablut.
		Fidchell literally means "wood-sense", and is etymologically identical to the Welsh gwyddbwyll, also a game of disputed origin and character.
		He quotes an old document describing fidchell that says: half of its men were of yellow gold, the other half of tinned bronze.
	hem.bredband.net /b512479 (11626 words)

	Games Guild of Ealdormere - Questions and Answers
		Fidchell literally means "wood-sense", and is etymologically identical to the Welsh
		Probably, fidchell is a descendant of the popular
		A lot of other people actually call the Finnish version of tafl (tablut) fitchneal at times, which we know is not right (tablut is played on a 9 x 9 board, fitchneal on a 7 x 7)...so, to be precise, we don't really know what differences or similarities the game had, other than the board...
	www.pipcom.com /~colyne/GamesGuild/q_and_a.htm (458 words)

	Guides: .hack//Outbreak Guide (PS2)
		Fidchell has a ground pound attack that does splash damage if you get too close.
		If Fidchell uses his status inflicting spells, rid it quickly with antidotes and restoratives.
		The area you'll enter next requires virus cores H and I, and the one you got from Fidchell.
	guides.ign.com /guides/499464/page_9.html (1430 words)

	Discovery 2002: USS DISCOVERY: BASILKA: City Streets ("What This Was Meant For") (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Fidchell is a game that is easy to learn, but difficult to master." Sounds like chess, Rohit thought.
		"Fidchell is an easy enough concept," the old man said.
		Nevertheless, he would learn Fidchell like he learned chess.
	paladyn.lemdal.com /Discovery/archives2002/0173.html (1009 words)

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		Fidchell means "Wood Knowledge" and is an
		Fidchel may have involved the use of Ogham
		Lugh's skills at Fidchell and his innovation of
	www.summerlands.com /_members/blfsnhdtcqmgngstraoueieaoiuiioae/members/uploads/Cltw42.txt (2754 words)

	Board games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This is a game board that was found at Balinderry, West Meath, during an excavation of a crannog or lake dwelling.
		The object of the game was to capture or protect the "king" (depending on which of the two colors you played) which was a larger piece in the middle of the board.
		Fidchell, like the Norse game of Tafl, was purely a strategy game.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/255054&authorid=1641 (306 words)

	hist-games: Fidchell pieces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alex R. Kraaijeveld wrote >Given that no one knows what kind of game fidchell really was, I'd be very >interested to know where these pieces come from and to see a photo of them!
		It's just published, I've received it this morning, and I haven't read it yet but there is a long article (amazingly in Italian!) on fidchell in the international journal 'Ludica', "annali di storia e civiltà del gioco", no.7 (dated...
		The article is: Andrea NUTI, "Il gioco del fidchell nella letteratura celtica medievale", in: Ludica, 7, 2001, pp.
	www.pbm.com /pipermail/hist-games/2002/000886.html (175 words)

	Tain Saga
		Concealing this, he returned and together they caught up with their army, which had met with their counterpart and had camp set up for the night.
		Late in the evening Ailill sent for Fergus, supposedly for an innocent game of fidchell, but it was a very depressed and sombre-faced Fergus who entered the kings tent and saw Medb sitting there too.
		They played fidchell, the silver and gold pieces moving over the board, flickering in the firelight.
	www.louthonline.com /Culture/Mythology_and_Legend/Tain_Saga/tain_saga.html (1221 words)

	Oak & Acorn Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		However, prices are shown so that you may have an idea of pricing on more complex custom prijects.
		Although it usually doubles as a normal coffee table this table also has a fidchell board and Celtic knots burned into the top.
		The top is made from maple, the legs are 1" square stock with two "four in one" twists.
	www.oakandacorn.com /gallery1.html (301 words)

	RE: I need directions for an old Irish game please
		900CE) - "Firstly the Fidchell is four-cornered, its squares are right-angled and fl and white men are on it, and moreover it is different people that in turn win the games." 2.
		Since Fidchell is an Irish game and the Brandubh board was found in Ireland (7Oct1932) the two are often connected by those who like to name things.
		The Brandubh board is unique in that the four corner holes are penned in with quarter circles.
	merryrose.atlantia.sca.org /archive/1997-05may/msg00260.html (613 words)

	.hack//Outbreak - PlayStation 2 Review
		Seriously, unlock some of the background music and compare the music for Skeith, the first Phase, and Fidchell, the fourth.
		Skeith’s music was dark, but Fidchell’s is downright sinister.
		Against Fidchell, you keep thinking you’ll lose even if you do win.
	www.netjak.com /review.php/531 (2975 words)

	Ballindaerry Artifact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In Ballindaerry, Ireland, a game board with a 7 x 7 grid of holes carved in the 10th C. was unearthed durring a 1932 excavation of a lake dwelling there.
		There are many references to Fidchell in the old tales, but very little description of the game.
		But there are hints that Fidchell, or some other game later refered to as Fidchell was played before the arrival of the Norse in the Brittish Isles.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/593579 (199 words)

	Art Mac Conn - Mac Cuinn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Art son of Conn was banished by the conniving Bé Chuma a consort of his father's for a year during his youth.
		When he returned Bé Chuma challenged him to a game of fidchell (akin to chess) and he lost by her cheating and she challenged him to seek out Delbchaem and bring her to Tara.
		Any suitor of Delbchaem's faced almost certain death as her mother a supernatural and fearsome being had been told by her druids that a suitor of Delbchaem's would one day kill her, so in order to prevent this she set out to kill any prospective suitor of her daughter's.
	www.shee-eire.com /Magic&Mythology/Kings&Queens/Celtic/Kings/High-Kings/Art-Mac-Conn/artmacconn.htm (334 words)

	THE SEEKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Desperate, Emma challenges Fergus to a magical board game called Fidchell and, surprisingly wins.
		Her quest continues but must now be played out in a life-sized version of Fidchell.
		Emma must seek her sister, while Fergus and his arch-enemy/companion secretly play an overarching game against each other.
	buffie.netfirms.com /seeker.html (408 words)

	cuculain.page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		I could have fit my head into his mouth.
		He chased the boys all the way to where Conchubar was playing fidchell.
		Conchubar saw what happened and took Cuchulain into his service.
	www.geocities.com /alexslifer/cuchulain.html (558 words)

	Games of the past on portable fabric boards
		Many scholars believed it to be a Fidchell (also spelled Fithcheal, or Fitchneal) or "Brandubh" game mentioned in early Irish legends, and related to Scandinavian Tafl games.
		Ringo is descended from a family of games including Fox & Geese, Fidchell, and Hnefatafl.
		They are all based on battles between unequal forces.
	www.historicgames.com /RPgames.html (766 words)

	THE WATCHER by Margaret Buffie
		Can she trust him, or is he part of the plot to harm her sister and her family?
		Emma's life spins out of control when she takes a job caring for an eccentric elderly neighbor and becomes involved in the board game Fidchell.
		However, does she have the courage to play out the real game of life and death that will draw in each member of her family as she tries to understand her role in this frightening new magical world?
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/1550748297.asp (262 words)

	Early Irish Board Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Thus both brandub and fidchell were current in Ireland some five centuries before the introduction of chess into Europe, and for a longer period before the invention of draughts.
		The identification of fidchell with chess goes back to the 15th century in Ireland, as is shown by a gloss incorporated in the text of a 15th century MS.
		The Cennchaom Conchobair ("the Fair-head of Connor") is not a distinct board game as Murray op.
	www.unicorngarden.com /eigse/eigse01.htm (283 words)

	IGN Boards - ~ .hack Fan Fiction Thread ~
		Balmung: Seth, you and your friend Maat, go to this area, Sigma Turbulent Destrusting Ice Wall, that area is where Fidchell is hiding.
		Hold it off, until Kite arrives and finally destroys Fidchell, Kite will make sure his INFECTION lvl.
		Fidchell: ALL WILL BE FLAYED ALIVE BY MY ELECTRIC FURY.
	boards.ign.com /dot_hack/b6813/44318055/p9 (3338 words)

	The Ulster Cycle \| The Death of Celtchar mac Uthechair
		Fidchell: 'wood-sense', a board game, probably similar to chess or draughts.
		On the floor of the royal house, Conchobor and Cú Chulainn were playing fidchell,
		Celtchar thrust his spear through Blai's chest and into the wattle of the wall behind him.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /patrick.brown/ulstercycle/celtchar.html (1187 words)

	Seeker: Tongues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Eochaid swore vengeance on Midhir, saying that he had been swindled and deceived, but he never again saw the Faerie King...or the fair Etain.
		(According to Celtic lore, this story of the "Game of Fidchell," an ancient form of chess, is assumed to be what led to the eventual barrier between the Kingdom of Humans and the Realm of Faerie, such that mortals would never again be able to touch faerie gold or partake of faerie food in safety.
		It is believed that for some time after this event, mortals were still able to cross over into the Faerie World, but would be unable to return unless rescued by another mortal who managed to penetrate the barrier; there are few legends of such salvations.
	www.seekermagazine.com /v0499/tongues.html (643 words)

	Style 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In lá do raind i trí asa athlil: cetna trian de fóchetóir ic fegad na maccaem ic imbirt chless cluchi and immanae, in trian tanaise dond ló ic imbirt brandub and fidchell, and in trian dedenach ic tochathim bíd and lenna, con-dageib cotlud for cách, aes cíuil and airfitid dia thalgud fri sodain.
		In lá do raind i trí asa athlil: cetna trian de fóchetóir ic fegad na maccaem ic imbirt chless cluchi and immanae, in trian tanaise dond ló ic imbirt brandub and fidchell, and in trian
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	www.bnjsites.com /style6.htm (360 words)

	osCommerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		He escaped from this enclosure because he was many-skilled or samildánach.
		This escape of a kind from a surrounding of men is reminiscent of chess which among Irish Druids was called fidchell or wood wisdom.
		It is Lugh’s mastery of wood wisdom that is the major topic in this last book in the series.
	www.summerlands.com /catalog/product_info.php?products_id=40&osCsid=72592255929ebe0211a9b43a3a1cc465 (275 words)

	Reformed Druids of North America Homepage
		Some are very simple like Danube, Fidchell & Brandubh; based on ancient traditional board games.
		An interesting new game called, "Celtic Fidchell" was masterfully invented based on cryptical references in Irish & Welsh mythology and modern game design theories.
		The goal is to take turns placing stones on the board, so as for the "king" to later move a line of white stones that stretches from the king to an edge of the board (sometimes by a winding road), while warding off fl from blockading the king and/or capturing all the white stones.
	www.geocities.com /mikerdna (1455 words)

	Dot Hack the Game [Archive] - sake, bugs, and angels diner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Once you defeat Fidchell, he tells a dark omen that will take place after his death and begin to infect and affect both Worlds.
		Meaning that the rogue program (in guise of a computer virus) has now gone beyond the network and is creating havoc in the real world.
		That was the prophecy that Fidchell had predicted and was being enforced by the Cursed Wave itself.
	belldandy.us /archive/index.php/t-1787.html (2614 words)

	Robert Huttinger's Player Pictures - Character, story, animation, motion picture and video game development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Click INFO to learn more about Fidchell's origins (German).
		Attackers and defenders may be captured by trapping them between two pieces of the same color.
		ROBERT HUTTINGER'S FIDCHELL™ © 2000 by Robert Huttinger / PlayerPictures.
	games.roberthuttinger.com /java/fidchell.html (216 words)

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