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Merrills
   

A fun game, the rules of Merrills are often poorly described in games books (or just poor versions of the rules are given). However the [ext] official rules are logically complete and make for a skillful and rewarding tactical game.

Merrills is very old, with a lot of different names, including the well-known 'Nine Mens Morris'. Due to horizontal and vertical movement of counters or pegs (on line intersections), Merrills has in common with Go the idea of liberties. It is interesting to speculate whether Merrills shares a common heritage or connection with Go -- although admittedly this does seem unlikely.



This is a copy of the living page "Merrills" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.