Online material - Websites

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Sadly Nine Men's Morris is horrendously lacking in online material. For such a beautiful and complex game, this for me was the biggest disappointment when starting.

For the only real active site on the game we have Rainer Rosenberger to thank at https://muehlespieler.de. This is quite an in depth dive into the game, from a strong player who is a regular on the tournament circuit. The site is in German, but these days easily translated with Google.

Here you will find lots of information about the game, including computer players, information on the variants, tournaments, history of the game, and best of all exercises on how to play better. This is clearly the best part of the site and well worth downloading the free e book - or doing the exercises online.

It should be noted though, that the material on the site is fairly old. Many of the programs no longer exists and it has not been updated in a while. Still, it is an excellent resource and a must read.

The other place to go is Facebook. Mühlespielfreunde, is the place where many of the top players share information on games, tournaments, events and strategies. It is a wonderful place to mingle among the best players and even for someone at my level, there is plenty to read, follow and enjoy. People are open and friendly and always willing to share their advice and thoughts on questions and the more people that join the better the community will be in the future.

I've mentioned it before but the other place to find alot of information on Merrills is wikipedia. The English page is adequate, but the german language page on Mühle (Spiel) is quite excellent and includes plenty of information that cannot be found elsewhere.

In a later post I will link and talk about more specialist sites such as the World-mill game's governing body (WMD)  and other resources.

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