How to Analyze your Games

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Sadly analyzing your Mill games is not easy. In chess, there are literally hundreds of sites, apps and computer programs with engines to do much of the work for you. An engine that can be carried on your mobile phone is easily enough to defeat all but the very strongest of players. 

As it has been mention before, the game of Mill, (Nine Men's Morris), unlike chess has been solved. This means that with the required data you can analyze all possible moves of your games and have a database tell you where you went wrong. 

So where can we find such a thing? Well firstly there is the wonderful program of Brillliant Mill by (among others) current top players in the world György Bándy and Ferenc Voleman. We will not discuss this here as it needs it's own post but is an invaluable tool for the study of the game. We will first look elsewhere. 

If you have not purchased Brilliant Mill, for now you are in luck, since the database can be found online at two locations. I will link them below. They are very simple to use. All you have to do it input with your mouse the moves of your game and the red a green arrows will tell you if you have played the winning or losing move. If the board stays grey, it usually means that this is the drawing line. 

I've no idea how long these amazing resources will be available online for free so make the most of them if you want to look at your games. On the second link you can even save your games and come back and look at them later.

There was a third option for sometime, but sadly it seems to be broken. The app King of Mills was offering the online database within it's app but since about a year it seems not to work at all. If it comes online again I will review it here.

9-Men's-Morris Data Base (jochen-hoenicke.de)

Nine Men's Morris (tugraz.at)


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